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Column: Recharged Starr still holds Batesville reins
Posted: 05/08/2025, 10:03 pmMooney Starr was ready to ride off into the sunset with his wife Connie, all set to leave behind more than three decades at the helm of Batesville Motor Speedway in Locust Grove, Ark. “I had the perfect opportunity — I thought,” Full Story
J.D.'s Illinois checkered points to '25 satisfaction
Posted: 05/08/2025, 02:42 pm By Kyle McFaddenBANNER, Ill. (May 7) — Jonathan Davenport knew it had been a long while since he last won in Illinois, but nearly a whole decade? Even he was taken aback by that statistic, that before Wednesday’s wire-to-wire FloRacing Night in America Full Story
Notes: Job leads to Late Model racing for Iowan
Posted: 05/08/2025, 06:52 am By Todd TurnerCurtis Glover’s livelihood — and his Late Model racing career — comes from what the Iowa driver calls “kind of a weird story.” Nearly 20 years ago, Glover had been laid off from his concrete job, and he was getting to the point Full Story
O'Neal can't quite get over Spoon River hump
Posted: 05/08/2025, 04:45 am By Kyle McFaddenBANNER, Ill. (May 7) — It appeared Hudson O’Neal had the momentum down the stretch of Wednesday’s FloRacing Night in America feature at Spoon River Speedway to grab victory. | RaceWire O'Neal charged from the sixth starting spot Full Story
Notes: Solid Speedweek start for home-stater Erb
Posted: 05/08/2025, 04:41 am By Kyle McFaddenBANNER, Ill. (May 7) — Only four drivers have back-to-back top-10 finishes to start Illinois Speedweek. Dennis Erb Jr. is one of them. As even-keeled and stoic as they come, the Carpentersville, Ill., veteran couldn’t hold back some Full Story
Racers glad to see 'old friend' La Salle's rebirth
Posted: 05/07/2025, 02:41 pm By Kyle McFaddenLa SALLE, Ill. (May 6) — If you browsed the pit area Tuesday at La Salle Speedway, you likely found drivers and industry personnel alike with sentimental attachment to the resurrected quarter-mile oval. | RaceWire The night’s $20,000 Full Story
Notes: Simpson serves as Koehler stand-in
Posted: 05/06/2025, 02:58 pm By Kevin KovacFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Chris Simpson’s participation in the Dairyland Showdown at Mississippi Thunder Speedway wasn’t exactly as it appeared. Oh, the 41-year-old driver from Oxford, Iowa, unloaded the same Longhorn Chassis No. 32 Full Story
Retooled design spurs Schlenk to winning start
Posted: 05/06/2025, 06:42 am By Kyle McFaddenATTICA, Ohio (May 2) — Five victories and a runner-up finish in six races. That’s Rusty Schlenk’s ledger to start the 2025 season. The McClure, Ohio, driver is perhaps the hottest regional Dirt Late Model, racer, especially after Full Story
Top 25: Hoffman climbs with Pierce on top
Posted: 05/06/2025, 06:30 am By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., returned to unanimous No. 1 status in DirtonDirt’s power rankings following a weekend that saw him tally a pair of podium finishes in the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series-sanctioned Full Story
Fast Talk: It's been a while for national tour winners
Posted: 05/05/2025, 10:46 amWhile rain mostly rules the weekend, three drivers notched their first national touring victories of the season, a topic for discussion in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Of Full Story
Hoffman ends lull with $30,000 Dairyland win
Posted: 05/04/2025, 06:35 am By Kevin KovacFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (May 3) — Nick Hoffman wasn’t in a full-fledged slump, but five straight World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series starts without a podium finish was far from acceptable for a driver with designs on contending Full Story
Notes: Optimism returns for T-Mac in Dairyland
Posted: 05/03/2025, 02:24 pm By Kevin KovacFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (May 2) — Tim McCreadie finally found a reason for optimism in Friday's Dairyland Showdown opener Mississippi Thunder Speedway. Nearly three months removed from his last top-five finish, the 51-year-old national champion Full Story
Notes: Tough ending for Shiels in battle at Attica
Posted: 05/03/2025, 02:00 pm By Kyle McFaddenATTICA, Ohio (May 2) — Devin Shiels surely thought Friday at Attica Raceway Park — his 45th birthday — would be the night he’d break through to win his first Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series feature. | RaceWire The Full Story
