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• Fast Facts: 19th annual Firecracker 100

  Posted: 06/17/2025, 07:02 am By Aaron Clay

  Dates: June 19-21 (split-field qualifying nights on Thursday and Friday, featuring 25-lap, $5,000-to-win semifeatures for Late Models; heat races and consolations precede Saturday’s 100-lap finale; RUSH Crate Late Models are on the undercard Full Story

• Strand going with flow during NLRA hot streak

  Posted: 06/16/2025, 03:17 pm By Todd Turner

  Dustin Strand is on a streak never seen before in the 28-year history of the Northern LateModel Racing Association. Coupled with four series victories to wrap up the 2024 season, the East Grand Forks, Minn., driver has captured the first Full Story

• Tough going for Family Robinson on AMS tour

  Posted: 06/15/2025, 09:07 am By Kyle McFadden

  BEDFORD, Pa. (June 13) — Ross and Amanda Robinson looked forward to Selinsgrove Ford Appalachian Mountain Speedweek. Planning to contest every miniseries event, the Georgetown, Del., husband-wife duo don’t often get the opportunity Full Story

• Speedweek lights fuse to Zeigler's campaign

  Posted: 06/14/2025, 02:28 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BEDFORD, Pa. (June 13) — With two Appalachian Mountain Speedweek wins in a row, it’s easy for Mason Zeigler or anyone to think it would’ve been better for the Chalk Hill, Pa., driver to commit himself to the Jim Bernheisel-run miniseries Full Story

• Dispatches: Chad Simpson back in victory lane

  Posted: 06/15/2025, 08:02 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of June 13-14, including the DIRTcar Summer Nationals among other weekend special events (look for coverage of Selinsgrove Ford Appalachian Mountain Speedweek Full Story

• Column: Weaver finds niche as Eldora analyst

  Posted: 06/12/2025, 01:29 pm

  Nearly five years after debuting as an analyst on the FloRacing broadcasts of the crown jewel events at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, Randy Weaver can’t deny that his camera time has given him a new image in the Dirt Late Model world. First Full Story

• Notes: S.C. driver hitting his stride

  Posted: 06/12/2025, 04:11 am By Todd Turner

  As with most hobby dirt track racers, Thomas Hedgpath has mostly squeezed in his racing career amid making a living, raising a family and handling all the other non-racing things that come along with being the average citizen. Hedgpath Full Story

• Moyer keeps rolling amid team, health challenges

  Posted: 06/11/2025, 11:44 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 10) — No matter what else is going on, Billy Moyer has a tendency to focus on the task at hand — making his race car go fast. The 67-year-old Hall of Famer did just that Tuesday night at the Brownstown Bullring, Full Story

• After travel misstep, veteran tastes Hell Tour

  Posted: 06/10/2025, 03:05 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 10) — Fulfilling a bucket list item, dirt racer Chuck Southard of Franklin, N.C., was excited about running for the first time on the Midwestern-based DIRTcar Summer Nationals. The 57-year-old retiree spent the Full Story

• Notes: Minitour spotlight on American Racers

  Posted: 06/09/2025, 07:58 pm By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (June 7) — Selinsgrove Ford Appalachian Mountain Speedweek is perhaps the most crucial stretch of races American Racer has prepared for as a tire brand in Dirt Late Model racing. Until this year, the Indiana, Pa.-based Full Story

• Fast Talk: All things Dream XXXI from Eldora

  Posted: 06/09/2025, 11:11 am

  With Jonathan Davenport capturing his third consecutive Dream, our roundtable discusses Eldora’s huge event among other races in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length; complete Full Story

• Dream winner's Eldora mastery stirs fans, foes

  Posted: 06/08/2025, 11:35 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 7) — Saturday’s Dream XXXI finale at Eldora Speedway was 22 laps old and Jonathan Davenport still sat in 13th place — exactly where he had started the 100-lap race. | Complete Dream coverage There was nothing Full Story

