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• Crew chief thrives with title-winning WoO team

  Posted: 01/29/2009, 12:36 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Chris Burton still can’t believe how magical 2008 was for him. Back as a full-time Dirt Late Model mechanic after spending three years away from the sport’s top levels, Burton helped guide Darrell Lanigan to a career-first World Full Story

• Notes: Okie takes crack at Late Model division

  Posted: 01/29/2009, 02:11 am By Todd Turner

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 28) — Dirt Late Model rookie Tommy Weder Jr. has a simple philosophy when it comes to getting a handle on the elite division. "We want to race with the best to get better," said the 23-year-old driver from Woodward, Full Story

• Off-and-on showers halt Golden Isles opener

  Posted: 01/28/2009, 05:36 pm By Todd Turner

  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Jan. 28) — Scattered, off-and-on showers forced postponement of Golden Isles Speedway's Super Bowl of Racing V opener as rain first delayed hot laps 90 minutes then more light showers hit during time trials. The $5,000-to-win Full Story

• Three-track Speedweeks jump-starts big season

  Posted: 02/02/2009, 10:56 am

  The annual Georgia-Florida Speedweeks launches Wednesday at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga., before rolling to East Bay Raceway Park near Tampa, Fla., and finally to Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., wrapping up Feb. Full Story

• Cook makes it 2-for-2 with victory at Boyd's

  Posted: 01/25/2009, 02:47 pm

  RINGGOLD, Ga. (Jan. 24) — Last year, it wasn't until August that Ray Cook won a race paying more than $3,000. It's safe to say the Brasstown, N.C., driver's 2009 season is off to a quicker, more successful start. | Slideshow Starting Full Story

• Notes: North Alabama, Moulton form miniseries

  Posted: 01/23/2009, 01:47 pm

  Racers in northwest Alabama and the surrounding region will have a chance at some extra-purse races with the formation of the two-track Bama Super Series. North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia and Moulton Speedway have joined to run the 10-race Full Story

• Eckert anxious for debut in Bloomquist Race Car

  Posted: 01/22/2009, 11:09 am By Kevin Kovac

  Rick Eckert’s familiar orange No. 24 Dirt Late Model spent last weekend on display just blocks from the ocean waves in Atlantic City, N.J. As for Eckert himself, he didn’t make the trip to attend the Len Sammons Productions Full Story

• Notes: DTWC venue for 2009 is still undecided

  Posted: 01/22/2009, 10:59 am

  Will the 29th annual Dirt Track World Championship be held at K-C Raceway, the track near Chillicothe, Ohio, that has hosted the previous four runnings of the $50,000-to-win event? That's undecided as of late January as race promoter Carl Full Story

• Tucson lands Wild West Shootout after '09 hiatus

  Posted: 01/20/2009, 10:00 am By Todd Turner

  While Wild West Shootout promoter Benji Lyons couldn't find a home for his Arizona Super Late Model miniseries in 2009, he's found a track for 2010 and, he hopes, beyond. Lyons and partner Kevin Montgomery signed a five-year contract to Full Story

• Stewart flies T-Mac to Indy for doctor's visit

  Posted: 01/20/2009, 09:20 am By Kevin Kovac

  Former World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Tim McCreadie is in Indianapolis, Ind., awaiting an appointment with renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Terry Trammell after suffering a Jan. 14 back injury while competing in last week’s Full Story

• Notes: NeSmith heads north by signing I-96

  Posted: 01/19/2009, 04:05 pm

  I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, Mich., has signed on with the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series, giving the 4-year-old series for weekly Crate Late Model racers its northernmost sanctioned track. The signing of I-96 Speedway now gives Full Story

• Notes: DIRTcar hopes to take I-5 to new levels

  Posted: 01/16/2009, 09:41 pm By Todd Turner

  As far as the World Racing Group's DIRTcar Racing is concerned, the West is won. With the recent evolution of the DIRTcar I-5 Northwest Late Model Tour, the three westernmost Dirt Late Model tours are all under the DIRTcar banner, and Full Story

• Pennsylvania, regional racers get two new tours

  Posted: 01/16/2009, 02:05 pm By Todd Turner

  The uncertainty of an economic downturn might keep traveling Dirt Late Model teams closer to home in 2009, but drivers in southcentral Pennsylvania, northern Virginia and Maryland will have the opportunity to run several new special events Full Story

