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• Fast Talk: Fireworks, flag-waving and finishes

  Posted: 07/04/2022, 11:45 am

  Auto racing is often part of the flags, fireworks and Fourth of July fun on the Independence Day weekend. Our roundtable wraps up a busy stretch of racing in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story

• Dispatches: Hilsabeck flirts with MLRA podium

  Posted: 07/03/2022, 04:09 pm

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events during the Fourth of July weekend, including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Valvoline Iron-Man Racing Series, Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association Full Story

• Column: Shuffled Lucas Oil crew aces Firecracker

  Posted: 06/29/2022, 03:34 pm

  Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie was anxiously awaiting the Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. The national tour’s debut as the sanctioning body for the 4/10-mile oval’s marquee event Full Story

• Top 25: Firecracker winner climbs to No. 3

  Posted: 06/28/2022, 09:39 am By Todd Turner

  Hot as a firecracker at Lernerville Speedway, Tim McCreadie's $50,000 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory propelled him up to No. 3 in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings behind tied-for-first drivers Jonathan Davenport and Chris Madden. Watertown, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Dissecting all the sport’s latest

  Posted: 06/27/2022, 10:56 am

  A historic victory for Brandon Sheppard, a $50,000 Firecracker 100 payday for Tim McCreadie and WoO sweep at I-55 for Dennis Erb Jr. are among things up for discussion in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited Full Story

• Notes: Overton still tick off in Firecracker fizzle

  Posted: 06/26/2022, 10:08 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 25) — Brandon Overton doesn’t need anyone to point out he’s not winning races this season at the spectacular pace he did in 2021. He can’t get that fact of his current campaign out of his mind. After the 31-year-old Full Story

• First-loser streak ends with bang at Lernerville

  Posted: 06/26/2022, 12:19 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 25) — First Tim McCreadie executed several motor-revving, dust-blowing donuts on Lernerville Speedway’s homestretch. Then he drove onto the winner’s stage, sat on his car’s driver-side door and pounded the living Full Story

• Notes: Marlar teetering on edge at Lernerville

  Posted: 06/25/2022, 10:19 am By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 24) — Mike Marlar’s second Firecracker 100 preliminary feature victory in as many nights put him on the verge of doing something just one man has done before, but making history wasn’t foremost on his mind as he Full Story

• Notes: IMCA rookie fulfills his racing maxim

  Posted: 06/23/2022, 09:12 am By Kyle McFadden

  As Dustin Schram transitioned to IMCA Late Models from IMCA modifieds in 2022, he’s abided by one straightforward maxim to keep him pointed in the right direction. “I wasn’t going to let myself suck,” Schram said. “I don’t Full Story

• Top 25: J.D., Madden knotted at No. 1 spot

  Posted: 06/21/2022, 08:49 am By Todd Turner

  Having a tough time deciding whether Jonathan Davenport or Chris Madden is the best Dirt Late Model racer in the country? You’re in good company. After swapping the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings throughout the spring, Full Story

• Notes: Smoky Mountain enjoys successful event

  Posted: 06/20/2022, 02:54 pm By Kevin Kovac

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (June 18) — Roger Sellers experienced all the typical anxiety of a racetrack promoter hosting a big-money event in the days leading up to the Mountain Moonshine Classic at his Smoky Mountain Speedway. But courtesy of Full Story

• Fast Talk: Racing reset as summer bears down

  Posted: 06/20/2022, 11:11 am

  As a season full of rich purses rolls into summer and, fittingly, the DIRTcar Summer Nationals get rolling, our roundtable assesses developments in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Have Full Story

• Pick-and-choose rhythm paying off for Madden

  Posted: 06/19/2022, 08:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (June 18) — With every victory Chris Madden adds to his spectacular 2022 campaign, his determination doesn’t wane even the slightest bit. It only grows stronger. After the 47-year-old star from Gray Court, S.C., captured Full Story

