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• Video, apps critical for instant qualifying info

  Posted: 04/15/2025, 11:03 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. — As the final qualifier during Illini 100 weekend at Farmer City Raceway, Jason Feger wanted to have every scrap of information he could about previous time-trialers before his No. 25 tripped the clock. Wife Abby watched Full Story

• Fast Talk: Star drivers return to prominence

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 10:52 am

  DirtonDirt’s roundtable gathers to offer perspective on the resurgent weekends of Brandon Sheppard and Hudson O’Neal, debate big-money Crate Late Model races and consider Easter Sunday racing in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Full Story

• Nailing perfect balance, Dotson breaks WoO seal

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 01:42 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — Ethan Dotson knows his aggressive racing style has gotten him into trouble a few times early in his Late Model career. He’s working on it, he promises. "I just try to give it all I’ve got every time Full Story

• Column: Feger unlocks success in home region

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:05 pm

  Jason Feger doesn’t call it a comeback. Nor does the veteran from Bloomington, Ill., subscribe to the theory that, at 46, he’s a reborn Dirt Late Model driver. While there’s no doubt that the MARS Championship Series becoming an Full Story

• Dispatches: Overton on right path at Wheatland

  Posted: 04/11/2025, 11:33 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the second weekend in April, including action from Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., among other Super Late Model specials (most of the World of Outlaws Late Model Full Story

• Column: Eckert's vintage No. 24 impressive in '25

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 07:05 am

  While Rick Eckert might have the youthful face and thick hair of a man who isn’t aging, time does march on and he’s now 59 years old with the big 6-0 coming in December. He’s eclipsed four decades as a race car driver as well. But Full Story

• Notes: Virginian's Crate career starts with bang

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 06:30 am By Todd Turner

  Perfection is mostly unattainable in dirt racing, but after his first Crate Late Model outing March 22 at Winchester (Va.) Speedway, Cody Williams got a brief feeling of what it was like. He was 1-for-1 in the division and had just outrun Full Story

• Frontrunner scrape ruins Camaron Marlar's hopes

  Posted: 03/30/2025, 12:09 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 29) — This wasn’t how it was supposed to end for Camaron Marlar, but the 30-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver remained as upbeat as possible after a disappointing outcome in Saturday’s 49th annual Spring 50 at Florence Full Story

• Dispatches: Pierce repels RTJ, sweeps Maquoketa

  Posted: 03/31/2025, 01:08 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of March 28-29, including the MARS-sanctioned Nippy 50 at Maquoketa (Iowa) Speedway, Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action in Mississippi and a Schaeffer’s Full Story

• Column: MARS director makes career of racing

  Posted: 03/27/2025, 02:58 pm

  Jonathan Clayton can’t say for certain that he saw himself destined for a career as an official in the dirt track racing game. But when the 31-year-old director of the MARS Late Model Championship Series looks back at his early days attending Full Story

• Infinity, assistance helps Marlar find his groove

  Posted: 03/25/2025, 11:20 am By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — While Mike Marlar wasn’t among the weekend’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series winners, the 47-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver impressed with a pair of fourth-place runs at Ohio’s Atomic Speedway and Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping flurry of national touring action

  Posted: 03/24/2025, 10:56 am

  With both national tours in conflicting action for the first time of the season, our roundtable weighs in on the fallout in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick a topic Full Story

• Dispatches: Gustin adds to his Southern success

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 10:56 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of March 21-23, including the World of Outlaws Late Model Series-sanctioned weekend at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway: Way down South Ryan Gustin is a dirt tracker Full Story

• Thin crew played role in RTJ's Lucas Oil decision

  Posted: 03/21/2025, 08:03 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ALMA, Ohio (March 21) — Last season’s lengthy Dirt Late Model silly season will perhaps never be topped again in uncanny developments and sheer craziness. But if there’s anything 2025 has over 2024, it’s been speculation over the Full Story

• Column: Wells getting behind wheel of Infinity

  Posted: 03/20/2025, 05:40 pm

  Sure, Eric Wells misses the thrill that comes with driving a Dirt Late Model. He did it for a good 15 years — and more than half of that time on a national level — so he’s certainly had a void in his life since he ran his last race Full Story

• Notes: Swainsboro special for Cody Overton

  Posted: 03/20/2025, 08:06 am

  For the first time in his World of Outlaws Late Models career, Cody Overton is set to be the hometown hero. This weekend’s Battle at the Crossroads will mark the first World of Outlaws event at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway since 2012, several Full Story

• Lancaster standout rises to loftiest expectations

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 12:54 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Ben Watkins has become so good at Lancaster Motor Speedway that his reputation precedes him. The spotlight — and the pressure that comes with it — is now on him as soon as he rolls through the South Carolina track’s pit gate. | RaceWire But Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping Smoky Mountain action

  Posted: 03/17/2025, 10:33 am

  On a weather-hampered weekend with Bobby Pierce's capturing the first post-Speedweeks national touring event, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Discuss Full Story

• Rookie Adam traveling learning curve with WoO

  Posted: 03/14/2025, 03:30 pm By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — As a rookie on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, 19-year-old Daniel Adam knows he has a laundry list of things to improve on while tackling a national Dirt Late Model tour. No. 1 on Adam's list is Full Story

• Column: Dotson shines while owner gets his laps

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 03:18 pm

  Becoming an owner of a high-profile Dirt Late Model team with a hired gun driver has suited John Henderson well. He’s enjoying his new role as the leader of an operation that this year is tackling the World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full Story

• Northern, Western Late Model tour previews

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 01:57 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on more regional tours, two in the North and one in the West, for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, Full Story

• Decision time nears for national touring drivers

  Posted: 03/12/2025, 10:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  Decision time is approaching for a group of national touring series drivers. Whether it comes next week, next month or even later with be determined by the springtime weather, but it’s coming. With this weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Full Story

• Resurgent Weiss enjoys fulfilling victory at I-75

  Posted: 03/09/2025, 01:13 am By Todd Turner

  SWEETWATER, Tenn. (March 8) — Before Saturday’s Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series event at I-75 Raceway, crew member Tom Schramm had a modest request for his driver, Ricky Weiss.  “I told him, I said, 'I hate to ask you this. I need Full Story

• Previewing regional Late Model tours in the South

  Posted: 03/07/2025, 07:55 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on the South's Dirt Late Model tours for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, focus on changes for Full Story

• Riggs revitalized after big Clarksville weekend

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 05:33 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Jason Riggs didn’t need to be reminded about his lengthy absence from victory lane after he won Feb. 29’s 25-lap opener of the Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway. He’s had someone in his own home continually Full Story