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Early DTWC scrape ends Thornton’s title hopes
Posted: 10/24/2023, 04:22 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 22) — Ricky Thornton Jr. fully understood the contrasting outcomes facing him in the 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Speedway. In fact, the 33-year-old star from Chandler, Ariz., wrote a Full Story
Top 25: DTWC combatants gain in polling
Posted: 10/24/2023, 08:17 am By Todd TurnerWhile Ricky Thornton Jr. and Bobby Pierce retained the top two spots in DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings, freshly crowned Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion Hudson O'Neal picked up a first-place vote in Tuesday's balloting Full Story
Fast Talk: The DTWC delivers … what’s next?
Posted: 10/23/2023, 12:29 pm By Kevin KovacAfter a soggy Eldora Speedway finally avoided rain for the General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP, it concluded with the dramatics of Brandon Sheppard's victory and Hudson O'Neal's Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story
O’Neal on top after epic duel to decide Lucas title
Posted: 10/23/2023, 09:40 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 22) — As Devin Moran stood in the middle of Eldora Speedway’s first and second turns wearing street clothes and a winter jacket and surveying the wavy, chewed-up racing surface after Sunday’s 43rd General Tire Full Story
Hardy unapologetic after winning Bedford duel
Posted: 10/22/2023, 11:06 am By Kyle McFaddenBEDFORD, Pa. (Oct. 21) — Kyle Hardy doesn’t regret anything from Saturday’s Keystone Cup at Bedford Speedway in which he booted Dylan Yoder aside in the final corner for the $23,000 victory. Unbothered by the criticism he provoked, Full Story
Title drama gives Lucas hope on soggy weekend
Posted: 10/22/2023, 07:21 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 21) — Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie has faced so many trials and tribulations while navigating the national tour’s 2023 schedule that nothing can surprise him anymore. | RaceWire “We’ve Full Story
Purkey, Stokes, Weeks among '24 Hall of Famers
Posted: 10/21/2023, 06:46 pmROSSBURG, Ohio — A six-time MLRA champion, five-time Carolina Clash champ, the all-time winningest MACS driver, a five-time Indiana track champion and a three-time Mississippi State champ-turned-promoter are set to join the National Dirt Full Story
Big River Steel Big Four updates; O'Neal wins title
Posted: 10/22/2023, 11:30 amROSSBURG, Ohio — The weekend's blow-by-blow updates at Eldora Speedway of the four contenders for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship at Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Full Story
DTWC's Big Four ready, but rain builds suspense
Posted: 10/20/2023, 07:47 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (Oct. 20) — The Big River Steel Big Four drivers were all dressed up with nowhere to go Friday at Eldora Speedway. Wearing their bright, clean uniforms, the quartet of racers set to battle for the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Column: Car owners relish years with Freddy
Posted: 10/19/2023, 08:27 amJoel Hedrick and Clayton Christenberry didn’t outwardly have much in common during the 1990s and into the 2000s. Hedrick was in in his 30s, an energetic bundle of youthful energy and novel ideas who birthed a Dirt Late Model operation Full Story
Q&A: Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire DTWC presented by ARP
Posted: 10/19/2023, 08:16 amQuestions and answers about Oct. 20-21’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series finale at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP paying $100,000-to-win: What’s Full Story
Touching stories about the Southern Gentleman
Posted: 10/18/2023, 03:42 pm By Kevin KovacA compilation of anecdotes, stories and remembrances compiled by DirtonDirt.com from interviews and other sources about Freddy Smith, the Hall of Famer and native of Kings Mountain, N.C., who died Saturday at the age of 76 after developing Full Story
Fast Facts: 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship
Posted: 10/18/2023, 11:02 am By Aaron ClayDates: Oct. 19-21 (modified prelims and stock cars feature on Thursday; Late Model and Limited Late Model prelims and modified feature on Friday; Late Model and Limited Late Model features Saturday) Track: Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Full Story
Top 25: Still tight up top as Winger inches up
Posted: 10/17/2023, 09:42 am By Todd TurnerA near deadlock remains atop DirtonDirt.com’s weekly power rankings with Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., holding the top spot narrowly over Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., heading toward one of the season’s richest races at Eldora Full Story
Memories of crewing for the Southern Gentleman
Posted: 10/16/2023, 07:03 pm By Kevin KovacGary Winger was riding high Saturday at Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian, Miss. He'd just watched his son, Ashton, execute a third-to-first outside charge in the closing stages of a 60-lapper to capture the 29th annual Coors Light Fall Full Story
Final days of PCC run aren't easy on Hughes
Posted: 10/16/2023, 03:34 pm By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 16) — Spencer Hughes can recall the numerous times this year where his highest hopes never materialized, like the 29th annual Coors Light Fall Classic at Whynot Motorsports Park, the biggest race at the 22-year-old’s Full Story
Fast Talk: Remembering a Hall of Famer
Posted: 10/16/2023, 10:35 amDirtonDirt.com’s weekly roundtable gathers to discuss the passing of Hall of Famer Freddy Smith, consider the past weekend’s action and look ahead to the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt season ending its season at Eldora Speedway with the Full Story
Whynot's $15,000 next step for maturing Winger
Posted: 10/15/2023, 03:28 am By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 14) — If Ashton Winger faced Saturday’s same set of circumstances this time last year in Whynot Motorsports Park’s 29th annual Coors Light Fall Classic, perhaps he wouldn’t have reaped the $15,000 result. | Full Story
Notes: Whynot remains promised land for Harris
Posted: 10/14/2023, 02:14 pm By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 13) — Amid a field that includes Ashton Winger, Dennis Erb Jr., Tyler Erb, Billy Moyer and hometown favorite Spencer Hughes, among others, who would’ve thought that Clay Harris would be one of Friday’s two semifeature Full Story
Erb, Winger look past scrape in Whynot prelim
Posted: 10/14/2023, 08:41 am By Kyle McFaddenMERIDIAN, Miss. (Oct. 13) — Both Ashton Winger and Tyler Erb appreciate the high-octane, riveting ways of Whynot Motorsports Park so much that Friday’s incident on opening night of the 29th annual Fall Classic never escalated into anything Full Story
Unruffled Richards sees only upside with O'Neal
Posted: 10/13/2023, 06:32 am By Kyle McFaddenBRASSTOWN, N.C. (Oct. 12) — From the sound of it, Hudson O’Neal was headed for an inauspicious ending in Thursday’s Castrol FloRacing Night in America event at Tri-County Racetrack. As the Rocket1 race machine chattered, clanked Full Story
Column: Reality of title chase confronts Big Four
Posted: 10/11/2023, 11:52 amNo one could blame Ricky Thornton Jr. for being a bit salty, if not downright angry, about the new-for-2023 Big River Steel Big Four program to determine the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion. He’s put together a season for the Full Story
Big River Steel Big Four breakdown
Posted: 10/11/2023, 07:47 amA statistical breakdown of the Big River Steel Big Four drivers eligible for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship at Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP on Oct. 20-21 at Eldora Full Story
Top 25: Tight up top as Hoffman climbs to 15th
Posted: 10/10/2023, 07:45 am By Todd TurnerThe wrestling match for the No. 1 spot between national touring points leaders Ricky Thornton Jr. and Bobby Pierce tightened again with a single first-place vote keeping Thornton in the top position of DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings. Thornton, Full Story
Fast Talk: Pierce’s WoO hot stretch heads south
Posted: 10/09/2023, 11:00 amOn a weekend when a sizzling Bobby Pierce swept World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action amid a flurry of other fall action, our roundtable gathers for discussion in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies Full Story
