2/2/2024
Hunt The Front Super Dirt Series
Three more drivers commit to 2024 Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series season
Joining the growing list of drivers committing to the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series this season, Stacy Boles, Caden Mullinax and Bo Slay have announced their intentions of following the second-year tour. While the three drivers come to the series with varying degrees of racing experience, all three have taken a turn following a regional series in the past.
Boles, a 54-year-old veteran racer from Clinton, Tenn., is coming off a limited schedule in 2023 during which he entered only 13 events. Though last year was a short season even for Boles, who typically enters 20-25 races each season, he’s the most experienced traveler of the lot. Boles has been a regular entry in Schaeffer’s Spring and Summer Nationals events since 2013, finishing anywhere from third to 10th in points chases with the sister tours. Boles’s best finish of third in points came during the 2016 Spring Nationals. While he also finished third in points with the Valvoline Iron-Man Series in 2022, Boles lists a pair $5,000-to-win victories at Wartburg (Tenn.) Speedway with the Tennessee Thunder DirtCar Series in 2005 and 2008 as career highlights. Boles’s race team is primarily self-supported through his own business, Advanced Transportation.
Slay, of Milton, Fla., heads into his second full season following the Hunt the Front Series. He finished sixth during the tour’s inaugural season, cracking the top 10 three times in 18 events. Slay recorded a best finish of seventh place on three occasions: Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss.; Cochran (Ga.) Speedway and Needmore Speedway in Norman Park, Ga. Slay lives just five minutes from Southern Raceway and two the biggest victories of his career have come at his home track, where he held the track record at one point. Slay picked up at $5,000 Southern All Stars victory at Southern in 2022 and way back in 2007 he won a $4,400 unsancationed Late Model race there. He plans to tackle the Hunt the Front Series again while armed with a pair a Longhorn Chassis.
The 21-year-old Mullinax, of Birmingham, Ala., is the least experienced of the three. The son of racer-turned-actor Chris Mullinax, Caden will pilot a family-owned Black Diamond Race Car supported by CRM Motors. While moving from Crate Late Models to the Super Late Model division in 2023, Mullinax also made his first-ever attempt to follow a regional tour, finishing fourth in points with the 11-race Schaeffer’s Spring National series. His best effort with the North Carolina-based series with a fifth-place run on May 28 at Duck River Raceway Park in Wheel, Tenn. It was one of two top-10 showings with the series. Mullinax later finished 16th in a split-field feature with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn., in June, his first experience with the national series, and he finished 20th in the Hunt the Front-sanctioned Deep Fried 75 at Duck River in August. He returned to Duck River to log a 16th-place finish in November’s Gobbler.
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