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• Alabama upstart rubbing fenders with sport's best

  Posted: 04/28/2022, 09:38 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — Midway through Wednesday’s Castrol FloRacing Night in America main event at Brownstown Speedway, Jeremy Shaw couldn’t help but be reminded of a popular song from Sesame Street. The unheralded Millport, Ala., driver, Full Story

• Notes: Stepping up in class boosts Missourian

  Posted: 04/28/2022, 07:36 am By Lyndal Scranton

  It’s seen in sports all the time, where teams play a strong non-conference schedule to both challenge and toughen themselves for regular season play. Dalton Imhoff took this path last weekend. Even though the young Late Model driver Full Story

• New spectacles, more checkers for Superman

  Posted: 04/28/2022, 01:06 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (April 28) — Jonathan Davenport has flipped the script on Clark Kent glasses. Whether the new black-rimmed spectacles have something to do with it or not, more checkered flags are coming into focus for the 38-year-old Full Story

• Column: Major shift for Rocket's house car team

  Posted: 04/27/2022, 04:47 pm

  Mark Richards realizes how connected his Rocket Chassis house car team has been to the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series for nearly two decades. His Shinnston, W.Va.-based operation has been a big blue mainstay on the national tour, Full Story

• Notes: James ready to charge at Brownstown

  Posted: 04/27/2022, 04:34 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (April 26) — Charging into turn one at Brownstown Speedway with reckless abandon has been a trademark of the quarter-mile oval going back to the track’s best Late Model drivers such as Jim Curry, John Gill and Don O’Neal. Or Full Story

• Early-season surface a challenge at Eldora

  Posted: 04/27/2022, 02:17 am By Bryan Ault

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (April 26) — When former World 100 winner Bobby Pierce stood in the Eldora Speedway infield and watched haulers cross the backstretch and pull into the infield pits Tuesday afternoon, the Oakwood, Ill., driver knew things Full Story

• Notes: Shaw falls just shy in his Eldora debut

  Posted: 04/27/2022, 02:18 am By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (April 26) — Jeremy Shaw drove into his infield pit stall at Eldora Speedway following Tuesday’s second consolation race, pulled off his helmet and lifted it to the roof of his Capital Race Car. Briefly reflecting on Full Story

• Wins, Big E debut soothe Seawright's sore gums

  Posted: 04/26/2022, 03:10 pm By Todd Turner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (April 26) — Racers sometimes say they feel better behind the wheel than anywhere else. And that was certainly true for Sam Seawright over the weekend as he was en route to a pair of Super Late Model feature victories at Full Story

• Top 25: Madden tops shuffled rankings

  Posted: 04/26/2022, 06:10 am By Todd Turner

  Amid significant shuffling near the top of the poll, Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., held onto the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings for the fourth consecutive week following a pair of weekend top-10 finishes in XR Super Series Full Story

• Eldora-loving Courtney giving fenders a whirl

  Posted: 04/25/2022, 09:31 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Tyler Courtney is infatuated with Eldora Speedway, so it’s no surprise the announcement that the Eldora Million would return in 2022 caught his attention. Even though he’s a sprint car driver who’s never turned a competitive lap in Full Story

• Fast Talk: All-Tech review and a peek at Million?

  Posted: 04/25/2022, 01:00 pm

  Our roundtable gathers to wrap up a busy weekend of racing, including Sunshine State victories for Tim McCreadie and Jonathan Davenport while looking ahead to what's next in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited Full Story

• Notes: J.D.'s razor thin line between wins, losses

  Posted: 04/25/2022, 07:43 am By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (April 23) — The difference between Jonathan Davenport’s fifth-place outing at Friday's Florida Dirt Nationals and Saturday’s drought-quenching victory at All-Tech Raceway rested in the slimmest of margins. Davenport Full Story

• Two runner-up finishes revitalizing for Strickler

  Posted: 04/24/2022, 08:17 am By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (April 23) — All the cameras and attention focused on Tim McCreadie’s $25,000 celebration late Friday night at All-Tech Raceway, but the most joyous Florida Dirt Nationals competitor stood a little further down the Full Story

