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Shot at big time fading, Norris embraces family
Posted: 08/26/2023, 07:12 am By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 25) — Michael Norris thinks about what could have been from time to time. Four years ago, when Clint Bowyer tabbed him as his team’s interim driver for the ailing Don O’Neal on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story
Column: Iowan forges on in tackling elite division
Posted: 08/23/2023, 10:25 pmRacing wasn’t on Daniel Hilsabeck’s radar a whole lot from 2017-19. Some B-modified and stock car events here and there, a few open-wheel starts toward the end of ’19, and that was about it. Instead, he worked. He built a house. Full Story
Notes: Gentry aims high in Wayne County finale
Posted: 08/23/2023, 04:52 pmWeekly points championships are drawing to a close at many dirt tracks across the country. At Wayne County Speedway, J.R. Gentry of Wooster, Ohio, hopes to wrap up his second championship at the 3/8-mile oval in Orrville, Ohio, this weekend. Heading Full Story
Fast Talk: The ageless McDowell and more
Posted: 08/21/2023, 11:50 amFollowing Dale McDowell's Topless 100 victory at Batesville amid one of the busiest racing weekends of the summer, our roundtable recaps the action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story
Notes: Pearson aims to end Topless futility
Posted: 08/19/2023, 12:35 pm By Robert HolmanLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 18) — Of the 16 drivers locked into Saturday’s starting lineup for the Comp Cams Topless 100, only one driver — Chickamauga, Ga.’s Dale McDowell — has started Batesville Motor Speedway's Lucas Oil Late Full Story
After Late Model layoff, West Virginian speedy again
Posted: 08/18/2023, 07:46 am By Kyle McFaddenAfter six years away from Super Late Model racing, Keith Jackson has returned to the discipline as if he virtually never missed a beat. The Martinsburg, W.Va., racer whose Late Model career has been dormant since 2017 has this year reentered Full Story
Fast Facts: 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100
Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:27 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 17-19 ($5,000-to-win makeup race for the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series on Thursday with optional practice for Topless 100 entrants; $5,000-to-win Lucas Oil event Friday sets lineups for for Saturday’s consolations and 100-lap, Full Story
Notes: August sends Pierce into stratosphere
Posted: 08/13/2023, 02:25 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Bobby Pierce’s summer hot streak was already rolling along. And then the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver got to August. With his dazzling three-race sweep at Florence Speedway’s Sunoco North-South 100 extending Full Story
Notes: Pierce eyeing rich North-South 100 sweep
Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:20 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — After racing to a pair of 25-lap semifeature victories Thursday and Friday at Florence Speedway, Bobby Pierce is in position for a lucrative sweep of the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Thornton’s torrid rally after glitch pays $61,500
Posted: 07/30/2023, 07:21 am By Kevin KovacFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — As SSI Motorsports crew chief Anthony Burroughs sipped a celebratory can of beer in the Fairbury Speedway pit area after his driver Ricky Thornton Jr.’s stirring victory in Saturday’s 33rd annual Prairie Full Story
Fast Facts: 33rd annual Prairie Dirt Classic
Posted: 07/26/2023, 10:00 am By Aaron ClayDates: July 28-29 (four 25-lap, $5,000-to-win Prairie Dirt Showdown preliminary features will be contested Friday and set the lineup for Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win Prairie Dirt Classic). Track: Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway (semi-banked Full Story
Good times for Winger, but losses haunt him
Posted: 07/21/2023, 03:40 pm By Robert HolmanSENOIA, Ga. (July 20) — Ashton Winger knows the difference between good days and bad days. After a tumultuous 2022 season, the Hampton, Ga., driver has bounced back to produce a marvelous 2023 season thus far. Thursday was another good Full Story
