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• 2016 Late Model series and track champions

  Posted: 12/15/2016, 03:07 pm

  Series champions Region-by-region champions on Dirt Late Model series and racing organizations for 2016: National Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series - Scott Bloomquist World of Outlaws Late Model Series - Josh Richards Midwest American Full Story

• As artery heals, Landers eyes return by Knoxville

  Posted: 08/23/2016, 12:31 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Jared Landers didn’t get the news he wanted about his health and racing status after he was examined by doctors on Monday. But he he didn’t get the news he dreaded, either. While the 34-year-old driver from Batesville, Ark., wasn’t Full Story

• Fast Talk: Tire rules, pet peeves and more

  Posted: 08/22/2016, 02:41 pm

  Weather and a lighter schedule gave Dirt Late Model racing a chance to catch its breath during the dog days of summer, but our Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored roundtable forges ahead with this week’s five topics (edited for clarity Full Story

• Notes: New Mexico pilot hits stride in title chases

  Posted: 08/18/2016, 12:01 am By Alli Collis

  With a few months still remaining on the Dirt Late Model calendar, it’s already been a standout season for Jonathan Ortega of Las Cruces, N.M. After getting off to a slow start, the 24-year-old driver and team hit on something at the Full Story

• Quick Time: The steady efficiency of Richards

  Posted: 08/17/2016, 03:31 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner (with assistance from staffer Andy Savary) for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing Full Story

• Column: GRT hoping to unfurl banner once again

  Posted: 08/16/2016, 01:23 pm

  Joe Garrison’s GRT Race Cars shop in Greenbrier, Ark., isn’t the force it used to be in the Dirt Late Model game. He doesn’t need anyone to remind him of that fact. “This is a big circle,” the 57-year-old Garrison said recently Full Story

• Notes: Doomed restart zaps Florence contenders

  Posted: 08/15/2016, 03:23 pm By Alli Collis

  UNION, KY. (Aug. 13) — As Florence Speedway’s North-South 100 got under way Saturday night, polesitter Don O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., charged out to an early lead. Still looking for his first Lucas Oil Series victory of the 2016 Full Story

• Already special, Florence rises a notch for Pierces

  Posted: 08/15/2016, 10:41 am By Alli Collis

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 13) — Most race fans probably wouldn’t place Florence Speedway as a racetrack special to Bobby Pierce. After all, the Oakwood, Ill., driver cut his teeth on his home-state’s bullrings, picking up back-to-back UMP Full Story

• Midwestern drivers among Hall of Fame class

  Posted: 08/13/2016, 03:00 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 13) — Four championship-winning Midwestern drivers, including two who found success with NASCAR, are set to join standout Georgia pilot Fulmer Lance as inductees into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame on Saturday Full Story

• Column: Tire experiment inflated with unknowns

  Posted: 08/09/2016, 05:05 pm

  With every failed tire test that reverberates through Dirt Late Model racing, a specific suggestion for combating the scourge of illegally-altered tires inevitably is mentioned and picks up a little more steam. Rick Schwallie, the director Full Story

• Wells still on upswing after third at Cedar Lake

  Posted: 08/08/2016, 02:51 pm By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 6) — Eight days after riding out the worst crash of his Dirt Late Model career, Eric Wells put together a performance that was arguably one of his best ever. Yes, the 27-year-old driver from Hazard, Ky., does Full Story

• Long-distance pace sign of maturity for Richards

  Posted: 08/07/2016, 06:13 pm By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 6) — Mark Richards had visual proof of his son Josh’s development as a Dirt Late Model driver when the blue No. 1 that the younger Richards drove to a $50,000 victory in Saturday night’s 29th annual USA Nationals Full Story

• Quick Time: Checking the driver stock market

  Posted: 08/03/2016, 02:11 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner (with assistance from staffer Andy Savary) for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing Full Story

• Column: Blow to helmet hazy for healing Francis

  Posted: 08/02/2016, 01:44 pm

  There’s a black hole in Steve Francis’s memory of the July 15 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Ill. “I remember running the heat race,” Francis said two weeks later while competing in Full Story

• Notes: Fairbury success gratifying for Richards

  Posted: 08/01/2016, 05:47 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 30) — Josh Richards has won plenty of races in his sparkling Dirt Late Model career. Few, however, have been richer, or more significant, than his triumph in Saturday night’s 27th annual Prairie Dirt Classic at Full Story

• Double rollover ruins drivers' PDC weekend

  Posted: 08/01/2016, 02:10 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 30) — When Ryan Unzicker of El Paso, Ill., was asked about the incident with Tyler Erb of New Waverly, Texas, that sent both drivers’ cars into wild flips during Saturday’s Prairie Dirt Shootout non-qualifiers’ Full Story

• PDC bids of Casebolt, Pierce end with a thud

  Posted: 07/31/2016, 05:32 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 30) — They came. They saw. They didn’t conquer. Both Steve Casebolt of Richmond, Ind., and Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., appeared to be serious contenders to grab the $27,000 first-place prize in Saturday night’s Full Story

• Wells starts PDC at FALS with wild practice crash

  Posted: 07/30/2016, 12:35 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — As his race car began to bicycle onto its right side entering turn one during hot laps for Friday night’s Prairie Dirt Classic qualifying program at Fairbury American Legion Speedway, Eric Wells knew he was Full Story

• Davenport and Co. adopt Fairbury as 'home track'

  Posted: 07/28/2016, 01:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  After Kevin Rumley watched his driver, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., steer to a $40,000 triumph in last Saturday night’s Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., the well-known crew chief posed for pictures Full Story

• Notes: Illinois driver slows down, goes faster

  Posted: 07/28/2016, 08:58 am By Alli Collis

  It’d be difficult for Derek Chandler to forget the 2013 Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) American Legion Speedway. Facing a tough field of World of Outlaws competitors, the driver from nearby Pontiac, Ill., captured one of the Full Story

• Column: The first (UMP) tours of duty satisfying

  Posted: 07/26/2016, 10:07 am

  As the 2016 UMP DIRTcar Summernationals came to an end July 15-16 at Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio, Bob Gardner of East Peoria, Ill., sat on the back edge of his trailer in the pit area and provided clear-cut perspective on what a driver Full Story

• Fast Talk: J.D. faces foes along with high bar

  Posted: 07/25/2016, 12:42 pm

  Our weekly roundtable, sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products, considers Jonathan Davenport’s Silver Dollar Nationals victory at I-80 Speedway and catches up on a busy mid-summer weekend (edited for clarity and length): Why do Jonathan Full Story

• Restarts with B-Shepp rub Erb wrong at I-80

  Posted: 07/25/2016, 10:48 am By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 23) — Dennis Erb Jr. was likely the driver with the best chance of derailing Jonathan Davenport’s march to a $40,000 victory in Saturday night’s sixth annual Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway — which, Full Story

• Clanton primed to tackle Silver Dollar Nationals

  Posted: 07/21/2016, 06:16 pm By Kevin Kovac

  This weekend’s sixth annual Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., won’t mark Shane Clanton’s first visit to the 4/10-mile oval. He’s been there before — as a spectator. “Two years ago we drove down and Full Story

• Column: Weiss connects with Hill for next step

  Posted: 07/12/2016, 09:18 am

  The path leading to this year’s far-from-typical Dirt Late Model team of Vic Hill and Ricky Weiss — a well-known 52-year-old driver-engine builder from Morristown, Tenn., and an up-and-coming 27-year-old racer from Canada — began Full Story