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Matt Covington has won at least once per season on the American Sprint Car Series National Tour for the last seven years. And with one weekend remaining this season, that streak might be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

The Glenpool, OK driver enters the championship weekend in Oklahoma (Nov. 14-16) with a goose egg in the National Tour win column.<\/p>\n

However, that’s not an indication of how his season has gone. He\u2019s stood on the podium seven times, and his 14 top fives exceed his career average of 11.7 top fives per season since he joined the Series full-time in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we were mediocre; we were fast but not where we need to be,\u201d Covington said about his 2024 season. \u201cI mean, I\u2019ve raced with Sam [Hafertepe Jr.] and Seth [Bergman] a lot and they\u2019re better this year. We\u2019ve got a little bit of work to do. Gives us something to work for in the offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n

With ASCS being acquired by World Racing Group earlier this year, a wave of the best 360 Sprint Car drivers in the country, like Bergman and Hafertepe, joined the tour full-time with Covington. But Covington said the stout field isn\u2019t to blame for his absence from Victory Lane.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tougher than it was last year or the year before because we got Seth and Sam back,\u201d Covington said. \u201cHank Davis is a new guy that\u2019s fast. But, you know, I ran the National Tour when we had Jason Johnson, Paul McMahan, Shane Stewart and all those guys on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still didn\u2019t have that good of a year this year comparatively. We were just off a little bit this year; a guy has some years like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the haulers leave the track for the final time and the Series goes into offseason mode, Covington will begin checking off his winter to-do list like any other driver. But this year, it won\u2019t consist of tropical vacations and indoor racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting my arm surgery over the wintertime,\u201d Covington said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got to take a piece of bone out of my elbow. I\u2019ll be down for a little bit. I\u2019m going to be getting it done right after our last race and then plan to be back ready to go for our first race in January. You\u2019ll probably see me one-armed at the banquet, and Steven will have a busy offseason with his crippled help.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before he goes onto the operating table, Covington will have four more chances at a National Tour victory this season at two of his home tracks \u2013 Tulsa Speedway and Creek County Speedway.<\/p>\n

Winning is always Covington\u2019s primary goal entering a race night, but he has more than just a trophy to think about next weekend. Sitting 54 points behind Covington in the standings is a red-hot Davis, which means one slip up could put his third-place points position at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just treat them all the same way,\u201d Covington said. \u201cWe try to win the race, but that doesn\u2019t mean you do anything stupid and tear your stuff up, it still costs me money. We need to go there, and if we can\u2019t win the race, we need to have a good showing, go on to the next one and try to win that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

All signs point to a strong end to the season for Covington \u2013 not only are the final two tracks on the schedule close to his Glenpool, OK home, but they are also two tracks he picked up top fives at earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cTulsa Speedway is kind of a new place, the last couple times we went there I thought it has definitely improved,\u201d Covington said. \u201cCreek County is a tough one. It\u2019s only about 10 minutes from the house. We\u2019ve won some races out there before. It\u2019s a track we\u2019ve run good at. Seems like we run good at Tulsa Speedway, we podiumed there earlier this year. I think we\u2019ve got as good of a chance to win them as anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Championship weekend for the National Tour begins at Tulsa Speedway on Thursday, Nov. 14, with the postponed Dirt Down in T-Town<\/em> Feature and the originally scheduled Thursday program. Action will then move to Creek County Speedway on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16, for the Fuzzy\u2019s Fall Fling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tickets will be available at the track all three nights. But if you can\u2019t make it to the track, you can watch every lap live on DIRTVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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