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• Notes: Jarvis ends hiatus with victory in Delaware

  Posted: 04/14/2011, 04:29 pm

  With Richard Jarvis Jr.'s previous car owner scaling back following the 2009 racing season, and his wife Whitney expecting their first child, the Ocean City, Md., driver decided to take a break from racing in 2010. It didn't take him long Full Story

• Notes: Smoky Mountain team prepares for SAS

  Posted: 04/14/2011, 03:52 pm

  After struggling in recent years, Smoky Mountain Speedway hopes that a new tag-teaming partnership of owners can help turn things around at the Maryville, Tenn., oval. The historic track that hosted NASCAR events in the 1960s on Saturday Full Story

• Surprising first victory quite gratifying for Texan

  Posted: 04/13/2011, 03:41 pm By Joshua Joiner

  As a relative newcomer to Dirt Late Model racing, Allen Murray wasn’t expecting to win any races early in his first full season of competition. Making races and scoring top-10 finishes was the main goal for the 37-year-old driver, Full Story

• Notes: Madden heads to VMS in role of favorite

  Posted: 04/13/2011, 03:21 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Who stacks up as the favorite to win the second annual NAPA of King William Commonwealth 100 this weekend (April 15-16) at Virginia Motor Speedway? That lofty status undoubtedly belongs to Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., the winner of Full Story

• Illinois redhead gets hot start in rookie campaign

  Posted: 04/12/2011, 05:13 pm By Todd Turner

  Younger brothers are often stuck with hand-me-down sweatshirts, a banana-seat bicycle or a cast-off baseball mitt. But Mike Spatola's hand-me-down from older brother Kenny — a full-fledged open-wheel modified team — helped potentially Full Story

• Bargetzi, Highland driver and owner, dies at 75

  Posted: 04/11/2011, 06:07 pm By Todd Turner

  Vicki Bargetzi knew her father loved his children, but she also knew it was unlikely that Chris Bargetzi would buy her an on-time birthday gift because the retired machinist's prime focus was usually on dirt track racing. "If you asked Full Story

• WoO's Promoter of Year anxious for Commonwealth 100

  Posted: 04/11/2011, 09:26 am By Kevin Kovac

  There's a host of reasons for Virginia Motor Speedway owner Bill Sawyer's selection as the 2010 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Promoter of the Year, but three undoubtedly stand out. No. 1: Sawyer's racetrack, a showplace half-mile Full Story

• Hometown driver grabs first Deery win at Quincy

  Posted: 04/11/2011, 07:10 am

  QUINCY, Ill. (April 10) — Fans at Quincy Raceway got to applaud the exploits of another hometown hero in Sunday’s Deery Brothers Summer Series feature. Matt Bailey won for the first time in his IMCA Late Model tour career, Full Story

• Owens races to $5,000 victory on familiar oval

  Posted: 04/11/2011, 06:41 am By Robert Walden

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. (April 10) — Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., slipped under Mark Douglas of Knoxville, Tenn., on the 23rd of 50 laps Sunday and earned a $5,000 unsanctioned victory on the familiar high banks of Volunteer Speedway. ”This Full Story

• Brindle dominates North Georgia for first victory

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 12:14 pm

  CHATSWORTH, Ga. (April 9, 2011) – After running well in early-season events around the Southeast, rookie driver Chip Brindle returned to his home track of North Georgia Speedway Saturday night and scored his first Super Late Model Full Story

• Byars continues first-time MSCSS streak

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 12:13 pm

  MERIDIAN, Miss. (April 9) — The Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series continued a streak of first-time winners Saturday with Klint Byars of Carrollton, Miss., grabbing a checkered flag at Whynot Motorsports Park. The 23-year-old Full Story

• First-time winner Ryan wins Slocum Memorial

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 11:52 am

  WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa (April 9) — A veteran of IMCA's Deery Brothers Summer Series got his first feature win trophy, and a big check, Saturday at 34 Raceway. Matt Ryan of Davenport, Iowa, led the last 10 laps in winning the third Full Story

