Our calendars are increasingly fuller and fuller, stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey if you will. This used to be the time of year when we could unwind a bit, take a few weeks off and make sure our batteries are fresh and recharged for a new season. That’s still true to a degree.

Anytime there are only three or four events for the DirtonDirt staff to track over the course of a weekend, rather than two dozen, it seems like a mini vacation. But the days of lengthy down time are long gone. The MORE

Over the last couple weeks the topic of Late Model purses has come up a few times. We don’t usually sit around and talk about purse structures — maybe we should more often — so to have the topic pop up more than once in a two-week span is a little rare.

Getting a purse right, whether it be for a big race or just a weekly show, can be a tricky proposition. To me, getting it right means the promoter makes money and the racers, from the winner all the way down to the first guy who didn’t MORE