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• Knoxville prelim win is turnaround Pierce sought

  Posted: 09/17/2022, 02:53 am By Kyle McFadden

  KNOXVILLE, Iowa (Sept. 16) — With his gung-ho driving style and affinity for the cushion, it’s often overlooked that Bobby Pierce is christened the Smooth Operator. On Friday’s final preliminary night of the Lucas Oil Knoxville Late Full Story

• On-the-mat conditions frustrate Knoxville racers

  Posted: 09/16/2022, 12:59 pm By Kyle McFadden

  KNOXVILLE, Iowa (Sept. 15) — Billy Moyer didn’t want to be wearing street clothes so soon Thursday, particularly after he’d been in contention for a heat race victory on the opening night of the 18th annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Full Story

• Notes: High point for South Dakota racer

  Posted: 09/15/2022, 09:29 am By Kyle McFadden

  Though Josh Skorczewski is the closest he’s ever been to winning his a WISSOTA championship, the identity of his season — or race program for that matter — doesn’t hinge on if he overcomes a 69-point deficit to Chad Becker in the Full Story

• Column: Lack of quality racing concerns Overton

  Posted: 09/15/2022, 08:09 am

  By all reasonable standards, Brandon Overton’s four-day visit last week to Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, was spectacular — not perfect like last year when he swept the prelim features and 100-lap finales of the double Dreams to Full Story

• Fast Facts: 18th annual Lucas Oil Knoxville Nationals

  Posted: 09/14/2022, 10:48 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: Sept. 15-17 ($7,000-to-win features Thursday and Friday and heats, consolations and $50,000-to-win main event Saturday) Track: Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway (semi-banked, half-mile clay oval). Purse: In excess of $290,000, the purse Full Story

• Top 25: J.D. still on top as Overton rises to No. 3

  Posted: 09/13/2022, 11:06 am By Todd Turner

  Further solidifying his unanimous No. 1 position in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings, Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., captured his fifth World 100 victory Saturday at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, amid a record-setting season Full Story

• McCreadie gains at the Big E, but falls shy again

  Posted: 09/12/2022, 10:47 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — Saturday’s 52nd World 100 at Eldora Speedway was a representative of Tim McCreadie’s entire season. The Watertown, N.Y., veteran again battled for a crown jewel win with all his might versus the likes Full Story

• Notes: B-Shepp lacks speed in World 100

  Posted: 09/12/2022, 12:04 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — Brandon Sheppard was relatively quiet during the three-day World 100 weekend. The New Berlin, Ill., driver finished sixth in his preliminary feature on Thursday — a 25-lapper won by Jonathan Davenport that Full Story

• Fast Talk: Taking stock of the World

  Posted: 09/12/2022, 12:05 pm

  With the postponed Dream (won by Brandon Overton) and 52nd annual World 100 (won by Jonathan Davenport) behind use, our roundtables tackles questions in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and Full Story

• World 100's top three leave foes in their dust

  Posted: 09/11/2022, 06:31 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — Seldom does Earl Pearson Jr. voluntarily put participation aside and spectate the sport’s crown jewel events, but that’s what the 50-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., racer did in Saturday’s final laps of Full Story

• Coveting ‘big stage,’ J.D. soars in stature at Big E

  Posted: 09/11/2022, 07:18 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — The postrace press conference was over, but Jonathan Davenport wasn’t yet done talking about Saturday's victory the 52nd World 100 at Eldora Speedway. He simply shifted from sitting behind a table in the Full Story

• World 100 hopes sag for Weiss via droop rule DQ

  Posted: 09/10/2022, 08:47 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 9) — Ricky Weiss would have preferred to just remain holed up inside his toterhome, privately stewing in disgust over his rear deck-height disqualification from a $12,000 victory in Friday night’s first 25-lap Full Story

