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• Lucrative Tazewell win cures ills for Virginian

  Posted: 07/26/2020, 10:56 pm By Robert Holman

  TAZEWELL, Tenn. (July 25) — If there’s a place for Dakotah Knuckles to get his race program back on track, Tazewell Speedway is certainly it. Since moving from the modified street class to Limited Late Models in 2015, Knuckles, of nearby Full Story

• Rocket's sterling win? Hitt would've loved it

  Posted: 07/26/2020, 02:03 pm By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 25) — Mark Richards had to be frank. As Saturday night’s 101-lap Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals wound down at I-80 Speedway, he felt some tinges of emotion run through his normally stoic body. “Yeah, Full Story

• Frame impresses in Summer Nationals debut

  Posted: 07/26/2020, 05:08 am By Todd Turner

  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A successful racer at his home track of Duck River Raceway Park in Wheel, Tenn., Jadon Frame of Decherd, Tenn., is getting the opportunity to branch out while racing as a teammate to car owner Joe Denby. And while Full Story

• Hedgecock returns to Southern Nat'ls podium

  Posted: 07/24/2020, 10:41 am By Robert Holman

  CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (July 23) — Cory Hedgecock picked up right where he left off: on the podium in Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series action. The 27-year-old Loudon, Tenn., native is the only driver who has managed to win a Southern Full Story

• Notes: Joyous I-80 win for brain tumor survivor

  Posted: 07/23/2020, 10:25 am By Joshua Joiner

  When Brandon Saltzman of Omaha, Neb., earned his first-ever feature victory in the July 17 weekly Limited Late Model feature at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., he celebrated a lot like any other first-time winner might celebrate a breakthrough Full Story

• Column: Family grounds Looney amid surreal win

  Posted: 07/23/2020, 07:37 am

  One comment Payton Looney made after his resounding victory in last Saturday night’s 28th Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., stood out from all others — and appropriately pointed Full Story

• Notes: More speed, but more bad luck for Bailes

  Posted: 07/22/2020, 08:38 am By Robert Holman

  BRASSTOWN, N.C. (July 21) — The quiet frustration on the face of Clover, S.C.’s Ross Bailes as he worked on his Big Frog Motorsports Rocket XR1 race car Tuesday night following the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals event at Tri-County Full Story

• Top 25: Overton rises as Looney joins poll

  Posted: 07/21/2020, 10:30 am By Todd Turner

  While top-ranked Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., kept winning, Schaeffer's Southern Nationals standout Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., chipped away at the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's power rankings presented by Bilstein Shocks. Sheppard, Full Story

• With victory, refocused Feger in a better place

  Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:31 am By Todd Turner

  HIGHLAND, Ill. — The Jason Feger of 2020 is fully aware he’s not the same Jason Feger of 15 years ago, an up-and-coming racer on the cusp of his first DIRTcar Summer Nationals victory. And that long road from a twentysomething, devil-may-care Full Story

• Young Georgian absorbs experience on busy tour

  Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:18 am By Joshua Joiner

  SYLVANIA, Ga. (July 18) — For veteran drivers like Brandon Overton and Chris Madden, it’s easy to see the attraction of running the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals despite the toll that the grueling summer series takes on a race team.  Certainly Full Story

• Notes: Top-five finishes give Buckingham boost

  Posted: 07/21/2020, 08:00 am By Kevin Kovac

  WHEATLAND, Mo. — Shanon Buckingham’s weekend at Lucas Oil Speedway didn’t just jump-start his floundering 2020 season. It might have also saved it. With just a single top-five finish to his name in 24 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story

• Fast Talk: Victory lane surprises and tour resets

  Posted: 07/20/2020, 12:29 pm

  Amid another busy weekend of national touring and regional touring events, our Castrol-sponsored weekly roundtable considers the winners, news and happenings around the sport (edited for clarity and length): Detail the exploits of a surprising Full Story

