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Top 25: Smoky Mountain sweep spurs McDowell
Posted: 10/20/2020, 10:04 am By Joshua JoinerFresh off his second straight General Tire Dirt Track World Championship victory Saturday at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park, Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., remained firmly atop the DirtonDirt.com Top 25 power rankings for a fourth Full Story
Column: No winners in murky tire-testing saga
Posted: 10/14/2020, 04:03 pmRick Eckert lost two Ultimate Northeast Super Late Model Series victories in mid-August to failed tire tests. Dan Angelicchio was stripped of one win on the regional tour in July for an identical infraction. Both drivers vehemently dispute Full Story
Top 25: B-Shepp steady on top as Shirley climbs
Posted: 10/13/2020, 08:33 am By Joshua JoinerBrandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., tightened his grip at the top of DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, earning the No. 1 position in the poll for the third straight week after a pair of MARS Racing Series victories in his home Full Story
Fast Talk: B-Shepp's skills and DTWC preview
Posted: 10/12/2020, 12:48 pmOur roundtable considers a weekend where Brandon Sheppard captured a pair of five-figure paydays in MARS Racing Series competition in his home state of Illinois, and we look ahead to upcoming fall action in our weekly feature presented Full Story
Tar Heel 50 stalwart set to defend his home track
Posted: 10/08/2020, 08:13 am By Robert HolmanHeading into Friday’s Schaeffer’s Fall Nationals Tar Heel 50 at Tri-County Racetrack in Brasstown, N.C., a single driver has perfect attendance in the event’s 16-year history: David Payne of Murphy, N.C. It helps that Payne, the Full Story
Column: Another reset during a Stormy season
Posted: 10/07/2020, 12:30 pmStormy Scott hasn’t climbed out of his Dirt Late Model after a race with a smile on his face very often in 2020. That’s how frustrating his sophomore season on the Lucas Oil Late Model Late Model Dirt Series has been. So after the Full Story
Top 25: B-Shepp No. 1 in Brandon vs. Brandon
Posted: 10/06/2020, 08:39 am By Joshua JoinerBrandon Overton came out on top of a Brandon vs. Brandon battle with Brandon Sheppard during Friday’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series feature at Cherokee Speedway, but it wasn’t enough to move him ahead of his shared-name Full Story
Column: Father and son doing a lot with a little
Posted: 09/30/2020, 05:02 pmDavid Scott had seemingly, and willingly, moved on to the next phase of his motorsports involvement. Following the 2017 season — at the age of 47 and after three decades wheeling race cars on the local and regional levels — the personable Full Story
Top 25: B-Shepp edges T-Mac for 100th No. 1
Posted: 09/29/2020, 10:43 am By Joshua JoinerWeekend victories by Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., and Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., put the two superstar drivers in a virtual dead heat at the top of DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 poll presented by Bilstein Shocks with Sheppard Full Story
Pearson turning corner amid struggling season
Posted: 09/29/2020, 08:23 am By Robert HolmanBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (Sept. 26) — For more than half of the coronavirus-curtailed 2020 racing season, Earl Pearson Jr. hardly looked like a driver capable of contending regularly for victories. Pearson, of Jacksonville, Fla., spent most of Full Story
Fast Talk: Winners and losers during busy weekend
Posted: 09/28/2020, 12:49 pmOur roundtable reviews Brownstown’s vibrant Jackson 100 weekend and World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series action at Thunder Mountain Speedway in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): Was Full Story
Fergy's steering woes spoil Brownstown rally
Posted: 09/27/2020, 06:34 am By Robert HolmanBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (Sept. 26) — Midway through Saturday’s 41st annual Jackson 100, Chris Ferguson of Mount Holly, N.C., thought his first start in Brownstown Speedway’s premier event could be a winner. Ferguson rallied from 17th into Full Story
Dohm enjoys career-best Brownstown finish
