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It’s not uncommon for a newly licensed driver to drive a little too fast. So maybe it should be expected when a racecar driver does.
“You know I took a couple of my first corners a little fast, and almost put it in the ditch a couple times,” joked 16-year old Dillon McCowan. “You know, I’m used to running it in there wide open in the corner.”
Dillon, a junior at Skyline High School, might have learned to slow down on the road, but does the opposite on the track.
At just 16-years old, the B-Mods driver has already posted multiple wins this year.
“We got a win over here at Lucas [Oil Speedway] and I’ve been wanting to win here since I was a little kid coming here watching races, so that was really fun for me,” Dillon said.
He is one of many young drivers that spend their weekend nights wearing a racing helmet in Southwest Missouri.
Like Dillon’s Skyline classmate, Dayton Pursley.
“I see [Dillon] down the hallways every day,” Dayton said. “We talk about racing all the time. We don’t do much schoolwork, more racing talk”
For 17-year old Dayton, a Skyline senior, that racing talk is in his blood.
“My dad has raced since I’ve been born. That’s my uncle over there, and I got another uncle that races too, and my mom’s dad built my dad’s first racecar so it’s on both sides,” Dayton said.
The passion shared by Dayton and Dillon is matched only by their focus on the track.
“When that helmet goes on, you don’t think of nothing else,” Dayton said. “Nothing matters except what’s ahead.”
“Ain’t got a worry about nothing but me, the car and passing the next car in front of me,” Dillon added.
It’s easy to see why Dillon is so good at doing that.
“After I’m done with that race, I’m always thinking about the next race, you know ‘what can I do better? What can I pick up on?’ Stuff like that, so the mind never stops turning,” Dillon said.
The mind is always turning, just like the wheels on his car.
