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Notes: Gentry aims high in Wayne County finale
Posted: 08/23/2023, 04:52 pmWeekly points championships are drawing to a close at many dirt tracks across the country. At Wayne County Speedway, J.R. Gentry of Wooster, Ohio, hopes to wrap up his second championship at the 3/8-mile oval in Orrville, Ohio, this weekend. Heading Full Story
Top 25: Topless winner creeps up to No. 5
Posted: 08/22/2023, 08:31 am By Todd TurnerWhile an idle Bobby Pierce maintained the No. 1 spot, Hall of Fame racer Dale McDowell moved into the top five in DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings by virtue of his $50,000 Comp Cams Topless 100 victory at Batesville Motor Speedway. The Full Story
Batesville’s old guard enjoys McDowell victory
Posted: 08/21/2023, 03:13 pm By Robert HolmanLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 19) — By the time Dale McDowell made it back to his team's transporter in the Batesville Motor Speedway pit area — 40 minutes after the conclusion of Saturday’s 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100 — a throng Full Story
Fast Talk: The ageless McDowell and more
Posted: 08/21/2023, 11:50 amFollowing Dale McDowell's Topless 100 victory at Batesville amid one of the busiest racing weekends of the summer, our roundtable recaps the action in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story
Batesville clan’s mixed feelings on Topless 100
Posted: 08/20/2023, 08:48 pm By Robert HolmanBATESVILLE, Ark. — Jared Landers beamed when he climbed from his car following Friday’s 30-lap Comp Cams Topless 100 preliminary feature. Making his first start since last year’s Topless 100, the Batesville, Ark., native and son of Full Story
Notes: Pearson aims to end Topless futility
Posted: 08/19/2023, 12:35 pm By Robert HolmanLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 18) — Of the 16 drivers locked into Saturday’s starting lineup for the Comp Cams Topless 100, only one driver — Chickamauga, Ga.’s Dale McDowell — has started Batesville Motor Speedway's Lucas Oil Late Full Story
Thornton flips switch, nabs Batesville checkers
Posted: 08/19/2023, 12:29 pm By Robert HolmanLOCUST GROVE, Ark. (Aug. 18) — And just like that, Ricky Thornton Jr. was gone. Long race, short race, any pace, the Chandler, Ariz., driver has been up to the challenge this season. Friday’s 30-lap Topless 100 preliminary feature at Full Story
After Late Model layoff, West Virginian speedy again
Posted: 08/18/2023, 07:46 am By Kyle McFaddenAfter six years away from Super Late Model racing, Keith Jackson has returned to the discipline as if he virtually never missed a beat. The Martinsburg, W.Va., racer whose Late Model career has been dormant since 2017 has this year reentered Full Story
Notes: Montanan's hot start in Late Models
Posted: 08/17/2023, 12:15 am By Kyle McFaddenMichael Leach is much like every other 20-year-old in the world, trying to establish himself as he transitions into adulthood. He started the year living in China Grove, N.C., as a fabricator for Longhorn Chassis. At the end of April, Full Story
Fast Facts: 31st annual Comp Cams Topless 100
Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:27 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 17-19 ($5,000-to-win makeup race for the Comp Cams Super Dirt Series on Thursday with optional practice for Topless 100 entrants; $5,000-to-win Lucas Oil event Friday sets lineups for for Saturday’s consolations and 100-lap, Full Story
Column: Once enemies, WoO racers now friends
Posted: 08/16/2023, 10:28 amChris Madden and Brent Larson are close, as close as two racers separated by different backgrounds and hundreds of miles — Madden lives in Gray Court, S.C., Larson in Lake Elmo, Minn. — can be. Some would even say that Madden, 48, Full Story
Top 25: Pierce solidifies No. 1 ranking
Posted: 08/15/2023, 08:17 am By Todd TurnerBobby Pierce definitely was the best North-South driver, and he's got the East and West covered, too, at least according to voters in this week's DirtonDirt.com power rankings. The 26-year-old driver from Oakwood, Ill., who reeled off Full Story
Fast Talk: Super sweep by Pierce (and more)
Posted: 08/14/2023, 11:06 amWith Bobby Pierce continuing his summer hot streak by sweeping Florence Speedway's Sunoco North-South 100, our roundtable considers that and more in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five Star Race Cars Bodies (edited for clarity Full Story
