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• Column: SSI car owner discusses driver change

  Posted: 07/10/2024, 09:09 pm

  Todd Burns isn’t a Dirt Late Model car owner seeking the spotlight. He’s content to stay in the background and watch his SSI Motorsports team race and, of course, win, something his operation has done on a historic level over the past Full Story

• Family-focused Koehlers major draw for Thornton

  Posted: 07/10/2024, 08:49 pm By Kyle McFadden

  Ricky Thornton Jr. can view Sunday as either the most difficult day of his fast-rising career or a day that reminds him just how valued he is across dirt-track racing. Under absolutely no circumstance did the reigning DirtonDirt.com Driver Full Story

• Notes: Despain winding down announcing career

  Posted: 07/10/2024, 04:07 pm

  After 32 years behind the microphone, announcer Michael Despain is retiring at the end of the 2024 racing season. The Campbellsville, Ky., resident looks back on his career and sees it as a time full of fun and enjoyable memories, even Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce supplants Thornton in top spot

  Posted: 07/09/2024, 09:05 am By Kevin Kovac

  A red-hot holiday week of racing through the Upper Midwest — including a pair $50,000 victories over four days — vaulted Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., back to the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings for the first time in Full Story

• Violent Deer Creek wreck leaves Moyer 'beaten up'

  Posted: 07/08/2024, 05:13 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 6) — Not surprisingly for a driver considered one of Dirt Late Model racing’s all-time greats, Billy Moyer has rarely found himself in hellacious crashes over his nearly 50 years behind the wheel. | RaceWire So Full Story

• Notes: Terbo's overnight trip to Tri-State pays off

  Posted: 07/08/2024, 12:36 pm By Bryan Ault

  HAUBSTADT, Ind. (July 7) – Tyler Erb’s flag-to-flag victory in Sunday night’s 30-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals feature at Tri-State Speedway came in eerily similar fashion to his triumph in the quarter-mile oval’s Hell Tour event Full Story

• Fast Talk: Breaking down unthinkable July news

  Posted: 07/08/2024, 11:39 am

  With the monumental news of Ricky Thornton Jr.’s release from SSI Motorsports topping the list, DirtonDirt.com’s roundtable digs into the holiday stretch of racing in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story

• Gopher winner survives cushion-jumping miscue

  Posted: 07/07/2024, 08:26 am By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 6) — This time Bobby Pierce knew he was the winner of the NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 as soon as he raced under the checkered flag. He didn’t have to spend 10 anxious minutes waiting for officials to confirm Full Story

• Notes: Breakage doesn't slow Gilpin at Brownstown

  Posted: 07/07/2024, 07:54 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (July 6) — Onlookers quickly gathered near Devin Gilpin’s pit area right after the Born Free 40 winner took the checkered flag at Brownstown Speedway’s Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series event. | RaceWire The Full Story

• Notes: Arkansas pilot shines in WoO debut

  Posted: 07/06/2024, 12:50 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 5) — For nine laps on Friday afternoon, Tyler Stevens of Paragould, Ark., was in the place that a driver making a first-ever World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series start usually only dreams about: leading the Full Story

• Last-lap glory for Gustin after rehabbing Infinity

  Posted: 07/05/2024, 08:19 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 5) — Did Ryan Gustin cross the finish line first? Or did Nick Hoffman? Neither driver was sure. The finish was simply too close to call in Friday afternoon’s postponed 30-lap NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 preliminary Full Story

• Column: Car owner's faith buoys Shirley

  Posted: 07/04/2024, 07:41 am

  The emotion — cracking voice, tearing eyes — that bubbled over in Brian Shirley after he won Sunday’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series feature at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.D., was certainly more than he Full Story

• Notes: Tennessean follows dad's tire tracks

  Posted: 07/04/2024, 12:04 am By Todd Turner

  In what's quickly developing into his best season driving Late Model-style cars, Hayden Ownbey of Cleveland, Tenn., ponders his most memorable outing of the season. He eventually decides a ninth-place finish in June 8's Topless Outlaw Dirt Full Story

