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• 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

• Feger hopes to continue Illini success in Arizona

  Posted: 01/04/2021, 06:35 am By Joshua Joiner

  With Illinois drivers Bobby Pierce, Brandon Sheppard and Brian Shirley combining to capture nine of its most recent 12 features, the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts has proven to be a lucrative Full Story

• They said it: My favorite quotes from ’20 season

  Posted: 12/30/2020, 10:20 am By Kevin Kovac

  After another spent filling my reporter’s notebook and voice recorder with interviews of Dirt Late Model personalities, here’s my favorite quotes I gathered during an unprecedented 2020 season: “I might get picked on for it, but Full Story

• Full-bore racing focus pays for Alabama driver

  Posted: 12/28/2020, 07:59 am By Robert Holman

  Ryan King won a remarkable 63 percent of his starts while competing in the 602 Crate Late Model division in 2020. King picked up 20 wins on the year — capped by a Dec. 19 victory at Hollis Speedway in Heflin, Ala. — while also winning 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

• Brothers Overton: Cody chases speedy Brandon

  Posted: 12/21/2020, 08:22 am By Joshua Joiner

  With an impressive campaign that produced 26 victories in 81 starts, it may seem Brandon Overton was singularly focused in 2020. But the 29-year-old emerging superstar from Evans, Ga., had more on his mind during his stellar season than 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

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

  Posted: 12/16/2020, 06:44 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Southern states (individually for states with at least five weekly Late Model tracks; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 coverage): Alabama Top Full Story

• Best of 2020: Northern, Western state capsules

  Posted: 12/15/2020, 07:04 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2020 superlatives of the Northern and Western states (individually for states with at least five weekly Late Model tracks; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2020 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

• Fast Talk: Christmas gift ideas for rival drivers

  Posted: 12/14/2020, 11:47 am

  In the final Fast Talk of 2020, topics include Christmas gift ideas based on the season’s most dramatic moments and a preview of notable races planned for the year ahead in our weekly roundtable presented by Castrol (edited for clarity 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

• Sheppard leads list of our Drivers of the Year

  Posted: 12/02/2020, 06:48 am By Robert Holman

  With the 2020 racing season in the books, DirtonDirt.com takes a closer look at top five national drivers as well as regional and weekly Dirt Late Model competition. Check our video coverage for DirtonDirt.com’s Top Five Drivers overall, 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

• DirtonDirt.com's Best of '20 coverage index

  Posted: 12/31/2020, 01:04 pm

  Index of DirtonDirt.com’s Best of 2020 coverage with an installment most non-holiday weekdays throughout December (2020 track and series champions): Wednesday, Dec. 2: Top drivers (video and text) Thursday, Dec. 3: Best victory lane Full Story