QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Recapping the 15th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout with a list of superlatives from the six Super Late programs that were contested at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway (complete Wild West Shootout coverage):

Best driver: Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., whose first WWS appearance since 2016 at USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., could scarcely have gone much better. Debuting a new Double L Motorsports Longhorn Race Car, the 37-year-old superstar put a subpar MORE

The 2021 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule was released on Wednesday morning. Roughly six hours later the ’21 World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series schedule went public.

Both national tour slates coming out within hours of each other? Talk about an unprecedented day for Dirt Late Model racing.

After digesting the schedules, here’s some highlights and other nuggets that caught my attention:

• As long as the coronavirus pandemic dies down and allows the return of an MORE

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