Logan Seavey's long-awaited Dirt Late Model debut came and went in impressive fashion Tuesday night at Old No. 1 Speedway in Arkansas. The two-time Chili Bowl Nationals champion battled for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals win in the closing laps with eventual winner Tanner English and reigning Summer Nationals champion Ashton Winger.

Seavey drove his Chris Bragg-owned No. 51 Longhorn Chassis to the front after starting sixth, but with just six laps to go, made contact with a spinning lapped car, which ended his night. It was an unfortunate end to what had been a good debut for Seavey's new endeavor in Dirt Late Models.

"Running third with a few to go. The contact broke the steering rack and ended our race with six to go," 18th-finishing Seavey said on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday morning. "Vincent Guliani (of VG Performance) and (crewman) Tyler Bragg had me right all night...just put myself in a bad spot and it bit me. We'll be back." 

Next on Seavey's Dirt Late Model schedule are July 8's Castrol Series race at Lincoln Speedway, plus July 15 at Eagle (Neb.) Raceway and July 16 at Iowa's Shelby County Speedway on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, tentatively.

Seavey tested the Late Model the first week of April at Rocket Raceway Park in Texas nearby Bragg's Dallas-based race shop, but had three races rainout on his schedule early in 2024: May 8 at Spoon River Speedway in Illinois, May 9 at Lincoln (Ill.) Speedway, and May 14 at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway on the Castrol FloRacing Night in America Series.

 "There's so much stuff I want to run, I was trying to go late model racing this year, it sucks those first three races rained out," Seavey told FloRacing in May. "I'm still going to run more races. Those first races were going to be a great benchmark for if we wanted to attack some big races this summer, or if we wanted to pull back and run some smaller races and get some experience and some speed.

"I was so excited to run with the Bragg family. They've built a top-notch Late Model. Everything we saw in testing we had a lot of speed. I know racing is going to be hard, but so far I am having way more fun enjoying that, more than I thought I would. I am willing to drive anything. I've been pretty committed to USAC, so I would have to back down my schedule quite a bit to do more. It's hard to not do what I'm really successful at. But I'm willing to do that in the future.

"One day if I want to go win big Sprint Car races or big Late Model races. You kind of got to go commit and go figure out those cars and put a lot of effort into running those cars. I'm realistic. If I want to have a chance at winning big races, I have to put in multiple years of work." 

Dang @Logan_Seavey had a solid run going tonight in his Dirt Late Model debut at Old No. 1 .. worked his way up to 3rd before the leader spun a lapped car in front of him and he spun to avoid.

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— Aaron Clay (@ABCracing54) July 3, 2024

"I have around 130 races on my schedule right now, and I've having a blast running all of the cars," Seavey added. "I'm with a great group and I'm running so well. I'm extremely content where I'm at.

"Everything is backwards. Zero downforce, everything is 180 from what I'm used to. You gas them up to get them to go left. It's been a great learning experience. Learning new things is so much fun, even if that takes getting beat up for a few races."