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the lighter side of DIRT

If you’re a weekend warrior, you can’t take yourself too seriously and no one can accuse Badger Midget’s Jim Fuerst of doing that as he straps into “The Field Filler Special” every Sunday night at Angell Park Speedway. Photo: Paul Arch

ASIDE FROM SPONSORSHIPS,

racers use their cars to convey everything from politics to jokes and to express their personalities. Here are some of our favorites from the last couple of months.

Austin Kirkpatrick had an embedded reflective globe holograph in his car number at the World 100. If you look really closely, you can see it even included a tiny Eldora logo in Ohio on the globe, truly the center of the universe the second weekend in September. Photo: Paul Arch

Two Wings – Two Different Messages. A pair of midwest-based sprint car racers used the underside of their wing with varying purposes. McKenna Hasse chose to be inspirational with her never quit message while the IRA’s Russel Borland went with an aggressive stay back approach! Photos: Paul Arch

Ryan King used his UMP modified at Eldora to spotlight a cause dear to him and signal awareness of PTSD and in particular the death of Joseph Barnes from nearby Lima, Ohio. Photo: Paul Arch

The Minnesota Mafia, a group of race fans who pool their money to promote the sport, have long supported Kaleb Johnson, son of Jackson Motoplex general manager Doug Johnson, but maybe not as long as they’ve supported the five labels their avatars are holding on this wing. Photo: Paul Arch

Zoinks! Look out Scoob, someone stole the Mystery Machine and took it to the World 100 – it’s that Meddling Kid Bobby Pierce! Mystery solved. Photo: Paul Arch