DirtOnDirt.com Search Results

3994 items match your search

• Joining SSI, Durham ready for Lucas return

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 03:16 pm By Kyle McFadden

  When Jason Durham stepped down as Jonathan Davenport’s crew chief at the end of the 2022 season to spend more time with family, his departure from the Double L Motorsports team felt like an unofficial retirement from the week-to-week Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce creeps up on No. 1 J.D.

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 12:01 am By Todd Turner

  While he fell one spot shy of overtaking winner Bobby Pierce on Friday at Smoky Mountain Speedway, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., kept his grip on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings. The Keyser Manufacturing-sponsored Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping Smoky Mountain action

  Posted: 03/17/2025, 10:33 am

  On a weather-hampered weekend with Bobby Pierce's capturing the first post-Speedweeks national touring event, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Discuss Full Story

• Smoky Mountain gives Pierce red clay badge

  Posted: 03/15/2025, 03:48 am By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — They say the secret to happiness is low expectations. Perhaps that’s also the secret for winning your first race on a red-clay surface. Bobby Pierce’s career has been largely built on his cushion-banging Full Story

• Notes: Hurriedly patient J.D. can't overtake Pierce

  Posted: 03/14/2025, 10:35 pm By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — There are plenty of strategies in Dirt Late Model racing. Balls to the wall. Feather-footing. Cushion-banging. Slow down to go fast. Among others. Jonathan Davenport’s approach to Friday’s Tennessee Full Story

• Rookie Adam traveling learning curve with WoO

  Posted: 03/14/2025, 03:30 pm By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — As a rookie on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, 19-year-old Daniel Adam knows he has a laundry list of things to improve on while tackling a national Dirt Late Model tour. No. 1 on Adam's list is Full Story

• Decision time nears for national touring drivers

  Posted: 03/12/2025, 10:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  Decision time is approaching for a group of national touring series drivers. Whether it comes next week, next month or even later with be determined by the springtime weather, but it’s coming. With this weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Full Story

• Photographer's unique ritual: victory lane cigar

  Posted: 03/11/2025, 07:48 am By Todd Turner

  Mike Ruefer’s ritual at the conclusion of a Dirt Late Model feature is like that of most racing photographers. The Davenport, Iowa, resident heads for victory lane, makes sure he’s got the right lens on his Canon camera and positions Full Story

• Fast Talk: Weiss, bubbles and anthem times

  Posted: 03/10/2025, 10:16 am

  Ricky Weiss of Headingley, Manitoba, was the weekend's biggest winner with a $20,000 Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series victory at I-75 Raceway as our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story

• Dirt Late Model racing's first five-figure payday

  Posted: 03/05/2025, 07:32 am By Bob Markos

  Longtime racing historian and DirtonDirt.com contributor Bob Markos digs into the 1975’s Cavalcade of Champions World Championship of Stock Cars in Michigan, the first five-figure payday preceding the modern era of Dirt Late Model racing: The Full Story

• Column: Earl Pearson Jr. moves on to second act

  Posted: 02/27/2025, 08:42 am

  For the last three decades, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks meant one thing to Earl Pearson Jr.: climbing in a Dirt Late Model and tossing it around a track. But this year was different for the 53-year-old racer from Jacksonville, Fla. He was Full Story

• Fast Talk: Resetting after long Speedweeks grind

  Posted: 02/24/2025, 12:04 pm

  Following a quiet post-Speedweeks weekend without Super Late Model racing, our roundtable gathers to offer a reset of the 2025 season in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five State Race Car Bodies (edited for clarity and length): With Full Story

• Column: J.D.'s feat tops Speedweeks moments

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 05:07 pm

  As usual, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2025 produced plenty of standout performances. Not a single one was better than Jonathan Davenport’s unforgettable drive to victory in Saturday’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature Full Story

• Cockpit mods provide racers creature comforts

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 07:49 am By Todd Turner

  Compared to our ultracomfortable passenger cars with virtually every modern convenience at your fingertips, the cockpit of a Dirt Late Model is rather sparse. No cupholders, no turn signal levers, no GPS, no radio knobs, no climate controls, Full Story

• Grading top drivers with Speedweeks report card

  Posted: 02/18/2025, 07:35 am By Kyle McFadden

  Evaluating 15 drivers after Georgia-Florida Speedweeks — the top six in points on last year’s national tours and three wild cards picks — among events at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga., Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Full Story

• Top 25: Rankings tight up top with J.D. at No. 1

  Posted: 02/18/2025, 06:52 am By Todd Turner

  With three drivers receiving first-place votes in DirtonDirt.com's first Top 25 power rankings of the season, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., narrowly edged fellow multiple-time Georgia-Florida Speedweeks winners Devin Moran of Full Story

• Fast Talk: Putting a bow on a busy Speedweeks

  Posted: 02/17/2025, 11:08 am

  After a long stretch of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks wraps up with Volusia's Federated DIRTcar Nationals, our roundtable soaks it all in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length; Full Story

• Davenport's slide job rankles Pierce at Volusia

  Posted: 02/15/2025, 01:00 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 14) — As soon as Bobby Pierce parked his battered car in the pit area following a dismal 25th-place finish in Friday’s 35-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature at Volusia Speedway Park, he climbed from Full Story

• Tangle opens door for Moran's Volusia victory

  Posted: 02/15/2025, 10:58 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 14) — One particular moment in Friday’s 35-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature at Volusia Speedway proved to be the catalyst for Devin Moran’s $12,000 victory. It wasn’t an especially slick pass Full Story

• Alberson's relentless run meets Volusia challenge

  Posted: 02/14/2025, 11:27 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 13) — Garrett Alberson continues to learn more about himself and his abilities behind the wheel of a Dirt Late Model. The 35-year-old from Las Cruces, N.M., on Thursday confirmed another quality in his ever-growing Full Story

• Dotson inconsolable as Volusia glory slips away

  Posted: 02/13/2025, 07:57 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 12) — There was no consoling Ethan Dotson after Wednesday’s second Triple 20 during the 54th Federated DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park. Anyone who spoke to the 25-year-old modified transplant from Full Story

• I-55 track's new owner aims to continue legacy

  Posted: 02/12/2025, 02:07 pm By Todd Turner

  You won’t catch Josh Carroll counting sheep. If the 43-year-old Bethaldo, Ill., resident ever has trouble falling asleep, it’s usually because a dirt oval that he’s preparing for racing isn’t quite right, and he won’t snooze soundly Full Story

• Notes: Stomach bug plagues bid for repeat

  Posted: 02/12/2025, 12:37 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 11) — For a driver riding high off a victory the previous night, Nick Hoffman had more on his mind Tuesday than simply chasing a second straight checkered flag in Federated DIRTcar Nationals action at Volusia Speedway Full Story

• Terbo's determined to give Volusia fair shake

  Posted: 02/12/2025, 08:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 11) — Can Volusia Speedway Park become Tyler Erb’s new George-Florida Speedweeks hot spot? Maybe. Maybe not. But Erb is definitely giving the half-mile oval outside Daytona Beach a proper chance to be his personal Full Story

• Fast Talk: Ocala review heading for Volusia home stretch

  Posted: 02/10/2025, 11:03 am

  With the Lucas Oil Series wrapping up its Georgia-Florida Speedweeks action at Ocala and the DIRTcar Nationals up next at Volusia, our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for Full Story