Officially, Billy Vacek is Gary Stuhler’s crew chief this season. His mind, however, tells him something a little different.

For the 30-year-old Vacek, his current position transforms him into the youngster cheering on Stuhler that he used to be.

Indeed, when Vacek glanced at Stuhler while standing in Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway’s pit area prior to the April 23 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event, he spoke of the standout veteran driver from Greencastle, Pa., with the reverential tone of a MORE

We should be talking right now about how Jared Landers is chasing a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship this year. We should be discussing the Batesville, Ark., driver’s ascension to certified star status in the Dirt Late Model world.

Unfortunately, we’re not. Landers has been out of sight, if not exactly out of mind, since last summer when his burgeoning career took a sudden, dramatic detour into uncertainty, and only in the last couple weeks has he finally emerged from the MORE

BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Recapping the 46th annual DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park with a list of superlatives from two World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series and two UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned events at the half-mile oval near Daytona Beach (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga. While the 41-year-old didn’t match his spectacular 4-for-5 performance of the 2015 DCN, he certainly stood out from the crowd. He won Friday night’s fog-shortened WoO MORE