• Big E invert stings Georgian, but this time Smith belongs

  Posted: 09/10/2022, 08:38 am By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — This time last year, Garrett Smith felt like a virtual nobody lost in the overwhelming nature of the World 100 at Eldora Speedway. The teenaged racer decided to partake in the sport’s Super Bowl during his fledgling Full Story

• Owens looks to rekindle 100-lap success at Big E

  Posted: 09/09/2022, 11:22 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 8)  — Jimmy Owens isn’t a guy who will recite his racing stats with the acuity of an accountant. Nor is he a driver who has a crystal-clear memory of his performances — good or bad — from the past. So it Full Story

• Grooving, siping on Hoosier’s chopping block

  Posted: 09/09/2022, 11:07 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — While there may be a variety of opinions about 2023's limited-compound National Late Model Tire rule announced Thursday, there’s likely consensus among tire-preparing crew members about one particular detail revealed Full Story

• Realigned Scott well-positioned for Big E success

  Posted: 09/09/2022, 09:16 am By Robert Holman

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 8) — If anyone knows how difficult it can be to pick himself up off the floor at Eldora Speedway, it’s Johnny Scott. Literally. On April 26, while competing at Eldora in the Castrol FloRacing Night in America Full Story

• McCarters tap ‘Fastest Mullet’ for Eldora duties

  Posted: 09/09/2022, 08:47 am By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 8) — Jensen Ford’s most prized possessions of this week’s 52nd World 100 at Eldora Speedway just so happened to develop by chance rather than intent. What drivers value above all throughout Dirt Late Model racing’s Full Story

• Slashing tire compounds, Hoosier touts simplicity

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 06:50 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 8) — It's no secret the mish-mash of Hoosier Tire compounds for Super Late Models often forced traveling teams to maintain a vast inventory of multiple-compound tires to compete from one track or organization to Full Story

• Notes: J.D.'s rally not enough in Dream

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 09:36 am By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 7) — Jonathan Davenport failed to keep his crown jewel streak alive Wednesday in the conclusion of Eldora Speedway’s rain-halted Dream XXVIII. When trying to get over that reality, Davenport kept his initial assessment Full Story

• Faulty plug wire extends Madden's Eldora futility

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 08:09 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 7) — Wednesday night was going to be the end of Chris Madden’s crown jewel frustration at Eldora Speedway. He had absolutely no doubt as he powerfully paced the field in the resumption of the 100-lap Dream that Full Story

• Notes: Port Royal standout eyes next step

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 03:19 am By Kyle McFadden

  Perhaps sometime in the future, Austin Berry will look back on this past Labor Day weekend as the catalyst that spurred he and his family team to the next level. Battling Gregg Satterlee — Pennsylvania’s winningest Super Late Model Full Story

• Freddie Carpenter sees bigger picture at Eldora

  Posted: 09/08/2022, 02:05 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 7) — His disabled Kryptonite Race Car sitting in the Eldora Speedway infield while Mike Marlar was heading for a 20-lap Chasing the Dream victory, Freddie Carpenter wanted to slip out of the top half of his firesuit. Unable Full Story

• Satisfying Big E success for touring rookie Wilson

  Posted: 09/07/2022, 11:03 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 7) — The siren that called all drivers to staging for Wednesday’s main attraction at Eldora Speedway — the conclusion of the the 28th Dream postponed from June — had sounded, but all that didn’t pertain to Full Story

• Coverage index for 52nd annual World 100

  Posted: 09/05/2022, 10:36 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — DirtonDirt.com's previews and coverage of the 52nd annual World 100 (and conclusion of June's rain-halted Dream XXVIII) with non-touring DIRTcar events Sept. 7-10 at Eldora Speedway (watch on FloRacing): Monday, Sept. Full Story

• For Richards, there’s no place like Eldora

  Posted: 09/07/2022, 10:01 am By Kevin Kovac

  Think it’s possible to find someone who’s participated in more World 100s at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio — as a crew member, crew chief or car owner — than Mark Richards? Good luck. The circle of Eldora veterans in which Full Story