The Total Novice’s Guide to Dirt Track Racing

Often overlooked in the mainstream, dirt track racing is perhaps the most exciting form of automobile racing in North America. It’s a popular form of racing held on oval tracks with a surface of dirt or clay. Dirt track racing is done on over 1,500 tracks throughout the United States. In the 1920s and 30s, dirt track racing became the dominant form of automobile racing in the United States due to the abundance of thoroughbred horse racing tracks.

There have been traditionally two types of racing cars that have dominated dirt track racing: open-wheel cars—including sprint cars and modifieds, which are primarily run in the Northeast and Midwest—and stock cars, which are raced in the South… read more >