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• Slick moves carry Erb past Thornton in Arizona

  Posted: 01/16/2021, 06:28 am By Kevin Kovac

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 15) — Tyler Erb was standing behind his Best Performance Motorsports car, rehashing his stirring victory in Friday night’s 30-lap Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout feature at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway, Full Story

• Notes: Scrape dampens Dillard’s opening salvo

  Posted: 01/15/2021, 10:19 am By Joshua Joiner

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan 14) — What was shaping up to be the perfect start to the season for Cade Dillard took a wrong turn late in Thursday’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series season opener at Volusia Speedway Park. After Full Story

• More take, less give triggers Arizona pileup

  Posted: 01/14/2021, 08:13 am By Kevin Kovac

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — Brian Shirley saw the situation one way. Ricky Thornton Jr. viewed it another. In the first controversial moment of the 15th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway, Full Story

• Notes: Weaver falls shy in rare Ice Bowl effort

  Posted: 01/12/2021, 08:33 am By Robert Holman

  EASTABOGA, Ala. — Making just his third career Ice Bowl start on Sunday, Randy Weaver of Crossville, Tenn., had a relatively uneventful afternoon at Talladega Short Track. The three-time Southern All Star Series champion who finished Full Story

• Notes: Chasing bonus, J.D. bemoans mistake

  Posted: 01/12/2021, 08:11 am By Kevin Kovac

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 10) — If Jonathan Davenport goes on to sweep the final four races of the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout and earn the $100,000 bonus posted for winning five times in the six-race miniseries at FK Rod Ends Full Story

• Late Model-committed Thornton right at home

  Posted: 01/11/2021, 07:38 am By Kevin Kovac

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 10) — One glance at Ricky Thornton Jr.’s pit stall in the FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway pit area during the opening weekend of the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout made clear his focus for the 2021 campaign. There Full Story

• Talladega's most prolific Ice Bowler sits one out

  Posted: 01/10/2021, 06:27 am By Robert Holman

  No driver has started more Ice Bowl feature races at Talladega Short Track than Tim Roszell, who has been in the lineup 21 times in 29 events. But after qualifying for the last 13 straight, the 2015 event winner and native of nearby Coldwater, Full Story

• Hustle for ‘21 debut pays off for J.D. in Southwest

  Posted: 01/10/2021, 06:28 am By Kevin Kovac

  QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 9) — The flip of the calendar to Jan. 1 isn’t merely symbolic. It’s downright cathartic for some. You can put Jonathan Davenport in that category. “Definitely,” Davenport asserted after winning Saturday’s Full Story

• Alberson hopes to come ‘full circle’ in Arizona

  Posted: 01/07/2021, 08:16 am By Joshua Joiner

  Garrett Alberson has come a long way in the 11 years since he failed to qualify for a single main event while making his Dirt Late Model debut at the 2010 Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. But even though the Las Cruces, N.M., native Full Story

• Column: Seeking revival, Pierces receive injection

  Posted: 01/06/2021, 03:29 pm

  As Bobby Pierce’s hauler shoved off from his shop in Oakwood, Ill., on Wednesday to begin the 25-hour trip to Arizona Speedway outside Phoenix for the Jan. 9-17 Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, the 24-year-old standout stood buoyed Full Story

• Schlenk all business in making Arizona debut

  Posted: 01/05/2021, 01:06 pm By Joshua Joiner

  Like many Midwestern racers, the idea of escaping the harsh winter weather for a week of racing in Arizona in January has always been a tempting proposition for Rusty Schlenk. But the expense of a cross-country haul hasn't feasible for Full Story

• Fast Facts: Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout

  Posted: 01/05/2021, 09:24 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: ($5,000-to-win features, along with heats and consolations on Jan. 9, 10, 13, 15 and 16 and $25,000-to-win feature, along with heats and consolations on Jan. 17). Track: FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway Arizona Speedway, Queen Creek, Full Story

• Top 25: B-Shepp gets fourth preseason No. 1

  Posted: 01/05/2021, 09:25 am By Joshua Joiner

  As he prepares to launch his chase for a third straight and fourth overall World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series championship, Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., finds himself in a familiar spot. Sheppard, the 27-year-old Full Story

• Fast Talk: Arizona beckons as we ring in ‘21

  Posted: 01/04/2021, 06:48 am

  Putting the memories of underwhelming New Year's Eve parties behind us, our roundtable looks ahead to the quickly ramping up 2021 season in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Finish Full Story

• Column: Weeks calls it a career after virus bout

  Posted: 12/23/2020, 06:59 am

  Ricky Weeks conceded that he “almost quit” campaigning a Dirt Late Model some three years ago. He was closing in on 60 and his driving career was well into its fourth decade, so, perhaps not surprisingly, he had more than a few conversations Full Story

• Best of 2020: Your winter reading list

  Posted: 12/22/2020, 05:45 am By Andy Savary

  As part of our Best of 2020 coverage, DirtonDirt.com provides a winter reading list of some of the most popular stories, columns and blogs (Best of 2020 coverage): January Amended rule helps WoO rein in rear-deck heights - Kevin Kovac Blair’s Full Story

• Column: Watson tackles task of WVMS revival

  Posted: 12/17/2020, 02:24 pm

  Cody Watson grew up in Middlebourne, W.Va., the little town in the state’s northern mountains that is home to Tyler County Speedway. So naturally, when he ventured away from the quarter-mile bullring in his backyard for the first time Full Story

• Lucas tour rolls with Speedweeks changes

  Posted: 12/14/2020, 07:15 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie has already altered the opening stretch of the national tour’s 2021 schedule before the calendar has even flipped, but making those changes over the course of the past three days Full Story

• Best of 2020: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/14/2020, 07:44 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Midwestern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Column: Haley-backed Weiss designing chassis

  Posted: 12/10/2020, 05:42 pm

  The idea began to blossom in the minds of driver Ricky Weiss and his close friend and backer, J.R. Haley, as they sat in Weiss’s hauler shuttling between World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series events in 2020: Why don’t Full Story

• Best of 2020: Top-five lists of unusual season

  Posted: 12/09/2020, 07:13 am By Kevin Kovac

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2020 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2020 Full Story

• Fast Talk: Ornaments and unpopular opinions

  Posted: 12/07/2020, 06:54 am

  While visions of sugar plums begin dancing in the heads of many (not D.J., mind you), our roundtable tackles some offseason issues in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): Wax poetic about an overlooked Full Story

• Breakouts, newcomers and comebacks for 2020

  Posted: 12/07/2020, 05:26 am By Joshua Joiner

  As part of its ongoing Best of 2020 coverage, DirtonDirt.com hands out awards to worthy Dirt Late Model drivers. We rank the top breakout drivers, top newcomers, most improved drivers and comeback drivers for the past season. This season’s Full Story

• Column: Rumley's death stirs Shaver's memories

  Posted: 12/03/2020, 01:14 pm

  The Nov. 22 passing of Hall of Fame car owner Lee Roy Rumley triggered an avalanche of memories in Steve Shaver. There were, of course, all the personal moments the Vienna, W.Va., driver experienced with the 84-year-old legend from Greensboro, Full Story

• Drivers recall kindness, wisdom of late car owner

  Posted: 12/01/2020, 02:36 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Dirt-track racing — and the Dirt Late Model division in particular — lost an icon Nov. 22 when 84-year-old Lee Roy Rumley died at Beacon Place Hospice in his hometown of Greensboro, N.C. A 2016 National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame Full Story