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Breakdown of Lucas Oil's expected roster for 2025
Posted: 01/15/2025, 02:53 pm By Kevin KovacThe Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series kicks off its 2025 campaign Jan. 17-19 at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga., sending the national tour into a season that boasts a record points fund and purse payouts. For the third straight Full Story
Schedule, track-by-track capsules for Speedweeks
Posted: 01/15/2025, 09:56 am By Aaron ClayThe 2025 Georgia-Florida Speedweeks race-by-race schedule for Super Late Model events three tracks apiece in Georgia and Florida. Action runs Jan. 17 through Feb. 15 at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga.; Volusia Speedway Park in Full Story
Winebarger ends WWS with buzzworthy drive
Posted: 01/13/2025, 01:19 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 12) — Creating social media buzz with a flashy Dirt Late Model performance is one thing. But truly posting a worthy, high-level result is another. Collen Winebarger knows he turned some heads — and excited his buddies Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing Vado, previewing Lucas
Posted: 01/13/2025, 11:51 amDirtonDirt.com’s roundtable comes together to review the Rio Grande Waste Systems Wild West Shootout at Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park and look ahead to this weekend’s launch of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season at Golden Isles Full Story
Notes: WWS top-fives stir Terbo's confidence
Posted: 01/12/2025, 11:00 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 12) — Tyler Erb was fast all week at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout, but his failure to win a heat race over the first four events at Vado Speedway Park frustrated him a bit. It meant he wouldn’t start Full Story
Vado starts Stuckey's quest for laps in 2025
Posted: 01/12/2025, 03:46 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 12) — Clay Stuckey’s prime objective for the 2025 season is to make as many laps as possible in his Black Diamond Race Car. So it’s understandable why the 20-year-old Shreveport, La., racer’s positivity has been Full Story
Brake issues challenge young Troutman at WWS
Posted: 01/11/2025, 11:28 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 11) — After three consecutive seventh-place finishes at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout, Drake Troutman was poised for a breakthrough Saturday evening at Vado Speedway Park. | Complete WWS coverage Getting Full Story
Sorensen starting 2025 strong in New Mexico
Posted: 01/11/2025, 12:15 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 10) — Things are trending the right direction at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout for Dustin Sorensen, the 24-year-old Rochester, Minn., driver who later this month will tackle his second season on the Full Story
Notes: Pierce's bid for perfection at Vado ends
Posted: 01/10/2025, 11:57 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 10) — The Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout has never had a driver sweep every event. And despite how strong Bobby Pierce looking in winning last weekend’s races, the 28-year-old Oakwood, Ill., won’t be Full Story
Column: T-Mac's No. 9 extends family legacy
Posted: 01/10/2025, 05:09 pmTim McCreadie wasn’t sure what number he wanted to run on the doors of his new ride with Briggs Transport Racing in 2025. Should he go with the No. 39 that he’s used for virtually his entire two-decade-long Dirt Late Model career? Should Full Story
Vado racers deal with frigid Wild West Snowout
Posted: 01/10/2025, 04:20 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 10) — The Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout has long had a mascot, the skeleton gunslinger depicted in the miniseries logo. That frightful six-shooting cowboy might have to make room for another icon for this Full Story
WWS trip opportunity for Oregon Late Model gang
Posted: 01/08/2025, 06:40 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 5) — For drivers in the western half of the United States, the annual Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout provides unheralded racers a chance to shine against some of Dirt Late Model racing’s best national Full Story
Is Pierce destined for another 30-win season?
Posted: 01/07/2025, 07:05 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 5) — Surveying the progress of his burgeoning Dirt Late Model career, Bobby Pierce makes a point of trying to exceed his accomplishments from the previous season. The 28-year-old from Oakwood, Ill., can only blame himself Full Story
Fast Talk: New year (and Pierce) get rolling
Posted: 01/06/2025, 01:55 pmFollowing an opening weekend of 2025 action featuring the Rio Grande Waste Systems Wild West Shootout at Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park at Vado (N.M.) Speedway, our weekly roundtable — including three members who attended the events — weighs Full Story
Notes: WWS plans in limbo for speedy Bailes
Posted: 01/06/2025, 03:05 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 5) — Ross Bailes planned on piloting Austin Kirkpatrick’s AK Race Car during the complete six-race Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout miniseries. Plans changed, however, and he’ll be heading back to his Full Story
Illinois superstars replay dramatic battle at Vado
Posted: 01/06/2025, 12:15 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 5) — After a thrilling last-lap pass Sunday evening at Vado Speedway Park, track-dominating Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., immediately wanted to review exactly how he’d captured the all-Illinois showdown with Brandon Full Story
Coverage index of Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/01/2025, 03:59 pmVADO, N.M. — Index of DirtonDirt.com's previews and coverage for Vado Speedway Park's Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout by O'Reilly Auto Parts Jan. 4-12 at the 3/8-mile oval (watch live at FloRacing): Wednesday, Jan. 15 • Full Story
Notes: Snapped driveshaft dooms Junghans
Posted: 01/05/2025, 01:05 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 4) — Chase Junghans of Manhattan, Kan., started on the pole of Saturday’s Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout opener at Vado Speedway Park, but he wasn’t around at the finish in his bid for a career-high Full Story
Alberson grapples with frustration of Vado loss
Posted: 01/05/2025, 12:22 am By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 4) — As Garrett Alberson slowly wheeled his race car back into the Roberts Motorsports pit area on Saturday night, his parents Craig and Kathi Alberson knew he’d be disappointed with a runner-up finish near his Las Full Story
More cash, more focus? WWS competitors debate
Posted: 01/04/2025, 03:48 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 4) — Each winner at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout celebrates at Vado Speedway Park donning a cowboy hat and firing the traditional six-shooters in victory lane at the six-race miniseries. But don’t Full Story
Notes: Bailes wheeling latest AK design at Vado
Posted: 01/03/2025, 09:39 pm By Todd TurnerVADO, N.M. (Jan. 3) — Austin Kirkpatrick typically drives his own AK Race Car, but as the North Carolina chassis builder grows closer toward producing a marketable product, he decided to tap Ross Bailes of Clover, S.C., for driving duties Full Story
Ten drivers to watch at the Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/03/2025, 01:02 pm By Kyle McFaddenA look at 10 drivers to watch during Jan. 4-12’s Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts at FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park, where more than 50 Dirt Late Model drivers are expected for the six-race Full Story
Good stories abound for California WWS entrant
Posted: 01/03/2025, 10:47 am By Todd TurnerShawn DeForest of Livermore, Calif., knows it’s a long shot to become a rare California winner at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout. But the 55-year-old dirt racer would at least like to have the opportunity at making a Full Story
Fast Facts: Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout
Posted: 12/30/2024, 09:00 pm By Aaron ClayDates: Jan. 4-5, 8, 10-12 Track: FK Rod Ends Vado Speedway Park (3/8-mile, semi-banked clay oval) Location: Vado, N.M. Purse: Total Late Model purse of more than $300,000 with $25,000-to-win events bookending four $10,000-to-win races. Sanction: Full Story
Best of 2024: Top-five lists of memorable year
Posted: 12/27/2024, 05:45 am By Kevin KovacWith Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2024 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2024 Full Story










































