2012

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Adds To 2012 Schedule With ‘Photobilly 50’ On Sept. 14 At Belle-Clair Speedway

One-Fifth-Mile Fairgrounds Oval Will Provide Unique Challenge For Touring Stars, Lead Off Doubleheader In St. Louis Area

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

BELLEVILLE, IL – Aug. 24, 2012 – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series has added a date on Fri., Sept. 14, at Belle-Clair Speedway, setting up a big weekend doubleheader for fans in the St. Louis area.

A $10,000 top prize from the richest purse in Belle-Clair’s history will be on the line in the inaugural ‘Photobilly 50,’ a race that will be run in honor of late photographer Charles Haffer Jr. A well-known figure in St. Louis racing circles, Haffer – aka ‘Photobilly’ – lost his life on Aug. 7 at the age of 44 in a tragic Iowa highway accident while traveling to a race.

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Austin Dillon Makes Plans To Enter This Weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Events At Winchester & Selinsgrove

Reigning NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion Ready To Drive Iconic No. 3 Machine On Virginia & Pennsylvania Clay

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Aug. 24, 2012 – Fast-rising NASCAR star Austin Dillon plans to end a nearly two-year absence from World of Outlaws Late Model Series competition this weekend by entering tour events on Saturday night (Aug. 25) at Winchester (Va.) Speedway and Sunday evening (Aug. 26) at Selinsgrove (Pa.) Speedway.

The grandson of famed NASCAR team owner Richard Childress, Dillon won the 2011 Camping World Truck Series championship and is currently battling for the Nationwide Series title in his first year as a regular. He will arrive at Winchester for Saturday’s Ernie D’s & Gunter’s Honey 50 after racing his Richard Childress Racing AdvoCare/Bass Pro Shops Chevy No. 3 in tonight’s Nationwide Series event at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

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Selinsgrove Speedway‘s Inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event On Sunday (Aug. 26) Excites Track Champ Jeff Rine

Pennsylvania Oval’s Top Winner Ready To Challenge National Stars On Home Turf

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

SELINSGROVE, PA – Aug. 24, 2012 – No one is more excited about the first-ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at Selinsgrove Speedway this Sunday night (Aug. 26) than Jeff Rine.

The historic track’s most prolific dirt Late Model winner has, after all, been waiting a long time to challenge a national tour’s superstar drivers on his home turf.

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Gunter & Davis Combine To Bring World of Outlaws Late Model Series Action To Winchester Speedway This Saturday Night (Aug. 25)

Successful Area Businessmen, Team Owners Continue Support Of Dirt Late Model Division

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

WINCHESTER, VA – Aug. 22, 2012 – Whom do fans and racers have to thank for bringing a World of Outlaws Late Model Series event to Winchester Speedway this Saturday night (Aug. 25)? Just look at the name of the $10,000-to-win race.

The barnstorming WoO LMS stars and a host of regional and local standouts will compete for glory in the Ernie D’s & Gunter’s Honey 50, a race sponsored by two of dirt Late Model racing’s biggest benefactors: Winchester Speedway owner Greg Gunter and Ernie Davis, a longtime car owner and sponsor (as well as a former driver) affectionately known as the ‘Junk Man.’

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World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes: Richards Returns To Tour For Michigan Swing; Brady Smith Looks For Merritt Repeat

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Aug. 16, 2012 –

HE’S BACK: Josh Richards has watched from afar this season as Darrell Lanigan has supplanted him as the winningest driver on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series since 2004.

This weekend, though, Richards will return to the national tour that made him a star with hopes of dulling Lanigan’s domination – and maybe even reclaiming the number one spot on the alltime win list.

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