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Column: The nurturing legacy of Forrest Lucas
Posted: 08/28/2025, 06:26 amRick Schwallie was just launching his career with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series when he had an interaction with Forrest Lucas that made him immediately understand the essence of the business entrepreneur. That moment came in early Full Story
Notes: Satterlee can't cash in at Port Royal
Posted: 08/25/2025, 03:23 pm By Kevin Kovac and Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — Gregg Satterlee doesn’t typically put extra pressure on himself. So what happens to the 40-year-old driver from Indiana, Pa., at Port Royal Speedway — one of his best tracks — when Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Fast Talk: Duels, legacies and Labor Day weekend
Posted: 08/25/2025, 10:32 amAfter national touring weekend sweeps for Bobby Pierce and Ricky Thornton Jr., our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): After Davenport-Pierce, Alberson-Dillard Full Story
Anthony Macri Line guides RTJ to big sweep
Posted: 08/24/2025, 06:08 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — Ricky Thornton Jr. put his race car where nobody dared going in Saturday’s 50-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at Port Royal Speedway. Not merely up on the cushion, but his right-rear firmly Full Story
After squabble, Madden sets his eyes on Eldora
Posted: 08/24/2025, 12:01 pm By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — Chris Madden wasn’t happy, but he wasn’t irate as many observers thought he might be. A bit perturbed, perhaps. After coming out on the short end of a fierce, slider-trading battle for the lead with Ricky Full Story
Port Royal drivers have Eldora on their minds
Posted: 08/23/2025, 01:28 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — With Port Royal Speedway the final half-mile on the national touring schedule before Sept. 4-6’s World 100 at Eldora Speedway, many drivers are using this weekend’s Rumble by the River event as a tuneup Full Story
Notes: Double L team's winding trek to Port Royal
Posted: 08/23/2025, 07:30 am By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 22) — Getting to Port Royal Speedway on Friday for the two-day Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series weekend was a victory of its own for Jonathan Davenport and his Double L Motorsports team. The Batesville, Ark.-based Full Story
Notes: Georgia couple's dirt racing love story
Posted: 08/21/2025, 01:21 am By Todd TurnerAfter Brittany Whitener was the lone survivor of a small plane crash in December 2018 that left her with a broken neck, partial paralysis and the loss of three dear friends and colleagues, she’s got a long list of firsts. The first toe Full Story
Tire wear (and tire care) vital during Topless 100
Posted: 08/18/2025, 04:51 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 16) — While virtually every Topless 100 starter at Batesville Motor Speedway fretted about tires Saturday, winner Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., and runner-up Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., had no Full Story
Fast Talk: Topping off the Topless 100
Posted: 08/18/2025, 11:26 amWith Jonathan Davenport taking the $50,000 prize at Batesville’s Topless 100, our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Provide some perspective Jonathan Full Story
Batesville top-five brings Ebert elation and relief
Posted: 08/17/2025, 11:19 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 16) — When Dan Ebert reached Batesville Motor Speedway’s frontstretch late Saturday night following the 33rd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 presented by Big River Steel, he soaked in his surroundings. On Full Story
Notes: Sheppard eyeing first Topless 100 win
Posted: 08/16/2025, 06:56 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 15) — Brandon Sheppard has won a good share of Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest events, but never before has he captured a Topless 100. Granted, seven years spent on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series from Full Story
After high-speed night, eyes on Batesville surface
Posted: 08/16/2025, 02:12 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 15) — Drivers weren’t expecting to find a blazing fast track surface at Mooney Starr-promoted Batesville Motor Speedway on Friday’s preliminary night for the 33rd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 presented Full Story
Notes: Hoffman's night becomes hurried fire drill
Posted: 08/15/2025, 08:25 am By Todd TurnerBANNER, Ill. (Aug. 14) — Nick Hoffman of Mooresville, N.C., was eager for the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series debut at Spoon River Speedway, a track where he’s a seven-time winner in the modified division. But Full Story
WoO victory erases all doubts in English's mind
Posted: 08/14/2025, 08:47 am By Todd TurnerHIGHLAND, Ill. (Aug. 13) — The record books will show that Tanner English officially led 40 caution-free laps Wednesday at Highland Speedway for his first full-field World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series victory in nearly Full Story
Column: Pierce's career heads for stratosphere
Posted: 08/14/2025, 07:34 amWith every success that Bobby Pierce achieves on Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest stages, he moves closer to immortality in the sport. What can’t the sensational driver from Oakwood, Ill., accomplish? What records can’t he break? Full Story
Notes: Minnesotan solid in division return
Posted: 08/14/2025, 12:25 am By Todd TurnerDrivers taking a lengthy hiatus from Dirt Late Model racing typically fall behind in a sport where fast-moving technology can drastically change suspension setups. So with Zach Johnson, a successful Late Model racer from 2006-17 who shifted Full Story
Notes: Highland racer rebounds from disaster
Posted: 08/13/2025, 11:35 pm By Todd TurnerHIGHLAND, Ill. (Aug. 13) — Hometown driver Matt Bailey figured his racing season was over June 28 when he was forced into the frontstretch wall in a DIRTcar Summer Nationals heat race at Highland Speedway. “My right-front hit the wall Full Story
Look dad, no fenders! Timms tops sprint world
Posted: 08/12/2025, 06:42 pm By Kyle McFaddenKNOXVILLE, Iowa — Lounging in a golf cart Friday at Knoxville Raceway, the day before he’d be forever immortalized in sprint car racing lore as the youngest Knoxville Nationals champ since 1964 at 18 years old, Ryan Timms pondered an Full Story
Fast Facts: 33rd Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100
Posted: 08/12/2025, 11:50 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 15-16 (split-field semifeatures Friday and 100-lap finale Saturday) Track: Batesville Motor Speedway (high-banked 3/8-mile dirt oval) Location: Locust Grove, Ark. Purse: $50,000-to-win Primary sponsors: Nutrien Ag Solutions Full Story
Hood-flying start dims Overton's Florence hopes
Posted: 08/11/2025, 12:39 pm By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Just as Brandon Overton was feeling especially positive about the trajectory of his frustrating 2025 season, the start of Saturday’s 43rd annual Sunoco North-South 100 at Florence Speedway blew his good vibes away. Full Story
Fast Talk: Recapping Florence and a busy weekend
Posted: 08/11/2025, 10:39 amWith Bobby Pierce making history with his third straight and fourth overall North-South 100 victory, our roundtable discusses that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): What’s Full Story
Notes: Dohm shines in top-five at North-South
Posted: 08/10/2025, 11:11 am By Bryan AultUNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Zack Dohm would have been just fine with making the North-South 100, pocketing the $3,500 start money, and pulling into the pit area instead of grinding out the 100-lapper won by Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill. The Full Story
After wreck, Marlar asks: How slow is too slow?
Posted: 08/09/2025, 04:36 pm By Kevin KovacUNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — Mike Marlar tried to be as diplomatic as possible. It’s his nature to look at things in a pragmatic manner. Nevertheless, after a run-in with a lapped car knocked him from the lead on the 11th circuit of Friday’s Full Story
Column: Crown jewel satisfaction for Cooney
Posted: 08/06/2025, 04:19 pmTodd Cooney didn’t jump right into the celebration fray after his driver, Ryan Gustin, completed a march to victory in Saturday’s 38th annual USA Nationals at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. As his crew and Gustin’s family Full Story
