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Fast Talk: Victory lane surprises and tour resets
Posted: 07/20/2020, 12:29 pmAmid another busy weekend of national touring and regional touring events, our Castrol-sponsored weekly roundtable considers the winners, news and happenings around the sport (edited for clarity and length): Detail the exploits of a surprising Full Story
Looney, home-staters relish Show-Me success
Posted: 07/19/2020, 02:27 pm By Kevin KovacWHEATLAND, Mo. (July 18) — Winning the Show-Me 100 means a bit more to Payton Looney than the average Dirt Late Model racer. For starters, the 26-year-old driver from Republic, Mo., has been attending the event that he captured on Saturday Full Story
Bitter ending for Klein's shot at first tour victory
Posted: 07/19/2020, 05:36 am By Todd TurnerHIGHLAND, Ill. — In gunning for his first career DIRTcar Summer Nationals victory, Daryn Klein had everything going his way Saturday night at Highland Speedway. A solid time trial effort helped set up a heat race victory, then the Fairview Full Story
Hometowner on track with Needmore podium
Posted: 07/18/2020, 12:55 pm By Joshua JoinerNORMAN PARK, Ga. (July 17) — No one was looking forward to Friday’s Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals race at Needmore Speedway more than John Baker. After a rough start to the 12-race Southern Nationals tour, the Super Late Model rookie Full Story
DQ dampens Scheffler’s solid run at Farmer City
Posted: 07/18/2020, 10:56 am By Kevin KovacFARMER CITY, Ill. (July 17) — Taylor Scheffler should have been flashing a megawatt smile. He should have been standing happily in the pit area, savoring arguably the best run outside his home turf of his young Dirt Late Model career. Instead, Full Story
Southern Nationals title chase narrows to 2 cars
Posted: 07/17/2020, 12:34 pm By Joshua JoinerSENOIA, Ga. (July 16) — It appears the cream has risen to the top on the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals. With two wins apiece in the tour’s first five races, former series champions Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., and Brandon Overton Full Story
Part-timer K-Rob spoons up satisfying series win
Posted: 07/17/2020, 12:22 pm By Kevin KovacBANNER, Ill. (July 16) — As Kent Robinson stood in Spoon River Speedway’s pit area rehashing his victory in Thursday’s 40-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals feature, his 2-year-old daughter, Lane, was a few feet away, hard at work with Full Story
Schlenk taking Summer Nationals in moderation
Posted: 07/16/2020, 01:09 pm By Kevin KovacPLYMOUTH, Ind. (July 14) — Rusty Schlenk has been a DIRTcar Summer Nationals regular for the last two years, so where was he when the coronavirus-delayed series finally commenced on July 8 at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway? Working in his Full Story
Notes: Special satisfaction for former crewman
Posted: 07/16/2020, 04:16 am By Joshua JoinerOn July 4, Mitch Caskey climbed from his Super Late Model and stood in victory lane at Midway Speedway in Crooksville, Ohio, after topping a 15-car field in the 3/8-mile oval’s weekly Super Late Model feature. Standing in victory lane Full Story
Notes: I-75 knowledge boost for King
Posted: 07/15/2020, 04:29 pm By Robert HolmanSWEETWATER, Tenn. (July 14) — Ryan King of Seymour, Tenn., recorded his best Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals finish in three starts this season with a fifth-place in Tuesday’s 35-lap, $3,500-to-win main event at I-75 Raceway. Behind Full Story
Quick Time: Weighing 2020's midseason awards
Posted: 07/15/2020, 03:49 pmTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story
Column: Series not truly the Hell Tour until …
Posted: 07/15/2020, 01:55 pmThe timing of this year’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals might be different, but the basic tenets of the grueling circuit known as the Hell Tour haven’t changed a bit. When the same drivers — drivers so familiar with each other — compete Full Story
Notes: Hedgecock keeps pace on Southern Nat'ls
Posted: 07/14/2020, 10:41 am By Robert HolmanBULLS GAP, Tenn. — Cory Hedgecock is one of three drivers to have two podium finishes through the first three Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series races this season, joining Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., and Brandon Overton of Full Story
