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• There's just one person to talk to in driver's seat

  Posted: 04/02/2025, 06:35 am By Todd Turner

  It's a relatively lonely world behind the wheel of a Dirt Late Model. Drivers snugly buckled in the cockpit wearing full-face helmets can see cryptic signals from crew members and hear lineup instructions from officials via one-way radio, Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce on top as Cook joins rankings

  Posted: 04/01/2025, 07:49 am By Kevin Kovac

  With a perfect weekend at Maquoketa (Iowa) Speedway, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., gained firm control of the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings one week after ascending to the top of the Keyser Manufacturing-sponsored balloting Full Story

• Fast Talk: Pierce's blip and weekend recap

  Posted: 03/31/2025, 11:08 am

  With Bobby Pierce reeling off a couple of victories among a handful of regional touring races, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick your weekend Full Story

• Notes: Green beaming after Spring 50 showing

  Posted: 03/30/2025, 11:34 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 29) — Billy Green was not expecting to post a fifth-place finish in Saturday night’s Northern Allstars Late Model Series-sanctioned Spring 50 at Florence Speedway. The 21-year-old from Walton, Ky., unloaded a fresh Full Story

• Frontrunner scrape ruins Camaron Marlar's hopes

  Posted: 03/30/2025, 12:09 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 29) — This wasn’t how it was supposed to end for Camaron Marlar, but the 30-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver remained as upbeat as possible after a disappointing outcome in Saturday’s 49th annual Spring 50 at Florence Full Story

• Dispatches: Pierce repels RTJ, sweeps Maquoketa

  Posted: 03/31/2025, 01:08 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of March 28-29, including the MARS-sanctioned Nippy 50 at Maquoketa (Iowa) Speedway, Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action in Mississippi and a Schaeffer’s Full Story

• Column: MARS director makes career of racing

  Posted: 03/27/2025, 02:58 pm

  Jonathan Clayton can’t say for certain that he saw himself destined for a career as an official in the dirt track racing game. But when the 31-year-old director of the MARS Late Model Championship Series looks back at his early days attending Full Story

• Infinity, assistance helps Marlar find his groove

  Posted: 03/25/2025, 11:20 am By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — While Mike Marlar wasn’t among the weekend’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series winners, the 47-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver impressed with a pair of fourth-place runs at Ohio’s Atomic Speedway and Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce leads divided chase for No. 1

  Posted: 03/25/2025, 07:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., ascended to the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings for the first time in 2025, knocking Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., off the pedestal he held over the first two editions of the Keyser Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping flurry of national touring action

  Posted: 03/24/2025, 10:56 am

  With both national tours in conflicting action for the first time of the season, our roundtable weighs in on the fallout in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick a topic Full Story

• Notes: RTJ smiling after near-perfect weekend

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 10:57 am By Kyle McFadden and Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — Falling just short of sweeping the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series weekend wasn’t a disappointing outcome for Ricky Thornton Jr. In fact, the 34-year-old star from Chandler, Ariz., gracefully accepted Full Story

• Moran back to winning ways at Brownstown

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 01:26 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — With a flag-to-flag victory in Saturday’s 50-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Indiana Icebreaker at Brownstown Speedway, Devin Moran gained a dose of redemption. The 30-year-old standout Full Story

• Promising signs on the horizon for O'Neal, SSI

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 12:55 am By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — While the teams of Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Davenport are seemingly firing on all cylinders entering the spring season, Hudson O’Neal is trying to take some consolation Saturday at Brownstown Full Story

• Restarts, hard tire choice hamper Rice's win bid

  Posted: 03/22/2025, 01:27 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ALMA, Ohio (March 21) — If only Josh Rice could execute restarts as smoothly as his Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series competition Friday at Atomic Speedway, perhaps he could’ve overtaken eventual winner Ricky Thornton Jr. The question Full Story

• Dispatches: Gustin adds to his Southern success

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 10:56 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of March 21-23, including the World of Outlaws Late Model Series-sanctioned weekend at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway: Way down South Ryan Gustin is a dirt tracker Full Story

• Thin crew played role in RTJ's Lucas Oil decision

  Posted: 03/21/2025, 08:03 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ALMA, Ohio (March 21) — Last season’s lengthy Dirt Late Model silly season will perhaps never be topped again in uncanny developments and sheer craziness. But if there’s anything 2025 has over 2024, it’s been speculation over the Full Story

• Column: Wells getting behind wheel of Infinity

  Posted: 03/20/2025, 05:40 pm

  Sure, Eric Wells misses the thrill that comes with driving a Dirt Late Model. He did it for a good 15 years — and more than half of that time on a national level — so he’s certainly had a void in his life since he ran his last race Full Story

• Notes: Swainsboro special for Cody Overton

  Posted: 03/20/2025, 08:06 am

  For the first time in his World of Outlaws Late Models career, Cody Overton is set to be the hometown hero. This weekend’s Battle at the Crossroads will mark the first World of Outlaws event at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway since 2012, several Full Story

• Joining SSI, Durham ready for Lucas return

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 03:16 pm By Kyle McFadden

  When Jason Durham stepped down as Jonathan Davenport’s crew chief at the end of the 2022 season to spend more time with family, his departure from the Double L Motorsports team felt like an unofficial retirement from the week-to-week Full Story

• Lancaster standout rises to loftiest expectations

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 12:54 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Ben Watkins has become so good at Lancaster Motor Speedway that his reputation precedes him. The spotlight — and the pressure that comes with it — is now on him as soon as he rolls through the South Carolina track’s pit gate. | RaceWire But Full Story

• Career twilight still bright for in-sync McDowells

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 12:05 am By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — After more than 30 years of competing on dirt as a driver-crew chief brother combo, Dale McDowell and Shane McDowell are both quick to mention communication as a prime factor to their Dirt Late Model success. In Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce creeps up on No. 1 J.D.

  Posted: 03/18/2025, 12:01 am By Todd Turner

  While he fell one spot shy of overtaking winner Bobby Pierce on Friday at Smoky Mountain Speedway, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., kept his grip on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings. The Keyser Manufacturing-sponsored Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping Smoky Mountain action

  Posted: 03/17/2025, 10:33 am

  On a weather-hampered weekend with Bobby Pierce's capturing the first post-Speedweeks national touring event, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Discuss Full Story

• Smoky Mountain gives Pierce red clay badge

  Posted: 03/15/2025, 03:48 am By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — They say the secret to happiness is low expectations. Perhaps that’s also the secret for winning your first race on a red-clay surface. Bobby Pierce’s career has been largely built on his cushion-banging Full Story

• Notes: Hurriedly patient J.D. can't overtake Pierce

  Posted: 03/14/2025, 10:35 pm By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — There are plenty of strategies in Dirt Late Model racing. Balls to the wall. Feather-footing. Cushion-banging. Slow down to go fast. Among others. Jonathan Davenport’s approach to Friday’s Tennessee Full Story