• Flipping Chili Bowl wreck injures McCreadie's back

  Posted: 01/15/2009, 01:27 pm

  Tim McCreadie's 2006 visit to the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals ended with an unlikely victory. McCreadie's 2009 visit to the high-profile, midget racing event in Tulsa, Okla., ended with a scary accident Wednesday night that sent him Full Story

• Injured SRRS champion facing lengthy recovery

  Posted: 01/15/2009, 09:45 am By Todd Turner

  At most Dirt Late Model series banquets in recent weeks, champions stand behind the lectern at night's conclusion for a rambling speech dotted with thanks to sponsors and other mundane details, a delayed and anticlimactic end to last fall's Full Story

• Dominant Rocket not resting on WoO laurels

  Posted: 01/14/2009, 04:20 pm By Kevin Kovac

  And the beat goes on for Rocket Chassis. The Shinnston, W.Va.-based manufacturer ruled the World of Outlaws Late Model Series once again in 2008, winning the national tour’s Chassis Builders Challenge Award for the fifth consecutive Full Story

• Notes: Breazeale eyes run on Lucas Oil circuit

  Posted: 01/14/2009, 01:06 pm

  David Breazeale of Four Corners, Miss., has focused on racing in the Magnolia State most of his career, but he's branching out in 2009. The 32-year-old Dirt Late Model racer and the Louisiana-based Voodoo Motorsports team plan to run for Full Story

• Bowyer picks McDowell as Babb's replacement

  Posted: 01/13/2009, 05:29 pm By Todd Turner

  Dale McDowell first arrived on the NASCAR scene two years ago to help run Richard Childress Racing's driver development program. Now McDowell's NASCAR connections with standout RCR driver Clint Bowyer have helped him land a top-flight Dirt Full Story

• Erb celebrates $51,400 haul at UMP banquet

  Posted: 01/11/2009, 02:46 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Jan. 10) — Midwestern short-track veterans Dennis Erb Jr. and Jeff Leka shared the spotlight during Saturday’s 25th annual UMP DIRTcar Racing banquet at Springfield Crowne Plaza Hotel’s ballroom. For Full Story

• Ice Bowl coverage index

  Posted: 01/10/2009, 11:27 am

  EASTABOGA, Ala. — DirtonDirt.com coverage of Ice Bowl XVIII at Talladega Short Track from Jan. 1-4: Tuesday, Jan. 6 • Notebook: Ward's Bloomquist car debut, Cooks new collaboration and more • Story: Hall outduels Peoples Full Story

• Budget-minded Hall tops Peoples at TST's Ice Bowl

  Posted: 01/06/2009, 10:59 am By Roby Helm

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 4) — Brad Hall of Knoxville, Tenn., became the new poster boy for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series by winning Sunday's 40-lap season opener at Talladega Short Track's Ice Bowl XVIII. Hall became Full Story

• Notes: Ward enjoys solid debut in Bloomquist car

  Posted: 01/06/2009, 10:13 am By Todd Turner

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 4) — With a limited number of pricey Bloomquist Race Cars in circulation, there are plenty of drivers who'd like the chance to get behind the wheel of the successful chassis that has won dozens of big races in Full Story

• Column: TST survives, thrives despite rain, mud

  Posted: 01/05/2009, 02:13 pm

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 4) — The Ice Bowl XVIII weather forecasts were downright gloomy. The deep orange mud in the Talladega Short Track pits was a thick soup. And any other promoter in his right mind would've called the whole thing Full Story

• Muddy Ice Bowl weekend ends with Cook's victory

  Posted: 01/04/2009, 06:04 pm By Todd Turner

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 4) — After surviving soupy mud in the pits, a mistaken tire choice for time trials, and a lengthy side-by-side battle for the lead with Hall of Famer Ronnie Johnson during the main event, Ray Cook thought he Full Story

• Griffin, Mayo, Morrow capture Ice Bowl heats

  Posted: 01/04/2009, 01:20 pm By Todd Turner

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 4) — Dingus Griffin of Alexandria, Ala., Billy Mayo of Cleveland, Tenn., and Todd Morrow of Oldfort, Tenn., won rain-postponed heats Sunday afternoon at Talladega Short Track's Ice Bowl XVIII. The trio secured Full Story