Mike Marlar carrying Dirt Late Model world's hopes to Bristol

[Returning to Dirt]

https://insidedirtracing.com/mike-marlar-carrying-dirt-late-model-worlds-hopes-into-bristol/

Marlar has succeeded before in NASCAR when it might have seemed unlikely

[Highside Hustler25]

Let's hope Mike's dirt experience proves to be helpful Sunday. It's gonna be a tire fiasco.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

3rd slowest overall in the 2 practice sessions today. Don’t really think he will do much with that low dollar-start and park ride.

[WisWildManFan]

Eldora was much more of a drivers track IMO for the nascar vehicles

[Shiny Side Up 18]

The first truck heat is scheduled for 4:00 central on FS1.
Marlar is on the pole.

[dirtSLMracing]

Hope this post does not get deleted because of snowflakes on the board.

Bristol looks like a mess at the moment.

[HoosierDirtFan]

The first truck heat is scheduled for 4:00 central on FS1.
Marlar is on the pole.

He's entered in the NASCAR Truck Series races as well.

He's 1 of 4 drivers I'll be keeping my eyes on Making the NASCAR Cup Series debut

Stewart Freisen - From DIRTcar Northeast Big Block Modifieds
Mike Marlar - Dirt Late Model veteran and on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series tour in 2021
Shane Golobic - wing & Non-Wing Sprint Car, Midget, and Silver Crown/ Champ Car Veteran racer.
Chris Windom - Veteran USAC Racer in all 3 USAC divisions.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Hey Nathan:

Why do you put all that garbage after each post about the races you attended in 2020?
I don’t think anybody really cares!
Good thing we all don’t do it!

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

Agreed.... Nathan does things like this to try and stroke his ego... just like him trying to do updates last night from his television

[dirtSLMracing]

Dumb to have windshields.

Hope that post doesnt offend the snowflakes.

[Action10]

This looks like a NASCAR fiasco in the making...

[BloomerWon]

Hey fox! Why are you such an asshat who's so worried about what someone else does? Go out to some races once in a while so you have something to show too... 😉

[dirtSLMracing]

Looks like Fox would have brought in announcers that have knowledge of Dirt racing instead of having the clowns on air keep saying they dont know anything about dirt racing.

Hope that doesnt offend any snowflakes.

[dirtSLMracing]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone but I think Bristol is done for the night.

[TDRacin®]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone but I think Bristol is done for the night.

Pushed to tomorrow.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

BloomerWon

I am not an asshat. Look at all the space he takes up in each of his post. At least he took all that garbage off about the other website he was promoting. This is March of 2021 and he’s still listing his 2020 races. Heck, I have attended 18 races this year -but I don’t list them as if I am the top fan or something.
He adds a lot to 4m with useful info- but he also try’s to be the king of social media by giving race updates from home. Maybe “all” of us should start listing every single race we go to & then list outed future races we plan to attend. Wouldn’t that be ridiculous??
I am sure Nathan is a good dude & means well- but I’m sorry it just rubs on me sometimes just like you get upset with me.

[ZERO25]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone but I think Bristol is done for the night.

God forbid they allow them to take off the windshields and install a shaker screen! smh

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

God forbid they allow them to take off the windshields and install a shaker screen! smh

They could do that and they would still overheat in 3 laps

[HoosierDirtFan]

With NASCAR Truck Series heat races cancelled for today

Here is the line up for tomorrows race. Mike Marlar did make the show in Timmy Hill's truck starting 38th.

