Stellar field heading for Smoky Mountain this Saturday

[Returning to Dirt]

Many of the best drivers in Dirt Late Model racing will be at Smoky Mtn this Saturday

https://insidedirtracing.com/stellar-field-heading-for-smoky-mountain-this-saturday/

[Rajflyboy]

I will assume a lot of these guys will be at Cherokee on Sunday as well.

[TerryM]

Many of the best drivers in Dirt Late Model racing will be at Smoky Mtn this Saturday

https://insidedirtracing.com/stellar-field-heading-for-smoky-mountain-this-saturday/
Can’t wait, Rich. Me and Melissa will be making the trip north to see our granddaughters in Knoxville for a few days. And of course, taking the 30-minute drive to Maryville for this awesome show. Look us up!

[Dlmfan123]

I will assume a lot of these guys will be at Cherokee on Sunday as well.Most will. Ricky Thornton jr will be at both

[NeedforLM$peed]

Mcdowell, Overton, Madden, Bailes, Fergy, Hudson O'neal, Tmac and Davenport have both Smokey Mountain and Cherokee.

[Rajflyboy]

Wow. Thanks for the list. I guess 10 grand payout at Cherokee is worth it. I may go to this.

[Rajflyboy]

https://m.facebook.com/cherokeespeedway/photos/a.10153451420220035/10164871089075035/?type=3&source=48&__tn__=EH-R

[NeedforLM$peed]

I think some if not most are going for a tune up before the WoO $20k event.

[Rajflyboy]

A little practice

[HoosierDirtFan]

I think some if not most are going for a tune up before the WoO $20k event.



The WOO event is $25K. Saw a post about it yesterday or the day before. Someone added $5k to the purse.


Here it is from the tracks Facebook page posted February 28th.

Cherokee Speedway is excited to announce that we will name our $20,000 to win WoO race the “Rock Gault Memorial”. This race will be held on March 26 and 27. This is an honor for Tony Adair and myself and we look forward to it. We will start releasing details on this event in the next few days. We will say one thing though - we already have a sponsor to add $5,000 to the winner and make it $25,000 to win - making this the biggest payday in the history of Cherokee Speedway. Thank You Salvage City!! If you would like to sponsor this event please contact Tony or myself. Details are coming soon!!!

[NeedforLM$peed]

Apparently DoD hadn't got the memo yet. lol

[NeedforLM$peed]

Mcdowell, Overton, Madden, Bailes, Fergy, Hudson O'neal, Tmac and Davenport have both Smokey Mountain and Cherokee.

Add Terbo to Cherokee only...

[Dlmfan123]

Stewart friesen will be at cherokee and Smokey mountain

[Rajflyboy]

Omg. Cherokee will be good.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Add Terbo to Cherokee only...

Owens to Cherokee now

[Dlmfan123]

Omg. Cherokee will be good.To bad it's a one lane piece of sh!t 95 percent of the time

[NeedforLM$peed]

To bad it's a one lane piece of sh!t 95 percent of the time

Exactly.....

[Rajflyboy]

Exactly.....True. Still a good time close to home for me👍

[Rajflyboy]

Cherokee has a tough issue of cars crossing the track in turn 1 and turn 2. It’s a miracle folks have not been hit

[MRM]

Wow. Just saw that Stewart Friesen will be taking the red eye from Vegas tonight to race at Smoky Mountain tomorrow and Cherokee on Sunday.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Josh Richards will be at both

[Rajflyboy]

Stewart is for real ... and he likes to take girls from Tony. 👍👍👍😜

[zyoung25]

Tony has upgraded from Jessica.

You make some of the dumbest posts I've ever seen come across this place.

[Buford.Justice]

Gonna be a bit cool tomorrow but no rain. Hopefully no wind.

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

Tony has upgraded from Jessica.

You make some of the dumbest posts I've ever seen come across this place.

Agree 100%... besides... Jessica was with Friesen before Tony Stewart... and Ofcoarse, after him too

[TerryM]

Marked our seats off around 11:30 this morning. Wind was whipping pretty good, but that’s pretty much par for the course here.

