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• Heat tests WoO competitors at Davenport

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 04:22 pm By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 24) — Brandon Sheppard stepped out of the comfy confines of his team’s transporter Thursday afternoon and was immediately engulfed by a rush of hot air. “Man it’s hot out here,” the four-time World of Outlaws Full Story

• Davenport supporter puts 'money where his mouth is'

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 11:49 am By Mike Warren

  Jeff Hoker’s son brought him to his first dirt race about 10 years ago. The experience was an instant bonding moment between the two and the birth of a new venture. Hoker, his family, and their Hoker Trucking business became long-time Full Story

• Notes: Minnesotan gets satisfaction of first win

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 07:13 am By Kyle McFadden

  Jayme Lautigar is one of the countless of drivers ascending from the modified ranks to find a more auspicious place in Dirt Late Model racing. The Gilbert, Minn., native and modified racer for two decades moved up to the full-fendered Full Story

• Column: Iowan forges on in tackling elite division

  Posted: 08/23/2023, 10:25 pm

  Racing wasn’t on Daniel Hilsabeck’s radar a whole lot from 2017-19. Some B-modified and stock car events here and there, a few open-wheel starts toward the end of ’19, and that was about it. Instead, he worked. He built a house. Full Story

• Notes: Gentry aims high in Wayne County finale

  Posted: 08/23/2023, 04:52 pm

  Weekly points championships are drawing to a close at many dirt tracks across the country. At Wayne County Speedway, J.R. Gentry of Wooster, Ohio, hopes to wrap up his second championship at the 3/8-mile oval in Orrville, Ohio, this weekend. Heading Full Story

• Top 25: Topless winner creeps up to No. 5

  Posted: 08/22/2023, 08:31 am By Todd Turner

  While an idle Bobby Pierce maintained the No. 1 spot, Hall of Fame racer Dale McDowell moved into the top five in DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings by virtue of his $50,000 Comp Cams Topless 100 victory at Batesville Motor Speedway. The Full Story

• Batesville’s old guard enjoys McDowell victory

  Posted: 08/21/2023, 03:13 pm By Robert Holman

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 19) — By the time Dale McDowell made it back to his team's transporter in the Batesville Motor Speedway pit area — 40 minutes after the conclusion of Saturday’s 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100 — a throng Full Story

• Fast Talk: The ageless McDowell and more

  Posted: 08/21/2023, 11:50 am

  Following Dale McDowell's Topless 100 victory at Batesville amid one of the busiest racing weekends of the summer, our roundtable recaps the action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Batesville clan’s mixed feelings on Topless 100

  Posted: 08/20/2023, 08:48 pm By Robert Holman

  BATESVILLE, Ark. — Jared Landers beamed when he climbed from his car following Friday’s 30-lap Comp Cams Topless 100 preliminary feature. Making his first start since last year’s Topless 100, the Batesville, Ark., native and son of Full Story

• Notes: Limited passing disappoints Topless field

  Posted: 08/20/2023, 07:10 am By Robert Holman

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 19) — Following Saturday’s Comp Cams Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway, the consensus from drivers who made the starting field for the 31st annual event was disappointment in that the 3/8-mile track took Full Story

• Notes: Pearson aims to end Topless futility

  Posted: 08/19/2023, 12:35 pm By Robert Holman

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 18) — Of the 16 drivers locked into Saturday’s starting lineup for the Comp Cams Topless 100, only one driver — Chickamauga, Ga.’s Dale McDowell — has started Batesville Motor Speedway's Lucas Oil Late Full Story

• Thornton flips switch, nabs Batesville checkers

  Posted: 08/19/2023, 12:29 pm By Robert Holman

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 18) — And just like that, Ricky Thornton Jr. was gone. Long race, short race, any pace, the Chandler, Ariz., driver has been up to the challenge this season. Friday’s 30-lap Topless 100 preliminary feature at Full Story

• After Late Model layoff, West Virginian speedy again

  Posted: 08/18/2023, 07:46 am By Kyle McFadden

  After six years away from Super Late Model racing, Keith Jackson has returned to the discipline as if he virtually never missed a beat. The Martinsburg, W.Va., racer whose Late Model career has been dormant since 2017 has this year reentered Full Story

• Notes: Montanan's hot start in Late Models

  Posted: 08/17/2023, 12:15 am By Kyle McFadden

  Michael Leach is much like every other 20-year-old in the world, trying to establish himself as he transitions into adulthood. He started the year living in China Grove, N.C., as a fabricator for Longhorn Chassis. At the end of April, Full Story

• Fast Facts: 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100

  Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:27 am By Aaron Clay

  Dates: Aug. 17-19 ($5,000-to-win makeup race for the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series on Thursday with optional practice for Topless 100 entrants; $5,000-to-win Lucas Oil event Friday sets lineups for for Saturday’s consolations and 100-lap, Full Story

• Column: Once enemies, WoO racers now friends

  Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:28 am

  Chris Madden and Brent Larson are close, as close as two racers separated by different backgrounds and hundreds of miles — Madden lives in Gray Court, S.C., Larson in Lake Elmo, Minn. — can be. Some would even say that Madden, 48, Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce solidifies No. 1 ranking

  Posted: 08/15/2023, 08:17 am By Todd Turner

  Bobby Pierce definitely was the best North-South driver, and he's got the East and West covered, too, at least according to voters in this week's DirtonDirt.com power rankings. The 26-year-old driver from Oakwood, Ill., who reeled off Full Story

• Fast Talk: Super sweep by Pierce (and more)

  Posted: 08/14/2023, 11:06 am

  With Bobby Pierce continuing his summer hot streak by sweeping Florence Speedway's Sunoco North-South 100, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Strategy key to closing out long-distance races

  Posted: 08/13/2023, 08:10 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Coming up with a gameplan to be among the frontrunners at the conclusion of a 100-lap race at Florence Speedway isn’t easy. The track’s annual Sunoco North-South 100 is often a challenge of knowing how hard Full Story

• Notes: August sends Pierce into stratosphere

  Posted: 08/13/2023, 02:25 am By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Bobby Pierce’s summer hot streak was already rolling along. And then the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver got to August. With his dazzling three-race sweep at Florence Speedway’s Sunoco North-South 100 extending Full Story

• Notes: Pierce eyeing rich North-South 100 sweep

  Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:20 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — After racing to a pair of 25-lap semifeature victories Thursday and Friday at Florence Speedway, Bobby Pierce is in position for a lucrative sweep of the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story

• Thornton, SSI continue rebounding with aplomb

  Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:36 am By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — During far and away his best Dirt Late Model season, Ricky Thornton Jr.’s poor finishes and difficult nights are relatively few and far between. But when the SSI Motorsports team has an occasional rough outing, Full Story

• Illinois standout works his way into Hall of Fame

  Posted: 08/11/2023, 09:08 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — During Sunoco North-South 100 weekends over the last 20 years or so, most National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame inductees come to Florence Speedway to relax, enjoy a little racing and simply soak up the accolades Full Story

• Notes: Marlar's never-ending quest for consistency

  Posted: 08/11/2023, 04:17 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — On a sunny Friday afternoon following his impressive 10th-to-first run in Thursday’s 25-lap semifeature at Florence Speedway, Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., was all smiles in his Delk Motorsports pit area during Full Story

• Rice’s junked race car suddenly speedy again

  Posted: 08/11/2023, 12:22 am By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — It’s tough enough on Josh Rice’s competition that the 25-year-old can outrun just about anybody at his home track of Florence Speedway when his race car is top-notch. But the fact the seventh-starting Verona, Full Story