Meanwhile, Marlin was off to a flying start and led the point standings for a while before some problems dropped him back in the pack. He is also looking for his first win, although he did set fast time and a track record in time trials for the annual Roadrunner 20 the third week of the season.

His closest bid for a win came early in the season when he was racing wheel-to-wheel with veteran Ricky Bender with many of the Big Diamond roadrunner drivers on hand, and Bender prevailed. "It would have been really neat to win that one," he said.

"My year started out awesome," Marlin said. "Then a couple things went wrong with the car, bad set-up and all that, and I dropped back a little bit. We are staying pretty even right now and we are going to try and keep working on it every week until we get it right."

Despite their inexperience, both brothers have lofty goals for their first season behind the wheel.

"My goal is the track championship," Scott Jr. said. "A lot of people tell me not to count on it because I am a rookie. I would like to do it to show everybody that it can be done. I'm working on that right now and I'm working my way back up through."

Scott Sr. said he isn't sure that either of his sons will win the title this year, but he predicts that one of them will do it next season.

"I am pretty proud of them," he said.

Marlin said he also wants to win the title, but that there is no rivalry between he and his brother. "We work as a team on the track, we try to keep it a fair thing between both of us to make it competitive. If either one of us would win, it would be awesome. We would be happy for each other," he said.

Scott said the boys heeded his advice, especially when he had to admonish them when Marlin bumped Scott during a race. "It made him a little nervous and he tried to run a little harder and spun out. Dad had to step in there and tell them not to be banging on each other because it could make for more work for us to keep the cars running," Scott Sr. said.

He added, "They've listened to me and they have given each other room to race and I think it brought my boys closer together. They work on each others' cars. Marlin is more mechanically inclined than Scott from helping me all the years on my car."

Although he teases them that he is going to get on the track and show them how it is done, Scott Sr. has no desire to race against his sons. He fears the possibility of taking one of them out.

"I would really feel bad if I went out and smashed one of my boys' cars up because when I drive race cars, there is only one way to run it and that is wide open," he said.

Scott Jr. said he owes everything to Scott Sr. and his mother, Stephanie, and to his brother for all the work he does on the car. "Without them, I wouldn't be doing this."

All three Dunhams are truck drivers, the sons for Reinhart Food Service and Scott Sr. for Lear.

If things work out well in the roadrunner division, both have aspirations of moving up to something bigger and faster.