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• Notes: Fergy on the cusp of rewriting DTWC fate

  Posted: 10/15/2022, 10:37 am By Kevin Kovac

  PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Oct. 14) — Securing a prime starting spot in the 100-lap General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries feature at Portsmouth Raceway Park is nothing new for Chris Ferguson. “We’ve been Full Story

• Column: Shifting English doesn't miss a beat

  Posted: 10/13/2022, 07:14 am

  Tanner English breathed a huge sigh of relief last week when he buttoned up a deal to drive for Shawn and Lisa Martin’s Viper Motorsports team in 2023. No surprise there, of course. The 29-year-old driver originally from Benton, Ky. Full Story

• 2022 Late Model series and track champions

  Posted: 12/31/2022, 12:47 pm

  Series champions Region-by-region champions on Dirt Late Model series and racing organizations for 2022: National Castrol FloRacing Night in America - Brandon Sheppard Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series - Tim McCreadie World of Full Story

• Notes: PPMS Crate standout giving it another shot

  Posted: 09/29/2022, 06:53 am By Kyle McFadden

  Ben Policz has a love-hate relationship with the Bill Hendren Memorial — this weekend’s RUSH Late Model Series event that accompanies the 37th Pittsburgher — at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. Because the Crate Late Models Full Story

• Notes: Virginia racer makes way for next generation

  Posted: 09/22/2022, 10:54 am By Kyle McFadden

  At 34 years old, Jason Miller is in his racing prime and could potentially have a few more decades behind the wheel. But at end of the 2022 season, the Berryville, Va., racer is set to hang up the driver’s helmet and effectively put an Full Story

• Notes: High point for South Dakota racer

  Posted: 09/15/2022, 09:29 am By Kyle McFadden

  Though Josh Skorczewski is the closest he’s ever been to winning his a WISSOTA championship, the identity of his season — or race program for that matter — doesn’t hinge on if he overcomes a 69-point deficit to Chad Becker in the Full Story

• Column: Lack of quality racing concerns Overton

  Posted: 09/15/2022, 08:09 am

  By all reasonable standards, Brandon Overton’s four-day visit last week to Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, was spectacular — not perfect like last year when he swept the prelim features and 100-lap finales of the double Dreams to Full Story

• Fast Talk: Holiday review and analysis of Rocket1

  Posted: 09/05/2022, 11:45 am

  After a busy (but often wet) Labor Day weekend, our roundtable considers the sport’s latest while looking ahead to the 52nd annual at Eldora Speedway in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity Full Story

• Notes: Satterlee rides out rough one at Bedford

  Posted: 09/03/2022, 12:47 pm By Kyle McFadden

  BEDFORD, Pa. (Sept. 2) — Gregg Satterlee of Indiana, Pa., said he’s never endured a crash quite as hard as his attempt for the win gone bad Friday night at Bedford Speedway. Stalking leader Rick Eckert of York, Pa., with two laps remaining Full Story

• Wild conclusion falls into Cosner's lap at Bedford

  Posted: 09/03/2022, 02:29 am By Kyle McFadden

  BEDFORD, Pa. (Sept. 2) — It seemed like the only thing Matt Cosner could readily anticipate Friday night at Bedford Speedway was a post-victory dousing from teammate Eddie Carrier Jr., who didn’t hide the giddy intention of dumping Full Story

• Dispatches: Pierce snaps string of bridesmaid runs

  Posted: 09/03/2022, 06:44 pm

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events during Labor Day weekend, including the DIRTcar Summer Nationals makeup at Macon (Ill.) Speedway, World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series action at Smoky Mountain Full Story

• Column: The circuitous route to victory for Erwin

  Posted: 08/31/2022, 04:55 pm

  When does the biggest victory of a driver’s career not feel like such a monumental accomplishment? When the racer leaves the racetrack as a runner-up and learns he won the event about 48 hours later. That was the awkward situation experienced Full Story

• Notes: Slate-shuffling J.D. rolls at Port Royal

  Posted: 08/27/2022, 06:26 am By Kyle McFadden and Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 26) — At the start of the week, Jonathan Davenport and crew viewed the weekend as a needed break before the crucial month of September. Then as Friday night segued into the wee hours of Saturday, Davenport found Full Story

