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Notes: Charging Gustin finishes third at Stuart
Posted: 07/12/2022, 09:22 am By Kevin KovacSTUART, Iowa (July 11) — Ryan Gustin wasn’t thrilled to be reminded about his one and only previous start at Stuart International Speedway prior to Monday’s XR Super Series Fever Heat 100 opener. The 31-year-old driver from Marshalltown, Full Story
Fast Talk: Winners, bonuses and turnarounds
Posted: 07/11/2022, 01:24 pmThe second half of the season begins with Deer Creek's NAPA Auto Parts Gopher State 50 while the DIRTcar Summer Nationals continue. Our roundtable considers that and more in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited Full Story
Notes: Aussie’s top-five at Tri-State slips away
Posted: 07/11/2022, 09:07 am By Robert HolmanHAUBSTADT, Ind. (July 10) — Paul Stubber was on track to record his best DIRTcar Summer Nationals finish of the season Sunday at Tri-State Speedway. Then, while running seventh, in an effort to eke out a bit more speed, the Australian Full Story
Notes: Gopher caution robs Madden of windfall
Posted: 07/11/2022, 08:48 am By Kevin KovacSPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 9) — Chris Madden didn’t need any time to consider the question. When he was asked what the outcome of Saturday’s 75-lap NAPA Auto Parts Gopher State 50 at Deer Creek Speedway would have been if a caution Full Story
Bronson's spin collects B-Shepp at Deer Creek
Posted: 07/09/2022, 07:16 am By Kevin KovacSPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 8) — Brandon Sheppard’s Rocket Chassis house car sat in Deer Creek Speedway’s pit area stripped of its body panels. Two pit stalls away, Kyle Bronson’s machine was in much the same state of disrepair. This Full Story
Notes: Red-hot Alaskan has far-flung dreams
Posted: 07/07/2022, 10:28 am By Kyle McFaddenPerhaps the most dominant weekly Dirt Late Model driver on the planet doesn’t reside in the fertile Midwest or NASCAR-centric South, but in the unlikeliest of places: Alaska. Meet Alex Schwochert, who over the weekend at Kenai’s Twin Full Story
Column: Mature decision leads to mature team
Posted: 07/07/2022, 07:38 amRyan Montgomery was an aspiring 18-year-old Dirt Late Model driver from Fairmont, W.Va., some seven years ago when his father and car owner, Jeff, offered him a deal he couldn’t refuse. Or at least the elder Montgomery thought his teenage Full Story
Three-car duel thrills Davenport competitors
Posted: 07/06/2022, 10:39 pmWhile Hudson O'Neal told Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series announcer James Essex about his first victory of the season Wednesday in Davenport (Iowa) Speedway's victory lane, second- and third-place finishers Brandon Overton and Mike Marlar Full Story
Resetting team's goals, B-Shepp aims for peak
Posted: 07/04/2022, 03:10 pm By Kyle McFaddenZANESVILLE, Ohio (July 4) — If April 26 was the day Brandon Sheppard and the Rocket Chassis house car team announced Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series title intentions, then mark Independence Day weekend as the point in 2022 those intentions Full Story
Fast Talk: Fireworks, flag-waving and finishes
Posted: 07/04/2022, 11:45 amAuto racing is often part of the flags, fireworks and Fourth of July fun on the Independence Day weekend. Our roundtable wraps up a busy stretch of racing in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story
High-flying Hanger expanding his range
Posted: 07/03/2022, 08:16 am By Robert HolmanCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (July 2) — Christian Hanger has dabbled in Super Late Model racing before. This summer, the Winchester, Tenn., driver decided to dive in feet first. Hanger is currently in the middle of a two-week stretch that includes Full Story
Paducah part-timer gets help from Hall of Famer
Posted: 07/02/2022, 10:46 am By Robert HolmanPADUCAH, Ky. (July 1) — During his Hall of Fame Dirt Late Model driving career, Terry English of Benton, Ky., often had a knack of being in the right place at the right time. That helped the 2002 DIRTcar weekly champion rack up big single-season Full Story
Dispatches: Hilsabeck flirts with MLRA podium
Posted: 07/03/2022, 04:09 pmThe latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events during the Fourth of July weekend, including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Valvoline Iron-Man Racing Series, Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association Full Story
