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• Fast Talk: Wrapping up 2015's PRI Trade Show

  Posted: 12/14/2015, 11:11 am

  Here’s the latest edition of Fast Talk, a DirtonDirt.com feature each Monday sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products. Staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Kevin Kovac gather weekly for a roundtable discussion about who’s hot, who’s Full Story

• PRI Friday: Notebook from trade show in Indy

  Posted: 12/11/2015, 06:50 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 11) — The Indiana Convention Center doors reopen Friday for the second of three days at the 28th annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where 40,000 attendees are expected to check out 1,200 companies, Full Story

• PRI Thursday: Notebook from trade show in Indy

  Posted: 12/10/2015, 06:34 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 10) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open Thursday for the first of three days at the 28th annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where 40,000 attendees are expected to check out 1,200 companies, Full Story

• Best of 2015: Top-five lists from busy season

  Posted: 12/09/2015, 05:41 am By Todd Turner

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2015 season, running the gamut from the top five performances to top five gaffes of the year (Best of 2015 index): Top Full Story

• Breakouts, newcomers, most improved for 2015

  Posted: 12/08/2015, 06:52 am By Todd Turner

  As part of its ongoing Best of 2015 coverage, DirtonDirt.com hands out awards to worthy Dirt Late Model drivers. We rank the top breakout drivers, top newcomers and most improved drivers and comeback drivers for the past season. This season's Full Story

• Davenport tops 2015's Driver of the Year chase

  Posted: 12/04/2015, 07:15 am By Alli Collis and Todd Turner

  With the 2015 racing season in the books, DirtonDirt.com takes a closer look at top five national drivers as well as regional and weekly Dirt Late Model competition. Check our video coverage for DirtonDirt.com’s Top Five Drivers overall, Full Story

• Column: Covert tackles two tracks in busy 2015

  Posted: 11/18/2015, 10:09 am

  Jason Covert of York Haven, Pa., is a guy who loves chasing special events at tracks across his home territory — it’s why, of course, he’s been one of the top Dirt Late Model racers from the Mid-Atlantic region for the past decade. This Full Story

• Globetrotting Schatz anxious for Wild West Shootout

  Posted: 11/12/2015, 07:33 am By Kevin Kovac

  Donny Schatz enjoys driving his Dirt Late Model in the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by Black Diamond-Club 29 Race Cars at USA Raceway so much, he’s flying in from the other side of the planet to compete in the event’s Full Story

• Top 25: Lanigan rises to No. 11 in final rankings

  Posted: 11/11/2015, 10:26 am By Alli Collis

  Finishing no worse than fourth in Bad Boy Buggies World Finals action at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., made the biggest jump in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Full Story

• Connecting with Bowyer, Lanigan off to quick start

  Posted: 11/06/2015, 06:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 5) — Darrell Lanigan’s debut with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Clint Bowyer’s Dirt Late Model team came a bit earlier than expected — but considering that the news of Lanigan’s hiring as Steve Francis’s Full Story

• Heckenast nails goals, eyes Charlotte wrapup

  Posted: 11/05/2015, 06:27 am By Alli Collis

  At the start of the 2015 season Frank Heckenast Jr. of Frankfort, Ill., had four main goals for the year. First, score his first career World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory. Next, follow up his tour triumph with his first career UMP Full Story

• Sprint ace Schatz eyes double duty at Charlotte

  Posted: 11/04/2015, 03:52 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Donny Schatz might be a sprint car superstar, but he sure loves Dirt Late Model racing. Nothing makes that fact more evident than this weekend’s Bad Boy Buggies World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte in Concord, N.C., where Schatz Full Story

• Quick Time: Prop bets at Charlotte's World Finals

  Posted: 11/04/2015, 12:34 pm By Andy Savary and Todd Turner

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

• Column: With 34 wins, Blair aims for big time

  Posted: 11/03/2015, 02:38 pm

  With 34 feature victories in 2015, Max Blair ranks as one of the winningest Dirt Late Model drivers in the country. His impressive season has, however, slipped slightly below the national radar — for reasons that aren’t difficult to Full Story

• Top 25: Owens enters top five in rankings

  Posted: 11/03/2015, 10:34 am By Alli Collis

  After notching his second career National 100 victory at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Ala., Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., joined the top five in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Full Story

• Scaled-back Smith ready for trip to National 100

  Posted: 10/29/2015, 06:17 am By Kevin Kovac

  The National 100 at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Ala., has been a big show on Clint Smith’s annual racing schedule for more than two decades. “We’ve been going to it for a long time,” said Smith, who this weekend Full Story

• Quick Time: Evaluating our stock portfolio

  Posted: 10/28/2015, 03:23 pm By Todd Turner and Andy Savary

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

• Column: Home-built car keys Floridian's success

  Posted: 10/27/2015, 12:32 pm

  Conventional wisdom says that Austin Kirkpatrick’s $4,000 victory in last Saturday night’s 40-lap Southern All Star Series feature at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala. — his first-ever Super Late Model triumph, coming in just Full Story

• Top 25: Marlar climbs two spots in rankings

  Posted: 10/27/2015, 10:23 am By Alli Collis

  After capturing a $15,000 victory in Saturday’s Coors Light Fall Classic at Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian, Miss., Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., climbed two spots in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Scott Bloomquist Full Story

• Fast Talk: Marlar, Madden and the National 100

  Posted: 10/26/2015, 09:31 am

  Here’s the latest edition of Fast Talk, a DirtonDirt.com feature each Monday sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products. Staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Kevin Kovac gather weekly for a roundtable discussion about who’s hot, who’s Full Story

• Notes: Madden stays hot with fifth Blue-Gray 100

  Posted: 10/25/2015, 12:19 pm By Gene Murphy

  GAFFNEY, S.C. (Oct. 24) — Chris Madden might’ve missed out on the busiest stretch of the racing season from mid-May through late August, but the 40-year-old driver from Gray Court, S.C., has been making up for lost time during a successful Full Story

• K-Rob hopes to hit high note at Sunday's Fall 50

  Posted: 10/24/2015, 02:45 pm By Alli Collis

  UNION, Ky. (Oct. 23) — Kent Robinson of Bloomington, Ind., will be the first to admit that his 2015 season hasn’t gone as well as he would have hoped. Coming off a strong 2014 season that included special event victories at Eldora Speedway Full Story

• Leaving Bowyer's team, Francis eyeing rebound

  Posted: 10/23/2015, 10:54 am By Kevin Kovac

  Steve Francis boiled down the end of his three-year tenure driving for NASCAR Sprint Cup star Clint Bowyer to a couple simple facts. “I wasn’t having the success I needed to have at this point in my career and he wasn’t having the Full Story

• Column: J.D. becomes 'accidental' Lucas champ

  Posted: 10/20/2015, 04:38 pm

  Jonathan Davenport’s 2015 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship season was anything but typical. It just might have been the most unexpected campaign in national touring series history. Despite all the talent possessed by the Full Story

• Top 25: Bloomquist claims top spot in poll

  Posted: 10/20/2015, 03:24 pm By Alli Collis

  After capturing a $100,000 victory in Saturday’s Dirt Track World Championship at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park, Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., unseated Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., to claim the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s Full Story