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Column: Schwallie feels difficult loss of East Bay
Posted: 03/01/2024, 11:46 amFor the last quarter-century — save just a single year — Rick Schwallie has spent a winter week at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla. His annual visit for the third-mile track’s Late Model Winternationals is basically part of Full Story
Start of a trend? Lincoln debuts 'virtual flagman'
Posted: 02/29/2024, 01:37 pm By Kyle McFaddenABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. — Lincoln Speedway, the 3/8-mile clay oval in the heart of winged sprint car country that hosts two Super Late Model events this season, is doing something this year that no dirt-track in the states has done before. That, Full Story
Top 25: Pierce opens poll with No. 1 driver ranking
Posted: 02/27/2024, 01:46 pm By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce, the winningest Super Late Model driver through the first two months of the season, rode his hot start to the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings in the first balloting of 2024. The 27-year-old star from Oakwood, Full Story
Fast Talk: Post-Daytona racing and sprint cars
Posted: 02/26/2024, 11:54 amFollowing the Deuces Wild event for the Lucas Oil Series at Georgia’s Golden Isles Speedway, our roundtable offer thoughts on a national tour running the weekend after the traditional end of Speedweeks and sharing the bill with sprint Full Story
Column: Elusive victory elevates Wilson's stature
Posted: 02/22/2024, 03:59 pmDuring virtually every moment that Daulton Wilson spent last week at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., he could sense that he wasn’t the same race car driver he had been just days earlier. His stature had changed. He had taken Full Story
Fast Talk: Wrapping up Volusia and Speedweeks
Posted: 02/19/2024, 11:38 amWith Georgia-Florida Speedweeks wrapping up at Volusia Speedway Park, our roundtable considers the action and also looks at this weekend’s post-Daytona 500 weekend for the Lucas Oil Series at Golden Isles Speedway in the weekly feature Full Story
Volusia becomes Moran's new favorite Florida oval
Posted: 02/17/2024, 10:23 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 16) — With East Bay Raceway Park’s imminent demise, Devin Moran needs a new favorite Florida track. Can Volusia Speedway Park fit the bill? The 29-year-old standout from Dresden, Ohio, certainly believes so. “Oh Full Story
Hoffman's DIRTcar Nat'ls legacy reaches next level
Posted: 02/16/2024, 10:47 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 15) — The thrill of victory at Volusia Speedway Park’s Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals is nothing new to Nick Hoffman. No one, in fact, knows the feeling better than the 31-year-old driver from Mooresville, Full Story
Column: Pierce quick on Volusia's tricky cushion
Posted: 02/15/2024, 01:22 pmThe question was posed to Bobby Pierce after his two-victory Wednesday evening at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., where he blasted to back-to-back DIRTcar-sanctioned triumphs — driving different cars, no less — in the first Full Story
Restart trouble dooms Pierce, sets off mayhem
Posted: 02/14/2024, 05:37 am By Kevin KovacBARBERVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 13) — Bobby Pierce rolled toward the restart green flag, confident that he was a mere eight circuits away from completing a wire-to-wire victory in Tuesday night’s 25-lap Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals Full Story
Fast Talk: The end of East Bay's memorable era
Posted: 02/12/2024, 12:22 pmOur roundtable looks back at the end of an era with the running of the final Wieland Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park and considers this week’s DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park as Speedweeks finally comes to a close Full Story
Win doesn't stir East Bay emotions in Davenport
Posted: 02/10/2024, 11:16 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 9) — Winning during the 48th and final Wieland Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park didn’t hit Jonathan Davenport’s emotions with quite the force some observers might expect. Sure, the 40-year-old superstar Full Story
Sheppard happy to win, but sad to defeat Shirley
Posted: 02/09/2024, 04:52 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 8) — Brandon Sheppard was understandably beaming after his victory Thursday in the 30-lap Wieland Winternationals feature held over from Monday night’s rainout at East Bay Raceway Park — not only because it marked Full Story
Owens turns East Bay tide after years of misery
Posted: 02/09/2024, 06:39 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 8) — Racing at East Bay Raceway Park has never been Jimmy Owens’s strong suit. He typically views the third-mile oval’s Wieland Winternationals as just a week of competition that will bring him mostly misery. Full Story
Column: Slump-busting triumph recharges Terbo
Posted: 02/08/2024, 10:59 amAfter winning Wednesday night’s 40-lap Wieland Winternationals feature at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla., Tyler Erb sat inside his Best Performance Motorsports trailer and told DirtonDirt.com’s Derek Kessinger how much the Full Story
Notes: Terbo hungry for a Speedweeks victory
Posted: 02/07/2024, 01:48 pm By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 6) — One thought shot through Tyler Erb’s mind as soon as he saw Hudson O’Neal’s Rocket Chassis house car appear underneath him off turn two on the 10th circuit of Tuesday night’s 30-lap Wieland Winternationals Full Story
O'Neal tries to relish final days, stories of East Bay
Posted: 02/07/2024, 08:17 am By Kevin KovacGIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 6) — Hudson O’Neal isn’t going to hate seeing East Bay Raceway Park close just because of what he’s done at the third-mile oval. Everything he could do there in the years to come will make its shuttering even Full Story
Five takeaways from Lucas Oil's opening week
Posted: 02/05/2024, 04:58 pm By Kyle McFaddenELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 3) — With one full week of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season come and gone, and Georgia-Florida Speedweeks halfway complete, there’s much to reflect on and bear in mind for potentially the weeks and Full Story
Fast Talk: Speedweeks, East Bay musings
Posted: 02/05/2024, 12:38 pmAs Georgia-Florida Speedweeks rolls on to East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla., our roundtable considers some happenings that have already occurred and looks to a future without East Bay’s Winternationals in the weekly feature presented Full Story
Bliss of All-Tech victory pumps new life in T-Mac
Posted: 02/04/2024, 02:14 pm By Kyle McFaddenELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 3) — Tim McCreadie isn’t ignorant to the sport’s evolution this last calendar year and where he falls in the midst of the shuffling, both on an operation’s and hierarchy level, who's performing at the top Full Story
Notes: Bruening's top-five run a long time coming
Posted: 02/03/2024, 08:28 am By Kyle McFaddenELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 2) — Tyler Bruening could smile again. After digging himself out of an early-night hole — and longer term rut for that matter — with Friday’s 17th-to-fourth march through the 50-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story
All-Tech's tricky corner sends Alberson into exile
Posted: 02/03/2024, 07:34 am By Kyle McFaddenELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 2) — From the looks of it, Garrett Alberson appeared so hungry — almost desperately hungry — for that breakthrough touring victory on Friday night with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at All-Tech Raceway, Full Story
Column: B-Shepp, Arpin seek Longhorn glory
Posted: 02/02/2024, 03:41 pmBrandon Sheppard and Steve Arpin sat side-by-side in director’s chairs Thursday morning during the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series media day at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. B-Shepp was dressed in his orange-and-camouflage Full Story
Notes: Nothdurft hoping to find speed at All-Tech
Posted: 02/02/2024, 10:16 am By Kyle McFaddenELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 1) — Blair Nothdurft has no expectations for himself this weekend at All-Tech Raceway with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. How come? For starters, the Renner, S.D., native’s relationship with the tricky Full Story
Harris sees Ocala victory come tantalizingly close
Posted: 02/01/2024, 12:21 pm By Kyle McFaddenOCALA, Fla. (Jan. 31) — Sometime down the figurative road, Clay Harris will fully appreciate what he lived out with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series on Wednesday night at Ocala Speedway. Until then, the evening is too immediately Full Story