Record-setter Babb: 'It's my life.' Don't you forget
Posted: 07/01/2022, 07:42 am By Robert HolmanBROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 30) — Shannon Babb’s spoiler was still intact. His right rear deck wasn’t crumpled. Not even a scratch. And the Moweaqua, Ill., driver spent most of the second half of Thursday’s 50-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals Full Story
Notes: Minnesotan makes most of promotion
Posted: 06/30/2022, 07:17 am By Kyle McFaddenDanny Vang has learned that, aside from the fierce discipline of auto racing, it’s best to seldom press the issue and let what’s meant to be to naturally develop. For instance, he met his wife, Ann, by happenstance as a fan at Minnesota’s Full Story
Column: Shuffled Lucas Oil crew aces Firecracker
Posted: 06/29/2022, 03:34 pmLucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie was anxiously awaiting the Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. The national tour’s debut as the sanctioning body for the 4/10-mile oval’s marquee event Full Story
Red Hill return is rough on Hell Tour regulars
Posted: 06/29/2022, 08:49 am By Todd TurnerSUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — After his eighth-to-third run Tuesday night at Red Hill Raceway, Payton Freeman of Commerce, Ga., was asked if he performed so well in the DIRTcar Summer Nationals event because he’d been running on his kind Full Story
Notes: Engine fire derails Pierce's effort at Red Hill
Posted: 06/29/2022, 04:31 am By Todd TurnerSUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — After diagnosing what caused a fire under the hood of his son Bobby Pierce’s car on the 16th lap of Tuesday’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals main event at Red Hill Raceway, Bob Pierce had a succinct description Full Story
Williams eager for first Summer Nationals test
Posted: 06/28/2022, 06:40 pm By Todd TurnerSUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — Lee Williams is the kind of dirt racer Bob Memmer had in mind so many years ago when he created the DIRTcar Summer Nationals, a track-by-track tour of the Midwest that gave even local racers the chance to compete Full Story
Notes: Surgery at hand, Richards eases into car
Posted: 06/27/2022, 04:45 pm By Robert HolmanJACKSONVILLE, Ill. (June 26) — He's not quite 100 percent, but four-time World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series champion Josh Richards was back behind the wheel for the tour's late-June tripleheader at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at Full Story
Fast Talk: Dissecting all the sport’s latest
Posted: 06/27/2022, 10:56 amA historic victory for Brandon Sheppard, a $50,000 Firecracker 100 payday for Tim McCreadie and WoO sweep at I-55 for Dennis Erb Jr. are among things up for discussion in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited Full Story
Notes: Overton still tick off in Firecracker fizzle
Posted: 06/26/2022, 10:08 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 25) — Brandon Overton doesn’t need anyone to point out he’s not winning races this season at the spectacular pace he did in 2021. He can’t get that fact of his current campaign out of his mind. After the 31-year-old Full Story
First-loser streak ends with bang at Lernerville
Posted: 06/26/2022, 12:19 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 25) — First Tim McCreadie executed several motor-revving, dust-blowing donuts on Lernerville Speedway’s homestretch. Then he drove onto the winner’s stage, sat on his car’s driver-side door and pounded the living Full Story
Erb records satisfying sweep over I-55 foes
Posted: 06/26/2022, 11:27 am By Robert HolmanPEVELY, Mo. (June 25) — Dennis Erb Jr. wasn’t intentionally trying to make a statement to the rest of his World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series foes. But intentions be damned, he did it anyway. Sweeping the St. Louis Firecracker Full Story
Notes: Marlar teetering on edge at Lernerville
Posted: 06/25/2022, 10:19 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 24) — Mike Marlar’s second Firecracker 100 preliminary feature victory in as many nights put him on the verge of doing something just one man has done before, but making history wasn’t foremost on his mind as he Full Story
