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• For Francis, no more 'When will you win title?'

  Posted: 11/07/2007, 02:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  A weight as heavy as a 2,300-pound dirt Late Model is now off Steve Francis’s shoulders. Finally, after two heart-breaking close calls, the Kentucky Colonel won the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship. “I don’t Full Story

• Red-hot Michael gets SRRS Clarksville victory

  Posted: 11/07/2007, 10:40 am From series reports

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 3) —�Southern Regional Racing Series points leader Byron Michael continued his late-season hot streak with a $3,000 victory at StormPay.com Speedway. Michael won his fifth series race in the his last Full Story

• Deese triumphs at Delaware, earns $3,000

  Posted: 11/07/2007, 09:34 am By Charlie Brown

  DELMAR, Del. (Nov. 3-4) — Roy Deese Jr. of Laurel, Md. captured the 50-lap Late Model Delaware State Dirt Track Championship at Delaware International Speedway. Deese took the lead after a strange set of circumstances on lap 18 saw Full Story

• Topless 100 highlights 2008 Lucas Oil schedule

  Posted: 11/06/2007, 05:02 pm From series and staff reports

  Three events paying at least $40,000 to the winner, including the previously unsanctioned Topless 100 at Batesville (Ark.) Motor Speedway, highlight the 2008 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule. The 4-year-old tour on Tuesday afternoon Full Story

• Madden comes alive to capture National 100

  Posted: 11/04/2007, 08:44 pm By Todd Turner

  PHENIX CITY, Ala. (Nov. 4) — Before the 33rd annual National 100 at East Alabama Motor Speedway, polesitter Chris Madden chose his tire compounds based on how the track surface would develop over 100 laps. For a while, the Gray Court, Full Story

• Moran continues knack for memorable wins

  Posted: 11/04/2007, 04:54 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — Donnie Moran has a penchant for coming up big in historic dirt Late Model events. The Dresden, Ohio, superstar did it in 2001 when he won the only dirt Late Model race that offered a $1 million top prize, Full Story

• Bloomquist starts on last row at National 100

  Posted: 11/04/2007, 04:11 am From staff and correspondent reports

  PHENIX CITY, Ala. (Nov. 3-4) — Fast qualifier Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., won Saturday night's first heat at East Alabama Motor Speedway to land the pole position for Sunday's 33rd annual National 100. Other heat race winners Full Story

• Boen rebounds after liftgate woes in Tucson

  Posted: 11/04/2007, 04:09 am By M.J. Anderson

  TUCSON, Ariz. (Nov. 3) — Kelly Boen's night at USA Race Park got off to a bad start when his red No. 07 fell out of the liftgate of his hauler, knocking two crew members to the ground. That no one was injured was good news, and the Full Story

• Moran fights off Francis, completes Lowe's victory

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 08:23 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — Hall of Fame driver Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, has raced long enough to know that losing the lead doesn't always mean losing the race. "When somebody passes you (might say), you know, 'I'm beat.' But you Full Story

• Lowe's: Recaps of Saturday's prelim races

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 05:28 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, will start on the pole for Saturday's feature race at the Outlaws World Finals at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Another heat winner, Michael England of Glasgow, Ky., Full Story

• Elliott wants to bridge gap to next level

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 12:25 pm

  CONCORD, N.C. — When dirt racing fans list big-block modified drivers who've switched to Late Models, they'd typically start with 2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Tim McCreadie. McCreadie's Sweeteners Plus teammate Full Story

• Francis wraps up WoO championship at Lowe's

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 10:45 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Steve Francis has a history of close-but-no-cigar title chases on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. It looks like he'll get the cigar this time around. With his fourth-place run in Friday's feature Full Story

• Bloomquist's pit tweaks lift him to Lowe's victory

  Posted: 11/03/2007, 12:18 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Scott Bloomquist made a little more history on Friday night. The legendary driver from Mooresburg, Tenn., added another milestone to his already bulging resume, roaring from the rear of the field after an Full Story

• Lowe's: Heat win puts Davenport on pole

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 05:47 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Last-chance and heat race results/lineups for the Outlaws World Finals at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway, which drew a nearly packed house. World of Outlaws Late Model Series points leader Steve Francis Full Story

• Shaver hopes to take advantage of fast times

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 05:11 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — Steve Shaver's most recent lap at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway wasn't even actually lap. Actually it was about a third of a lap before he was caught up in a turn-two accident in the 50-lap Jani-King Full Story

• Estes engine employee killed in highway wreck

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 03:02 pm By Chris Tilley

  Chris Estes, a machinist with Estes Racing Engines of Nicholasville, Ky., was one of two men killed in an I-75 accident Thursday en route to the World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, Full Story

• Lowe's drivers hoping for more smooth moves

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 04:28 pm

  During last month's World of Outlaws Late Model Series visit to the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway, NASCAR pit reporter Dick Berggren dropped by the press box to take in a little Dirt Late Model action. "Which driver flipped over earlier?" Full Story

• Logan picks up $1,000 in crew competition

  Posted: 11/02/2007, 01:55 am By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 1) — Dirt Late Model crew members usually do their jobs behind the scenes, working long hours in the shop, making chassis adjustments in the shadows of the dim pits. So when World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full Story

• Shaver fastest (twice!) in Lowe's time trials

  Posted: 11/01/2007, 07:41 pm By Todd Turner

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 1) — Steve Shaver simplified any confusion over having two sessions of time trials in a single night at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The Vienna, W.Va., driver nicknamed Showtime simply set fast time Full Story

• Time-trial order set for WoO finale at Lowe's

  Posted: 11/01/2007, 04:43 pm From staff reports

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 1) — More than 80 Late Models are set for Thursday's time trials for the inaugural Outlaws World Finals at the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Steve Francis is trying to hold on to his 62-point lead in the Full Story

• Yates captures Top Tracks finale at Talladega

  Posted: 10/31/2007, 02:52 pm From series reports

  EASTABOGA, Ala. (Oct. 26) — Track champion Logan Yates of Delta, Ala., took the lead with nine laps remaining in the 30-lap Carl Black Top Tracks Challenge Series event at Talladega Short Track to capture the season finale. Kenny Full Story

• Wild snaps four-year drought on SUPR tour

  Posted: 10/31/2007, 02:39 pm From track and correspondent reports

  BAKER, La. (Oct. 27) — Starting outside the front row, Marlon Wild of Springfield, La., raced to a victory in the 50-lap Floyd Clausen Memorial at Baton Rouge Raceway. Wild took control when frontrunners Bub McCool of Vicksburg, Miss., Full Story

• Eckert aims to break 55-race skid at Lowe's

  Posted: 10/31/2007, 01:28 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Two more chances. For Rick Eckert, it’s either win one of the two 50-lap features comprise the inaugural Outlaws World Finals Nov. 1-3 at the Dirt Track at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, or go winless on the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Full Story

• Look to high-tech method to line up races

  Posted: 10/30/2007, 09:41 pm

  During my first visit to the Dirt Track at Lowe's Motor Speedway a few weeks back, I was struck by the amenities of the state-of-the-art track near Charlotte, N.C. The large and attractive grandstands, the paved pits and walkways, the plush Full Story

• Crews will face off in during WoO action at Lowe's

  Posted: 10/30/2007, 03:50 pm By Kevin Kovac

  The mechanical minds behind this year’s top World of Outlaws Late Model Series racers will get a turn in the spotlight during the Nov. 1-3 Outlaws World Finals at the Dirt Track at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Following the completion Full Story