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Race will pay tribute to Carolina engine builder
Posted: 03/15/2022, 05:25 am By Robert HolmanDaniel Batten wants to honor his late father Mark Batten, the well-known engine builder and proprietor of Battenbilt Racing Engines in Rocky Mount, N.C., who passed away at age 61 on June 3, 2021 following a short illness. He could think Full Story
Column: Blair ready for season after Speedweeks
Posted: 03/10/2022, 03:27 pmMax Blair still has tens of thousands of highway miles, nearly 50 races and dozens of new tracks left in his rookie World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series season. In the grand scheme of things, though, he already completed the most difficult Full Story
Fast Talk: Weekend review with eyes on Rev
Posted: 03/07/2022, 10:48 amAfter a flurry of five-figure paydays the first weekend in March, the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series and Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series are scheduled to return to action. Our roundtable discusses all the latest in the weekly Full Story
Dispatches: Madden, Marlar survive Madness
Posted: 03/06/2022, 02:04 amThe latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model events nationwide from March 4-6, including the Ultimate Southeast/Iron-Man event at Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn., Schaeffer’s Spring Nationals shows in Georgia and Clarksville Full Story
Column: Winger, team's bandwagon gets rolling
Posted: 03/03/2022, 06:44 amG.R. Smith saw the grand plan he hatched with his close friend, J.C. Clary, to take his Dirt Late Model program to a new level come into clear focus on Feb. 16 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. So after watching his hand-picked Full Story
Walker eases back into Late Models after stroke
Posted: 03/01/2022, 07:43 am By Robert HolmanDustin Walker’s perspective on racing has changed ever so slightly over the last few years. His perspective on life, well, it’s changed by leaps and bounds. Walker, a veteran racer of 20 years whose love for the sport began in the Full Story
Joiner to hunt front for Henderson Motorsports
Posted: 02/28/2022, 12:05 pm By Robert HolmanPopular Milton, Fla., dirt racer Joseph Joiner will split his time between two successful teams while hunting the front in 2022. Laurel, Miss.’s Leon Henderson announced Monday that the 28-year-old Joiner, whose racing career is documented Full Story
Fast Talk: To follow a national tour or not?
Posted: 02/28/2022, 10:09 amAmid a brief break in high-profile action between Georgia-Florida Speedweeks and upcoming regular-season openers, our roundtable considers touring options in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story
Column: Moran hits lofty heights at Speedweeks
Posted: 02/24/2022, 12:08 pmDevin Moran’s Georgia-Florida Speedweeks began Jan. 21 with a 22nd-place finish and ended Feb. 19 with a 12th-place run, both in World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series events at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. In between, Full Story
Notes: Erb sure Volusia victory gets verification
Posted: 02/19/2022, 07:06 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 18) — Dennis Erb Jr. wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice. “That was dang sure,” his longtime crew chief, Heather Lyne, said after Erb drove to victory in Friday night’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Full Story
WoO rookie sees laps half full after demise
Posted: 02/18/2022, 07:28 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 17) — Kyle Hammer could have been crushed by his fate. He probably should have been. But after seeing his bid for a monumental upset victory in Thursday’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series features Full Story
Adaptable Overton guts out victory at Volusia
Posted: 02/17/2022, 10:44 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 16) — Patience is Brandon Overton’s chief virtue. But if the situation requires it, the aggressive, cushion-pounding, cowboy-up racing gene will still come out of the 30-year-old superstar from Evans, Ga. That Full Story
Notes: Gustin's Volusia victory big in many ways
Posted: 02/16/2022, 12:03 pm By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 15) — Ryan Gustin’s victory in Tuesday night’s — well, actually early Wednesday morning’s — 30-lap DIRTcar-sanctioned Late Model feature at Volusia Speedway Park was, as he dubbed it, “huge” for several Full Story
Dubious racers relieved by Volusia improvement
Posted: 02/15/2022, 10:01 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 14) — Everyone heard the horror stories about Volusia Speedway Park’s problematic new track surface. They saw the videos and comments on social media and watched footage of the races run on the unruly clay. Some Full Story
Notes: News tempers Brothers Moran success
Posted: 02/13/2022, 02:58 pmGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 12) — In the midst of his joy after winning Saturday night’s Wrisco Winternationals finale at East Bay Raceway Park, Devin Moran broke a nugget of news that left him fighting back tears. As Moran, 27, of Dresden, Full Story
Notes: Sheppard among ranks of East Bay’s best
Posted: 02/12/2022, 04:32 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 11) — Mark Richards knows his Dirt Late Model history. So when he was asked for the names of the two drivers whom his Rocket Chassis house car pilot, Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., had joined on Friday night Full Story
Notes: Teen’s East Bay pole spoiled by violation
Posted: 02/11/2022, 01:07 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 10) — Garrett Smith was riding high as a group fast qualifier and winner of Thursday's first heat race at East Bay Raceway Park. Then the rising 18-year-old from Eatonton, Ga., pulled into the track’s pit-area Full Story
Column: Erb's win harks back to his Rayburn era
Posted: 02/09/2022, 02:45 pmGIBSONTON, Fla. — Dennis Erb Jr. is well known in the Dirt Late Model world as an unemotional individual. Sure, he can exhibit anger when things go bad or crack a smile — at least a little bit of a smile — when he wins an especially Full Story
High-side challenges end against wall at East Bay
Posted: 02/08/2022, 06:27 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 7) — First Ashton Winger tried it and failed. Then Brandon Overton suffered the same fate. Over a span of three late-race circuits in Monday’s 30-lap Wrisco Winternationals opener at East Bay Raceway Park, the Full Story
Neither ending is a good one in tale of two Tylers
Posted: 02/06/2022, 07:08 am By Robert HolmanELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 5) — This is a tale of two Tylers. No, not the 2019 rap song “Tale of Two Tylers” by Eminem sound-alike Tyler Ray. But rather, Tyler Bruening and Tyler Erb, two Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series drivers who scrapped Full Story
Back to health, Iowan enjoys Speedweeks run
Posted: 02/05/2022, 07:35 am By Robert HolmanELLISVILLE, Fla. — Todd Cooney is living his dream. Three years ago, the two-time IMCA weekly Late Model champion from Des Moines, Iowa, driver had serious doubts he’d be able to continue racing, much less head to Georgia-Florida Speedweeks Full Story
Notes: Hughes pleased with positive All-Tech run
Posted: 02/04/2022, 07:02 am By Robert HolmanELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 3) — Starting sixth in Thursday’s 40-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series main event at All-Tech Raceway, Spencer Hughes was in prime position to record his best Georgia-Florida Speedweeks finish of the season. On Full Story
Column: Kosiski winding down after I-80 success
Posted: 02/03/2022, 12:34 pmJoe Kosiski knows that everyone — racers, fans, sponsors, media — who cares about his I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., has been wondering about its future ever since he confirmed last summer that he was in serious negotiations to sell Full Story
Notes: Busy slate ahead for regrouping Troutman
Posted: 02/02/2022, 07:24 am By Robert HolmanOCALA, Fla. (Feb. 1) — With three top-10 finishes in four events behind the wheel of his modified during East Bay Raceway Park’s Winter Nationals last week in Gibsonton, Fla., Drake Troutman hoped to record comparable results in his Full Story
T-Mac bemoans ‘lost art’ after last-lap showdown
Posted: 02/01/2022, 05:29 am By Robert HolmanOCALA, Fla. (Jan. 31) — When Devin Moran slid under race-long leader Tim McCreadie in turn two on the final lap at Bubba Raceway Park, the Watertown, N.Y., driver and reigning Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion didn't have an immediate Full Story
