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Feger makes progress in Summer Nationals 'war'
Posted: 06/19/2021, 11:50 am By Robert HolmanGRANITE CITY, Ill. (June 18) — Jason Feger finally had something to smile about. After a lackluster start to the 2021 DIRTcar Summer Nationals that included finishes of 15th, sixth and 10th, the 2010 series champion recorded his first Full Story
Column: Overton's hard knocks lead to success
Posted: 06/16/2021, 05:06 pmBrandon Overton didn’t end up on top of the Dirt Late Model world without taking his share of hard knocks. The 30-year-old star from Evans, Ga., experienced plenty of trials and tribulations on his way to a historic $273,000 sweep of Full Story
Notes: Lance finds lead but can’t outrun Pierce
Posted: 06/16/2021, 07:40 am By Robert HolmanBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (June 15) — When unheralded Tim Lance of Brimfield, Ill., zipped into the lead around race-long pacesetter Bobby Pierce if Oakwood, Ill., midway through Tuesday’s Hoosier Dirt Classic, the 40-lap, $5,000-to-win opener Full Story
Fast Talk: Wrapping our heads around Dreams
Posted: 06/14/2021, 11:48 amWhile Brandon Overton wakes up this morning, pinching himself that he wasn't dreaming about his $273,000 weekend at Eldora, our roundtable seeks perspective in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story
Notes: Fergy still in mix for Eldora breakthrough
Posted: 06/14/2021, 06:49 amROSSBURG, Ohio — Chris Ferguson keeps inching closer. Eventually, the driver from Mount Holly, N.C., feels like he’s going to have a breakthrough at Eldora Speedway. Ferguson finished third in Saturday’s Dream XXVI, his best career Full Story
Cleared after inspection, Overton gets high praise
Posted: 06/13/2021, 12:43 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 12) — Eldora Speedway’s pit area exploded into a cauldron of accusation and innuendo as soon as Brandon Overton swept the first half of the double Dreams week on Wednesday and Thursday. It didn’t let up when the Full Story
Masterful run at Eldora lifts Overton to pinnacle
Posted: 06/11/2021, 06:16 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — Brandon Overton walked into Eldora Speedway’s infield media center, sat down on a chair in front of a logo-filled backdrop and smiled at his surroundings like a wide-eyed little kid. “It’s fancy in here,” Full Story
Dream disappointment for Bailes at scales
Posted: 06/11/2021, 06:02 am By Joshua JoinerROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — After his car weighted in 8 pounds light following his third-place finish in Thursday’s first Dirt Late Model Dream consolation race at Eldora Speedway, Ross Bailes couldn’t decide if he was more disappointed Full Story
Notes: Bronson’s yo-yo Dream runs ends in third
Posted: 06/11/2021, 05:55 amROSSBURG, Ohio — Kyle Bronson's run during Thursday's Dream XXVII at Eldora Speedway was one of extremes. At times the Brandon, Fla., driver had the fastest car on the track and appeared to be destined to go to the front. At other times Full Story
Eldora's prelim winners continue data collection
Posted: 06/10/2021, 08:39 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Jonathan Davenport and Brandon Overton just wanted to use Wednesday’s Dream XXVII preliminary program at Eldora Speedway as a tuneup for Thursday’s 100-lap, $127,000-to-win finale. Winning the 25-lap features Full Story
Column: For Dreams, J.D. gets in Eldora zone
Posted: 06/09/2021, 05:53 amIt’s Dirt Late Model Dream Week — make that “double” Dream Week this year — at Eldora Speedway, which means that Jonathan Davenport isn’t his usual self. He’s squarely in the midst of his twice-annual transformation into a Full Story
Dream-winning crew chief reflects on Eldora
Posted: 06/08/2021, 08:15 am By Kevin KovacThe first time Robby Allen attended a race at the famed Eldora Speedway was September 1991. Then a budding 21-year-old mechanic in the Dirt Late Model world, he traveled to the Rossburg, Ohio, track’s marquee event, the World 100, in Full Story
Fast Facts: Eldora's Double Dreams week
