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• Top 25: Pierce opens poll with No. 1 driver ranking

  Posted: 02/27/2024, 01:46 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce, the winningest Super Late Model driver through the first two months of the season, rode his hot start to the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings in the first balloting of 2024. The 27-year-old star from Oakwood, Full Story

• Restart trouble dooms Pierce, sets off mayhem

  Posted: 02/14/2024, 05:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 13) — Bobby Pierce rolled toward the restart green flag, confident that he was a mere eight circuits away from completing a wire-to-wire victory in Tuesday night’s 25-lap Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals Full Story

• Owens turns East Bay tide after years of misery

  Posted: 02/09/2024, 06:39 am By Kevin Kovac

  GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 8) — Racing at East Bay Raceway Park has never been Jimmy Owens’s strong suit. He typically views the third-mile oval’s Wieland Winternationals as just a week of competition that will bring him mostly misery. Full Story

• Column: Slump-busting triumph recharges Terbo

  Posted: 02/08/2024, 10:59 am

  After winning Wednesday night’s 40-lap Wieland Winternationals feature at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla., Tyler Erb sat inside his Best Performance Motorsports trailer and told DirtonDirt.com’s Derek Kessinger how much the Full Story

• Five takeaways from Lucas Oil's opening week

  Posted: 02/05/2024, 04:58 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 3) — With one full week of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season come and gone, and Georgia-Florida Speedweeks halfway complete, there’s much to reflect on and bear in mind for potentially the weeks and Full Story

• Fast Talk: Speedweeks, East Bay musings

  Posted: 02/05/2024, 12:38 pm

  As Georgia-Florida Speedweeks rolls on to East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla., our roundtable considers some happenings that have already occurred and looks to a future without East Bay’s Winternationals in the weekly feature presented Full Story

• Notes: Madden pleased with second-place result

  Posted: 01/29/2024, 03:47 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 27) — Chris Madden thought he was on his way to victory in Saturday’s Super Bowl of Racing with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at Golden Isles Speedway when the seas parted along the bottom lane, the result Full Story

• Lucas Oil Series pursuit just feels right for Marlar

  Posted: 01/27/2024, 08:51 am By Kyle McFadden

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 26) — Mike Marlar is going all in with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series this season. That’s right, the Winfield, Tenn., veteran whose philosophy has almost always revolved around a freelance schedule will be Full Story

• Notes: Lucas Oil opener brings Alberson relief

  Posted: 01/26/2024, 07:50 am By Kyle McFadden

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 25) — A weight was lifted off Garrett Alberson’s tired shoulders after Thursday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Super Bowl of Racing opener at Golden Isles Speedway. An 11th-place finish in the 40-lap feature Full Story

• Even-keel Erb looks for WoO rebound in 2024

  Posted: 01/23/2024, 08:42 am By Kyle McFadden

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 20) — Dennis Erb Jr. is about the most predictable thing out there in Dirt Late Model racing. Off the racetrack, he’s a man of few words. Conversations with him are usually short and sweet. Interviews are more Full Story

• Georgia-Florida Speedweeks coverage index

  Posted: 02/02/2024, 07:00 pm

  DirtonDirt.com's Super Late Model coverage from Georgia-Florida Speedweeks, made up of events at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. (Jan. 18-20 and Feb. 12-17), Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga. (Jan. 25-27), Ocala (Fla.) Full Story

• Notes: Versatile rookie plunges into WoO action

  Posted: 01/19/2024, 09:05 am By Kyle McFadden

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 18) — From big-block modifieds to NASCAR Whelen modifieds, from an ARCA East Series winner to NASCAR national series starts, and from winged sprint cars to midgets, Max McLaughlin is versatility personified. All Full Story

• Breaking down WoO's expected driver roster

  Posted: 01/17/2024, 08:25 am By Kevin Kovac

  When the 2024 World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series season kicks off Jan. 18-20 with the Sunshine Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., at least 20 drivers are expected be on hand to begin what they hope will be a full-time Full Story

• Column: Clanton shifts focus to running Capital

  Posted: 01/12/2024, 03:20 pm

  Marshall Green will readily concede that his Capital Race Cars business struggled in 2023. He can’t argue with the statistics that revealed a drop off from the usual level of success he’s enjoyed with his Woodstock, Ga.-based enterprise Full Story

• Fast Talk: Kicking off the 2024 Late Model season

  Posted: 01/08/2024, 12:28 pm

  Following an opening weekend of 2024 action featuring the Rio Grande Waste Systems Wild West Shootout at Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park and the 33rd Ice Bowl at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., our weekly roundtable weighs in for the Full Story

• Best of 2023: Top-five lists of memorable year

  Posted: 12/14/2023, 06:38 am By Todd Turner

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2023 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2023 Full Story

• Best of 2023: Southern state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/12/2023, 08:08 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2023 superlatives of Southern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2023 coverage): Alabama Top Full Story

• Best of 2023: Northern, Western state capsules

  Posted: 12/12/2023, 08:02 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2023 superlatives of Northern (including Canada) and Western states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best Full Story

• Best of 2023: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/12/2023, 07:30 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2023 superlatives of Midwestern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2023 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Column: Free agent Pearson seeks next ride

  Posted: 12/01/2023, 07:14 am

  From almost the moment Earl Pearson Jr. learned that he didn’t have a ride for 2024 with his car owner Jason Papich’s decision to shut down his racing operation, he began to contemplate the rest of his racing life. It’s a natural Full Story

• Column: Gundaker diversifies racing roles

  Posted: 11/22/2023, 02:31 pm

  As the elder son of racetrack owners, Gordy Gundaker has spent all his adult years with an up-close view of the intricacies that come with promoting events. But has the 31-year-old from St. Charles, Mo., ever harbored visions of someday Full Story

• Fast Talk: Musing on national tour topics

  Posted: 11/13/2023, 10:29 am

  Following a weekend that saw the Castrol FloRacing Night in America finale at Senoia (Ga.) Raceway fall to rain, DirtonDirt.com’s roundtable considers a variety of topics — including two musings about national tours — in the weekly Full Story

• Fast Talk: Surveying the World Finals landscape

  Posted: 11/06/2023, 10:58 am

  With Mike Marlar and two-time winner Ricky Thornton Jr. grabbing victories at Charlotte's World Finals, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and Full Story

• Best laid plans shuffled by Charlotte track prep

  Posted: 11/05/2023, 10:50 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 4) — Everyone knew The Dirt Track at Charlotte’s surface would be reworked before Saturday night’s 50-lap World Finals finale. No one thought it would receive quite the attention it did. | RaceWire When the feature Full Story

• Marlar's team transition smooth (and victorious)

  Posted: 11/03/2023, 08:29 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — For a driver making his debut with a new team on the high-profile stage of the World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, Mike Marlar’s demeanor Thursday was oddly serene. “I don’t even feel pressure,” Full Story