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• Wallace sweeps Toilet Bowl Classic on MARS

  Posted: 03/22/2009, 06:57 am

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 21) — Wendell Wallace swept the season-opening O'Reilly MARS DIRTcar Series weekend at Clarksville Speedway. Or maybe we should say the Batesville, Ark., driver brushed the bowl clean. Capturing the second Full Story

• Pearson emerges, wins Indiana Icebreaker

  Posted: 03/22/2009, 06:24 am By James Essex

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 21) — There's nothing like breaking the ice on the Midwest racing season by winning a big race. And that's exactly what Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., did, taking command of Brownstown Speedway's 12th Full Story

• Babb grabs Battleground by horns, wins $20,000

  Posted: 03/22/2009, 05:46 am By Kevin Kovac

  HIGHLANDS, Texas (March 21) — Shannon Babb rode the wild-and-wooly cushion to a $20,100 victory in Saturday night’s inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series Lone Star 100 at Battleground Speedway. Then he rode Hondo — Full Story

• Opener gives Myers his first victory at Potomac

  Posted: 03/21/2009, 11:33 am By Doug Watson

  BUDDS CREEK, Md. (March 20) — Recovering after a penalty cost him the lead, D.J. Myers of Greencastle, Pa., led the final 15 laps of Potomac Speedway's season opener on Friday. Myers earned $2,000 in capturing the 40-lap Cody Endicott Full Story

• Ferguson captures Trull Memorial, nabs $5,000

  Posted: 03/21/2009, 08:30 am

  GASTONIA, N.C. (March 20) — Rebounding from a flat tire, Chris Ferguson of Mount Holly, N.C., rallied back to the front at Carolina Speedway to capture the ninth annual Skyler Trull Memorial. The 19-year-old Ferguson pocketed a career-high Full Story

• Brinkley rules first-ever Bama Super Series race

  Posted: 03/21/2009, 07:16 am

  TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (March 20) — Jay Brinkley of Shelbyville, Tenn., dominated the opening Bama Super Series feature at North Alabama Speedway for $2,000 victory. Billy Moyer Jr. of Batesville, Ark., finished second followed by Brandon Full Story

• Wallace launches MARS with Clarksville victory

  Posted: 03/21/2009, 06:56 am By Brian Garrison

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 20) — Racing to his first victory on the O'Reilly MARS DIRTcar Series since 2006, polesitter Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., led all 30 laps at Clarksville Speedway. Wallace earned $3,000 in the preliminary Full Story

• Fast-timer Birkhofer on track at Lone Star 100

  Posted: 03/21/2009, 05:58 am By Kevin Kovac

  HIGHLANDS, Texas (March 20) — Brian Birkhofer was perfect during Friday night’s Lone Star 100 qualifying program at Battleground Speedway. But the Muscatine, Iowa, standout knows that his Ohlins Shocks Fast Time Award and heat-race Full Story

• Texan ready for WoO's Battleground invasion

  Posted: 03/19/2009, 09:57 am By Kevin Kovac

  Kevin Sitton lives just minutes away from Battleground Speedway and calls the 3/8-mile oval his favorite track, so his feelings about this weekend’s inaugural Lone Star 100 aren’t a mystery. Yes, Sitton is pumped up to challenge Full Story

• Notes: Tri-City's FedEx 50 joins Lucas Oil tour

  Posted: 03/18/2009, 12:01 pm

  When the 2009 schedule was initially announced, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series competitors had Memorial Day weekend off. Suddenly, May 22-24 has become one of the busiest weekends of the year. Earlier this month the series picked Full Story

• Notes: Enticed by Lucas, Francis sticks with WoO

  Posted: 03/17/2009, 11:24 pm

  Steve Francis, the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion and current points leader, has been thrilled with the start of his WoO season with two victories in his first three starts. But the 41-year-old series veteran from Ashland, Full Story

• Kentucky Colonel rolling along at start of 2009

  Posted: 03/16/2009, 12:43 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Steve Francis was bubbling like a little kid on Christmas morning after capturing Friday night’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series Showdown on the Gulf at Deep South Speedway. Just consider the first words from the Kentucky Full Story

• Collins nabs $3,000 NLMS victory at Oglethorpe

  Posted: 03/16/2009, 10:30 am

  SAVANNAH, Ga. (March 14) — Fourth-starting Johnny Collins of Jacksonville, Fla., overtook outside front-row starter Darrell Padgett amid traffic and captured Saturday's 50-lap National Late Model Series feature at Oglethorpe Speedway Full Story

