DirtOnDirt.com Search Results

5505 items match your search

• Hoffman hitting stride following Illini weekend

  Posted: 04/14/2024, 07:05 pm By Kyle McFadden

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 13) — Nick Hoffman pinpoints a pair of motivators that propelled him to yet another fine and praiseworthy weekend on the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series. The first is a virtue he and his Tye Twarog team Full Story

• Heckenast lends helping hand for Illini weekend

  Posted: 04/13/2024, 05:10 pm By Kyle McFadden

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 13) — Frank Heckenast Jr. was about to load up his race team for the two-hour drive south from his Frankfort, Ill., home to Farmer City Raceway on Friday when his friend Randy Korte called. The 35-year-old veteran Full Story

• Dispatches: Joiner's win shifts season trajectory

  Posted: 04/13/2024, 12:39 am

  Among latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events over the April 12-13 weekend, including Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series and Lucas Oil MLRA competition: Big turnaround The magnitude of Joseph Joiner’s Full Story

• English recalibrates after split with a 'leap of faith'

  Posted: 04/12/2024, 08:43 pm By Kyle McFadden

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 12) — Unless he lands back in a full-fledged touring ride, Tanner English likely won’t exceed more than 100 races this year, much less 80 events he’s logged in recent seasons. And that’s perfectly OK with Full Story

• Column: Watkins sets standard in Southeast

  Posted: 04/11/2024, 07:47 am

  There’s no doubt that Ben Watkins has firmly established himself as one of the Southeast’s top Super Late Model racers. And when that subject is broached to the 34-year-old driver from Rock Hill, S.C., he embraces the status. But Full Story

• Fast Talk: How does Marlar's sweep stack up?

  Posted: 04/08/2024, 10:59 am

  Mike Marlar’s superb weekend at Volunteer Speedway is one of the weekend topics highlighted by our roundtable, which also looks ahead to the Illini 100 and checks their stockpile of racing apparel in the weekly feature presented by MD3 Full Story

• Notes: Brownstown mod ace tackles Late Models

  Posted: 04/07/2024, 01:44 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (April 7) – Matt Boknecht has racked up wins by the dozens at Brownstown Speedway in the open-wheel modified division. He’s a 10-time track champion at the quarter-mile oval and likely a first-ballot inductee into the Full Story

• Fast Talk: A little topical discussion (no foolin’)

  Posted: 04/01/2024, 11:45 am

  Let's hope April Fool's Day doesn't cause too much foolishness as our roundtable dives into five topics for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): React with your opinion Full Story

• Column: Appeal gives Pierce's season new life

  Posted: 03/29/2024, 12:26 am

  The news Bobby Pierce received on Tuesday was, in the big picture, very good. But was it completely redeeming for a driver who saw his 2024 season turned upside down by a failed tire test during last month’s Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Full Story

• Notes: Marlar finding rhythm as April arrives

  Posted: 03/28/2024, 08:15 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ALMA, Ohio (March 25) — Mike Marlar feels like he and his Skyline Motorsports No. 157 team are right where they’re supposed to be heading into the progressively busier month of April. “I think so,” the 46-year-old Winfield, Full Story

• JD's 'new outlook' yields strong start to campaign

  Posted: 03/25/2024, 11:09 am By Kyle McFadden

  ALMA, Ohio (March 24) — Let Jonathan Davenport’s weekend with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series reflect the internal strength of he and his Double L Motorsports team. On Saturday at the quarter-mile Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway, the Full Story

• Refreshed O’Neal opens up on Rocket1 departure

  Posted: 03/24/2024, 01:46 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 23) — There are a few sentiments, in no particular order, that Hudson O’Neal would like the Dirt Late Model world to know and attempt to understand. First, while his sudden and seemingly shocking departure Full Story

• Notes: Brownstown start gives B-Shepp boost

  Posted: 03/24/2024, 01:07 am By Kyle McFadden and Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 23) — It wasn’t exactly mission accomplished for Brandon Sheppard and the Longhorn Factory Team on Saturday at Brownstown Speedway with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, but they certainly packed up following Full Story

