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• Column: Crate windfall buoys Wilson's efforts

  Posted: 04/16/2025, 05:23 pm

  A Crate Late Model race paying $50,000-to-win at his hometown’s Fayetteville (N.C.) Motor Speedway? Daulton Wilson couldn’t pass up that rare opportunity. So once April 10-12’s XR 602 Crate Nationals began drawing closer, Wilson Full Story

• Video, apps critical for instant qualifying info

  Posted: 04/15/2025, 11:03 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. — As the final qualifier during Illini 100 weekend at Farmer City Raceway, Jason Feger wanted to have every scrap of information he could about previous time-trialers before his No. 25 tripped the clock. Wife Abby watched Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce on top as B-Shepp, O'Neal climb

  Posted: 04/15/2025, 06:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., failed in his bid to capture a third consecutive Illini 100, but a pair of solid runs in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series-sanctioned weekend at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway kept him atop DirtonDirt’s Full Story

• Drivers prepare (and brace) for tire revision

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 02:27 pm By Kyle McFadden

  As a Hoosier Racing Tire dealer, racer Matt Cosner of Ridgeley, W.Va., knew changes were coming to the tire brand’s National Late Model Tire, the limited-compound program that governs many tours, including the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Fast Talk: Star drivers return to prominence

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 10:52 am

  DirtonDirt’s roundtable gathers to offer perspective on the resurgent weekends of Brandon Sheppard and Hudson O’Neal, debate big-money Crate Late Model races and consider Easter Sunday racing in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Full Story

• B-Shepp quiets doubters with vintage Illini run

  Posted: 04/13/2025, 01:25 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 12) — This one is for the doubters. Without a doubt. Eager for a vindicating victory to welcome the return of Brandon Sheppard back to the driver’s seat, the long-formidable Rocket Chassis house car team got Full Story

• Notes: Troutman close yet again at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 11:24 pm By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 12) — There are no moral victories for Drake Troutman. Every single race he loses, the 19-year-old climbs from the car wishing he’d have won. Even more so Saturday at Farmer City Raceway in the finale of the Full Story

• Trouble brews for WoO hopefuls at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 04:30 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — For many of Friday’s top contenders at Farmer City Raceway, there was a laundry list of reasons they didn’t find victory lane. A spin after first-lap contact. Collected by a slower car’s incident. Full Story

• Notes: B-Shepp finding more speed at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 04:17 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — Entering Friday’s Illini 100 opener at Farmer City Raceway, reigning World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., had a single top-five in national touring competition Full Story

• Nailing perfect balance, Dotson breaks WoO seal

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 01:42 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — Ethan Dotson knows his aggressive racing style has gotten him into trouble a few times early in his Late Model career. He’s working on it, he promises. "I just try to give it all I’ve got every time Full Story

• Legend's mentorship lives on with rookie Ebert

  Posted: 04/11/2025, 05:25 pm By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — When Dan Ebert’s dirt racing career began in the pure stock division 20 years ago, his night wasn’t complete until the Lake Shore, Minn., driver called his mentor to discuss his night at the track. Waiting Full Story

• Column: Feger unlocks success in home region

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:05 pm

  Jason Feger doesn’t call it a comeback. Nor does the veteran from Bloomington, Ill., subscribe to the theory that, at 46, he’s a reborn Dirt Late Model driver. While there’s no doubt that the MARS Championship Series becoming an Full Story

• Dispatches: Overton on right path at Wheatland

  Posted: 04/11/2025, 11:33 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the second weekend in April, including action from Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., among other Super Late Model specials (most of the World of Outlaws Late Model Full Story

• Hoosier's new right rear improves sidebite, wear

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 11:34 am By Kyle McFadden

  Hoosier Racing Tire on Monday will unveil a revised version of its right-rear tire for Dirt Late Models, a slightly wider tire that’s proven in testing to provide better sidebite, balance and wear. The Lakeville, Ind.-based tire manufacturer Full Story

• Notes: Mississippian up to speed after long layoff

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:58 am By Todd Turner

  Eric Cooley wasn’t exactly sure what to expect in his first dirt race in five years. Climbing back into a Crate Late Model, "I knew mentally in my mind that I could do it,” but the 34-year-old Fulton, Miss., racer wondered if he’d Full Story

• Missouri standout refocusing on Super Late Models

  Posted: 04/09/2025, 08:25 am By Lyndal Scranton

  Justin Wells jokes that it’s a shame a milestone birthday is in the not-too-distant future. The half-century mark can be daunting. No matter the chosen occupation, it's supposed to mean a slower pace. But the 48-year-old Aurora, Mo., Full Story

• Seawright sees success as only the beginning

  Posted: 04/09/2025, 08:26 am By Kevin Kovac

  While Sam Seawright’s start to the 2025 season boasts three Super Late Model victories and four overall, the Rainsville, Ala., driver isn't over the moon about the results. “Not too bad,” said Seawright, who Saturday earned a career-richest Full Story

• Teams, students grade UNOH program with A+

  Posted: 04/08/2025, 08:46 am By Kyle McFadden

  Vishesh Sharma had never seen a Dirt Late Model before, yet during Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at Atomic Speedway outside Chillicothe, Ohio, and Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway two weeks ago, he found himself working as a crew member Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recap, perches and unheralded drivers

  Posted: 04/07/2025, 11:09 am

  After a weekend when a wide swath of never-ending rain wiped out most Super Late Model specials, our roundtable tries to dry out with a racing overview in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Dispatches: McDowell's TST strategy does trick

  Posted: 04/04/2025, 11:09 pm

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the first weekend in April, including Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., on a weekend when many events were rained out: McDowell Full Story

• Column: Eckert's vintage No. 24 impressive in '25

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 07:05 am

  While Rick Eckert might have the youthful face and thick hair of a man who isn’t aging, time does march on and he’s now 59 years old with the big 6-0 coming in December. He’s eclipsed four decades as a race car driver as well. But Full Story

• Notes: Virginian's Crate career starts with bang

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 06:30 am By Todd Turner

  Perfection is mostly unattainable in dirt racing, but after his first Crate Late Model outing March 22 at Winchester (Va.) Speedway, Cody Williams got a brief feeling of what it was like. He was 1-for-1 in the division and had just outrun Full Story

• 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