WATERTOWN, Conn.—July 3, 2013— In dead of winter when he is longing to be at the race track or even during the season when Mother Nature gets in the way, week’s like the current one are what David Gravel looks forward to most. Three races in a four-day stretch at a couple of different tracks await the East Coast racer this week in the FMR Racing/JRC Transportation/Musco Fuel/Model Craft J&J. This continues a span of five consecutive weeks that will see the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series race at least three times a week.

The World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series will make their annual appearances at Huset’s Speedway in Brandon, S.D., on Wednesday, July 3. The series then heads to Kansas for the Boothill Showdown at Dodge City Raceway Park on Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6. Over the course of the month of July, the series will contest a total of 14 feature races. Read more »

WATERTOWN, Conn.—July 1, 2013— David Gravel has run pretty well on the smaller, high-banked bullrings with the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series this season. He continued that trend at the quarter-mile LaSalle (Ill.) Speedway and third-mile Beaver Dam (Wis.) Raceway over the weekend, finishing eighth and seventh, respectively, at the pair of tracks that were part of a three-race swing through Illinois and Wisconsin aboard the FMR Racing/JRC Transportation/Musco Fuel/Model Craft J&J.

In his debut at LaSalle Speedway in Illinois, Gravel finished eighth. The 21-year-old started seventh and fell back a few spots at the start and found himself in 11th on the third lap. He then got around Kraig Kinser for 10th on lap-4. Gravel would run in that position for the first half of the race and worked his way into ninth on lap-26, passing Jason Sides. On lap-33, the East Coast racer got by 20-time series champion Steve Kinser to move into eighth and would finish in that spot. Read more »