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• Notes: Young White outruns role models

  Posted: 04/06/2023, 12:46 pm By Kyle McFadden

  Racing on a regular basis at Wartburg (Tenn.) Speedway, Anthony White Jr. has two of Tennessee’s finest examples to follow in his father Anthony White Sr. and longtime racer Eddie King Jr. “They are the guys beat, and they are pretty Full Story

• Column: Mighty Macon’s allure attracts Kearns

  Posted: 04/06/2023, 12:33 am

  How did a born-and-bred California guy become the owner of Macon (Ill.) Speedway, the venerable fifth-mile, high-banked bullring that sits in the heart of the Midwest’s Dirt Late Model scene? Chris Kearns, the Golden Stater in question, Full Story

• Column: Farmer plays in the Davenport oval's dirt

  Posted: 03/23/2023, 06:40 am

  All the national attention swirling around Davenport (Iowa) Speedway, all the praise the quarter-mile oval has drawn for producing spectacular Dirt Late Model racing over the last few years, has certainly pleased its promoter Ricky Kay. Full Story

• Column: 'Tough as nails' Ranta gave all to racing

  Posted: 03/16/2023, 07:48 am

  Boiling down Arnie Ranta to his essence was never difficult. He was a Dirt Late Model guy to the bone, and he absolutely reveled in that fact. There was no ambiguity about the driving force inside Ranta, a former team owner and longtime Full Story

• Column: Dialogue key to role for WoO's Francis

  Posted: 03/02/2023, 08:18 am

  Four months and as many races into his tenure as World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series director, Steve Francis has largely settled into all the duties associated with the position. Two trips to Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. Full Story

• Column: Seawright duel wasn’t the first time

  Posted: 02/08/2023, 03:27 pm

  As the racing Seawright brothers — J.T., 22, of Oxford, Ala., and Sam, 19, of Rainsville, Ala. — were furiously battling back-and-forth for the lead in Jan. 28’s Valvoline Iron-Man Southern Series-sanctioned Cabin Fever feature at Full Story

• Fast Talk: The beat goes on at Speedweeks

  Posted: 02/06/2023, 07:51 am

  As Georgia-Florida Speedweeks continues beginning Monday at East Bay Raceway Park near Tampa, our roundtable considers all the happenings in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length; complete Full Story

• Hefty roster a challenge for WoO's newcomers

  Posted: 01/19/2023, 08:05 am By Kyle McFadden

  For Logan Martin, priority No. 1 of the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series season can be classified as both simple and cutthroat. “This is step one: to get through Volusia, get ourselves in the mains, and get ourselves in the top Full Story

• Column: Father and son reunite after breakup

  Posted: 12/16/2022, 06:06 pm

  Kyle Hammer and his father, Don, stood posing for a Dec. 3 photo in the convention center pit area of The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Mo., their arms draped across each other’s broad shoulders and smiles on their faces. This Full Story

• Best of 2022: Northern, Western state capsules

  Posted: 12/13/2022, 06:43 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2022 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 2022: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/12/2022, 12:16 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2022 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 2022 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Hoosier planning ‘hybrid’ transition to NLMT tires

  Posted: 12/11/2022, 07:50 am By Kyle McFadden

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 10) — Shanon Rush and Hoosier Racing Tire initially hoped to have the newly conceived National Late Model Tire ready to hit the market New Year’s Day and employed at national touring events from the onset without Full Story

• Updates from opening day of Indy's PRI show

  Posted: 12/08/2022, 05:42 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 8) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open at 9 a.m. Thursday for the first of three days at the 2022 Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 20,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• Column: Unique Dome always stirs excitement

  Posted: 11/30/2022, 06:25 pm

  I have to admit: the Castrol Gateway Dirt Nationals, which will be contested for the sixth time Dec. 1-3 at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Mo., isn’t my favorite event on the Dirt Late Model calendar. But I’ll also say Full Story

• Track title caps revival for Missouri veteran

  Posted: 11/30/2022, 09:17 am By Lyndal Scranton

  When Larry Ferris purchased a Capital Race Car before the 2021 season, the veteran Late Model driver from Nevada, Mo., felt he had reached a career crossroads. “It was a game-changer,” Ferris said of the new car. “To be honest, I Full Story

• Notes: Johnson, Stokes meet in victory lane

  Posted: 11/25/2022, 09:01 am

  COLUMBUS, Miss. — After Hall of Fame driver Ronnie Johnson’s dazzling $10,000 Crate Racin’ USA Series victory Nov. 19 at Magnolia Motor Speedway, he got a special request in victory lane from track promoter Johnny Stokes. “One Full Story

• Column: Rig fire another setback for Kyle Strickler

  Posted: 11/16/2022, 05:04 pm

  When Kyle Strickler’s phone rang in the overnight hours of Nov. 7, he groggily awakened from a deep sleep inside his home in Mooresville, N.C., and didn’t answer in time. Moments later, though, the 39-year-old driver’s car owner, Full Story

• Column: Erb deserving of his WoO crown

  Posted: 11/10/2022, 09:27 pm

  Before Dennis Erb Jr.’s longtime crew chief, Heather Lyne, would take questions about her driver’s 2022 World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series championship season, she had one point she wanted to make clear. Standing inside the fenders Full Story

• Column: T-Mac and Co. grind out another title

  Posted: 10/20/2022, 04:21 pm

  The moment of truth for Tim McCreadie’s pursuit of the 2022 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship came on Sept. 18 at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway. Engine trouble early in the Lucas Oil Knoxville Late Model Nationals left him with Full Story

• Notes: PPMS Crate standout giving it another shot

  Posted: 09/29/2022, 06:53 am By Kyle McFadden

  Ben Policz has a love-hate relationship with the Bill Hendren Memorial — this weekend’s RUSH Late Model Series event that accompanies the 37th Pittsburgher — at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. Because the Crate Late Models Full Story

• Notes: High point for South Dakota racer

  Posted: 09/15/2022, 09:29 am By Kyle McFadden

  Though Josh Skorczewski is the closest he’s ever been to winning his a WISSOTA championship, the identity of his season — or race program for that matter — doesn’t hinge on if he overcomes a 69-point deficit to Chad Becker in the Full Story

• Grooving, siping on Hoosier’s chopping block

  Posted: 09/09/2022, 11:07 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — While there may be a variety of opinions about 2023's limited-compound National Late Model Tire rule announced Thursday, there’s likely consensus among tire-preparing crew members about one particular detail revealed Full Story

• Slashing tire compounds, Hoosier touts simplicity

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 06:50 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 8) — It's no secret the mish-mash of Hoosier Tire compounds for Super Late Models often forced traveling teams to maintain a vast inventory of multiple-compound tires to compete from one track or organization to Full Story

• Notes: Port Royal standout eyes next step

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 03:19 am By Kyle McFadden

  Perhaps sometime in the future, Austin Berry will look back on this past Labor Day weekend as the catalyst that spurred he and his family team to the next level. Battling Gregg Satterlee — Pennsylvania’s winningest Super Late Model Full Story

• Column: ‘Perfect' fit of B-Shepp, Rocket1 ending

  Posted: 09/07/2022, 09:45 am

  Brandon Sheppard’s decision to end his spectacular six-year run driving Mark Richards’s Rocket Chassis house car at the conclusion of the 2022 season shocked the Dirt Late Model world, but the 29-year-old superstar from New Berlin, Full Story