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• Fast Facts: Castrol Gateway Dirt Nationals

  Posted: 12/11/2023, 08:40 am By Aaron Clay

  (Complete Gateway coverage) Dates: Dec. 14-16 (split-field preliminary features on Thursday and Friday before Saturday’s $30,000-to-win finale) Track: The Dome at America’s Center (fifth-mile temporary clay oval) Purse: $30,000-to-win Full Story

• Fast Talk: PRI show wrap and a preview of Dome

  Posted: 12/11/2023, 08:56 am

  With the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show behind us and the Castrol Gateway Dirt Nationals coming up, our roundtable considers questions for our weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Updates from the final day of Indy's PRI show

  Posted: 12/09/2023, 07:57 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 8) — The Indiana Convention Center doors reopen Saturday for the final day of 2023’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more than 1,000 companies Full Story

• Lucas Oil Series unveils new title chase format

  Posted: 12/08/2023, 08:14 am By Kyle McFadden

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 8) — Rick Schwallie and the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series don’t ever intend to fabricate drama. The motive behind the one-race playoff for its crowning of a champion at October’s Dirt Track World Championship Full Story

• PRI: Friday's updates from the trade show floor

  Posted: 12/08/2023, 07:21 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 8) — The Indiana Convention Center doors reopen at 9 a.m. Friday for the second of three days at 2023’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• PRI: Thursday's updates on the trade show floor

  Posted: 12/07/2023, 05:22 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 7) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open at 9 a.m. Thursday for the first of three days at 2023’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• Breakouts, newcomers and comebacks for 2023

  Posted: 12/06/2023, 07:36 am By Todd Turner

  As part of its ongoing Best of 2023 coverage, DirtonDirt.com hands out awards to worthy Dirt Late Model drivers. We rank the top breakout drivers, top newcomers, most improved drivers and comeback drivers for the past season. This season’s Full Story

• Top national, regional and weekly drivers of '23

  Posted: 12/04/2023, 07:54 am By Todd Turner

  With the 2023 racing season mostly 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 Full Story

• Notes: Super ride over, but Roberson still upbeat

  Posted: 12/01/2023, 03:04 pm

  Logan Roberson had an inclination that driving for J.C. and Marcia Clary’s No. 89 Brodnax Shaker Motorsports team wouldn’t go on for years and years. Not because of any internal red flags, but the owners of the Brodnax, Va., team told Full Story

• Column: Free agent Pearson seeks next ride

  Posted: 12/01/2023, 07:14 am

  From almost the moment Earl Pearson Jr. learned that he didn’t have a ride for 2024 with his car owner Jason Papich’s decision to shut down his racing operation, he began to contemplate the rest of his racing life. It’s a natural Full Story

• Column: Gundaker diversifies racing roles

  Posted: 11/22/2023, 02:31 pm

  As the elder son of racetrack owners, Gordy Gundaker has spent all his adult years with an up-close view of the intricacies that come with promoting events. But has the 31-year-old from St. Charles, Mo., ever harbored visions of someday Full Story

• Farmed surface spices HTF's Duck River action

  Posted: 11/21/2023, 04:28 pm By Robert Holman

  WHEEL, Tenn. (Nov. 18) — Sitting through an hour-long wait while track staff at Duck River Raceway Park reworked the surface of the quarter-mile bullring, most drivers didn’t know what to expect come feature time. But after prelims Full Story

• Column: Blair’s fresh start with new team, car

  Posted: 11/16/2023, 04:40 am

  This offseason — if Dirt Late Model racing even has an offseason anymore — is a lot like last year’s for Max Blair. Or at least it appears to be quite similar in that, just like in the fall of 2022, the 33-year-old driver from Centerville, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Musing on national tour topics

  Posted: 11/13/2023, 10:29 am

  Following a weekend that saw the Castrol FloRacing Night in America finale at Senoia (Ga.) Raceway fall to rain, DirtonDirt.com’s roundtable considers a variety of topics — including two musings about national tours — in the weekly Full Story

• Fast Talk: Surveying the World Finals landscape

  Posted: 11/06/2023, 10:58 am

  With Mike Marlar and two-time winner Ricky Thornton Jr. grabbing victories at Charlotte's World Finals, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and Full Story

• Slump? What slump? SSI team tallies win No. 33

  Posted: 11/04/2023, 09:24 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — Ricky Thornton Jr. and his crew chief, Anthony Burroughs, couldn’t help but share a laugh in their SSI Motorsports trailer after hearing the reaction some people had to Thornton’s victory in Friday night’s Full Story

• Troutman’s opportunities expand with Texas team

  Posted: 11/03/2023, 02:29 pm By Kyle McFadden

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Only recently has Chris Bragg imagined himself as purely a car owner. The Springtown, Texas, native has owned a Dirt Late Model for three years now, but mainly so he can race himself. Besides, owning a full-fledged Full Story

• Marlar's team transition smooth (and victorious)

  Posted: 11/03/2023, 08:29 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — For a driver making his debut with a new team on the high-profile stage of the World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, Mike Marlar’s demeanor Thursday was oddly serene. “I don’t even feel pressure,” Full Story

• Notes: Hail Mary pass worth a try at Charlotte

  Posted: 11/03/2023, 05:48 am By Kyle McFadden and Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Brandon Overton knew realistically that Thursday's Hail Mary move around the top of the Dirt Track at Charlotte’s turns one and two wasn’t going to catapult himself past eventual flag-to-flag winner Mike Marlar. Full Story

• Charlotte next test for free-wheeling Carpenter

  Posted: 11/02/2023, 06:00 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 1) — Tyler Carpenter wasn’t particularly interested in entering this year’s World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte. But there he was Wednesday afternoon, rocking a bright-green Cole Trickle hoodie as he prepped Full Story

• Column: Dad was ‘real life hero’ for Jeff Smith

  Posted: 11/01/2023, 05:30 pm

  Nearly three weeks removed from his father Freddy Smith’s passing on Oct. 14, Jeff Smith has had time to process the personal loss of the Hall of Fame driver he called his “real life hero.” Freddy’s memorial services on Oct. 18 Full Story

• Fast Facts: 17th annual World of Outlaws World Finals

  Posted: 11/01/2023, 05:08 pm By Aaron Clay

  Dates: Nov. 1-4 (time trial session on Wednesday, followed by $15,000-to-win preliminary features on Thursday and Friday before Saturday’s $25,000-to-win finale). Track: The Dirt Track at Charlotte, Concord, N.C. (4/10-mile semi-banked Full Story

• Experience-building Wilson forges ahead

  Posted: 11/01/2023, 06:00 am By Kyle McFadden

  GAFFNEY, S.C. (Oct. 31) — If there’s anything Daulton Wilson has learned from his two full years as a touring driver, it’s to never take a nice paycheck for granted. Who cares that on Tuesday’s brisk Halloween night only 11 other Full Story

• Fast Talk: Madden riding high toward Charlotte

  Posted: 10/30/2023, 10:55 am

  We head to the end of October with Chris Madden collecting $49,000 at East Alabama Motor Speedway's National 100. Our weekly roundtable considers Madden's victory and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story

• Notes: Madden takes aim at third National 100

  Posted: 10/29/2023, 12:51 pm By Kyle McFadden

  PHENIX CITY, Ala. (Oct. 28) — Simply put, Chris Madden feels good about his chances Sunday at picking up a would-be third National 100 victory. “Good. Real good,” said the Gray Court, S.C. driver, whose confidence stems from employing Full Story