A by-the-numbers snapshot of my July 13-20 road trip that included events with the DIRTcar Summer Nationals and the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals, including a number of useless facts and the occasional poke at Georgia’s Ashton Winger, who not only found victory lane on multiple occasions, but also had a knack for making me laugh:

1: Victory by a Hall of Famer, Chickamauga, Ga.’s Dale McDowell, who won Tuesday’s Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals main event at I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, MORE

Ashton Winger has had plenty of chances to cut bait and head home from this year’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals. He’s crashed cars. He’s been upside-down — during time trials no less — and he’s missed a few golden opportunities to record much better finishes than the end results have shown.

But the Hampton, Ga., driver has kept on digging. And Tuesday at Knox County Fair Raceway, Winger’s fortunes finally turned for the better as he topped series points leader Bobby Pierce to win his MORE