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• Notes: Sheppard eyeing first Topless 100 win

  Posted: 08/16/2025, 06:56 pm By Kyle McFadden

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 15) — Brandon Sheppard has won a good share of Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest events, but never before has he captured a Topless 100. Granted, seven years spent on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series from Full Story

• After high-speed night, eyes on Batesville surface

  Posted: 08/16/2025, 02:12 pm By Kyle McFadden

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 15) — Drivers weren’t expecting to find a blazing fast track surface at Mooney Starr-promoted Batesville Motor Speedway on Friday’s preliminary night for the 33rd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 presented Full Story

• Dispatches: Pierce survives Shirley's charge

  Posted: 08/17/2025, 09:17 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing during in mid-August (look for Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 coverage from Batesville elsewhere). Also find a listing of live-streaming video from specials around the Full Story

• Dillard's Topless payback unnerving for Alberson

  Posted: 08/16/2025, 07:39 am By Kyle McFadden

  LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 15) — Garrett Alberson never doubted his slide job for the lead in Friday’s second semifeature at Batesville Motor Speedway’s 33rd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 presented by Big River Steel. Cade Full Story

• Notes: Hoffman's night becomes hurried fire drill

  Posted: 08/15/2025, 08:25 am By Todd Turner

  BANNER, Ill. (Aug. 14) — Nick Hoffman of Mooresville, N.C., was eager for the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series debut at Spoon River Speedway, a track where he’s a seven-time winner in the modified division. But Full Story

• Dotson can't shake summer of WoO struggle

  Posted: 08/14/2025, 10:30 pm By Todd Turner

  BANNER, Ill. (Aug. 14) — Ethan Dotson’s once-promising rookie season on the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series continued to trend in the wrong direction. It appeared the 26-year-old Bakersfield, Calif., driver for Full Story

• Hauler-driving crews spin tunes behind wheel

  Posted: 08/14/2025, 06:23 pm By Todd Turner

  BANNER, Ill. (Aug. 14) — Riding around town in your personal vehicle gives you free rein over what’s playing on the radio. That’s not the case for Dirt Late Model haulers logging thousands of highway miles around the country with Full Story

• WoO victory erases all doubts in English's mind

  Posted: 08/14/2025, 08:47 am By Todd Turner

  HIGHLAND, Ill. (Aug. 13) — The record books will show that Tanner English officially led 40 caution-free laps Wednesday at Highland Speedway for his first full-field World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series victory in nearly Full Story

• Column: Pierce's career heads for stratosphere

  Posted: 08/14/2025, 07:34 am

  With every success that Bobby Pierce achieves on Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest stages, he moves closer to immortality in the sport. What can’t the sensational driver from Oakwood, Ill., accomplish? What records can’t he break? Full Story

• Notes: Minnesotan solid in division return

  Posted: 08/14/2025, 12:25 am By Todd Turner

  Drivers taking a lengthy hiatus from Dirt Late Model racing typically fall behind in a sport where fast-moving technology can drastically change suspension setups. So with Zach Johnson, a successful Late Model racer from 2006-17 who shifted Full Story

• Notes: Highland racer rebounds from disaster

  Posted: 08/13/2025, 11:35 pm By Todd Turner

  HIGHLAND, Ill. (Aug. 13) — Hometown driver Matt Bailey figured his racing season was over June 28 when he was forced into the frontstretch wall in a DIRTcar Summer Nationals heat race at Highland Speedway. “My right-front hit the wall Full Story

• Paper-clip Highland oval presents WoO challenge

  Posted: 08/13/2025, 04:57 pm By Todd Turner

  HIGHLAND, Ill. (Aug. 13) — There are paper-clip dirt tracks with tight corners. Then there’s Highland Speedway. The high-banked quarter-mile oval at the Madison County Fairgrounds provides a significant challenge for 900-horsepower Full Story

• From a desk chair to driver's seat for Gerrald

  Posted: 08/13/2025, 01:52 pm By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. — The stereotypical dirt racer has blue-collar roots and dirt under his fingernails. You don’t often think of don’t think of white-collar workers getting their hands dirty in the pit area or behind the wheel of a race car. The Full Story