Row 01: 4 John Hunter Nemechek - 16 Austin Hill
Row 02: 2 Sheldon Creed - 88 Matt Crafton
Row 03: 13 Johnny Sauter - 21 Zane Smith
Row 04: 52 Stewart Friesen - 98 Grant Enfinger
Row 05: 99 Ben Rhodes - 45 Brett Moffitt
Row 06: 42 Carson Hocevar - 19 Derek Kraus
Row 07: 38 Todd Gilliland - 40 Ryan Truex
Row 08: 51 Martin Truex Jr. - 75 Parker Kligerman
Row 09: 22 Austin Wayne Self - 15 Tanner Gray
Row 10: 26 Tyler Ankrum - 9 Codie Rohrbaugh
Row 11: 18 Chandler Smith - 1 Hailie Deegan
Row 12: 23 Chase Purdy - 12 Tate Fogleman
Row 13: 30 Danny Bohn - 02 Daniel Suarez
Row 14: 25 Timothy Peters - 44 Kyle Larson
Row 15: 24 Raphael Lessard - 17 Kevin Harvick
Row 16: 20 Spencer Boyd - 11 Bubba Wallace
Row 17: 04 Chase Briscoe - 41 Cody Erickson
Row 18: 10 Jennifer Jo Cobb - 34 Jake Griffin
Row 19: 33 Myatt Snider - 56 Mike Marlar
Row 20: 6 Norm Benning - 49 Andrew Gordon

Did Not Qualify: #83 Trevor Collins, #62 Jessica Friesen, #39 Ryan Newman, #3 JR Heffner

Manufacturer
Chevrolet 22
Ford 5
Toyota 13

[Highside Hustler25]

Bummer. Marlar could have won that heat starting up front.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Yes-it is a bummer! I think the 15 lap shootouts would have probably been the best races. Regular drivers are probably happy- but the fans took a big hit. Can’t control Mother Nature- could be a 1 and done deal for NASCAR dirt racing now???

[WisWildManFan]

Glad I got f*cked on my bet for Ryan Newman to win race

[WisWildManFan]

You would think they could start an extra 3 trucks lol

[Highside Hustler25]

Mike will start 37th in the cup race. Maybe he can follow Larson to the front.

[Highside Hustler25]

Boat races start at noon today.

[catgo22]

I wanna see how they're gonna get a 100 or so haulers outta there. Slick, slimey mess. Might take a week.

[HoosierDirtFan]

NASCAR Races postponed till Monday

NASCAR Truck Series race will run on Monday, March 29th at 12:00noon eastern / 11:00AM central on FS1

NASCAR Cup Series race will run on Monday, March 29th at 4:00pm eastern / 3:00pm central on FOX

[Highside Hustler25]

I wanna see how they're gonna get a 100 or so haulers outta there. Slick, slimey mess. Might take a week.

That's why they are racin tomorrow. They couldn't leave if they wanted to. They've had like 4 inches of rain. Place is a mess.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Many of the campgrounds and parking lots are flooded. I certainly feel for those fans and teams there waiting it out. A much anticipated event that got set back by Mother Nature. Depending on tomorrow’s show & drivers and fans response afterward will probably depend if it happens again on dirt.
FWIW: I read that the reason for the dirt at Bristol is that FOX TV network requested it -?? Has anybody else heard that?

[BloomerWon]

I wanna see how they're gonna get a 100 or so haulers outta there. Slick, slimey mess. Might take a week.

A 9630 and a long chain would do it... 💃

[dirtluver]

Thanks Nathan you always do a great job. Always enjoy your post.

[Highside Hustler25]

Like 27 pages of track schedules. My favorite thread.

[3 wide]

Get the jet dryer out lol

[15b24fan]

I seem to recall reading or hearing a while back that Fox played a big part in NASCAR returning to dirt and Bristol being the location.

[SlidinDirty]

The amount of space Nathan takes up is about the same amount Ernie takes up. Ernie loves picking on Nathan. Always has. Ernie's a cool guy though...

[Highside Hustler25]

When Nathan grows up, he wants to be Google.

[Barbecueboy]

Because NASCAR was a bish about it happening at the perfect spot in Ohio for them to race on dirt.....idiots.

Was hoping Bristol would work.....epic fail so far.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Should have been at night after the sun went down!

