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• Fresh off '07, Anderson rolling again in Arizona

  Posted: 01/19/2008, 09:39 pm By Todd Turner

  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 19) — Coming off an impressive 14-victory season, John Anderson didn't want to wait too many races to get rolling again in 2008. Four races seems about right. Taking the lead from Terry Phillips on the 14th Full Story

• Notebook: Five tracks plan partial IMCA slate

  Posted: 01/19/2008, 01:21 pm From series and track reports

  IMCA Sunoco Late Models will run partial weekly schedules at five Iowa race tracks in 2008. National and state points will be awarded at all 15 of those events, at Dubuque Speedway, Farley Speedway, Hancock County Speedway in Britt, Lee Full Story

• Top WoO crew chief anxious for 2008 travels

  Posted: 01/19/2008, 12:40 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Brad Baum was in near total shock when he received the big news from his boss Chub Frank. But as hard as it was for him to believe, it was true. Baum had been announced as the winner of the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Crew Chief Full Story

• Notebook: Clash adds Chase-style playoffs

  Posted: 01/17/2008, 03:39 pm From series reports

  The Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series has taken a page from the NASCAR rulebook and added a chase-style playoff at the end of the 23-race 2008 season. The stretch of Championship Series events is made up of five races paying at least Full Story

• Car battered, Drake bemoans passing points

  Posted: 01/17/2008, 01:44 pm By Todd Turner

  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 17) — Steve Drake of San Luis Obispo, Calif., won Central Arizona Raceway's inaugural winter miniseries in 2001, but his 2008 visit to the Wild West Shootout didn't get off to a good start. Starting near Full Story

• High-running Kirchoff sneaks around Sullivan

  Posted: 01/17/2008, 12:38 am By Todd Turner

  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 16) — Eddie Kirchoff never met a cushion he didn't like. With most of Central Arizona Raceway's Wild West Shootout action held during the daytime, the track surface hasn't provided the moist conditions necessary Full Story

• Engine swap? No problem for red-hot Mars

  Posted: 01/13/2008, 10:59 pm By Todd Turner

  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — With yet another victory in a Jess Anderson-owned car, Jimmy Mars is having no problems taming the Wild West. The Menomonie, Wis., polesitter dominated all 35 laps at Central Arizona Raceway for a $5,000 Full Story

• Notebook: Glaser just misses historic victory

  Posted: 01/13/2008, 11:27 am By Todd Turner

  CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 12) — After losing his power steering during a lap-two caution at Central Arizona Raceway, Trevor Glaser of Tangent, Ore., wasn't having the easiest time guiding his new Trak-Star Race Car during the first Full Story

• Bray captures crate feature at Talladega

  Posted: 01/07/2008, 10:23 pm By Roby Helm

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 6) — Royce Bray of Hull, Ga., won the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series 2008 season opener and the $3,000 top prize in the 40-lap main event at Talladega Short Track's Ice Bowl XVII. Starting third, Bray Full Story

• Notebook: SUPR expands spec-engine options

  Posted: 01/04/2008, 11:13 am From series and staff reports

  The Louisiana-based Dirt Late Model series that introduced the lower-cost spec engine 15 years ago has announced an additional spec engine option intended to reduce the costs of the powerplants and make it easier for officials to inspect. Spec Full Story

• North-South 100 added to Lucas Oil schedule

  Posted: 01/01/2008, 12:05 pm From series and staff reports

  The North-South 100, one of the richest unsanctioned events in Dirt Late Model racing, has been added to the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule for 2008, the series announced. The $50,000-to-win event, tabbed the Sunoco North-South Full Story

• Spreading cheer (and gifts) to dirt racing folks

  Posted: 12/24/2007, 11:49 am

  It's that time of year when Santa Claus loads up his crate-powered sleigh and takes a swing through the Dirt Late Model world. A few gifts we'd like to see under Christmas trees here and there: To Rick Eckert: A return to success for the Full Story