• Excitement (and stress) doubled for Bradshers

  Posted: 06/18/2022, 08:23 am By Kevin Kovac

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (June 17) — Donald Bradsher stood inside Smoky Mountain Speedway’s spacious official’s tower. A few feet to his left, also standing rather than sitting in one of the chairback seats, was his wife Gena. The couple’s Full Story

• Column: Snakebitten Madden on the cusp

  Posted: 06/15/2022, 03:18 pm

  Chris Madden really thought the day he’s spent nearly two decades waiting for at Eldora Speedway had finally arrived. He was going to win Saturday's Dream XXVIII. He could feel it in his very being. Two days after yet again coming up Full Story

• Notes: Clanton finally bags big money again

  Posted: 06/15/2022, 02:00 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BELLEVILLE, Kan. (June 14) — From afar, Shane Clanton’s $40,000 XR Super Series-sanctioned victory Tuesday at the Belleville High Banks quarter-mile over Jonathan Davenport and Chris Madden, the sport’s undeniable best this season, Full Story

• Notes: Junghans relishes opportunity for home run

  Posted: 06/14/2022, 04:14 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BELLEVILLE, Kan. (June 13) — Chase Junghans left his race shop at a leisurely 3:45 p.m. Monday en route to the facility he’s cherished since childhood, the Belleville High Banks. Located in downtown Manhattan, Kan., the home-state Full Story

• Blistering Belleville oval challenges XR entrants

  Posted: 06/14/2022, 10:46 am By Kyle McFadden

  BELLEVILLE, Kan. (June 13) — On the whole, drivers and teams had a general idea about what they were getting into Monday at the Belleville High Banks, that the historic and notoriously fast half-mile oval holding its first marquee Late Full Story

• Top 25: Million winner tightens grip on No. 1

  Posted: 06/14/2022, 12:35 am By Todd Turner

  Eldora Million winner Jonathan Davenport solidified his No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings as the unanimous top pick following his career-making $1,002,022 victory Thursday at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. Davenport, who Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping up Eldora's extravaganza

  Posted: 06/13/2022, 09:24 am

  While we'll wait until September to discover the winner of the rain-postponed Dream, we'll recount Jonathan Davenport's career-changing Eldora Million victory and other activities from Rossburg, Ohio, in the weekly feature presented by Full Story

• Notes: Madden primed for shot at Eldora glory

  Posted: 06/11/2022, 03:48 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) — Winning Saturday afternoon’s first 25-lap Dream XXVIII preliminary feature at Eldora Speedway put a smile on Chris Madden’s face. In no way, though, did it satisfy him. There was only thing on Madden’s Full Story

• Eldora rookie Ferguson aims to be fastest cousin

  Posted: 06/11/2022, 01:36 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) – Holding serve as Friday’s provisional fast qualifier ahead of tonight’s 28th Dirt Late Model Dream at Eldora Speedway, Carson Ferguson was poised to check off something Super Late Model rookies just don’t Full Story

• McDowell's Eldora magic missing (so far)

  Posted: 06/11/2022, 10:47 am By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — Among those in the mix to win the Eldora Million, perhaps nobody game-planned for the event that had inordinate emphasis more than Dale McDowell. The 55-year-old who methodically budgets for roughly 50 races Full Story

• Bitter 101-lap ending for tantalizingly close T-Mac

  Posted: 06/10/2022, 12:41 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Slowly packing his belongings in the dark, quiet back pit area hidden beyond Eldora Speedway’s turn-four amenities, the hollowest result of Thursday’s Eldora Million had emotionally emptied Tim McCreadie. Full Story

• J.D.'s laser-focus Million chase sheds doubts, foes

  Posted: 06/10/2022, 10:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Jonathan Davenport never hid his desire to win the Eldora Million. From the day months ago when its return to Eldora Speedway’s schedule after a 21-year absence was announced, the blockbuster event became his Full Story