• Looney, home-staters relish Show-Me success

  Posted: 07/19/2020, 02:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (July 18) — Winning the Show-Me 100 means a bit more to Payton Looney than the average Dirt Late Model racer. For starters, the 26-year-old driver from Republic, Mo., has been attending the event that he captured on Saturday Full Story

• Hometowner on track with Needmore podium

  Posted: 07/18/2020, 12:55 pm By Joshua Joiner

  NORMAN PARK, Ga. (July 17) — No one was looking forward to Friday’s Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals race at Needmore Speedway more than John Baker. After a rough start to the 12-race Southern Nationals tour, the Super Late Model rookie Full Story

• DQ dampens Scheffler’s solid run at Farmer City

  Posted: 07/18/2020, 10:56 am By Kevin Kovac

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (July 17) — Taylor Scheffler should have been flashing a megawatt smile. He should have been standing happily in the pit area, savoring arguably the best run outside his home turf of his young Dirt Late Model career. Instead, Full Story

• Southern Nationals title chase narrows to 2 cars

  Posted: 07/17/2020, 12:34 pm By Joshua Joiner

  SENOIA, Ga. (July 16) — It appears the cream has risen to the top on the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals. With two wins apiece in the tour’s first five races, former series champions Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., and Brandon Overton Full Story

• Part-timer K-Rob spoons up satisfying series win

  Posted: 07/17/2020, 12:22 pm By Kevin Kovac

  BANNER, Ill. (July 16) — As Kent Robinson stood in Spoon River Speedway’s pit area rehashing his victory in Thursday’s 40-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals feature, his 2-year-old daughter, Lane, was a few feet away, hard at work with Full Story

• Schlenk taking Summer Nationals in moderation

  Posted: 07/16/2020, 01:09 pm By Kevin Kovac

  PLYMOUTH, Ind. (July 14) — Rusty Schlenk has been a DIRTcar Summer Nationals regular for the last two years, so where was he when the coronavirus-delayed series finally commenced on July 8 at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway? Working in his Full Story

• Notes: Special satisfaction for former crewman

  Posted: 07/16/2020, 04:16 am By Joshua Joiner

  On July 4, Mitch Caskey climbed from his Super Late Model and stood in victory lane at Midway Speedway in Crooksville, Ohio, after topping a 15-car field in the 3/8-mile oval’s weekly Super Late Model feature. Standing in victory lane Full Story

• Quick Time: Weighing 2020's midseason awards

  Posted: 07/15/2020, 03:49 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing, statistical analysis, historical bits and racing’s other quirks (along with the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Time, presented Full Story

• Column: Series not truly the Hell Tour until …

  Posted: 07/15/2020, 01:55 pm

  The timing of this year’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals might be different, but the basic tenets of the grueling circuit known as the Hell Tour haven’t changed a bit. When the same drivers — drivers so familiar with each other — compete Full Story

• Notes: Hedgecock keeps pace on Southern Nat'ls

  Posted: 07/14/2020, 10:41 am By Robert Holman

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. — Cory Hedgecock is one of three drivers to have two podium finishes through the first three Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series races this season, joining Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., and Brandon Overton of Full Story

• Top 25: B-Shepp back on top as Madden climbs

  Posted: 07/14/2020, 09:33 am By Joshua Joiner

  Brandon Sheppard’s hot streak on the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series has lifted the New Berlin, Ill., driver back to the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings presented by Bilstein Shocks. Riding the Full Story

• Fast Talk: Summer racing gets into full swing

  Posted: 07/13/2020, 10:48 am

  Our weekly roundtable presented by Castrol Oil reviews a busy weekend that featured events for both national tours and big races for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals and the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals (edited for clarity and length): Full Story

• Lucrative races thriving in East Tennessee co-op

  Posted: 07/13/2020, 07:52 am By Robert Holman

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. — There’s gold in them thar hills. When Mark Twain’s character Col. Mulberry Sellers muttered that phrase in the 1892 novel "The American Claimant," it was thought that Twain himself had originally heard a similar Full Story