{"id":41577,"date":"2023-04-05T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/?p=41577"},"modified":"2024-01-14T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T23:48:48","slug":"dirtcar-to-sanction-hunt-the-front-super-dirt-series-inaugural-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/news\/dirtcar-to-sanction-hunt-the-front-super-dirt-series-inaugural-season\/","title":{"rendered":"DIRTcar to Sanction Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series Inaugural Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dirt Late Model racing\u2019s newest regional tour, the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series presented by Sweet Victory Apparel<\/a>, has joined the DIRTcar family for its inaugural season.<\/p>\n All 19 races in the Series\u2019 highly anticipated first year will be under the DIRTcar banner, adhering to the 2023 DIRTcar Late Model rulebook, starting with its inaugural event at All-Tech Raceway in Lake City, FL on April 7. Drivers will also earn points in the DIRTcar Late Model national and regional points standings.<\/p>\n Participating drivers with active DIRTcar memberships will also receive the extra benefits included with their membership \u2013\u00a0including points fund eligibility, additional insurance and more.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal for the regional guys was to make it feel more like what they\u2019re used to when they go to national events,\u201d said Series Director Joshua Joiner. \u201cWhether it be the World of Outlaws or DIRTcar-sanctioned events, when they have them down here in the south. Or even Eldora for the World 100 or the [Dirt Late Model] Dream \u2013 it\u2019s done professionally with the way that DIRTcar operates. Being able to be a part of that and bring some of that to our tour made sense to us.\u201d<\/p>\n In considering a rules package for their inaugural season, Joiner and the Hunt the Front staff made the decision to align with DIRTcar to take advantage of the sanctioning body\u2019s widespread reach, driver\/track benefits and nationally recognized rules and regulations.<\/p>\n Joiner took note of the newly established Unified Dirt Late Model Car Construction Rules and National Late Model Tire specs that DIRTcar assisted in rolling out last year and knew they would be the perfect fit for his fledgling organization.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the driver\u2019s standpoint, [those rules] make a lot of sense,\u201d Joiner said. \u201cAs a race team, we\u2019re behind that 100 percent and happy to see it, so it made sense for us to support it and be a part of it when we started our series.\u201d<\/p>\n The new Super Late Model series, headquartered in Milton, FL, was born from the family of one of dirt racing\u2019s most successful YouTube channels \u2013\u00a0Hunt the Front<\/a>. The trio of brothers \u2013\u00a0Joshua, Joseph and Jonathan Joiner \u2013\u00a0and friend\/driver Jesse Enterkin, brought the brand to life in the spring of 2019, producing vlogs from their experiences at the shop and the track, first as a local Crate-engine team with a single car to their present-day operation as a three-car team attending regional and national-level Super Late Model events.<\/p>\n Their expanding involvement in motorsports led to their first dip into event promotion in the fall of 2021 with the inaugural running of the Southern Showcase<\/em>. The event\u2019s success brought it back to Deep South Speedway in Loxley, AL, for a second edition last November, and laid the bricks for the spawning of the new regional Series in 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just didn\u2019t feel like there was a really good option at the regional level for drivers at the level that our driver, Joseph, was,\u201d Joiner said. \u201cI look at the guys like Will Herrington, Payton Freeman, Sam Seawright, and a whole list of other guys \u2013 not just us \u2013\u00a0we needed something like this to want to race.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not to discredit any of what the other series in the Southeast are doing; everyone has a different way of doing things and how they see the best way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n The inaugural slate of races was built with the intention of attracting full-time drivers, reducing travel costs, and avoiding overlap with other national\/regional events. Joiner said Hunt the Front has strategic breaks in their calendar to allow full-time teams to compete in the bigger Late Model events dotted throughout the year while still being able to attend all 19 Series events without conflict. They\u2019re certain these principles will result in increased car counts.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want the guys who want to run those [national] races to be a part of our series,\u201d Joiner said. \u201cWhen there\u2019s a World of Outlaws race in Georgia somewhere, we don\u2019t want to schedule a race that\u2019s less than two hours away and keep our series regulars from being able to run against the best in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n The Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series begins its inaugural season this Friday with a $20,000-to-win event at All-Tech Raceway. For more information and a full schedule of events, visit HTFSeries.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nineteen-race Super Late Model regional series begins April 7 at All-Tech Raceway Dirt Late Model racing\u2019s newest regional tour, the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series presented by Sweet Victory Apparel, has joined the DIRTcar family for its inaugural season. All 19 races in the Series\u2019 highly anticipated first year will be under the DIRTcar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":41609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[210,1503,56],"division":[1705],"series":[1739],"regions":[1724],"class_list":["post-41577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-hunt-the-front-super-dirt-series","tag-late-models-2","division-dirtcar-late-models","series-hunt-the-front-super-dirt-series","regions-ump"],"yoast_head":"\n