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• Top 25: Hell Tour winners shake up poll

  Posted: 06/22/2021, 09:36 am By Joshua Joiner

  The start of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals led to shake ups in the DirtonDirt.com Top 25 power rankings with three drivers making significant moves after strong performances during the first week of the 36-race summer tour. However, things Full Story

• Notes: Unlikely run at Bloomsburg for Rine

  Posted: 06/21/2021, 05:45 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (June 20) — Jeff Rine got a warm, fuzzy feeling before the Sunday's Zimmer’s United Late Model Series event at the newly-constructed Bloomsburg Fair Speedway. | RaceWire “When we unloaded and got the car out, I said Full Story

• Fast Talk: Racing review as summer dawns

  Posted: 06/21/2021, 10:52 am

  As the calendar officially flips over to summer, our roundtable considers all the latest action and news in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): What do we like about the DIRTcar Full Story

• Formidable English gets solid start on Hell Tour

  Posted: 06/20/2021, 06:47 am By Robert Holman

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (June 19) — Tanner English's first full-time attempt at the DIRTcar Summer Nationals appears to be a worthy one. There’s still a long way to go on the grueling Midwestern tour that runs from June 15 through Aug. 21 this Full Story

• Feger makes progress in Summer Nationals 'war'

  Posted: 06/19/2021, 11:50 am By Robert Holman

  GRANITE CITY, Ill. (June 18) — Jason Feger finally had something to smile about. After a lackluster start to the 2021 DIRTcar Summer Nationals that included finishes of 15th, sixth and 10th, the 2010 series champion recorded his first Full Story

• Free-flowing schedule paying off for Moran

  Posted: 06/18/2021, 10:10 am By Robert Holman

  KANKAKEE, Ill. (June 17) — Devin Moran’s decision to skip a national tour schedule for 2021 in favor of picking and choosing events for his Tye Twarog-backed race team has never seemed smarter. Moran, of Dresden, Ohio, led all 40 laps Full Story

• Notes: Cold call leads to hot opportunity

  Posted: 06/17/2021, 08:05 am By Todd Turner

  In an era where cell phone users skeptically view the dreaded "unknown caller," Jordan Bauer is certainly glad he picked up when Brian Thompson dialed. Getting a ring from Thompson, who Bauer had met when he wrapped the graphics on a Thompson-owned Full Story

• No yellows. No dropouts. No problem at Peoria

  Posted: 06/17/2021, 08:11 am By Robert Holman

  PEORIA, Ill. (June 16) — Forty laps on a fender-rubbing bullring. With no cautions? No drivers retiring? No problem. That's what Peoria Speedway provided Wednesday in the second round of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals. Bobby Pierce’s Full Story

• Column: Overton's hard knocks lead to success

  Posted: 06/16/2021, 05:06 pm

  Brandon Overton didn’t end up on top of the Dirt Late Model world without taking his share of hard knocks. The 30-year-old star from Evans, Ga., experienced plenty of trials and tribulations on his way to a historic $273,000 sweep of Full Story

• DIRTcar Summer Nationals coverage index

  Posted: 07/31/2021, 07:52 am

  DirtonDirt.com’s coverage of the 36 scheduled races of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals from June 15-Aug. 21; also visit the schedule page and series history section: Sunday, Aug. 22 • Story: Convention wisdom backfires at Merritt Saturday, Full Story

• Notes: Lance finds lead but can’t outrun Pierce

  Posted: 06/16/2021, 07:40 am By Robert Holman

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (June 15) — When unheralded Tim Lance of Brimfield, Ill., zipped into the lead around race-long pacesetter Bobby Pierce if Oakwood, Ill., midway through Tuesday’s Hoosier Dirt Classic, the 40-lap, $5,000-to-win opener Full Story

• Top 25: Overton back on top after Eldora sweep

  Posted: 06/15/2021, 09:44 am By Joshua Joiner

  Propelled by his astonishing sweep of Eldora Speedway’s double Dirt Late Model Dreams, Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., regained the No. 1 spot in this week’s DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings presented by Keyser Manufacturing ending Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping our heads around Dreams

