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• Bronson's spin collects B-Shepp at Deer Creek

  Posted: 07/09/2022, 07:16 am By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 8) — Brandon Sheppard’s Rocket Chassis house car sat in Deer Creek Speedway’s pit area stripped of its body panels. Two pit stalls away, Kyle Bronson’s machine was in much the same state of disrepair. This Full Story

• Logan, Hawkins called to support Yaggy's effort

  Posted: 07/08/2022, 05:30 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 7) — No way was Jordan Yaggy going to miss the biggest Dirt Late Model event ever contested at his home track. But Yaggy realized he had a slight schedule conflict soon after the three-day, $50,000-to-win NAPA Full Story

• Stealthy move leads to satisfaction for Madden

  Posted: 07/08/2022, 09:13 am By Kevin Kovac

  SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 7) — Jonathan Davenport smiled as he stood in Deer Creek Speedway’s pit area after Thursday night’s NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 preliminary program and offered an assessment of how Chris Madden had emerged Full Story

• Notes: Red-hot Alaskan has far-flung dreams

  Posted: 07/07/2022, 10:28 am By Kyle McFadden

  Perhaps the most dominant weekly Dirt Late Model driver on the planet doesn’t reside in the fertile Midwest or NASCAR-centric South, but in the unlikeliest of places: Alaska. Meet Alex Schwochert, who over the weekend at Kenai’s Twin Full Story

• Column: Mature decision leads to mature team

  Posted: 07/07/2022, 07:38 am

  Ryan Montgomery was an aspiring 18-year-old Dirt Late Model driver from Fairmont, W.Va., some seven years ago when his father and car owner, Jeff, offered him a deal he couldn’t refuse. Or at least the elder Montgomery thought his teenage Full Story

• Three-car duel thrills Davenport competitors

  Posted: 07/06/2022, 10:39 pm

  While Hudson O'Neal told Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series announcer James Essex about his first victory of the season Wednesday in Davenport (Iowa) Speedway's victory lane, second- and third-place finishers Brandon Overton and Mike Marlar Full Story

• Top 25: J.D. alone at No. 1 as B-Shepp rises

  Posted: 07/05/2022, 09:02 am By Todd Turner

  Holiday weekend winners made gains in DirtonDirt.com’s weekly power rankings with the richest victor, Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., edging up two positions to No. 3 after his $30,000 payday in Sunday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Resetting team's goals, B-Shepp aims for peak

  Posted: 07/04/2022, 03:10 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ZANESVILLE, Ohio (July 4) — If April 26 was the day Brandon Sheppard and the Rocket Chassis house car team announced Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series title intentions, then mark Independence Day weekend as the point in 2022 those intentions Full Story

• Fast Talk: Fireworks, flag-waving and finishes

  Posted: 07/04/2022, 11:45 am

  Auto racing is often part of the flags, fireworks and Fourth of July fun on the Independence Day weekend. Our roundtable wraps up a busy stretch of racing in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story

• Disappointed Freeman determined for tour win

  Posted: 07/03/2022, 12:47 pm By Robert Holman

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (July 2) — Payton Freeman stood beside his car in the Clarksville Speedway pit area with a stoic expression, solemnly answering questions from DIRTcar Summer Nationals public relations coordinator Jordan DeLucia. Freeman Full Story

• Surging Thornton finds new ways to improve

  Posted: 07/03/2022, 08:32 am By Kyle McFadden

  ZANESVILLE, Ohio (July 2) — Starting fifth in the toughest semifeature Saturday at Muskingum County Speedway behind the differing skillsets of Hudson O’Neal, Earl Pearson Jr., Tim McCreadie and Gregg Satterlee, Ricky Thornton Jr. set Full Story

• High-flying Hanger expanding his range

  Posted: 07/03/2022, 08:16 am By Robert Holman

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (July 2) — Christian Hanger has dabbled in Super Late Model racing before. This summer, the Winchester, Tenn., driver decided to dive in feet first. Hanger is currently in the middle of a two-week stretch that includes Full Story

