Commitments to the 3 National Series Tours

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Spencer Hughes to Lucas Oil 2022

[Pennsboro32]

Dennis Erb jr - WoO
Hudson O'Neal - Lucas

[Barbecueboy]

Spencer Hughes to Lucas Oil 2022

Love this………

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Jimmy Owens has posted his Georgia/Florida Speedweeks schedule and the 2 Lucas Oil races at Bubbas are not listed. Anyone know if he is not running the full Lucas Tour this year?
Thanks in advance.

[WON11_Fan]

I was told that Owens will not be following a tour this year.

[txl9t]

^^The only thing I can think of is that Lucas oil takes a certain number of best finishes out of the whole speedweeks. Can throw a few out if you stink it up. Maybe he's just not going to Bubba and using those 2 nights a his throw aways.

[Pennsboro32]

Lucas is looking a little thin at the moment. But the race for the championship looks wide open as ever.

Tim McCreadie
Hudson O'Neal
Ricky Thornton jr
Kyle Bronson
Earl Pearson jr
Spencer Hughes

Possible (Davenport, Terbo). Did I miss anyone?

[huskerdirt]

Nobody is gonna declare to run XRSS. They don’t have a point fund outside of the Bristol races. I think people will be surprised who will be at most of the races.

[LonghornRT]

I think you will be surprised who doesn't chase a national tour. Davenport, Pierce, Marlar, Weiss, Overton, Bloomquist, Ferguson possibly Owens will chase the XR/big purse money.....I'll pay to watch any of those 6 plus some field fillers versus watching McCreadie, Hughes, O'Neal, EPJ battle for a championship. Personal preferences here, but variety isn't a bad thing. You think Lucas/WoO just raised their purses for the kindness of their hearts? Way overdue...we were racing for 10K purses back in 2004. There's over 1 million up for grabs with XR as a winners purse, between the winning purse, Bristol bonus, and the double down triple crown bonus, win it all, well over a million dollars in about 25 events. Watch for that XR logo on more cars.

[Pennsboro32]

I think you will be surprised who doesn't chase a national tour. Davenport, Pierce, Marlar, Weiss, Overton, Bloomquist, Ferguson possibly Owens will chase the XR/big purse money.....I'll pay to watch any of those 6 plus some field fillers versus watching McCreadie, Hughes, O'Neal, EPJ battle for a championship. Personal preferences here, but variety isn't a bad thing. You think Lucas/WoO just raised their purses for the kindness of their hearts? Way overdue...we were racing for 10K purses back in 2004. There's over 1 million up for grabs with XR as a winners purse, between the winning purse, Bristol bonus, and the double down triple crown bonus, win it all, well over a million dollars in about 25 events. Watch for that XR logo on more cars.

There may only be 6-7 guys running points but there still going to be other big time drivers at those events depending on which region of the country there in on a weekend. It’s not like Lucas is going to just have 6-7 points guys and field fillers. This doesn’t mean that JD, Overton, Moran won’t be at Lucas races, there just not points racing. You kind of contradicted yourself with the example. Same with XR, likely nobody running points but they’ll still have stacked fields.

[JabberJaws83]

Don’t forget Brian Davis to the XR series with two brand new Bloomer chassis, top driver and Rocket chassis crew

[Paradox28]

I think the biggest takeaway is that drivers don't need a tour to make big money, anymore. Theres tons of 10, 20, and up races happening all over. You got Flo races, Xr, Lucas, WoO, regional series...

[TS FAN]

Lucas will probably wind up with 10-12 regulars IMO. They are more travel friendly too. I am not sure who all those drivers will be though. It will be a lot clearer after speedweeks, Right?

[huskerdirt]

Lucas is looking a little thin at the moment. But the race for the championship looks wide open as ever.

Tim McCreadie
Hudson O'Neal
Ricky Thornton jr
Kyle Bronson
Earl Pearson jr
Spencer Hughes

Possible (Davenport, Terbo). Did I miss anyone?

FWIW…. Which probably isn’t much. Tony Jackson has Lucas races for speedweeks on his schedule. Been some whispers about running Lucas in BWRC house car.

[Dlmfan123]

There was some stuff going around late last year that Cody Overton was gonna run Lucas