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• Notes: Rain makes Lancaster 'too fast'

  Posted: 03/17/2012, 04:03 am By Joshua Joiner

  LANCASTER, S.C. (March 16) — With long straightways and tight corners, Lancaster Speedway’s half-mile oval can often make it tricky for drivers to race side by side. A brief rain shower just before Friday night’s Carolina Full Story

• Whiseant grabs pole position for Pelican 100

  Posted: 03/17/2012, 02:40 am

  VIVIAN, La. (March 16) — Duke Whiseant of Texarkana, Ark., captured the first heat race at Friday's second annual Pelican 100 to earn the pole position for Saturday's unsanctioned main event at ArkLaTex Speedway. Whiseant, returning Full Story

• Roberts earns pole for Carolina Crown feature

  Posted: 03/16/2012, 11:17 pm By Joshua Joiner

  LANCASTER, S.C. (March 16) — Casey Roberts nearly gave away a chance to start from the pole of Saturday night’s $20,000-to-win Carolina Crown main event, but he was saved by a caution. Roberts of Toccoa, Ga., moved to the Full Story

• Younger Feathers takes sixth sense up to Supers

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 09:08 am By Todd Turner

  Bo Feathers won't forget the first time his son Trever climbed into a Dirt Late Model. Bo and Trever's grandfather, Wayne, took the youngster to Maryland's Potomac Speedway for his first practice session, and the 15-year-old Trever struggled Full Story

• Previewing Midwestern tours for the '12 season

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 06:00 am

  With spring just around the corner (or already here in many places), here's a look at developments on Midwestern Dirt Late Model tours for the 2012 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials, directors Full Story

• Previewing Western tours for the '12 season

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 05:56 am

  With spring just around the corner (or already here in many places), here's a look at developments on Western Dirt Late Model tours for the 2012 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials, directors and Full Story

• Previewing Southern tours for the '12 season

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 05:45 am

  With spring just around the corner (or already here in many places), here's a look at developments on Southern Dirt Late Model tours for the 2012 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials, directors and Full Story

• Previewing Northern tours for the '12 season

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 05:37 am

  With spring just around the corner (or already here in many places), here's a look at developments on Northern Dirt Late Model tours for the 2012 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials, directors and Full Story

• Previewing the regional Dirt Late Model series

  Posted: 03/15/2012, 05:29 am

  With the national tours getting their wheels on the ground during Florida Speedweeks, the regional Dirt Late Model series are starting to crank up. Some have already kicked off while others have debuts coming up in the second half of March. Full Story

• Outlaws first-timer aims to continue solid start

  Posted: 03/14/2012, 09:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  Mike Marlar is confident that he has the talent, experience and racing program to make some noise as a first-time follower of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. But does he have the other intangibles necessary to be a season-long Full Story

• Quick Time: Slots of fun at Winchester track

  Posted: 03/14/2012, 09:23 am By Todd Turner

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner for roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action, along with some other quirks of racing. Quick Time, one of the newest features Full Story

• Poll Position: Lanigan remains in the top spot

  Posted: 03/13/2012, 10:08 am

  Welcome to one of the newest DirtonDirt.com features, Poll Position, as DirtonDirt.com staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Joshua Joiner rank the nation's top 25 Dirt Late Model racers by consensus. Future rankings will appear every Full Story

• Fast Talk: Roffers, regional tours and Cinderella?

  Posted: 03/12/2012, 12:45 pm

  Here's the latest edition of Fast Talk, a new DirtonDirt.com feature appearing each Monday. Staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Joshua Joiner gather weekly for a roundtable discussion about who's hot, who's not and other issues regarding Full Story

• Bray threads needle for $5,000 at Toccoa

  Posted: 03/12/2012, 09:27 am

  TOCCOA, Ga. (March 10-11) — Royce Bray of Hull, Ga., made a daring three-wide move amid traffic Sunday afternoon at Toccoa Speedway to take the lead and the victory at the Georgia Winter Nationals for Crate Late Models. Bray led the Full Story

• Jeff Smith earns $3,000 for first NDRA victory

  Posted: 03/12/2012, 09:12 am

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 10) – Jeff Smith’s list of racing accomplishments got a little bigger on Saturday night, as the Dallas, N.C., veteran added an NDRA Road Show presented by Heintz Performance victory to his resume. Starting Full Story

• Neat rallies to capture Brownstown's opener

  Posted: 03/11/2012, 02:16 pm

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 10) — Brad Neat of Dunnville, Ky., recovering after dropping to eighth place early in the 25-lap feature, rallied for a Super Late Model victory in Brownstown Speedway's 60th season opener. Neat, whose only Full Story

• Sullivan leads 30 laps, triumphs at Springfield

  Posted: 03/11/2012, 01:57 pm

  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (March 10) — Leading all 30 laps from outside the front row, Jack Sullivan of Greenbrier, Ark., earned $2,000 on Saturday at Springfield Raceway in the unsanctioned Turkey Classic. The weather-postponed from November Full Story

• Notes: Runner-up finish reassuring for Ferguson

  Posted: 03/11/2012, 01:45 pm By Joshua Joiner

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 10) – After a disappointing debut in his new Warrior Race Car during Cherokee Speedway’s March Madness, Chris Ferguson of Mount Holly, N.C., was wondering if building a new race car over the offseason Full Story

• Wisconsin native enjoys special Carolina victory

  Posted: 03/11/2012, 05:46 am By Joshua Joiner

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 10) — Wisconsin transplant Luke Roffers may not originally be from North or South Carolina, but he’s lived in the Carolinas long enough to learn how important the Skyler Trull Memorial is to area drivers Full Story

• Rain, postponements shuffle March schedule

  Posted: 03/09/2012, 12:42 pm

  Postponements and cancellations have shuffled the schedule of Dirt Late Model special events for the second weekend in March. Two of the weekend's richest races, the Southern All Star-sanctioned Shamrock at Cleveland (Tenn.) Speedway and Full Story

• Texan Mitchell adjusting to a new car, teammate

  Posted: 03/09/2012, 03:58 am By Bryan Wimberley

  FORT WORTH, Texas — Jon Mitchell made major changes to his race team during the offseason. Not only did the Texarkana, Texas, driver switch chassis brands following a 2011 campaign that produced a third-place points finish on the Full Story

• Notes: Sitton falls shy of potential at Fort Worth

  Posted: 03/08/2012, 04:45 pm By Bryan Wimberley

  FORT WORTH, Texas — Kevin Sitton of Baytown, Texas, earned Hard Charger honors Saturday at SUPR's Port-A-Cool Texas World Dirt Track Championship, but he thought his run at the 4/10-mile Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track should've been Full Story

• Virginia's Arthur ready for stiffer competition

  Posted: 03/08/2012, 12:42 am By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — After a fourth-place finish Saturday at Clarksville Speedway, a seemingly always grinning Walker Arthur was doing just that. Grinning. And why not? The 27-year-old driver from Forest, Va. — probably the Full Story

• Minnesota's Shaw hits $3,000 jackpot in Vegas

  Posted: 03/08/2012, 12:27 am By Chris Stepan

  LAS VEGAS, Nev. (March 7) — Grabbing the lead for good on the 10th lap, eighth-starting Don Shaw of Ham Lake, Minn., raced to a $3,000 victory Wednesday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track's Sin City Showdown. The Full Story

• Quick Time: Winning trio erase failures in Florida

  Posted: 03/07/2012, 01:11 pm By Todd Turner

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner for roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action. Quick Time, one of the newest features of our website, will appear every Wednesday Full Story