Top 25: B-Shepp back on top as Madden climbs
Posted: 07/14/2020, 09:33 am By Joshua JoinerBrandon Sheppard’s hot streak on the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series has lifted the New Berlin, Ill., driver back to the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings presented by Bilstein Shocks. Riding the Full Story
Fast Talk: Summer racing gets into full swing
Posted: 07/13/2020, 10:48 amOur weekly roundtable presented by Castrol Oil reviews a busy weekend that featured events for both national tours and big races for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals and the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals (edited for clarity and length): Full Story
Lucrative races thriving in East Tennessee co-op
Posted: 07/13/2020, 07:52 am By Robert HolmanMARYVILLE, Tenn. — There’s gold in them thar hills. When Mark Twain’s character Col. Mulberry Sellers muttered that phrase in the 1892 novel "The American Claimant," it was thought that Twain himself had originally heard a similar Full Story
Bailes aims to capitalize on Southern Nationals
Posted: 07/12/2020, 07:14 am By Robert HolmanRURAL RETREAT, Va. (June 11) — Ross Bailes has started on the front row of both Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series events this season. Now the Clover, S.C., driver wants to work on staying there. In the July 10 opener of the Ray Full Story
Notes: Gundaker's bold move pays at Fairbury
Posted: 07/12/2020, 06:42 am By Todd TurnerFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 11) — Gordy Gundaker obviously made some impressive moves in rallying from his 15th starting spot for a $10,000 DIRTcar Summer Nationals victory at Fairbury Speedway. But none were more important than on lap 42 when Full Story
Ill-fated restart decision at Fairbury pains Shirley
Posted: 07/12/2020, 04:50 am By Todd TurnerFAIRBURY, Ill. (July 11) — Brian Shirley isn’t sure he could’ve held off Gordy Gundaker’s impressive low-groove charge Saturday at Fairbury Speedway. But the Chatham, Ill., driver would certainly like to know what might’ve happened Full Story
Bizarre Tri-City heat race isn't over until it's over
Posted: 07/11/2020, 05:54 am By Todd TurnerGRANITE CITY, Ill. — In his lengthy career, 62-year-old Hall of Famer Billy Moyer has done just about everything you can do on a dirt track. But Friday’s heat race in DIRTcar Summer Nationals competition at Tri-City Speedway was a new Full Story
Notes: Carpenter laments Tri-City frustrations
Posted: 07/11/2020, 05:23 am By Todd TurnerGRANITE CITY, Ill. — Long after the checkers fell Friday at Tri-City Speedway, Tyler Carpenter of Parkersburg, W.Va., checked out his No. 28 machine, battered and bruised with virtually every sheetmetal panel removed from the car in his Full Story
Notes: Overton salvages niggling tour opener
Posted: 07/11/2020, 05:03 am By Robert HolmanMARYVILLE, Tenn. — The 16th annual Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series got off to an inauspicious start for two-time and reigning series champion Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga. Overton turned the third quickest lap in Group A during Full Story
Southern Nat'ls upstart carries best of intentions
Posted: 07/10/2020, 09:05 am By Joshua JoinerThe opening race of the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals can’t get here soon enough for Jake Knowles. That’s not only because Knowles is ready for the chance to improve on his runner-up points finish on the tour last season. The Rome, Full Story
After taking licking, Weisser's car keeps ticking
Posted: 07/09/2020, 07:53 am By Todd TurnerBROWNSTOWN, Ind. — Allen Weisser wasn’t focused on clicking off a top-five finish Wednesday at Brownstown Speedway’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals opener. The 27-year-old Peoria, Ill., driver was more concerned whether his Chris Osborne-owned Full Story
Notes: Steady setup puts Iowan in victory lane
Posted: 07/09/2020, 04:13 am By Todd TurnerTinkering with shock changes and suspension setups provides virtually endless variables that can lead Dirt Late Model racers to get far away from a baseline. Plenty of racers have been there, IMCA racer Eric Pollard knows all too well. “We’ve Full Story