• Paducah part-timer gets help from Hall of Famer

  Posted: 07/02/2022, 10:46 am By Robert Holman

  PADUCAH, Ky. (July 1) — During his Hall of Fame Dirt Late Model driving career, Terry English of Benton, Ky., often had a knack of being in the right place at the right time. That helped the 2002 DIRTcar weekly champion rack up big single-season Full Story

• Dispatches: Hilsabeck flirts with MLRA podium

  Posted: 07/03/2022, 04:09 pm

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events during the Fourth of July weekend, including Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Valvoline Iron-Man Racing Series, Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association Full Story

• Hell Tour's mixed results at long-dormant tracks

  Posted: 07/01/2022, 03:58 pm By Robert Holman

  BROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 30) — Jason Feger was happy to be back at a familiar racetrack Thursday as the DIRTcar Summer Nationals visited Fayette County Speedway for the 16th time in series history. The trek to the Charlie Depew-promoted Full Story

• Notes: Self-funded Jameson shines at Florence

  Posted: 07/01/2022, 11:23 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (June 30) — With the rising cost of race car parts and additional fuel costs in an inflationary economy, Jason Jameson was happy to finish among the top five in Thursday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Full Story

• Record-setter Babb: 'It's my life.' Don't you forget

  Posted: 07/01/2022, 07:42 am By Robert Holman

  BROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 30) — Shannon Babb’s spoiler was still intact. His right rear deck wasn’t crumpled. Not even a scratch. And the Moweaqua, Ill., driver spent most of the second half of Thursday’s 50-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals Full Story

• Notes: Minnesotan makes most of promotion

  Posted: 06/30/2022, 07:17 am By Kyle McFadden

  Danny Vang has learned that, aside from the fierce discipline of auto racing, it’s best to seldom press the issue and let what’s meant to be to naturally develop. For instance, he met his wife, Ann, by happenstance as a fan at Minnesota’s Full Story

• Column: Shuffled Lucas Oil crew aces Firecracker

  Posted: 06/29/2022, 03:34 pm

  Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie was anxiously awaiting the Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. The national tour’s debut as the sanctioning body for the 4/10-mile oval’s marquee event Full Story

• Red Hill return is rough on Hell Tour regulars

  Posted: 06/29/2022, 08:49 am By Todd Turner

  SUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — After his eighth-to-third run Tuesday night at Red Hill Raceway, Payton Freeman of Commerce, Ga., was asked if he performed so well in the DIRTcar Summer Nationals event because he’d been running on his kind Full Story

• Hoops, tidier schedule calming for Coach Moyer

  Posted: 06/29/2022, 08:05 am By Robert Holman

  PEVELY, Mo. (June 24) — If Billy Moyer Jr. stops on the track, climbs from his car and inadvertently calls a time out, don’t hold it against him. It’s possible the Batesville, Ark., driver is still thinking about basketball. During Full Story

• Notes: Engine fire derails Pierce's effort at Red Hill

  Posted: 06/29/2022, 04:31 am By Todd Turner

  SUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — After diagnosing what caused a fire under the hood of his son Bobby Pierce’s car on the 16th lap of Tuesday’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals main event at Red Hill Raceway, Bob Pierce had a succinct description Full Story

• Williams eager for first Summer Nationals test

  Posted: 06/28/2022, 06:40 pm By Todd Turner

  SUMNER, Ill. (June 28) — Lee Williams is the kind of dirt racer Bob Memmer had in mind so many years ago when he created the DIRTcar Summer Nationals, a track-by-track tour of the Midwest that gave even local racers the chance to compete Full Story

• Top 25: Firecracker winner climbs to No. 3

  Posted: 06/28/2022, 09:39 am By Todd Turner

  Hot as a firecracker at Lernerville Speedway, Tim McCreadie's $50,000 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory propelled him up to No. 3 in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings behind tied-for-first drivers Jonathan Davenport and Chris Madden. Watertown, Full Story

• Notes: Surgery at hand, Richards eases into car

  Posted: 06/27/2022, 04:45 pm By Robert Holman

  JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (June 26) — He's not quite 100 percent, but four-time World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series champion Josh Richards was back behind the wheel for the tour's late-June tripleheader at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at Full Story