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• Column: Eldora Million gets driver juices flowing

  Posted: 11/24/2021, 04:13 pm

  When news broke last week that The Eldora Million was returning 21 years after its historic inaugural running at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, there was an unmistakable sense of excitement across the Dirt Late Model landscape. And Full Story

• Fast Talk: Million reasons to love ‘22 race season

  Posted: 11/22/2021, 10:18 am

  As we prepare to carve turkeys and take at least one day off before getting back into holiday Thanksgiving weekend action, our roundtable discusses all the latest in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for Full Story

• Column: Title-winning Rocket team plots future

  Posted: 11/11/2021, 07:24 am

  There wasn’t the usual panache behind this year’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series championship march for Brandon Sheppard and the Rocket Chassis house car team. Both driver and team owner would agree that, while Full Story

• Fast Talk: New faces, roles and pet peeves

  Posted: 11/01/2021, 10:59 am

  As we hit the home stretch of the 2021 season and head toward Charlotte's World Finals, our roundtable considers various questions in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Detail Full Story

• Fast Talk: Winners, Lucky Dogs and more

  Posted: 10/04/2021, 10:30 am

  We roll into October with the special-event schedule as busy as ever as our roundtable considers all the happenings in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Discuss one of four Full Story

• Notes: Montanan gets stiff test in long trips

  Posted: 09/23/2021, 06:25 am By Robert Holman and Todd Turner

  In August, Rayce McCord faced three kinds of competition: the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series and geography. The 22-year-old Dirt Late Model racer from Molt, Mont., always battles Full Story

• Notes: Hall of Famer focuses on next chapter

  Posted: 08/25/2021, 06:26 am

  Keen-eyed fans at Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway’s Comp Cams Topless 100 might’ve noticed a new sponsor on the quarterpanel of Hall of Famer Billy Moyer’s No. 21. Moyer has pretty close ties to Lake Havasu City, Ariz.-based Hava Full Story

• Notes: Fuller's scouting report key for B-Shepp

  Posted: 08/20/2021, 12:59 pm By Kevin Kovac

  MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (Aug. 19) — Mark Richards needed some intel on Orange County Fair Speedway before Thursday's World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series event, so the Rocket Chassis house car owner looked to an old friend and Full Story

• Notes: USA Nationals hopes fizzle for Briggs

  Posted: 08/07/2021, 07:17 am By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 6) — A USA Nationals weekend that began so promisingly for Boom Briggs went sideways in the span of four hours Friday at Cedar Lake Speedway. As a result, the personable 50-year-old’s equipment was loaded up Full Story

• Notes: Indecisive restart costs Heckenast at I-80

  Posted: 07/21/2021, 08:17 am By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 20) — Frank Heckenast Jr. chalked up Tuesday’s opener of the Al Belt Custom Homes I-80 Nationals as a lesson on racing at I-80 Speedway. If only the 33-year-old from Frankfort, Ill., had more experience at the Full Story

• Column: Fresh-faced PCC team getting it done

  Posted: 07/01/2021, 09:11 am

  The driver is 20 years old. His two crewmen are even fresher-faced at the ages of 19 and 18. So much youth forming the nucleus of a high-profile Dirt Late Model team is a rare occurrence, but that’s exactly the combination PCC Motorsports Full Story

• Notes: Cold call leads to hot opportunity

  Posted: 06/17/2021, 08:05 am By Todd Turner

  In an era where cell phone users skeptically view the dreaded "unknown caller," Jordan Bauer is certainly glad he picked up when Brian Thompson dialed. Getting a ring from Thompson, who Bauer had met when he wrapped the graphics on a Thompson-owned Full Story

• Column: Overton's hard knocks lead to success

  Posted: 06/16/2021, 05:06 pm

  Brandon Overton didn’t end up on top of the Dirt Late Model world without taking his share of hard knocks. The 30-year-old star from Evans, Ga., experienced plenty of trials and tribulations on his way to a historic $273,000 sweep of Full Story