• Dispatches: Hometown hero status for Moran

  Posted: 07/06/2024, 02:29 pm

  Among latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing through a busy Fourth of July week including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, XR Super Series and DIRTcar Summer Nationals action (look for Deer Creek’s Gopher 50 coverage Full Story

• Top 25: McDowell at No. 10 of RTJ-led rankings

  Posted: 07/02/2024, 08:02 am By Kevin Kovac

  While Ricky Thornton Jr. had a rare weekend without a victory, none of his rivals put together results that could shake him from the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings as the superstar from Chandler, Ariz., remained a unanimous Full Story

• Exciting weekend points Wever to bright future

  Posted: 07/01/2024, 12:58 pm By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (June 29) – Jim Wever beamed with pride as he spoke of his grandson, 24-year-old Jordan Wever, picking up his first-ever Super Late Model win on Friday night at MRP Raceway Park in Williamsburg, Ohio. Standing in the Florence Full Story

• Fast Talk: Ageless Mac-Daddy and WoO reset

  Posted: 07/01/2024, 11:58 am

  DirtonDirt.com’s roundtable takes a look at the ageless Dale McDowell, the state of the World of Outlaws championship and some Fourth of July memories in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Notes: Alberson's tuneup at Florence pays $5,000

  Posted: 06/30/2024, 10:10 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (June 29) – Garrett Alberson’s flag-to-flag victory on Saturday night at Florence Speedway did more than secure him a $5,000 payday. It also gave the 35-year-old driver from Las Cruces, N.M., a boost of confidence heading Full Story

• WISSOTA champ steps up in class with WoO

  Posted: 06/28/2024, 07:32 am By Kyle McFadden

  The reigning WISSOTA champion is excited to get a chance to battle some of Super Late Model racing's best on his home turf. Tyler Peterson, one of dirt-track racing’s winningest drivers over the last year, plans to make his open-competition Full Story

• Dispatches: Win makes Shirley's emotions flow

  Posted: 07/01/2024, 04:25 am

  Among latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing heading into the Fourth of July weekend including World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series, DIRTcar Summer Nationals and other coverage. Also find a listing of live-streaming Full Story

• Notes: Winning Georgian buoys crew chief's legacy

  Posted: 06/27/2024, 12:12 am By Todd Turner

  Before connecting with veteran crew chief James Foster, Chris Woods of Statham, Ga., had been a moderately successful Dirt Late Model racer. Under the guidance of Foster, who for more than 40 years prepared winning cars for National Dirt Full Story

• Soggy Huset's hustling ahead of Lucas Oil visit

  Posted: 06/26/2024, 03:33 pm By Kyle McFadden

  After severe flooding swept across Huset’s Speedway over the weekend, general manager Doug Johnson and his crew have begun cleanup on the still-soggy grounds of the Brandon, S.D., facility. Most of the standing water around the third-mile Full Story

• Column: Erb finds sweet spot racing on Hell Tour

  Posted: 06/26/2024, 02:35 pm

  Has Tyler Erb, at the age of 27 and more than a decade into his Dirt Late Model career, found the place he’s always needed to be to find maximum happiness as a race car driver? Is the DIRTcar Summer Nationals his perfect fit? During Full Story

• Crews, officials hydrate to endure sultry nights

  Posted: 06/26/2024, 11:23 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (June 22) — With the official start of summer comes even more racing as tours start digging into the teeth of their schedules. Whether it’s the Heartland Grand Tour on the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series, the Full Story

• Top 25: Troutman joins RTJ-topped rankings

  Posted: 06/25/2024, 07:20 am By Kevin Kovac

  Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., solidified his already strong hold on the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings, rolling to a convincing $50,000 victory in Saturday's Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., Full Story