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• Bailes aims to capitalize on Southern Nationals

  Posted: 07/12/2020, 07:14 am By Robert Holman

  RURAL RETREAT, Va. (June 11) — Ross Bailes has started on the front row of both Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series events this season. Now the Clover, S.C., driver wants to work on staying there. In the July 10 opener of the Ray Full Story

• Notes: Gundaker's bold move pays at Fairbury

  Posted: 07/12/2020, 06:42 am By Todd Turner

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 11) — Gordy Gundaker obviously made some impressive moves in rallying from his 15th starting spot for a $10,000 DIRTcar Summer Nationals victory at Fairbury Speedway. But none were more important than on lap 42 when Full Story

• Ill-fated restart decision at Fairbury pains Shirley

  Posted: 07/12/2020, 04:50 am By Todd Turner

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 11) — Brian Shirley isn’t sure he could’ve held off Gordy Gundaker’s impressive low-groove charge Saturday at Fairbury Speedway. But the Chatham, Ill., driver would certainly like to know what might’ve happened Full Story

• Notes: Overton salvages niggling tour opener

  Posted: 07/11/2020, 05:03 am By Robert Holman

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. — The 16th annual Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals Series got off to an inauspicious start for two-time and reigning series champion Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga. Overton turned the third quickest lap in Group A during Full Story

• After taking licking, Weisser's car keeps ticking

  Posted: 07/09/2020, 07:53 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — Allen Weisser wasn’t focused on clicking off a top-five finish Wednesday at Brownstown Speedway’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals opener. The 27-year-old Peoria, Ill., driver was more concerned whether his Chris Osborne-owned Full Story

• Notes: Steady setup puts Iowan in victory lane

  Posted: 07/09/2020, 04:13 am By Todd Turner

  Tinkering with shock changes and suspension setups provides virtually endless variables that can lead Dirt Late Model racers to get far away from a baseline. Plenty of racers have been there, IMCA racer Eric Pollard knows all too well. “We’ve Full Story

• Notes: Gilpin unable to match home track success

  Posted: 07/08/2020, 10:35 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (July 8) — Coming off a $5,500 Super Late Model victory at Brownstown Speedway five days earlier, Devin Gilpin of Columbus, Ind., was anxious to battle DIRTcar Summer Nationals competitors coming to town. Instead, Gilpin Full Story

• Column: Dad's critiques spur budding WoO rookie

  Posted: 07/08/2020, 05:57 pm

  Just how much Ashton Winger’s first-ever World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series victory meant to him was evident as soon as he climbed out of his car last Friday night at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. After tossing Full Story

• Top 25: WoO first-timer Winger joins rankings

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

  Cedar Lake Speedway's doubleheader weekend with $40,000 in winning purses rattled DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 with finale winner Brandon Sheppard peeling off a few first-place votes from Jimmy Owens and first-time World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping up Fourth of July weekend

  Posted: 07/06/2020, 12:09 pm

  After a busy weekend waving U.S. and checkered flags, our weekly roundtable considers all the national touring and other action around the country as the second half of the season beings (edited for clarity and length): Which driver impressed Full Story

• WRG ‘in great hands’ as Geisler takes next step

  Posted: 07/06/2020, 06:27 am By Kevin Kovac

  Even after the news of Ben Geisler’s departure from his longtime role as the chief marketing officer of the World of Outlaws and DIRTcar Racing was announced Friday, the 43-year-old who’s spent his entire life around racing — his Full Story

• Spectators recovering after scary Laurens accident

  Posted: 07/03/2020, 06:43 am By Robert Holman

  Two spectators were MedFlighted to Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital and two more transported to a local hospital after a Limited Late Model driven by Mike Kernells of Hodges, S.C., climbed the turn-four wall at Laurens Full Story

• ‘Heavy hearts’ at Wagner after star driver’s death

  Posted: 07/03/2020, 05:44 am By Todd Turner

  What was certain to be Wagner Speedway’s most celebrated weekend of the season with a Fourth of July doubleheader for touring Late Model racers has suddenly become what’s certainly the southeastern South Dakota track’s most mournful Full Story

• Column: Winning magic gone, Madden departs

  Posted: 07/02/2020, 10:40 am

  From the second half of the 2019 racing season through the first days of the current campaign, Chris Madden and Scott Bloomquist Racing were a sublime combination. The veteran driver from Gray Court, S.C., could seemingly do no wrong as Full Story

• Notes: Minnesota racer a winner over six decades

  Posted: 07/02/2020, 09:15 am By Todd Turner

  It was satisfying for Tom Corcoran to still be racing competitively in his 50th season last year. But the veteran East Grand Forks, Minn., racer had one more itch to scratch. The 65-year-old had victories in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, Full Story

• Quick Time: National tours before and after

  Posted: 07/01/2020, 04:01 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

• After rough start, Walker on winning track at Wheatland

  Posted: 07/01/2020, 12:47 pm By Lyndal Scranton

  Dustin Walker will be aiming for his third feature victory of the season during Lucas Oil Speedway's Thursday Night Thunder for the Wheatland, Mo., track's Warsaw Auto Marine & RV-sponsored Late Model division. | 2020 Lucas Oil Speedway Full Story

• Firecracker 100 windfall jolt for Blair’s finances

  Posted: 07/01/2020, 07:43 am By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 27) — The final financial figures of Max Blair’s Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway were a bit, uh, mind-boggling to the 30-year-old driver from Centerville, Pa. As Blair paused momentarily from Saturday's Full Story

• Top 25: Owens solid No. 1 as Dillard arrives

  Posted: 06/30/2020, 06:03 am By Todd Turner

  Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series points leader Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., became the first unanimous choice for the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com's Top 25 power rankings after a dominating two-victory weekend on the national tour. Owens, Full Story

• Notes: Bloomquist can’t complete solid weekend

  Posted: 06/29/2020, 02:52 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 27) — Scott Bloomquist’s late-June rebound came to a screeching, frustrating halt Saturday at Lernerville Speedway. Riding a wave of four straight top-five finishes in World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Full Story

• Fast Talk: Dillard, Owens … and fireworks debate

  Posted: 06/29/2020, 10:59 am

  After a busy weekend of national touring action with a Lucas Oil sweep for Jimmy Owens and Cade Dillard capturing Lernerville's Firecracker 100, our weekly roundtable recaps the action looking toward Independence Day action (edited for Full Story

• Firecracker winner reaps praises from WoO foes

  Posted: 06/28/2020, 06:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 26) — Cade Dillard had relatively modest expectations when he arrived at Lernerville Speedway for the 14th annual Firecracker 100 weekend. “Man, realistically, a top-10 (finish), maybe a top-five,” Dillard said Full Story

• A little this, a little that in spicy Firecracker heat

  Posted: 06/27/2020, 02:50 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 26) — A multicar wreck. A rolled car. A lengthy cleanup. An incensed driver. A stirring rally. Yes, the first heat race of Friday night’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series-sanctioned Firecracker Full Story

• Victory makes B-Shepp 'feel better about life'

  Posted: 06/27/2020, 03:56 am By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 26) — The smile on Brandon Sheppard’s face as he stood outside the Rocket Chassis house car team’s trailer and signed autographs for a line of patiently waiting fans after Friday’s 25-lap Firecracker 100 preliminary Full Story

• Weiss (barely) salvages plagued Firecracker trip

  Posted: 06/26/2020, 02:51 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SARVER, Pa. (June 25) — Every racer has a travel nightmare story — probably many stories — to tell. Ricky Weiss added another one to his personal list en route to the Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville Speedway. | RaceWire Weiss, Full Story