• All-Tech victory eases McCreadie's frustration

  Posted: 04/23/2022, 02:04 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (April 22) — Frustration was trying to pose as another stumbling block along Tim McCreadie’s path toward stability on Thursday’s Florida Dirt Nationals practice night at All-Tech Raceway. Plan A went awry when McCreadie’s Full Story

• Dispatches: Weekend’s flurry of first-time winners

  Posted: 04/24/2022, 08:18 am

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model events nationwide from April 22-24, including World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action at Atomic Speedway in Alma, Ohio, Lucas Oil MLRA events at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., Full Story

• Last-minute All-Tech ride fuels mod star Hoffman

  Posted: 04/22/2022, 02:49 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (April 21) — Nick Hoffman lounged around the karting facility of North Carolina’s Millbridge Speedway on Tuesday when he received something akin to an answered prayer. The Modified ace who could reasonably be classified Full Story

• Notes: All-Tech up next in J.D's wobbly season

  Posted: 04/22/2022, 07:38 am By Kyle McFadden

  ELLISVILLE, Fla. (April 21) — When he's away from the racetrack, Jonathan Davenport tends to his Dirty Dollar Ranch in Belton, S.C. But at Thursday's practice for this weekend's XR Super Series Florida Dirt Nationals at All-Tech Raceway, Full Story

• Notes: Quick start for Louisiana Crate racer

  Posted: 04/21/2022, 07:09 am By Kyle McFadden

  The transition from the latter months of winter into the start of spring have traditionally flowed with the same, ordinary cadences for David Winslett through the years. Being heavily involved in baseball — originally as a college standout Full Story

• Column: Pursley savors his return to victory lane

  Posted: 04/20/2022, 04:17 pm

  It’s not like Johnny Pursley needed a reminder about how long his absence from victory lane in Dirt Late Model competition had stretched. He received one repeatedly, though, from his 9-year-old son John Marshall. “He’s been asking Full Story

• Tech official back to spec after struggle with Covid

  Posted: 04/20/2022, 07:12 am By Robert Holman

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. — Alton Wilson doesn’t mind discussing his near-fatal bout with Covid-19. What he can remember, anyway. The Clinton, S.C., resident and longtime race official who spent nearly a month in a coma last fall returned to Full Story

• Top 25: Madden still atop poll; Tennesseans climb

  Posted: 04/19/2022, 08:29 am By Todd Turner

  Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., added another $21,000 in winner’s earnings to his spring total Saturday in solidifying his No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s weekly power rankings while a pair of Tennesseans made significant climbs after Full Story

• Fast Talk: Throngs enjoy weekend's major events

  Posted: 04/18/2022, 11:37 am

  Hopping past the Easter weekend and heading in the busiest part of spring, our roundtable considers recent results and other questions in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Discuss Full Story

• Notes: Bloomquist on cusp of victory lane?

  Posted: 04/17/2022, 04:37 am By Robert Holman

  TAZEWELL, Tenn. (April 16) — Scott Bloomquist is starting to feel pretty sporty. The Mooresburg, Tenn., driver may not be back to 100 percent following his three-year battle with a variety of health issues stemming from his March 2019 Full Story

• Notes: Davenport can’t repel Overton at Wythe

  Posted: 04/16/2022, 06:21 am By Robert Holman

  RURAL RETREAT, Va. (April 15) — Jonathan Davenport is inching closer to his first victory of the 2022 season. Davenport led Friday’s Schaeffer’s Spring Nationals feature at Wythe Raceway in Rural Retreat, Va., for 52 of the 53 laps Full Story

• Dispatches: Pursley's win snaps dry spell on Clash

  Posted: 04/16/2022, 04:30 pm

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model events nationwide from April 15-16, including Schaeffer’s Spring Nationals action at Wythe Raceway in Rural Retreat, Va., and Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway and the Spring 50 at Florence Speedway Full Story