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• State Your Case: Minnesota

  Posted: 03/27/2008, 09:19 am By Rich Olson

  State 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 Shelton

  State 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 DeHem

  State 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 Turner

  State 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 Fogle

  State 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\'Brien

  State 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 Holmes

  State 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 Lee

  State 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\'Brien

  State 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 Dearing

  State 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 Stebbins

  State 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 Turner

  Did 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 reports

  Six 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 reports

  Bub 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 Walden

  BULLS 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 Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, 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 Helm

  FLOMATON, 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 Jarrett

  LAVONIA, 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 Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, 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 Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, 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 reports

  Oh, 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

• Notebook: Clash, track titles will pay $40,000

  Posted: 03/20/2008, 12:09 pm From track and series reports

  Drivers looking to pick up big purses this season on the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series and Fayetteville (N.C.) Motor Speedway’s Crazy 8 miniseries will have a shot at even more money than they expected. The series and track Full Story

• Notebook: Cobb outduels the boss at East Bay

  Posted: 03/18/2008, 03:24 pm From track reports

  It’s not always a good idea to beat the boss, but that’s in essence what Phillip Cobb did March 15 at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla. The night’s 25-lap Super Late Model feature turned out to be a wheel-to-wheel Full Story

• Notebook: Gill saddles up in Warrior house car

  Posted: 03/18/2008, 02:50 pm From track, staff and series reports

  The Modern Day Warrior? It doesn’t have quite the same ring as the Modern Day Cowboy, but John Gill of Mitchell, Ind., will indeed pilot the Warrior Race Cars house car for the full schedule of 2008. Gill, a two-time winner of the Full Story

• Notebook: Farmer City gears up for Illini 100

  Posted: 03/18/2008, 01:38 pm From series and track reports

  There’s never been a dirt Late Model event in the state of Illinois quite like this one. The inaugural Illini 100 will be, plain and simple, the richest dirt Late Model show ever run in the Land of Lincoln. Set for April 4-5 at Farmer Full Story