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• Previewing Midwest's regional Late Model tours

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 11:50 am By Kyle McFadden

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

• Column: Cody Overton riding high with No. 2

  Posted: 03/05/2025, 04:30 pm

  Cody Overton has several responses available to him when asked what’s triggered his improvement in Super Late Model competition through the first two-plus months of the 2025 season. A change to Longhorn Chassis? That’s a logical one. The Full Story

• Dirt Late Model racing's first five-figure payday

  Posted: 03/05/2025, 07:32 am By Bob Markos

  Longtime racing historian and DirtonDirt.com contributor Bob Markos digs into the 1975’s Cavalcade of Champions World Championship of Stock Cars in Michigan, the first five-figure payday preceding the modern era of Dirt Late Model racing: The Full Story

• Fast Talk: Winners (and novel chassis names?)

  Posted: 03/03/2025, 09:31 am

  March comes in (like a lamb?) as pockets of racing began to heat up and our weekly roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Discuss a weekend winner. Kevin Full Story

• Column: Earl Pearson Jr. moves on to second act

  Posted: 02/27/2025, 08:42 am

  For the last three decades, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks meant one thing to Earl Pearson Jr.: climbing in a Dirt Late Model and tossing it around a track. But this year was different for the 53-year-old racer from Jacksonville, Fla. He was Full Story

• Notes: Solid WoO start for Iowa's Gustin

  Posted: 02/26/2025, 11:58 am

  Ryan Gustin entered 2025 with new tools to take his performance to the next level, and he's off to his best start on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. The 34-year-old Marshalltown, Iowa, driver and his No. 19r squad weren’t far Full Story

• Reset of series, track changes for 2025

  Posted: 02/26/2025, 08:59 am

  DirtonDirt.com's recap of offseason changes for Late Model-focused series (with names, sponsors, etc.) and racetracks (those closing, those reopening, etc.) heading into the 2025 season (may be updated with further changes):   Touring Full Story

• Father's legacy stretches back to racing's pioneers

  Posted: 02/25/2025, 07:24 am By Todd Turner

  There was no doubt that Tommy Hickman’s funeral would have a significant connection to auto racing. After all, the longtime Soddy Daisy, Tenn., resident who died in January at the age of 76 learned about racing from his father, prepared Full Story

• Column: J.D.'s feat tops Speedweeks moments

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 05:07 pm

  As usual, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2025 produced plenty of standout performances. Not a single one was better than Jonathan Davenport’s unforgettable drive to victory in Saturday’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature Full Story

• Cockpit mods provide racers creature comforts

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 07:49 am By Todd Turner

  Compared to our ultracomfortable passenger cars with virtually every modern convenience at your fingertips, the cockpit of a Dirt Late Model is rather sparse. No cupholders, no turn signal levers, no GPS, no radio knobs, no climate controls, Full Story

• Grading top drivers with Speedweeks report card

  Posted: 02/18/2025, 07:35 am By Kyle McFadden

  Evaluating 15 drivers after Georgia-Florida Speedweeks — the top six in points on last year’s national tours and three wild cards picks — among events at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga., Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Putting a bow on a busy Speedweeks

  Posted: 02/17/2025, 11:08 am

  After a long stretch of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks wraps up with Volusia's Federated DIRTcar Nationals, our roundtable soaks it all in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length; Full Story

• Davenport's slide job rankles Pierce at Volusia

  Posted: 02/15/2025, 01:00 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 14) — As soon as Bobby Pierce parked his battered car in the pit area following a dismal 25th-place finish in Friday’s 35-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature at Volusia Speedway Park, he climbed from Full Story

• Brothers Overton Show gets high Volusia ratings

  Posted: 02/13/2025, 02:19 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 12) — The Overton brothers from Evans, Ga. — Brandon and Cody — stood side-by-side Wednesday in Volusia Speedway Park’s pit area, rehashing the first 1-2 finish of their careers in Super Late Model competition. Full Story

• Notes: Potomac promoter learning the business

  Posted: 02/13/2025, 10:35 am

  David Williams has plenty of experience with auto racing in being behind the wheel. But the seven-time Potomac Speedway champion knows that in becoming the promoter of the Budds Creek, Md., track in 2025 he'll need to learn a new side of Full Story

• I-55 track's new owner aims to continue legacy

  Posted: 02/12/2025, 02:07 pm By Todd Turner

  You won’t catch Josh Carroll counting sheep. If the 43-year-old Bethaldo, Ill., resident ever has trouble falling asleep, it’s usually because a dirt oval that he’s preparing for racing isn’t quite right, and he won’t snooze soundly Full Story

• Terbo's determined to give Volusia fair shake

  Posted: 02/12/2025, 08:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 11) — Can Volusia Speedway Park become Tyler Erb’s new George-Florida Speedweeks hot spot? Maybe. Maybe not. But Erb is definitely giving the half-mile oval outside Daytona Beach a proper chance to be his personal Full Story

• Volusia-savvy Hoffman starts his week off right

  Posted: 02/11/2025, 06:39 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 10) — Nick Hoffman knows Volusia Speedway Park. The open-wheel modified world has understood this fact for more than a decade. Now everyone in the Dirt Late Model division is finding out as well. | Complete Speedweeks Full Story

• Carpenter licks wounds after tough shot at Ocala

  Posted: 02/09/2025, 01:34 pm By Kevin Kovac

  OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 8) — Freddie Carpenter knows what it’s like to crash hard during Georgia-Florida Speedweeks. He would have preferred, however, to never do it again. The 54-year-old driver and chassis builder from Parkersburg, W.Va., Full Story

• Notes: Thornton starting to hit his stride at Ocala

  Posted: 02/08/2025, 03:55 pm By Kevin Kovac

  OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 7) — Ricky Thornton Jr. ascended to the top of this year’s Georgia-Florida Speedweek win list Friday at Ocala Speedway, but reaching the lofty position has been anything but a smooth ride. After rolling to a dominant Full Story

• East Bay vibes apparent with rugged Ocala action

  Posted: 02/07/2025, 01:34 pm By Kevin Kovac

  OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 6) — Amid a cacophony of race teams hammering out body panels and grinding away on bent components, Rocket Chassis house car owner Mark Richards stood in the Ocala Speedway pit area after Thursday’s 40-lap Wieland Full Story

• Column: J.D. poised for more Speedweeks wins

  Posted: 02/06/2025, 05:27 pm

  Four runner-up and one third-place finish through the first seven races of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2025 is a performance record most drivers would relish. But Jonathan Davenport? That’s a few too many close-but-no-cigar runs to satisfy Full Story

• Runner-up Ocala finish 'surreal' for Troutman

  Posted: 02/06/2025, 07:26 am By Kevin Kovac

  OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 5) — As a rising 19-year-old talent, Drake Troutman has a long list of career milestones still to achieve. His latest came Wednesday at Ocala Speedway. It wasn’t a victory for the youngster from Hyndman, Pa. He never Full Story

• All-Tech tests limits of Lucas Oil drivers, teams

  Posted: 02/02/2025, 07:54 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 1) — Only a few days into February and the most demanding stretch of the 2025 season might have already come and gone for Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series campaigners. It’s not hyperbole to say that the last Full Story

• McIntosh eyeing chase of Lucas Oil tour with Hicks

  Posted: 01/31/2025, 04:23 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 31) — Donald McIntosh raised some eyebrows Thursday at All-Tech Raceway on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series when he qualified fastest in his group and won his heat race over Tim McCreadie, Max Blair, Hudson Full Story