• Iowan rattles Missouri foes with Wheatland win

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 11:18 am

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (April 9) — Chad Simpson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, raced to his second career victory on the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association on Saturday at Lucas Oil Speedway, the tour's home track. Simpson earned $3,000 Full Story

• Breuer earns $5,000 on familiar gumbo surface

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 05:41 am By Roby Helm

  GREENVILLE, MS – As an Iowa native who now lives in Troutman, N.C., Dan Breuer found the gumbo clay of Greenville Speedway to be a familiar surface Saturday night and raced to a $5,000 victory in the Rumble on the Gumbo 75 for the Full Story

• Notes: O'Neal's miscue hurts Icebreaker hopes

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 03:50 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (April 9) — Don O'Neal is a threat to win any race at Brownstown Speedway, the quarter-mile oval where he grew into one of Dirt Late Model racing's top drivers. But O'Neal made a rare mistake on the second lap of Full Story

• Ice? Mud? Brownstown no sweat for Bloomquist

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 03:27 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (April 9) — The only thing that might've stopped Scott Bloomquist on Saturday at Brownstown Speedway was heavy morning rains that threatened to postpone a program already postponed once by bad weather. The Indiana Full Story

• Young Rettig claims first victory at Riverside Int'l

  Posted: 04/10/2011, 03:09 am By Ben Shelton

  WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (April 9) – For the second time in as many nights, the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series saw a first-time winner in victory lane as 16-year-old Austin Rettig of Sikeston, Mo., beat Billy Moyer Jr. in a photo finish Saturday Full Story

• Texan scores first Late Model victory at Beebe

  Posted: 04/09/2011, 05:42 am By Ben Shelton

  BEEBE, Ark. (April 8) – Allen Murray of San Antonio, Texas claimed the lead when race-long leader Jon Mitchell jumped the cushion with two laps remaining in Friday night’s Comp Cams Super Dirt Series season opener at Beebe Speedway Full Story

• Boland captures pole at Rumble on the Gumbo

  Posted: 04/09/2011, 04:24 am By Roby Helm

  GREENVILLE, Miss. (April 8) — Mike Boland of Cuba, Ala., swept Friday's preliminary events for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Rumble on the Gumbo 75 at Greenville Speedway. Boland set fast time when captured the first Full Story

• Looney scores MLRA victory at Topeka

  Posted: 04/09/2011, 03:53 am

  TOPEKA, Kan. (April 8) – Just one week after ending a 14-year drought on the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association tour, Brad Looney found himself in victory lane once again after Friday night’s MLRA feature at Heartland Full Story

• Slocum 50 is on Bucket List for Deery drivers

  Posted: 04/07/2011, 04:35 pm By Joshua Joiner

  While it may not be the highest paying race on 34 Raceway’s schedule, a victory in the Slocum 50 is something nearly every IMCA Late Model driver would like to add to a resume. The $3,000-to-win IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series Full Story

• Reconfiguration revised, WVMS aims for 3/8-mile

  Posted: 04/07/2011, 09:51 am

  MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. — Plenty of parents have suggested that if you're going to do a job, do it right. Promoters at West Virginia Motor Speedway are heeding that advice in transforming the mammoth dirt track into a smaller oval with Full Story

• Notes: Rookie optimistic after first MSCCS victory

  Posted: 04/07/2011, 08:55 am

  As an open-wheel modified ace who dabbled in Late Model racing over the past few years, Byram, Miss., driver Brooks Strength knew he could win races if he ever got an opportunity full-fledged to go Super Late Model racing. And when Bill Full Story

• Forgettable night ignited Lobb's WoO rookie chase

  Posted: 04/07/2011, 08:39 am By Kevin Kovac

  John Lobb still shakes his head when he thinks back to June 17, 2010. On that evening the 41-year-old driver from Frewsburg, N.Y., shocked the World of Outlaws Late Model Series field at Merrittville Speedway in Thorold, Ontario, by setting Full Story

• Notes: Paducah champ links with Kentucky team

  Posted: 04/07/2011, 08:19 am

  Making the most of little, Kevin Cole of Christopher, Ill., managed to capture his third Late Model championship last season at Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway. Two of Cole's PIR titles came with the well-equipped Scott Riggs Motorsports Full Story