• Tire management key to J.D.'s Eldora ownership

  Posted: 06/08/2025, 06:43 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 7) — Taking care of your tires over 100 grueling laps at Eldora Speedway is always important. During Saturday’s Dream XXXI when the half-mile track surface’s dirt crumbs chewed up rubber quicker than usual, it Full Story

• Eldora embraces Rice's career-richest victory

  Posted: 06/07/2025, 11:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Jerry Rice is one of the most approachable guys in the Dirt Late Model pit area, but he had to be a little standoffish during Friday's held-over 50-lap Dream XXXI preliminary feature at Eldora Speedway. | Complete Full Story

• Part-timer Culp mixes it up with the best at Big E

  Posted: 06/07/2025, 01:55 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Pitted in the far reaches of Eldora Speedway’s upper pit area, back behind the green-lit helipad where the track’s PA announcements are faint and its haloed lights are distant, Timothy Culp’s cell phone Full Story

• Rollovers ruin nights for Big E's front-row starters

  Posted: 06/07/2025, 01:16 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — The twentysomething front-row starters in Eldora Speedway’s second Dream XXXI preliminary feature on Friday evening had such high hopes. But instead of a $30,000 payday and the glory of winning at the legendary Full Story

• Notes: Third time's more harm for Dohm's Dream

  Posted: 06/06/2025, 12:50 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 5) — No blown engine is a good one, but the three failures Zack Dohm has suffered during his Eldora Speedway career have been particularly harsh. The third came Thursday night while the 36-year-old Cross Lanes, W.Va., Full Story

• How much info-sharing is too much for racers?

  Posted: 06/05/2025, 04:37 pm By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 5) — The sharing of information among drivers in a Dirt Late Model pit area is usually a mixed bag. Your chassis manufacturer, paid racing consultant or longtime racing buddy is a trustworthy source to steer you Full Story

• Column: The night J.D.'s Big E success got rolling

  Posted: 06/05/2025, 08:24 am

  Can it be? Was Jonathan Davenport’s first-ever crown jewel victory — that unforgettable moment in Dirt Late Model history when he inherited the $100,000 Dream prize because apparent winner Scott Bloomquist weighed in light at Eldora Full Story

• Notes: Streak continues for Shadyhill standout

  Posted: 06/05/2025, 07:57 am By Todd Turner

  The 2025 season for Dirt Late Model racer Jace Owens is looking a lot like 2024. The reigning Limited Late Model champion at Shadyhill Speedway in Medaryville, Ind., has four victories in his first four starts of the season at the quarter-mile Full Story

• Son's Freddy tribute stirs up emotions for Winger

  Posted: 06/04/2025, 06:35 pm By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — To say 2000 was a life-changing year for veteran crew chief Gary Winger is an understatement. January marked the birth of Gary and his wife Lynn's son Ashton. And June took Gary to Eldora Speedway’s victory Full Story

• 10 favorites heading to Eldora's Dream XXXI

  Posted: 06/03/2025, 09:21 pm By Kyle McFadden

  A look at 10 favorites (listed alphabetically) for Dream XXXI, the June 5-7 event at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, with a pair of $30,000-to-win prelims and $100,000-to-win finale. Dream Week starts June 4 with a $20,000-to-win FloRacing Full Story

• Lucas Oil teams embrace evolution of Speedweeks

  Posted: 06/03/2025, 03:19 pm By Kevin Kovac

  A national touring series director can never be totally certain how a big change to their circuit will be perceived by racers and teams. So naturally, when the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series recently announced that its 2026 Georgia-Florida Full Story

• Top-10 lists of statistics from Dream history

  Posted: 06/03/2025, 07:08 am By Todd Turner

  Top-10 lists of individual statistics from Eldora’s Speedways Dream from 1994-2024 (Complete Dream coverage): Earnings $894,968 - Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn. $421,450 - Brandon Overton, Evans, Ga. $393,355 - Jonathan Davenport, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Our panelists are just living the Dream

  Posted: 06/02/2025, 10:18 am

  With a relatively light schedule — but Bobby Pierce adding two more victories — our roundtable checks in while looking ahead to the $100,000-to-win Dream at Eldora Speedway in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Full Story