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• Top 25: Owens jumps to eighth spot in rankings

  Posted: 03/26/2019, 07:01 am By Alli Collis

  After scoring his first 2019 victory at Saturday’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series stop at Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn., Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., made the biggest jump in DirtonDirt.com’s Top Full Story

• Fast Talk: Can B-Shepp duplicate victory streak?

  Posted: 03/25/2019, 10:24 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products considers the weekend’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series action and looks ahead to March’s final weekend (edited for clarity and length): What’s the likelihood Full Story

• Streak ends, but quest continues for Sheppard

  Posted: 03/24/2019, 04:57 pm By Robert Holman

  MARYVILLE, Tenn. (March 23) — It was fun while it lasted, but now Brandon Sheppard is ready to put the streak behind him and move on. Sheppard, of New Berlin, Ill., who entered Saturday’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Full Story

• Notes: Solid Duck River outing steadies English

  Posted: 03/23/2019, 06:21 am By Robert Holman

  WHEEL, Tenn. (March 22) — Considering the emotional roller coaster that was the beginning of Tanner English’s season, the Benton, Ky., driver was more than eager to get back to a happy place. | RaceWire For English, Duck River Raceway Full Story

• Streaking Sheppard leads WoO to Tennessee

  Posted: 03/21/2019, 06:54 pm By Jordan DeLucia

  Brandon Sheppard is heading for historic territory with this weekend’s World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series events in Tennessee. Only six WoO drivers in series history have managed to put together a consecutive win streak Full Story

• Notes: Texan recovers car, wins opener

  Posted: 03/21/2019, 10:12 am

  Tommy Grimes found his car sitting in a cow pasture on Friday. By Saturday, it was sitting in victory lane. The San Antonio, Texas, driver had an eventful season-opening weekend at I-37 Speedway en route to capturing Saturday's Limited Full Story

• Young Landrum chases dad's feats at Florence

  Posted: 03/21/2019, 05:18 am By Alli Collis

  Growing up, Trevor Landrum watched his father Steve win countless races at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky. Eventually climbing behind the wheel himself, the 20-year-old Florence native made several of his own trips to the northern Kentucky Full Story

• Column: New perspective for Brothers Sullivan

  Posted: 03/20/2019, 03:16 pm

  As this weekend’s season-opening Comp Cams Super Dirt Series presented by Lucas Oil doubleheader at Texarkana (Ark.) 67 Speedway and Boothill Speedway in Greenwood, La., looms, brothers Chris and Jack Sullivan find themselves in entirely Full Story

• Quick Time: Dirt track racing bracketology

  Posted: 03/20/2019, 12:19 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

• Duck River standout steels for WoO invasion

  Posted: 03/19/2019, 02:33 pm By Alli Collis

  David Seibers of Chapel Hill, Tenn., knew it would be hard to top his 2018 victory in Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway’s Tuckassee Toilet Bowl opener. But the 41-year-old driver did exactly that a couple of weeks ago, earning a career-richest Full Story

• Top 25: Moran rises to 10th in power rankings

  Posted: 03/19/2019, 06:57 am By Alli Collis

  Fresh off a runner-up finish in Saturday’s Indiana Icebreaker at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway, Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio, joins the top 10 in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race winner Full Story

• Fast Talk: Running the numbers on WoO series

  Posted: 03/18/2019, 10:48 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products takes a look at some over-under options for the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series (edited for clarity and length): Over or under 0.5: Drivers who finish within Full Story

• Notes: Hurt Bloomquist's absence noticed in pits

  Posted: 03/17/2019, 11:46 am By Alli Collis

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 16) — Notably absent from the Brownstown Speedway pit area during Saturday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Indiana Icebreaker was Hall of Famer Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., whose Full Story

• Young West Virginian raises profile, confidence

  Posted: 03/14/2019, 06:06 am By Alli Collis

  Racing locally for most of his career, Colten Burdette has considered himself a weekend warrior. But last season, the 25-year-old Parkersburg, W.Va., driver burst onto the regional scene, scoring a pair of $5,000 victories at home-state Full Story

• Column: Ethanol Tour enjoys explosive growth

  Posted: 03/13/2019, 04:58 pm

  La Salle (Ill.) Speedway promoter Tony Izzo Jr. liked the pitch he heard from the American Ethanol Late Model Tour when he investigated hosting a race for the fledgling Michigan-based Super Late Model series in 2018. “They kind of blew Full Story

• Quick Time: Winning races with big car counts

  Posted: 03/13/2019, 01:19 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

• New Mexico welcomes enchanting new dirt oval

  Posted: 03/12/2019, 08:12 am By Kevin Kovac

  Several years ago, as Rue Stone and his boss, prominent New Mexico businessman and veteran racer Royal Jones, regularly covered the 45-mile distance from Las Cruces, N.M., to Jones’s El Paso (Texas) Speedway Park, they often contemplated Full Story

• Improvements streamline work for racing crews

  Posted: 03/11/2019, 09:52 am By Todd Turner

  For many crew members at the dirt track, gone are the days of manually jacking up a Late Model and ducking underneath to precisely place jackstands, delicately fashioning custom-made roofs or hoodscoops, crawling around the shop floor to Full Story

• Fast Talk: Running the numbers for Lucas tour

  Posted: 03/11/2019, 08:46 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products takes a look at some over-under options heading for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in 2019 (edited for clarity and length): Over or under 3.5: First-time series winners? Andy Full Story

• Column: Versatile Elliott secure in calling it quits

  Posted: 03/06/2019, 04:04 pm

  Ricky Elliott had a very specific reason for spectating at last month’s DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. It was a purely personal visit for the 53-year-old driver from Seaford, Del., a “test,” he said, Full Story

• Quick Time: Success across the sanctions

  Posted: 03/06/2019, 12:30 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 Talk: Winter racing, WoO Tennessee preview

  Posted: 03/04/2019, 10:10 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products considers late-winter results while looking ahead to the resumption of national touring action and weekly racing (edited for clarity and length): Which weekend winner impressed Full Story

• Young Ivey prepares for Super debut at Cherokee

  Posted: 02/28/2019, 05:16 pm By Alli Collis

  The jump to the Super Late Model division has been a long time coming for reigning Southeastern Crate Association weekly champion Trent Ivey of Union, S.C. After a few standout seasons behind the wheel of a Crate Late Model, the 23-year-old Full Story

• After so-so Speedweeks, seeking Clarksville oasis

  Posted: 02/28/2019, 07:59 am By Robert Holman

  Dennis Erb Jr. left Georgia-Florida Speedweeks on a positive note. While the Carpentersville, Ill., driver only registered a pair of top-five finishes while competing in 12 events at four tracks, he closed out his two-week stint with a Full Story

• Column: Rumley excited for R&D tour with Marlar

  Posted: 02/27/2019, 04:37 pm

  As Kevin Rumley stood alongside his family’s K&L Rumley Enterprises Dirt Late Model in the pit area of Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., after watching Mike Marlar steer it to a $7,000 DIRTcar-sanctioned feature win on Feb. Full Story