Travis Carr is certainly a Dirt Late Model driver with a unique back story.

“I always laugh,” Carr’s wife, Brandie Herdlitzka, said on that very subject. “When I first met him, I’m like, ‘You’re a nurse that races cars. I just don’t know that that’s very common.’ ”

A 32-year-old from Athens, Ohio, who works as a registered nurse in the emergency and critical care departments at a hospital in Lancaster, Ohio, Carr realizes that his day job isn’t typical for a short-track MORE