For this year’s full-time World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series teams, the Aug. 13 program at Winchester (Va.) Speedway was like Christmas morning.

Santa Claus visited the the 3/8-mile oval in the form of a box truck that pulled into the pit area during the afternoon. Large boxes on pallets were unloaded and delivered to each of the 14 full-time WoO teams on hand (season-long regular Chase Junghans of Manhattan, Kan., would have made 15 but he skipped the four-race Mid-Atlantic swing) MORE

Ten team members. Four drivers. Four officials. Two media types. One vendor.

Oh, and three dogs, too.

That’s the composition of a select group: those who could claim perfect attendance on the 2014 UMP DIRTcar Summernationals, the aptly-named Hell Tour for its grueling schedule of Dirt Late Model action lasting just over month.

These are the people (and the trio of animals) that completed the full Summernationals points-race grind, which began on June 16 at Kankakee (Ill.) County Speedway (after MORE

Gary Stuhler climbed into a race car for the first time in 1975 and here he is, 41 years later, still doing it every weekend he can.

Man, how time sure does fly.

“It doesn’t seem that long,” the 61-year-old Stuhler said recently as he headed out of the pit area at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway after finishing 12th in the track’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event. “When I got started I never even thought about how long I’d race. I used to help a guy, he was getting out and I ended up MORE