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• Claycomb capitalizes for victory at Florence

  Posted: 04/06/2008, 12:02 pm From track reports

  UNION, Ky. (April 5) — Consider Kevin Claycomb's retirement officially over. The 47-year-old Vincennes, Ind., driver, driving again full time after his family-owned team shut down in 2004, raced to a victory in Florence Speedway's Full Story

• Marlar outlasts field for $5,000 at Ponderosa

  Posted: 04/06/2008, 08:41 am By Michael Despain

  JUNCTION CITY, Ky. (April 5) — Driving the Nicholasville, Ky.-based Estes Automotive house car, Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., etched his name as the inaugural winner of the Chris Estes/Brad Pena Memorial with a $5,000 victory in Full Story

• Tail-starting Babb's run foiled by Moyer's rally

  Posted: 04/05/2008, 06:20 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 5) — The streaking Billy Moyer thrilled a record crowd to win the inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series Illini 100 at Farmer City Raceway. The 50-year-old dirt-track legend from Batesville, Ark., pocketed Full Story

• Babb has work cut out for him at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/05/2008, 09:31 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 4) — If Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., is going to win his second straight World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at Farmer City Raceway, he's going to do it from the back. The Farmer City veteran posted Full Story

• Tire choice could be tricky at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/05/2008, 08:32 am By Todd Turner

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 4) — For shorter feature events, Dirt Late Model racers sometimes scramble to figure out which tire compounds will be working best at the finish. For long-distance races like Farmer City's Illini 100, the Full Story

• James rebounds with victory at Screven

  Posted: 04/05/2008, 07:12 am From series reports

  SYLVANIA, Ga. (April 4) — Scott James of Lawrenceburg, Ind., took the lead from Tim Dohm of Charleston, W.Va., on lap 21 and then held off Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., to win the 50-lap main event on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Moyer gets track record, but Richards wins dash

  Posted: 04/05/2008, 06:54 am By Kevin Kovac

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 4) — Billy Moyer continued his scorching early-season tear by lowering the track record and winning a heat during Friday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Illini 100 qualifying program at Farmer Full Story

• Casey invades Georgia, wins second straight

  Posted: 04/04/2008, 10:51 am From series reports

  SWAINSBORO, Ga. (April 3) — Make it two in a row for Terry Casey of New London, Wis. The third-starting Casey overtook early leader Dan Schlieper on the seventh lap and led the rest of the 30-lapper at Swainsboro Raceway for his second Full Story

• State Your Case: Ohio rides wave to Final Four

  Posted: 04/04/2008, 06:54 am By Todd Turner

  The Final Four is set. Ohio and its megaevents. Tennessee and its superstar drivers. Iowa and its bevy of racetracks. And Illinois, the UMP stronghold. Who will come out on top? Finalists in DirtonDirt.com's exclusive State Your Case bracket-style Full Story

• Which car? Moyer must choose at Farmer City

  Posted: 04/04/2008, 04:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  FARMER CITY, Ill. (April 3) — Billy Moyer is shooting for a World of Outlaws Late Model Series hat trick this weekend. And the Dirt Late Model legend couldn’t pick a better place to go for three straight tour wins than Farmer Full Story

• State Your Case: Ohio, Tennessee rolling along

  Posted: 04/02/2008, 04:16 am By Todd Turner

  The top seeds in the men's NCAA basketball tournament came through, and it's just the same in DirtonDirt.com's exclusive State Your Case bracket-style tournament that will determine the best state for Dirt Late Model racing. Top-seeded Full Story

• Notebook: ULMS adds pair of dashes to mix

  Posted: 04/01/2008, 03:10 pm From series, track and staff reports

  The Northern Tier United Late Model Series is instituting a pair of dashes to its race format that will set the first six rows of the starting lineup for feature events in 2008. Andrews Auto Salvage has joined the series as a sponsor and Full Story

• Notebook: Tazewell will try to dodge rain again

  Posted: 04/01/2008, 02:10 pm From series, track and staff reports

  There were plenty of Dirt Late Model special events scheduled for March, but Mother Nature allowed few of them to go off without a hitch. Among those rained out the last weekend of the month was Cleveland (Tenn.) Speedway's Southern All Full Story

