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• Davenport's stellar stretch ends prematurely

  Posted: 08/31/2023, 06:37 pm By Robert Holman

  As the K Promotions era comes to a close at Davenport (Iowa) Speedway, so too does one of the venerable track’s most lucrative and competitive seasons ever. Following Saturday’s $30,000-to-win World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series-sanctioned Full Story

• Column: Dad's thrill of watching Overtons race

  Posted: 08/31/2023, 02:55 pm

  Bo Overton wasn’t really sure how he should act. He was as anxious and nervous as a 67-year-old could be as he stood on a four-wheeler in Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway’s infield last Saturday night and watched his two sons — Brandon, Full Story

• Notes: Partnership gives Mississippian best shot

  Posted: 08/31/2023, 08:00 am By Kyle McFadden

  Life as a Dirt Late Model racer has really taken off for Chase Cooper these last three years. The Perkinston, Miss., driver has doubled his victory total each season since he began to hone in on the Crate discipline in 2021: from three Full Story

• Well-timed surge propels Rocket1 at Port Royal

  Posted: 08/29/2023, 05:16 pm By Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 26) — Mark Richards thoroughly enjoyed watching his Rocket Chassis house car driver, Hudson O’Neal, dig deeper and pour on the speed to vault from third-to-first over the final 10 circuits and win Saturday night’s Full Story

• 2023 Late Model series and track champions

  Posted: 12/31/2023, 01:36 pm

  Series champions Region-by-region champions on Dirt Late Model series and racing organizations for 2023: National Castrol FloRacing Night in America - Bobby Pierce Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series - Hudson O'Neal World Full Story

• Top 25: Davenport, Port Royal winners inch up

  Posted: 08/29/2023, 06:47 am By Todd Turner

  While he suffered just his second feature loss in August, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., maintained a firm grip on the No. 1 spot in DirtonDirt.com’s weekly power rankings while the weekend’s richest winners made gains. Pierce, whose Full Story

• Notes: Younger Overton steers learning curve

  Posted: 08/28/2023, 12:30 pm By Kevin Kovac and Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 26) — Cody Overton was standing in the middle of Port Royal Speedway’s paved pit area, cooling off and debriefing with car owner Bruce Kane after finishing eighth in Saturday night’s 50-lap Rumble by the River Full Story

• Fast Talk: An eventful weekend recapped

  Posted: 08/28/2023, 10:34 am

  With Hudson O’Neal ($50,000 at Port Royal) and Brandon Sheppard ($30,000 at Davenport) the big national touring winners, our roundtable discusses the action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited Full Story

• Cosner's improvement nets results at Port Royal

  Posted: 08/27/2023, 02:06 pm By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 26) — Matt Cosner’s Saturday at Port Royal Speedway with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series couldn’t have gone much better. The Ridgeley, W.Va., driver turned in his best career touring finish — an impressive Full Story

• RTJ electrifies, then goes down swinging at Port

  Posted: 08/27/2023, 10:41 am By Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 26) — Even when Ricky Thornton Jr. goes down to defeat in his amazing 2023 campaign, he goes down swinging. The hard results will say that Saturday’s Rumble by the River finale at Port Royal Speedway was quite Full Story

• Another key (and rich) step for B-Shepp's team

  Posted: 08/27/2023, 06:50 am By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 26) — Brandon Sheppard’s transition from the Rocket Chassis house car to a Longhorn Chassis fielded by Sheppard Riggs Racing has been anything but easy. The challenges involved in tackling a new chassis and a Full Story

• Shirley balances family life amid busy season

  Posted: 08/27/2023, 06:39 am By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 26) — Brian Shirley isn’t ready for a new career, but he’s smart enough to know that a little break every so often is a good thing. Over the past five weeks the Chatham, Ill., driver has had a couple of lulls Full Story

• Notes: Upbeat Stone not troubled by misfortune

  Posted: 08/26/2023, 11:33 am By Kevin Kovac and Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 25) — If there was ever a night Dan Stone could be devastated toward a result, it’d be Friday at Port Royal Speedway, where a rear-end failure soiled a potential top-five finish and front-row starting spot in one Full Story

