Miller looked to have the strongest car and came from the back of the 24-car field to the front after spinning on the second lap. By lap 14, he had survived a handful of cautions to move up to second position.

Kinsey moved lower and lower on the racing groove as the laps wound down and Miller closed in. With two laps to go, Miller edged his car underneath Kinsey as the two drove into turn three. Kinsey refu ...

It may have taken him longer than he wanted, but Ocala’s Ivedent Lloyd found a familiar place Friday night at Ocala Speedway. After a ten-year hiatus, Lloyd was back in track’s victory lane.

“We’d been working on this new car for a bit, and we got it running real good,” Lloyd said after winning the 25-lap late model feature. Rich Pratt finished second and Mike Bresnahan fell from an early lead to third.

Lloyd started near the rear of the 16-car field but found himself running third by lap 9. On lap 10, Lloyd used a lap car as a pick to pa ...

Let's say I'm a little lonely, hypothetically of course. I hang around racetracks and go about my business, but I come home to an empty apartment.

Remember, this is hypothetical.

Nevertheless, there are a lot of single race fans out there, race fans who may want to find that special someone with a similar passion. If you're into online dating, big sites like eHarmony and Match.com don't have any exact criteria for one Jeff Gordon fan looking for another.

For those looking to find romance at a race, Steve Agins has created a special place for that special someone. Meetmeattheraces.com, which debuted in February, welcomes those single, lonely race fans who want the love of their life to share in the real love of their life.

"This has been something I've ...

ZUBER – Shane Williams played spoiler to Ivedent Lloyd’s homecoming, all while writing his name in Ocala Speedway history. Williams held off all challengers to win the $3000-to-win United Dirt Late Model feature, the first dirt race at Ocala since 1995.

“That was some great racing there with Ivedent,” Williams said in victory lane. “We just got better as the race went on.” 

Williams and Lloyd traded the lead back and forth during the middle stages of the 40-lap feature, but Williams pulled away when the two encountered lap traffic. Lloyd finished second with Mark Whitener, Jeff Matthews and Shan Smith rounding out the top five.

“I got a little tight at the end there, and we just killed the tires,” Lloyd said.

Smith led a full field of 26 late model stock cars to the green flag, but it didn’t take lon ...

DAYTONA BEACH – NASCAR is back at the beach this week, but the feeling in the Florida air is a little different. 

For one, the stars of NASCAR will race the 50^th annual Daytona 500 next Sunday. The occasion has brought all of the race’s former winners – names like Petty, Pearson, Foyt and Allison – back to the World Center of Racing. It’s hard to walk through the paddock and not see a living racing legend. 

Secondly, this is the first Speedweeks featuring NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow. If last year’s race at Talladega is any indication of what the racing this week will be like, there might not be much to watch.

But race teams have had all winter to tweak these race cars for this race. I bet the racing will be just fine.

NASCAR fans who call themselves race fans think that Speedweeks starts in Daytona with the Bud Shootout and Daytona 500. That's fine.

But race fans know Speedweeks and the racing season starts tonight and in the coming week, not in Daytona but at a few local tracks across the state.

This year, North Florida Speedway starts off Speedweeks tonight and tomorrow with the biggest of dirt track draws: the 410 sprint cars of the All Stars Circuit of Champions series. They'll join forces with the UMP Modifieds for a two-day show at the Lake City track before heading off to Volusia Raceway Park and East Bay Raceway. 

If you've never seen sprint cars race on dirt, do yourself a favor and go. These 750-horsepower hot rods sling around these dirt tracks faster than any other short track car. There is truly no other show quite like them, and this one-of-a-kind show visits North Florida Speedway for the first time this wee ...