Posted: 06/08/2021, 07:34 am By Robert HolmanDates: June 9-12 (Twin $10,000-to-win features Wednesday and Friday; heats, consolations and $127,000-to-win main event Thursday; heats, consolations and $126,000-to-win main event Saturday). Track: Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio (high-banked Full Story
Fast Talk: Are we only Dreaming? Yes, we are
Posted: 06/07/2021, 09:26 amReviewing a busy weekend and looking ahead the unprecedented Double Dreams week at Eldora Speedway, our roundtable convenes in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): What's your takeaway(s) Full Story
Equipment, prep crucial for lucrative Dream week
Posted: 06/06/2021, 11:56 am By Joshua JoinerZack Dohm remembers a time when a trip to one of Eldora Speedway’s crown jewel events included surprisingly little on-track action for racers who weren’t quite fast enough to crack the main event lineup. Back then, when Dohm was a Full Story
Notes: Moran's bad luck streak holding at WVMS
Posted: 06/05/2021, 12:20 pm By Kevin KovacMINERAL WELLS, W.Va. (June 4) — Devin Moran’s car owner, Tye Twarog, appropriately summed up his team’s fate through two starts this season at West Virginia Motor Speedway moments after the conclusion of Friday’s 30-lap feature Full Story
Column: Here’s to the crew, Mrs. Robinson
Posted: 06/02/2021, 04:56 pmAmanda Robinson didn’t want to hang up her helmet and driver’s uniform. She’s just 26 years old, after all, and she’s won the Super Late Model championship at her home-state track, Delaware International Speedway in Delmar, each Full Story
Notes: Erb soldiers on after Show-Me rollover
Posted: 05/31/2021, 02:01 pm By Joshua JoinerWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 28) — When a tangle sent his car up and slowly over on its roof on lap 58 of Saturday’s Show-Me 100 presented by ProtecttheHarvest.com feature, Tyler Erb thought for sure his nightmare of a weekend at Lucas Oil Speedway Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing the Show-Me 100
Posted: 05/31/2021, 11:45 amAfter a weather-hampered but busy Memorial Day weekend, including Hudson O'Neal's Show-me 100 victory, our roundtable convenes for the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): What strikes Full Story
B-Shepp's No. B5 potent during Show-Me charge
Posted: 05/30/2021, 05:35 pm By Joshua JoinerWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 29) — By the time Brandon Sheppard drove his family-owned No. B5 race car to his pit area following his runner-up finish in Saturday’s Show-Me 100 presented by ProtecttheHarvest.com feature at Lucas Oil Speedway, Full Story
O'Neal savors Show-Me, extends family legacy
Posted: 05/30/2021, 05:38 am By Joshua JoinerWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 29) — Hudson O’Neal remembers well the night his father and legendary racer Don O’Neal won the 2014 Show-Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway. That’s not because the younger O’Neal took part in his father’s victory Full Story
Fergy hoping to recoup losses at Show-Me 100
Posted: 05/29/2021, 02:16 pm By Joshua JoinerWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 29) — As he looked around his pit area following Friday’s preliminary night doubleheader at Lucas Oil Speedway’s Show-Me 100 presented by ProtecttheHarvest.com, Chris Ferguson couldn’t help but start adding up Full Story
Notes: Cosner takes aim at his first Show-Me start
Posted: 05/28/2021, 06:18 pm By Joshua JoinerWHEATLAND, Mo. (May 28) — For years, Matt Cosner has watched the Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com online or on TV and dreamed of one day competing in the crown jewel event at Lucas Oil Speedway. After finally making the Full Story
Column: National tours' measure of cooperation
Posted: 05/27/2021, 12:51 amThe Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series are competitors. But just because they stand as the sport’s two national tours and highest-profile entities doesn’t mean that they’re organizations Full Story
Notes: As father recovers, Pilkerton refocuses
Posted: 05/27/2021, 12:21 am By Todd TurnerTo say Jeremy Pilkerton was preoccupied behind the wheel of his Crate Late Model on May 15 at Potomac Speedway is an understatement. Competing at the Budds Creek, Md., oval eight days after his 60-year-old father Jeff suffered a heart Full Story
