Clay Nation Racing

06/07/2026

Lots of banged up noses in our B-Main!

Started 15th with our Tennessee buddies Josh (p6) and Chris (p7) in Group A B-Main. After a couple of early crashes and mayhem they were finally able to go green and our driver was on a mission, elbows out!

It was a lot of fun to see and a lot of clenching of butt cheeks for us watching him dodge, dip, dive, and dodge the chaos.

So that's our night here in Talladega, but wow what a fun night it was.

More to follow once we get home and debrief but right now we gotta get loaded so we can cheer on Josh Henry as he fights from the back in the Feature!

06/07/2026

After some back and forth between the drivers and the Southern Dirt Street Stock Series presented by Kelley Trucking , we got out there for Hot Laps but the track was still too slimy to get any idea if the changes we made to the car this morning did anything for us.

We are sitting down near the bottom of the pack but again 3 and 4 was just a slick where all the cars were struggling to hold on to the track.

Hopefully we have enough to qualify well.

There are 43-46 Street Stocks here and taking the top 20 after qualifying and B-Mains. Two groups of qualifying, top 5 from each, then top 5 from the two B-Mains. No Heats since this is an accelerated show for the series (1 night versus their normal 2).

We have our work cut out for us but honestly this trip has been an absolute blast either way so no regrets.

06/06/2026

It’s Race Day! See you at Dega!🏁

06/06/2026

Prepping for Talladega Short Track race.

06/06/2026

Practice night was a blast, we had an absolute riot and learned more than our brains could handle thanks to Chris Kelly and Josh Henry and the rest of the TN crew who rolled with us. And of course our crew chief who was dialed in remotely all night, Bobby Mays!

Our driver had a bit of a baptism by fire but by the end of the night was throwing the around like a pro.

On the not-so-glory side of things, we've got a fuel pressure issue that's got us scratching our heads. After the first session, the car was bucking like a rodeo horse and stuttering worse than a teenager learning to drive when trying to set laps, which isn't entirely new but it was really, really bad this time.

Quick diagnostic dance and we found ourselves at a paltry 3 PSI! We tweaked the regulator for all it was worth and managed to bump it up to 5 PSI, the bare minimum, and the car behaved itself after that so we're feeling cautiously optimistic heading into the big show.

The crew's catching some Zs this morning after a marathon couple of days and will be back at it tonight to try and make the starting grid.

06/05/2026

Driver says "oh hell turn 3 & 4 are tight ain't they?".

Practice laps coming up.

06/05/2026

The cars in the box and we’re headed to Talladega Short Track to run with the big dogs. Wish us luck!

05/21/2026

Some of the best to ever wheel a car.

05/20/2026

The race is the next day. The car is in pieces.

After a rough ending to Episode 4, the team spent two weeks chasing down everything that went wrong — and finding a few things they didn't know were wrong. A transmission rebuild, a missing dowel pin, a driveshaft that fell out at exactly the right moment, a brake leak, and a U-joint that would have failed catastrophically at speed.

One thing after another. All of it the night before race day.

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The race is tomorrow. The car is in pieces.After a rough ending to Episode 4, the team spent two weeks chasing down everything that went wrong — and find...