DirtOnDirt.com Search Results

13829 items match your search

• Crews adjust to rhythm of rich weeknight racing

  Posted: 06/15/2023, 08:54 am By Bryan Ault

  KOKOMO, Ind. (June 12) — There was a time when the richest Dirt Late Model events were held solely on weekends, giving crew members the natural rhythm of preparing race cars Monday through Thursday before heading out to chase another Full Story

• DIRTcar Summer Nationals coverage index

  Posted: 07/10/2023, 08:41 am

  DirtonDirt.com’s coverage of the 28 scheduled races of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals across the Midwest and beyond from June 14-July 16; also visit the schedule page and series history section: Monday, July 17 • Story: Never-give-up Full Story

• Midwestern racing with a dash of Southern flair

  Posted: 06/15/2023, 07:38 am By Robert Holman

  PEORIA, Ill. (June 14) — They’re here to learn. They’re here to have fun. They’re here for the money. And at least one driver is here with an eye on the DIRTcar Summer Nationals championship. Regardless of the reason, seeing a Southerner Full Story

• Notes: Lee looking to take next step

  Posted: 06/15/2023, 12:18 am By Kyle McFadden

  Kyle Lee has reached the point of his racing career where he’s no longer a fresh-faced driver among competitors in the Northeast. The 24-year-old is in his seventh year at the Super Late Model level and with that comes an urgency to Full Story

• Column: Trusty car keeps J.D. in Big E zone

  Posted: 06/14/2023, 04:00 pm

  Jonathan Davenport’s wife, Rachel, knows him well. When he’s at his favorite racetrack in the world, Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, she said “he’s got a look” that makes her certain he’s in a winning mental zone. But leading Full Story

• Clawing for every spot, Stone gets break at PVS

  Posted: 06/14/2023, 09:14 am By Kyle McFadden

  SPRING RUN, Pa. (June 13) — Dan Stone’s path in the first half of Appalachian Mountain Speedweek hasn’t been easy. He’s been forced to rally through consolation races in three of the four miniseries events to earn some kind of reward Full Story

• Second-year pilot gets solid miniseries start

  Posted: 06/13/2023, 03:05 pm By Kyle McFadden

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Tyler Emory was furious Sunday at Hagerstown Speedway, struggling to settle the anger attached to describing the mistake that caved his chances at winning the Appalachian Mountain Speedweek event. Staring down leader Full Story

• Notes: Contenders glow over racy Kokomo track

  Posted: 06/13/2023, 12:26 pm By Todd Turner

  KOKOMO, Ind. (June 12) — The frontrunners in Monday’s XRSS Super Series event at Kokomo Speedway praised the quarter-mile’s surface that featured plenty of action over 100 laps, even if $100,000 winner Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Full Story

• Top 25: Thornton has edge on rising J.D.

  Posted: 06/13/2023, 08:19 am By Todd Turner

  While Jonathan Davenport was the big winner at Eldora Speedway’s Dream XXIX in capturing Saturday's $129,000 paycheck, Ricky Thornton Jr.’s steady performances in Rossburg, Ohio, kept him atop this week's DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings. Chandler, Full Story

• Grabbing richest victory, O’Neal puts on a show

  Posted: 06/13/2023, 08:15 am By Bryan Ault

  KOKOMO, Ind. (June 12) — Hudson O’Neal was nearly speechless after winning Monday's XR Super Series event at Kokomo Speedway. It’s not hard to see why: the bank-busting, $100,000-to-win payday was the richest of the 22-year-old Martinsville, Full Story

• Dogged pursuers make O'Neal earn 100-grand

  Posted: 06/13/2023, 12:59 am By Todd Turner

  KOKOMO, Ind. (June 12) — As sure as polesitter Hudson O’Neal was that he could hold on to win Monday’s six-figure XR Super Series payday at Kokomo Speedway, his pursuers were almost as certain they were going to pass him. Third-place Full Story

• Notes: Bernheisel's son stays focused on driving

  Posted: 06/12/2023, 03:18 pm By Kyle McFadden

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (June 11) — Bryan Bernheisel sees every nuanced detail and emotion that’s poured into Appalachian Mountain Speedweek as the son of miniseries director Jim Bernheisel. So, through the series opening three races, how’s Full Story

