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• Fast Talk: Inevitability of top-tier drivers

  Posted: 04/28/2025, 11:02 am

  After a busy weekend of national touring action — and more success for Bobby Pierce and Ricky Thornton Jr. — our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Are Full Story

• Notes: Ross Robinson's eventful return home

  Posted: 04/26/2025, 01:39 pm By Kevin Kovac

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — There’s no race Ross Robinson anticipates more on his annual racing schedule than the national touring series stop at his hometown’s Georgetown Speedway. A victory in the event would be an unqualified Full Story

• New tire will require South to adjust, adapt

  Posted: 04/22/2025, 11:21 am By Kyle McFadden

  While recent tire discussion for national touring drivers has revolved around the revised right-rear tire unveiled last week by Hoosier Racing Tire, for weekly and regional drivers in the Southeast the addition of a new compound from the Full Story

• Drivers prepare (and brace) for tire revision

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 02:27 pm By Kyle McFadden

  As a Hoosier Racing Tire dealer, racer Matt Cosner of Ridgeley, W.Va., knew changes were coming to the tire brand’s National Late Model Tire, the limited-compound program that governs many tours, including the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Hoosier's new right rear improves sidebite, wear

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 11:34 am By Kyle McFadden

  Hoosier Racing Tire on Monday will unveil a revised version of its right-rear tire for Dirt Late Models, a slightly wider tire that’s proven in testing to provide better sidebite, balance and wear. The Lakeville, Ind.-based tire manufacturer Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recap, perches and unheralded drivers

  Posted: 04/07/2025, 11:09 am

  After a weekend when a wide swath of never-ending rain wiped out most Super Late Model specials, our roundtable tries to dry out with a racing overview in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Column: MARS director makes career of racing

  Posted: 03/27/2025, 02:58 pm

  Jonathan Clayton can’t say for certain that he saw himself destined for a career as an official in the dirt track racing game. But when the 31-year-old director of the MARS Late Model Championship Series looks back at his early days attending Full Story

• Notes: Swainsboro special for Cody Overton

  Posted: 03/20/2025, 08:06 am

  For the first time in his World of Outlaws Late Models career, Cody Overton is set to be the hometown hero. This weekend’s Battle at the Crossroads will mark the first World of Outlaws event at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway since 2012, several Full Story

• Column: Dotson shines while owner gets his laps

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 03:18 pm

  Becoming an owner of a high-profile Dirt Late Model team with a hired gun driver has suited John Henderson well. He’s enjoying his new role as the leader of an operation that this year is tackling the World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full Story

• Previewing regional Late Model tours in the South

  Posted: 03/07/2025, 07:55 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on the South's Dirt Late Model tours for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, focus on changes for Full Story

• Notes: Busy Troutman eager to make most of chance

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 01:49 pm

  At the end of the 2024 season, all Drake Troutman was looking for was a chance. The former modified standout had what he needed to get up and down the road with his own No. 7 Late Model team, but he was still in search of an opportunity 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

• RTJ's crew gels, thrashes for $10,000 All-Tech win

  Posted: 01/31/2025, 12:26 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 30) — Ricky Thornton Jr. and his Koehler Motorsports No. 20rt team certainly would’ve liked a smoother start to their 2025 season, but there’s something to be said about how they found victory lane Thursday Full Story

• Column: Plans evolve for final MLRA tour champ

  Posted: 01/17/2025, 02:40 pm

  Chad Simpson knows how to win regional touring series titles. He’s been better at it than just about any Dirt Late Model driver in the country since 2007, racking up 14 such points championships across four circuits. But there’s Full Story

• Schedule, track-by-track capsules for Speedweeks

  Posted: 01/15/2025, 09:56 am By Aaron Clay

  The 2025 Georgia-Florida Speedweeks race-by-race schedule for Super Late Model events three tracks apiece in Georgia and Florida. Action runs Jan. 17 through Feb. 15 at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga.; Volusia Speedway Park in Full Story

• Is Pierce destined for another 30-win season?

  Posted: 01/07/2025, 07:05 am By Todd Turner

  VADO, N.M. (Jan. 5) — Surveying the progress of his burgeoning Dirt Late Model career, Bobby Pierce makes a point of trying to exceed his accomplishments from the previous season. The 28-year-old from Oakwood, Ill., can only blame himself Full Story

• Notes: Former Alabama driver Smith dies at 69

  Posted: 12/20/2024, 11:49 am

  Longtime Dirt Late Model racer and former North Alabama Speedway promoter Noland Smith of Ford City, Ala., died Tuesday. He was 69. The driver often called “Rollin’ Noland” while racing at tracks in Alabama and beyond was a steady Full Story

• Best of 2024: Southern state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/18/2024, 01:04 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Southern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2024 coverage): Alabama Top Full Story

• Best of 2024: Northern and Western state caps

  Posted: 12/17/2024, 06:57 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Northern (including Canada) and Western states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best Full Story

• Best of 2024: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/16/2024, 04:24 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Midwestern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2024 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Thursday's updates from Indy's PRI Trade Show

  Posted: 12/12/2024, 05:38 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 12) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open at 9 a.m. Thursday for the first of three days at 2024’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• Notes: Half-mile VMS oval won't open in '25

  Posted: 12/05/2024, 10:07 pm

  Citing financial struggles, Virginia Motor Speedway today announced to cease operations at the half-mile oval after 25 years under Sawyer family ownership. Inflation and the difficult financial climate since the pandemic has affected not Full Story

• Column: Overton set for team and Dome debuts

  Posted: 12/04/2024, 05:33 pm

  Brandon Overton realizes that the greater Dirt Late Model world doesn’t see the bump-and-grind racing of the Castrol Gateway Dirt Nationals as being in his wheelhouse. But he also understands that many people don’t think driving for Full Story

• Column: MLRA director sees void left by closure

  Posted: 11/21/2024, 07:06 pm

  Monday’s announcement that the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Association series was dissolving shocked virtually everyone in the industry. Ernie Leftwich counts himself among that group. While Leftwich has been the director of the regional Full Story