As race fans, we are forever hearing on racing broadcasts about a team having the “right chemistry” as a key ingredient to making that race team successful. That no doubt holds true in Dirt Late Model Racing as well. One need look no farther than the Barry Wright House Car team to find a shining example of what that chemistry can mean to a team’s success.

Barry Wright has been building winning race cars for better than 35 years. The National Dirt Late Model Hall of Famer has found success MORE

It seems as though my column has become self-serving for the most part. That has troubled me quite a bit recently. I have utilized my space here to talk about my departure from my former position with Southern All Stars, and then wrote further how my career evolved.

Fortunately, at least some of you good people have found what I have to say somewhat interesting, and for that I am grateful. I find myself this month feeling that I again need to explain what is going on with my racing career. I hope MORE

While I was a guest on Webb Dillard’s new In the Dirt webcast a few days ago, the question arose about dwindling car counts at Super Late Model series events. During the heyday of my career directing the Southern All Stars Racing Series, it was a rare occurrence to have fewer than 35 cars sign-in to race one of our events. And it was completely unheard of to not have a full field of 24 race cars on hand come feature time.

Over the last few years, the average number of race cars has fallen off MORE