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• They said it: My favorite quotes from ’20 season

  Posted: 12/30/2020, 10:20 am By Kevin Kovac

  After another spent filling my reporter’s notebook and voice recorder with interviews of Dirt Late Model personalities, here’s my favorite quotes I gathered during an unprecedented 2020 season: “I might get picked on for it, but Full Story

• Column: Weeks calls it a career after virus bout

  Posted: 12/23/2020, 06:59 am

  Ricky Weeks conceded that he “almost quit” campaigning a Dirt Late Model some three years ago. He was closing in on 60 and his driving career was well into its fourth decade, so, perhaps not surprisingly, he had more than a few conversations Full Story

• Best of 2020: South's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/16/2020, 06:44 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Southern states (individually for states with at least five weekly Late Model tracks; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 coverage): Alabama Top Full Story

• Best of 2020: Northern, Western state capsules

  Posted: 12/15/2020, 07:04 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Northern and Western states (individually for states with at least five weekly Late Model tracks; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 Full Story

• Best of 2020: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/14/2020, 07:44 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Midwestern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Best of 2020: Top-five lists of unusual season

  Posted: 12/09/2020, 07:13 am By Kevin Kovac

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2020 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2020 Full Story

• Column: Rumley's death stirs Shaver's memories

  Posted: 12/03/2020, 01:14 pm

  The Nov. 22 passing of Hall of Fame car owner Lee Roy Rumley triggered an avalanche of memories in Steve Shaver. There were, of course, all the personal moments the Vienna, W.Va., driver experienced with the 84-year-old legend from Greensboro, Full Story

• Column: B-Shepp through eyes of Rocket crew

  Posted: 11/12/2020, 08:00 am

  One thing stood out to differentiate 2020 from previous campaigns for Brandon Sheppard and the Rocket Chassis house car team. “Coronavirus,” team owner Mark Richards said while leaning on a counter in his big blue trailer before the Full Story

• Notes: Blair's 'good' year falls shy of lofty standard

  Posted: 11/02/2020, 05:33 pm By Kevin Kovac

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (Oct. 31) — After Max Blair concluded his 2020 racing season with a runner-up finish in Saturday’s 40-lap Mid-Atlantic Championship Super Late Model event at Georgetown Speedway, he stood alongside his family-owned Full Story

• Six-figure season wrap would suit Richards fine

  Posted: 10/15/2020, 11:28 am By Joshua Joiner

  Like most of the top Dirt Late Model racers in the country, Josh Richards heads into this weekend’s 40th annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park with hopes of adding Full Story

• Column: No winners in murky tire-testing saga

  Posted: 10/14/2020, 04:03 pm

  Rick Eckert lost two Ultimate Northeast Super Late Model Series victories in mid-August to failed tire tests. Dan Angelicchio was stripped of one win on the regional tour in July for an identical infraction. Both drivers vehemently dispute Full Story

• Column: Father and son doing a lot with a little

  Posted: 09/30/2020, 05:02 pm

  David Scott had seemingly, and willingly, moved on to the next phase of his motorsports involvement. Following the 2017 season — at the age of 47 and after three decades wheeling race cars on the local and regional levels — the personable Full Story

• Notes: Chad Simpson glad to be back at Eldora

  Posted: 09/10/2020, 04:57 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) —  Chad Simpson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, is happy to return to Eldora Speedway for this weekend’s Intercontinental Classic —and not just because he’s excited to compete in a pair of $10,000-to-win preliminary Full Story

• Former racer's keen eye benefits Moyer Jr.

  Posted: 08/14/2020, 05:55 am By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Like many Dirt Late Model racers, Billy Moyer Jr. often finds himself working with young and eager but relatively inexperienced crew members while chasing Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and other events. So to Full Story

• Notes: Winning again at 72 after 25-year hiatus

  Posted: 08/13/2020, 08:46 am By Joshua Joiner

  When Jim McBee won the Limited Late Model feature at Pennsylvania’s Bedford Speedway on July 17, it may have been a surprise to everyone else at the track that night, but it was no surprise to him. Returning to the driver’s seat in Full Story

• Notes: Florida ace races in memory of best friend

  Posted: 08/06/2020, 06:27 am By Joshua Joiner

  With eight victories in 16 Crate Late Model races this year, Bo Slay is having by far the best season of his career. The 29-year-old Milton, Fla., driver has been nothing short of dominant in his local area with victories at three tracks, Full Story

• Notes: Steady setup puts Iowan in victory lane

  Posted: 07/09/2020, 04:13 am By Todd Turner

  Tinkering with shock changes and suspension setups provides virtually endless variables that can lead Dirt Late Model racers to get far away from a baseline. Plenty of racers have been there, IMCA racer Eric Pollard knows all too well. “We’ve Full Story

• Spectators recovering after scary Laurens accident

  Posted: 07/03/2020, 06:43 am By Robert Holman

  Two spectators were MedFlighted to Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital and two more transported to a local hospital after a Limited Late Model driven by Mike Kernells of Hodges, S.C., climbed the turn-four wall at Laurens Full Story

• ‘Heavy hearts’ at Wagner after star driver’s death

  Posted: 07/03/2020, 05:44 am By Todd Turner

  What was certain to be Wagner Speedway’s most celebrated weekend of the season with a Fourth of July doubleheader for touring Late Model racers has suddenly become what’s certainly the southeastern South Dakota track’s most mournful Full Story

• Notes: J.D. can’t turn tough Stream weekend around

  Posted: 06/08/2020, 07:54 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — Jonathan Davenport's preliminary nights at Eldora Speedway's Stream Invitational couldn't have gone much worse with a laundry list of troubling issues and finishes of 18th and 24th. But anyone who counted out the 36-year-old Full Story

• 'Fairy tale' victory for 11th-hour Stream entry

  Posted: 06/05/2020, 06:07 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — When Kyle Strickler awoke at his home in Mooresville, N.C., on Monday, he had no plans to spend his upcoming weekend at Eldora Speedway — which, of course, makes the fact that he found himself standing on the Full Story

• Notes: Stream could be rare huge payout in '20

  Posted: 06/04/2020, 04:01 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., enters the Dirt Late Model Stream Invitational as undoubtedly one of the hottest Dirt Late Model drivers in the nation. He’s clicking so well with his David Wells-owned Longhorn cars — Full Story

• Column: Confidence up for Big E-bound Thornton

  Posted: 06/03/2020, 05:13 pm

  Ricky Thornton Jr. is a bona fide superstar in the open-wheel modified ranks. The Dirt Late Model world thinks pretty highly of his talent, too, thanks to his numerous fine performances in limited starts over the past few years. But after Full Story

• Surreal scenario as Slack navigates Stream’s creation

  Posted: 06/03/2020, 07:23 am By Kevin Kovac

  Roger Slack is having a hard time coming to grips with the situation he and his staff at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, are facing in the lead-up to June 4-6’s Dirt Late Model Stream Invitational. “For us,” Eldora’s promoter Full Story

• Column: Mod ace bides time as sim racing star

  Posted: 04/29/2020, 03:43 pm

  Mike McKinney finally secured the chance to drive a Dirt Late Model he’s craved in mid-March. That opportunity is on hold for now, thanks to the sport's shutdown for the coronavirus pandemic. So now the 26-year-old open-wheel modified Full Story