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• Owens gets racing room, $10,000 win in opener

  Posted: 01/24/2008, 02:27 am By Todd Turner

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 23) — Jimmy Owens felt like he had a good car all night long in the opening event of the Super Bowl of Racing IV at Golden Isles Speedway. The Newport, Tenn., driver, who started third in the 24-car UMP Late Model Full Story

• Jan. 23 prelims: Madden earns pole position

  Posted: 01/23/2008, 06:14 pm By Todd Turner

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 23) — Chris Madden, one of four heat race winners, drew the pole position for Wednesday's Super Bowl of Racing IV opener at Golden Isles Speedway. Also winning heats on opening night were Earl Pearson Jr., Jimmy Full Story

• Ready or not, here comes huge Speedweeks

  Posted: 01/21/2008, 12:35 pm

  Dirt Late Model racers are ready to blast away the winter blahs with the most ambitious schedule of Speedweeks racing in history. The Georgia-Florida slate includes 22 races in 25 nights at three tracks with four sanctioning bodies and Full Story

• Babb's Bowyer-backed ride begins at East Bay

  Posted: 01/09/2008, 12:28 pm From staff and team reports

  Two-time Dirt Track World Champion Shannon Babb is the latest dirt racer to make a key connection with the highest levels of NASCAR racing. The Moweaqua, Ill., driver has been hired by Clint Bowyer Racing to field a Dirt Late Model for Full Story

• Unheralded Mayse wins Ice Bowl XVII (updated)

  Posted: 01/06/2008, 05:08 pm By Todd Turner

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 6) — Bobby Mayse of Harrison, Tenn., went to bed Saturday night knowing he'd be starting on the pole for the Super Late Model portion of Talladega Short Track's Ice Bowl XVII. A great starting position for the Full Story

• Polesitting Mayse aims for $6,000 at Ice Bowl

  Posted: 01/05/2008, 09:20 pm By Todd Turner

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 5) — Bobby Mayse of Harrison, Tenn., won the first heat race during the Ice Bowl XVII preliminaries at Talladega Short Track to earn the pole position for Sunday afternoon's 50-lap feature event. Notebook | Slideshow Mayse, Full Story

• Spreading cheer (and gifts) to dirt racing folks

  Posted: 12/24/2007, 11:49 am

  It's that time of year when Santa Claus loads up his crate-powered sleigh and takes a swing through the Dirt Late Model world. A few gifts we'd like to see under Christmas trees here and there: To Rick Eckert: A return to success for the Full Story

• Faltering leaders give Owens East Bay win

  Posted: 12/09/2007, 02:13 pm By Roby Helm

  GIBSONTON, Fla. (Dec. 7-8) — Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., wrapped up his spectacular 2007 season by winning his second Crate Racin’ USA World Championship Race at East Bay Raceway Park. Owens, who won the inaugural event in Full Story

• Francis taps T-Mac to run 5 big-bucks races in '08

  Posted: 12/09/2007, 05:09 am By Michael Rigsby and Todd Turner

  ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 8) — Tim McCreadie, the 2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion, will drive the car of the 2007 WoO champion in five major Dirt Late Model events in 2008. McCreadie, whose asphalt schedule as a development Full Story

• Weaver excited about boost from Stremme

  Posted: 12/07/2007, 11:06 am By Todd Turner and Michael Rigsby

  ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 7) — The latest Dirt Late Model racer to make a connection with NASCAR Nextel Cup is Randy Weaver of Crossville, Tenn. Weaver and D&R Motorsports announced this week that Nextel Cup driver David Stremme has joined Full Story

• Body rules get attention of series at PRI meeting

  Posted: 12/06/2007, 04:47 pm By Todd Turner

  ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 6) — When Kelley Carlton was reading tributes to late racing promoter Mike Swims, he was reminded that Swims was hailed as someone who helped standardize Dirt Late Model body rules years ago. Carlton isn't so sure Full Story

• Goal-driven Richards eyes more progress

  Posted: 12/03/2007, 04:58 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Josh Richards set some personal goals for his 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series season — and he came within a hair of achieving them all. At least four WoO feature victories? Check. Victories at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway and Full Story

• Boland completes Possum Town sweep

  Posted: 12/02/2007, 10:06 pm By Jerry Carnathan

  COLUMBUS, Miss. (Dec. 1) — It took him two weekends to pull it off, but Mike Boland of Cuba, Ala., completed a sweep of the seventh annual Possum Town Grand Prix at Columbus Speedway. Boland rallied from his eighth starting spot to Full Story

