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Quick Time: Analyzing same-track tour success
Posted: 07/29/2020, 12:26 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
Top 25: Shirley climbs with Summer Nationals wins
Posted: 07/28/2020, 11:47 am By Joshua JoinerFresh off his $53,000 victory in Saturday’s Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., has re-established complete control of the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings presented Full Story
By-the-numbers review of Southern Nationals
Posted: 07/28/2020, 10:21 am By Robert HolmanA by-the-numbers review of the 16th annual Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals, the 12-race miniseries at Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina tracks from July 10-25 promoted by Ray Cook (complete Southern Nationals coverage): 0: Full Story
Overton emerges atop tour’s tight points chase
Posted: 07/28/2020, 08:48 am By Robert HolmanTAZEWELL, Tenn. (July 25) — Despite winning half of the 12 Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series races this season, 2020 series champion Brandon Overton’s slim points lead was anything but safe heading into the tour’s final event Full Story
Fast Talk: B-Shepp's big win at I-80 Speedway
Posted: 07/27/2020, 11:29 amFollowing another busy weekend of racing highlighted by I-80 Speedway's Silver Dollar Nationals, our weekly roundtable presented by Castrol considers the winners, news and happenings around the sport (edited for clarity and length): Brandon Full Story
Notes: ‘Rookie mistake’ costs Erb lead at I-80
Posted: 07/27/2020, 10:28 am By Kevin KovacGREENWOOD, Neb. (July 25) — Tyler Erb felt he had a car capable of winning Saturday’s 10th annual Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway — if only he had been savvy enough to do the right things while both racing and Full Story
Lucrative Tazewell win cures ills for Virginian
Posted: 07/26/2020, 10:56 pm By Robert HolmanTAZEWELL, Tenn. (July 25) — If there’s a place for Dakotah Knuckles to get his race program back on track, Tazewell Speedway is certainly it. Since moving from the modified street class to Limited Late Models in 2015, Knuckles, of nearby Full Story
Rocket's sterling win? Hitt would've loved it
Posted: 07/26/2020, 02:03 pm By Kevin KovacGREENWOOD, Neb. (July 25) — Mark Richards had to be frank. As Saturday night’s 101-lap Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals wound down at I-80 Speedway, he felt some tinges of emotion run through his normally stoic body. “Yeah, Full Story
Frame impresses in Summer Nationals debut
Posted: 07/26/2020, 05:08 am By Todd TurnerCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A successful racer at his home track of Duck River Raceway Park in Wheel, Tenn., Jadon Frame of Decherd, Tenn., is getting the opportunity to branch out while racing as a teammate to car owner Joe Denby. And while Full Story
Notes: Overton approach for tour finale? Just win
Posted: 07/25/2020, 05:12 am By Robert HolmanSEYMOUR, Tenn. (July 25) — As the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series heads to Tazewell Speedway on Saturday for the 12th and final race of its 2020 campaign, series points leader Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., said he’s approaching Full Story
Hell Tour respite boosts Heckenast's performance
Posted: 07/24/2020, 11:36 am By Kevin KovacSPRINGFIELD, Mo. (July 23) — Before the start of Thursday night’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals program at Springfield Raceway, Frank Heckenast Jr. stood in the pit area and offered his first impression of a quarter-mile oval he had never Full Story
Hedgecock returns to Southern Nat'ls podium
Posted: 07/24/2020, 10:41 am By Robert HolmanCROSSVILLE, Tenn. (July 23) — Cory Hedgecock picked up right where he left off: on the podium in Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series action. The 27-year-old Loudon, Tenn., native is the only driver who has managed to win a Southern Full Story
Notes: Joyous I-80 win for brain tumor survivor
Posted: 07/23/2020, 10:25 am By Joshua JoinerWhen Brandon Saltzman of Omaha, Neb., earned his first-ever feature victory in the July 17 weekly Limited Late Model feature at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., he celebrated a lot like any other first-time winner might celebrate a breakthrough Full Story
Column: Family grounds Looney amid surreal win
Posted: 07/23/2020, 07:37 amOne comment Payton Looney made after his resounding victory in last Saturday night’s 28th Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., stood out from all others — and appropriately pointed Full Story
Notes: More speed, but more bad luck for Bailes
Posted: 07/22/2020, 08:38 am By Robert HolmanBRASSTOWN, N.C. (July 21) — The quiet frustration on the face of Clover, S.C.’s Ross Bailes as he worked on his Big Frog Motorsports Rocket XR1 race car Tuesday night following the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals event at Tri-County Full Story
Top 25: Overton rises as Looney joins poll
Posted: 07/21/2020, 10:30 am By Todd TurnerWhile top-ranked Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., kept winning, Schaeffer's Southern Nationals standout Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., chipped away at the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings presented by Bilstein Shocks. Sheppard, Full Story
With victory, refocused Feger in a better place
Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:31 am By Todd TurnerHIGHLAND, Ill. — The Jason Feger of 2020 is fully aware he’s not the same Jason Feger of 15 years ago, an up-and-coming racer on the cusp of his first DIRTcar Summer Nationals victory. And that long road from a twentysomething, devil-may-care Full Story
Young Georgian absorbs experience on busy tour
Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:18 am By Joshua JoinerSYLVANIA, Ga. (July 18) — For veteran drivers like Brandon Overton and Chris Madden, it’s easy to see the attraction of running the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals despite the toll that the grueling summer series takes on a race team. Certainly Full Story
Notes: Top-five finishes give Buckingham boost
Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:00 am By Kevin KovacWHEATLAND, Mo. — Shanon Buckingham’s weekend at Lucas Oil Speedway didn’t just jump-start his floundering 2020 season. It might have also saved it. With just a single top-five finish to his name in 24 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story
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
