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• Returning Hollidge aims to stay on top of curve

  Posted: 04/27/2025, 07:58 am By Kyle McFadden

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (April 26) — During routine prerace maintenance Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway, Dale Hollidge figured he’d drop off his right-rear shock at the Fox Shocks hauler that services select Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Full Story

• Notes: Ross Robinson's eventful return home

  Posted: 04/26/2025, 01:39 pm By Kevin Kovac

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — There’s no race Ross Robinson anticipates more on his annual racing schedule than the national touring series stop at his hometown’s Georgetown Speedway. A victory in the event would be an unqualified Full Story

• Same as it ever was for Lucas Oil in Delaware

  Posted: 04/26/2025, 06:29 am By Kevin Kovac

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — For nearly half of Friday’s 49-lap Melvin L. Joseph Memorial at Georgetown Speedway, the unquestioned Big Three of the 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series — Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Full Story

• Earnhardt prodigy to run Crate at Natural Bridge

  Posted: 04/24/2025, 06:18 pm By Kyle McFadden

  An Earnhardt is back behind the wheel of a Dirt Late Model. Wyatt Earnhardt Miller, the grandson of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr. and great-grandson of Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame driver Ralph Earnhardt, is making Full Story

• Column: Underdog Cook steers to racing success

  Posted: 04/24/2025, 01:39 pm

  Dalton Cook would love to have the open checkbook of a sugar daddy car owner backing his racing efforts. What Dirt Late Model driver wouldn’t? “That would make things a lot easier,” the 32-year-old from Columbus, Ga., said. But Full Story

• Dispatches: Peoria perfect salve for Unzicker

  Posted: 04/26/2025, 05:29 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the last weekend in April, including World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series action at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., and other specials (look Full Story

• Notes: North Carolinian shines with sweep

  Posted: 04/24/2025, 08:02 am By Todd Turner

  When longtime spectator Dante Curtis decided to become a Late Model racer six years ago, the Murphy, N.C., resident knew he had a lot to learn, “I was a bleacher creature and had no idea what I was doing,” admits the 26-year-old. Fast Full Story

• New tire will require South to adjust, adapt

  Posted: 04/22/2025, 11:21 am By Kyle McFadden

  While recent tire discussion for national touring drivers has revolved around the revised right-rear tire unveiled last week by Hoosier Racing Tire, for weekly and regional drivers in the Southeast the addition of a new compound from the Full Story

• For Kimble, from racer to car builder to crew chief

  Posted: 04/22/2025, 07:15 am By Todd Turner

  When Chuck Kimble’s father bought a welding unit for a project at his shop, it wasn’t long before his elementary-school age son saw an opportunity to use the device. | Slideshow “I started monkeying with it and then I really, really Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce No. 1 as Ferguson joins fray

  Posted: 04/22/2025, 06:39 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., solidified his hold on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt’s power rankings, sweeping the MARS Late Model Championship Series-sanctioned Slocum 50 weekend at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, to grab all 10 Full Story

• Fast Talk: Race recap and time-saving tips

  Posted: 04/21/2025, 10:42 am

  After an Easter weekend with Bobby Pierce sweeping MARS action at 34 Raceway among other highlights, our roundtable gathers for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick a Full Story

• Notes: Paragon honors legacy of O'Neal family

  Posted: 04/19/2025, 02:17 pm By Bryan Ault

  PARAGON, Ind. (April 18) — The legacy of Marvin O’Neal lived on Friday night at Paragon Speedway. The inaugural Northern Allstars Late Model Series-sanctioned Marvin O’Neal Memorial honored the former racer and lumber company owner Full Story

• Jameson's early-season misery ends in big way

  Posted: 04/19/2025, 08:56 am By Bryan Ault

  PARAGON, Ind. (April 18) — Jason Jameson’s expectations heading into Friday’s Northern Allstars Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Marvin O’Neal Memorial at Paragon Speedway were understandably low. In his first two starts of the Full Story

• Dispatches: Rebounding Erb rallies, wins at Taz

  Posted: 04/20/2025, 03:19 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the third weekend in April, including MARS action from an Iowa tripleheader and Schaeffer's Spring Nationals competition in Tennessee (look elsewhere for Northern Allstars Full Story

• Notes: Kopka rubs elbows with Volusia heroes

  Posted: 04/17/2025, 06:28 am By Matt Skipper

  Mikey Kopka grew up watching drivers he considered icons make a name for themselves at Volusia Speedway Park. Since 2024, Kopka has gotten to work closely with two greats of Florida’s Dirt Late Model history, piloting a 604 Late Model Full Story

• Column: Crate windfall buoys Wilson's efforts

  Posted: 04/16/2025, 05:23 pm

  A Crate Late Model race paying $50,000-to-win at his hometown’s Fayetteville (N.C.) Motor Speedway? Daulton Wilson couldn’t pass up that rare opportunity. So once April 10-12’s XR 602 Crate Nationals began drawing closer, Wilson Full Story

• Video, apps critical for instant qualifying info

  Posted: 04/15/2025, 11:03 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. — As the final qualifier during Illini 100 weekend at Farmer City Raceway, Jason Feger wanted to have every scrap of information he could about previous time-trialers before his No. 25 tripped the clock. Wife Abby watched Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce on top as B-Shepp, O'Neal climb

  Posted: 04/15/2025, 06:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., failed in his bid to capture a third consecutive Illini 100, but a pair of solid runs in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series-sanctioned weekend at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway kept him atop DirtonDirt’s Full Story

• Drivers prepare (and brace) for tire revision

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 02:27 pm By Kyle McFadden

  As a Hoosier Racing Tire dealer, racer Matt Cosner of Ridgeley, W.Va., knew changes were coming to the tire brand’s National Late Model Tire, the limited-compound program that governs many tours, including the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Fast Talk: Star drivers return to prominence

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 10:52 am

  DirtonDirt’s roundtable gathers to offer perspective on the resurgent weekends of Brandon Sheppard and Hudson O’Neal, debate big-money Crate Late Model races and consider Easter Sunday racing in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Full Story

• B-Shepp quiets doubters with vintage Illini run

  Posted: 04/13/2025, 01:25 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 12) — This one is for the doubters. Without a doubt. Eager for a vindicating victory to welcome the return of Brandon Sheppard back to the driver’s seat, the long-formidable Rocket Chassis house car team got Full Story

• Notes: Troutman close yet again at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 11:24 pm By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 12) — There are no moral victories for Drake Troutman. Every single race he loses, the 19-year-old climbs from the car wishing he’d have won. Even more so Saturday at Farmer City Raceway in the finale of the Full Story

• Trouble brews for WoO hopefuls at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 04:30 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — For many of Friday’s top contenders at Farmer City Raceway, there was a laundry list of reasons they didn’t find victory lane. A spin after first-lap contact. Collected by a slower car’s incident. Full Story

• Notes: B-Shepp finding more speed at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 04:17 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — Entering Friday’s Illini 100 opener at Farmer City Raceway, reigning World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., had a single top-five in national touring competition Full Story

• Nailing perfect balance, Dotson breaks WoO seal

  Posted: 04/12/2025, 01:42 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — Ethan Dotson knows his aggressive racing style has gotten him into trouble a few times early in his Late Model career. He’s working on it, he promises. "I just try to give it all I’ve got every time Full Story