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Fast Facts: 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100
Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:27 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 17-19 ($5,000-to-win makeup race for the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series on Thursday with optional practice for Topless 100 entrants; $5,000-to-win Lucas Oil event Friday sets lineups for for Saturday’s consolations and 100-lap, Full Story
Column: Once enemies, WoO racers now friends
Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:28 amChris Madden and Brent Larson are close, as close as two racers separated by different backgrounds and hundreds of miles — Madden lives in Gray Court, S.C., Larson in Lake Elmo, Minn. — can be. Some would even say that Madden, 48, Full Story
Notes: August sends Pierce into stratosphere
Posted: 08/13/2023, 02:25 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Bobby Pierce’s summer hot streak was already rolling along. And then the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver got to August. With his dazzling three-race sweep at Florence Speedway’s Sunoco North-South 100 extending Full Story
Notes: Pierce eyeing rich North-South 100 sweep
Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:20 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — After racing to a pair of 25-lap semifeature victories Thursday and Friday at Florence Speedway, Bobby Pierce is in position for a lucrative sweep of the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Thornton, SSI continue rebounding with aplomb
Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:36 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — During far and away his best Dirt Late Model season, Ricky Thornton Jr.’s poor finishes and difficult nights are relatively few and far between. But when the SSI Motorsports team has an occasional rough outing, Full Story
Notes: Marlar's never-ending quest for consistency
Posted: 08/11/2023, 04:17 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — On a sunny Friday afternoon following his impressive 10th-to-first run in Thursday’s 25-lap semifeature at Florence Speedway, Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., was all smiles in his Delk Motorsports pit area during Full Story
Notes: A flat, a wreck (and then time to race)
Posted: 08/10/2023, 11:56 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — On the first day of the three-day Sunoco North-South 100, Michael Chilton had a flat tire. And a wreck. And that was before he even made it into the pit area at Florence Speedway. | RaceWire Things turned decidedly Full Story
Notes: Tuning old car, finding new success
Posted: 08/10/2023, 07:37 am By Kyle McFaddenKyle Peterlin’s had the same 2017 Rocket Chassis since he bought the race car when it first came out, yet this year he’s seen a major improvement in results. On July 28-29, the 37-year-old picked up his richest career victories — Full Story
Fast Facts: 41st annual Sunoco North-South 100
Posted: 08/09/2023, 11:48 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 10-12 (two 25-lap, $5,000-to-win split-field semifeatures will be contested Thursday and Friday, setting the heat race lineups preceding Saturday’s 100-lap, $75,000-to-win North-South 100). Track: Florence Speedway in Union, Full Story
Column: Where Pierce struggled, now he wins
Posted: 08/08/2023, 03:09 pmBobby Pierce’s decade-long pursuit of glory in the Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway continued on July 29 when he yet again flirted with victory but settled for a runner-up finish. One week later, though, the 26-year-old Full Story
Fast Talk: Cedar Lake redux and other topics
Posted: 08/07/2023, 01:54 pmWith Bobby Pierce still rolling with his $50,000 victory at Cedar Lake’s USA Nationals, our roundtable surveys that and other action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): How Full Story
Brownstown victory continues Stormy Scott's progress
Posted: 08/07/2023, 07:41 am By Bryan AultBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (Aug. 5) — Stormy Scott’s progress continued during his self-described “build year” with veteran crew chief Jason Durham as he captured Saturday’s Hall of Fame Classic and a $10,000 payday at Brownstown Speedway. The Full Story
Notes: Pit strategy boon to five-time CLS champ