• Eldora’s tech wrinkle: Podium cars impounded

  Posted: 06/12/2021, 07:35 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) — The results of Saturday night’s Dirt Late Model Dream XXVI at Eldora Speedway will take a bit longer than usual to be finalized. During the drivers’ meeting before Friday evening’s preliminary program, Full Story

• Column: Moran success reinvigorates car owner

  Posted: 05/12/2021, 01:39 pm

  Tye Twarog can come up with only one way to describe what he’s experiencing this year as his driver, Devin Moran, continues to ring up lucrative, major victories in a manner entirely new to both men. “This is like a dream that’s Full Story

• Fast Talk: Weekend review, mom shoutouts

  Posted: 05/10/2021, 11:07 am

  DirtonDirt.com’s weekly roundtable presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids reviews the weekend’s action and singles out for recognition some Dirt Late Model moms (edited for clarity and length): Analyze the first-ever World of Outlaws Full Story

• Notes: Thornton steers revived car into top five

  Posted: 04/12/2021, 01:32 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BRISTOL, Tenn. (April 11) — Ricky Thornton Jr. stood on Bristol Motor Speedway’s pit road after Sunday’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Morton Building Late Model Series-sanctioned Bristol Bash finale holding his young son and flashing a Full Story

• Crashes show Bristol is ‘different animal’ on dirt

  Posted: 04/09/2021, 05:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BRISTOL, Tenn. (April 9) — Thursday’s World of Outlaws Bristol Bash open practice was supposed to be a typically quiet evening for competitors to shake down their cars on Bristol Motor Speedway’s imposing dirt-covered high banks. Full Story

• Notes: Louisiana driver utilizing vast resources

  Posted: 04/08/2021, 06:55 am By Todd Turner

  Jarret Stuckey knows better than to let precious resources go to waste. So as a young man who grew up rubbing elbows with some of Dirt Late Model racing's best drivers, working at the Black Diamond Chassis shop owned by his parents and Full Story

• Column: Former ‘enemy’ now Ferree's car owner

  Posted: 03/25/2021, 05:47 am

  Alex Ferree doesn’t remember much from his childhood years — he says his “memory just isn’t very good with that stuff” — but there’s one particular thing that still sticks out in the Saxonburg, Pa., resident’s 40-year-old Full Story

• Notes: Papich hot heading toward MLRA opener

  Posted: 03/16/2021, 01:57 pm

  Coming off his best-ever stretch of winter racing, there's no better time for Jason Papich to be looking for first career Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association victory. The 42-year-old Nipomo, Calif., driver, who scored a pair Full Story

• Fast Talk: Mr. Georgia, big shows, top women

  Posted: 03/15/2021, 11:43 am

  With more tracks opening and more tours getting into the action, our roundtable considers the most recent racing, news and happenings in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Should Full Story

• Column: Future is bright for O'Neal, Double Down

  Posted: 02/24/2021, 04:21 pm

  Roger Sellers can’t say he was surprised that the new driver of his Double Down Motorsports equipment, Hudson O’Neal, needed just two starts this season to reach victory lane. That’s how much confidence the car owner has in his 20-year-old Full Story

• Hickman puts business sense to use at Boyd's

  Posted: 01/29/2021, 08:34 am By Joshua Joiner

  On March 26, 2016 Riley Hickman won a Super Late Model race at Cleveland (Tenn.) Speedway in what would end up being the final laps he made around the track where he launched his racing career in 1999. Just a few weeks later the historic Full Story

• East Bay-like surface mystifies Volusia racers

  Posted: 01/16/2021, 12:08 pm By Joshua Joiner

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 16) — Racing at Volusia Speedway Park in mid-January, nearly a month earlier than the famed half-mile track typically hosts its Speedweeks action, isn’t the only major change for drivers participating in the Full Story