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• Notes: A flat, a wreck (and then time to race)

  Posted: 08/10/2023, 11:56 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — On the first day of the three-day Sunoco North-South 100, Michael Chilton had a flat tire. And a wreck. And that was before he even made it into the pit area at Florence Speedway. | RaceWire Things turned decidedly Full Story

• For some racers, if the steering wheel fits ...

  Posted: 08/10/2023, 04:31 pm By Todd Turner

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — If for some reason — God forbid — Bobby Pierce has to switch to a backup car during the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend at Florence Speedway, there’s at least one component the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver Full Story

• Notes: Tuning old car, finding new success

  Posted: 08/10/2023, 07:37 am By Kyle McFadden

  Kyle Peterlin’s had the same 2017 Rocket Chassis since he bought the race car when it first came out, yet this year he’s seen a major improvement in results. On July 28-29, the 37-year-old picked up his richest career victories — Full Story

• Fast Facts: 41st annual Sunoco North-South 100

  Posted: 08/09/2023, 11:48 am By Aaron Clay

  Dates: Aug. 10-12 (two 25-lap, $5,000-to-win split-field semifeatures will be contested Thursday and Friday, setting the heat race lineups preceding Saturday’s 100-lap, $75,000-to-win North-South 100). Track: Florence Speedway in Union, Full Story

• Column: Where Pierce struggled, now he wins

  Posted: 08/08/2023, 03:09 pm

  Bobby Pierce’s decade-long pursuit of glory in the Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway continued on July 29 when he yet again flirted with victory but settled for a runner-up finish. One week later, though, the 26-year-old Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce atop rankings for first time

  Posted: 08/08/2023, 11:00 am By Todd Turner

  Spurred by a three-victory week on the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series, including a dramatic $50,000 USA Nationals victory, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., supplanted Ricky Thornton Jr. as the No. 1 driver in DirtonDirt.com's weekly Full Story

• Fast Talk: Cedar Lake redux and other topics

  Posted: 08/07/2023, 01:54 pm

  With Bobby Pierce still rolling with his $50,000 victory at Cedar Lake’s USA Nationals, our roundtable surveys that and other action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): How Full Story

• Brownstown victory continues Stormy Scott's progress

  Posted: 08/07/2023, 07:41 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (Aug. 5) — Stormy Scott’s progress continued during his self-described “build year” with veteran crew chief Jason Durham as he captured Saturday’s Hall of Fame Classic and a $10,000 payday at Brownstown Speedway. The Full Story

• Notes: Pit strategy boon to five-time CLS champ

  Posted: 08/07/2023, 07:42 am By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 5) — Brent Larson knew he needed some outside-the-box thinking to maximize his chances for a solid finish in Saturday’s 100-lap USA Nationals at Cedar Lake Speedway. So before the 46-year-old driver from Lake Full Story

• Cook salvages 10th in HTF's Duck River stop

  Posted: 08/07/2023, 07:40 am By Robert Holman

  WHEEL, Tenn. (Aug. 5) — The way Dalton Cook’s weekend started, it’s a wonder the Smiths Station, Ala., driver had anything at all to smile about at the conclusion of the 12th annual Deep Fried 75. But as he leaned on his pit box at Full Story

• Pierce vs. O'Neal: The ever-growing spectacle

  Posted: 08/06/2023, 12:51 pm By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 5) — Bobby Pierce. Hudson O’Neal. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. It’s an ever-growing storyline of the 2023 Dirt Late Model season. Put these two young chargers in the same race and they’ll likely find each other Full Story

• Notes: Frame impressive with third at Duck River

  Posted: 08/06/2023, 05:07 am By Robert Holman

  WHEEL, Tenn. (Aug. 5) — After finishing third in the Deep Fried 75, Jadon Frame stood on the Duck River Raceway Park frontstretch alongside winner Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., and runner-up Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga. | RaceWire Marlar, Full Story

