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After ultra-brief season, Sivils giving it another go
Posted: 02/10/2021, 07:09 am By Lyndal ScrantonJason Sivils’ 2020 racing season was over almost before it began when he took a brutal rollover on the frontstretch just as Lucas Oil Speedway’s opening-night feature went green. The damage to Sivils’ destroyed race car last May Full Story
Column: Pierce dedicates Volusia win to Aunt Jenn
Posted: 02/10/2021, 07:10 amBARBERVILLE, Fla. — Bobby Pierce sensed it. So did his mother, Angie. After word came on Tuesday that Pierce’s aunt, Jenn Henk, had been removed from life support following her hospitalization near Phoenix, Ariz., for a brain aneurysm Full Story
T-Mac rekindles Volusia magic in DIRTcar opener
Posted: 02/09/2021, 05:54 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 8) — Tim McCreadie had a feeling his 2021 Georgia-Florida Speedweeks fortunes might be ready to turn around when he drew the second starting spot for Monday night’s 30-lap DIRTcar Nationals opener at Volusia Full Story
Notes: B-Shepp plans to get on track at Volusia
Posted: 02/08/2021, 03:31 pmBrandon Sheppard’s season-opening run at the Sunshine Nationals in January has only poured more fuel in the fire to claim another Big Gator championship trophy during the 50th DIRTcar Nationals. In part, that's because it was his worst Full Story
Fast Talk: Sizing up chase for the Gator
Posted: 02/08/2021, 08:48 amAfter a weather-induced break before the final week of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks Super Late Model action, our roundtable gathers once again for the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Which Full Story
Column: Early-season car switch for Strickler
Posted: 02/05/2021, 12:01 amKyle Strickler gave it a shot. He tried, really tried, over the past nine nights of Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series action during Georgia-Florida Speedweeks to find a rhythm in the XR1 Rocket cars from the PCC Motorsports stable, but his Full Story
Covid scare behind him, Clanton gets special win
Posted: 02/03/2021, 07:18 am By Kevin KovacOCALA, Fla. (Feb. 2) — If Shane Clanton was prone to sentimentality, Tuesday would have been the night for him to show it. There was, after all, so much special significance to his victory in the 40-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story
Speedweeks progression lifts Thornton to victory
Posted: 02/02/2021, 02:47 pm By Kevin KovacOCALA, Fla. (Feb. 1) — The first seven starts of Ricky Thornton Jr.’s Georgia-Florida Speedweeks debut weren’t especially noteworthy. All the momentum that the open-wheel modified superstar had gained during January’s Keyser Manufacturing Full Story
Champs fall by wayside in J.D.'s jamup at Ocala
Posted: 02/02/2021, 07:21 am By Kevin KovacOCALA, Fla. (Feb. 1) — Brandon Sheppard couldn’t believe his eyes when he barreled into turn one on a lap-13 restart in Monday’s 40-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at Bubba Raceway Park. Right there in front of him, stalled Full Story
Speedweeks-bound Nash enjoys Boyd's stopover
Posted: 02/01/2021, 01:51 pm By Robert HolmanRINGGOLD, Ga. — Conveniently located just a mile off of I-75, Boyd’s Speedway straddles the Georgia-Tennessee state line. The track has often been a popular stopover for drivers heading to Georgia-Florida Speedweeks. When schedules Full Story
Fast Talk: Examining East Bay, eyeing Volusia
Posted: 02/01/2021, 10:07 amAs Georgia-Florida Speedweeks heads north from East Bay, our roundtable considers the eventful week at the Clay by the Bay, while looking ahead to upcoming action at North Florida, Screven and Volusia in the weekly feature presented by Full Story
East Bay provided challenges for Lucas Oil Series
Posted: 02/01/2021, 09:55 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 30) — Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie might not have told the world beforehand, but he had a little more than an inkling that the 45th Wrisco Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park was Full Story
Long memory for Junghans, long night for Zeigler
Posted: 01/30/2021, 02:28 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 29) — Mason Zeigler has reveled in the highest of highs during the Wrisco Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park. Friday night the driver from Chalk Hill, Pa., experienced the other side of the ledger. After starting Full Story
Notes: Younger McCarter off to a hot '21 start
Posted: 01/29/2021, 10:25 amPierce McCarter is the reigning champion of the Crate Racin' USA Winter Shootout Series, and while he's not defending his title, younger brother Mack McCarter is filling his shoes nicely. The younger McCarter had two standout performances Full Story
Long-awaited Lucas tour triumph relief for Scott
Posted: 01/29/2021, 06:12 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 28) — All of the trials and tribulations and moments of self-doubt that Stormy Scott experienced in two years of chasing the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series faded away Thursday in a wave of emotion at East Bay Raceway Full Story
South Dakotan proving he belongs at East Bay
Posted: 01/28/2021, 02:24 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. — Blair Nothdurft didn’t need to utter a word when asked how his Wrisco Winternationals was going after Tuesday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series program at East Bay Raceway Park. His megawatt smile told the story. A Full Story
Column: Rollover wreck doesn't deter Carpenter
Posted: 01/27/2021, 03:40 pmGIBSONTON, Fla. — Freddie Carpenter was sitting inside his trailer, peering outside at his crew and other passersby assessing the damage to his wrecked Kryptonite Dirt Late Model, when he offered the perfect summation of the crash he Full Story
Notes: Erb's East Bay win makes statement
Posted: 01/27/2021, 07:00 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 26) — Tyler Erb overtook 2020’s two winningest national Dirt Late Model drivers — the dynamic duo of Brandon Sheppard and Brandon Overton — to capture Tuesday night’s 30-lap Wrisco Industries Winternationals Full Story
'Zero moral victories' for Friesen in Late Models
Posted: 01/26/2021, 03:24 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 25) — Stewart Friesen didn’t have a smile on his face when he climbed out of his car following Monday’s Strawberry Dash at East Bay Raceway Park. His fourth-place finish in the race meant he didn’t qualify Full Story
Steering at Tampa oval? You're slip sliding at Bay
Posted: 01/26/2021, 07:45 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Jan. 25) — What do you call a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature with four leaders, a tangle that spun one pacesetter out of the top spot, 11 caution flags, two charging cushion-pounders chasing the low-riding eventual Full Story
Fast Talk: Lauding Larson and looking to East Bay
Posted: 01/25/2021, 06:51 amAs we get into the thick of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks, our roundtable considers Kyle Larson's rout at All-Tech and the upcoming events at East Bay in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and Full Story
Healing Moran focusing on long term tour goals
Posted: 01/24/2021, 12:15 pm By Joshua JoinerELLISVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 23) — After finishing more than 15 seconds behind race winner Kyle Larson in Saturday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at All-Tech Raceway, runner-up Devin Moran was asked if a late caution may have Full Story
Column: J.D. sets table for rebound campaign
Posted: 01/21/2021, 08:10 amJonathan Davenport had just secured a $35,000 payday with a virtually flawless run to victory in Sunday’s 50-lap Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout finale at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway when he received the question he knew was Full Story
Fast Talk: J.D.’s regrets and Speedweeks previews
Posted: 01/18/2021, 11:34 amAmid a busy stretch of winter action in Arizona and Florida, our weekly roundtable talks the winners and losers in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): How bad was Jonathan Davenport Full Story
East Bay-like surface mystifies Volusia racers
Posted: 01/16/2021, 12:08 pm By Joshua JoinerBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 16) — Racing at Volusia Speedway Park in mid-January, nearly a month earlier than the famed half-mile track typically hosts its Speedweeks action, isn’t the only major change for drivers participating in the Full Story
