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Madden to the Midwest: It's not you, it's me
Posted: 06/26/2023, 05:11 pm By Kyle McFaddenNORFOLK, Neb. (June 25) — Chris Madden is accepting of the fact that he’s in a funk right now. But he refutes the notion that his struggles have anything to do with the recent Midwest-focus of the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series Full Story
Fast Talk: Is WoO points chase wide open?
Posted: 06/26/2023, 12:17 pmWith Ricky Thornton Jr., adding another $50,000 victory, the World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series on its Heartland Speedweek and Jason Feger shining on the DIRTcar Summer Nationals, our roundtable weighs in for the weekly feature presented Full Story
Nebraska victory stokes Pierce's WoO hot streak
Posted: 06/26/2023, 09:17 am By Kyle McFaddenNORFOLK, Neb. (June 25) — Nebraska definitely isn’t the first state that comes to mind when it comes to Bobby Pierce’s Dirt Late Model success. But when nights like Sunday at Off Road Speedway put Pierce’s dynamic talents on a pedestal Full Story
Notes: Zeigler's eventful Firecracker 100 fizzles
Posted: 06/26/2023, 08:39 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 24) — If passing cars was the barometer for success during the Firecracker 100 presented by Big River Steel weekend at Lernerville Speedway, then Mason Zeigler was the star of the show. | RaceWire But while the 30-year-old Full Story
With another $50,000, Thornton’s talent shines
Posted: 06/25/2023, 11:08 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 24) — Every race that Anthony Burroughs watches his driver, Ricky Thornton Jr., run, the more he just shakes his head in amazement. Thornton, 32, of Chandler, Ariz., isn’t just breaking out as a Dirt Late Model Full Story
Swift Hoffman positioned for WoO rookie, title bid
Posted: 06/25/2023, 10:46 am By Kyle McFaddenPARK CITY, Kan. (June 24) — As he rolled up the team’s runner rug and stashed it away inside a transporter cabinet Saturday while preparing to depart 81 Speedway, Nick Hoffman received some enlightening news. Well, it wasn’t exactly Full Story
Notes: Kansas track presents challenge for Outlaws
Posted: 06/24/2023, 03:59 pm By Kyle McFaddenPARK CITY, Kan. (June 23) — After a respectable fourth-place finish in Friday’s first 25-lap prelim at 81 Speedway, a crewman of a neighboring team approached Brian Shirley with one of the more common questions in Dirt Late Model racing. “What Full Story
Blair wins big, then recalls father's promise
Posted: 06/24/2023, 02:14 pm By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 23) — Max Blair was bursting with excitement after winning Friday’s second 25-lap Firecracker 100 presented by Big River Steel semifeature at Lernerville Speedway. But, in the midst of realizing his first-ever success Full Story
B-Shepp puts in work in WoO title chase
Posted: 06/24/2023, 08:30 am By Kyle McFaddenPARK CITY, Kan. (June 23) — While most of Friday’s prelim frontrunners at 81 Speedway lounged around the track’s pit area without any festering problems to solve ahead of Saturday’s 60-lap, $30,000-to-win program, Brandon Sheppard Full Story
Peanut's memory rides with J.D. at Lernerville
Posted: 06/24/2023, 08:14 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 23) — For a track that sits more than 600 miles and nearly 10 hours from Jonathan Davenport’s hometown of Blairsville, Ga., Lernerville Speedway occupies an outsized place in his heart. It’s not because he owns Full Story
Notes: Sporty Troutman addressing tire issues
Posted: 06/23/2023, 06:29 pm By Todd TurnerBROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 23) — After suffering flat right-rear tire in both his DIRTcar Summer Nationals starts this week, Drake Troutman of Hyndman, Pa., knows that’s a streak he needs to break sooner rather than later. | Complete Summer Full Story
Weight of Hell Tour win not lost on youngsters
Posted: 06/23/2023, 06:03 pm By Todd TurnerBROWNSTOWN, Ill. (June 23) — Up-and-coming drivers are eager to add any victory to their resumes, but a first-time victory on the DIRTcar Summer Nationals would be extra special. That’s what about 40 drivers are gunning for Friday Full Story
Renewed Late Model effort focus for Larson