• Notebook: Yoder finds his way at Hagerstown

  Posted: 04/01/2008, 01:03 pm From track reports

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (March 29) — Jim Yoder has turned plenty of laps at Hagerstown Speedway, and the Selinsgrove, Pa., driver now realizes, he's been charging into the corners too hard at the historic half-mile oval. He figured out his Full Story

• Notebook: Accident kills former Macomb champ

  Posted: 04/01/2008, 12:31 pm From track, series and other reports

  Dirt racer Chad Pratt of Bath, Ill,, the 2007 Late Model champion at Macomb (Ill.) Raceway, died March 30 in a single-vehicle accident on a county road a mile east of his hometown. He was 34. | Midwest special event schedule | Weekly Full Story

• Notebook: Keeton takes aim at 3rd title in a row

  Posted: 04/01/2008, 11:58 am From series and track reports

  The 2008 NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series opened the last weekend in March and defending and two-time West Region Champion Lucky Keeton of Toomsuba, Miss., took aim at his third straight title with two victories. Keeton raced to victories Full Story

• State Your Case: South on the rise in first round

  Posted: 03/31/2008, 04:19 am By Todd Turner

  The South will rise again? Believe it, at least according the first-round results of DirtonDirt.com's exclusive bracket-style tournament that will determine the best state in Dirt Late Model racing. In virtually every first-round matchup, Full Story

• Notebook: Hartman makes point at Brownstown

  Posted: 03/30/2008, 07:26 am By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 29) — Chasing points hasn’t been former Dirt Track World Champion Bart Hartman’s M.O. most of his career, so the Zanesville, Ohio, driver sometimes has to check himself while following the Lucas Full Story

• Moyer's march continues with $20,000 at Pike

  Posted: 03/30/2008, 05:19 am By Kevin Kovac

  MAGNOLIA, Miss. (March 29) — Billy Moyer added a stop in Mississippi to his spectacular 2008 victory tour, hitting paydirt in Saturday night’s inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series March Through Dixie 100 at Pike County Full Story

• Casey ices Brownstown field, collects $10,000

  Posted: 03/29/2008, 07:30 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 29) — Terry Casey has shown his throttle-mashing abilities on heavy surfaces. He's not bad on a drier track, either. Starting 16th at Brownstown Speedway, the New London, Wis., driver overtook Bart Hartman Full Story

• Claycomb back on track at Brownstown

  Posted: 03/29/2008, 05:16 pm By Todd Turner

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 29) —Just after the drivers’ meeting, Kevin Claycomb noticed a couple of drivers in the Brownstown Speedway pits, but he didn’t recognize them. “Who’s that?” he asked. “I Full Story

• Fuller sets fast time in WoO event at Pike

  Posted: 03/29/2008, 05:25 am By Kevin Kovac

  MAGNOLIA, Miss. (March 28) — Former World of Outlaws Late Model Series champions Scott Bloomquist and Billy Moyer, tour regular Shannon Babb and local standout James Ward scored heat-race victories during Friday night’s qualifying Full Story

• Notebook: First-year UFO adds Yankee Doodle

  Posted: 03/27/2008, 04:04 pm From series and track reports

  The Unified Force Race Championship added two events at Central Pennsylvania Speedway in Clearfield, Pa., to its first-year schedules, pushing the purses on the tour past $400,000. The UFO tour, now scheduled for 11 events overall, are Full Story

• Notebook: Roth gets back to his roots at PIR

  Posted: 03/27/2008, 03:02 pm From track and correspondent reports

  Bill Roth is getting “back to his roots” as the new general manager at Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway. As a native of Carlisle, Pa., he grew up attending sprint car races at the famed Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Full Story

• Quad City to host MARS-NALMS showdown

  Posted: 03/27/2008, 02:11 pm From staff and series reports

  The first-ever co-sanctioned race by the O’Reilly MARS DirtCar Series and Northern Allstars Late Model Series appears to be a rich one. According to the MARS schedule, the third annual Fall Harvest Shootout at Quad City Raceway in Full Story