Here's the car owner:"Our Dixie Speed Racing is a team," says Hodges. "There's no one man more important than the other. I call Doyle a good all-around driver. He gets the job done and yet he takes care of the equipment. But the advantages of being at your home track [are] you know the setup and what to expect and you know how to plan. You know the rules.
"And as Boatwright says, if something broke on the car, the team is close enough to the shop they could run home, pick it up, get back, and still make the race. Not with a track 150 miles away."
Now, here's the first of a couple of second-generation drivers, 30-year-old Josh McClellan of Ft. White, whose day job is logging, but is here with his Street Stock Camaro.
"This is the only track I've ever raced on, so I really don't know," says McClellan, who is switching from a successful traveling softball career to racing and will enter the Sportsman class next year.
We'll bet his dad, J.F., has raced long enough to form an opinion, however.
"We can be here in 35 minutes (from Starke), and that's with stopping and getting ice and drinks and whatever," says J.F. McClellan, who drives Modifieds and Late Models. "If we go to another track, it costs a minimum of $1,200. The expense and cost mainly are the advantages.
"Each track has a personality. We may not fit in at other tracks, but we fit in pretty good here."
Married and with four youngsters, McClellan, 52, has called CMP home for 15 or 16 years.
Here's TQ Late Model driver Katherine Thomas, who just turned 19 and races out of Jacksonville, about an hour or so away. The Three-Quarter Late Model cars she competes in, with motorcycle engines, have turned 18-second laps, close to the 17 and change of the Super Lates.
"I've raced here for a good five years now and I definitely consider this my home track, says Thomas. "And the main advantage I can think of is that you're not tired. Some of the people I race against come all the way from Tampa (perhaps a three-hour drive), and they're wiped out by the time they get here."
A Go-Kart veteran, she started racing at age 5. Although the TQ Lates race at CMP only every other week, Thomas also competes in the Southern Mini-Modifieds, so she's here every week.
TQ points leader Travis Carter, 15, of Dasher, Georgia, just over the state line, also calls this home.
"The advantage is just basically having the same setup every week," says Carter, "and you know what lies ahead and stuff like that. And oh yeah, it's only an hour away."
Now back to the Late Model pits for a conversation with Al Beckelheimer Jr., 33, of nearby Ft. White, a second-generation racer who drives the No. 31 Monte Carlo. His dad has retired after a long career in Late Models, including a track championship at Bronson.
"I've been to Hialeah, Ocala, Charlotte, Bronson, but there's an advantage to knowing who you're racing against on a regular basis," says Beckelheimer. "And your shop where you keep the car is close by.
"Doyle Boatwright and I go way, way back. In fact, one time he borrowed a car from me and I have borrowed one from him, and we ended up being the best of friends."
Almost like brothers on the home track?
"I'd almost say that," he grins. "I stay at his house if I need to. He's a great guy and we talk on a weekly basis."
Now, here's a fellow, as we promised, who doesn't call this track home. Why is he here?
That's Tommy Conquest, 16, of Bronson. Bronson is on its summer break, so Conquest is here, at probably his second favorite track, to test his car for an upcoming Southern Sportsman Series race.
"They run two series races at Bronson, and it's always good to show up there with the series and have that extra advantage on everybody," Conquest says. "It's comfortable and I guess it's that way with everybody.
"I guess the disadvantage is you could get a little too comfortable, maybe a little cocky."
He is Fifth in that traveling Sportsman series and leading the rookie points.
Finally, let's go back to the top of the chain, Super Late Models, and veteran Dennis Nixon, driver of the No.19 white and blue Probe. Nixon, 45, of nearby Live Oak, has been racing since 1978.
"Running at home, it doesn't get much better than that," says Nixon. "It's not as far to tow, you know the track inside and out, you know how the lighting is, you know how everybody works.
"It's not like going somewhere and all of a sudden you're with a bunch of new people and you're not sure if this is going to be give or take. You know the setup and you can almost drive it blindfolded.
"It just takes about 40 minutes to get from my door to this door."
Door-to-door, it's home, sweet home.