DirtOnDirt.com Search Results
12423 items match your search
Quick Time: First-time winners shot in the arm
Posted: 06/17/2015, 10:32 am By Todd TurnerTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story
Notes: Potts survives barrel rolls at Brighton
Posted: 06/16/2015, 10:52 amPhil Potts went for a wild ride in Saturday’s RUSH-sanctioned Crate Late Model feature at Brighton (Ontario) Speedway with the Frankford, Ontario, driver avoiding injury. Following a lap-three restart, Potts was trying to break into Full Story
Top 25: Davenport voted unanimous No. 1
Posted: 06/16/2015, 09:00 am By Alli CollisCapturing his seventh consecutive victory in Saturday’s Lucas Oil Series-sanctioned Clash at the Mag at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss., Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., was voted a unanimous No. 1 in DirtonDirt.com’s Full Story
Column: Hell Tour just that for reigning champ
Posted: 06/16/2015, 08:27 amShannon Babb knew that his 2015 assault on the UMP DIRTcar Summernationals was going to take on a decidedly different look when he learned last fall that his wife was pregnant with the couple’s first child. Emalie's due date of late June Full Story
New York events return Fuller to WoO pit area
Posted: 06/15/2015, 04:11 pm By Joshua JoinerTim Fuller wasn’t able to follow the World of Outlaws Late Model Series full-time this season as he had hoped, but now the national tour is coming to him. Fuller, the Watertown, N.Y., driver who ran regularly with the WoO for the better Full Story
Fast Talk: Outlook for Davenport foes? Daunting
Posted: 06/15/2015, 12:25 pmHere’s the latest edition of Fast Talk, a DirtonDirt.com feature each Monday sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products. Staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Kevin Kovac gather weekly for a roundtable discussion about who’s hot, who’s Full Story
Notes: Spatola takes his best shot at Cedar Lake
Posted: 06/15/2015, 06:59 am By Kevin KovacNEW RICHMOND, Wis. (June 13) — When Mike Spatola awoke early Saturday morning and checked the weather, he noticed that his planned destination for Dirt Late Model action that evening, Fairbury (Ill.) American Speedway, faced a forecast Full Story
Pals Feger, Heckenast relish Cedar Lake battle
Posted: 06/13/2015, 04:35 pm By Kevin KovacNEW RICHMOND, Wis. (June 12) — Jason Feger and Frank Heckenast Jr. were parked side-by-side in Cedar Lake Speedway’s pit area for Friday night’s UMP DIRTcar Summernationals event, so after the evening’s first heat — a race in Full Story
Clock ticking, Unzicker hankering for first title
Posted: 06/11/2015, 08:31 am By Todd TurnerBROWNSTOWN, Ind. (June 10) — Ryan Unzicker isn’t exactly writing his retirement speech to deliver at the conclusion of the UMP DIRTcar Summernationals, but if he’s somehow able to capture his first series title, one word will likely Full Story
Notes: Cooley's rhythm rolling toward Magnolia
Posted: 06/11/2015, 07:45 am By Alli CollisThis weekend the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series will invade Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss., for the annual $20,000-to-win Clash at the Mag. And after nearly sweeping Crate and Super Late Model features at the 3/8-mile oval Full Story
Quick Time: Driver buys, sells and holds for June
Posted: 06/10/2015, 10:23 am By Todd TurnerTake a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with managing editor Todd Turner for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story
Column: Culp girds up to tackle Summernationals
Posted: 06/09/2015, 04:36 pmTimothy Culp doesn’t know if he will in fact enter all 28 UMP DIRTcar Summernationals events scheduled to be contested over the next 32 days. It’s an ambitious goal, after all, for a 24-year-old driver who has never raced more than Full Story
Notes: McDowell knows of weighty Big E matters
Posted: 06/08/2015, 04:00 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., was very familiar with the delayed gratification of a crown-jewel win at Eldora Speedway that Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., experienced Saturday night. | Complete Full Story
Teen turns heads with rookie run in Dream XXI
Posted: 06/08/2015, 11:55 am By Alli CollisROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Amazing. That was the word former Late Model driver Jerry Rice used to describe son Josh’s sixth-place finish in Saturday’s Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers at Eldora Speedway. At just 16 years old, Full Story
Fast Talk: Big E doesn't disappoint at Dream XXI
Posted: 06/08/2015, 11:44 amHere’s the latest edition of Fast Talk, a DirtonDirt.com feature each Monday sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products. Staffers Michael Rigsby, Todd Turner and Kevin Kovac gather weekly for a roundtable discussion about who’s hot, who’s Full Story
Dismal prelims forgotten after Pearson's charge
Posted: 06/08/2015, 01:14 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Earl Pearson Jr.’s Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers weekend was an absolute nightmare for two days. Then his fortunes completely flipped to make his visit to Eldora Speedway a memorable one. After spending Full Story
Roller-coaster race ends with Davenport windfall
Posted: 06/07/2015, 07:04 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 6) — Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., sat quietly inside his K&L Rumley Longhorn Race Car after Saturday night’s Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers at Eldora Speedway, alone with his thoughts just long Full Story
Clear head, clean slate puts Casebolt in contention
Posted: 06/06/2015, 12:17 pm By Alli CollisROSSBURG, Ohio (June 5) — As runner-up finisher Steve Casebolt of Richmond, Ind., made his way to victory lane for post-race interviews after Friday’s first Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers preliminary feature, he joked that a second-place Full Story
Scouting the heats for Saturday's Dream XXI
Posted: 06/06/2015, 08:34 am By Todd TurnerROSSBURG, Ohio — If nothing else, two nights of preliminaries under Eldora Speedway’s new format for the Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers showed us perhaps the fastest driver (Jonathan Davenport) and perhaps the savviest (Scott Full Story
Runner-up finish boosts struggling McCreadie
Posted: 06/06/2015, 04:32 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 5) — Tim McCreadie’s runner-up finish in Friday night’s second 25-lap Dream XXI presented by Ferris Motors preliminary feature at Eldora Speedway didn’t simply boost his weekend. The uplifting outing carried Full Story
Notes: Erb off to strong start with new race car
Posted: 06/05/2015, 03:37 pm By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., is famously bottom-line with his comments, so it was little surprise that he wasn’t very descriptive when asked about the new Black Diamond Race Car he debuted in Thursday Full Story
Exams done, teen takes Big E veterans to school
Posted: 06/05/2015, 09:58 am By Alli CollisROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — Josh Rice of Verona, Ky., was eager to make his first crown jewel start at Eldora Speedway. So excited in fact, that he missed the final day of his junior year of high school in order to attend the opening night Full Story
Cleared after surgery, Jeep shines at Eldora
Posted: 06/05/2015, 03:13 am By Kevin KovacROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — Eldora Speedway’s Dream XXI presented by Ferris Mowers is one of Jeep Van Wormer’s two favorite races of every Dirt Late Model season — you can probably guess the other — so you can imagine the fear that Full Story
Westfall clicks off another strong Eldora finish
Posted: 06/05/2015, 03:50 am By Todd TurnerROSSBURG, Ohio — If they ask drivers at Friday’s pre-race meeting to raise their hands if they’ve had three top-five feature finishes at Eldora in 2015, just one hand will go up. That’ll be Matt Westfall of Ludlow Falls, Ohio, Full Story
Notes: Johnson-Logan pairing debuts at Dream
Posted: 06/04/2015, 03:43 pmROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — The last couple weeks have a been a whirlwind for Tim Logan of Ashland, Ky., who in short order went from a Dirt Late Model team owner without a driver to entering this weekend’s Dream XXI presented by Ferris Full Story
