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• Quick Time: May's driver stock market

  Posted: 05/03/2017, 10:45 am

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Marlar still hunting for his first Florence victory

  Posted: 05/03/2017, 10:30 am By Alli Collis

  Throughout his Late Model career, Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., has come so close to reaching Florence Speedway's victory lane. He’s finished a near-miss second in the Union, Ky., oval’s Spring 50, and on the podium of the 2015 Sunoco Full Story

• Column: Facing reality, Smith reassesses plans

  Posted: 05/03/2017, 07:08 am

  With an upgraded Dirt Late Model program and an ambitious schedule, 2017 was supposed to be the first year in the rest of G.R. Smith’s racing life. Three months and 19 races into his ’17 campaign, however, Smith made an abrupt about-face Full Story

• Top 25: After victory, Pearson climbs six spots

  Posted: 05/02/2017, 09:24 am By Alli Collis

  After scoring his second victory of the season in Saturday’s Ultimate Southeast-sanctioned Rattlesnake Rumble at Dublin (N.C.) Motor Speedway, Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., made the biggest jump in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 Full Story

• Fast Talk: When it rains, better to race or sit idle?

  Posted: 05/01/2017, 09:26 am

  While rain wiped out national touring events, our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products weighs in on the biggest results while considering off-track issues as well (edited for clarity and length): Whose weekend special-event Full Story

• Notes: Young Nobbe continues steady progress

  Posted: 04/27/2017, 12:11 am By Alli Collis

  Since making the jump to the Late Model division a few years ago, second-generation driver Dustin Nobbe of Batesville, Ind., has continued to grow and progress as a driver. It was just last year that the 21-year-old scored his first career Full Story

• Column: Mr. Selinsgrove keeps right foot on gas

  Posted: 04/26/2017, 06:22 pm

  Jeff Rine’s name is scrawled all over the Selinsgrove (Pa.) Speedway record books. From his 103 career Dirt Late Model feature wins — more than any other driver, in any division — to his 10 consecutive and 12 overall points titles, Full Story

• Quick Time: Tag-team success of CBR drivers

  Posted: 04/26/2017, 02:12 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Izzo's breach prompted penalties, DIRTcar says

  Posted: 04/25/2017, 05:25 pm By Kevin Kovac

  UMP DIRTcar director Sam Driggers didn’t want it to happen. He tried to figure out a way to avoid it. In the end, though, Driggers and the executives at DIRTcar’s parent company, Concord, N.C.-based World Racing Group, determined that Full Story

• Top 25: Eckert jumps four spots in rankings

  Posted: 04/25/2017, 12:00 pm By Alli Collis

  After scoring his first Lucas Oil Series victory since 2005 Sunday at Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway, Rick Eckert of York, Pa., mades the biggest jump in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., holds Full Story

• Young Georgian creeps toward his first victory

  Posted: 04/25/2017, 07:58 am By Robert Holman

  Zach Leonhardi’s move from legend cars to a Dirt Late Model wasn’t so much a leap as it was a hop. For the then-14-year-old Leonhardi, it was just another step in a racing career that began in go-karts when he was 5. The move came Full Story

• Dream lawsuit bans near a resolution, Deery says

  Posted: 04/24/2017, 05:55 pm By Kevin Kovac

  The legal situation surrounding the competitors disqualified for tire infractions during last year’s Dream at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, appears to be nearing resolution, World Racing Group president and COO Tom Deery confirmed Full Story

• Ping-pong injury aside, Eckert relishes victory

  Posted: 04/24/2017, 02:21 pm By Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 23) — Port Royal Speedway is certainly not Rick Eckert’s “home” track — the veteran driver has never competed regularly at the half-mile oval, in fact — but its proximity to his native York, Pa., qualifies Full Story

• Fast Talk: National tours are spreading the wealth

  Posted: 04/24/2017, 09:45 am

  While rain hampered much of the weekend, our weekly Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored roundtable considers recent racing action as we head toward the end of April (edited for clarity and length): What do we make of three World of Outlaws Full Story

• Bowyer's two cars shine (Lanigan a bit brighter)

  Posted: 04/21/2017, 09:35 am By Alli Collis

  ALMA, Ohio (April 20) — When the white flag flew Thursday evening at Atomic Speedway, it was clear that a Clint Bowyer Racing driver was heading to victory lane. Whether that would be Don O’Neal or Darrell Lanigan was another matter. Full Story

• After first win, Port Royal racer girds for challenge

  Posted: 04/20/2017, 02:34 pm By Kevin Kovac

  The moment Trent Brenneman of Mifflintown, Pa., had been waiting for since he first climbed into a Super Late Model five years ago finally arrived Saturday at Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway. Racing at the historic half-mile fairgrounds oval Full Story

• Notes: Tennessee teen climbing through ranks

  Posted: 04/20/2017, 08:40 am By Alli Collis

  At 16 years old, Kyle Courtney of Knoxville, Tenn., is younger than most of his fellow Late Model competitors. But after scoring his first victory of the season over the weekend at I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, Tenn., intimidation is no longer Full Story

• Column: Budda, 'fan of little man,' has big heart

  Posted: 04/19/2017, 11:48 am

  Who is Larry Redenius? Well, he’s a well-known figure in the Dirt Late Model world. He can walk through pit areas across the country — but especially in the Midwest — and be greeted warmly by countless friends thanks to his easygoing Full Story

• Quick Time: Hopes of spring on national tours

  Posted: 04/19/2017, 07:41 am

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Top 25: Marlar improves two spots in poll

  Posted: 04/18/2017, 10:53 am By Alli Collis

  After notching a pair of podium finishes in Schaeffer Oil Spring Nationals action at Ponderosa Speedway in Junction City, Ky., and Florence Speedway in Union, Ky., Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., climbed two spots in DirtonDirt.com’s Full Story

• Virginia driver adapting to new team, new region

  Posted: 04/17/2017, 04:21 pm By Alli Collis

  UNION, Ky. (April 15) — While a quiet 11th-place finish Schaeffer Oil Spring Nationals action at Florence Speedway may not be the best indicator, the new partnership between driver Kyle Hardy of Stephens City, Va., the Indiana-based Jim Full Story

• Fast Talk: Sorting out weekend's Easter basket

  Posted: 04/17/2017, 01:26 pm

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products takes a look at weekend results and a busy stretch coming up for the Lucas Oil Series (edited for clarity and length): Was there anything about the Easter weekend special events Full Story

• Lucas Oil Series rounds up contingencies

  Posted: 04/11/2017, 11:17 pm

  The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series has announced its sponsors and marketing partners for the 2017 season. The series has lined up more than two dozen marketing partners for this racing season. “We'd like to thank all of the 2017 sponsors Full Story

• Notes: Brownstown pilot posts breakthrough win

  Posted: 04/13/2017, 12:07 am By Alli Collis

  Jared Bailey of Bedford, Ind., spent nearly a decade competing in the modified division. But after growing up watching his father race Late Models, moving up to the full-fender class was always his goal. Last season, he finally made the Full Story

• Industrious Minnesotan tackles Late Model class

  Posted: 04/13/2017, 12:03 am By Robert Holman

  The trajectory of Chad Olsen’s racing career hasn’t been one of a meteoric rise. Rather, it’s been a bit more steady and somewhat calculated. In fact, Olsen’s approach to racing is much like his approach to business, slow and deliberate. A Full Story