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• Legend's mentorship lives on with rookie Ebert

  Posted: 04/11/2025, 05:25 pm By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 11) — When Dan Ebert’s dirt racing career began in the pure stock division 20 years ago, his night wasn’t complete until the Lake Shore, Minn., driver called his mentor to discuss his night at the track. Waiting Full Story

• Column: Feger unlocks success in home region

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:05 pm

  Jason Feger doesn’t call it a comeback. Nor does the veteran from Bloomington, Ill., subscribe to the theory that, at 46, he’s a reborn Dirt Late Model driver. While there’s no doubt that the MARS Championship Series becoming an Full Story

• Dispatches: Overton on right path at Wheatland

  Posted: 04/11/2025, 11:33 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the second weekend in April, including action from Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., among other Super Late Model specials (most of the World of Outlaws Late Model Full Story

• Hoosier's new right rear improves sidebite, wear

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 11:34 am By Kyle McFadden

  Hoosier Racing Tire on Monday will unveil a revised version of its right-rear tire for Dirt Late Models, a slightly wider tire that’s proven in testing to provide better sidebite, balance and wear. The Lakeville, Ind.-based tire manufacturer Full Story

• Notes: Mississippian up to speed after long layoff

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:58 am By Todd Turner

  Eric Cooley wasn’t exactly sure what to expect in his first dirt race in five years. Climbing back into a Crate Late Model, "I knew mentally in my mind that I could do it,” but the 34-year-old Fulton, Miss., racer wondered if he’d Full Story

• Missouri standout refocusing on Super Late Models

  Posted: 04/09/2025, 08:25 am By Lyndal Scranton

  Justin Wells jokes that it’s a shame a milestone birthday is in the not-too-distant future. The half-century mark can be daunting. No matter the chosen occupation, it's supposed to mean a slower pace. But the 48-year-old Aurora, Mo., Full Story

• Seawright sees success as only the beginning

  Posted: 04/09/2025, 08:26 am By Kevin Kovac

  While Sam Seawright’s start to the 2025 season boasts three Super Late Model victories and four overall, the Rainsville, Ala., driver isn't over the moon about the results. “Not too bad,” said Seawright, who Saturday earned a career-richest Full Story

• Teams, students grade UNOH program with A+

  Posted: 04/08/2025, 08:46 am By Kyle McFadden

  Vishesh Sharma had never seen a Dirt Late Model before, yet during Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at Atomic Speedway outside Chillicothe, Ohio, and Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway two weeks ago, he found himself working as a crew member Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recap, perches and unheralded drivers

  Posted: 04/07/2025, 11:09 am

  After a weekend when a wide swath of never-ending rain wiped out most Super Late Model specials, our roundtable tries to dry out with a racing overview in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story

• Dispatches: McDowell's TST strategy does trick

  Posted: 04/04/2025, 11:09 pm

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the first weekend in April, including Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., on a weekend when many events were rained out: McDowell Full Story

• Column: Eckert's vintage No. 24 impressive in '25

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 07:05 am

  While Rick Eckert might have the youthful face and thick hair of a man who isn’t aging, time does march on and he’s now 59 years old with the big 6-0 coming in December. He’s eclipsed four decades as a race car driver as well. But Full Story

• Notes: Virginian's Crate career starts with bang

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 06:30 am By Todd Turner

  Perfection is mostly unattainable in dirt racing, but after his first Crate Late Model outing March 22 at Winchester (Va.) Speedway, Cody Williams got a brief feeling of what it was like. He was 1-for-1 in the division and had just outrun Full Story

• There's just one person to talk to in driver's seat

  Posted: 04/02/2025, 06:35 am By Todd Turner

  It's a relatively lonely world behind the wheel of a Dirt Late Model. Drivers snugly buckled in the cockpit wearing full-face helmets can see cryptic signals from crew members and hear lineup instructions from officials via one-way radio, Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce on top as Cook joins rankings

  Posted: 04/01/2025, 07:49 am By Kevin Kovac

  With a perfect weekend at Maquoketa (Iowa) Speedway, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., gained firm control of the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings one week after ascending to the top of the Keyser Manufacturing-sponsored balloting Full Story

• Fast Talk: Pierce's blip and weekend recap

  Posted: 03/31/2025, 11:08 am

  With Bobby Pierce reeling off a couple of victories among a handful of regional touring races, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick your weekend Full Story

• Notes: Green beaming after Spring 50 showing

  Posted: 03/30/2025, 11:34 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 29) — Billy Green was not expecting to post a fifth-place finish in Saturday night’s Northern Allstars Late Model Series-sanctioned Spring 50 at Florence Speedway. The 21-year-old from Walton, Ky., unloaded a fresh Full Story

• Frontrunner scrape ruins Camaron Marlar's hopes

  Posted: 03/30/2025, 12:09 am By Bryan Ault

  UNION, Ky. (March 29) — This wasn’t how it was supposed to end for Camaron Marlar, but the 30-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver remained as upbeat as possible after a disappointing outcome in Saturday’s 49th annual Spring 50 at Florence Full Story

• Dispatches: Pierce repels RTJ, sweeps Maquoketa

  Posted: 03/31/2025, 01:08 am

  Among the latest notes and quotes from around Dirt Late Model racing the weekend of March 28-29, including the MARS-sanctioned Nippy 50 at Maquoketa (Iowa) Speedway, Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series action in Mississippi and a Schaeffer’s Full Story

• Column: MARS director makes career of racing

  Posted: 03/27/2025, 02:58 pm

  Jonathan Clayton can’t say for certain that he saw himself destined for a career as an official in the dirt track racing game. But when the 31-year-old director of the MARS Late Model Championship Series looks back at his early days attending Full Story

• Infinity, assistance helps Marlar find his groove

  Posted: 03/25/2025, 11:20 am By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — While Mike Marlar wasn’t among the weekend’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series winners, the 47-year-old Winfield, Tenn., driver impressed with a pair of fourth-place runs at Ohio’s Atomic Speedway and Full Story

• Top 25: Pierce leads divided chase for No. 1

  Posted: 03/25/2025, 07:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., ascended to the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s power rankings for the first time in 2025, knocking Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., off the pedestal he held over the first two editions of the Keyser Full Story

• Fast Talk: Recapping flurry of national touring action

  Posted: 03/24/2025, 10:56 am

  With both national tours in conflicting action for the first time of the season, our roundtable weighs in on the fallout in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity and length): Pick a topic Full Story

• Notes: RTJ smiling after near-perfect weekend

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 10:57 am By Kyle McFadden and Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — Falling just short of sweeping the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series weekend wasn’t a disappointing outcome for Ricky Thornton Jr. In fact, the 34-year-old star from Chandler, Ariz., gracefully accepted Full Story

• Moran back to winning ways at Brownstown

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 01:26 am By Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — With a flag-to-flag victory in Saturday’s 50-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Indiana Icebreaker at Brownstown Speedway, Devin Moran gained a dose of redemption. The 30-year-old standout Full Story

• Promising signs on the horizon for O'Neal, SSI

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 12:55 am By Kyle McFadden

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — While the teams of Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Davenport are seemingly firing on all cylinders entering the spring season, Hudson O’Neal is trying to take some consolation Saturday at Brownstown Full Story