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Stovall focused on repeating banner year
Posted: 02/04/2016, 10:48 am By Lyndal ScrantonJesse Stovall knows stock-car racing is a what-have-you-done-lately sport, where past accomplishment does not always predict future performance. So after the best season of his Late Model career, when Stovall won 19 features and earned Full Story
Top 25: J.D. starts '16 where he ended 2015
Posted: 02/02/2016, 07:27 am By Andy SavaryBeginning 2016 where he left off last November, Jonathan Davenport has been chosen as a unanimous No. 1 in DirtonDirt.com’s preseason Top 25 power rankings. With three victories already on his resume this season, the Blairsville, Ga., Full Story
Fast Talk: Who? What? Speedweeks breakdown
Posted: 02/01/2016, 12:27 amOur roundtable looks to Georgia-Florida Speedweeks in this version of the Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk, answering the basics of who, what, where, why and how (edited for clarity and length; complete Speedweeks coverage): Who Full Story
Speedweeks preview? Ask the panel of experts
Posted: 01/29/2016, 12:01 amFebruary's Georgia-Florida Speedweeks for Super Late Models kick off next week in Georgia with 19 races at six tracks, two in Georgia and four in Florida. DirtonDirt.com asked staffers and several contributing panelists several questions Full Story
Schedule, track-by-track capsules for Speedweeks
Posted: 01/28/2016, 02:04 pmThe 2016 Georgia-Florida Speedweeks race-by-race schedule for Super Late Model events at six dirt tracks, two in Georgia and four in Florida. Action runs from Feb. 4-20 at Golden Isles Speedway in Waynesville, Ga.; North Florida Speedway Full Story
Column: Pearson poised to get car back on track
Posted: 01/27/2016, 05:27 amLast year Earl Pearson Jr. and Dunn-Benson Motorsports dived into Georgia-Florida Speedweeks barely ready for the first green flag of the season after a whirlwind two-month span spent building a team from scratch but nonetheless came out Full Story
Handicapping title chase with the Lucas Oil Series
Posted: 01/26/2016, 01:13 pm By Andy SavaryHandicapping the chase for the 2016 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship, which pays $75,000 to the driver accumulating the most points over the season-long campaign that starts Feb. 4 at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick, Ga.; Full Story
Fast Talk: Big-picture perspective of '16 season
Posted: 01/25/2016, 11:43 amThis week's panelists take a big-picture look at the 2016 season in our Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk segment (edited for clarity and length): What’s your biggest question looking ahead to 2016? Michael Rigsby, DirtonDirt.com Full Story
Frequent-flying Crate racer logs miles, wins
Posted: 01/22/2016, 11:26 am By Alli CollisFor most weekly racers, a trip to the races typically means a short drive to enjoy action as a weekend warrior. It's a little more complicated for Pasadena, Md., native Darin Henderson. While his job keeps him in Michigan during the week, Full Story
Column: After tough '15, Shirley's second chance
Posted: 01/20/2016, 09:55 amIt’s nearly the end of January, and Brian Shirley is hard at work in his Chatham, Ill., shop with two full-time crew members preparing fresh, shiny race cars for an assault on February’s Georgia-Florida Speedweeks. He can be forgiven, Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing the Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/18/2016, 12:21 pmDirtonDirt.com staffers review the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by Black Diamond-Club 29 Race Cars in the Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk (edited for clarity and length): Was Arizona merely a sneak preview Full Story
Arizona ace shines in Tucson, hopes for more
Posted: 01/18/2016, 09:56 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 17) — The competitive Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at USA Raceway drew some of the most talented drivers in the country, most of whom turned thousands of laps driving Dirt Late Models last season. | Complete Full Story
Rule-bending at Tucson reaches a tipping point
Posted: 01/17/2016, 09:05 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 16) — Rule-bending that typically happens at unsanctioned Dirt Late Model events doesn’t draw much notice when cars are running back in the back. Don O’Neal’s virtually solid left sailpanel — illegal because Full Story
Notes: Passport-weary Schatz shines in Tucson
Posted: 01/14/2016, 09:52 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — After a whirlwind trip from Australia to his home in North Dakota and finally to Arizona, then a busy midweek night of action at USA Raceway’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, Donny Schatz earned Thursday's Full Story
Column: Bernheisel's path to a lengthy career
Posted: 01/13/2016, 01:11 pmJim Bernheisel doesn’t deny that his long involvement in the Dirt Late Model world — almost 40 years as a driver and nearly as many as a parts business owner and chassis builder — is somewhat of a surprise. Geography, after all, presented Full Story
Alberson making major strides where it all began
Posted: 01/12/2016, 12:03 pm By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. — Garrett Alberson’s first visit to USA Raceway's Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout five years ago wasn’t pretty. “We were just awful,” the Las Cruces, N.M., native recalled Sunday in the pit area of the 3/8-mile Full Story
Fast Talk: Weighing the first weekend in Tucson
Posted: 01/11/2016, 12:14 pmDirtonDirt.com staffers consider winter events in Tucson and Talladega in Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk (edited for clarity and length): Fresh off a season where the scales played a key part in a six-figure payoff, has 2016 Full Story
Practice makes perfect? Not when Tucson's wet
Posted: 01/09/2016, 12:33 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 8) — The arid Southwest was anything but Friday evening at USA Raceway with overcast skies and off-and-on drizzle plaguing practice night for the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. | Complete Tucson Full Story
Wild West Shootout practice roster
Posted: 01/08/2016, 10:38 pmTUCSON, Ariz. — The practice roster Friday at USA Raceway preceding the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, the six-race miniseries that launches Saturday at the 3/8-mile oval. More than 50 cars are on the grounds: Late Full Story
Hometowners eye Wild West Shootout success
Posted: 01/07/2016, 01:48 pm By Kevin KovacR.C. Whitwell and Jake O’Neil spent the 2015 season racing halfway across the country on the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association tour, so the Tucson, Ariz., drivers keenly understand the significance of the Keyser Manufacturing Full Story
Notes: Mental focus part of preparation for Tucson
Posted: 01/07/2016, 08:11 amClay Daly of Watsonville, Calif., is one of several Western state drivers making the trip to USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., for the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. Closing 2015 with six victories, Daly is looking forward Full Story
Column: Talented Texan picks Late Model spots
Posted: 01/06/2016, 09:43 amLast year’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., revealed to Rodney Sanders that he could compete at a high level in the Dirt Late Model division. Then Sanders’s ensuing full-fendered excursion — Full Story
Fast Talk: Decorations stashed, we look to Tucson
Posted: 01/04/2016, 11:14 amIn our first Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk discussion of 2016, staffers emerge from the holiday break by looking toward Jan. 9-17’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz. (edited for clarity Full Story
After move, Chupp still helping drivers succeed
Posted: 12/30/2015, 08:50 am By Kevin KovacRandle Chupp turned 50 in August and hasn't run anything approaching a regular Dirt Late Model schedule in more than five years, but he still identifies as a driver. “I ain’t never quit racing,” Chupp said, “and I’m never gonna Full Story
Dust settling after rule changes on Lucas tour
Posted: 12/24/2015, 09:37 am By Kevin KovacThe consensus is that Jonathan Davenport and his crew chief Kevin Rumley changed Dirt Late Model racing with their historic 2015 season highlighted by a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship, five crown jewel victories and nearly Full Story
