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State Your Case: Virginia
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:30 am By Brian TidballState your case: While Virginia may be often overlooked as a top Dirt Late Model racing state, the Old Dominion has a solid history and strong regional and national events at Virginia Motor Speedway, Winchester Speedway and Wythe Raceway. Full Story
State Your Case: North Carolina
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:27 am By Thomas PopeState your case: The nickname "Tar Heels" came from North Carolinians who stayed to fight a Civil War battle alone, and after later making contact with the troops who fled, told them: "For the next battle we'll put tar on your heels to Full Story
State Your Case: California
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:25 am By K.C. RooneyState your case: California has always had the reputation for the ground shaking under your feet. But over the years, people realized it often wasn't an earthquake causing the rumble. It was ground-pounding Super Late Models. Previously Full Story
State Your Case: South Carolina
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:21 am By Gene MurphyState your case: South Carolina’s red clay was meant to be raced on. And tough-nosed drivers have been racing on it, too, since the pre-NASCAR days of running moonshine. | State Your Case home page Best historical drivers: Mike Duvall Full Story
State Your Case: Minnesota
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:19 am By Rich OlsonState your case: Minnesota, where the men are men (and so are our women). Real racers know when it comes to true grit, determination and hard-nosed racing, no one can top Minnesota. The state is the centerpiece of the WISSOTA Promoters Full Story
State Your Case: West Virginia
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:16 am By Ernie SheltonState your case: Dirt racing stirs the competitive juices, and West Virginians are among the most competitive people in the country. After all, what state was embroiled in the Hatfield-McCoy feud for so many years? With no professional Full Story
State Your Case: Michigan
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:13 am By Verwayne Greenhoe and Dave DeHemState your case: Let's talk dirt Late Model mania, Michigan-style! While the Wolverine State tends to keep to itself in the Dirt Late Model world, the birthplace of the U.S. automobile industry is a hotbed for its share of Dirt Late Model Full Story
State Your Case: Arkansas
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:10 am By Todd TurnerState your case: What’s this? A state vs. state competition? Arkansas is so confident it’s a great place for racing that it might just put a single town — the 10,000-resident Ozark municipality of Batesville — up Full Story
State Your Case: South Dakota
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:07 am By Rob FogleState your case: The Mount Rushmore State is well-known for familiar faces of White House years gone by, but the face of Dirt Late Model looms large, too. Why would Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt show their faces in the Black Full Story
State Your Case: Wisconsin
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:02 am By Jerry O\'BrienState your case: Wisconsin (from the French Ouisconsin, for you scholarly types; home of the Cheese Head, for the more pedestrian) is without question the best state for Dirt Late Model racing! Although it can’t boast as many Late Full Story
State Your Case: Louisiana
Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:01 am By Greg HolmesState your case: Despite being a small state with a small core of dirt racers — Louisiana is limited with nearly half its border on the Gulf — the state boasts some of the best drivers in the South. The tracks are small (Boothill’s Full Story
State Your Case: Mississippi
Posted: 03/27/2008, 08:56 am By Tim LeeState your case: The Magnolia State is the "Comeback Kid" of the Late Model world. After establishing a colorful history of dirt racing throughout the 1970s and '80s, Mississippi entered the '90s as a place full of great racers (the vaunted Full Story
State Your Case: Alabama
Posted: 03/27/2008, 08:51 am By Tim O\'BrienState your case: While Alabama may be nationally known in NASCAR circles for Hueytown’s fabled Alabama Gang, real race fans know dirt is king in the Heart of Dixie, where we race almost year around with big car counts and great fans. Full Story
State Your Case: Missouri
Posted: 03/27/2008, 08:48 am By Jimmy DearingState your case: The Show-Me State has been showing the way for great Dirt Late Model racing for what seems like an eternity. Several dirt racing stars like Mike Wallace and Carl Edwards have moved on to the NASCAR ranks while long-time Full Story
State Your Case: New York
Posted: 03/27/2008, 08:42 am By Chip StebbinsState your case: Prostitutes. Presidential candidates. Dirt Late Model series owners trying to find their footing. What do all of these have in common? When it came time to get it on, the people in the know all turned to New York. Gov. Full Story
State Your Case: Where is the best dirt racing?
Posted: 03/27/2008, 08:31 am By Todd TurnerDid your favorite college basketball team get knocked out of the NCAA tournament? DirtonDirt.com gives you something else to root for: your home state in a 24-state Dirt Late Model tournament that we’ve dubbed State Your Case. Over Full Story
Notebook: WoO reveals TV package on Speed
Posted: 03/24/2008, 05:10 pm From series, staff and special reportsSix World of Outlaws Late Model Series events in 2008 will be televised on Speed, World Racing Group CEO Brian Carter announced to a live television audience during March 23’s edition of Wind Tunnel With Dave Despain on the cable Full Story
McCool, Wall split MSCC-AMP doubleheader
Posted: 03/24/2008, 11:16 am From series reportsBub McCool of Vicksburg, Miss., and Chris Wall of Holden, La., conquered the “North” on the weekend of March 21-22. In a pair of events sanctioned by the Mississippi State Championship Challenge and Arkansas Motorsports Professionals, Full Story
Owens thaws Volunteer field to pocket $10,000
Posted: 03/23/2008, 12:22 pm By Robert WaldenBULLS GAP, Tenn. (March 21-22) — Leading all the way from his pole position, Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., earned $10,000 for his Advance Auto Parts Thunder Series-sanctioned victory in the BB&T-Toyota Tundra Spring Thaw 100 at Volunteer Full Story
Notebook: Wallace has tough night at Clarksville
Posted: 03/23/2008, 07:24 am By Todd TurnerCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 22) — To say things didn’t exactly go Wendell Wallace’s way at the fourth annual Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic is an understatement. After a wreck in lapped traffic robbed him of a chance to catch Full Story
O'Connor survives, earns $5,000 at Flomaton
Posted: 03/23/2008, 05:47 am By Roby HelmFLOMATON, Ala. (March 21-22) — Chris O’Connor of Cantonment, Fla., survived a pair of close calls and led all 75 laps of the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series event in front of a packed house at Flomaton Speedway to earn Full Story
Davenport doubles down for Lavonia victories
Posted: 03/23/2008, 01:14 am By Dustin JarrettLAVONIA, Ga. (March 22) — Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., doubled down at Lavonia Speedway. Leading every single lap in two feature events, Davenport earned $5,000 for his victory on the O’Reilly Southern All Star circuit Full Story
Sit on it: O'Neal rules Toilet Bowl Classic
Posted: 03/22/2008, 07:07 pm By Todd TurnerCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 22) — Don O’Neal earned a seat on the throne at StormPay.com Speedway. And although he refused to be photographed sitting on the unique trophy at the fourth annual Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic, the Full Story
Tungate hoping for reversal at Clarksville
Posted: 03/22/2008, 03:45 pm By Todd TurnerCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (March 22) — Tim Tungate is a former winner of the Tuckassee Toilet Bowl Classic at StormPay.com Speedway, but the Campbellsville, Ky., driver struggled on the opening night of this year’s event. Even before Full Story
Owens, O'Neal fastest in Tennessee specials
Posted: 03/22/2008, 07:43 am From track reportsOh, boy. The “O” boys of Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., and Don O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., staked their claims at separate Tennessee special events by setting the fast qualifying times Friday in preliminary action. Owens Full Story
