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Notes: Tough ending for Shiels in battle at Attica
Posted: 05/03/2025, 02:00 pm By Kyle McFaddenATTICA, Ohio (May 2) — Devin Shiels surely thought Friday at Attica Raceway Park — his 45th birthday — would be the night he’d break through to win his first Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series feature. | RaceWire The Full Story
Untamed Erb clicks, but cliques aren't his thing
Posted: 05/03/2025, 08:09 am By Kevin KovacFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (May 2) — Tyler Erb was in a good mood because he won Friday’s Dairyland Showdown opener at Mississippi Thunder Speedway, and one of the reasons he won was … because he was in a good mood. | RaceWire Those feelings Full Story
Circle City victory puts Overton back on track
Posted: 05/03/2025, 07:59 am By Bryan AultINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 2) — Brandon Overton’s flag-to-flag victory at Circle City Raceway did more than just snap a 13-race streak of combined victories for Ricky Thornton Jr., Devin Moran and Jonathan Davenport on the Lucas Oil Late Full Story
Little Circle City makes its debut on Lucas circuit
Posted: 05/02/2025, 05:51 pm By Bryan AultINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 2) — After competing at three half-mile racetracks in a row on last weekend's Mid-Atlantic swing, you couldn’t blame Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series drivers for experiencing a bit of culture shock when they Full Story
Column: Partner aids Izzo for La Salle rebirth
Posted: 05/01/2025, 03:01 pmTony Izzo Jr. never gave up hope that his family’s La Salle (Ill.) Speedway would rise again. Even as his mother, Kerry, fielded offers for the property since the last race was contested there on June 23, 2021, the 55-year-old former Full Story
Notes: Young Virginian loves circling dirt tracks
Posted: 05/01/2025, 09:21 am By Todd TurnerA third-generation dirt racer, Braeson Fulton is following the tire tracks of his talented grandfather and father. But even if racing courses through your veins, that doesn’t mean pointing a race car the right direction always comes naturally. Full Story
Dispatches: Home run coming for WoO rookie
Posted: 05/01/2025, 09:17 amAmong the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the first weekend in May, including Schaeffer's Spring Nationals and Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action (look elsewhere for most Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws coverage). Full Story
Feathers set for busy (and promising) season
Posted: 04/30/2025, 05:53 pm By Kyle McFaddenHAGERSTOWN, Md. — Trever Feathers appeared poised Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway to join only Josh Rice and Gregg Satterlee as the lone regionally based drivers to score top-five finishes on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series so far Full Story
Top 25: RTJ chips away at No. 1 Pierce
Posted: 04/29/2025, 08:07 am By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., continued his run atop DirtonDirt’s power rankings for a fifth straight week with a $50,000 victory in the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series-sanctioned Alabama Gang 100 at Talladega Short Full Story
Alberson studies, battles Lucas Oil's Big Three
Posted: 04/29/2025, 06:45 am By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 27) — If Jonathan Davenport, Devin Moran and Ricky Thornton Jr. are putting on a master class of what success looks like on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, then Garrett Alberson is a student pressed to learn Full Story
Notes: With RTJ, the more things change ...
Posted: 04/28/2025, 02:06 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 27) — Tire changes. Crew changes. But the results stay the same. Ricky Thornton Jr. was virtually flawless during the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series tripleheader weekend in the Northeast, coming away with convincing Full Story
Fast Talk: Inevitability of top-tier drivers
Posted: 04/28/2025, 11:02 amAfter a busy weekend of national touring action — and more success for Bobby Pierce and Ricky Thornton Jr. — our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Are Full Story
Big half-miles becoming comfortable for Thornton
Posted: 04/27/2025, 01:30 pm By Kyle McFaddenHAGERSTOWN, Md. (April 26) — As Ricky Thornton Jr.’s dirt racing career has rapidly progressed, he’s learned all the more just how much he excels on lane-sensitive, half-mile racetracks. That was more evident than ever in Saturday’s Full Story
Returning Hollidge aims to stay on top of curve
Posted: 04/27/2025, 07:58 am By Kyle McFaddenHAGERSTOWN, Md. (April 26) — During routine prerace maintenance Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway, Dale Hollidge figured he’d drop off his right-rear shock at the Fox Shocks hauler that services select Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story
Notes: Ross Robinson's eventful return home
Posted: 04/26/2025, 01:39 pm By Kevin KovacGEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — There’s no race Ross Robinson anticipates more on his annual racing schedule than the national touring series stop at his hometown’s Georgetown Speedway. A victory in the event would be an unqualified Full Story
Same as it ever was for Lucas Oil in Delaware
Posted: 04/26/2025, 06:29 am By Kevin KovacGEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — For nearly half of Friday’s 49-lap Melvin L. Joseph Memorial at Georgetown Speedway, the unquestioned Big Three of the 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series — Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Full Story
Earnhardt prodigy to run Crate at Natural Bridge
Posted: 04/24/2025, 06:18 pm By Kyle McFaddenAn Earnhardt is back behind the wheel of a Dirt Late Model. Wyatt Earnhardt Miller, the grandson of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr. and great-grandson of Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame driver Ralph Earnhardt, is making Full Story
Column: Underdog Cook steers to racing success
Posted: 04/24/2025, 01:39 pmDalton Cook would love to have the open checkbook of a sugar daddy car owner backing his racing efforts. What Dirt Late Model driver wouldn’t? “That would make things a lot easier,” the 32-year-old from Columbus, Ga., said. But Full Story
Dispatches: Peoria perfect salve for Unzicker
Posted: 04/26/2025, 05:29 amAmong the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the last weekend in April, including World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series action at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., and other specials (look Full Story
Notes: North Carolinian shines with sweep
Posted: 04/24/2025, 08:02 am By Todd TurnerWhen longtime spectator Dante Curtis decided to become a Late Model racer six years ago, the Murphy, N.C., resident knew he had a lot to learn, “I was a bleacher creature and had no idea what I was doing,” admits the 26-year-old. Fast Full Story
New tire will require South to adjust, adapt
Posted: 04/22/2025, 11:21 am By Kyle McFaddenWhile recent tire discussion for national touring drivers has revolved around the revised right-rear tire unveiled last week by Hoosier Racing Tire, for weekly and regional drivers in the Southeast the addition of a new compound from the Full Story
For Kimble, from racer to car builder to crew chief
Posted: 04/22/2025, 07:15 am By Todd TurnerWhen Chuck Kimble’s father bought a welding unit for a project at his shop, it wasn’t long before his elementary-school age son saw an opportunity to use the device. | Slideshow “I started monkeying with it and then I really, really Full Story
Top 25: Pierce No. 1 as Ferguson joins fray
Posted: 04/22/2025, 06:39 am By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., solidified his hold on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt’s power rankings, sweeping the MARS Late Model Championship Series-sanctioned Slocum 50 weekend at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, to grab all 10 Full Story
Fast Talk: Race recap and time-saving tips
Posted: 04/21/2025, 10:42 amAfter an Easter weekend with Bobby Pierce sweeping MARS action at 34 Raceway among other highlights, our roundtable gathers for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick a Full Story
Notes: Paragon honors legacy of O'Neal family
Posted: 04/19/2025, 02:17 pm By Bryan AultPARAGON, Ind. (April 18) — The legacy of Marvin O’Neal lived on Friday night at Paragon Speedway. The inaugural Northern Allstars Late Model Series-sanctioned Marvin O’Neal Memorial honored the former racer and lumber company owner Full Story
