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• Notes: Dillard's WoO hole still getting deeper

  Posted: 03/07/2021, 08:06 am By Robert Holman

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 6) — Cade Dillard's season couldn't have looked more promising midway through the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series-opening main event. But as his WoO campaign heads toward the thick of the regular Full Story

• Georgia rookie ready for challenges of SAS tour

  Posted: 03/04/2021, 07:52 am By Joshua Joiner

  Payton Freeman has big plans for 2021. As he prepares to graduate from high school in May, the 18-year-old racer from Commerce, Ga., is not only launching his first full season of Super Late Model racing, he’s doing so with plans to follow Full Story

• Column: Mars pondering future of chassis, career

  Posted: 03/03/2021, 01:31 pm

  When Jimmy Mars tutors open-wheel modified ace Rodney Sanders in the subtleties of Dirt Late Model racing, the veteran driver and chassis builder from Menomonie, Wis., finds himself looking, and considering, his future in the sport. “Well, Full Story

• Fast Talk: Analyzing the March toward spring

  Posted: 03/01/2021, 11:40 am

  Ready for March to come in like a lion and out like a lamb, our weekly roundtable considers what's ahead along with a few other issues in Dirt Late Model racing in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for Full Story

• J.D. leaves options open heading to spring races

  Posted: 02/26/2021, 02:41 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Just because Jonathan Davenport has announced his intention to run the Bristol Dirt Nationals on March 19-20 doesn’t mean he’s abandoning his pursuit of a record-tying fourth career Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship. Davenport, Full Story

• Fellow racers treasure Head’s generous legacy

  Posted: 02/25/2021, 09:10 am By Joshua Joiner

  Dale McDowell’s memory of his first encounter with Mike Head some 40 years ago is a bit fuzzy. It was likely at one of the red-clay Georgia dirt tracks where a young McDowell watched as Head in his famous orange No. 54 car emerged as Full Story

• Column: Future is bright for O'Neal, Double Down

  Posted: 02/24/2021, 04:21 pm

  Roger Sellers can’t say he was surprised that the new driver of his Double Down Motorsports equipment, Hudson O’Neal, needed just two starts this season to reach victory lane. That’s how much confidence the car owner has in his 20-year-old Full Story

• Notes: Knowles, Welshan chase winter crown

  Posted: 02/23/2021, 01:21 pm

  With two events remaining on the Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series, the sixth-year tour's points chase is heating up with the $2,500 title on the line. The series is scheduled to head to Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway on Feb. 26-27 Full Story

• Fast Talk: Who’ll be up front on national tours?

  Posted: 02/22/2021, 10:48 am

  With much of the nation still thawing out from winter storms, our roundtable stares into the crystal ball for 2021 and reviews the latest happenings in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and Full Story

• Column: ‘Big personality’ puts Erb in the spotlight

  Posted: 02/18/2021, 03:10 pm

  He was arguably the biggest story of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2021. The driver who grabbed the most attention, good or bad, of anyone who competed in the annual winter stretch of racing. And all that despite his Speedweeks ending Feb. Full Story

• Notes: Wimpey hottest 602 racer in the country

  Posted: 02/17/2021, 10:07 am By Brian McLeod

  No driver was heading toward the Crate Racin’ USA 602 Late Model portion of the East Bay Winternationals any hotter than Seth Wimpey. The 37-year-old driver from Blue Ridge, Ga., has already logged three special event feature victories Full Story

• Top 25: Overton leads youth charge atop poll

  Posted: 02/16/2021, 08:25 am By Joshua Joiner

  Leading a youth movement atop of DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 poll, Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., grabbed the No. 1 spot in the first post-Speedweeks edition of the power rankings that includes the five top-ranking drivers all under the age Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recounting Speedweeks storylines

  Posted: 02/15/2021, 07:54 am

  With Georgia-Florida Speedweeks behind us, our roundtable considers the busy stretch of racing with the winners, losers, surprises and storylines in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): What Full Story

• Numbers tell story after 16 Speedweeks events

  Posted: 02/15/2021, 06:16 am By Todd Turner

  A by-the-numbers review of 16 Super Late Model races from Georgia-Florida Speedweeks action for Super Late Models, made up of Jan. 14-Feb. 12 action at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., All-Tech Raceway in Ellisville, Fla., East Full Story

• Middle of the road pays off for Overton at Volusia

  Posted: 02/14/2021, 08:32 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 12) — Brandon Overton played the long game during the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park. While so many of his rivals were pounding the half-mile oval’s cushion through the first four nights of the event’s Full Story

• Podium-flirting also-ran aims to prove he belongs

  Posted: 02/13/2021, 06:29 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 12) — Brent Larson began to climb out of his car’s cockpit after parking at his trailer in Volusia Speedway Park’s pit area, but he stopped with his legs still inside. Sitting on the edge of the door, he leaned Full Story

• Suddenly, Volusia is one of Moran’s best tracks

  Posted: 02/12/2021, 12:51 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 11) — Well before making a last-minute decision to enter the 50th DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park, Devin Moran saw something about the place that gave him a good feeling. “I watched the first two Full Story

• Notes: Flat tire robs Pierce of first WoO win

  Posted: 02/11/2021, 01:37 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 10) — For a brief moment late in Wednesday’s 40-lap DIRTcar Nationals feature at Volusia Speedway Park, it appeared Bobby Pierce’s pursuit of an elusive World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series victory Full Story

• No winners at Volusia in Sheppard-Norris scrape

  Posted: 02/11/2021, 08:06 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 10) — In a race with no shortage of storylines, Brandon Sheppard and Michael Norris combined to produce the most controversial one. The 28-year-olds first came together at the end the backstretch while battling Full Story

• After ultra-brief season, Sivils giving it another go

  Posted: 02/10/2021, 07:09 am By Lyndal Scranton

  Jason 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 am

  BARBERVILLE, 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

• Lukon makes most of first crack at East Bay

  Posted: 02/09/2021, 11:15 am By Joshua Joiner

  GIBSONTON, Fla. — For years Kyle Lukon has heard drivers discussing the difficulties of steering a Dirt Late Model at East Bay Raceway Park. And for years, the veteran Crate Late Model racer from Burgettstown, Pa., has refused to believe Full Story

• T-Mac rekindles Volusia magic in DIRTcar opener

  Posted: 02/09/2021, 05:54 am By Kevin Kovac

  BARBERVILLE, 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 pm

  Brandon 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 am

  After 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