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• Part-timer K-Rob spoons up satisfying series win

  Posted: 07/17/2020, 12:22 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BANNER, 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 Kovac

  PLYMOUTH, 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 Joiner

  On 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 Holman

  SWEETWATER, 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 pm

  Take 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 pm

  The 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 Holman

  BULLS 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 Joiner

  Brandon 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 am

  Our 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 Holman

  MARYVILLE, 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 Holman

  RURAL 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 Turner

  FAIRBURY, 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 Turner

  FAIRBURY, 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 Turner

  GRANITE 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 Turner

  GRANITE 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 Holman

  MARYVILLE, 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 Joiner

  The 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 Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, 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 Turner

  Tinkering 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

• Notes: Gilpin unable to match home track success

  Posted: 07/08/2020, 10:35 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, 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 pm

  Just 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 Turner

  Cedar 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 pm

  After 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 Kovac

  Even 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 Holman

  Two 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