Posted: 09/26/2020, 06:59 am By Robert HolmanBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (Sept. 25) — Zach Dohm’s career-best effort at Brownstown Speedway was almost over before it ever got started. Dohm, of Cross Lanes, W.Va., started ninth in Friday’s 40-lap Night Before the Jackson and ran as high Full Story
Top 25: Owens back on top as T-Mac moves up
Posted: 09/22/2020, 09:30 am By Joshua JoinerTim McCreadie denied Jimmy Owens a $30,000 victory with his late charge in Saturday’s I-80 Nationals finale at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., but that wasn’t enough to deny Owens the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings. Owens Full Story
Fast Talk: T-Mac's status and I-80's busy weekend
Posted: 09/21/2020, 11:21 amWith autumn upon us, our roundtable considers the busy I-80 Nationals weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and reviews the rest of the action in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): With Tim Full Story
Notes: Babb christens big-track car at Fairbury
Posted: 09/17/2020, 06:41 am By Kevin KovacFAIRBURY, Ill. (Sept. 15) — Finishing fifth after rising up to lead laps 30-35 of Tuesday night’s 50-lap DIRTcar-sanctioned One for the Road at Fairbury Speedway wasn’t especially pleasing to Shannon Babb. The rest of his evening, Full Story
Column: Doubt creeps in amid J.D.'s tough season
Posted: 09/16/2020, 09:14 amJonathan Davenport famously called his 2019 season — a campaign in which he won 17 times and captured the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship — the “best-worse year” he had ever experienced. His repeated failures in crown Full Story
Top 25: Eldora weekend shakes up rankings
Posted: 09/15/2020, 09:35 am By Joshua JoinerFor the first time in four weeks, the top three drivers in the DirtonDirt.com power rankings remained steady, but there was plenty of movement elsewhere in the Top 25 poll presented by Bilstein Shocks following a busy crown jewel weekend Full Story
Fast Talk: Big E review of what might've been
Posted: 09/14/2020, 11:11 amOur roundtable reviews the eventful Eldora’s Intercontinental Classic and Jonathan Davenport's $50,000 payday along with other happenings in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): Do you have words of Full Story
Engine woes cost Weiss shot at Intercontinental
Posted: 09/14/2020, 07:53 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — Ricky Weiss didn’t lose Saturday’s Intercontinental Classic at Eldora Speedway on the final lap like the star-crossed Kyle Strickler. But in his mind, the DIRTcar-sanctioned invitational event’s $50,000 Full Story
Notes: One bad corner ruins Fergy's weekend
Posted: 09/13/2020, 06:32 pm By Joshua JoinerROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — The first 30 laps of Saturday’s 67-lap Intercontinental Classic feature at Eldora Speedway went almost exactly as Chris Ferguson had planned. Starting from the pole of the 67-lap race, Ferguson, 30, of Mount Full Story
Strickler comes to grips with stinging Eldora loss
Posted: 09/13/2020, 05:40 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — Kyle Strickler needed a few minutes to gather himself. No driver, after all, should be expected to jump out of their car after losing a $50,000 race to a blown tire on the final lap and immediately face the Full Story
McDowell awaits 'better days' as his streak ends
Posted: 09/13/2020, 05:31 am By Joshua JoinerROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — With eight laps remaining in Saturday’s Intercontinental Classic feature at Eldora Speedway, Dale McDowell found himself in a familiar position as he raced among the top five in the $50,000-to-win World 100 Full Story
Saturday’s Intercontinental heat lineups
Posted: 09/12/2020, 01:11 amROSSBURG, Ohio — Saturday’s heat lineups for the Intercontinental Classic based on points accrued in Thursday and Friday prelims (five-car inversion); Saturday’s 67-lap feature pays $50,000-to-win (complete Intercontinental Classic Full Story
Notes: On pole position, more heartbreak for Rice
Posted: 09/11/2020, 01:02 pmROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — After a season full of near-misses and heartbreaking defeats, Josh Rice thought his luck couldn’t get much worse. But during the first night of Eldora Speedway’s Intercontinental Classic on Thursday, it Full Story