Posted: 08/07/2023, 07:42 am By Kevin KovacNEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 5) — Brent Larson knew he needed some outside-the-box thinking to maximize his chances for a solid finish in Saturday’s 100-lap USA Nationals at Cedar Lake Speedway. So before the 46-year-old driver from Lake Full Story
USA Nationals entrants praise upgraded surface
Posted: 08/05/2023, 04:37 am By Kevin KovacNEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 4) — Chris Madden’s eyes sparkled as he stood inside his trailer discussing Friday’s 25-lap USA Nationals preliminary victory at Cedar Lake Speedway. “That’s the Cedar Lake that I know right there,” Full Story
Bronson reflects on wild ride at Boone
Posted: 08/04/2023, 02:04 pm By Kevin KovacNEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 3) — Kyle Bronson finally had some time to relax, but, two days removed from taking a wild ride at Boone (Iowa) Speedway, he was still talking about his harrowing experience. Standing behind his pit box in Full Story
Notes: Iowan's jump to Late Models paying off
Posted: 08/03/2023, 08:33 am By Kyle McFaddenIf C.J. Horn wanted to move his racing career beyond the quarter-midget level three years ago, he figured he had no choice but to jump straight into the deep end of Dirt Late Model racing. At 15, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, racer was about Full Story
Fast Facts: Cedar Lake's 36th annual USA Nationals
Posted: 08/02/2023, 08:37 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 3-5 (two 30-lap, $6,000-to-win preliminary features will be contested Thursday and Friday, setting the lineup for Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win USA Nationals). Track: Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. (high-banked Full Story
Column: 'One of those years' as SSI rolls ahead
Posted: 08/02/2023, 08:38 amRicky Thornton Jr. has made plenty of memories during a spectacular 2023 season in which he’s vaulted to Dirt Late Model superstar status. What he did on Saturday night at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway, though, might just be impossible to Full Story
Top 25: Thornton No. 1 as McDowell climbs
Posted: 08/01/2023, 10:18 am By Todd TurnerFollowing his most lucrative week of a lucrative season, Ricky Thornton Jr. reaffirmed his position atop DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings with a unanimous No. 1 ranking after piling up nearly $170,000 in earnings among three victories Full Story
Fast Talk: Thornton's rally, cautions and more
Posted: 07/31/2023, 11:18 amAfter Ricky Thornton Jr.'s stirring rally to win Fairbury's Prairie Dirt Classic, our roundtable considers that and other recent happenings in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Did Full Story
Out-Pierced by Thornton, PDC eludes Pierce again
Posted: 07/31/2023, 09:03 am By Kevin KovacFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — Another Prairie Dirt Classic, another near-miss. Saturday night just continued a fact of life for Bobby Pierce in Fairbury Speedway’s marquee event. The cruel irony in Pierce’s PDC saga this year, though, Full Story
Thornton’s torrid rally after glitch pays $61,500
Posted: 07/30/2023, 07:21 am By Kevin KovacFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — As SSI Motorsports crew chief Anthony Burroughs sipped a celebratory can of beer in the Fairbury Speedway pit area after his driver Ricky Thornton Jr.’s stirring victory in Saturday’s 33rd annual Prairie Full Story
Notes: Marlar shelves Bluehorn, debuts Rocket
Posted: 07/29/2023, 01:43 pm By Kevin KovacFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 28) — Mike Marlar has set aside his “Bluehorn” — his affectionate name for his Longhorn Chassis — to make a return to the Rocket Chassis fold. The 45-year-old standout from Winfield, Tenn., debuted a new Full Story
Column: B-Shepp back to where No. B5 belongs
Posted: 07/26/2023, 01:36 pmBrandon Sheppard is supposed to win big Dirt Late Model races. His reputation — launched into the stratosphere by his spectacular six-year run from 2017-22 driving the Rocket Chassis house car – now precedes him. Everyone in the Dirt Full Story
Fast Facts: 33rd annual Prairie Dirt Classic
Posted: 07/26/2023, 10:00 am By Aaron ClayDates: July 28-29 (four 25-lap, $5,000-to-win Prairie Dirt Showdown preliminary features will be contested Friday and set the lineup for Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win Prairie Dirt Classic). Track: Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway (semi-banked Full Story
