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• Column: Gundaker diversifies racing roles

  Posted: 11/22/2023, 02:31 pm

  As the elder son of racetrack owners, Gordy Gundaker has spent all his adult years with an up-close view of the intricacies that come with promoting events. But has the 31-year-old from St. Charles, Mo., ever harbored visions of someday Full Story

• Column: DTWC preview of B-Shepp’s next step

  Posted: 10/26/2023, 05:12 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — The 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Speedway just might have been the first day in the rest of Brandon Sheppard’s racing life. Or at least he hopes it was. Unto itself, Sheppard, 30, of New Full Story

• Title drama gives Lucas hope on soggy weekend

  Posted: 10/22/2023, 07:21 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 21) — Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie has faced so many trials and tribulations while navigating the national tour’s 2023 schedule that nothing can surprise him anymore. | RaceWire “We’ve Full Story

• Fast Talk: Pierce’s WoO hot stretch heads south

  Posted: 10/09/2023, 11:00 am

  On a weekend when a sizzling Bobby Pierce swept World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action amid a flurry of other fall action, our roundtable gathers for discussion in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story

• Notes: Johnny Scott steps away from Late Models

  Posted: 10/05/2023, 12:21 pm

  Johnny Scott has relished his opportunity to drive a Dirt Late Model for the last few seasons. He’s decided, though, that he’s come to the end of the line with his action in the division — at least for the foreseeable future. The Full Story

• Teams push limits as tire builder evaluates issue

  Posted: 09/15/2023, 02:25 pm By Kevin Kovac

  KNOXVILLE, Iowa (Sept. 14) — Hoosier Tire dirt oval product manager Shanon Rush’s original schedule for the weekend had him working the WISSOTA 100 at I-94 EMR Speedway in Fergus Falls, Minn. He made a detour to Knoxville Raceway, though, Full Story

• Right-front tire blowouts draw scrutiny at Eldora

  Posted: 09/11/2023, 04:01 pm By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 9) — Right-front tire blowouts were a major story during the 53rd annual World 100 weekend at Eldora Speedway — perhaps not an epidemic-level issue with the vast majority of the 102 entered competitors not experiencing Full Story

• Dispatches: Giving dirt a rest, winning a car

  Posted: 09/04/2023, 07:44 am

  Among latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events over the Labor Day weekend, including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series and Ultimate Heart of America Series action: Joiner’s Full Story

• Davenport's stellar stretch ends prematurely

  Posted: 08/31/2023, 06:37 pm By Robert Holman

  As the K Promotions era comes to a close at Davenport (Iowa) Speedway, so too does one of the venerable track’s most lucrative and competitive seasons ever. Following Saturday’s $30,000-to-win World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series-sanctioned Full Story

• Shot at big time fading, Norris embraces family

  Posted: 08/26/2023, 07:12 am By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 25) — Michael Norris thinks about what could have been from time to time. Four years ago, when Clint Bowyer tabbed him as his team’s interim driver for the ailing Don O’Neal on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Silver lining to race’s move? Capable Huset’s

  Posted: 07/25/2023, 04:00 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BRANDON, S.D. — Joe Kosiski had plenty of time to think last week as he made the three-hour trek north from Omaha, Neb., to Huset’s Speedway. But the 65-year-old racer-turned-promoter probably needed that extended windshield time. Full Story

• Notes: Herald & Review special for Illinois racers

  Posted: 07/06/2023, 03:13 pm By Kyle McFadden

  SUMNER, Ill. — Like virtually every Dirt Late Model driver from Illinois, Bloomington native Jason Feger holds Thursday's Herald & Review 100 at Macon Speedway in high regard. | Complete Summer Nationals coverage “It’s not the biggest Full Story

• Column: Martin’s skills burnished by WoO run

  Posted: 07/06/2023, 08:45 am

  Logan Martin’s Rookie of the Year bid this season on the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series didn’t go the way he envisioned. But don’t call his national tour stint unsuccessful. It’s true that the 27-year-old driver from West Full Story

