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• Shaw's retirement sends GRT to 'Plan B'

  Posted: 12/01/2017, 01:26 pm By Robert Holman

  A year removed from selling his own racing equipment with the intent of stepping away, Jeremy Shaw of Millport, Ala., has made the decision to retire from driving. A winner of five track championships and close to 100 features during a Full Story

• Best of 2017: Top five lists from busy season

  Posted: 12/01/2017, 06:32 am By Robert Holman

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2017 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2017 Full Story

• Pierce charts new course with Dunn-Benson move

  Posted: 11/30/2017, 11:49 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce, the sublime Dirt Late Model driver from Oakwood, Ill., will admit that he was surprised by the person who contacted him by phone in early November. “‘Kemp Lamm, Dunn-Benson Motorsports. How’s it going?’” Pierce Full Story

• Column: Turkey 100 win special for hometowner

  Posted: 11/29/2017, 07:01 am

  As the owner and promoter of Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway, Paul Purvis isn’t supposed to play favorites. But when he appeared on his track’s homestretch Saturday night and handed an oversized $20,000 winner’s check to Chesley Dixon after Full Story

• Breakouts, newcomers and comebacks for 2017

  Posted: 11/29/2017, 06:20 am By Robert Holman

  As part of its ongoing Best of 2017 coverage, DirtonDirt.com hands out awards to worthy Dirt Late Model drivers. We rank the top breakout drivers, top newcomers and most improved drivers and comeback drivers for the past season. This season’s Full Story

• Sheppard tops 2017's Driver of the Year chase

  Posted: 11/28/2017, 06:21 am By Alli Collis

  With the 2017 racing season in the books, DirtonDirt.com takes a closer look at top five national drivers as well as regional and weekly Dirt Late Model competition. Check our video coverage for DirtonDirt.com’s Top Five Drivers overall, Full Story

• Column: Team change bittersweet for Roberts

  Posted: 11/22/2017, 10:48 am

  Losing in the final laps of Sunday’s Blue-Gray 100 at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C., was hard enough for Casey Roberts. Losing under the unique circumstances the race presented to him made it even more difficult to accept. With Full Story

• Michigan's Spangler eyes elusive Ethanol Tour title

  Posted: 11/21/2017, 06:50 am By Alli Collis

  Eric Spangler would love to capture the American Ethanol Late Model Tour title. While the Lake City, Mich., driver came up shy in 2017, he’s not hanging his head in defeat after a sterling 21-victory season. The 48-year-old standout is Full Story

• Fast Talk: Analyzing the stellar career of Francis

  Posted: 11/20/2017, 11:59 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products discusses Steve Francis’s retirement, a busy stretch of Silly Season news and some end-of-season racing in the Southeast (edited for clarity and length): In the wake of Steve Full Story

• Notes: Florence standout ends career with a bang

  Posted: 11/20/2017, 07:35 am

  Steve Landrum of Erlanger, Ky., couldn’t have scripted his racing career coming to an end in a more fitting way. After deciding that the Oct. 7 weekly event at Florence Speedway in Union Ky., would be his final race, the 54-year-old Kentucky Full Story

• Retiring 'Colonel' can't envision a better career

  Posted: 11/18/2017, 12:01 am By Kevin Kovac

  Two months ago, in a pre-race interview over the public address system with DirtonDirt.com’s Ben Shelton during the Sept. 14 Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s General Store preliminary program at Knoxville Full Story

• Column: Arkansas team lands its wish-list driver

  Posted: 11/15/2017, 08:31 am

  Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that Lance Landers hired Jonathan Davenport to drive for him in 2018. Landers and his team sponsor and close friend, Steve Martin of Crop Production Services, have had their eyes on the Dirt Late Model Full Story

• Top 25: McDowell rises two spots in rankings

  Posted: 11/14/2017, 01:20 pm By Alli Collis

  After capturing his second career National 100 victory on Sunday at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., rose in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings, while Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., Full Story

• Notes: Plenty of options for EAMS racers

  Posted: 11/14/2017, 09:43 am By Robert Holman

  PHENIX CITY, Ala. (Nov. 12) — With four divisions of Late Model-style cars competing at East Alabama Motor Speedway on National 100 weekend, the four-day extravaganza offers Late Model drivers plenty of options. And there’s usually Full Story

• McDowell ends struggles climbing in new race car

  Posted: 11/14/2017, 09:19 am By Robert Holman

  PHENIX CITY, Ala. (Nov. 12) — Dale McDowell knew he had a good car when he headed to East Alabama Motor Speedway’s 43rd annual National 100. The Chickamauga, Ga., driver had already flashed plenty of speed with his new Sweet-Bloomquist Full Story

• Fast Talk: Quick wrapup of long National 100

  Posted: 11/13/2017, 12:35 pm

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products considers East Alabama’s annual special event while considering a few other items as we head toward the off-season (edited for clarity and length): It was a rough National 100 Full Story

• Column: B-Shepp quickly reaches goal to be best

  Posted: 11/08/2017, 03:43 pm

  What was likely the most pivotal moment of Brandon Sheppard’s resounding march to his first-ever World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series title came just two races into the national tour’s 2017 schedule — and, notably, after an Full Story

• FAQ: PPV information for Gateway Dirt Nationals

  Posted: 11/30/2017, 04:03 pm

  Frequently asked questions about DirtonDirt.com's pay-per-view productions of the Gateway Dirt Nationals weekend from The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Mo., scheduled for Dec. 14-16 (complete Gateway Dirt Nationals coverage): Full Story

• Top 25: Erb rejoins rankings at No. 17

  Posted: 11/07/2017, 10:14 am By Alli Collis

  After winning Saturday’s Textron Off Road World Finals finale at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., rejoined DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings while newly crowned World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping up WoO's World Finals

  Posted: 11/06/2017, 09:24 am

  With the World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series wrapping up the season, our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products considers the World Finals and looks toward the National 100 (edited for clarity and length): Put Full Story

• By-the-numbers review of WoO's 2017 season

  Posted: 11/06/2017, 07:31 am By Andy Savary

  A by-the-numbers review of the 2017 World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series season, a 43-race campaign which began Feb. 17 at Screven Motor Speedway and concluded Nov. 4 at The Dirt Track at Charlotte (complete World Finals coverage): 0: Full Story

• Notes: After Charlotte win, Erb weighs plans

  Posted: 11/05/2017, 04:51 pm By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 4) — The 2017 season is about to end, but Dennis Erb Jr. is just beginning to heat up. After an up-and-down campaign that saw him struggle notably for most of the last two months, a new Black Diamond Chassis has revitalized Full Story

• B-Shepp adds flourish to year with dramatic rally

  Posted: 11/04/2017, 11:30 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 3) — After Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., made a dramatic late-race rally to win Friday’s 50-lap Textron Off-Road World Finals feature at The Dirt Track at Charlotte, his car owner, Mark Richards, wasn’t Full Story

• Notes: Charlotte return surprise boost for Kinzer

  Posted: 11/03/2017, 06:38 am By Kevin Kovac

  CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 2) — More than a decade after Brandon Kinzer’s first visit to The Dirt Track at Charlotte went so horribly that he thought he would never return, the native of Allen, Ky., was back at the 4/10-mile oval on Thursday Full Story

• Coverage index for 11th annual World Finals

  Posted: 11/01/2017, 06:22 pm

  CONCORD, N.C. — DirtonDirt.com’s previews and coverage of the 11th annual Textron Off Road World Finals, the season-ending events World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series scheduled for Nov. 2-4: Wednesday, Nov. 7 • Column: B-Shepp Full Story