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Notes: Natural Bridge champ, 12, branching out
Posted: 01/23/2017, 02:18 pmAfter capturing the 2016 Limited Late Model track championship at Natural Bridge (Va.) Speedway, Carder Miller of Salem, Va., is already looking ahead to bigger and better things in 2017, starting with his Super Late Model debut at Dec. Full Story
Fast Talk: A five-topic analysis of upcoming season
Posted: 01/23/2017, 08:29 amOur Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored roundtable previews the 2017 season by analyzing a driver, track, tour, race and storyline (edited for clarity and length): Break down a driver’s 2017 outlook: Michael Rigsby, DirtonDirt.com co-founder Full Story
Column: Shrugging off wreck, Flinner returning
Posted: 01/18/2017, 06:07 pmOne glance at John Flinner Jr.’s Facebook page makes it clear that the vicious crash he experienced last Oct. 7 at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial — a flipping, parts-shedding accident that knocked him unconscious Full Story
Notes: CT 525 engine reigns again at Ice Bowl
Posted: 01/16/2017, 09:18 pm By Robert HolmanEASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 15) — Michael Page’s victory marks the fifth consecutive Ice Bowl won by a driver using a GM Performance CT 525 engine. The cost-saving Chevrolet motor, which can be purchased for about $8,000 before buying the Full Story
Hands-on Page turns in solid start in Baird entry
Posted: 01/16/2017, 05:59 pm By Robert HolmanEASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 15) — It didn't take long for Michael Page to gel with his new race team. Of course, when you have a hands-on approach like Page is accustomed to, things should stay pretty routine anyway. | RaceWire The 33-year-old Full Story
Superlatives from the 11th Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/16/2017, 01:47 pm By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Recapping the 11th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at Arizona Speedway with a list of superlatives from four unsanctioned miniseries events at the third-mile oval southeast of Phoenix (complete Arizona Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing the Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/16/2017, 10:16 amDirtonDirt.com’s roundtable gathers to offer a review of the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at Arizona Speedway in the Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk (edited for clarity and length): Could any driver ever be angrier Full Story
Soggy track ends Wild West Shootout with fizzle
Posted: 01/15/2017, 06:39 pm By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Drama was building for Sunday’s conclusion of Arizona Speedway’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. Three-race winner Bobby Pierce was gunning for a $50,000 bonus. The purse for the finale was boosted to Full Story
Can foes deny bonus for cushion-running Pierce?
Posted: 01/14/2017, 11:33 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — Bobby Pierce has been on top virtually all week at the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout — atop the charts with three victories in four starts, and literally atop the banking at the third-mile Arizona Full Story
Steering woes derail Ward's top-five run
Posted: 01/14/2017, 02:04 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — Former WISSOTA Late Model champion Scott Ward and fellow drivers from the upper Midwest face plenty of challenges while competing at the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. | Complete Arizona coverage A Full Story
Arizona ride-sharing a contest for Ortega clan
Posted: 01/13/2017, 08:20 pm By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Typically three members of the Ortega clan battle it out in the Late Model division every week at Southern New Mexico Speedway. But with a single team car ready for Arizona Speedway’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild Full Story
Notes: New car gives Phillips lift in Arizona
Posted: 01/12/2017, 04:37 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 11) — The proprietor of Springfield, Mo.-based Terry Phillips Racing on Wednesday declared that the team’s driver and setup guru needed to get things clicking at Arizona Speedway's Keyser Manufacturing Wild Full Story
Amid Dome's afterglow, promoter plans reprise
Posted: 01/12/2017, 04:18 am By Kevin KovacNearly a month after the final checkered flag flew in the inaugural VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals and the fifth-mile dirt track constructed inside The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Mo., was dismantled, the event’s Full Story
Racing 'best medicine' after champion's death
Posted: 01/11/2017, 07:46 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Just two months after the toughest day of his life, Chad Mahder climbed back into a race car last weekend at Arizona Speedway. While Saturday’s 13th-place finish in the opening round of the Keyser Manufacturing Full Story
Column: Dome promoter adds ambitious project
Posted: 01/10/2017, 05:57 pmCody Sommer doesn’t operate a weekly racetrack, but he certainly has enough motorsports work to keep him running non-stop. His promotional activities — last month’s VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals at The Dome at America’s Full Story
Fast Talk: Recapping the first weekend in Arizona
Posted: 01/09/2017, 10:26 amMembers of our Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored roundtable gathered to discuss the opening weekend of the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, Bobby Pierce’s chances for claiming the miniseries’s big bonus money and the news that Full Story
Notes: Arizona glory eludes fading Alberson
Posted: 01/09/2017, 05:17 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (Jan. 8) — New Mexico native Garrett Alberson had things going his way early in Sunday’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at Arizona Speedway. But after the Shreveport, La., transplant led the first 12 laps Full Story
Driving podiatrist's car, rookie steps up in desert
Posted: 01/07/2017, 09:05 am By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Brian Kleine is about to get a trail-by-fire education in Dirt Late Model racing, but he’s fortunate to be following a fruitful path under the guidance of a generous and inspiring car owner. | Complete Arizona coverage The Full Story
Notes: WISSOTA champ takes best shot in desert
Posted: 01/06/2017, 09:45 pm By Todd TurnerQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Dustin Strand of Grand Forks, N.D., is among Late Model drivers set for Jan. 7-15 action at the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout who must adjust to steering a car with a more powerful engine than usual. | Complete Full Story
Keyser Mfg. Wild West Shootout coverage index
Posted: 01/17/2017, 02:29 pmQUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Index of DirtonDirt.com's previews and coverage for Arizona Speedway’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout set for Jan. 7-15 at the third-mile oval in the desert (downloadable statistics; order live pay-per-view Full Story
Column: Well-equipped, Whitwell eyes home run
Posted: 01/04/2017, 12:13 pmR.C. Whitwell always looks forward to the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. The January miniseries is, after all, the biggest Dirt Late Model meet of the season in his home state of Arizona, so it’s his chance to battle some of Full Story
Fast Facts: Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/04/2017, 11:19 am(Complete coverage) Dates: Jan. 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 ($5,000-to-win features, along with heats and consolations on Jan. 7, 8, 11, 13 and 14; $12,000-to-win feature, along with heats and consolations Jan. 15). Track: Arizona Speedway, Full Story
Teen doing double duty at Talladega's Ice Bowl
Posted: 01/04/2017, 07:32 am By Alli CollisCruz Skinner of Oxford, Ala., grew up watching his dad turn laps at Talladega Short Track in nearby Eastaboga. Years later, the 15-year-old Crate Late Model standout has made a name for himself at the third-mile clay oval with back-to-back Full Story
Pierce eager to take shot at huge Arizona bonuses
Posted: 01/03/2017, 04:10 pm By Alli CollisIt was just a few months ago that Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., made history as the youngest driver to win both the Sunoco North-South 100 and World 100. As the 2017 season is set to get under way, the second-generation driver will look Full Story
Fast Talk: Review and preview of winter action
Posted: 01/02/2017, 02:04 pmAfter a respite for Christmas and New Year’s, our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products reconvenes to consider two of the winter’s biggest events in reviewing the VP Racing Fuels Gateway Dirt Nationals and previewing Full Story
