National Dirt Late Model Hall of Famer Don O’Neal recently shared the one thing he would change in dirt late model racing to make it better is to bring back fighting.

During a recent episode of The Dirt Parlor, O’Neal, who won the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Championship in 2014 and stacked up 46 wins in the series, was asked by host Don Martin, “What are some of the things that you’d like to see changed in the sport to make it better?”

The Real Deal answered, “I honestly don’t think you change anything. I mean, what do you change? In what direction do you change it? Try to cut corners money here and there, well, I mean, how? There’s no way to do it. You just got to let it be what it is. There’s no cutting corners at all.”

After Gordy Gundaker shared that “we’ve got so far out of the box that there’s no way you could just undo some of the things that have changed in the sport over the last 10-15 years,” O’Neal responded, “Racing’s gotten good, but I don’t know what you could change to-. I mean, racing’s better. Aside from letting each other fight each other, be the only best thing I could see. If you can whip the other guy’s ass, I can line up on the front straightaway after the race. Excuse my language. Sorry I said that. That’s the only thing I can think of that needs changed.”

“Now, all these guys running over everybody, it’s bull[crap]. Stop it,” he added. “I don’t know what the answer is to people parking each other, but it’s horrible nowadays. Horrible. Every night you see the [crap] happen.”

However, he then advised, “Return the favor more than anything. Like midget racing, it’s every night in midget racing. Right rear to left front every night. That’s what a lot of people do in late model racing, but some of them don’t. Well, some of them need to start.”

He even noted that his son, Hudson O’Neal, needs to take this advice too, “My kid, needs to man up a little bit, I’m telling you.”

The advice is similar to the one that Stevie Sheppard routinely gives to Brandon Sheppard as well. Sheppard told the Dirt Parlor in May, “Mark and my Dad are similar in the aspect of, you know, they’re both, ‘We got all this equipment. Just go. Just go do what you got to do. Just win. Just go run them over if you have to. It don’t matter.”

He then shared, “My Dad says I need to be more like Terbo sometimes. I don’t know what that exactly means.”

Stevie Sheppard explained what he meant in a comment on the Stock Car Report Facebook page, “What I mean is Terbo don’t put up with anyone’s [crap]. Didn’t mean drive exactly like him. I love watching Terbo. You never [know] what might happen. But you all say Brandon Sheppard gets respect. Well, not totally true. There’s lots of big name guys that drive him dirty. Not going to mention names. I’d clean some of [their] clocks is all I’m say[ing] and they would start [to] have a little more respect.

“But I am very proud of my son,” he concluded. “He does his thing and don’t let anyone change him. He will always be BSHEPP!”

When this was brought up to O’Neal, he concurred, “[Hudson] needs to be more like me and [Stevie Sheppard] back in the day. 100%. And that [crap] wouldn’t happen like it does. Super Shepp is one of my heroes, I love him to death.”

He also briefly touched on the subject earlier in the show as well saying, “I get mad at Hudson ’cause Hudson ain’t like me at all. I want to say something about Hudson, I’m proud of what he does racing, but I’m more proud of him as a good kid. That makes me more proud of him than anything. I get mad at him ’cause ‘Gosh dang, Hud!’ What I mean is his dealings with drivers and stuff and he don’t step up and pay them back. It wouldn’t be me at all. The second time, we’re both killed, you know what I’m saying? … Back then you’d go fight. [Crap], there ain’t no fighting now. That’s what’s wrong with the sport. They need to just open the damn pit area there, and go back there and fight and [crap] would be settled.”

As for why Hudson does not follow in his father’s footsteps when it comes to this, he shared, “Hudson’s so good about it. He said, ‘Dad, I don’t want my guys to have to work on it.'”

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