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• Fast Talk: Drafting key roles in dirt track racing

  Posted: 04/27/2020, 08:23 am

  In the wake of the NFL draft (done remotely, like most everything these days), our roundtable looks at "drafting" members of the Dirt Late Model world to fill various roles (edited for clarity and length): If you were starting a Late Model Full Story

• Column: New Clash chief focusing on big picture

  Posted: 04/16/2020, 03:07 pm

  Marion Limbaugh didn’t assume ownership of the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series in December harboring any grandiose dreams of widespread expansion for the two-decade-old tour. His lifelong love of racing and nostalgia for the Clash Full Story

• Quick Time: Richest payday (but no trophy)

  Posted: 04/15/2020, 03:04 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story

• Notes: Show-Me hoping for reprieve after 2019

  Posted: 04/08/2020, 06:47 pm

  Lucas Oil Speedway already knows what it's like to lose its signature event. The Wheatland, Mo., oval would dearly like to avoid it happening for the second season in a row. With governmental restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic Full Story

• Practices aren't perfect, but give glimmer of hope

  Posted: 04/07/2020, 07:42 am By Robert Holman

  Where there’s a will, there’s a way. So goes the adage. And in the middle of a global pandemic, a number of racetrack promoters have found a way to allow racers to turn laps, albeit on a limited scale in practice sessions. When it Full Story

• Crisis presents uncharted territory for promoters

  Posted: 03/18/2020, 07:03 am

  The second in a series of stories this week regarding industry reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, track, series and race promoters discuss how they see the slowdown in racing will affect their businesses and short-track racing: Feeling Full Story

• Notes: Wheatland champ sticks with strategy

  Posted: 03/05/2020, 11:11 am

  For Johnny Fennewald, the key to winning three straight Lucas Oil Speedway championships in the Warsaw Auto Marine & RV Late Model division wasn’t focusing on points at the Wheatland, Mo., oval. "I don't ever think about it, because Full Story

• Column: Young Georgian adds experience to talent

  Posted: 03/04/2020, 05:57 pm

  Pearson Lee Williams could have easily returned from his first attempt at Georgia-Florida Speedweeks with his confidence and morale destroyed. Starting just two features in 13 tries — with both coming by emergency provisional — during Full Story

• Fast Talk: Best bet for Speedweeks first-timer?

  Posted: 01/27/2020, 11:22 am

  With Georgia-Florida Speedweeks getting underway Friday, our weekly roundtable rises to the occasion to preview one of the season's most exciting stretches of racing coming up (edited for clarity and length): With Speedweeks on the horizon, Full Story

• Simpson's rebound year on right track in Arizona

  Posted: 01/14/2020, 09:29 am By Todd Turner

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 12) — While trying to rebound from a subpar racing season, you need some breaks to go your way. Chris Simpson didn’t get a break at the outset of Sunday’s program at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway. In the second Full Story

• They said it: My favorite quotes from ’19 season

  Posted: 12/31/2019, 09:04 am By Kevin Kovac

  Another year, another voice recorder and reporter’s notebook filled with interviews of Dirt Late Model personalities. Here’s the most colorful and memorable quotes I gathered during the 2019 season. “You know the Chris Stapleton Full Story

• Updates from opening day of Indy's PRI show

  Posted: 12/12/2019, 05:24 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 12) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open Thursday for the first of three days at the 32nd annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 30,000 attendees are expected to check out 1,100 companies, Full Story

• Column: Bloomquist mourns ‘second father’

  Posted: 11/14/2019, 07:48 am

  Scott Bloomquist can still remember the first time he met Randy Sweet, the record-setting Michigan short-track asphalt racer and founder of Sweet Manufacturing who would eventually become one of Bloomquist’s closest confidants. The Hall Full Story

• Column: Wenger gets boost in Fairbury finale

  Posted: 10/16/2019, 04:51 pm

  Upon the completion of Saturday’s 60-lap FALS Frenzy presented by by Edelman Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Cooling at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway, McKay Wenger looked at the finishing order and could only shake his head in amazement over Full Story

• FloSports expands racing by acquiring DirtonDirt

  Posted: 09/10/2019, 09:01 am

  AUSTIN, Texas — FloSports, the innovator in live digital sports and original content, announced today the acquisition of DirtonDirt.com and all of the Bloomington, Ill.-based company’s owned and operated entities. The deal accelerates Full Story

• Notes: Maryland's Quade enjoying best season

  Posted: 08/08/2019, 01:15 am By Alli Collis

  Racing Late Models for more than a decade, Derick Quade finds himself in the midst of a career-best season. Piling up Limited victories at Potomac Speedway in Budds Creek, Md., and Winchester (Va.) Speedway, the 36-year-old Mechanicsville, Full Story

• Column: Marlar's season becomes flurry of action

  Posted: 07/31/2019, 05:43 pm

  This was supposed to be a rather calm season of competition for Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn. He announced last fall — as he was winning the 2018 World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series championship — that his car owner, Full Story

• Column: Pierce wields not-so-secret weapon

  Posted: 07/24/2019, 03:47 pm

  Like everyone else at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., last Saturday night, Bob Pierce watched his son, Bobby, sail around the 4/10-mile track’s ample cushion, lap after hard-driving lap, en route to a memorable $53,000 victory in the Full Story

• Notes: Focus on I-35 oval pays for Missourian

  Posted: 06/27/2019, 01:29 am By Alli Collis

  Tommy Cordray of Browning, Mo., has spent the last decade chasing the United Late Model Association weekly points championship, finishing runner-up in final ULMA standings last season. But in 2019, the 55-year-old Cordray has turned his Full Story

• Column: Rumley program clicking with T-Mac

  Posted: 06/26/2019, 04:12 pm

  Kevin Rumley can’t yet read Tim McCreadie like other drivers he’s worked with over the years. After all, the noted engineer and crew chief of his father Lee Roy’s iconic K&L Rumley No. 6 machine is a mere two months into working closely Full Story

• Notes: Shirley salvages visit to Tri-City

  Posted: 06/26/2019, 08:29 am By Todd Turner

  GRANITE CITY, Ill. — After winning three of the first four DIRTcar Summer Nationals features, Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., came to Tri-City Speedway Tuesday as the driver to beat. But for most of the night at the 3/8-mile oval, Shirley Full Story

• Notes: New York racer enjoying his best season

  Posted: 06/20/2019, 07:55 am By Alli Collis

  Admittedly, the transition from big-block modifieds to the Late Model division hasn’t always gone smoothly for Bob Dorman of Stockton, N.Y. With his father and crew chief Bill Dorman also a former big-block racer, it took the pair some Full Story

• 'Just another night at the races' in bizarre 5th heat

  Posted: 06/09/2019, 03:30 pm By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 8) — Scott Bloomquist was back at Eldora Speedway on Saturday night. Oh, was he ever back. The Hall of Fame driver’s return to competition after three months on the sidelines while recovering from injuries suffered Full Story

• Officials, staff remember Earl's inaugural Dream

  Posted: 06/01/2019, 04:18 am By Dustin Jarrett

  Everyone has a dream. We dream to get married and have a family. We dream to do things no one else has done. We dream to live long and prosper. | Complete Dream coverage Eldora Speedway founder Earl Baltes had a dream to host a $100,000-to-win Full Story

• Notes: New perspective boosts young Georgian

  Posted: 05/30/2019, 12:05 am By Alli Collis

  After spending a few years on the road with former World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Series competitor Joey Coulter and the Rum Rummer Racing team, Pearson Lee Williams of Dublin, Ga., is enjoying his first full season back behind the wheel Full Story