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Buddies don’t give an inch in duel at Tri-City
Posted: 06/03/2023, 05:31 am By Robert HolmanGRANITE CITY, Ill. (June 2) — With a handful of laps remaining in Friday’s World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series feature at Tri-City Speedway, Kyle Bronson and Brian Shirley rolled through turn four inches apart, Bronson slinging Full Story
Column: Focused MARS series finding its target
Posted: 06/01/2023, 03:45 pmThere isn’t a fool-proof formula for creating a perfect regional Super Late Model tour, but the current version of the MARS Late Model Championship powered by FK Rod Ends might be coming close. It’s no secret that regional circuits Full Story
Notes: Facing terminal cancer, Missourian chases title
Posted: 06/01/2023, 06:42 am By Kyle McFaddenCapturing the POWRi Late Model Series championship is Todd McCoin’s greatest pursuit on the racetrack this year. Away from the racetrack, however, he’s in the throes of a battle that overshadows his racing. With stage-4 clear cell Full Story
Summer school: Readin', writin' … and dirt racin'?
Posted: 05/31/2023, 02:17 pm By Robert HolmanCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (May 30) — School may be out, but summer session is in full swing for racer Tristan Chamberlain. The 15-year-old from Richmond, Ind., barely had time to stow his backpack before heading out on a real world learning Full Story
Top 25: Thornton nabs No. 1 spot for first time
Posted: 05/30/2023, 11:23 am By Todd TurnerWhile he was stripped of a $50,000 victory by a deck-height violation, Ricky Thornton Jr.'s impressive Show-Me 100 weekend was rewarded by voters in DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 power rankings with his first-ever No. 1 ranking. The Chandler, Full Story
Fast Talk: Show-Me review, Madden's prospects
Posted: 05/29/2023, 11:14 amAfter a busy Memorial Day weekend highlighted by Devin Moran’s inherited Show-Me 100 victory and Chris Madden’s two-victory WoO success at Sharon Speedway, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 Full Story
'Numb' Moran appraises bizarre win, hurt feelings
Posted: 05/29/2023, 08:01 am By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 28) — Devin Moran didn’t know how to fully internalize the path to Saturday’s stunning Show-Me 100 victory at Lucas Oil Speedway. The natural response for a driver winning their first crown jewel would be partying Full Story
RTJ processes crushing Show-Me-losing penalty
Posted: 05/28/2023, 08:53 am By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 27) — Overtaken by the whirlwind of emotions for being denied his first Show-Me 100 victory after failing the so-called droop rule, Ricky Thornton Jr. sat inside his race car a little while longer Saturday outside Full Story
Notes: Trying to show 'em at Show-Me 100
Posted: 05/27/2023, 02:12 pm By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 26) — While the most familiar of faces, Jonathan Davenport, won again Friday, it was Jeff Herzog representing Missouri during the Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 weekend as a feel-good polesitter for the second straight night Full Story
Thornton's rallies bode well for Show-Me finale
Posted: 05/27/2023, 07:11 am By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 26) — In what’s developing as his best Dirt Late Model season, what Ricky Thornton Jr. has accomplished in this week’s Show-Me 100 prelims at Lucas Oil Speedway might be the most impressive. The Chandler, Ariz., Full Story
Family man contends with Show-Me's stars
Posted: 05/27/2023, 06:20 am By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 26) — A part of Payton Looney wished he hadn’t been at at Lucas Oil Speedway on Thursday. Yes, the Republic, Mo., driver had a downright dreadful evening from the outset when simultaneous fuel pump and oil line Full Story
Recent Show-Me winners take lumps opening night
Posted: 05/26/2023, 01:13 pm By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 25) — Thursday’s Cowboy Classic wasn't particular kind toward the trio of previous Show-Me 100 winners Chris Ferguson (2022), Hudson O’Neal (2021) and Payton Looney (2019). Mount Holly, N.C.’s Ferguson and Republic, Full Story
Local teen in mix with best on Lucas Oil tour
