Richards Rides Weld Wheels to WoO Late Model Series Championship

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Josh Richards claimed the 2009 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Championship and collected $100,000 in the process at the season ending World Finals at The Dirt Track at Lowes Motor Speedway. The 21 year-old Kid Rocket drove a Rocket Chassis equipped with Weld Wheels to 8 WoO LMS wins this season.

The Top 11 finishers at the World Finals and 7 of the Top 10 in WoO LMS points rely on Weld Racing XL wheels.

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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.”

[jeff]

Josh Richards authored a pair of solid performances on back-to-back nights last weekend driving for different teams in different dirt Late Model series - at tracks over 13 hours apart.



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The 22 year old from Shinnston, W.Va. kicked off his weekend by guiding the Ernie D's Enterprises Rocket No. 25 to a third place finish in a 50 lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event on Friday night (Sept. 17) at Winchester (Va.) Speedway. Twenty four hours later he was in the Midwest steering his familiar Mark Richards Racing Enterprises/Seubert Calf Ranches Rocket to a sixth place finish in the 55 lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series Pepsi Nationals at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo.

Richards bridged the 840 mile gap between the two tracks by taking a Saturday morning flight from Washington, D.C. to St. Louis where he met his father Mark's race team for a critical late season WoO LMS event. The national tour's defending champion entered Saturday's action leading the points standings by just two markers over Darrell Lanigan.

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