Page unfazed by scrapes reaching Senoia podium
Posted: 07/21/2023, 08:41 am By Robert HolmanSENOIA, Ga. (July 20) — Over Memorial Day weekend, Michael Page sat in the pit area grandstands at Duck River Raceway Park watching fellow racer Sam Seawright of Rainsville, Ala., turn laps at the Tennessee bullring in preparation for Full Story
Column: Solid showing for pharmacist in waiting
Posted: 07/19/2023, 03:45 pmThat always special scenario — an upset victory by a hometown driver over a national star — was very much in play as Friday’s 53-lap Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals opener at Beckley (W.Va.) Motor Speedway drew to a close. Henry Full Story
Notes: Rookie eyes more Wheatland success
Posted: 07/13/2023, 01:25 pmThe last time Dillon McCowan brought his Late Model to Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., he opened eyes while mixing it up at the front with some of the nation's best drivers in the 31st annual Show-Me 100 presented by the Missouri Full Story
Notes: Contact aplenty for Muskingum racers
Posted: 07/01/2023, 09:01 amBrandon Overton threw out some shade (though with a smile on his face). Jonathan Davenport wasn’t very happy either. Yes, an especially rough-and-tumble first 20-lap semifeature during Friday’s Freedom 60 weekend opener at Muskingum Full Story
Midwest-loving Winger relishes Hell Tour run
Posted: 07/01/2023, 07:02 am By Robert HolmanPADUCAH, Ky. (June 30) — Standing in Friday’s blazing afternoon heat at Paducah International Raceway, Ashton Winger looked right at home. Despite the sweat beading on his face on a 105-degree day with a heat index topping out at 114 Full Story
Victory at Davenport therapeutic for Winger
Posted: 06/22/2023, 01:21 am By Todd TurnerDAVENPORT, Iowa (June 21) — Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... With apologies to Dickens, DIRTcar Summer Nationals fans at Davenport Speedway were treated to a tale of three Full Story
Column: It's team first for Burroughs-led SSI
Posted: 06/21/2023, 03:45 pmRicky Thornton Jr.’s rise to the top of the Dirt Late Model game in 2023 is no overnight success story. The 32-year-old native of Chandler, Ariz., who made his first mark on dirt-track racing in the open-wheel modified division has been Full Story
Surprise AMS champ tries to soak it all in
Posted: 06/19/2023, 08:32 pm By Kyle McFaddenSELINSGROVE, Pa. (June 18) — Tyler Emory’s emergence from a middling racer in the Northeast to runaway champion of Appalachian Mountain Speedweek is one of the swiftest rises to fame in the recent history of Dirt Late Model racing. Compared Full Story
Dispatches: Rice mourns loss of sponsor
Posted: 06/18/2023, 03:30 pmThe latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events in mid-June, including the Valvoline Iron-Man Racing Series event at Lake Cumberland Speedway in Burnside, Ky., Cedar Lake Speedway's Masters in New Richmond, Full Story
Midwestern racing with a dash of Southern flair
Posted: 06/15/2023, 07:38 am By Robert HolmanPEORIA, Ill. (June 14) — They’re here to learn. They’re here to have fun. They’re here for the money. And at least one driver is here with an eye on the DIRTcar Summer Nationals championship. Regardless of the reason, seeing a Southerner Full Story
Promising revival for Appalachian Mountain Speedweek
Posted: 06/10/2023, 03:41 pm By Kyle McFaddenMILL HALL, Pa. (June 9) — Jim Bernheisel finally had a moment to decompress. Months of nonstop preparation to relaunch Appalachian Mountain Speedweek, which served as a staple for Northeastern Dirt Late Model racers from 2009-17, culminated Full Story
Preview: Appalachian Mountain Speedweek
Posted: 06/09/2023, 11:50 am By Kyle McFaddenDirt Late Model fans in the Northeast, rejoice. Appalachian Mountain Speedweek makes its well received return after a five-year absence Friday at Clinton County Speedway in Mill Hall, Pa., the opening night of the eight-race miniseries Full Story
Fast Facts: Dream XXIX
Posted: 06/06/2023, 04:36 pm By Aaron ClayDates: June 8-10 (complete shows on Thursday and Friday, featuring twin 25-lap, $12,000-to-win split-field preliminary features for DIRTcar Late Models; heat races and consolations precede Saturday’s 100-lap finale). | Complete Dream Full Story
