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Notes: Gilpin unable to match home track success
Posted: 07/08/2020, 10:35 pm By Todd TurnerBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (July 8) — Coming off a $5,500 Super Late Model victory at Brownstown Speedway five days earlier, Devin Gilpin of Columbus, Ind., was anxious to battle DIRTcar Summer Nationals competitors coming to town. Instead, Gilpin Full Story
Column: Dad's critiques spur budding WoO rookie
Posted: 07/08/2020, 05:57 pmJust how much Ashton Winger’s first-ever World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series victory meant to him was evident as soon as he climbed out of his car last Friday night at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. After tossing Full Story
Top 25: WoO first-timer Winger joins rankings
Posted: 07/07/2020, 08:26 am By Todd TurnerCedar Lake Speedway's doubleheader weekend with $40,000 in winning purses rattled DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 with finale winner Brandon Sheppard peeling off a few first-place votes from Jimmy Owens and first-time World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Full Story
Fast Talk: Wrapping up Fourth of July weekend
Posted: 07/06/2020, 12:09 pmAfter a busy weekend waving U.S. and checkered flags, our weekly roundtable considers all the national touring and other action around the country as the second half of the season beings (edited for clarity and length): Which driver impressed Full Story
WRG ‘in great hands’ as Geisler takes next step
Posted: 07/06/2020, 06:27 am By Kevin KovacEven after the news of Ben Geisler’s departure from his longtime role as the chief marketing officer of the World of Outlaws and DIRTcar Racing was announced Friday, the 43-year-old who’s spent his entire life around racing — his Full Story
Spectators recovering after scary Laurens accident
Posted: 07/03/2020, 06:43 am By Robert HolmanTwo spectators were MedFlighted to Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital and two more transported to a local hospital after a Limited Late Model driven by Mike Kernells of Hodges, S.C., climbed the turn-four wall at Laurens Full Story
‘Heavy hearts’ at Wagner after star driver’s death
Posted: 07/03/2020, 05:44 am By Todd TurnerWhat was certain to be Wagner Speedway’s most celebrated weekend of the season with a Fourth of July doubleheader for touring Late Model racers has suddenly become what’s certainly the southeastern South Dakota track’s most mournful Full Story
Column: Winning magic gone, Madden departs
Posted: 07/02/2020, 10:40 amFrom the second half of the 2019 racing season through the first days of the current campaign, Chris Madden and Scott Bloomquist Racing were a sublime combination. The veteran driver from Gray Court, S.C., could seemingly do no wrong as Full Story
Notes: Minnesota racer a winner over six decades
Posted: 07/02/2020, 09:15 am By Todd TurnerIt was satisfying for Tom Corcoran to still be racing competitively in his 50th season last year. But the veteran East Grand Forks, Minn., racer had one more itch to scratch. The 65-year-old had victories in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, Full Story
Quick Time: National tours before and after
Posted: 07/01/2020, 04:01 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
After rough start, Walker on winning track at Wheatland
Posted: 07/01/2020, 12:47 pm By Lyndal ScrantonDustin Walker will be aiming for his third feature victory of the season during Lucas Oil Speedway's Thursday Night Thunder for the Wheatland, Mo., track's Warsaw Auto Marine & RV-sponsored Late Model division. | 2020 Lucas Oil Speedway Full Story
Firecracker 100 windfall jolt for Blair’s finances
Posted: 07/01/2020, 07:43 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 27) — The final financial figures of Max Blair’s Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway were a bit, uh, mind-boggling to the 30-year-old driver from Centerville, Pa. As Blair paused momentarily from Saturday's Full Story
Top 25: Owens solid No. 1 as Dillard arrives
Posted: 06/30/2020, 06:03 am By Todd TurnerLucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series points leader Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., became the first unanimous choice for the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 power rankings after a dominating two-victory weekend on the national tour. Owens, Full Story
Notes: Bloomquist can’t complete solid weekend
Posted: 06/29/2020, 02:52 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 27) — Scott Bloomquist’s late-June rebound came to a screeching, frustrating halt Saturday at Lernerville Speedway. Riding a wave of four straight top-five finishes in World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Full Story
Fast Talk: Dillard, Owens … and fireworks debate
Posted: 06/29/2020, 10:59 amAfter a busy weekend of national touring action with a Lucas Oil sweep for Jimmy Owens and Cade Dillard capturing Lernerville's Firecracker 100, our weekly roundtable recaps the action looking toward Independence Day action (edited for Full Story
Firecracker winner reaps praises from WoO foes
Posted: 06/28/2020, 06:34 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 26) — Cade Dillard had relatively modest expectations when he arrived at Lernerville Speedway for the 14th annual Firecracker 100 weekend. “Man, realistically, a top-10 (finish), maybe a top-five,” Dillard said Full Story
A little this, a little that in spicy Firecracker heat
Posted: 06/27/2020, 02:50 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 26) — A multicar wreck. A rolled car. A lengthy cleanup. An incensed driver. A stirring rally. Yes, the first heat race of Friday night’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series-sanctioned Firecracker Full Story
Victory makes B-Shepp 'feel better about life'
Posted: 06/27/2020, 03:56 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 26) — The smile on Brandon Sheppard’s face as he stood outside the Rocket Chassis house car team’s trailer and signed autographs for a line of patiently waiting fans after Friday’s 25-lap Firecracker 100 preliminary Full Story
Weiss (barely) salvages plagued Firecracker trip
Posted: 06/26/2020, 02:51 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 25) — Every racer has a travel nightmare story — probably many stories — to tell. Ricky Weiss added another one to his personal list en route to the Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway. | RaceWire Weiss, Full Story
Blair proud of win, but hates how it happened
Posted: 06/26/2020, 06:13 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 25) — Max Blair couldn’t quite bring himself to totally let loose after winning Thursday night’s 25-lap Firecracker 100 preliminary feature at Lernerville Speedway. Oh, the 30-year-old driver from Centerville, Pa., Full Story
Notes: Goal-driven Pennsylvanian off to hot start
Posted: 06/25/2020, 08:42 am By Todd TurnerLike with most racers — and most people in general — the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting limitations has thrown a wrench in 2020 plans, forcing the resetting of goals and expectations during the strangest of years. Braeden Dillinger Full Story
Column: Mitchell boosts chassis Wright direction
Posted: 06/25/2020, 01:29 amHall of Fame chassis builder Barry Wright and his son, Lance, found themselves facing an uncomfortable question in recent weeks. As one of their Cowpens, S.C.-based company’s Southeast standard bearers, Zack Mitchell of Enoree, S.C., Full Story
Illinois rookie transitioning to Late Models
Posted: 06/24/2020, 12:29 pmAfter cutting his racing teeth at the down-and-dirty bullrings throughout Illinois in a lower divisions, 21-year-old Jeffrey Ledford of Pontiac, Ill., has landed where he’s always wanted to be. “If I could race Late Models for a living Full Story
Notes: Looney eager for MLRA's return to Wheatland
Posted: 06/24/2020, 10:08 amThe last time Payton Looney came to Lucas Oil Speedway, it was a weekend of extremes that you might say he "flipped" from one end of the spectrum to the other. At last October's Lucas Oil MLRA Fall Nationals in Wheatland, Mo., Looney found Full Story
'It's been an adventure' for Columbus, Miss., clan
Posted: 06/24/2020, 12:30 pm By Robert HolmanCOLUMBUS, Miss. — When scouting Dirt Late Model competition in Mississippi, few drivers can get through their evaluations without mentioning “the Rickmans.” Drivers with visiting series making their way to Columbus, Miss., typically Full Story










