[Pennsboro32]

Looks like a loaded field.

[Kryptonite17]

Any word on how many super lates in the pits so far? Will be interested to see just how many they get!

[NeedforLM$peed]

Around 50 is what I saw.

[HoosierDirtFan]

50 / 51 WOO Late Models.

[Rajflyboy]

50 / 51 WOO Late Models.. This deserves a big old Rick Flair. Wooooooooooooo

[BloomerWon]

. This deserves a big old Rick Flair. Wooooooooooooo

Easy there fly!! Remember what happend the last time you got all excited like this? You crapped yourself! Hahahahahaha 🤓😆

[dirtcrazy4u]

Yea and so far the racing has been sub par at best. If they don't get a second groove this is going to be a real snooze fest

[EDERDS]

The next good race we see tonight will the first good race we see tonight. Sometimes it happens.

[dirtcrazy4u]

Bloomie, does not qualify

[EDERDS]

Will be fun to see who will use the most provisionals this year, Bloomer or EPJ.

[champion24]

Has everyone's feed been freezing tonight?

[EDERDS]

My feed has been doing a lot better than the racing.

[HoosierDirtFan]

Smokey Mountain Speedway
Maryville, Tennessee
Saturday, March 6th 2021
World Of Outlaws Late Model Series
"Tennessee Tipoff"
A-Main Starting Line Up

ROW 01: Davenport - Madden
ROW 02: O'Neal - Thornton Jr.
ROW 03: Marlar - McCreadie
ROW 04: Lanigan - Owens
ROW 05: Sheppard - Ferguson
ROW 06: Dillard - Hedgec0ck
ROW 07: Richards - Ford
ROW 08: Seawright - Weiss
ROW 09: Overton - Bronson
ROW 10: McDowell - Strickler
ROW 11: Boles - Bailes
ROW 12: Bruening - Hanger
ROW 13: D. Erb Jr. - Bloomquist
ROW 14: Briggs - Clanton
ROW 15: Breazeale - Gustin
ROW 16: Jackson Jr - Junghans

[kipling]

So they start 32 cars? Just asking for a lot of cautions, JMO

[Highside Hustler25]

RTJr👍.............

[Cleetus Motorsports]

Does Smokey Mountain ever have good races? Anytime I watch a race from there it is always a train race.

[champion24]

I really hope we see something better tomorrow! We shall see.

[Barchetta6]

(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) show.

[TerryM]

This was the 4th straight year we’ve come up for this show, but I believe we’re going to pick something different next year. There’s too many negatives involved with this place. We spend way too much money at these tracks to keep dealing with the same stuff over and over at some of them.

[WisWildManFan]

I knew it was going to suck when it was glazed over in qualifying

[Kryptonite17]

You would think with that caliber of field they would’ve done everything possible to make the track racy and put on a great show. Nope, let’s give the track prep equipment the night off. What a disappointment.

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

Never quite understood all the talk about Smokey Mountain. It’s always been crap.

[dirtcrazy4u]

All aboard. The great smokey mtn Choo Choo pulls out as soon as we get the go ahead. That was terrible. I think they should have started all 50 cars. The winner could have been the guy that passed the most cars.

[3 wide]

I got a question when they add the provisionals like 8 last night I wonder who pays them what if your the promoter and your planning on paying 24 positions your talking about a little money.

[jwel]

It is my understanding that the emergency provisionals (6 of the 8) do not get paid unless they finish ahead of a position that gets start pay and then they get only the difference between their finishing position and start pay. The total payout for the race is not impacted by emergency provisionals.

[3 wide]

It is my understanding that the emergency provisionals (6 of the 8) do not get paid unless they finish ahead of a position that gets start pay and then they get only the difference between their finishing position and start pay. The total payout for the race is not impacted by emergency provisionals.Makes sense thanks

[Highside Hustler25]

What happened to Clanton?