  Posted: 06/14/2021, 11:48 am

  While Brandon Overton wakes up this morning, pinching himself that he wasn't dreaming about his $273,000 weekend at Eldora, our roundtable seeks perspective in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story

• By-the-numbers review of Overton's Big E sweep

  Posted: 06/14/2021, 06:54 am By Andy Savary

  A by-the-numbers review of Brandon Overton’s four-day sweep of Dream action June 9-12 at Eldora Speedway, in Rossburg, Ohio (complete Dream coverage): 0: Irregularities uncovered in postrace impound for technical inspection. 0: Invert Full Story

• Notes: Fergy still in mix for Eldora breakthrough

  Posted: 06/14/2021, 06:49 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — Chris Ferguson keeps inching closer. Eventually, the driver from Mount Holly, N.C., feels like he’s going to have a breakthrough at Eldora Speedway. Ferguson finished third in Saturday’s Dream XXVI, his best career Full Story

• Cleared after inspection, Overton gets high praise

  Posted: 06/13/2021, 12:43 pm By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 12) — Eldora Speedway’s pit area exploded into a cauldron of accusation and innuendo as soon as Brandon Overton swept the first half of the double Dreams week on Wednesday and Thursday. It didn’t let up when the Full Story

• After runner-up, Madden still chasing Eldora glory

  Posted: 06/13/2021, 11:16 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 12) — With his successful early trips to Eldora Speedway in the mid-2000s, a young Chris Madden earned a reputation as a likely contender any time he ventured north to Ohio for one of the historic half-mile track’s Full Story

• Eldora’s tech wrinkle: Podium cars impounded

  Posted: 06/12/2021, 07:35 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) — The results of Saturday night’s Dirt Late Model Dream XXVI at Eldora Speedway will take a bit longer than usual to be finalized. During the drivers’ meeting before Friday evening’s preliminary program, Full Story

• Can anyone outrun Overton Eldora finale?

  Posted: 06/12/2021, 07:32 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 11) — After hearing that Brandon Overton had spun a zero on Eldora Speedway’s casino-style inversion wheel at the conclusion of Friday’s Dream XXVI preliminary night program, Jonathan Davenport summed up Overton’s Full Story

• Masterful run at Eldora lifts Overton to pinnacle

  Posted: 06/11/2021, 06:16 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — Brandon Overton walked into Eldora Speedway’s infield media center, sat down on a chair in front of a logo-filled backdrop and smiled at his surroundings like a wide-eyed little kid. “It’s fancy in here,” Full Story

• Dream disappointment for Bailes at scales

  Posted: 06/11/2021, 06:02 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) — After his car weighted in 8 pounds light following his third-place finish in Thursday’s first Dirt Late Model Dream consolation race at Eldora Speedway, Ross Bailes couldn’t decide if he was more disappointed Full Story

• Notes: Bronson’s yo-yo Dream runs ends in third

  Posted: 06/11/2021, 05:55 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — Kyle Bronson's run during Thursday's Dream XXVII at Eldora Speedway was one of extremes. At times the Brandon, Fla., driver had the fastest car on the track and appeared to be destined to go to the front. At other times Full Story

• Eldora's prelim winners continue data collection

  Posted: 06/10/2021, 08:39 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — Jonathan Davenport and Brandon Overton just wanted to use Wednesday’s Dream XXVII preliminary program at Eldora Speedway as a tuneup for Thursday’s 100-lap, $127,000-to-win finale. Winning the 25-lap features Full Story

• Notes: Nebraska rookie succeeds on a budget

  Posted: 06/10/2021, 08:18 am By Todd Turner

  There are plenty of Dirt Late Model racers who jump into the division wallet first. Top-dollar equipment. The best of everything. Open checkbook. Maxed credit card. Kyle Prauner is not that guy. When the 34-year-old Norfolk, Neb., racer Full Story

• Bitten by Big E concrete, Scott aiming to rebound

  Posted: 06/10/2021, 02:26 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 9) — With his many big race wins and championships as a team owner and car builder, Kevin Rumley has earned a reputation for knowing just about everything there is to know about the workings of Dirt Late Model race Full Story