Posted: 06/23/2023, 12:52 pm By Todd TurnerDAVENPORT, Iowa (June 21) — Jeff Larson made a stirring 15th-to-fourth run in Wednesday’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals feature at Davenport Speedway before rear-end issues forced his Amanda and Doug Curless-owned car pitside, but the 39-year-old Full Story
After DQ, Cody Overton lights Firecracker fuse
Posted: 06/23/2023, 08:35 am By Kevin KovacSARVER, Pa. (June 22) — Cody Overton was grimy and wet after spending several minutes on the liftgate of his team owner Bruce Kane’s trailer struggling to load up his car in a steady rain Thursday night at Lernerville Speedway, but Full Story
Less-traveled roads now Summer Nationals lore
Posted: 06/22/2023, 01:09 pm By Todd TurnerDAVENPORT, Iowa (June 21) — Mark Voigt will never forget his team’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals journey to Cedar Lake Speedway a dozen or more years ago. The overnight journey came after a late night of racing in Kankakee, Ill., so Voigt Full Story
Notes: Simpson siblings can't stop Winger
Posted: 06/22/2023, 09:10 am By Todd TurnerDAVENPORT, Iowa (June 21) — While standout Iowa racing brothers Chad and Chris Simpson started on the front row at Davenport Speedway and both took turns leading Wednesday’s 40-lap DIRTcar Summer Nationals event, neither was able to Full Story
Notes: West Virginian ramps up Super efforts
Posted: 06/22/2023, 02:40 am By Kyle McFaddenFor the longest time, Ryan Payne’s definition of success never revolved around Dirt Late Model wins. Of the 32-year-old’s first nine years with his family-owned Crate team, he’d been perfectly content with a single feature victory Full Story
Victory at Davenport therapeutic for Winger
Posted: 06/22/2023, 01:21 am By Todd TurnerDAVENPORT, Iowa (June 21) — Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... With apologies to Dickens, DIRTcar Summer Nationals fans at Davenport Speedway were treated to a tale of three Full Story
Column: It's team first for Burroughs-led SSI
Posted: 06/21/2023, 03:45 pmRicky Thornton Jr.’s rise to the top of the Dirt Late Model game in 2023 is no overnight success story. The 32-year-old native of Chandler, Ariz., who made his first mark on dirt-track racing in the open-wheel modified division has been Full Story
Notes: Moyer Jr. makes most of time away
Posted: 06/21/2023, 07:26 am By Todd TurnerMOBERLY, Mo. (June 20) — Billy Moyer Jr. left his Batesville, Ark., home Monday night after his young daughter Hallie and young son Braxton went to bed, and he knew that his midweek stretch of racing on the DIRTcar Summer Nationals meant Full Story
Bitter Moberly defeat deflating for Troutman
Posted: 06/20/2023, 11:47 pm By Todd TurnerMOBERLY, Mo. (June 20) — Pulling into his pit stall in the waning laps of Tuesday’s DIRTcar Summer Nationals event at Moberly Motorsports Park, a disconsolate Drake Troutman needed a moment. Considering he’d just shredded a tire while Full Story
No Hell Tour off-nights for Bauer and his crew
Posted: 06/20/2023, 06:10 pm By Todd TurnerMOBERLY, Mo. (June 20) — The DIRTcar Summer Nationals typically provides Monday as an off-day for drivers cramming 28 races into 33 days. It was anything but a day off, though, for Farwell, Mich., driver Cody Bauer and his four-man crew. In Full Story
Top 25: RTJ unanimous as Shirley rises
Posted: 06/20/2023, 06:53 am By Todd TurnerFollowing his richest victory of the season, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series points leader Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., is again the unanimous pick as the nation's No. 1 driver in DirtonDirt.com's weekly power rankings. Thornton, Full Story
Surprise AMS champ tries to soak it all in
Posted: 06/19/2023, 08:32 pm By Kyle McFaddenSELINSGROVE, Pa. (June 18) — Tyler Emory’s emergence from a middling racer in the Northeast to runaway champion of Appalachian Mountain Speedweek is one of the swiftest rises to fame in the recent history of Dirt Late Model racing. Compared Full Story
Intense Hell Tour helps Aussies get up to speed
Posted: 06/19/2023, 07:53 pm By Robert HolmanOne of the most alluring facets of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals is the daily action for race teams barnstorming through the Midwest. It’s a quality that’s defined the series since its inception in the mid 1980s. If they so choose, drivers Full Story
