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A win taken away, and you won't believe why | Daily 11-2-2025
One late model driver's $10,000 mistake, things get cowboy up at Charlotte, we'll talk weekend dirt racing winners, and more. Let's go!
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I'm going to apologize for the voice today. We are playing a little banged up, but we're going to battle through it on this Sunday.
In racing, as in many areas of life, the details matter. And Mark Whitener and his team had a $10,000 reminder last night about how important those details are. The National 100 at East Alabama Motor Speedway is ongoing as you watch this, with Friday and Saturday featuring prelim programs, with today being the $30,000 to win finale for the super late models. I was a bit surprised to see the car count so low there, with only 21 signed in on Friday, and 22 last night. You would have figured $5000, $10,000, and $30,000 to win shows would have drawn more cars. Brandon Overton and the Longhorn Factory Team took the win on Friday night, topping Whitener and Tyler Erb. Overton has won the National 100 twice in his career, and this was his first late model score anywhere since that Lucas win at Circle City way back in May. Those guys continue to just be missing something this season, but grabbing a win at any event has to be a boost. I continue to hear rumors about this team and their future all together, some fairly outlandish, but good sources continue to tell me that nothing will change here for 2026. Overton backed the Friday win up with a second place run last night. Overton though was actually third at the checkered flag, behind winner Mark Whitener and second place running Jimmy Owens. But Whitener's glory was short lived. Two trips across the scales showed his number five car to be light, and rolling out of the tech shed, he headed back to the truck and not victory lane. Owens was credited with the win with Whitener's DQ, which moved Overton into second and Dalton Cook up to third. It was later revealed on the Whitener's social media channels that the team forgot to fuel the car before the feature, which led to the DQ. Not enough fuel in the tank at the end and not even weight at the scales. It's not often you see a veteran driver like Whitener burned by a mistake like that, but I'm sure there will be a big sign up in the truck today and going forward with a reminder to everyone to check fuel. The win takes Owens to five on the season, with his last coming back at Duck River on August 1st with Hunt the Front. Action is already on track for today's program as I write this, with the late model portion starting around 4PM eastern time. Things are live on FloRacing if you'd like to tune in.
The other racing that is happening right now is the World Short Track Championship at Charlotte. The Thursday and Friday portions of the event were pushed back, and they are getting things finished up today. We had rain all week here in the Charlotte area leading up to the racing, and it's been a battle over there to get the track into any sort of condition. Things were pretty rough over there yesterday, and there are some wild photos and some wild footage of the action. There was one groove around the bottom that didn't look too bad, but anything up above that was an adventure. Looking at some of the racing already going on today, things look to be much improved from what we saw just hours before though. The next several days look pretty good here, so hopefully they won't need to do a bunch of serious farm work on the surface to have it ready for sprint cars, modifieds, and late models come Wednesday when World Finals gets going. The World Short Track is live on DIRTVision if you want to check it out.
In Fall Clash action, Gregg Satterlee and Mason Zeigler closed out the short series with weekend wins. Zeigler's win last night at Potomac was good enough for him to close out the championship over Trever Feathers. Zeigler got $10 grand for the win, and another $10 grand for the title.
The big weekend sprint car winner was Hank Davis. He swept the Short Track Nationals at Texarkana 67 Speedway to take home $22,500 in winnings. Friday night he was the beneficiary of leaders Chris Martin and Cole Macedo crashing out. Martin caught the wall in turn one and collected Macedo in that late incident. Davis came back on Saturday night and dominated to take the $20,000 win over Landon Crawley and Ian Madsen. Unfortunately, Macedo had another crash trying to catch Davis last night and ended up DNFing. Davis has had an up and down season, starting first in the Wheatley 45 out west, then departing that car and stringing together deals since then. Three wins, including these two, plus a POWRi score at Callaway back in September. He's a guy I think in the right situation that would win the championship with a series like POWRi.
At Bridgeport for the Dirty Jersey finale, it was Justin Whittall taking the win over Chase Dietz and Anthony Macri. Win number two on the season for the Port Royal track champion.
Out in California, Justin Sanders ended the NARC season with the win at Stockton. He somehow survived an early incident with a lap car, and went on to dominate that main event over Shane Golobic and Tim Kaeding. DJ Netto's fourth place finish was good enough for him to wrap up the NARC championship. That was Netto's second series title, with the first coming back in 2019. Tanner Holmes finished out his time with Tarlton Motorsports with a top five finish. He'll now head to Charlotte this week to start his new deal with Buch Motorsports. He'll run World Finals and then look towards the 2026 High Limit schedule. And Cannon McIntosh made his fourth start with Roth Motorsports. He charged back from an early spin after starting third to finish eighth. I still don't know what the plan is here with McIntosh, Roth, and Toyota. There have been rumblings about a Toyota-backed sprint car deal with Chad Boat also, but I don't know if that's happening, or if that's a place McIntosh could end up. It does seem like though that Toyota would like there to be a second car running somewhere. We know they did some stuff with James McFadden this summer with Tarlton as well. Something to keep an eye on as the offseason progresses.
Also crowned at Stockton this weekend was Sprint Car Challenge Tour champion Austin Wood. He went winless, but as did the entire top nine in the standings, but was strong enough to beat Seth Standley. Joel Myers Jr. won the season finale. And Mitchel Moles topped the USAC CRA at Perris last night. He beat Austin Williams and RJ Johnson. The CRA has one more race, this coming weekend at Perris, but Johnson has wrapped up the title over Ricky Lewis.
That's the show for this Sunday. Thanks for tuning in, hope you guys have a great rest of your day out there, we'll see you back here tomorrow!