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• Anvelink's Shawano run a setup for Cedar Lake

  Posted: 08/01/2019, 02:09 am By Kevin Kovac

  SHAWANO, Wis. (July 30) — The crowd around Nick Anvelink’s car in Shawano Speedway’s pit area following Tuesday’s 40-lap World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series-sanctioned Sundrop Shootout signaled that the driver from Full Story

• Notes: Georgia upstart piling up victories

  Posted: 08/01/2019, 01:30 am By Alli Collis

  In just his second full season racing Late Models, Dalton Polston of Lithia Springs, Ga., is still relatively new to the division. But his lack of experience hasn’t stopped the 19-year-old racer from piling up victories in Limited Late Full Story

• Column: Marlar's season becomes flurry of action

  Posted: 07/31/2019, 05:43 pm

  This was supposed to be a rather calm season of competition for Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn. He announced last fall — as he was winning the 2018 World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series championship — that his car owner, Full Story

• Quick Time: August success over 10 seasons

  Posted: 07/31/2019, 01:48 pm

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

• Fast Facts: Cedar Lake's 32nd USA Nationals

  Posted: 07/30/2019, 08:38 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: Aug. 1-3 (one $6,000-to-win program on Thursday followed by Saturday’s $50,000-to-win finale) Track: Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis. (3/8-mile high-banked clay oval). Sanction: World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Full Story

• Unsolved power steering issue dooming for Pierce

  Posted: 07/29/2019, 03:59 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 27) — There were certainly some observers — perhaps, actually, many — who thought Bobby Pierce and his team might react angrily to the Oakwood, Ill., driver losing Saturday night’s $30,000 Prairie Dirt Classic Full Story

• Fast Talk: Evaluating Pierce's PDC reaction

  Posted: 07/29/2019, 11:12 am

  Our weekly roundtable considers a busy weekend highlighted by the 30th annual Prairie Dirt Classic while looking ahead to a big weekend at Cedar Lake (edited for clarity and length): Are we surprised by Bobby Pierce’s calm reaction to Full Story

• Title-chasing Overton's instincts put to the test

  Posted: 07/29/2019, 10:17 am By Alli Collis

  TAZEWELL, Tenn. (July 27) — Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., isn’t the type of driver to hang back in a race and hope for a good finish. The Rum Runner Racing pilot is more likely to be seen charging to the front, putting it all on the Full Story

• Request for excitement? B-Shepp comes through

  Posted: 07/28/2019, 08:30 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 27) — Brandon Sheppard has always received tough-love critiques of his driving from his father, Steve Sheppard Jr. It’s become an ingrained part of the game for the 26-year-old superstar from New Berlin, Ill. | Full Story

• Notes: Top WISSOTA rookie off to hot start

  Posted: 07/25/2019, 12:06 am By Alli Collis

  Clicking off five victories at three racetracks, Deven VanHouse of Silver Bay, Minn., has already exceeded his expectations for his rookie Late Model season. So much so that the 33-year-old Minnesotan currently finds himself atop the WISSOTA Full Story

• Notes: Moonlighting Chilton jumps in Cook's car

  Posted: 07/24/2019, 07:02 pm By Robert Holman

  BRASSTOWN, N.C. — Michael Chilton of Salvisa, Ky., wanted to enter the final four races of the Schaeffer’s Southern Nationals. But when it became apparent he wouldn’t have his own Rocket XR1 ready for Tuesday’s series race at Tri-County Full Story

• Column: Pierce wields not-so-secret weapon

  Posted: 07/24/2019, 03:47 pm

  Like everyone else at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., last Saturday night, Bob Pierce watched his son, Bobby, sail around the 4/10-mile track’s ample cushion, lap after hard-driving lap, en route to a memorable $53,000 victory in the Full Story

• Quick Time: Previewing the Prairie Dirt Classic

  Posted: 07/24/2019, 03:02 pm

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

• Top 25: Madden rejoins rankings at No. 21

  Posted: 07/23/2019, 11:40 am By Alli Collis

  After a runner-up finish in Saturday’s Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., returns to DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings while Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., maintains Full Story

• Notes: J.D's wall scrape ends hopes of I-80 glory

  Posted: 07/22/2019, 10:27 am By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 20) — The feeling of defeat and frustration that Jonathan Davenport experienced after Saturday night’s ninth annual Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway was all too familiar to him. | RaceWire “It’s Full Story

• Fast Talk: I-80 wrapup (and a few dustups)

  Posted: 07/22/2019, 09:56 am

  Our weekly roundtable wraps up I-80 Speedway’s Silver Dollar Nationals while considering other pressing issues in the Dirt Late Model world (edited for clarity and length): Is there any better devil-may-care, cushion-riding driver than Full Story

• Pierce-McCreadie rift bubbles at Silver Dollar

  Posted: 07/22/2019, 07:29 am By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 20) — Bobby Pierce pounded on the roof of his car. Then he held his arms above his head, looked in the direction of the fans in the grandstand and clapped his hands. | RaceWire The 22-year-old star’s victory lane Full Story

• Notes: Leighton chases Silver Dollar breakout

  Posted: 07/20/2019, 01:19 pm By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 19) — Bill Leighton Jr. of La Vista, Neb., turned back multiple aggressive bids from two of Dirt Late Model racing’s brightest young national stars to win a heat race in the first round of Friday night’s ninth Full Story

• Notes: SECA contender gets boost from day job

  Posted: 07/18/2019, 08:47 am By Alli Collis

  Picking up steam toward the end of the 2018 season, Crate racer Bryan Mullis of Rock Hill, S.C., has carried that success into the first half of his 2019 campaign. Already bagging six victories this season, the 27-year-old Mullis currently Full Story

• Column: Local team savors Oakshade biggie

  Posted: 07/17/2019, 05:29 pm

  Chris Keller was the man of the hour, the local boy made good by pulling off a monumental upset victory worth $10,000 in last Saturday night’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals-sanctioned Birthday Race at Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio. Never Full Story

• Quick Time: Tallying the Silver Dollar distribution

  Posted: 07/17/2019, 01:52 pm

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

• Knowles steps back up to Supers for busy stretch

  Posted: 07/17/2019, 01:29 am By Alli Collis

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (July 16) — Jake Knowles of Rome, Ga., has spent the last couple of seasons focusing on Crate Late Models, clinching the Durrence Layne Chevrolet Series title in 2018. But for the month of July, the 33-year-old Knowles Full Story

• Fast Facts: Ninth annual Silver Dollar Nationals

  Posted: 07/16/2019, 07:10 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: July 18-20 (one $10,000-to-win program on Thursday followed by Saturday’s $53,000-to-win finale) Track: I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb. (3/8-mile high-banked clay oval). Sanction: Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series Purse: $53,000-to-win, Full Story

• Top 25: B-Shepp rules as Tennesseans climb

  Posted: 07/16/2019, 07:11 am By Todd Turner

  While Brandon Sheppard’s five-race winning streak came to an end, the New Berlin, Ill., driver’s unanimous hold on the top spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings continues, while Tennessee racing buddies Mike Marlar and Jimmy Owens Full Story

• He wasn't looking for it, but Shirley found crown

  Posted: 07/15/2019, 04:13 pm By Kevin Kovac

  WAUSEON, Ohio (July 13) — There was something decidedly different about Brian Shirley’s second straight and third career DIRTcar Summer Nationals championship. After Shirley, 38, of Chatham, Ill., and his car owner Bob Cullen made Full Story