Strategy key to closing out long-distance races
Posted: 08/13/2023, 08:10 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Coming up with a gameplan to be among the frontrunners at the conclusion of a 100-lap race at Florence Speedway isn’t easy. The track’s annual Sunoco North-South 100 is often a challenge of knowing how hard Full Story
Notes: August sends Pierce into stratosphere
Posted: 08/13/2023, 02:25 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 12) — Bobby Pierce’s summer hot streak was already rolling along. And then the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver got to August. With his dazzling three-race sweep at Florence Speedway’s Sunoco North-South 100 extending Full Story
Notes: Pierce eyeing rich North-South 100 sweep
Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:20 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — After racing to a pair of 25-lap semifeature victories Thursday and Friday at Florence Speedway, Bobby Pierce is in position for a lucrative sweep of the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend on the Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story
Thornton, SSI continue rebounding with aplomb
Posted: 08/12/2023, 01:36 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — During far and away his best Dirt Late Model season, Ricky Thornton Jr.’s poor finishes and difficult nights are relatively few and far between. But when the SSI Motorsports team has an occasional rough outing, Full Story
Illinois standout works his way into Hall of Fame
Posted: 08/11/2023, 09:08 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — During Sunoco North-South 100 weekends over the last 20 years or so, most National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame inductees come to Florence Speedway to relax, enjoy a little racing and simply soak up the accolades Full Story
Notes: Marlar's never-ending quest for consistency
Posted: 08/11/2023, 04:17 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 11) — On a sunny Friday afternoon following his impressive 10th-to-first run in Thursday’s 25-lap semifeature at Florence Speedway, Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., was all smiles in his Delk Motorsports pit area during Full Story
Rice’s junked race car suddenly speedy again
Posted: 08/11/2023, 12:22 am By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — It’s tough enough on Josh Rice’s competition that the 25-year-old can outrun just about anybody at his home track of Florence Speedway when his race car is top-notch. But the fact the seventh-starting Verona, Full Story
Notes: A flat, a wreck (and then time to race)
Posted: 08/10/2023, 11:56 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — On the first day of the three-day Sunoco North-South 100, Michael Chilton had a flat tire. And a wreck. And that was before he even made it into the pit area at Florence Speedway. | RaceWire Things turned decidedly Full Story
For some racers, if the steering wheel fits ...
Posted: 08/10/2023, 04:31 pm By Todd TurnerUNION, Ky. (Aug. 10) — If for some reason — God forbid — Bobby Pierce has to switch to a backup car during the Sunoco North-South 100 weekend at Florence Speedway, there’s at least one component the 26-year-old Oakwood, Ill., driver Full Story
Notes: Tuning old car, finding new success
Posted: 08/10/2023, 07:37 am By Kyle McFaddenKyle Peterlin’s had the same 2017 Rocket Chassis since he bought the race car when it first came out, yet this year he’s seen a major improvement in results. On July 28-29, the 37-year-old picked up his richest career victories — Full Story
Fast Facts: 41st annual Sunoco North-South 100
Posted: 08/09/2023, 11:48 am By Aaron ClayDates: Aug. 10-12 (two 25-lap, $5,000-to-win split-field semifeatures will be contested Thursday and Friday, setting the heat race lineups preceding Saturday’s 100-lap, $75,000-to-win North-South 100). Track: Florence Speedway in Union, Full Story
Column: Where Pierce struggled, now he wins
Posted: 08/08/2023, 03:09 pmBobby Pierce’s decade-long pursuit of glory in the Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway continued on July 29 when he yet again flirted with victory but settled for a runner-up finish. One week later, though, the 26-year-old Full Story
