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• Quick Time: Invitationals provide new possibilities

  Posted: 04/29/2020, 03:11 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

• Cook taps creativity for unique racing program

  Posted: 04/28/2020, 07:32 am By Kevin Kovac

  Ray Cook craves racing just like everyone else in a Dirt Late Model world that has been silenced for the past month-and-a-half by the coronavirus pandemic. As a racetrack promoter, though, he’s in a position to make it happen. It’s Full Story

• Tri-County invitees eager for return to dirt racing

  Posted: 04/27/2020, 01:57 pm By Robert Holman

  Finally, some welcome news for Dirt Late Model racers anxious for some competition. The weekend announcement that promoter Ray Cook plans to host an invitation-only Super Late Model event Thursday at his Brasstown, N.C., track — a race Full Story

• Fast Talk: Drafting key roles in dirt track racing

  Posted: 04/27/2020, 08:23 am

  In the wake of the NFL draft (done remotely, like most everything these days), our roundtable looks at "drafting" members of the Dirt Late Model world to fill various roles (edited for clarity and length): If you were starting a Late Model Full Story

• Column: A tricky path to the return of dirt racing

  Posted: 04/23/2020, 05:01 pm

  Get ready. Get set. And go? After more than a month of shuttered racetracks and silenced competition in the Dirt Late Model world because of the coronavirus pandemic, there are increasing indications that racing will begin to resume in Full Story

• Stay Home: Brian Birkhofer’s best quotes

  Posted: 04/20/2020, 04:57 pm

  Brian Birkhofer is one of Dirt Late Model racing’s biggest personalities, a guy who can rip off humorous quips and insightful quotes in rapid-fire fashion. Not surprisingly, the 48-year-old driver from Muscatine, Iowa, displayed his quick Full Story

• NASCAR safety trickles down (seat belts next)

  Posted: 04/21/2020, 10:13 am By Robert Holman

  The relationship between NASCAR and grassroots racing in America, including Dirt Late Model racing, is undeniable. Technology trickles down from engine builders, shock tuners and chassis specialists, eventually making its way to the short Full Story

• Cockpit safety requires room for improvement

  Posted: 04/21/2020, 10:14 am By Robert Holman

  There’s always room for improvement, and when in comes to making Dirt Late Model drivers safer, more room is the key. That's the belief of Randy LaJoie, the former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion-turned racing seat builder who is among Full Story

• Fast Talk: Our favorite graphics and race cars

  Posted: 04/20/2020, 07:21 am

  Our weekly roundtable considers what everyone notices when a driver pulls on the track — how the car looks. Let’s check on their do’s and don’t’s when it comes to their taste in graphics (edited for clarity and length; slideshow Full Story

• Column: New Clash chief focusing on big picture

  Posted: 04/16/2020, 03:07 pm

  Marion Limbaugh didn’t assume ownership of the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series in December harboring any grandiose dreams of widespread expansion for the two-decade-old tour. His lifelong love of racing and nostalgia for the Clash Full Story

• Quick Time: Richest payday (but no trophy)

  Posted: 04/15/2020, 03:04 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

• Diversified Shirley’s work goes beyond competition

  Posted: 04/14/2020, 05:34 am By Kevin Kovac

  Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., certainly didn’t envision himself ever being sidelined from driving a Dirt Late Model by a pandemic, but he absolutely has considered various scenarios in which the pursuit that has long provided his primary Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wish list for Late Model aficionados

  Posted: 04/13/2020, 08:46 am

  In a wish list edition of Fast Talk, our weekly roundtable considers what might have been — or what could be — if our every Dirt Late Model wish was granted (edited for clarity and length): If you could enjoy an evening in the grandstands Full Story

• Column: Racers rev up parental skills amid crisis

  Posted: 04/10/2020, 08:01 am

  Shane Clanton knows how physically draining preparing and racing a Dirt Late Model at a high level can be. Now, though, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that has the sport shut down indefinitely and everyone effectively stuck at Full Story

• Notes: Show-Me hoping for reprieve after 2019

  Posted: 04/08/2020, 06:47 pm

  Lucas Oil Speedway already knows what it's like to lose its signature event. The Wheatland, Mo., oval would dearly like to avoid it happening for the second season in a row. With governmental restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic Full Story

• Fast Talk: Seeking race amusements amid crisis

  Posted: 04/06/2020, 08:42 am

  With dirt racing still on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, our weekly roundtable twiddles its thumbs while missing the racetrack and considers a few random racing questions (edited for clarity and length): What’s your reaction Full Story

• Column: Doctor's sober view of racing amid crisis

  Posted: 04/02/2020, 02:01 pm

  Chip Stone hasn’t been a visible owner of a Dirt Late Model team since his run of seven-plus years fielding a successful, high-profile operation with veteran racer Randy Weaver — an effort that boasted Weaver, Jonathan Davenport, Brandon Full Story

• Quick Time: Another round of guess the driver

  Posted: 04/01/2020, 02:43 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

• Dirt racing connections on pandemic's front line

  Posted: 04/01/2020, 08:00 am By Kevin Kovac

  Most in the Dirt Late Model world haven’t experienced the coronavirus pandemic beyond stay-at-home orders, social-distancing guidelines, media reports and, of course, the shutdown of racetracks as part of the widespread ban on mass gatherings. For Full Story

• Sponsors sympathetic to plight of idle dirt racers

  Posted: 03/31/2020, 08:53 am By Robert Holman

  Billy Moyer Jr. considers himself pretty lucky. The Batesville, Ark., driver has already competed in 13 events this season, including eight races during Georgia-Florida Speedweeks in February. That short burst to start the season gave Moyer Full Story

• Trivia Time: Answers to Dirt Late Model quiz

  Posted: 03/15/2020, 07:21 am By Bob Markos

  (Find questions here) 1. All three were winners on a dirt-covered Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway 2. UDTRA; Rick Eckert 3. All are recipients of the Bluegrass State's Kentucky Colonel honors 4. (d) Kyle Larson 5. (f) Bob Pierce 6. Full Story

• Trivia Time: Test your Dirt Late Model knowledge

  Posted: 03/31/2020, 07:18 am By Bob Markos

  Part of a continuing feature at DirtonDirt.com, test your Dirt Late Model knowledge with a 20-question quiz from longtime racing historian Bob Markos. How many can you answer correctly? (click here for answers): 1. What have Dale McDowell, Full Story

• Fast Talk: What will we learn from shutdown?

  Posted: 03/30/2020, 08:41 am

  As dirt racing's virtual shutdown for the coronavirus pandemic continues, our weekly roundtable considers life without racing while we all hope things return to normal soon (edited for clarity and length): Where's your anxiousness to return Full Story

• Making most of racing's hiatus with track projects

  Posted: 03/28/2020, 09:45 am By Todd Turner

  Peoria (Ill.) Speedway volunteers and track workers have been toiling recently to spruce up the racetrack and improve the facility, expanding the pit area and shifting the flagstand to the outside of the track. Longtime race director Full Story

• Column: For full-timers, when’s next paycheck?

  Posted: 03/26/2020, 07:31 am

  It’s at times like these when driving a Dirt Late Model for a living looks like an especially risky career choice. With the coronavirus pandemic shuttering racetracks across the country and prompting the postponement or cancellation Full Story