It was Monday morning following the Paul “Butterball” Wooldridge Memorial and I was plenty tired. Getting back into the grind of a 6 a.m. departure to work was a little tough after Saturday's late race at Richmond Raceway, which kept me from getting to sleep until 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

It was the first time in several years that I’d had such a late evening at the races, but as I texted my buddy Michael “Spanky” Despain later in the day: “While I’m not used to it, it does feel strangely MORE

When I was considering the request to write a blog for DirtonDirt.com, I joked that I felt like an old frame that Hall of Fame chassis builder C.J. Rayburn pulled from the weeds behind his shop. Once successful in its days of glory, now refreshed and ready to race again.

As the story would usually go, a racer with a bent-up race car and equally damaged mindset about the sport he loves would arrive in Whiteland with hopes of patching up his car in time for the next weekend. And Rayburn, being MORE