Untamed Erb clicks, but cliques aren't his thing
Posted: 05/03/2025, 08:09 am By Kevin KovacFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. (May 2) — Tyler Erb was in a good mood because he won Friday’s Dairyland Showdown opener at Mississippi Thunder Speedway, and one of the reasons he won was … because he was in a good mood. | RaceWire Those feelings Full Story
Circle City victory puts Overton back on track
Posted: 05/03/2025, 07:59 am By Bryan AultINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 2) — Brandon Overton’s flag-to-flag victory at Circle City Raceway did more than just snap a 13-race streak of combined victories for Ricky Thornton Jr., Devin Moran and Jonathan Davenport on the Lucas Oil Late Full Story
Little Circle City makes its debut on Lucas circuit
Posted: 05/02/2025, 05:51 pm By Bryan AultINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 2) — After competing at three half-mile racetracks in a row on last weekend's Mid-Atlantic swing, you couldn’t blame Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series drivers for experiencing a bit of culture shock when they Full Story
Column: Partner aids Izzo for La Salle rebirth
Posted: 05/01/2025, 03:01 pmTony Izzo Jr. never gave up hope that his family’s La Salle (Ill.) Speedway would rise again. Even as his mother, Kerry, fielded offers for the property since the last race was contested there on June 23, 2021, the 55-year-old former Full Story
Notes: Young Virginian loves circling dirt tracks
Posted: 05/01/2025, 09:21 am By Todd TurnerA third-generation dirt racer, Braeson Fulton is following the tire tracks of his talented grandfather and father. But even if racing courses through your veins, that doesn’t mean pointing a race car the right direction always comes naturally. Full Story
Dispatches: Home run coming for WoO rookie
Posted: 05/01/2025, 09:17 amAmong the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the first weekend in May, including Schaeffer's Spring Nationals and Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action (look elsewhere for most Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws coverage). Full Story
Feathers set for busy (and promising) season
Posted: 04/30/2025, 05:53 pm By Kyle McFaddenHAGERSTOWN, Md. — Trever Feathers appeared poised Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway to join only Josh Rice and Gregg Satterlee as the lone regionally based drivers to score top-five finishes on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series so far Full Story
Top 25: RTJ chips away at No. 1 Pierce
Posted: 04/29/2025, 08:07 am By Kevin KovacBobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., continued his run atop DirtonDirt’s power rankings for a fifth straight week with a $50,000 victory in the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series-sanctioned Alabama Gang 100 at Talladega Short Full Story
Alberson studies, battles Lucas Oil's Big Three
Posted: 04/29/2025, 06:45 am By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 27) — If Jonathan Davenport, Devin Moran and Ricky Thornton Jr. are putting on a master class of what success looks like on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, then Garrett Alberson is a student pressed to learn Full Story
Notes: With RTJ, the more things change ...
Posted: 04/28/2025, 02:06 pm By Kyle McFaddenPORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 27) — Tire changes. Crew changes. But the results stay the same. Ricky Thornton Jr. was virtually flawless during the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series tripleheader weekend in the Northeast, coming away with convincing Full Story
Fast Talk: Inevitability of top-tier drivers
Posted: 04/28/2025, 11:02 amAfter a busy weekend of national touring action — and more success for Bobby Pierce and Ricky Thornton Jr. — our roundtable checks in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Are Full Story
Big half-miles becoming comfortable for Thornton
Posted: 04/27/2025, 01:30 pm By Kyle McFaddenHAGERSTOWN, Md. (April 26) — As Ricky Thornton Jr.’s dirt racing career has rapidly progressed, he’s learned all the more just how much he excels on lane-sensitive, half-mile racetracks. That was more evident than ever in Saturday’s Full Story