• Look dad, no fenders! Timms tops sprint world

  Posted: 08/12/2025, 06:42 pm By Kyle McFadden

  KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Lounging in a golf cart Friday at Knoxville Raceway, the day before he’d be forever immortalized in sprint car racing lore as the youngest Knoxville Nationals champ since 1964 at 18 years old, Ryan Timms pondered an Full Story

• Fast Facts: 33rd Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100

  Posted: 08/12/2025, 11:50 am By Aaron Clay

  Dates: Aug. 15-16 (split-field semifeatures Friday and 100-lap finale Saturday) Track: Batesville Motor Speedway (high-banked 3/8-mile dirt oval) Location: Locust Grove, Ark. Purse: $50,000-to-win Primary sponsors: Nutrien Ag Solutions Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce's grip on No. 1 ranking continues

  Posted: 08/12/2025, 07:30 am By Todd Turner

  Further solidifying his unanimous No. 1 ranking, Bobby Pierce’s historic Sunoco North-South 100 victory at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky., kept him atop DirtonDirt’s weekly power rankings presented by Keyser Manufacturing. Pierce’s Full Story

• Hood-flying start dims Overton's Florence hopes

  Posted: 08/11/2025, 12:39 pm By Kevin Kovac

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Just as Brandon Overton was feeling especially positive about the trajectory of his frustrating 2025 season, the start of Saturday’s 43rd annual Sunoco North-South 100 at Florence Speedway blew his good vibes away. Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping Florence and a busy weekend

  Posted: 08/11/2025, 10:39 am

  With Bobby Pierce making history with his third straight and fourth overall North-South 100 victory, our roundtable discusses that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): What’s Full Story

• A study in contrasts of feisty North-South tussle

  Posted: 08/10/2025, 11:32 am By Kevin Kovac

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — The story of Saturday’s 43rd annual North-South 100 at Florence Speedway could be inferred from the study in contrasts visible during the postrace ceremonies on the frontstretch. As Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., Full Story

• Notes: Dohm shines in top-five at North-South

  Posted: 08/10/2025, 11:11 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 9) — Zack Dohm would have been just fine with making the North-South 100, pocketing the $3,500 start money, and pulling into the pit area instead of grinding out the 100-lapper won by Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill. The Full Story

• After wreck, Marlar asks: How slow is too slow?

  Posted: 08/09/2025, 04:36 pm By Kevin Kovac

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — Mike Marlar tried to be as diplomatic as possible. It’s his nature to look at things in a pragmatic manner. Nevertheless, after a run-in with a lapped car knocked him from the lead on the 11th circuit of Friday’s Full Story

• JRR's 'other' driver gets rolling at North-South

  Posted: 08/09/2025, 01:25 pm By Kevin Kovac

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 8) — Florence Speedway’s big Sunoco North-South 100 weekend crowd was all riled up for Jason Jameson, the home track standout, to make a bid for victory on a lap-16 restart in Friday’s second 25-lap semifeature. When Full Story

• Owens takes crack at regaining Florence magic

  Posted: 08/08/2025, 07:09 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (Aug. 7) — Jimmy Owens knows his days on a national tour are likely behind him as he enters the twilight stages of his racing career. The long nights, hot summer days and grueling grind of racing against the best competition Full Story

• Dispatches: Winger grabs Mag victory

  Posted: 08/09/2025, 07:03 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing during the second weekend in August (look for Sunoco North-South 100 coverage from Florence Speedway elsewhere). Also find a listing of live-streaming video from specials Full Story

• Notes: Securing that elusive cardboard check

  Posted: 08/07/2025, 07:04 am By Todd Turner

  With a $2,500 Crate Late Model payday on the line Aug. 1 at his home racetrack, Billy Henry of Saegertown, Pa., wasn’t sure he had what it took to outrun standout racer Dave Hess Jr. at Raceway 7 in Conneaut, Ohio. He’d beaten Hess Full Story