• Faltering leaders give Owens East Bay win

  Posted: 12/09/2007, 02:13 pm By Roby Helm

  GIBSONTON, Fla. (Dec. 7-8) — Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., wrapped up his spectacular 2007 season by winning his second Crate Racin’ USA World Championship Race at East Bay Raceway Park. Owens, who won the inaugural event in Full Story

• Francis taps T-Mac to run 5 big-bucks races in '08

  Posted: 12/09/2007, 05:09 am By Michael Rigsby and Todd Turner

  ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 8) — Tim McCreadie, the 2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion, will drive the car of the 2007 WoO champion in five major Dirt Late Model events in 2008. McCreadie, whose asphalt schedule as a development Full Story

• Goal-driven Richards eyes more progress

  Posted: 12/03/2007, 04:58 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Josh Richards set some personal goals for his 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series season — and he came within a hair of achieving them all. At least four WoO feature victories? Check. Victories at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway and Full Story

• Godsey nabs invitational victory at Columbus

  Posted: 11/28/2007, 10:10 am By Roby Helm

  COLUMBUS, Miss. (Nov. 23) — Steve Godsey of Bedford, Ind., stuck with the high road to win the second annual Crate Racin’ USA Fall Nationals Invitational Race at Columbus Speedway. Godsey battled wheel-to-wheel for most of the Full Story

• StormPay.com ironman plans to hit tour in 2008

  Posted: 11/20/2007, 03:11 pm By Roby Helm

  It's fitting that Frank Wilson's has a saw blade adorning the side of his orange No. 72 crate engine Dirt Late Model. The Milton, Fla., driver cut through the StormPay.com Weekly Racing Series South Region competition like the buzzsaw en Full Story

• 6-time winner McDowell earns pole for Gobbler

  Posted: 11/17/2007, 08:17 pm By Todd Turner

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (Nov. 17) — Dale McDowell of Rossville, Ga., is going for seventh heaven at Cleveland Speedway. The six-time winner of the Gobbler Classic at Cleveland Speedway was fastest among 43 qualifiers for the 19th annual Full Story

• Knoxville Raceway boosts Late Model Nationals purse

  Posted: 11/16/2007, 09:40 am From track reports

  The Knoxville Late Model Nationals will be even more lucrative in 2008. The track has announced a purse increase of more than $40,000 for the fifth version of Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway's biggest Late Model event. The 2008 race, scheduled Full Story

• Late pass gives Owens Blue-Gray 100 (updated)

  Posted: 11/11/2007, 06:26 pm By Todd Turner

  GAFFNEY, S.C. (Nov. 11) — Jimmy Owens stalked leader Chris Madden for more than 70 laps at Cherokee Speedway, turning up the heat as the Blue-Gray 100 wound down. So when a lapped car broke Madden's momentum with two laps remaining, Full Story

• After reprieve, Farmer City plans $20,000 race

  Posted: 11/08/2007, 03:28 pm From staff and other reports

  Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway recently received a two-year reprieve from plans to shutter the track following the 2008 season. Now the track is making plans for the biggest event in the history of the track, and perhaps the richest Dirt Late Full Story

• For Francis, no more 'When will you win title?'

  Posted: 11/07/2007, 02:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  A weight as heavy as a 2,300-pound dirt Late Model is now off Steve Francis’s shoulders. Finally, after two heart-breaking close calls, the Kentucky Colonel won the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship. “I don’t Full Story

• Moran fights off Francis, completes Lowe's victory

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 08:23 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — Hall of Fame driver Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, has raced long enough to know that losing the lead doesn't always mean losing the race. "When somebody passes you (might say), you know, 'I'm beat.' But you Full Story

• Francis wraps up WoO championship at Lowe's

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 10:45 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Steve Francis has a history of close-but-no-cigar title chases on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. It looks like he'll get the cigar this time around. With his fourth-place run in Friday's feature Full Story

• Lowe's: Heat win puts Davenport on pole

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 05:47 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Last-chance and heat race results/lineups for the Outlaws World Finals at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway, which drew a nearly packed house. World of Outlaws Late Model Series points leader Steve Francis Full Story