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As career develops, Troutman has options
Posted: 08/31/2024, 10:49 am By Kyle McFaddenBEDFORD, Pa. (Aug. 30) — Drake Troutman seemingly didn’t have a minute to himself ahead of Friday’s Labor Day 55 Classic at Bedford Speedway. Right before the drivers’ meeting, the 19-year-old hastily worked to make sure every Full Story
Dispatches: Alberson conquers Eldora oval
Posted: 09/01/2024, 01:27 amAmong the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing over Labor Day weekend, including XR Super Series action in Farley, Iowa, and Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association action in Wheatland, Mo. Also find a listing Full Story
Fast Facts: 54th annual World 100
Posted: 08/30/2024, 08:51 am By Aaron Clay(Complete World 100 coverage) Dates: Sept. 5-7 (split-field preliminary programs Thursday and Friday preceding Saturday’s 100-lap finale) Track: Eldora Speedway (high-banked half-mile clay oval) Location: Rossburg, Ohio Purse: $57,000-to-win Full Story
Column: Double Nickel flips family racing history
Posted: 08/29/2024, 06:19 pmBenji Hicks’s desire to become a Dirt Late Model chassis builder can’t really be considered a surprise. The line of work happens to be buried deep in his DNA. “Back in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s, something like that, my dad Full Story
One-time ride to scratch Madden's World 100 itch
Posted: 08/29/2024, 07:17 am By Kyle McFaddenChris Madden can’t yet picture an Eldora Speedway crown jewel in Rossburg, Ohio, without him in it as a driver. For that reason, the 49-year-old is gearing up for another run at an elusive Eldora crown jewel at Sept. 5-7’s World 100. Indeed, Full Story
Notes: Track variety tests young Pennsylvanian
Posted: 08/29/2024, 06:43 am By Todd TurnerThey say variety is the spice of life. For a young Dirt Late Model driver, competing on a variety of dirt tracks of varying sizes and shapes speeds up the learning curve. And that's where 16-year-old Lane Snook finds himself during his Full Story
Hell Tour experience hones McCowan's skills
Posted: 08/28/2024, 03:37 pm By Lyndal ScrantonSince he last appeared on his home dirt during Memorial Day Weekend for the Show-Me 100, you might say Dillon McCowan has gone to racing school. The 20-year-old from nearby Urbana followed the grueling DIRTcar Summer Nationals that began Full Story
Top 25: Pierce secure No. 1; Alberson climbs
Posted: 08/27/2024, 07:25 am By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., returned to victory lane twice after a brief one-week absence, bringing him to the 30-win mark for the season before even reaching Labor Day and keeping him firmly on top of DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 poll Full Story
Fast Talk: Racing review as Labor Day beckons
Posted: 08/26/2024, 12:26 pmWith Labor Day weekend on the horizon after a busy weekend of Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action, our roundtable answers questions in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Full Story
Notes: Breaks fall Blair's way for 3rd at Port Royal
Posted: 08/26/2024, 07:30 am By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Max Blair was happy but also a bit perplexed after finishing third in Saturday’s 50-lap Rumble by the River finale at Port Royal Speedway. How was the 34-year-old Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series regular Full Story
J.D. grabs Rumble cash, but there's work to do
Posted: 08/25/2024, 02:52 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Jonathan Davenport didn’t sugarcoat anything when asked what the deciding factor had been in Saturday's $50,000 drive to his Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory at Port Royal Speedway. | RaceWire Of Full Story
Thornton-O'Neal scrape at Port Royal drama-free
Posted: 08/25/2024, 02:35 pm By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 24) — Hudson O’Neal was running second. The driver he replaced last month as driver for SSI Motorsports, Ricky Thornton Jr., was third and itching to move up. But the battle of the two closely-connected rivals Full Story
Alberson soaks up joy of long-awaited Lucas win
Posted: 08/24/2024, 01:11 pm By Kevin KovacPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — Garrett Alberson’s long pursuit of a victory on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series was often frustrating and sometimes even excruciating. The ultimate breakthrough, though, was well worth the wait for the Full Story
Leads can be precarious at tricky Port Royal oval
Posted: 08/24/2024, 01:02 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 23) — As Friday’s 40-lap, $10,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature demonstrated, no lead is safe at Port Royal Speedway. The opening night of the Rumble by the River won by Garrett Alberson in a Full Story
Dispatches: Spoiler-less Gustin tops Atomic
Posted: 08/25/2024, 12:37 pmAmong the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing Aug. 23-25 from the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series and more (Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series coverage from Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway will appear in Full Story
Column: New tracks? It's not a problem for Pierce
Posted: 08/22/2024, 02:12 pmSARVER, Pa. — Bobby Pierce had never visited Lernerville Speedway — one of the best-known Dirt Late Model tracks in the country and host of a legit major event in the nearly two-decade-old Firecracker 100 — before Wednesday’s Castrol Full Story
Notes: Unexpected title run for Mississippi racer
Posted: 08/22/2024, 07:46 am By Todd TurnerHeading into the racing season, chasing a points title wasn't a serious consideration for David Williamson, a third-year Crate Late Model racer from Seminary, Miss. After all, besides transitioning to a new Longhorn Chassis after after Full Story
Timeline: Scott Bloomquist's racing career
Posted: 08/21/2024, 12:30 pmSignificant dates, milestones and other noteworthy events in Hall of Fame driver Scott Bloomquist’s 45-year career: Nov. 14, 1963: Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Ron and Georgie Bloomquist. August 1980: Competes in first dirt racing event Full Story
New-version Rocket XR1 has Richards feeling fine
Posted: 08/21/2024, 08:39 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Mark Richards and his Rocket Chassis organization have been particularly hard at work these last few months. Not only because their house car team had gone 48 races between victories — from Hudson O’Neal’s Full Story
Top 25: T-Mac, Shirley climb and posthumous tribute
Posted: 08/20/2024, 07:53 am By Kevin KovacA rare winless week wasn’t much of a hiccup for Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., who still made his presence known sufficiently on a three-race World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series swing through the Midwest to remain firmly on top of Full Story
Fast Talk: Bloomquist's enduring mark on sport
Posted: 08/19/2024, 10:39 amWith the Dirt Late Model world rocked by the death of legendary driver Scott Bloomquist, our roundtable discusses the driver many consider to the best of all time in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited Full Story
Notes: Salvaging fifth eases Thornton's mind
Posted: 08/18/2024, 10:07 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Ricky Thornton Jr. wasn’t particularly thrilled, of course, that a flat right-rear took him out of the lead on the 65th lap of Saturday’s Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway. Full Story
'Rewarding' first victory in Rocket1 for T-Mac
Posted: 08/18/2024, 07:41 am By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 17) — Nearly every team in Batesville Motor Speedway’s back pit area had either loaded up or already departed after Saturday’s slog of a Topless 100 program, but Tim McCreadie was in no such rush. Still wearing Full Story
Topless 100 foes recall Bloomquist's life, legacy
Posted: 08/17/2024, 01:46 pm By Kyle McFaddenLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 16) — Like most folks in the Batesville Motor Speedway pits on Friday afternoon ahead of Topless 100 preliminary night, Mike Marlar cooped up inside his transporter to get away from the oppressive evening that Full Story
Column: No drivers said it quite like Bloomquist
Posted: 08/17/2024, 12:59 amScott Bloomquist won more than 600 races during his Hall of Fame career. I saw quite a few of them during my days as a writer. And you know what? Bloomquist could’ve won every race I covered and I would’ve been fine with it. I knew Full Story