• Madrid takes SWDRA's last hurrah at Manzanita

  Posted: 03/15/2009, 07:10 am By M.J. Anderson

  PHOENIX, Ariz. (March 14) — In what's likely the final Late Model event at historic Manzanita Speedway, hometown driver Anthony Madrid captured the shortened 20-lap Southwest DIRTcar Racing Association feature on the facility's third-mile Full Story

• Francis tops Moyer, gets $7,000 at Deep South

  Posted: 03/13/2009, 10:57 pm By Kevin Kovac

  LOXLEY, Ala. (March 13) — Steve Francis is riding high on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. And after capturing Friday's 40-lap Showdown on the Gulf opener at Deep South Speedway, the red-hot star from Ashland, Ky., has no intention Full Story

• Notes: New K-C owner plans ambitious schedule

  Posted: 03/13/2009, 04:26 pm

  After off-season speculation that K-C Raceway might not open in 2009, the track's new owner announced an 18-race schedule for the 3/8-mile dirt oval south of Chillicothe, Ohio, including the inaugural Dirt Track World Cup paying $20,000 Full Story

• SWDRA lands sponsor, but loses Manzanita

  Posted: 03/12/2009, 08:35 pm By Todd Turner

  The Southwest DIRTcar Racing Association barely had time to enjoy the good news of a new sponsor before receiving the bad news of the loss of one of its best tracks. The Arizona-based Dirt Late Model circuit announced Wednesday it landed Full Story

• Two-seaters to give fans real taste of WoO action

  Posted: 03/11/2009, 11:05 pm

  A first in U.S stock car racing will be unveiled March 13-14 when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series rumbles into Deep South Speedway for a special two-day event weekend on the 4/10-mile Gulf Coast oval. When the green flag waves in Full Story

• Rain, forecasts postpone many weekend events

  Posted: 03/11/2009, 04:15 pm

  Originally the March 13-15 weekend was dotted with several regional Dirt Late Model specials throughout the South. But rain and forecasts for more wet weather have postponed several events, most of them rescheduled for the coming weeks. Full Story

• Notes: Two California tracks launch miniseries

  Posted: 03/11/2009, 03:25 pm

  A two-track collaboration between Santa Maria Speedway and Bakersfield Speedway will provide more Dirt Late Model special events for California racers in 2009. The West Coast Super Late Model Shootout will see the tracks split six $2,000-to-win Full Story

• Thrash wants to prove MSCC victory isn't fluke

  Posted: 03/10/2009, 08:51 pm By Todd Turner

  After his first career victory on the Mississippi State Championship Series, Chad Thrash isn't planning to rest on his laurels. He's already thinking about where he might get win No. 2 following his $3,000 victory on March 7 at South Mississippi Full Story

• Pack of drivers aiming for WoO's '09 rookie honors

  Posted: 03/10/2009, 12:48 pm By Kevin Kovac

  When the World of Outlaws Late Model Series roars back into action March 13-14 at Deep South Speedway in Loxley, Ala., the pit area will be teeming with upstart full-fender drivers seeking to carve out a national name for themselves. At Full Story

• Notes: Heckenast backs up top-five vow at KLMS

  Posted: 03/09/2009, 08:31 pm By Todd Turner

  CALVERT CITY, Ky. (March 7) — Anxious for his first race of the season at his favorite track, Frank Heckenast Jr.'s excitement didn't last long on Friday's opening night of Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway when he failed to make the lineup Full Story

• Dominating Davenport wins $10,000 at Cherokee

  Posted: 03/09/2009, 05:18 pm

  GAFFNEY, S.C. (March 8) — In more than 50 years of owning race teams, Lee Roy Rumley hasn't gone a season without a victory. New driver Jonathan Davenport helped the K&L Rumley Enterprises team, co-owned by Lee Roy's son Kevin, check Full Story

• Notes: Sunoco sponsoring Road to Wheatland

  Posted: 03/09/2009, 03:12 pm

  Sunoco Race Fuels has joined the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series as the title sponsor of the third annual Road to Wheatland, the early-season series events preceding the third annual SuperClean Diamond Nationals at Lucas Oil Speedway in Full Story