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• Wild celebration earns Hubbard fans at Screven

  Posted: 03/23/2010, 09:03 am By Kevin Kovac

  Ah, the exuberance of youth. Austin Hubbard is a talented 18-year-old who's thrilled to be running for a high-profile team on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series — and when he wins a race, he's going to show just how thrilled he Full Story

• Notes: Cooke grabs first win since facial injuries

  Posted: 03/22/2010, 12:58 pm By Rhonda Beck

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 20) — After suffering serious facial injuries in a November racing accident, Jeff Cooke of Spartanburg, S.C., is glad to be back on the track. Even better, glad to be back in victory lane after winning the NDRA-sanctioned Full Story

• Notes: Wells's Spring 50 chances go up in smoke

  Posted: 03/22/2010, 07:02 am By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (March 20) — His car and his chance of his biggest victory gone up in smoke, Eric Wells coasted to the Florence Speedway infield on Saturday night, the engine in his No. 18 a mangled mess. The stunned 21-year-old driver Full Story

• Bowen breaks through, captures Trull Memorial

  Posted: 03/21/2010, 07:06 am By Rhonda Beck

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 20) — Dean Bowen's attempt to run last year's Skyler Trull Memorial at Carolina Speedway ended nearly before it started. “We came last year to this race and got in a little tangle on the first lap," said Full Story

• Streaking Hubbard gets first career WoO victory

  Posted: 03/21/2010, 06:53 am By Kevin Kovac

  SYLVANIA, Ga. (March 20) — Austin Hubbard loves Georgia – and Georgia loves him back. Back in the state where he burst on the national scene with his first major victory two months ago, the 18-year-old sensation from Seaford, Full Story

• Heat is on, but Putnam wins at North Alabama

  Posted: 03/21/2010, 06:37 am By Ben Shelton

  TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (March 20) — Slipping back to third in the early laps, polesitter Josh Putnam of Killen, Ala., swept around the Rickman brothers at North Alabama Speedway on the eighth lap and led the remainder of the PRO Dirt Car Full Story

• Shamrock 60, $10,000 captured by Davenport

  Posted: 03/20/2010, 11:32 pm

  CLEVELAND, Tenn. (March 20) — Encouraging someone to don an enormous green leprachuan hat in front of a crowd isa tough sell in most cases. But when it comes with more green — in the form of a $10,000 winner's purse — Full Story

• Leaders fall by wayside as O'Neal wins Spring 50

  Posted: 03/20/2010, 10:50 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (March 20) — In a Spring 50 where two of the fastest cars fell by the wayside, Don O'Neal of Martinsville, Ind., was standing tall at the end of the season-opening event at Florence Speedway. The ninth-starting O'Neal, Full Story

• Lanigan tops McCreadie for WoO victory in Ocala

  Posted: 03/20/2010, 05:43 am By Kevin Kovac

  OCALA, Fla. (March 19) — Darrell Lanigan didn't catch his breath until reaching victory lane Friday night at Ocala Speedway. In a tense battle that had a standing-room-only crowd cheering, Lanigan repelled several rivals to capture Full Story

• CT525 crate engine lifts R.J. to 60th SAS victory

  Posted: 03/19/2010, 10:18 pm

  RINGGOLD, Ga. (March 19) — Ronnie Johnson entered the Cabin Fever 40 at Boyd's Speedway as the winningest driver in Southern All Star Racing Series history, but he won Friday's feature like he's won none other. Piloting a car equipped Full Story

• Notes: Francis, Clanton ready for WoO's return

  Posted: 03/18/2010, 05:32 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Heading into this weekend's races in Ocala, Fla., and Sylvania, Ga., World of Outlaws Late Model Series regulars Steve Francis and Shane Clanton are anxious to climb back behind the wheel after experiencing eventful months — for different Full Story

• Maturing teen's progress A-OK as he tackles MARS

  Posted: 03/17/2010, 03:19 pm By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Winding down in his team's hauler at Clarksville Speedway, 16-year-old Gary Christian chatted nonchalantly about his second-place finish in the March 12 opener on the MARS DIRTcar Series. Christian battled wheel-to-wheel Full Story

