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Notes: Unexpected title run for Mississippi racer
Posted: 08/22/2024, 07:46 am By Todd TurnerHeading into the racing season, chasing a points title wasn't a serious consideration for David Williamson, a third-year Crate Late Model racer from Seminary, Miss. After all, besides transitioning to a new Longhorn Chassis after after Full Story
Timeline: Scott Bloomquist's racing career
Posted: 08/21/2024, 12:30 pmSignificant dates, milestones and other noteworthy events in Hall of Fame driver Scott Bloomquist’s 45-year career: Nov. 14, 1963: Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Ron and Georgie Bloomquist. August 1980: Competes in first dirt racing event Full Story
Fast Talk: Bloomquist's enduring mark on sport
Posted: 08/19/2024, 10:39 amWith the Dirt Late Model world rocked by the death of legendary driver Scott Bloomquist, our roundtable discusses the driver many consider to the best of all time in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited Full Story
Notes: Salvaging fifth eases Thornton's mind
Posted: 08/18/2024, 10:07 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Ricky Thornton Jr. wasn’t particularly thrilled, of course, that a flat right-rear took him out of the lead on the 65th lap of Saturday’s Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway. Full Story
'Rewarding' first victory in Rocket1 for T-Mac
Posted: 08/18/2024, 07:41 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Nearly every team in Batesville Motor Speedway’s back pit area had either loaded up or already departed after Saturday’s slog of a Topless 100 program, but Tim McCreadie was in no such rush. Still wearing Full Story
Topless 100 foes recall Bloomquist's life, legacy
Posted: 08/17/2024, 01:46 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 16) — Like most folks in the Batesville Motor Speedway pits on Friday afternoon ahead of Topless 100 preliminary night, Mike Marlar cooped up inside his transporter to get away from the oppressive evening that Full Story
Column: No drivers said it quite like Bloomquist
Posted: 08/17/2024, 12:59 amScott Bloomquist won more than 600 races during his Hall of Fame career. I saw quite a few of them during my days as a writer. And you know what? Bloomquist could’ve won every race I covered and I would’ve been fine with it. I knew Full Story
Bloomquist dies in plane crash on Tennessee farm
Posted: 08/16/2024, 11:25 am By Kevin KovacHall of Famer Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., a larger than life figure considered one of the greatest drivers in Dirt Late Model racing history, died Friday morning in an accident while flying a vintage airplane on his family farm. Full Story
Column: Lively, festive North-South impresses
Posted: 08/15/2024, 12:59 pmI’ve always known that the Sunoco North-South 100 at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky., is a bonafide crown jewel event on the annual Dirt Late Model schedule. I didn’t know how big it truly was, however, until last weekend. The 42nd Full Story
Dispatches: Shirley streaks to WoO hat trick
Posted: 08/16/2024, 06:30 pmAmong latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing Aug. 14-20 including World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action and more (most stories focused on Batesville Motor Speedway’s Topless 100 on the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Notes: Young Georgian on fruitful path
Posted: 08/15/2024, 04:32 am By Todd TurnerFive-time World 100 winner Jonathan Davenport’s racing pedigree is legend in a certain part of the Southeast. The Blairsville, Ga., driver cut his teeth racing four-cylinders at Tri-County Racetrack in Brasstown, N.C., and how stands Full Story
Fast Facts: 32nd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100
Posted: 08/14/2024, 02:50 pm By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 16-17 Track: Batesville Motor Speedway (high-banked 3/8-mile dirt oval) Location: Locust Grove, Ark. Purse: $50,000-to-win Late Model feature Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and Comp Cams Super Dirt Series Streaming: Full Story
Fast Talk: Pierce's epic streak and quirky DQs
Posted: 08/12/2024, 12:05 pmWith Bobby Pierce streaking to yet another lucrative victory in Florence Speedway's Sunoco North-South 100, our roundtable looks at that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story
Notes: Florence fade as car (nor lead) will stick
Posted: 08/12/2024, 06:49 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — Mike Marlar changed the expected narrative of Saturday’s Sunoco North-South 100 when he shot by race-long pacesetter Bobby Pierce for the lead on lap 42 of the crown jewel event at Florence Speedway. But as strong Full Story
Another $75,000 lifts Pierce to loftier heights
Posted: 08/11/2024, 08:43 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — The enormity of what Bobby Pierce — still young and improving at just 27 years old — is achieving amid an amazing run of big-race success seemed to hit him after he won Saturday’s 42nd Sunoco North-South 100 Full Story
Notes: J.D. turns test run into $6,000 win
Posted: 08/10/2024, 03:06 pm By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Jonathan Davenport’s plan for Friday night’s second 25-lap North-South 100 semifeature at Florence Speedway went better than he ever could have imagined. While the 40-year-old star from Blairsville, Ga., started Full Story
Innate skill leads Pierce around Florence cushion
Posted: 08/10/2024, 08:47 am By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Does Bobby Pierce have a sixth sense that allows him to drive his race car around the cushion at Florence Speedway (and, well, a lot of other tracks) in such seemingly masterful fashion? After the 27-year-old star Full Story
Crew chief's positivity boosts Alberson's team
Posted: 08/09/2024, 05:55 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — After Garrett Alberson tripped the clock to top his time-trial group Thursday at Florence Speedway, the next lap didn’t go so well for the Las Cruces, N.M., driver. He knocked down the wall, trashing the car’s Full Story
Notes: Grudging entrant at the North-South 100
Posted: 08/09/2024, 11:01 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — R.J. Conley of Wheelersburg, Ohio, a 60-year-old driver looking for his first victory of the 2024 season, hasn’t made a habit of coming to Florence’s Sunoco North-South 100 in recent seasons. So when a pitside Full Story
Notes: No North-South sweep, but Pierce in mix
Posted: 08/09/2024, 02:01 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — The driver that swept through last year’s Sunoco North-South 100 action at Florence Speedway with three consecutive Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series wins won’t be sweeping this year’s crown jewel weekend, Full Story
Madden debuts with RTJ as Koehler crew chief
Posted: 08/08/2024, 05:57 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — Chris Madden’s perspective in Thursday’s technical inspection line at Florence Speedway was decidedly different than usual. Instead of sitting behind the wheel, the Gray Court, S.C., driver stood outside the Full Story
Dispatches: Peterson takes shot at WCS sweep
Posted: 08/08/2024, 07:50 amAmong latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the second weekend in August from action including the MARS Championship Series, Structural Buildings WISSOTA Challenge Series and more (most stories focused on the Lucas Full Story
Notes: Master plan in action for South Carolinian
Posted: 08/08/2024, 07:51 am By Todd TurnerBoiling down his goals, Devin Morgan of Greenville, S.C., isn't a lot different than many aspiring dirt racers. In the long term, the 22-year-old would love to compete in Super Late Models on a national tour. And in the short term, he keeps Full Story
Column: Kansas driver's relaxed racing approach
Posted: 08/07/2024, 09:05 pmChase Junghans spent most of January and February racing in the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout and Georgia-Florida Speedweeks and then … disappeared. For nearly five months the 31-year-old driver from Manhattan, Kan., was Full Story
Fast Facts: 42nd annual Sunoco Race Fuels North-South 100
Posted: 08/06/2024, 07:41 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug 8-10 (four 25-lap, $6,000-to-win split-field semifeatures Thursday and Friday and Saturday’s 100-lap, $75,000-to-win North-South 100) Track: Florence Speedway (semi-banked half-mile dirt oval) Location: Union, Ky. Purse: Full Story