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Most daytime dirt races get the same dust.

[Shiny Side Up 18]

Bristol just announced that the dirt will return next year.

[dirtcrazy4u]

WOW. just announced 2022 spring Bristol race will be on dirt. I see this is a marlar thread. So does anybody thinks he ever had any chance ? I don't care if it was the trucks or the cup car. He can't race with these guys, he just doesn't have the talent. There's guys in this show that don't have 1% of the time he has had on dirt. Yet all I keep reading is if if and if. I don't know who was behind him in that truck heat but he probably would have been passed and ended up starting mid pack at best. I don't know where he finished in the truck race. Didn't see it, but I'd venture to say he didn't finish in the top 20.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

He fished 28th in the truck race.

[dirtcrazy4u]

Thanks fox, enough said.

[t3r3e3]

WOW. just announced 2022 spring Bristol race will be on dirt. I see this is a marlar thread. So does anybody thinks he ever had any chance ? I don't care if it was the trucks or the cup car. He can't race with these guys, he just doesn't have the talent. There's guys in this show that don't have 1% of the time he has had on dirt. Yet all I keep reading is if if and if. I don't know who was behind him in that truck heat but he probably would have been passed and ended up starting mid pack at best. I don't know where he finished in the truck race. Didn't see it, but I'd venture to say he didn't finish in the top 20.

And if you think the equipment he was driving or team he was driving for are anywhere close to competitive on a weekly basis I’ll sell you some oceanfront property in Arizona. Mike did alright with what he had, and kept everything in one piece until the cut tire/bump at the end of the Cup race. His effort was decent for a start and park level team.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

WOW. just announced 2022 spring Bristol race will be on dirt. I see this is a marlar thread. So does anybody thinks he ever had any chance ? I don't care if it was the trucks or the cup car. He can't race with these guys, he just doesn't have the talent. There's guys in this show that don't have 1% of the time he has had on dirt. Yet all I keep reading is if if and if. I don't know who was behind him in that truck heat but he probably would have been passed and ended up starting mid pack at best. I don't know where he finished in the truck race. Didn't see it, but I'd venture to say he didn't finish in the top 20.

I guess I must have dreamed him getting a top 5 at Eldora in a truck?

That dude is one of the best in a DLM.

[CIRF]

Most daytime dirt races get the same dust.

The ARCA stock car race (ARCA cars are quite similar to the Cup cars) at Springfield, Illinois on the 1 mild dirt track runs during the day and always has. I've been going to that race for quite a few years and I've never seen dust at Springfield like what was at Bristol. Not even close! Bob Sargent is in charge of track prep at Springfield and he seldom, if ever, gets it wrong, so it can be done by people who know what they're doing.

[Action10]

I guess I must have dreamed him getting a top 5 at Eldora in a truck?That dude is one of the best in a DLM.I was thinking the same thing... Crazy how big a difference equipment makes in this sport

[BloomerWon]

Dirtcrazy = one goofy ass sob... 🌽

[EvelB7]

The ARCA stock car race (ARCA cars are quite similar to the Cup cars) at Springfield, Illinois on the 1 mild dirt track runs during the day and always has. I've been going to that race for quite a few years and I've never seen dust at Springfield like what was at Bristol. Not even close! Bob Sargent is in charge of track prep at Springfield and he seldom, if ever, gets it wrong, so it can be done by people who know what they're doing.Southern dirt is way different than the midwest, alot more 'sand' and the sun cooks the moisture that holds it together out very easily....they need to run this race after the sun goes down or haul in dirt from the west/northwest.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

EvilB7

Exactly: red clay dirt is much different than other soils throughout the country. It just does not hold together for daytime racing when the sun is out. Bristol needs to run under the lights and not have 1,100 cars on the track racing for 7 straight days the week before NASCAR. With that said: the place was flooded yesterday and they could have raced boats. I truly believe it will be better after the learning curve of this year. It was a big undertaking!

