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Young Texan readies for first Speedweeks action
Posted: 01/28/2016, 02:33 pm By Alli CollisIt’s roughly a 15-hour drive from Hockley, Texas, to Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Ga. But 19-year-old Austin Theiss is looking forward to the long trip. Still relatively new to the Late Model division, the Texas youngster is Full Story
Schedule, track-by-track capsules for Speedweeks
Posted: 01/28/2016, 02:04 pmThe 2016 Georgia-Florida Speedweeks race-by-race schedule for Super Late Model events at six dirt tracks, two in Georgia and four in Florida. Action runs from Feb. 4-20 at Golden Isles Speedway in Waynesville, Ga.; North Florida Speedway Full Story
Fire still burns for reigning MLRA champ
Posted: 01/27/2016, 02:19 pm By Lyndal ScrantonThe hair is thinning, his 50th birthday arrives later this year and he answers to "Grandpa.” But don't dare suggest to Terry Phillips that it's time to slow down and head for the early-bird buffet at the local dinner. "Oh yeah, I'm as Full Story
Column: Pearson poised to get car back on track
Posted: 01/27/2016, 05:27 amLast year Earl Pearson Jr. and Dunn-Benson Motorsports dived into Georgia-Florida Speedweeks barely ready for the first green flag of the season after a whirlwind two-month span spent building a team from scratch but nonetheless came out Full Story
Handicapping title chase with the Lucas Oil Series
Posted: 01/26/2016, 01:13 pm By Andy SavaryHandicapping the chase for the 2016 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship, which pays $75,000 to the driver accumulating the most points over the season-long campaign that starts Feb. 4 at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick, Ga.; Full Story
Handicapping title chase for the World of Outlaws
Posted: 01/26/2016, 01:03 pm By Andy SavaryHandicapping the chase for the 2016 World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship, which pays $100,000 to the driver accumulating the most points over the season-long campaign that starts Feb. 12 at Screven Motor Speedway in Sylvania, Full Story
Fast Talk: Big-picture perspective of '16 season
Posted: 01/25/2016, 11:43 amThis week's panelists take a big-picture look at the 2016 season in our Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk segment (edited for clarity and length): What’s your biggest question looking ahead to 2016? Michael Rigsby, DirtonDirt.com Full Story
Frequent-flying Crate racer logs miles, wins
Posted: 01/22/2016, 11:26 am By Alli CollisFor most weekly racers, a trip to the races typically means a short drive to enjoy action as a weekend warrior. It's a little more complicated for Pasadena, Md., native Darin Henderson. While his job keeps him in Michigan during the week, Full Story
Column: After tough '15, Shirley's second chance
Posted: 01/20/2016, 09:55 amIt’s nearly the end of January, and Brian Shirley is hard at work in his Chatham, Ill., shop with two full-time crew members preparing fresh, shiny race cars for an assault on February’s Georgia-Florida Speedweeks. He can be forgiven, Full Story
Young Missourian jumps up to Super Late Models
Posted: 01/19/2016, 02:14 pm By Lyndal ScrantonFrom the start, Payton Looney wanted to earn his own way and learn at his own pace. Now, after three seasons honing his skills in Limited Late Models, the 21-year-old from Republic, Mo., is ready to launch the next phase of his racing Full Story
Carolina Clash champion exceeds his Super goals
Posted: 01/19/2016, 12:48 pm By Alli CollisWith only a handful of Super Late Model starts under his belt, Ben Watkins of Rock Hill, S.C., set out to tackle the 2015 season with one goal in mind — the 2015 Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series Rookie of the Year title. Mission Full Story
Fast Talk: Reviewing the Wild West Shootout
Posted: 01/18/2016, 12:21 pmDirtonDirt.com staffers review the Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout presented by Black Diamond-Club 29 Race Cars in the Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk (edited for clarity and length): Was Arizona merely a sneak preview Full Story
Arizona ace shines in Tucson, hopes for more
Posted: 01/18/2016, 09:56 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 17) — The competitive Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at USA Raceway drew some of the most talented drivers in the country, most of whom turned thousands of laps driving Dirt Late Models last season. | Complete Full Story
Rule-bending at Tucson reaches a tipping point
Posted: 01/17/2016, 09:05 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 16) — Rule-bending that typically happens at unsanctioned Dirt Late Model events doesn’t draw much notice when cars are running back in the back. Don O’Neal’s virtually solid left sailpanel — illegal because Full Story
Notes: Passport-weary Schatz shines in Tucson
Posted: 01/14/2016, 09:52 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 13) — After a whirlwind trip from Australia to his home in North Dakota and finally to Arizona, then a busy midweek night of action at USA Raceway’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, Donny Schatz earned Thursday's Full Story
Column: Bernheisel's path to a lengthy career
Posted: 01/13/2016, 01:11 pmJim Bernheisel doesn’t deny that his long involvement in the Dirt Late Model world — almost 40 years as a driver and nearly as many as a parts business owner and chassis builder — is somewhat of a surprise. Geography, after all, presented Full Story
Brannon overcomes foes, nerves for Ice Bowl win
Posted: 01/13/2016, 11:20 am By Alli CollisEASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 10) — For the last few years, it’s been home-state drivers making their way to Talladega Short Track's victory lane at the Ice Bowl. But Sunday evening was a different story, as David Brannon of Elora, Tenn., fought Full Story
Alberson making major strides where it all began
Posted: 01/12/2016, 12:03 pm By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. — Garrett Alberson’s first visit to USA Raceway's Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout five years ago wasn’t pretty. “We were just awful,” the Las Cruces, N.M., native recalled Sunday in the pit area of the 3/8-mile Full Story
WoO assemble Dirt Late Model rules committee
Posted: 01/10/2016, 04:21 pm By Kevin KovacWith all the talk about rules in Dirt Late Model racing this off-season — including, of course, the much debated new suspension mandates recently announced by the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series — World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full Story
Fast Talk: Weighing the first weekend in Tucson
Posted: 01/11/2016, 12:14 pmDirtonDirt.com staffers consider winter events in Tucson and Talladega in Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored Fast Talk (edited for clarity and length): Fresh off a season where the scales played a key part in a six-figure payoff, has 2016 Full Story
Practice makes perfect? Not when Tucson's wet
Posted: 01/09/2016, 12:33 am By Todd TurnerTUCSON, Ariz. (Jan. 8) — The arid Southwest was anything but Friday evening at USA Raceway with overcast skies and off-and-on drizzle plaguing practice night for the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. | Complete Tucson Full Story
Wild West Shootout practice roster
Posted: 01/08/2016, 10:38 pmTUCSON, Ariz. — The practice roster Friday at USA Raceway preceding the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout, the six-race miniseries that launches Saturday at the 3/8-mile oval. More than 50 cars are on the grounds: Late Full Story
Hometowners eye Wild West Shootout success
Posted: 01/07/2016, 01:48 pm By Kevin KovacR.C. Whitwell and Jake O’Neil spent the 2015 season racing halfway across the country on the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association tour, so the Tucson, Ariz., drivers keenly understand the significance of the Keyser Manufacturing Full Story
Notes: Mental focus part of preparation for Tucson
Posted: 01/07/2016, 08:11 amClay Daly of Watsonville, Calif., is one of several Western state drivers making the trip to USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., for the 10th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout. Closing 2015 with six victories, Daly is looking forward Full Story
Column: Talented Texan picks Late Model spots
Posted: 01/06/2016, 09:43 amLast year’s Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout at USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., revealed to Rodney Sanders that he could compete at a high level in the Dirt Late Model division. Then Sanders’s ensuing full-fendered excursion — Full Story
