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• Top 25: DTWC winner joins rankings at No. 21

  Posted: 10/18/2022, 12:37 pm By Todd Turner

  Teenager Garrett Smith of Eatonton, Ga., Saturday's upset winner of the 42nd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries in flag-to-flag fashion, cracked DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 power rankings for the Full Story

• Notes: Overton undone by tire choice at DTWC

  Posted: 10/17/2022, 04:46 pm By Kyle McFadden and Kevin Kovac

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Oct. 15) — Brandon Overton thought he had a winning plan for Saturday’s 100-lap General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries at Portsmouth Raceway Park. History, at least, made him believe Full Story

• Fast Talk: Dissecting Smith’s DTWC upset victory

  Posted: 10/17/2022, 11:11 am

  With Garrett Smith becoming the youngest Dirt Track World Champion, our roundtable gathers to discuss the 19-year-old's $100,000 payday and more in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Reflect Full Story

• Flat tire dims Fergy’s latest DTWC hopes

  Posted: 10/16/2022, 07:16 pm By Kyle McFadden

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Oct. 15) – Chris Ferguson thought Saturday’s 42nd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries would yield a much nicer result than his track record at the crown jewel event suggests. Unfortunately Full Story

• Veterans heap praise on youngest DTWC winner

  Posted: 10/16/2022, 09:23 am By Kevin Kovac

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Oct. 15) — A final dose of track prep was underway before the start of Saturday’s General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries at Portsmouth Raceway Park, which meant most of the drivers Full Story

• Boggs, Egersdorf among Hall's Class of 2023

  Posted: 10/15/2022, 05:31 pm By Todd Turner

  A red-headed Virginia standout with an unforgettable nickname, a two-time DIRTcar weekly champion from southern Illinois, an Alabaman who captured seven Mississippi state titles, Cedar Lake Speedway’s all-time winningest driver and a Full Story

• Notes: Fergy on the cusp of rewriting DTWC fate

  Posted: 10/15/2022, 10:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Oct. 14) — Securing a prime starting spot in the 100-lap General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries feature at Portsmouth Raceway Park is nothing new for Chris Ferguson. “We’ve been Full Story

• Fast-rising young Smith eyes DTWC immortality

  Posted: 10/15/2022, 05:43 am By Kyle McFadden

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — It’s nearly impossible to overlook Garrett Smith at the racetrack these days. Breast Cancer Awareness Month has inspired Smith to adorn a fuchsia driver’s suit specially made for races throughout the duration of Full Story

• Fast Facts: 42nd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship

  Posted: 10/11/2022, 11:03 am By Robert Holman and Aaron Clay

  Dates: Oct. 13-15 (modified prelims Thursday; Late Model and Limited Late Model prelims and modified feature Friday; Late Model and Limited Late Model features Saturday) Track: Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park (high-banked 3/8-mile clay Full Story

• 2022 Late Model series and track champions

  Posted: 12/31/2022, 12:47 pm

  Series champions Region-by-region champions on Dirt Late Model series and racing organizations for 2022: National Castrol FloRacing Night in America - Brandon Sheppard Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series - Tim McCreadie World of Full Story

• Fast Talk: Remembering a silenced voice

  Posted: 10/03/2022, 10:36 am

  With the racing community stunned by the passing of one of its own, our roundtable gathers to discuss all the latest in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): React to the tragic death Full Story

• Notes: PPMS Crate standout giving it another shot

  Posted: 09/29/2022, 06:53 am By Kyle McFadden

  Ben Policz has a love-hate relationship with the Bill Hendren Memorial — this weekend’s RUSH Late Model Series event that accompanies the 37th Pittsburgher — at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. Because the Crate Late Models Full Story

• Top 25: Tighter grip on No. 1 for J.D.

  Posted: 09/20/2022, 10:22 am By Todd Turner

  Top-ranked Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., kept his crown jewel-collecting campaign rolling Sunday at the 18th annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals to further cement his spot atop DirtonDirt.com's power rankings. Davenport, Full Story

• Fast Facts: 18th annual Lucas Oil Knoxville Nationals

  Posted: 09/14/2022, 10:48 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: Sept. 15-17 ($7,000-to-win features Thursday and Friday and heats, consolations and $50,000-to-win main event Saturday) Track: Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway (semi-banked, half-mile clay oval). Purse: In excess of $290,000, the purse Full Story

• Top 25: J.D. still on top as Overton rises to No. 3

  Posted: 09/13/2022, 11:06 am By Todd Turner

  Further solidifying his unanimous No. 1 position in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., captured his fifth World 100 victory Saturday at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, amid a record-setting season Full Story

• World 100's top three leave foes in their dust

  Posted: 09/11/2022, 06:31 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — Seldom does Earl Pearson Jr. voluntarily put participation aside and spectate the sport’s crown jewel events, but that’s what the 50-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., racer did in Saturday’s final laps of Full Story

• Coveting ‘big stage,’ J.D. soars in stature at Big E

  Posted: 09/11/2022, 07:18 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — The postrace press conference was over, but Jonathan Davenport wasn’t yet done talking about Saturday's victory the 52nd World 100 at Eldora Speedway. He simply shifted from sitting behind a table in the Full Story

• Big E invert stings Georgian, but this time Smith belongs

  Posted: 09/10/2022, 08:38 am By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — This time last year, Garrett Smith felt like a virtual nobody lost in the overwhelming nature of the World 100 at Eldora Speedway. The teenaged racer decided to partake in the sport’s Super Bowl during his fledgling Full Story

• Notes: Port Royal standout eyes next step

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 03:19 am By Kyle McFadden

  Perhaps sometime in the future, Austin Berry will look back on this past Labor Day weekend as the catalyst that spurred he and his family team to the next level. Battling Gregg Satterlee — Pennsylvania’s winningest Super Late Model Full Story

• For Richards, there’s no place like Eldora

  Posted: 09/07/2022, 10:01 am By Kevin Kovac

  Think it’s possible to find someone who’s participated in more World 100s at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio — as a crew member, crew chief or car owner — than Mark Richards? Good luck. The circle of Eldora veterans in which Full Story

• Notes: Fairbury gives underdog first career win

  Posted: 09/01/2022, 01:48 am By Kyle McFadden

  For whatever reason, it took 30 years for Jay Sparks to at last bask in a winner’s circle. After going empty-handed since he started his racing carer at the Super Late Model level in 1992, the 59-year-old celebrated his first victory Full Story

• Fast Talk: Pearson, English and Labor Day

  Posted: 08/29/2022, 10:47 am

  After big-purse weekends on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway and the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series at Davenport (Iowa) Speedway, our roundtable reviews the action in our weekly feature presented Full Story

• Notes: Winger earns decent Davenport result

  Posted: 08/26/2022, 06:58 am By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 25) — Ashton Winger didn’t have a winning race car in Thursday’s World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series main event at Davenport Speedway. But he ran among the leaders and that’s an improvement from previous Full Story

• Column: Winding down, but not ready to retire

  Posted: 08/17/2022, 12:47 pm

  Ask Lance Matthees if the 2022 campaign is going to be his last as a Dirt Late Model driver and the 66-year-old from Winona, Minn., will come as close as possible to confirming his impending retirement. “It ain’t official,” he said Full Story

• Fast Facts: 30th annual Comp Cams Topless 100

  Posted: 08/16/2022, 04:53 pm By Robert Holman

  Event: 30th annual Comp Cams Topless 100 presented by Nutrien Ag Solutions Dates: Aug. 19-20 ($5,000-to-win program on Friday followed by Saturday’s $50,000-to-win finale) Track: Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway (3/8-mile clay oval) Sanction: Full Story