With two national tours featuring most of the nation's best drivers, it's fun to size up the regulars on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series vs. the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, arguing who reigns supreme.

What's even more fun? Watching the combined series regulars battle the independent and regional-series drivers on World 100 weekend — and seeing the non-national series drivers more than hold their own at Eldora Speedway.

While drivers from either WoO or Lucas Oil have won Dirt Late MORE

For a moment on Sept. 7 at Tyler County Speedway, I felt like the bumbling bank robbers in one of my favorite films, Raising Arizona.

In the movie, Gale and Evelle order everyone to get on the ground while robbing a bank, but when they approach the tellers' counter, they're all missing. Gale asks: "Where'd all the tellers go?" before he realizes they're also on the ground.

At the 41st annual Hillbilly 100, I entered the muddy pits im Middlebourne, W.Va., and double-taked when I looked to my left MORE