1/15/2024
Hunt The Front Super Dirt Series
Clay Harris to chase 2024 Rookie of the Year title with Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series
Entering his eighth year behind the wheel of a Late Model, Jupiter, Fla.’s Clay Harris is primed to tackle the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series in 2024. Harris, who will turn 23 just 10 days after the tour’s March 15 season-opener at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., used the second half of 2023 to ready himself for a run at the $50,000 Hunt the Front championship.
Six of the nine Super Late Model races he entered last season, were Hunt the Front-sanctioned and though it took him awhile to get his feet under him, Harris made solid improvement from his first HTF race at Duck River Raceway Park in Wheel, Tenn., in August, to his final HTF race at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway in October. After middling results in the first four starts, Harris grabbed a sixth-place finish at Swainsboro on Oct. 6. Harris, who cut his teeth in the karting ranks, where he racked up more than 400 victories and a number of state and national titles, knocked off one of his most impressive wins of his six-win season a week later when he finished first in a split-field feature ahead of the 29th annual Coors Light Fall Classic at Whynot Motorsports Park.
Harris has 28 career victories across an array of divisions since sliding into full-fendered cars in 2017. While he has three Super Late Model wins on his resume, his most lucrative victory was a $10,000 triumph in the Larry Duty Memorial, an unsanctioned Limited Late Model special at Putnam County Speedway in Satsuma, Fla. in 2022.
Harris also notched a pair of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks wins in January 2022 as well, winning at Putnam County and North Florida Speedway in Lake City just two days apart. The victories each paid $2,500-to-win and while they both came against modest fields, they put Harris on the list of less than 100 drivers in dirt Late Model history with multiple Speedweeks wins.
While chasing his first regional Super Late Model series, Harris plans to utilize the same Rocket Chassis-H&R Race Engines combination that carried him to six wins and 13 top-five finishes last season.
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