2011

McCreadie Focused On Reclaiming World of Outlaws Late Model Series Championship In 2012

New York Star Announces Partnership With Warrior Chassis For National Tour’s Upcoming Season

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Dec. 16, 2011 – Tim McCreadie has already set his goal for the 2012 season.

“We’re focusing on the World of Outlaws (Late Model Series) championship,” said McCreadie, who won the national tour’s lucrative points title in 2006. “It’s not gonna be like the last couple years where we went to the races at the beginning of the season and then decided we were gonna do the whole series. We have a plan this year.”

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2012 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Schedule Released At Performance Racing Industry Trade Show

Busy Month Of February In Georgia & Florida Kicks Off National Tour’s Ninth Season Under World Racing Group Banner

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Dec. 2, 2011 – An unprecedented stretch of February racing will serve as the kickoff for the 2012 World of Outlaws Late Model Series schedule, which was released on Thursday during the Performance Racing Industry trade show in Orlando, Fla.

Forty-six race dates comprising 42 A-Mains at 32 tracks in 17 states and Canada are currently confirmed as part of the national tour’s 2012 slate, headed by a season-opening burst of six events in Georgia and Florida during the month of February.

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Clanton Joins Kennedy Motorsports For 2012 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Campaign

After Leaving RSD Enterprises Seat, Georgia Driver Will Follow National Tour As Teammate To New York’s John Lobb

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 30, 2011 – Shane Clanton will close one chapter in his dirt Late Model life and begin a new one in 2012.

The 36-year-old driver from Fayetteville, Ga., decided on Monday to make a dramatic change in his career path, leaving Ronnie Dobbins’s RSD Enterprises team to join the fledgling Kennedy Motorsports operation as a teammate to 2011 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Rookie of the Year contender John Lobb of Frewsburg, N.Y.

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Eckert’s Wild 2011 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Championship Celebration Was A Long Time Coming

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 23, 2011 – Rick Eckert had never experienced a moment quite like the one that immediately followed the final night of the fifth annual Lowes Foods World Finals presented by Tom’s Snacks, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

But of course, no one around dirt Late Model racing had ever seen anything like it.

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Eckert Collects $100,000 For First-Ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series Title At Sunday’s Awards Banquet

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 6, 2010 – Twenty-four hours after clinching the 2011 World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship, Rick Eckert’s head finally came out of the clouds.

On Sunday Eckert received his $100,000 check for winning the title during the national tour’s annual ‘Night of Champions’ Awards Banquet at the Great Wolf Lodge, capping an emotional whirlwind that put the York, Pa., driver on top of the dirt Late Model world.

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