2012

Filling Josh’s Seat: Fuller In Rocket House Car For This Weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Action At North AL & Tazewell

Two-Time Champ Richards Announces He’s Departing Series As Regular To Pursue NASCAR Career

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – April 26, 2012 – Tim Fuller’s life as a World of Outlaws Late Model Series regular has gotten an 11th-hour reprieve.

With two-time series champion Josh Richards announcing on Wednesday that he’s decided to end his eight-year run on the national tour and move south to pursue a NASCAR driving career, Watertown, N.Y.’s Fuller has been tapped as Richards’s replacement behind the wheel of the iconic Rocket Chassis house car. Fuller will be in the blue No. 1 machine for this weekend’s WoO LMS events at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Ala. (April 27) and Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway (April 28).

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World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes: Hollingsworth Geared Up For N. Alabama; Marlar Eyes Home-State Show At Tazewell

CONCORD, NC – April 24, 2012 –

ROLL TIDE: Ronny Lee Hollingsworth romped to victory in last Friday night’s dirt Late Model season opener at North Alabama Speedway. Now he’d like to bag an infinitely more important checkered flag at the third-mile oval in Tuscumbia.

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series returns to North Alabama Speedway for the first time in five years on Fri., April 27, for a 50-lap showdown, and Hollingsworth, a 27-year-old talent from Northport, Ala., has visions of a career-boosting $10,000 triumph dancing through his head.

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World of Outlaws Late Model Series Promoter of the Year Brings National Tour Back To Tazewell Speedway On April 28

Gary Hall (above left) Ready To Welcome Circuit’s Stars To His Blazing-Fast, High-Banked Track

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

TAZEWELL, TN – April 19, 2012 – The 2011 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Promoter of the Year is ready to welcome the national tour’s stars back to his facility.

Gary Hall’s Tazewell Speedway will host the ‘Outlaw Sizzler 50’ presented by Rusty Wallace Cadillac-GMC-Kia of Morristown on Sat., April 28 – the first WoO LMS visit to the high-banked, one-third-mile oval since Hall was honored as last year’s standout track operator on the renowned full-fender circuit.

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McCool Looking To Take Advantage Of His Familiarity With North Alabama Speedway On April 27

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Rookie Has High Hopes For Success In Tour’s First Visit To Tuscumbia Track Since 2007

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

TUSCUMBIA, AL – April 11, 2012 – Bub McCool understands that the World of Outlaws Late Model Series event on Fri., April 27, at North Alabama Speedway presents him with a unique opportunity.

As a Rookie of the Year candidate on the national tour, McCool is unfamiliar with a majority of the tracks on the circuit’s 2012 schedule. But that’s not the case with North Alabama, a one-third-mile oval at which the Vicksburg, Miss., driver possesses more experience than any of his WoO LMS rivals.

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Promoter Jim Borden’s Health Concerns Force Cancelation of July 20 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event At Hartford Motor Speedway

Series Officials Send Best Wishes To Hard-Working Michigan Track Operator

HARTFORD, MI – April 4, 2012 – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series event scheduled for July 20 at Hartford Motor Speedway has been cancelled due to track promoter Jim Borden’s health concerns.

Borden announced on Monday that he was stepping down as Hartford’s promoter for the 2012 season in order to focus on treatment of his medical issues. His daughter and son-in-law, Becky and J.R. Hotovy, have assumed the operational reins of the facility for the upcoming campaign, but their desire to concentrate on weekly racing programs led to the cancelation of the half-mile oval’s mid-summer WoO LMS card.

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