• Rainey dominates finale as Gentry takes title

  Posted: 12/02/2007, 02:01 pm By Roby Helm

  COLUMBUS, Miss. (Dec. 1) — Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, Ga., was untouchable in posting a flag-to-flag victory in the 40-lap StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series portion of the Possum Town Grand Prix at Columbus Speedway while Full Story

• Godsey nabs invitational victory at Columbus

  Posted: 11/28/2007, 10:10 am By Roby Helm

  COLUMBUS, Miss. (Nov. 23) — Steve Godsey of Bedford, Ind., stuck with the high road to win the second annual Crate Racin’ USA Fall Nationals Invitational Race at Columbus Speedway. Godsey battled wheel-to-wheel for most of the Full Story

• Champ at Golden Isles will receive ring as bonus

  Posted: 11/27/2007, 04:46 pm From series and track reports

  Besides a $10,000 bonus for winning the points at the 2008 Super Bowl of Racing, the champion of the unprecedented 10-race event will also receive an honorary championship ring from Gotta Race. "The championship ring is going to be something Full Story

• Tire controversy can't stop Weeks at Dublin

  Posted: 11/25/2007, 08:31 am From correspondent reports

  DUBLIN, N.C. (Nov. 24) — It didn't much matter if Ricky Weeks used the right-rear tire he wanted or not, he drove the fastest car for Dublin Motor Speedway's unsanctioned season-ending special for Super Late Models. The Rutherfordton, Full Story

• Lloyd enjoys title but lusts after SAS victory

  Posted: 11/19/2007, 03:25 pm By Todd Turner

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (Nov. 17) — Ivedent Lloyd Jr. was all smiles following the 19th annual Gobbler 100 at Cleveland Speedway because he wrapped up his first championship on the O'Reilly Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series. The Ocala, Full Story

• Clanton fights off McDowell to win Gobbler

  Posted: 11/18/2007, 12:34 am By Todd Turner

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (Nov. 17) — Shane Clanton denied polesitter Dale McDowell his seventh Gobbler Classic victory, along with a lucrative weekend payoff, but it wasn't easy. McDowell nearly fell back to fourth midway through the race Full Story

• 6-time winner McDowell earns pole for Gobbler

  Posted: 11/17/2007, 08:17 pm By Todd Turner

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (Nov. 17) — Dale McDowell of Rossville, Ga., is going for seventh heaven at Cleveland Speedway. The six-time winner of the Gobbler Classic at Cleveland Speedway was fastest among 43 qualifiers for the 19th annual Full Story

• McDowell eyes bonus after Cleveland victory

  Posted: 11/17/2007, 08:48 am From track reports

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (Nov. 16) — Dale McDowell of Rossville, Ga., showed his old form as he set fast time and led 25 of the 27 laps to win the Budweiser Joe Lee Johnson Memorial at Cleveland Speedway. McDowell earned $3,500 for the victory Full Story

• Michael's Duck River victory secures SRRS crown

  Posted: 11/16/2007, 10:30 am From series reports

  WHEEL, Tenn. (Nov. 10) — After a lead-swapping duel with Iowa invader Mike Collins, fellow front-row starter Byron Michael of Florence, Ala., led the final 29 laps of the Hart Hastings-Henry Smith Memorial 50 at Duck River Speedway Full Story

• Knoxville Raceway boosts Late Model Nationals purse

  Posted: 11/16/2007, 09:40 am From track reports

  The Knoxville Late Model Nationals will be even more lucrative in 2008. The track has announced a purse increase of more than $40,000 for the fifth version of Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway's biggest Late Model event. The 2008 race, scheduled Full Story

• O'Neal turns up wick while joining new team

  Posted: 11/12/2007, 12:58 pm By Todd Turner

  CHATSWORTH, Ga. (Nov. 10) — When Don O'Neal was watching action recently at the Dirt Track World Championship, the aggressive driving of Wayne Chinn caught his eye. "He was driving the wheels off the car," O'Neal said wide-eyed, admiring Full Story

• Late pass gives Owens Blue-Gray 100 (updated)

  Posted: 11/11/2007, 06:26 pm By Todd Turner

  GAFFNEY, S.C. (Nov. 11) — Jimmy Owens stalked leader Chris Madden for more than 70 laps at Cherokee Speedway, turning up the heat as the Blue-Gray 100 wound down. So when a lapped car broke Madden's momentum with two laps remaining, Full Story