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• Fast Talk: T-Mac's status and I-80's busy weekend

  Posted: 09/21/2020, 11:21 am

  With autumn upon us, our roundtable considers the busy I-80 Nationals weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and reviews the rest of the action in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): With Tim Full Story

• Spin halts Carpenter's shot at third Butterball

  Posted: 09/20/2020, 11:01 am By Alli Collis

  RICHMOND, Ky. (Sept. 19) — As the two-time and defending race winner, Tyler Carpenter of Parkersburg, W.Va., was among the favorites heading into the 33rd annual Paul “Butterball” Wooldridge Memorial weekend at Richmond Raceway. His Full Story

• Notes: Oregonian finds links with golf, racing

  Posted: 09/17/2020, 12:32 pm By Joshua Joiner

  It’s difficult to see the similarities between the loud, dust-filled atmosphere of a dirt track and the serenity of a golf course. But if you ask Preston Luckman, there are plenty of parallels between the two sports. For Luckman, the Full Story

• Notes: Babb christens big-track car at Fairbury

  Posted: 09/17/2020, 06:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (Sept. 15) — Finishing fifth after rising up to lead laps 30-35 of Tuesday night’s 50-lap DIRTcar-sanctioned One for the Road at Fairbury Speedway wasn’t especially pleasing to Shannon Babb. The rest of his evening, Full Story

• He's only human, but B-Shepp is back on track

  Posted: 09/16/2020, 01:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (Sept. 15) — Brandon Sheppard and the Rocket Chassis house car team have established such otherworldly standards, they’ve now reached the point where the slightest hiccup in their performance produces unreasonably loud Full Story

• Column: Doubt creeps in amid J.D.'s tough season

  Posted: 09/16/2020, 09:14 am

  Jonathan Davenport famously called his 2019 season — a campaign in which he won 17 times and captured the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship — the “best-worse year” he had ever experienced. His repeated failures in crown Full Story

• Top 25: Eldora weekend shakes up rankings

  Posted: 09/15/2020, 09:35 am By Joshua Joiner

  For the first time in four weeks, the top three drivers in the DirtonDirt.com power rankings remained steady, but there was plenty of movement elsewhere in the Top 25 poll presented by Bilstein Shocks following a busy crown jewel weekend Full Story

• 11th-hour Eldora invitee acquits himself well

  Posted: 09/14/2020, 02:52 pm By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — As late as Tuesday, Jerry Bowersock had no plans of attending Eldora Speedway’s Intercontinental Classic. After not receiving an initial invite and missing the cut in fan voting for the spectator-free World Full Story

• Fast Talk: Big E review of what might've been

  Posted: 09/14/2020, 11:11 am

  Our roundtable reviews the eventful Eldora’s Intercontinental Classic and Jonathan Davenport's $50,000 payday along with other happenings in our weekly feature presented by Castrol (edited for clarity and length): Do you have words of Full Story

• Engine woes cost Weiss shot at Intercontinental

  Posted: 09/14/2020, 07:53 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — Ricky Weiss didn’t lose Saturday’s Intercontinental Classic at Eldora Speedway on the final lap like the star-crossed Kyle Strickler. But in his mind, the DIRTcar-sanctioned invitational event’s $50,000 Full Story

• Notes: One bad corner ruins Fergy's weekend

  Posted: 09/13/2020, 06:32 pm By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — The first 30 laps of Saturday’s 67-lap Intercontinental Classic feature at Eldora Speedway went almost exactly as Chris Ferguson had planned. Starting from the pole of the 67-lap race, Ferguson, 30, of Mount Full Story

• Strickler comes to grips with stinging Eldora loss

  Posted: 09/13/2020, 05:40 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — Kyle Strickler needed a few minutes to gather himself. No driver, after all, should be expected to jump out of their car after losing a $50,000 race to a blown tire on the final lap and immediately face the Full Story

• McDowell awaits 'better days' as his streak ends

  Posted: 09/13/2020, 05:31 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 12) — With eight laps remaining in Saturday’s Intercontinental Classic feature at Eldora Speedway, Dale McDowell found himself in a familiar position as he raced among the top five in the $50,000-to-win World 100 Full Story

