Kenny Wallace is among the drivers who will race at the 2023 CARS Tour at South Boston Speedway as the CARS Tour Schedule nears the end of the 2023 season. 

The South Boston Speedway race marks Wallace’s long-planned debut in the CARS Tour as the former NASCAR driver was set to race the Old North State Nationals event at Tri-County Motor Speedway in North Carolina back in May, but the event was postponed. 

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Why Kenny Wallace Is Racing The CARS Tour At South Boston Speedway

Wallace, 60, will join other drivers for the 125-lap race at 7 p.m. race from the South Boston Speedway. 

The CARS Tour has two more races schedule after this race on Oct. 21 and Nov. 4. 

Here’s what to know about the CARS Tour at South Boston on Oct. 7. 

How To Watch The 2023 CARS Tour At South Boston Speedway

The race will stream live on FloRacing and the FloSports app beginning at 6:30 p.m. The race will begin at 7 p.m. 

2023 CARS Tour At South Boston Speedway Schedule

Festivities will begin on Oct. 6 with practice runs, while the pits will open at 9 a.m. on Oct. 7. Here’s the full schedule. 

Friday, October 6, 2023

• 11:30AM Trailer Parking
• 1:00PM Pits Open
• 1:30PM Crew Chief Meeting LMSC-PLM (transponders issued)
• 2:00PM-3:00PM LMSC Practice
• 3:05PM-4:05PM PLM Practice
• 4:10PM-4:40PM LMSC Practice
• 4:45PM-5:15PM PLM Practice
• 5:20PM-5:50PM LMSC Final Practice
• 5:55PM-6:25PM PLM Final Practice
• 7:15PM Pits Close

Saturday, October 7, 2023

• 8:45AM Additional Trailer Parking
• 9:00AM Pits Open
• 9:15AM LMSC/PLM Drawing for race tire selection & qualifying order
• 9:45AM Chapel Service
• 10:00AM Race Tire Selection PLM/LMSC (two teams each division at one time)
• 11:00AM—11:30AM LMSC Practice
• 11:35AM--12:05PM PLM Practice
• 12:10PM--12:40PM LMSC Practice
• 12:45PM--1:15PM PLM Practice
• 1:30PM MANDATORY LMSC/PLM Crew Chief, Driver, and Spotter Meeting
• 2:00PM—--2:30PM Parking for Va. Mini-Cup cars
• 2:00PM MANDATORY Pre-Qualify Tech LMSC
• Following LMSC Tech MANDATORY Pre-Qualify Tech PLM
• 3:30PM—--3:50PM Practice/Qualifying for Va. Mini Cups
• 3:45PM Grandstand gates open
• 4:15PM LMSC Single Car Qualifying
• 4:45PM PLM Single Car Qualifying
• 5:30PM----6:15PM Fan Fest on front straightaway
• 6:30PM Driver Introductions
• 6:50PM Pre-race ceremonies
• 7:00PM “Autos By Nelson 250 pres by Virginia is for Racing Lovers”
•  PLM (100 LAPS) / Va. Mini Cups (25 laps) / LMSC (125 LAPS)

Kenny Wallace: ‘I’ve been dreaming about running more asphalt races’

Wallace was a fixture in NASCAR from 1990- 2008 and had 27 top-10 finishes over 18 years. He told FloRacing that Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he needed to race in the CARS Tour. 

“I’ve been dreaming about running more asphalt races,” said Wallace. “I called Dale Earnhardt Jr. up and through a lot of talking he said ‘You need to run the CARS Tour series’ and I said I’d love that. So I watched on Flo(Racing) the race from Florence. It was a 120-lap race or something like that. They had a stop at lap 60 and I was like ‘That’s me.’”

Wallace is no stranger to South Boston Speedway. He raced on the track frequently while on the NASCAR Busch Series (now known as the Xfinity Series. But he is new to driving on dirt, telling FloRacing that he wanted to learn to run dirt because of A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti did so and he wanted to be “worldly.” 

CARS Tour At South Boston Entry List

• #03 Brenden Queen 
• #04 Ronnie Bassett Jr.
• #08 Deac McCaskill
• #0 Landon Pembelton
• #1 Andrew Grady
• #2 Brandon Pierce
• #4 Dylon Wilson
• #5L Carter Langley
• #6 Bobby McCarty
• #8 Carson Kvapil
• #8B Chase Burrow
• #15 Ryan Millington
• #15C Logan Clark
• #16 Chad McCumbee
• #17 Stacy Puryear
• #20 Joshua Dickens
• #22 Landon Huffman
• #23 Kade Brown
• #24 Mason Diaz
• #25 Jacob Borst
• #36 Kenny Wallace
• #44 Conner Jones 
• #62 Layne Riggs
• #67 Cameron Bolin
• #74 Ronald Hill 
• #77S Blake Stallings
• #77W Trevor Ward
• #81 Mini Tyrrell
• #95 Jacob Heafner

CARS Tour Schedule 2023 

After the South Boston race, there are two races remaining on the schedule: 

• Oct. 21:  2023 CARS Tour at Tri-County Motor Speedway
• Nov. 4: 2023 CARS Tour at Caraway Speedway