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• ‘Heavy hearts’ at Wagner after star driver’s death

  Posted: 07/03/2020, 05:44 am By Todd Turner

  What 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 am

  From 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 Turner

  It 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 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

• After rough start, Walker on winning track at Wheatland

  Posted: 07/01/2020, 12:47 pm By Lyndal Scranton

  Dustin 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Turner

  Lucas 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 am

  After 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Kovac

  SARVER, 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 Turner

  Like 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 am

  Hall 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 pm

  After 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 am

  The 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 Holman

  COLUMBUS, 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

• Fast Facts: Lernerville's 14th annual Firecracker 100

  Posted: 06/23/2020, 08:36 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: June 25-27 (two $6,000-to-win programs followed by Saturday’s $30,000-to-win finale) Track: Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (semi-banked 4/10-mile oval). Sanction: World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series Purse: Full Story

• Top 25: Owens back on top as Mitchell joins

  Posted: 06/23/2020, 08:37 am By Todd Turner

  The merry-go-round atop DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 continues with the third No. 1 in as many weeks as Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., returned to the top spot following his dominating performance at the General Tire Clash at the Mag on the Full Story

• Conflict with sons' racing puts Tri-City on market

  Posted: 06/23/2020, 08:38 am By Kevin Kovac

  The phones belonging to Kevin Gundaker and his wife, Tammy, began blowing up soon after the contents of an ad they ran in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch grabbed the attention of the local, regional and even national racing community. It Full Story

• Fast Talk: Owens returns to form as Mitchell rises

  Posted: 06/22/2020, 09:39 am

  Our weekly roundtable considers a busy national touring weekend on the Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws tours as Dirt Late Model continues to maneuver adjustments forced by coronavirus restrictions (edited for clarity and length): What's Full Story

• Mitchell trying to fathom unexpected trip, victory

  Posted: 06/21/2020, 06:46 am By Kevin Kovac

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. (June 20) — Zack Mitchell didn’t have the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series doubleheader at Volunteer Speedway on his radar as the past week progressed. He was, after all, set to visit 311 Motor Speedway Full Story

• Notes: A special victory for Sheppard, Richards

  Posted: 06/20/2020, 11:54 am By Kevin Kovac

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. (June 19) — Brandon Sheppard has proven quite adept at bringing his Rocket Chassis house car owner Mark Richards wins at new places. “Yeah,” Richards said after Friday night’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Full Story