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• Rookie Adam traveling learning curve with WoO

  Posted: 03/14/2025, 03:30 pm By Todd Turner

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 14) — As a rookie on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, 19-year-old Daniel Adam knows he has a laundry list of things to improve on while tackling a national Dirt Late Model tour. No. 1 on Adam's list is Full Story

• Column: Dotson shines while owner gets his laps

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 03:18 pm

  Becoming an owner of a high-profile Dirt Late Model team with a hired gun driver has suited John Henderson well. He’s enjoying his new role as the leader of an operation that this year is tackling the World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full Story

• Northern, Western Late Model tour previews

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 01:57 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on more regional tours, two in the North and one in the West, for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, Full Story

• Decision time nears for national touring drivers

  Posted: 03/12/2025, 10:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  Decision time is approaching for a group of national touring series drivers. Whether it comes next week, next month or even later with be determined by the springtime weather, but it’s coming. With this weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Full Story

• Photographer's unique ritual: victory lane cigar

  Posted: 03/11/2025, 07:48 am By Todd Turner

  Mike Ruefer’s ritual at the conclusion of a Dirt Late Model feature is like that of most racing photographers. The Davenport, Iowa, resident heads for victory lane, makes sure he’s got the right lens on his Canon camera and positions Full Story

• Fast Talk: Weiss, bubbles and anthem times

  Posted: 03/10/2025, 10:16 am

  Ricky Weiss of Headingley, Manitoba, was the weekend's biggest winner with a $20,000 Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series victory at I-75 Raceway as our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story

• Resurgent Weiss enjoys fulfilling victory at I-75

  Posted: 03/09/2025, 01:13 am By Todd Turner

  SWEETWATER, Tenn. (March 8) — Before Saturday’s Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series event at I-75 Raceway, crew member Tom Schramm had a modest request for his driver, Ricky Weiss.  “I told him, I said, 'I hate to ask you this. I need Full Story

• Notes: Near-win at I-75 not enough for Mills

  Posted: 03/08/2025, 10:55 pm By Todd Turner

  SWEETWATER, Tenn. (March 8) — Oftentimes, young drivers who lead 30 laps of a big-purse Super Late Model feature and end up settling for a top-five finish climb from their cars excited about their performance. Saturday wasn’t one of Full Story

• Up-and-coming Johns ready for touring action

  Posted: 03/08/2025, 01:59 pm By Todd Turner

  SWEETWATER, Tenn. (March 8) — Tackling a Super Late Model tour for the first time isn’t for the faint of heart. But when your previous season ended with back-to-back $6,000 victories, it’s a little easier to have some pep in your Full Story

• Previewing regional Late Model tours in the South

  Posted: 03/07/2025, 07:55 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on the South's Dirt Late Model tours for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, focus on changes for Full Story

• Riggs revitalized after big Clarksville weekend

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 05:33 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Jason Riggs didn’t need to be reminded about his lengthy absence from victory lane after he won Feb. 29’s 25-lap opener of the Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway. He’s had someone in his own home continually Full Story

• Notes: Busy Troutman eager to make most of chance

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 01:49 pm

  At the end of the 2024 season, all Drake Troutman was looking for was a chance. The former modified standout had what he needed to get up and down the road with his own No. 7 Late Model team, but he was still in search of an opportunity Full Story

• Previewing Midwest's regional Late Model tours

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 11:50 am By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on the Midwest’s Dirt Late Model tours for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, focus on changes Full Story

• Column: Cody Overton riding high with No. 2

  Posted: 03/05/2025, 04:30 pm

  Cody Overton has several responses available to him when asked what’s triggered his improvement in Super Late Model competition through the first two-plus months of the 2025 season. A change to Longhorn Chassis? That’s a logical one. The Full Story

• Dirt Late Model racing's first five-figure payday

  Posted: 03/05/2025, 07:32 am By Bob Markos

  Longtime racing historian and DirtonDirt.com contributor Bob Markos digs into the 1975’s Cavalcade of Champions World Championship of Stock Cars in Michigan, the first five-figure payday preceding the modern era of Dirt Late Model racing: The Full Story

• Fast Talk: Winners (and novel chassis names?)

  Posted: 03/03/2025, 09:31 am

  March comes in (like a lamb?) as pockets of racing began to heat up and our weekly roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Discuss a weekend winner. Kevin Full Story

• Dispatches: Mitchell bags elusive Cherokee victory

  Posted: 03/01/2025, 12:47 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of Feb. 28-March 2, including season-opening Schaeffer’s Spring Nationals action in Georgia, the MLRA Throwback doubleheader at Springfield (Mo.) Raceway Full Story

• Column: Earl Pearson Jr. moves on to second act

  Posted: 02/27/2025, 08:42 am

  For the last three decades, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks meant one thing to Earl Pearson Jr.: climbing in a Dirt Late Model and tossing it around a track. But this year was different for the 53-year-old racer from Jacksonville, Fla. He was Full Story

• Notes: Solid WoO start for Iowa's Gustin

  Posted: 02/26/2025, 11:58 am

  Ryan Gustin entered 2025 with new tools to take his performance to the next level, and he's off to his best start on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. The 34-year-old Marshalltown, Iowa, driver and his No. 19r squad weren’t far Full Story

• Reset of series, track changes for 2025

  Posted: 02/26/2025, 08:59 am

  DirtonDirt.com's recap of offseason changes for Late Model-focused series (with names, sponsors, etc.) and racetracks (those closing, those reopening, etc.) heading into the 2025 season (may be updated with further changes):   Touring Full Story

• Father's legacy stretches back to racing's pioneers

  Posted: 02/25/2025, 07:24 am By Todd Turner

  There was no doubt that Tommy Hickman’s funeral would have a significant connection to auto racing. After all, the longtime Soddy Daisy, Tenn., resident who died in January at the age of 76 learned about racing from his father, prepared Full Story

• Fast Talk: Resetting after long Speedweeks grind

  Posted: 02/24/2025, 12:04 pm

  Following a quiet post-Speedweeks weekend without Super Late Model racing, our roundtable gathers to offer a reset of the 2025 season in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five State Race Car Bodies (edited for clarity and length): With Full Story

• Column: J.D.'s feat tops Speedweeks moments

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 05:07 pm

  As usual, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2025 produced plenty of standout performances. Not a single one was better than Jonathan Davenport’s unforgettable drive to victory in Saturday’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature Full Story

• Cockpit mods provide racers creature comforts

  Posted: 02/19/2025, 07:49 am By Todd Turner

  Compared to our ultracomfortable passenger cars with virtually every modern convenience at your fingertips, the cockpit of a Dirt Late Model is rather sparse. No cupholders, no turn signal levers, no GPS, no radio knobs, no climate controls, Full Story

• Grading top drivers with Speedweeks report card

  Posted: 02/18/2025, 07:35 am By Kyle McFadden

  Evaluating 15 drivers after Georgia-Florida Speedweeks — the top six in points on last year’s national tours and three wild cards picks — among events at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga., Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Full Story