• Ocala standout welcomes Outlaws to home track

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 08:59 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Ivedent Lloyd Jr. has waited a long time for the country's best dirt Late Model drivers to visit his playground. So, with the World of Outlaws Late Model Series set to make its first-ever stop at Lloyd's hometown Ocala Speedway on Friday, Full Story

• Perris gives Late Models another shot in 2010

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 05:23 pm

  A track that gave up on Dirt Late Models for 2009 is dipping its toe back in the full-fendered waters in 2010 with at least two races for the division on the schedule. The half-mile oval promoted by Don Kazarian has scheduled a $1,200-to-win Full Story

• Notes: Screven promoter offers 'stimulus program'

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 04:55 pm

  James "Redd" Griffin gets pumped up every time he brings the renowned World of Outlaws Late Model Series to his Screven Motor Speedway in Sylvania, Ga. And judging by the sweet offer he's come up with to generate more buzz about the national Full Story

• Carolina radio show promotes dirt tracks

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 03:24 pm By Rhonda Beck

  Carolina Speedway’s Clint Elkins and Mark Gibbons wanted to get the word out about the exciting dirt racing going on weekends in Gaston County, N.C. Radio personalities Joe Sellers and Jeff Ward of WGNC AM-1450 in Gastonia were hoping Full Story

• Party in Pevely kicks off season at I-55 Raceway

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 10:52 am By Kevin Kovac

  Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., is ready to help get the 2010 party started on DIRTcar Racing's UMP circuit. The reigning UMP DIRTcar points champion heads a long list of Midwestern drivers expected to invade I-55 Raceway on March 18-20 Full Story

• Dewitt wins at Oglethorpe for first NLMS triumph

  Posted: 03/16/2010, 09:46 am

  SAVANNAH, Ga. (March 13) — Fourth-starting Brandon Dewitt of Morven, Ga., raced to his first career victory on the Hedman Hedders National Late Model Series, earning $3,000 at Oglethorpe Speedway Park. Dewitt piloted a Barry Wright Full Story

• Notes: Turner goes back to basics to grab $3,000

  Posted: 03/14/2010, 04:55 pm By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — In his first full season of Dirt Late Model racing, 32-year-old Eric Turner drifted further and further from the recommended shock and suspension setups for GRT Race Cars. It showed as the modified ace from Springfield, Full Story

• In wreck-marred race, Ricky Thornton takes SWDRA debut

  Posted: 03/14/2010, 08:45 am

  PEORIA, Ariz. (March 13) — Modified standout Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., led all the way in his first Late Model start for a $1,550 victory in a Southwest Dirt Racing Association marred by a major first-lap accident. The Full Story

• Wall rallies at Columbus to win PRO series debut

  Posted: 03/14/2010, 08:31 am By Bryan Wimberley

  COLUMBUS, Miss (March 13) — Rallying from his 11th starting spot, Chris Wall of Holden, La., became the third of three leaders on the 27th lap and took the lead for good with 12 laps remaining to capture the first-ever race on the Full Story

• Notes: Lucas Oil gives boot to inversion wheel

  Posted: 03/13/2010, 04:15 pm

  The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series inversion wheel has been spun for the last time. In amending its race format, the series has ditched heat-race inversions and will straight all prelims straight up according to time trials, officials Full Story

• Notes: High-side charge too late for Zimmerman

  Posted: 03/13/2010, 10:56 am By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 12) — Charles Zimmerman of Cunningham, Tenn., has a single Super Late Model victory at Clarksville Speedway in three years of racing at his home track. He felt like he might've had another one Friday on the Full Story

• Turner turns fate around with victory at Clarksville

  Posted: 03/13/2010, 12:43 am By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 12) — In victory lane Friday night at Clarksville Speedway, Eric Turner of Springfield, Mo., said he hopes to be sitting on the unique porcelain trophy on Saturday at the MARS DIRTcar Series-sanctioned Tuckassee Full Story

• Rain postpones Southern All Star, Clash events

  Posted: 03/12/2010, 08:11 am

  Late-winter rains in the Southeast, and forecasts for more precipitation, have postponed a handful of Dirt Late Model special events originally scheduled for the March 12-13 weekend. The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series has rescheduled Full Story