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Column: Hard knocks for drivers at Golden Isles
Posted: 05/21/2020, 03:38 pmBrandon Overton had a bewildered look on his face as he sat on the back step of his team’s trailer following Wednesday’s 40-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Reopening Tour feature at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga. He Full Story
Notes: Sandwich leaves bad taste for duo at GIS
Posted: 05/20/2020, 02:06 pm By Kevin KovacBRUNSWICK, Ga. (May 19) — Brandon Overton thought he had a winning race car. Tim McCreadie had a similar feeling. Lap 23 of Tuesday night’s 40-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Reopening Tour feature at Golden Isles Speedway, however, Full Story
Mississippi upstart enjoys super opportunity
Posted: 05/20/2020, 12:35 pm By Robert HolmanCOLUMBUS, Miss. (May 15) — Racing’s return to Mississippi following a nearly two-month break didn’t necessarily go as planned for Spencer Hughes. The 19-year-old rising star from Meridian, Miss., had hoped a return to Magnolia Motor Full Story
Fast Talk: Can Owens continue his hot streak?
Posted: 05/18/2020, 09:47 amAfter a pair of Jimmy Owens victories in Mississippi and Tennessee, Dirt Late Model racing heads toward Memorial Day weekend as more events are added to the coronavirus-altered schedule (edited for clarity and length): Did we leave anything Full Story
Eager racers applaud Lucas as tour reopens
Posted: 05/18/2020, 07:41 am By Kevin KovacThe last Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event was contested so long ago, the circuit might as well be starting a new season when its six-race Reopening Tour launches Tuesday at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga. If the green flag Full Story
Notes: Crewman realizes difficulty of ‘turning left’
Posted: 05/16/2020, 07:27 am By Robert HolmanCOLUMBUS, Miss. (May 14) — For the past seven years, Coleby Richman has been turning wrenches on Dirt Late Models. On Friday, Richman, a crewman for driver Ashton Winger, shifted gears and climbed into the driver’s seat to compete in Full Story
Upheaval fuels Rocket team's two-series attack
Posted: 05/15/2020, 08:56 am By Kevin KovacMark Richards knew from the start that the ambitious, map-hopping travel plans he made for his Rocket Chassis house car team in May — detailed in a Wednesday video graphic on DirtonDirt.com — were tentative at best. Circumstances beyond Full Story
Column: Creative driver fashions his own chassis
Posted: 05/13/2020, 03:10 pmAustin Kirkpatrick isn’t a cookie-cutter kind of Dirt Late Model racer. Dreaming up and driving a car he’s built with his own hands is what gets his inner juices flowing. Of course, the 27-year-old Ocala, Fla., native possessing an Full Story
Quick Time: Combined national tour points success
Posted: 05/13/2020, 02:46 pmTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story
Thrash facing stiff test vs. rugged Mag field
Posted: 05/13/2020, 08:16 am By Robert HolmanDrivers planning their delayed launches to the season should look elsewhere than Magnolia Motor Speedway if they're trying to ease into competition. Chad Thrash anticipates a stout lineup for Thursday’s Magnolia Mayhem 40 at the Columbus, Full Story
Page’s niece finding her ‘Voice’ on NBC program
Posted: 05/11/2020, 02:20 pmWhile Michael Page rolls up victories in the Dirt Late Model ranks, his teenage niece is making a name for herself with success on an even bigger stage. Page, 37, of Douglasville, Ga., is anxiously following the rise of his niece Megan Full Story
Fast Talk: Navigating sport’s popup events
Posted: 05/11/2020, 10:34 amWhile Dirt Late Model continues its halting return to racing amid the coronavirus pandemic, our weekly roundtable sponsored by PitStopUSA.com considers the action and happenings around the sport (edited for clarity and length): Provide Full Story
Column: In new reality, Lucas Oil shifting gears
Posted: 05/07/2020, 08:59 amLucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie offered a simple answer when asked to describe the last several weeks. “I guess to put it in one word: difficult,” Schwallie said. Ever since racing, like much of everyday American Full Story
Fast Talk: Brave new race-streaming world
Posted: 05/04/2020, 07:42 amWith racing slowly returning as coronavirus restrictions are relaxed, our weekly roundtable considers the handful of events in our discussion presented by PitStopUSA.com (edited for clarity and length): What made Tri-County’s return Full Story
Quick Time: Invitationals provide new possibilities
Posted: 04/29/2020, 03:11 pmTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story
Fast Talk: Drafting key roles in dirt track racing
Posted: 04/27/2020, 08:23 amIn the wake of the NFL draft (done remotely, like most everything these days), our roundtable looks at "drafting" members of the Dirt Late Model world to fill various roles (edited for clarity and length): If you were starting a Late Model Full Story
Column: A tricky path to the return of dirt racing
Posted: 04/23/2020, 05:01 pmGet ready. Get set. And go? After more than a month of shuttered racetracks and silenced competition in the Dirt Late Model world because of the coronavirus pandemic, there are increasing indications that racing will begin to resume in Full Story
Stay Home: Brian Birkhofer’s best quotes
Posted: 04/20/2020, 04:57 pmBrian Birkhofer is one of Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest personalities, a guy who can rip off humorous quips and insightful quotes in rapid-fire fashion. Not surprisingly, the 48-year-old driver from Muscatine, Iowa, displayed his quick Full Story
Cockpit safety requires room for improvement
Posted: 04/21/2020, 10:14 am By Robert HolmanThere’s always room for improvement, and when in comes to making Dirt Late Model drivers safer, more room is the key. That's the belief of Randy LaJoie, the former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion-turned racing seat builder who is among Full Story
Column: New Clash chief focusing on big picture
Posted: 04/16/2020, 03:07 pmMarion Limbaugh didn’t assume ownership of the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series in December harboring any grandiose dreams of widespread expansion for the two-decade-old tour. His lifelong love of racing and nostalgia for the Clash Full Story
Fast Talk: Wish list for Late Model aficionados
Posted: 04/13/2020, 08:46 amIn a wish list edition of Fast Talk, our weekly roundtable considers what might have been — or what could be — if our every Dirt Late Model wish was granted (edited for clarity and length): If you could enjoy an evening in the grandstands Full Story
Column: Racers rev up parental skills amid crisis
Posted: 04/10/2020, 08:01 amShane Clanton knows how physically draining preparing and racing a Dirt Late Model at a high level can be. Now, though, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that has the sport shut down indefinitely and everyone effectively stuck at Full Story
Column: Doctor's sober view of racing amid crisis
Posted: 04/02/2020, 02:01 pmChip Stone hasn’t been a visible owner of a Dirt Late Model team since his run of seven-plus years fielding a successful, high-profile operation with veteran racer Randy Weaver — an effort that boasted Weaver, Jonathan Davenport, Brandon Full Story
Quick Time: Another round of guess the driver
Posted: 04/01/2020, 02:43 pmTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story
Dirt racing connections on pandemic's front line
Posted: 04/01/2020, 08:00 am By Kevin KovacMost in the Dirt Late Model world haven’t experienced the coronavirus pandemic beyond stay-at-home orders, social-distancing guidelines, media reports and, of course, the shutdown of racetracks as part of the widespread ban on mass gatherings. For Full Story
