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By Craig Murto
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
Dale DeLozier wasn’t considered a contender.
Even with four weeks remaining in the 1998 racing season at Manassas’ Old Dominion “Speedway, the NASCAR Winston Racing Series Late Model Stock Car driver wasn’t the first on many lists of possible track champions. But when the season ended it was DeLozier’s turn to be crowned. It was something that turned into a blessing for DeLozier’s entire family.
At November’s Winston Racing Series banquet in Nashville, Tenn., DeLozier, his father and brother Jackie reunited with Donnie DeLozier, an estranged older brother and Nashville musician. It had been nearly two decades since the family had been together.
“It was God’s way of saying it’s time to get the family back together,” Dale DeLozier said. Donnie and his wife visited during the holiday season, and family members who once would not speak with each other “get along real well. It was meant to be.”
What wasn’t meant to be was a trip to victory lane.
DeLozier led races throughout the year, but never won a race. Nevertheless, he consistently finished well, and tallied enough points to surge ahead of other competitors whose season-long bids for the title floundered in the final weeks of competition.
“It’s using your head, not using your foot,” the 41-year-old Alexandria racer said of the driving style that
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