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Column: DTWC preview of B-Shepp’s next step
Posted: 10/26/2023, 05:12 pmROSSBURG, Ohio — The 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Speedway just might have been the first day in the rest of Brandon Sheppard’s racing life. Or at least he hopes it was. Unto itself, Sheppard, 30, of New Full Story
Notes: McCowan caps rookie title at home
Posted: 10/26/2023, 11:40 amIt seems fitting for Dillon McCowan that the final Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association race of the season, following a schedule adjustment, will be at his home track of Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. The Urbana, Mo., driver Full Story
Notes: Conservative run foiled for J.D. at DTWC
Posted: 10/25/2023, 08:06 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 22) — Eldora Speedway wasn’t the place that Jonathan Davenport knows and loves for Sunday’s 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship. That smooth, slick surface Davenport has mastered en route to eight Full Story
Early DTWC scrape ends Thornton’s title hopes
Posted: 10/24/2023, 04:22 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 22) — Ricky Thornton Jr. fully understood the contrasting outcomes facing him in the 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Speedway. In fact, the 33-year-old star from Chandler, Ariz., wrote a Full Story
Fast Talk: The DTWC delivers … what’s next?
Posted: 10/23/2023, 12:29 pm By Kevin KovacAfter a soggy Eldora Speedway finally avoided rain for the General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP, it concluded with the dramatics of Brandon Sheppard's victory and Hudson O'Neal's Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story
O’Neal on top after epic duel to decide Lucas title
Posted: 10/23/2023, 09:40 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 22) — As Devin Moran stood in the middle of Eldora Speedway’s first and second turns wearing street clothes and a winter jacket and surveying the wavy, chewed-up racing surface after Sunday’s 43rd General Tire Full Story
Hardy unapologetic after winning Bedford duel
Posted: 10/22/2023, 11:06 am By Kyle McFaddenBEDFORD, Pa. (Oct. 21) — Kyle Hardy doesn’t regret anything from Saturday’s Keystone Cup at Bedford Speedway in which he booted Dylan Yoder aside in the final corner for the $23,000 victory. Unbothered by the criticism he provoked, Full Story
Column: Car owners relish years with Freddy
Posted: 10/19/2023, 08:27 amJoel Hedrick and Clayton Christenberry didn’t outwardly have much in common during the 1990s and into the 2000s. Hedrick was in in his 30s, an energetic bundle of youthful energy and novel ideas who birthed a Dirt Late Model operation Full Story
Touching stories about the Southern Gentleman
Posted: 10/18/2023, 03:42 pm By Kevin KovacA compilation of anecdotes, stories and remembrances compiled by DirtonDirt.com from interviews and other sources about Freddy Smith, the Hall of Famer and native of Kings Mountain, N.C., who died Saturday at the age of 76 after developing Full Story
Fast Facts: 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship
Posted: 10/18/2023, 11:02 am By Aaron ClayDates: Oct. 19-21 (modified prelims and stock cars feature on Thursday; Late Model and Limited Late Model prelims and modified feature on Friday; Late Model and Limited Late Model features Saturday) Track: Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Full Story
Memories of crewing for the Southern Gentleman
Posted: 10/16/2023, 07:03 pm By Kevin KovacGary Winger was riding high Saturday at Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian, Miss. He'd just watched his son, Ashton, execute a third-to-first outside charge in the closing stages of a 60-lapper to capture the 29th annual Coors Light Fall Full Story
Fast Talk: Remembering a Hall of Famer
Posted: 10/16/2023, 10:35 amDirtonDirt.com’s weekly roundtable gathers to discuss the passing of Hall of Famer Freddy Smith, consider the past weekend’s action and look ahead to the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt season ending its season at Eldora Speedway with the Full Story
Notes: Whynot remains promised land for Harris
Posted: 10/14/2023, 02:14 pm By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 13) — Amid a field that includes Ashton Winger, Dennis Erb Jr., Tyler Erb, Billy Moyer and hometown favorite Spencer Hughes, among others, who would’ve thought that Clay Harris would be one of Friday’s two semifeature Full Story
Erb, Winger look past scrape in Whynot prelim
Posted: 10/14/2023, 08:41 am By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 13) — Both Ashton Winger and Tyler Erb appreciate the high-octane, riveting ways of Whynot Motorsports Park so much that Friday’s incident on opening night of the 29th annual Fall Classic never escalated into anything Full Story
Unruffled Richards sees only upside with O'Neal
Posted: 10/13/2023, 06:32 am By Kyle McFaddenBRASSTOWN, N.C. (Oct. 12) — From the sound of it, Hudson O’Neal was headed for an inauspicious ending in Thursday’s Castrol FloRacing Night in America event at Tri-County Racetrack. As the Rocket1 race machine chattered, clanked Full Story
Column: Reality of title chase confronts Big Four
Posted: 10/11/2023, 11:52 amNo one could blame Ricky Thornton Jr. for being a bit salty, if not downright angry, about the new-for-2023 Big River Steel Big Four program to determine the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion. He’s put together a season for the Full Story
Big River Steel Big Four breakdown
Posted: 10/11/2023, 07:47 amA statistical breakdown of the Big River Steel Big Four drivers eligible for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship at Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP on Oct. 20-21 at Eldora Full Story
Fast Talk: Pierce’s WoO hot stretch heads south
Posted: 10/09/2023, 11:00 amOn a weekend when a sizzling Bobby Pierce swept World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action amid a flurry of other fall action, our roundtable gathers for discussion in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story
Putnam's up-and-down season ends with crown
Posted: 10/08/2023, 11:22 amJosh Putnam entered the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series’s season-ending doubleheader at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway leading the points standings. After a 15th-place finish in Friday’s 30-lap opener he found himself trailing Joseph Joiner. And Full Story
Dispatches: Familiarity boon to Hoffman at FALS
Posted: 10/06/2023, 11:51 pmAmong latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events over the Oct. 6-7 weekend, including World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series and Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action: That familiar feel Something about Full Story
Column: Overton's point of no return
Posted: 10/05/2023, 05:29 pmBrandon Overton was a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series regular this year for really one reason only: the opportunity provided by the national tour’s Big River Steel Big Four, the new-for-2023 chase-style program that pits the top four Full Story
Promising PPMS bid slips away from local standout
Posted: 10/02/2023, 04:32 pm By Kevin KovacIMPERIAL, Pa. (Sept. 30) — Seemingly every year Michael Norris is a legitimate contender in the Pittsburgher at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway but can’t translate that into a victory — or even a satisfying finish. | RaceWire So Full Story
Notes: Thornton battles back for Pittsburgher win
Posted: 10/02/2023, 04:28 pm By Kevin KovacIMPERIAL, Pa. — Like he’s done so often amid his spectacular 2023 season, Ricky Thornton Jr. didn’t throw up a white flag after he lost the lead to Jonathan Davenport on lap 37 of the 75-lap Pittsburgher on Saturday at Pittsburgh's Full Story
Fast Talk: Five opinions on Lucas Oil's Big Four
Posted: 10/02/2023, 10:56 amWith Bobby Pierce and Ricky Thornton Jr. clicking off victories to conclude September, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Did the Full Story
Dispatches: Pierce, RTJ play familiar tune
Posted: 10/01/2023, 02:07 amAmong latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events over the Sept. 30-Oct. 2 weekend, including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series and Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series Full Story
