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• Notes: Dad's directive leads to Utter's success

  Posted: 05/22/2015, 01:23 pm By Kevin Kovac

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (May 21) — Jason Utter of Columbus Junction, Iowa, wouldn’t have even been at Lucas Oil Speedway on Thursday night to record a head-turning fourth-place finish in the 45-lap Midwest LateModel Racing Association Cowboy Full Story

• Notes: California driver at nine victories and counting

  Posted: 05/21/2015, 08:35 am By Alli Collis

  Just weeks ago, traveling Tennessee driver Randy Weaver demanded national attention as he captured eight consecutive victories to start his 2015 season. While he’s competing in the weekly division of two tracks, Ryan McDaniel of Chico, Full Story

• Notes: Chris Simpson lands moonlighting gig

  Posted: 05/20/2015, 02:55 pm By Alli Collis and Kevin Kovac

  Chris Simpson of Oxford, Iowa, will enter a brave new racing world when he competes in this weekend’s Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Lucas Oil Speedway. After spending the entirety of his 15-year dirt-track Full Story

• Quick Time: Successfully embracing social media

  Posted: 05/20/2015, 12:51 pm By Todd Turner

  Take 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: Spring Nat'ls take McIntosh to familiar ovals

  Posted: 05/20/2015, 10:55 am By Chris Tilley

  The Old Man’s Garage Spring Nationals points chase wraps up with a Memorial Day weekend tripleheader, and one of the title contenders will be running in his home state and at two tracks where he’s a former champion. Donald McIntosh, Full Story

• Richards ready for home-state outing

  Posted: 05/20/2015, 07:31 am By Joshua Joiner

  Josh Richards has logged memorable performances and achieved career milestones at dirt tracks all across the country during his stellar racing career, but few of those tracks hold a special place with the three-time World of Outlaws Late Full Story

• Column: Tainted in '14, Baker revisits Show-Me

  Posted: 05/19/2015, 02:51 pm

  Last year’s Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com weekend at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., represented Robert Baker’s breakout on the national Dirt Late Model scene. A few weeks later, however, the Bryant, Full Story

• 23rd annual Show-Me 100 coverage index

  Posted: 05/30/2015, 08:29 am

  WHEATLAND, Mo. — DirtonDirt.com's coverage from the 23rd annual Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Lucas Oil Speedway, a rain-postponed, $30,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at the 3/8-mile clay oval: Sunday, Full Story

• Solid Show-Me finishes continue to elude Vaught

  Posted: 05/19/2015, 08:24 am By Alli Collis

  Statistically speaking, Lucas Oil Speedway’s Show-Me 100 hasn’t exactly been kind to Will Vaught. While the Crane, Mo., driver has made the crown jewel’s starting lineup for the last few years, he’s not come away with the finishes Full Story

• Top 25: Pearson joins top five in rankings

  Posted: 05/19/2015, 08:05 am By Alli Collis

  After capturing his series-leading third Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory Friday at Oshkosh (Wis.) Speedzone Raceway, Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., joins the top five in DirtonDirt.com’s Top 25 power rankings while Randy Full Story

• Handicapping the 23rd annual Show-Me 100

  Posted: 05/19/2015, 07:40 am By Andy Savary

  Handicapping the 23rd annual Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com, a $30,000-to-win event on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. (complete Show-Me 100 coverage): Jimmy Owens (20), Newport, Full Story

• Fast Facts: 23rd Lucas Oil Show-Me 100

  Posted: 05/18/2015, 02:21 pm

  23rd Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com Dates: May 21-23 ($5,045-to-win MLRA event Thursday; time trials and heat races Friday; consolations and main event Saturday). Track: Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. (semi-banked Full Story

• Fast Talk: Oshkosh wins a few new fans

  Posted: 05/18/2015, 11:36 am

  Here’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

• Stovall looking for next step at Show-Me 100

  Posted: 05/18/2015, 06:16 am By Kevin Kovac

  As a resident of Missouri, Jesse Stovall has a special appreciation for the importance of this weekend’s 23rd annual Lucas Oil Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo. “Being it’s my Full Story

• Mitchell aims to get streak going again at TMS

  Posted: 05/14/2015, 01:27 pm

  It’s been tough for the competition to stop P&W Sales Southern United Professional Racing racer Jon Mitchell this season. Mitchell, the reigning SUPR champion from Texarkana, Texas, has four victories in the Louisiana-based tour’s Full Story

• Eldora tweaks the format for lucrative Dream XXI

  Posted: 05/14/2015, 12:41 pm By Kevin Kovac

  From its debut in 2013, Roger Slack and his team at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, have always considered the three-night format for the Dirt Late Model Dream presented by Ferris Mowers a work in progress. So it comes as little surprise Full Story

• Local owners will boost Lernerville, GM predicts

  Posted: 05/14/2015, 06:49 am By Kevin Kovac

  The World Racing Group didn’t strike a deal to sell Lernerville Speedway overnight, but it certainly didn’t take western Pennsylvania’s Tomson family long to purchase the 4/10-mile oval in Sarver, Pa., once an intriguing business Full Story

• Notes: Youngster Droste keeping family tradition

  Posted: 05/14/2015, 06:34 am By Alli Collis

  The last name Droste is a familiar one in the Iowa racing community.  As one of the Hawkeye State’s most successful stock car drivers, the late LaVern “Red” Droste is remembered as a dirt racing legend. Years later, Droste’s grandson, Full Story

• Quick Time: Georgia hostess with the mostest

  Posted: 05/13/2015, 11:29 am By Todd Turner

  Take 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: McCool off to hot start with Thompson

  Posted: 05/12/2015, 04:32 pm

  The Gulf Coast’s hottest Dirt Late Model team materialized not through deep negotiations between car owner and driver but rather some good-natured pit-area joking. Randy Thompson of Meridian, Miss. — arguably the Magnolia State’s Full Story

• Fast Talk: Eckert wins; Lanigan is still looking

  Posted: 05/11/2015, 12:42 pm

  Here’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

• Adrenaline calls Moyer Jr. back into driver's seat

  Posted: 05/11/2015, 06:27 am By Kevin Kovac

  On second thought, Billy Moyer Jr. isn’t ready to walk away from Dirt Late Model competition. Nearly two months since his last start and 19 days since he announced he was taking an “indefinite leave from racing,” the 27-year-old Full Story

• Notes: Eckert recaptures WoO winning form

  Posted: 05/09/2015, 08:20 am By Alli Collis

  JUNCTION, CITY, Ky. (May 8) — Friday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory at Ponderosa Speedway was a long time coming for Rick Eckert of York, Pa. The former series champion captured his last tour victory in July 2013, Full Story

• Weaver takes 8-for-8 streak into WoO action

  Posted: 05/07/2015, 01:09 pm By Joshua Joiner

  Perfection will be on the line Saturday night at Smoky Mountain Speedway. After starting the season with eight victories in eight races, veteran regional racer Randy Weaver, 45, of Crossville, Tenn., will attempt to add a national touring Full Story

• Notes: Sweep boosts Schmitt's confidence

  Posted: 05/07/2015, 07:48 am By Alli Collis

  As a hotbed for Dirt Late Model racing, picking up a weekly victory at just about any Illinois dirt track is an accomplishment. But driver Scott Schmitt of Tonica, Ill., was up to the challenge and more, topping foes at Farmer City (Ill.) Full Story