[dirt track junkie]

speaking of Smoky Mountain only, so the track was one groove and lack of track prep ? if its smooth and dry slick and takes rubber people complain if its tacky but rough people complain, if the track prep guy stops the racing to work on the track people complain because they were there all night and it was cold so all you track prep guru's tell me what the track is supposed to do ?? it was a bright sunshine filled day and winds at least 10mph all day plus hot laps started at 4:30 (to get the fans out of the cold) so all of the track prep wizards tell me and i will gladly pass this info to the track prep guy. also were any of you that are complaining at the race or watching on tv ? just asking because on tv they tend to just show alot of the leader and no one else. i am serious with my questions on track prep not being a smart a**

[One Man Gang]

I guess I’ve been lucky about seeing a good race there but it was different time of the year too. I’ve been to 5 southern nationals races in July seen 2 good races and 3 that got rained out. Rain not bad prep always been my problem with the place.

[GEAR_HEAD]

speaking of Smoky Mountain only, so the track was one groove and lack of track prep ? if its smooth and dry slick and takes rubber people complain if its tacky but rough people complain, if the track prep guy stops the racing to work on the track people complain because they were there all night and it was cold so all you track prep guru's tell me what the track is supposed to do ?? it was a bright sunshine filled day and winds at least 10mph all day plus hot laps started at 4:30 (to get the fans out of the cold) so all of the track prep wizards tell me and i will gladly pass this info to the track prep guy. also were any of you that are complaining at the race or watching on tv ? just asking because on tv they tend to just show alot of the leader and no one else. i am serious with my questions on track prep not being a smart a**

Was the track disked before they watered it? Probably not. I'm guessing they tried to water a rock. Those conditions you mentioned are nothing compared the conditions every Midwest track battle all summer long, and their racing is fantastic because they prep tracks properly and they're not afraid to use the disk and harrow. And their tracks are tacky and smooth.

[NeedforLM$peed]

This was Cherokee Saturday after their racing event and it still sucked on Sunday

https://mobile.twitter.com/ColePerkins12/status/1368452142806220800

[Buford.Justice]

Grading two or three inches just doesn't work..

[titbaby115]

First off Lucas and WOO come once a year don't practice on the track the night before whether u start at 4 30 or 7 and as far as the cold they knew that all week should have moved it back a week or whenever but saying all that I still think if they would have started at 6 30 the fans would have still come out and I was there too.

[GEAR_HEAD]

This was Cherokee Saturday after their racing event and it still sucked on Sunday

https://mobile.twitter.com/ColePerkins12/status/1368452142806220800

It's not disked. Grading doesn't do anything to help get the water in the track. They need to take some lessons from Sarge or Helfrich.

[TerryM]

It's not disked. Grading doesn't do anything to help get the water in the track. They need to take some lessons from Sarge or Helfrich.
There’s a lot you need to learn.

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

So much Truth Terry

[dirtcrazy4u]

Actually a lot depends on the soil. Time of year, and many more factors. One I do know, if the track was sealed all winter and the Temps never dropped for the surface to frost where that alone pushes moisture deeper into the soil. If they didn't get water down into the soil by tilling a min of 6" then seal the surface after 24 to 48 hrs it locks the moisture into the surface. Dirt track prep is a science, you have to know the soil, because each track is different.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Disking, lots of water, sheepsfoot, an additive that you like that works with your soil, and more sheepsfooting. Fine line between taking rubber and sucking to being balls out tearing sh!t up.

[TerryM]

The biggest factor some of you ignore is, once you start going further south — it starts around the Kentucky/Tennessee border — most of the tracks are red clay or red dirt. It’s a whole different animal. Nothing at all like the actual *dirt* tracks many of us have known and attended our entire lives. As CnB said, it’s a fine line. And that line is even thinner down here in the Deep South. One of those red tracks — Swainsboro — is reopening next month, with supposedly several changes. They’ve added a wall, and I’ve seen that in person. What I’m waiting to see is, is the racing surface going to be better. It was lockdown freight train around the bottom every time before they closed. That’s why they closed. Hopefully they’ve taken care of that issue. We’ll be there to see.