Thursday night information for upcoming weekend

- Tomorrow night kicks off yet another racing weekend in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Willard Speedway will be open for the first time this year tomorrow night. Although there won't be any super late model racing at the track this year, there will still be modified's, limited late models, bombers, and 4-cylinders.

It's great that a lot of tracks are still trying to run in the area. We now have 5 dirt racing tracks in EKY. That's great for the sport. Hopefully these tracks can work together so that they don't end up hurting each other in the long run.



- Saturday night is the big race of the weekend in EKY at 201 Speedway, for the Roger Breeding Memorial paying $5000 to the winner. Drivers like Jackie Boggs, Dustin Linville, Josh McGuire, Brandon Kinzer, RJ Conley, Chris Combs, Shannon Thornsberry, and Derek Fisher are expected to be there. Should be a great night of racing.

Gates open at 3 - Drivers meeting at 6:30 - Hot laps start around 7 - Gen. Admission: $20 - Kids 10 & under free for stands & pits - Pit passes $35.

- Lucas Oil series gets going again tomorrow night as well in the Bluegrass state, for the Ralph Latham Memorial at Florence Speedway. Saturday night the series crosses the Ohio river into the Hoosier state to compete for $10,000 at Brownstown Speedway. Steve Francis will be attempting to make up some ground on current points leader Jimmy Owens. The gap has widened over the course the last month or so between he and Owens.

- Eric Wells and the World of Outlaws late model series will also be back in action for the Keyser Down & Dirty 100 at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan. Qualifying is tomorrow night and the feature is Saturday. Wells still is the favorite for the WoO's rookie of the year award.

- 191 Speedway will be running all classes except for super late models Saturday night. Gates open at 4 PM.

- Lucky 7 Speedway will only be racing go-karts this weekend.

- Mountain Motor Speedway will not be running.

- Let's hope mother nature holds stays away this weekend. I haven't been able to go to a lot of races these past few months because of work, so hopefully mother nature doesn't ruin this weekend for me and everyone else that plans on heading out to the tracks tomorrow and Saturday night.

Best of luck to all drivers this weekend. Be safe, be professional, and go out and support your local dirt track!