• Notes: West Virginian ramps up Super efforts

  Posted: 06/22/2023, 02:40 am By Kyle McFadden

  For the longest time, Ryan Payne’s definition of success never revolved around Dirt Late Model wins. Of the 32-year-old’s first nine years with his family-owned Crate team, he’d been perfectly content with a single feature victory Full Story

• Her marker's in hand for Eldora's big paychecks

  Posted: 06/09/2023, 06:21 pm By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Misha Geisert’s moment of truth comes late every evening when the checkered flag falls on one of Eldora Speedway’s marquee race programs. On opening night of Dream XXIX, she was ready for that moment, grabbing Full Story

• Eldora communication becomes a signal issue

  Posted: 06/09/2023, 07:30 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 8) — Crews heading to Eldora Speedway knew that communicating with drivers during competition was going to be a bit more difficult after track officials last month announced a ban on signal sticks for the Dream XXIX Full Story

• Notes: South Dakota rookie sets high goal

  Posted: 06/08/2023, 12:03 am By Kyle McFadden

  With his family’s business growing exponentially and requiring more attention to detail, Jayson Good’s parked his United States Modified Touring Series team and found something more central around home in Watertown, S.D. The 26-year-old’s Full Story

• Tough stretch in life of national tour director

  Posted: 06/05/2023, 04:05 pm By Kevin Kovac

  MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. — As rain poured down and lightning flashed in the skies Saturday night above West Virginia Motor Speedway, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie sat on the back edge of the national tour’s operations Full Story

• Notes: Facing terminal cancer, Missourian chases title

  Posted: 06/01/2023, 06:42 am By Kyle McFadden

  Capturing the POWRi Late Model Series championship is Todd McCoin’s greatest pursuit on the racetrack this year. Away from the racetrack, however, he’s in the throes of a battle that overshadows his racing. With stage-4 clear cell Full Story

• Notes: Canadian finds himself in good place

  Posted: 05/25/2023, 12:06 am By Kyle McFadden

  Two years ago, it appeared Jake Hooker’s Dirt Late Model career was over. The only engine in the Oungah, Ontario, driver’s family stable went to ruins at the beginning of 2021, and with racing’s rising costs, Hooker’s mom and dad, Full Story

• Notes: Late bloomer of Carolinas gets rolling

  Posted: 05/18/2023, 12:11 am By Kyle McFadden

  Mark Greene is the definition of a late bloomer in Dirt Late Model racing. At 48 years old, Greene’s just establishing himself as one of the frontrunners among the Limited and Crate classes around his Bessemer City, N.C., home, a reputation Full Story

• Column: Lull behind him, Zeigler eager for success

  Posted: 05/11/2023, 12:02 pm

  Mason Zeigler was hopeful that his return to the Rocket Chassis fold would pay immediate dividends, but could he have ever imagined it would be so absolutely, positively … perfect? After going winless in 2022 and through his first 16 Full Story

• Notes: With step back, Nebraskan hits stride

  Posted: 05/04/2023, 08:19 am By Kyle McFadden

  With a single victory through five years of Late Model competition, Zach Zeitner tried something different last season. After focusing on building a Super Late Model program since debuting in the division in 2017, the Bellevue, Neb., driver Full Story

• Notes: Duritsky rolling, but backflips can wait

  Posted: 04/20/2023, 07:21 am By Kyle McFadden

  Michael Duritsky is usually confident anywhere he unloads his family-owned Crate Late Model. At West Virginia’s Tyler County Speedway opener, though, some unfavorable circumstances prompted a hare-brained bet. “I told my crew guys, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Years roll on, but victories remain

  Posted: 04/17/2023, 10:45 am

  With 56-year-old Dale McDowell earning $100,000 in the XRSS Spring Thaw 100 at Volunteer among other special events, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and Full Story