[Highside Hustler25]

Many a times someone will come up from racing down South and still have that red colored dirt on the car. Reminds me of the red puke-dry they used at school when I was a youngun.

[Action10]

EvilB7Exactly: red clay dirt is much different than other soils throughout the country. It just does not hold together for daytime racing when the sun is out. Bristol needs to run under the lights and not have 1,100 cars on the track racing for 7 straight days the week before NASCAR. With that said: the place was flooded yesterday and they could have raced boats. I truly believe it will be better after the learning curve of this year. It was a big undertaking!Hope and pray you are right about this year being the learning curve for them. This is good for dirt racing, but NASCAR seems to have a talent to screw up everything they are involved in on a massive scale.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

I really do think it’s good for dirt racing overall-can get some NASCAR fans to join us! I remember going to the Prelude at Eldora and those Nadcar fans would be there on Wednesday night from all across the USA - but didn’t care anything about staying for the Dream 2 days later.
Like it or not NASCAR has a tremendous amount of talent- but they also have 20-25 million dollar a year teams. The cars today at Bristol were the cars they drive every week (even tho they were on dirt today).
Don’t get me wrong: I am definitely a dirt model fan to the bone- but these NASCAR guys race inches apart at sometimes 200mph. Several years ago we were at Daytona and I done the Richard Petty Expierence (ride as a passenger). You could feel the car just floating on air thru the turns and moving around. I was thinking at the time there isn’t any other cars around us -how do they race side by side?
After we stopped-I asked the driver how fast we were going & he said about 16mph. Definitely much slower than the racers. So-I give that series credit where it’s due- their is some incredible talent there.
Now take their top talent and put them in a late model on all the different size/shaped tracks against our best drivers: it would be interesting and who knows the outcome?
It really doesn’t matter -everyone has their preference- I choose Dirt over asphalt!

[foxfire2dirtracing]

160mph (correction)^^^

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Correction to above post ^^160mph

[Barbecueboy]

no reason whatsoever NASCAR shouldn't run a race at Earls place now that dirt seems to be popular with them, it's the best dirt track on earth isn't it?....my epic fail statement was a bit harsh for Bristol too and I would like to tame that down a bit because all in all it was really cool seeing all the racing leading up to NASCAR and I'm sure today's race was better than most on Sunday.

Sux the weather got them, they missed a lot of fans that would have watched on Sunday but couldn't because they had to work today.

[stock car driver]

EvilB7

Exactly: red clay dirt is much different than other soils throughout the country. It just does not hold together for daytime racing when the sun is out. Bristol needs to run under the lights and not have 1,100 cars on the track racing for 7 straight days the week before NASCAR. With that said: the place was flooded yesterday and they could have raced boats. I truly believe it will be better after the learning curve of this year. It was a big undertaking!


The 823 cars last week are the only reason they had the quality track they had today.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

You are right- they got the track packed down & the prep guys used last week as a test/tune for NASCAR. I really think the heat races would have been good-hate they lost them.
I do believe the WOO races April 9 & 10 will be good???
Went last week and going next weekend- but was a tv watcher for today. I did go online after today’s race and bought 2 tickets for NASCAR dirt race for next year. Life’s a journey-not a destination!

[foxfire2dirtracing]

BBQ- I think Tony & NASCAR is in a peeing contest at the present time. According to Eldora’s press release last year- it was their decision not to have the trucks back this year. There must be an underlying reason that the general public isn’t in the know about.

[ZERO25]

Musta been successful for nasCRAP to re-up for next year!

I give BMS a thumbs up for all the racing the past 2 weeks! Sure they need a few tweaks, but overall a very good job!

[dirtcrazy4u]

Yea gotta agree with zero. That undertaking of bringing in all that dirt is a huge task. Then removing it and not digging into the surface for the next cup race. HUGE and costly. So the numbers had to be ok for them to already announce that there going to do it all over again next year.