• Fast Talk: Lauding J.D. dreamy performance

  Posted: 06/12/2023, 10:18 am

  Assessing Jonathan Davenport's Dream XXIX victory at Eldora among other issues, our roundtable weighs in during the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): What's your takeaway from Full Story

• For Flinner, racing takes back seat to dad's health

  Posted: 06/12/2023, 07:38 am By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Colton Flinner is usually one of the busiest racers in the Northeast, making annual trips to Florida-Georgia Speedweeks at the beginning of the year and racing weekly at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., and Port Full Story

• Impressive Troutman torn between two series

  Posted: 06/12/2023, 07:20 am By Kyle McFadden

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (June 11) — Drake Troutman rolled into the revival of Appalachian Mountain Speedweek fully convinced he has the goods to win the miniseries championship. The 18-year-old from Hyndman, Pa., has taken his talents across Full Story

• Notes: Slow start for Hardy on AMS miniseries

  Posted: 06/11/2023, 01:03 pm By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (June 10) — Kyle Hardy is hoping that Saturday’s 18th-to-seventh climb in Appalachian Mountain Speedweek action at Port Royal Speedway is symbolic in the way the rest of his miniseries goes. The Stephens City, Va., Full Story

• Notes: Big E rookie tops Dream's highlight reel

  Posted: 06/11/2023, 12:31 pm By Kevin Kovac and Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — With a relatively ho-hum 100-lap feature on Dream XXIX weekend at Eldora Speedway, perhaps the most exciting moment of Saturday's action at Eldora Speedway came in an unlikely manner. | Complete Dream coverage The Full Story

• Satterlee skips Dream for miniseries run

  Posted: 06/11/2023, 11:34 am By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (June 10) — Gregg Satterlee’s developed a stronger track record than most at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in recent years. Heck, he even won a pair of preliminary events in both the Dream and World 100 two years ago. | RaceWire This Full Story

• Madden’s mournful Big E mantra: ‘Second again’

  Posted: 06/11/2023, 08:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — This was going to be the night. This was going to be the year. As Chris Madden chugged forward from the ninth starting spot to the precipice of the lead in Saturday night’s 100-lap Dream XXIX finale, the Full Story

• Zeigler pleased with overnight turnaround

  Posted: 06/11/2023, 04:41 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — After Mason Zeigler's No. 25z race car was knocked into the turn-two wall during a Dream XXIX semifeature Friday night at Eldora Speedway, he fully expected that by Saturday evening he'd be chilling at his Chalk Full Story

• Promising revival for Appalachian Mountain Speedweek

  Posted: 06/10/2023, 03:41 pm By Kyle McFadden

  MILL HALL, Pa. (June 9) — Jim Bernheisel finally had a moment to decompress. Months of nonstop preparation to relaunch Appalachian Mountain Speedweek, which served as a staple for Northeastern Dirt Late Model racers from 2009-17, culminated Full Story

• Notes: O'Neal quickly applies lesson at Eldora

  Posted: 06/10/2023, 01:02 pm By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Hudson O’Neal couldn’t have been more pleased to head right back onto Eldora Speedway’s racing surface just 24 hours after letting a Dream XXIX preliminary feature win slip through his fingers. After tossing Full Story

• Winning Speedweek opener leaves Covert smiling

  Posted: 06/10/2023, 09:43 am By Kyle McFadden

  MILL HALL, Pa. (June 9) — It was nearing midnight Friday at Clinton County Speedway, more than an hour after the conclusion of Appalachian Mountain Speedweek’s long-awaited opening night revival, and Jason Covert couldn’t turn out Full Story

• Overton's sterling record at Big E's Dream in limbo

  Posted: 06/10/2023, 05:44 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Brandon Overton owns an enviable performance record at Eldora Speedway, but he understands his fortunes at the famed half-mile oval remain subject to fate. Every driver experiences rough nights at the Big E. Full Story

• Prelim tanglers soothed by poles in Dream heats

  Posted: 06/10/2023, 03:54 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — They say all’s well that ends well. While you wouldn’t know it looking at the carnage in the pit areas of Dream XXIX competitors Josh Rice and Mason Zeigler in the wee hours of Saturday morning at Eldora Full Story