• Notes: Motivation drives Strickler in Eldora rally

  Posted: 09/12/2020, 07:04 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 11) — By the time Friday’s Intercontinental Classic preliminary feature rolled around at Eldora Speedway, Kyle Strickler had plenty of reasons to be frustrated. Strickler, the modified standout turned Late Model Full Story

• Boost for Babb includes validation for Bloomquist

  Posted: 09/12/2020, 06:55 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 11) — When Shannon Babb happily bounded into his chassis builder Scott Bloomquist’s trailer after postrace tech following his victory in Friday’s 30-lap Intercontinental Classic preliminary feature at Eldora Full Story

• Notes: On pole position, more heartbreak for Rice

  Posted: 09/11/2020, 01:02 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — After a season full of near-misses and heartbreaking defeats, Josh Rice thought his luck couldn’t get much worse. But during the first night of Eldora Speedway’s Intercontinental Classic on Thursday, it Full Story

• Fast track helps Richards to much-needed victory

  Posted: 09/11/2020, 08:22 am By Kevin Kovac

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — As Josh Richards walked with his father, Mark, from victory lane to the infield technical inspection area after winning Thursday’s 30-lap Intercontinental Classic preliminary feature at Eldora Speedway, he Full Story

• Hughes proves worthy of Intercontinental berth

  Posted: 09/11/2020, 03:02 am By Joshua Joiner

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — Spencer Hughes needed the help of his fans and supporters to earn an invitation to Eldora Speedway’s Intercontinental Classic through the fan vote. During Thursday’s first night of preliminary action for Full Story

• Notes: Chad Simpson glad to be back at Eldora

  Posted: 09/10/2020, 04:57 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) —  Chad Simpson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, is happy to return to Eldora Speedway for this weekend’s Intercontinental Classic —and not just because he’s excited to compete in a pair of $10,000-to-win preliminary Full Story

• Notes: Less pressure, more success for Morrow

  Posted: 09/10/2020, 03:35 am By Joshua Joiner

  At the end of the 2018 season, Todd Morrow was so frustrated with racing that he quit with no idea if he would ever return. With increasing costs making it harder and harder for a driver on a limited budget to be competitive, Morrow, a Full Story

• Column: Fleet Strickler burnishes full-fender rep

  Posted: 09/09/2020, 05:27 pm

  When Eldora Speedway was last open for action in June — well, the only time Tony Stewart’s half-mile oval in Rossburg, Ohio, has been open in this coronavirus-hampered season — Kyle Strickler made an impression that definitively established Full Story

• Tried, tested Ferguson primed for Big E success

  Posted: 09/09/2020, 07:29 am By Joshua Joiner

  Chris Ferguson has never been as confident heading into a major-event weekend at Eldora Speedway as he is going into the track’s Intercontinental Classic this weekend. And for good reason. Not only has the 30-year-old Mount Holly, N.C., Full Story

• Fast Facts: Eldora's Intercontinental Classic

  Posted: 09/07/2020, 05:47 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: Sept. 10-12 ($10,000-to-win features Thursday and Friday; heats, consolations and $50,000-to-win main event Saturday). | Complete Intercontinental coverage Track: Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio (high-banked half-mile clay oval). Purse: Full Story

• Top 25: Overton back at No. 1 with Dohm on rise

  Posted: 09/08/2020, 06:34 am By Joshua Joiner

  A busy Labor Day weekend produced another shakeup in the DirtonDirt.com power rankings presented by Bilstein Shocks with the top spot changing hands for the third straight week and a number of drivers making big moves among the top 25. Riding Full Story

• Eldora’s Intercontinental Classic coverage index

  Posted: 09/01/2020, 09:39 pm

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — DirtonDirt.com's previews and coverage of the Intercontinental Classic, a $50,000-to-win non-touring event sanctioned by DIRTcar Racing Sept. 10-12 at Eldora Speedway (claim your account and watch on FloRacing): Thursday, Full Story