With his national profile soaring in the wake of a World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship season in 2009, the 21-year-old sensation brings superstar status into the dirt Late Model portion of the 39th annual DIRTcar Nationals by UNOH from Feb. 8-13 at Volusia Speedway Park.
And if Richards can make some noise a couple days earlier in his stock-car debut at a certain nearby superspeedway, he’ll grab even more attention from the legions of race fans who make nightly pilgrimages to the half-mile Volusia oval every February.
Richards loves making the annual trek from his Shinnston, W.Va., home to the Daytona Beach area for Volusia’s big festival of speed – he has, after all, won the WoO LMS season opener there in each of the past three years – but he’s never so eagerly anticipated heading south for the winter. As part of his bid to use his WoO LMS title as a launching pad to NASCAR stardom, Richards will take his first laps in ARCA Racing Series competition at Daytona International Speedway before entering the DIRTcar Nationals.
“It’s going to be the most exciting Speedweeks ever for me,” said Richards, who has been competing in the DIRTcar Nationals since 2005, when he was still in high school and had to skip a couple days of classes to go racing. “Running at Volusia is always fun because it’s one of my favorite tracks – and now I’m getting a chance to run at Daytona too while I’m there. It’s a dream come true.”
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