K&N Pro Series West to hit the dirt in 2018

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The NASCAR K&N Pro Series schedule annually features a wide mix of venues – from historic bullrings and half-mile short tracks to fast speedways and technical road-courses – designed to provide a platform for the sport’s top rising young talent to make their impact.

With the announcement of the 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West schedule, add one more variable: Dirt.

Next year’s 15-race schedule will include a stop on Thursday, Sept 13 to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. The race will be part of the weekend that kicks off the 2018 playoffs for NASCAR’s three national series at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the half-mile clay oval promises to further test the series’ stars.

It will be the series’ first race on dirt since 1979 at Ascot Park in Gardena, Calif.
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http://hometracks.nascar.com/nknps-west/story/2018-schedule-announced-kn-pro-west_12112017
 
You know Kyle Busch will want to beat them up at his "home track"
 
Wish the trucks were joining them
 
Simple Fan said:
Should be interesting, hope its better than the ARCA races on dirt.
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Should be way different. The ARCA races are on 1 mile horse tracks. I think the Vegas dirt track is a half mile.
The ARCA races on dirt usually don't have the most exciting finish ever, but they put on a pretty good show, and those are some of the most unique events in all of racing IMO. In the really old fairgrounds covered grandstands, and the fair is going on just outside of the track. Really awesome atmosphere at DuQuoin and Springfield.
That Vegas race should be awesome, I gotta try to make it to that one...
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I wish they'd run the K&N East Series at the Charlotte dirt track or something. The West schedule is bad to the bone.
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Charlotte would be awesome! Would be nice to have a race in the Carolinas, since most of the teams are based there anyway. They got rid of Greenville Pickens, so they don't have any races in the Carolinas anymore...
 
toledo47 said:
Charlotte would be awesome! Would be nice to have a race in the Carolinas, since most of the teams are based there anyway. They got rid of Greenville Pickens, so they don't have any races in the Carolinas anymore...
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Greenville or Hickory would be optimal. Southern National and Myrtle Beach would also be good.

South Boston isn't terribly far though.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Greenville or Hickory would be optimal. Southern National and Myrtle Beach would also be good.

South Boston isn't terribly far though.
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I was really surprised to see Greenville off of the schedule. Its been on there since like 2007 or 2008. Whenever it was that they changed the North Series to the East series. They even often had 2 races per year. Though, I shouldn't be too surprised I guess, they crowds at Greenville always sucked. I really like the track and upstate SC in general, so i'm sad to see it go... A K&N race at Hickory would be great, I went there for the first time last month, nice track.
 
toledo47 said:
I was really surprised to see Greenville off of the schedule. Its been on there since like 2007 or 2008. Whenever it was that they changed the North Series to the East series. They even often had 2 races per year. Though, I shouldn't be too surprised I guess, they crowds at Greenville always sucked. I really like the track and upstate SC in general, so i'm sad to see it go... A K&N race at Hickory would be great, I went there for the first time last month, nice track.
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CARS Tour has the best schedule in the region right now.

Next year, they're going to Tri-County, Myrtle Beach, Wake County, Hickory, Bristol, Ace, Carteret County, Kingsport, Orange County and South Boston on the Late Model Stock Car tour. And they're running companion events on the Super Late Model tour at Anderson and Nashville Fairgrounds.

Tri-County is $10,000 to win. Kingsport and Wake County are going to be epic. And I've heard Carteret County might pay $20,000 to win -- that might be the best race of the year in the discipline.
 
Dirt Racin Cars vs Nascar Cars

These are Dirt Cars:
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These are NASCAR Race Cars: (Not made for dirt) Nascar don't need no dirt. JMHO

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Nuff said.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
CARS Tour has the best schedule in the region right now.

Next year, they're going to Tri-County, Myrtle Beach, Wake County, Hickory, Bristol, Ace, Carteret County, Kingsport, Orange County and South Boston on the Late Model Stock Car tour. And they're running companion events on the Super Late Model tour at Anderson and Nashville Fairgrounds.

Tri-County is $10,000 to win. Kingsport and Wake County are going to be epic. And I've heard Carteret County might pay $20,000 to win -- that might be the best race of the year in the discipline.
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Still never made it to a CARS tour event... Was a bit turned off by it looking at the Dominion raceway results this year... 8 SLM I think...
I like the K&N East schedule, though its a bit too full of big time Cup/Xfinity/Trucks tracks... I prefer to see them at more grassroots short tracks, like Greenville, Hickory, Jennerstown... I like the west series schedule a lot more than the east schedule these days.
 
toledo47 said:
Still never made it to a CARS tour event... Was a bit turned off by it looking at the Dominion raceway results this year... 8 SLM I think...
I like the K&N East schedule, though its a bit too full of big time Cup/Xfinity/Trucks tracks... I prefer to see them at more grassroots short tracks, like Greenville, Hickory, Jennerstown... I like the west series schedule a lot more than the east schedule these days.
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CARS is predominantly LMSC now. The way it should be.

It's a shame people base whether they go to a race or not on SLM car counts. That division is not strong in the Southeast. And honestly, that division is strugging bad everywhere except the West Coast.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
CARS is predominantly LMSC now. The way it should be.

It's a shame people base whether they go to a race or not on SLM car counts. That division is not strong in the Southeast. And honestly, that division is strugging bad everywhere except the West Coast.
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Well, LMSC is just a regional division in the Carolinas and Virginia... So i don't have a chance to see it much.
PASS north seems pretty strong...
 
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