• Column: T-Mac primed for big shot with Rocket1

  Posted: 03/21/2024, 12:12 pm

  Tim McCreadie is well acquainted with everything about the Rocket Chassis house car. That makes perfect sense, of course, because he’s been racing against the unmistakable No. 1 for the entirety of his two decades as a Dirt Late Model Full Story

• Rekindling familiar rides, Norris upping ante in '24

  Posted: 03/17/2024, 02:22 pm By Kyle McFadden

  IMPERIAL, Pa. (March 16) — Michael Norris is getting back to the ways he’d like to race this year. Not that these last few seasons haven’t been ideal for the Sarver, Pa., driver, but there’s a reason he came out allegorically Full Story

• Notes: Thornton close to flawless in Florence romp

  Posted: 03/17/2024, 01:30 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 16) — The only blemish for Ricky Thornton Jr. during Saturday’s Northern Allstars Late Model Series-sanctioned Spring 50 at Florence Speedway came in qualifying when he timed second-fastest — but only by the absolute Full Story

• Hunt the Front Series boasts expansive roster

  Posted: 03/14/2024, 11:24 pm By Robert Holman

  With the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series primed to kick off one of the richest seasons in the history of regional racing tours this Saturday at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., the circuit has inked 20 drivers to its loyalty program Full Story

• Fast Talk: Boothill action and rainy weekend topics

  Posted: 03/11/2024, 12:11 pm

  Following a weather-ravaged March weekend, DirtonDirt.com’s roundtable discusses memorable ending of Saturday’s Comp Cams Super Dirt Series season opener at Boothill Speedway in Greenwood, La., and a variety of other topics in the weekly Full Story

• Column: Ivey relishes richest victory of career

  Posted: 03/08/2024, 01:53 am

  Trent Ivey wasn’t pleased at all with his season-opening Super Late Model starts in Feb. 2-3’s Winter Freeze doubleheader at Screven Motor Speedway in Sylvania, Ga. Finishes of 17th and 15th driving his family-owned Longhorn Chassis Full Story

• Start of a trend? Lincoln debuts 'virtual flagman'

  Posted: 02/29/2024, 01:37 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. — Lincoln Speedway, the 3/8-mile clay oval in the heart of winged sprint car country that hosts two Super Late Model events this season, is doing something this year that no dirt-track in the states has done before. That, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Post-Daytona racing and sprint cars

  Posted: 02/26/2024, 11:54 am

  Following the Deuces Wild event for the Lucas Oil Series at Georgia’s Golden Isles Speedway, our roundtable offer thoughts on a national tour running the weekend after the traditional end of Speedweeks and sharing the bill with sprint Full Story

• Column: Elusive victory elevates Wilson's stature

  Posted: 02/22/2024, 03:59 pm

  During virtually every moment that Daulton Wilson spent last week at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., he could sense that he wasn’t the same race car driver he had been just days earlier. His stature had changed. He had taken Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping up Volusia and Speedweeks

  Posted: 02/19/2024, 11:38 am

  With Georgia-Florida Speedweeks wrapping up at Volusia Speedway Park, our roundtable considers the action and also looks at this weekend’s post-Daytona 500 weekend for the Lucas Oil Series at Golden Isles Speedway in the weekly feature Full Story

• Volusia becomes Moran's new favorite Florida oval

  Posted: 02/17/2024, 10:23 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 16) — With East Bay Raceway Park’s imminent demise, Devin Moran needs a new favorite Florida track. Can Volusia Speedway Park fit the bill? The 29-year-old standout from Dresden, Ohio, certainly believes so. “Oh Full Story

• Hoffman's DIRTcar Nat'ls legacy reaches next level

  Posted: 02/16/2024, 10:47 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 15) — The thrill of victory at Volusia Speedway Park’s Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals is nothing new to Nick Hoffman. No one, in fact, knows the feeling better than the 31-year-old driver from Mooresville, Full Story