• USA Nationals entrants praise upgraded surface

  Posted: 08/05/2023, 04:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 4) — Chris Madden’s eyes sparkled as he stood inside his trailer discussing Friday’s 25-lap USA Nationals preliminary victory at Cedar Lake Speedway. “That’s the Cedar Lake that I know right there,” Full Story

• Dispatches: Start key for Moyer's victory over dad

  Posted: 08/05/2023, 04:11 am

  Among latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events in early August, including Comp Cams Super Dirt Series action at Arrowhead Speedway in Colcord, Okla., and Wood Tic weekend action at Merritt Speedway in Lake Full Story

• Bronson reflects on wild ride at Boone

  Posted: 08/04/2023, 02:04 pm By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 3) — Kyle Bronson finally had some time to relax, but, two days removed from taking a wild ride at Boone (Iowa) Speedway, he was still talking about his harrowing experience. Standing behind his pit box in Full Story

• Notes: 'Grippy' oval lifts Pierce over stiff CLS foes

  Posted: 08/04/2023, 06:22 am By Kevin Kovac

  NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Aug. 3) — When Bobby Pierce looked at the starting lineup for Thursday’s 25-lap World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series feature that opened the USA Nationals weekend at Cedar Lake Speedway, he noticed that the current Full Story

• Notes: Iowan's jump to Late Models paying off

  Posted: 08/03/2023, 08:33 am By Kyle McFadden

  If C.J. Horn wanted to move his racing career beyond the quarter-midget level three years ago, he figured he had no choice but to jump straight into the deep end of Dirt Late Model racing. At 15, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, racer was about Full Story

• Fast Facts: Cedar Lake's 36th annual USA Nationals

  Posted: 08/02/2023, 08:37 am By Aaron Clay

  Dates: Aug. 3-5 (two 30-lap, $6,000-to-win preliminary features will be contested Thursday and Friday, setting the lineup for Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win USA Nationals). Track: Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. (high-banked Full Story

• Column: 'One of those years' as SSI rolls ahead

  Posted: 08/02/2023, 08:38 am

  Ricky Thornton Jr. has made plenty of memories during a spectacular 2023 season in which he’s vaulted to Dirt Late Model superstar status. What he did on Saturday night at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway, though, might just be impossible to Full Story

• Top 25: Thornton No. 1 as McDowell climbs

  Posted: 08/01/2023, 10:18 am By Todd Turner

  Following his most lucrative week of a lucrative season, Ricky Thornton Jr. reaffirmed his position atop DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings with a unanimous No. 1 ranking after piling up nearly $170,000 in earnings among three victories Full Story

• Fast Talk: Thornton's rally, cautions and more

  Posted: 07/31/2023, 11:18 am

  After Ricky Thornton Jr.'s stirring rally to win Fairbury's Prairie Dirt Classic, our roundtable considers that and other recent happenings in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Did Full Story

• Out-Pierced by Thornton, PDC eludes Pierce again

  Posted: 07/31/2023, 09:03 am By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — Another Prairie Dirt Classic, another near-miss. Saturday night just continued a fact of life for Bobby Pierce in Fairbury Speedway’s marquee event. The cruel irony in Pierce’s PDC saga this year, though, Full Story

• Koehler teammates top Southern Nationals titles

  Posted: 07/31/2023, 07:57 am By Robert Holman

  TAZEWELL, Tenn. (July 30) — It’s not necessarily a surprise that Jimmy Owens won the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series championship. Once he decided to chase the regional miniseries, the four-time Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story

• Thornton’s torrid rally after glitch pays $61,500

  Posted: 07/30/2023, 07:21 am By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — As SSI Motorsports crew chief Anthony Burroughs sipped a celebratory can of beer in the Fairbury Speedway pit area after his driver Ricky Thornton Jr.’s stirring victory in Saturday’s 33rd annual Prairie Full Story

• Notes: Marlar shelves Bluehorn, debuts Rocket

  Posted: 07/29/2023, 01:43 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 28) — Mike Marlar has set aside his “Bluehorn” — his affectionate name for his Longhorn Chassis — to make a return to the Rocket Chassis fold. The 45-year-old standout from Winfield, Tenn., debuted a new Full Story