Dirt track racer has NASCAR dreams

By Staff
Melissa Cason
Franklin County Times
Twenty-two-year-old Russellville native Stuart Wright has a dream of some day driving for NASCAR.
Instead of keeping that dream deep inside, he is taking the advice of NASCAR driver Ken Snyder and not waiting on lady luck to just deal him a good hand.
Wright has been racing on the dirt track circuit for a few years now and hopes to parlay that into a sponsorship and, eventually, move up to the blacktop and into a NASCAR career.
"Ken Snyder started on the dirt track, and eventually, he was able to become a NASCAR driver," Wright said.
Wright met Snyder a few months ago when he visited the Moulton Speedway, and Snyder offered Wright a little advice.
"He told me to go to Talladega and start knocking on doors," Wright said.
Those doors are the doors of sponsors, and Wright said he has plans to do just after the close of of the season.
"I plan to race the rest of this year on the dirt track, and plan to start knocking on those doors next season," Wright said.
Wright said that he currently races his 1981 Monte Carlo at the Moulton Raceway, the North Alabama Raceway in Muscle Shoals, Thunder Hill in Tennessee and the Corinth Raceway in Mississippi, and typically places near the top.
"I usually place fifth or above in the local races," Wright said.
Wright hopes that with a lot of work, training and knocking on doors, he'll finally be in the right place at the right time and land that elusive NASCAR career.