Back in May, I argued my point via my blog on this very website that Winchester (Tenn.) Speedway should have more special events. I don’t expect the track to rival what Bob Harris has been able to do over at Duck River Raceway Park, some 60 miles away, but I wanted to see Winchester host more than one special event each season. My wish was granted when track owner Jimmy Nowlin announced in late June that the track would host the Freedom 40 on July 3.

Great news, right? Wrong. As it turns out, MORE

Jamie Oldfield has been back in his native Perth, Western Australia, for a month-and-a-half since taking a two-week July racing holiday to the United States of America.

But the two Rocket Chassis Dirt Late Models that Oldfield purchased and raced in six Midwest events while on his whirlwind American odyssey? Those vehicles — as well as an assortment of other racing-related paraphernalia — have taken a bit longer to join him Down Under.

Sending a large shipment halfway across the globe is a MORE

Thirteen weeks ago Dale McDowell made the long haul up I-75, past Cleveland and Athens and Sweetwater. Through Knoxville, then London and Richmond and Lexington, finally the southern fringes of the sprawling Cincinnati metroplex. Then … across the wide river to Ohio. | Complete World 100 coverage

Ohio was very good to McDowell all those weeks ago. He and Team Dillon Racing carried $100,000 back home from Eldora Speedway, scoring an impressive win on June 7 in the 20th Dirt Late Model Dream. Now MORE

It’s that time of year again. The World 100 is unquestionably the biggest weekend of the year for Dirt Late Model Racing. Every year I scout out the entrants and try to offer a look at who has the best opportunity to bring the famous globe trophy back below the Mason-Dixon Line.

The 44th annual World 100 offers up a bumper crop of drivers from the South that are headed to the cornfields of northwest Ohio looking to etch their names into dirt racing history. Through the years, many Southerners MORE