• Overton snaps skid in feisty Port Royal semi

  Posted: 08/26/2023, 09:04 am By Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 25) — Brandon Overton was happy. Jonathan Davenport was angry. And Mike Marlar? He was smiling but also a bit perplexed. For a short 25-lap race that saw Overton lead from flag-to-flag to score a $5,000 victory, Full Story

• How to end Pierce’s run? Work hard to get faster

  Posted: 08/26/2023, 07:31 am By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 25) — Bobby Pierce is as hot as a Davenport afternoon. Slipping into town just in time for a record-setting stretch of heat in the Midwest, the Oakwood, Ill., driver is on a hot streak of his own. Leading Full Story

• Shot at big time fading, Norris embraces family

  Posted: 08/26/2023, 07:12 am By Kyle McFadden

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 25) — Michael Norris thinks about what could have been from time to time. Four years ago, when Clint Bowyer tabbed him as his team’s interim driver for the ailing Don O’Neal on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• The Dirt Late Model vibe lures NASCAR’s Chastain

  Posted: 08/25/2023, 05:55 pm By Kyle McFadden

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (Aug. 24) — Instead of retreating to a calmer, drier place during a Thursday rain delay at Georgetown Speedway that paused Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series action, Ross Chastain put himself front and center of the crowd Full Story

• Instinctual RTJ zigs, zags past Georgetown rivals

  Posted: 08/25/2023, 10:19 am By Kevin Kovac

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (Aug. 24) — Ricky Thornton Jr. never ceases to amaze his crew chief Anthony Burroughs. Amid a spectacular season in which Thornton has made Dirt Late Model magic on a regular basis, the 32-year-old native of Chandler, Full Story

• Notes: Leading Alberson blitzed on G'town restart

  Posted: 08/25/2023, 09:53 am By Kevin Kovac and Kyle McFadden

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (Aug. 24) — Garrett Alberson executed Thursday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at Georgetown Speedway to perfection until the restart on lap 18. The Las Cruces, N.M., driver blasted around the pole-starting Full Story

• Notes: Pierce ends his WoO futility at Davenport

  Posted: 08/25/2023, 07:27 am By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 24) — Entering Thursday’s My Place Hotels Quad Cities 150 opener on the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series, Bobby Pierce had five runner-up finishes in six WoO starts at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds Full Story

• Robinson’s homecoming not the gala he’d hoped

  Posted: 08/25/2023, 07:06 am By Kyle McFadden

  GEORGETOWN, Del. (Aug. 24) — Ross Robinson’s roller-coaster ride of a night came to an emotional halt when he was asked to summarize Thursday’s homecoming at Georgetown Speedway in a single word. “I don’t think there was a word Full Story

• Heat tests WoO competitors at Davenport

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 04:22 pm By Robert Holman

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (Aug. 24) — Brandon Sheppard stepped out of the comfy confines of his team’s transporter Thursday afternoon and was immediately engulfed by a rush of hot air. “Man it’s hot out here,” the four-time World of Outlaws Full Story

• Davenport supporter puts 'money where his mouth is'

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 11:49 am By Mike Warren

  Jeff Hoker’s son brought him to his first dirt race about 10 years ago. The experience was an instant bonding moment between the two and the birth of a new venture. Hoker, his family, and their Hoker Trucking business became long-time Full Story

• Notes: Minnesotan gets satisfaction of first win

  Posted: 08/24/2023, 07:13 am By Kyle McFadden

  Jayme Lautigar is one of the countless of drivers ascending from the modified ranks to find a more auspicious place in Dirt Late Model racing. The Gilbert, Minn., native and modified racer for two decades moved up to the full-fendered Full Story

• Column: Iowan forges on in tackling elite division

  Posted: 08/23/2023, 10:25 pm

  Racing wasn’t on Daniel Hilsabeck’s radar a whole lot from 2017-19. Some B-modified and stock car events here and there, a few open-wheel starts toward the end of ’19, and that was about it. Instead, he worked. He built a house. Full Story