Posted: 05/26/2023, 08:00 am By Kyle McFaddenWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 27) — Dillon McCowan’s personality is far from ostentatious. His simple self-assessment speaks to that. “I’m a small-town kid from Urbana, Mo., who feeds cows every morning before he works on race cars,” McCowan Full Story
Dispatches: Weiss rerouts for Duck River visit
Posted: 05/28/2023, 04:05 amThe latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events during Memorial Day weekend, including World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio and other events (look elsewhere for Full Story
Notes: Canadian finds himself in good place
Posted: 05/25/2023, 12:06 am By Kyle McFaddenTwo years ago, it appeared Jake Hooker’s Dirt Late Model career was over. The only engine in the Oungah, Ontario, driver’s family stable went to ruins at the beginning of 2021, and with racing’s rising costs, Hooker’s mom and dad, Full Story
Column: Selling out? Now he's showing out
Posted: 05/25/2023From late 2020 to today, the trajectory of Carson Ferguson’s racing career could scarcely have changed more dramatically. Even he has a hard time fully grasping where he is now and where he was then. Ferguson, 23, of Lincolnton, N.C., Full Story
Fast Facts: 31st annual Lucas Oil Show-Me 100
Posted: 05/24/2023, 10:16 pm By Aaron ClayDates: May 25-27 (complete show for Late Models and modifieds on Thursday and Friday; consolations and features for Late Models and modifieds on Saturday). Track: Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. (semi-banked 3/8-mile clay oval). Purse: Full Story
Dad's helping hand guides Kentucky youngster
Posted: 05/23/2023, 08:52 pm By Bryan AultINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Austin Lay grew up playing with his set of Hot Wheels underneath the grandstands at dirt tracks while watching his father, Jesse Lay, sling dirt around regional bullrings. Yet the Walton, Ky. driver’s interest in Full Story
Montgomery positive after ending up on lid
Posted: 05/20/2023, 01:02 pm By Kyle McFaddenMARION CENTER, Pa. (May 19) — Ryan Montgomery isn’t disappointed with how Friday night went at Marion Center Raceway, even after the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series pole starter ended on his roof with eight laps to go in turns Full Story
Column: The life and times of Dickie Murphy
Posted: 05/19/2023, 08:50 amI never met Dickie Murphy, the Hall of Fame Dirt Late Model car owner and former promoter of Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., who died May 11 at the age of 81 after being hospitalized for three weeks as his health declined. He Full Story
Trusting the process, Sheppard makes gains
Posted: 05/17/2023, 05:05 pm By Kyle McFaddenThrough four winless months beginning the 2023 Dirt Late Model season, Brandon Sheppard never once doubted his switch to Longhorn Chassis from Rocket Chassis. Even in the midst of his longest stretch without a victory in a decade — 36 Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing a lively Illinois Speedweek
Posted: 05/15/2023, 10:24 amAmid a busy Illinois Speedweek (that won't officially end until Monday's makeup in Farmer City), our roundtable evaluates that and other action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and Full Story
Fairbury's tangle with O'Neal leaves Erb fuming
Posted: 05/14/2023, 06:54 am By Robert HolmanFAIRBURY, Ill. (May 13) — Often when there’s contact between two drivers battling for the same piece of real estate, there’s differing views of what happened. That wasn’t the case following Saturday’s 60-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Column: Lull behind him, Zeigler eager for success
Posted: 05/11/2023, 12:02 pmMason Zeigler was hopeful that his return to the Rocket Chassis fold would pay immediate dividends, but could he have ever imagined it would be so absolutely, positively … perfect? After going winless in 2022 and through his first 16 Full Story
Winger aims to maintain speed, eliminate drama
Posted: 05/11/2023, 07:55 am By Robert HolmanBANNER, Ill. (May 10) — Ashton Winger sat on his pit bike and studied the lineup sheet for the second consolation race in Wednesday’s Castrol FloRacing Night in America event at Spoon River Speedway. | RaceWire There was his name, Full Story
