We should be talking right now about how Jared Landers is chasing a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship this year. We should be discussing the Batesville, Ark., driver’s ascension to certified star status in the Dirt Late Model world.

Unfortunately, we’re not. Landers has been out of sight, if not exactly out of mind, since last summer when his burgeoning career took a sudden, dramatic detour into uncertainty, and only in the last couple weeks has he finally emerged from the MORE

BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Recapping the 46th annual DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park with a list of superlatives from two World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series and two UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned events at the half-mile oval near Daytona Beach (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga. While the 41-year-old didn’t match his spectacular 4-for-5 performance of the 2015 DCN, he certainly stood out from the crowd. He won Friday night’s fog-shortened WoO MORE

GIBSONTON, Fla. — Recapping the 41st annual Wrisco Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park with a list of superlatives from four Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at the third-mile oval near Tampa (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., who showed no dropoff in his sterling East Bay performance with his move to the Best Performance Motorsports team. His Tuesday-night win put him in victory lane at the track for the third consecutive year and he MORE