Millbridge Speedway owner Ashly Burnett weighed in on fighting at race tracks and not only shared she has a zero tolerance policy for it, but that she finds it disgusting when it’s promoted by other tracks.

During the most recent episode of DIRTVision’s Pit Bull, Burnett was asked by host Hannah Newhouse about fighting and specifically how she deals with the parents of the numerous kids that race at the track. She asked , “How do you walk that round of keeping the peace between angry parents?”

She answered, “For fighting, they know that if they put their hands on anyone they are done. We’re literally the only one around. So if you’re going to fight and you want to race every week, you’re going to be sitting at home. You might as well sell your kart. I think all of them know that I do not take that lightly. We are a family race track.”

“It kind of disgusts me to see race tracks posting videos of-. Especially down here in the south — you’ll know this Hannah — you go to these local race tracks around here and they praise it. The fans love it. It packs my grandstands,” she added. “Well, I would rather a smaller fanbase and a family show than have people getting arrested or having to have police. I don’t even have police here because I don’t need it. No one touches anyone.”

“As far as fighting, no they do not fight,” she reiterated.

Burnett, the sister of World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship contender Nick Hoffman, then shared a couple of examples of how she deals with any issues that might be leading to a fight.

“I even have a go-kart series that comes on Monday. And I had one problem years ago we had a go-kart show on Friday nights and we had one big fight and I canceled the rest of the season. I said, ‘I’m done. We’re not doing it. Get out of here.’ And I canceled it. So now we have a Monday night series that are mostly guys that are on any kind of NASCAR team, tire changers, everything. They just come out here on Monday to mess around and they know it’s literally just for fun. Don’t pay a lot of money. We’re literally just messing around, choose restarts, fun stuff. We change up different variations of the race track, but nothing serious.”

She also shared an incident she had with Kyle Busch.

“I set Kyle Busch out for a week. He could not come watch Brexton that next week,” she recalled. “I made him stay at home just for getting in somebody else’s face. Didn’t touch him, but we were very close to that and I was done with it. I just put the point across that we don’t fight and if we get aggressive you’ll sit out a week. And I’ve done it. I know that they know that I’m not scared to do that.”

Additionally, she made it very clear that she does not tolerate out-of-control parents, “They came in there knowing that I don’t mess around with that. You don’t come in the tower screaming. You don’t scream at my officials. As much as I want over 100 cars if 30 of them are acting a fool, I’ll sit 30 of them home next week. That doesn’t bother me. Not only am I on DIRTVision, I don’t want anything acting a fool on DIRTVision. Everything’s recorded anymore. That goes on social media. We don’t want any of that. No negative publicity here. I don’t want any of it.”

Burnett’s comments are quite different from what we’ve heard with a number of dirt late model veteran drivers. Gordy Gundaker shared back in an episode of The Dirt Parlor in October 2025, “Now, they’re like, ‘Well, if you hit somebody under yellow or if you hit them in the pit area, or you go down and fight them, you’re thrown out. But if you run in there wide ass open under green and you KO this guy’s (expletive). All good. What sense does that make? It makes absolutely none.”

“You would think a guy like [Series Director Steve] Francis would understand that. But they just don’t change the rule. They leave it. Well, if it happens under green there’s nothing we can do about it. But God knows if you’re going 10 mph and you go up and rub his door you’re DQ’d. … I just wish they would get back to some of that. I’m not saying we should have open fight night every night we go racing, but damn, if a guy walks down there and socks somebody ’cause he run him over and destroyed his (expletive), we probably should just let that go. Hey, it was good TV. They’re going to market it. They’re going to put it out there and put it on social media soon as the video comes out and they’re going to be cheering it on, but we’re going to DQ you and take your money for doing it,” he concluded.

More recently, Don O’Neal told The Dirt Parlor in June, “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.”

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