• Notes: Illinois driver finally gets over hump

  Posted: 08/25/2022, 07:45 am By Kyle McFadden

  Logan Moody’s maiden Super Late Model victory Aug. 19 at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway unfolded along the path of least resistance: a clean sweep of the nightly program with quick time honors following by leading every lap of his heat race Full Story

• Fast Facts: 40th annual Sunoco North-South 100

  Posted: 08/09/2022, 01:10 pm By Robert Holman

  Dates: Aug. 11-13 (split-field $5,000-to-win programs Thursday and Friday followed by Saturday’s $75,000-to-win finale) Track: Florence Speedway in Union, Ky. (half-mile high-banked clay oval) Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Purse: Full Story

• Notes: Iowa standout finds new challenges

  Posted: 08/04/2022, 08:06 am By Kyle McFadden

  Since Matt Ryan broke through in 2019 to win the IMCA weekly points championship after years of falling crushingly short, the Davenport, Iowa, racer’s initiative at the wheel of a Late Model has relaxed a bit. Not relaxed in the sense Full Story

• Column: FALS windfall buoys Rocket 1 team

  Posted: 08/03/2022, 01:47 pm

  When someone chatting with Brandon Sheppard in Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway’s pit area after Saturday’s World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series-sanctioned Prairie Dirt Classic congratulated him by saying, “You just won a $100,000!” Full Story

• Consistent Marlar can’t find way past B-Shepp

  Posted: 08/01/2022, 07:13 am By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 30) — Mike Marlar entered the 32nd Prairie Dirt Classic riding a remarkable string of consistency, but one look at Fairbury Speedway’s packed pit area on Friday had him wondering if he could keep on rolling. “Coming Full Story

• Notes: Hexed Winger fades in bid at Fairbury

  Posted: 07/30/2022, 04:58 pm By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 29) — Ashton Winger just can’t catch a break. The 22-year-old from Hampton, Ga., appeared primed to make a triumphant debut behind the wheel of the Big Frog Motorsports No. 58 in Friday’s first 25-lap Prairie Full Story

• Column: I-80's backers fear void left by closure

  Posted: 07/27/2022, 03:53 pm

  The weekend was billed as the final Imperial Tile Silver Dollar Nationals at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., with the track facing impending sale and closure, but it didn't seem like attendees of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned Full Story

• Car coordination gets Herrington on track

  Posted: 07/26/2022, 07:29 am By Robert Holman

  SWAINSBORO, Ga. (July 24) — Like many drivers slipping into a new ride or joining a new race team, Wil Herrington of Hawkinsville, Ga., struggled with consistency after joining forces with Alabama car owner Colton Miller, a Florida transplant Full Story

• Notes: Upstate teen rolling at Laurens County

  Posted: 07/21/2022, 12:43 am By Kyle McFadden

  One summer day in 2018, team owner Jeff Robinson approached his driver, Lee Cooper, with an uncanny suggestion to put his then 10-year-old son, Luke, in a 602 Crate Late Model. Up to that point, the Woodruff, S.C., racer hadn’t competed Full Story

• Fast Talk: Wrapping our arms around busy summer action

  Posted: 07/18/2022, 10:53 am

  On a weekend when 10 five-figure payouts were on the line (and three others were rained out), our roundtable recaps everything in our weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): Pick a topic Full Story

• Dispatches: Marlar's win maintains solid streak

  Posted: 07/16/2022, 03:00 pm

  The latest notes and quotes from Dirt Late Model special and sanctioned events in mid-July, including events on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series, DIRTcar Summer Nationals and other tours (find Full Story

• Notes: Madden sniffs out Stuart's winning groove

  Posted: 07/13/2022, 07:43 am By Kevin Kovac

  STUART, Iowa (July 12) — When a dirt track starts taking rubber — like Stuart International Speedway did midway through Tuesday night’s 50-lap XR Super Series feature — the odds are good that Chris Madden will immediately know it. “I Full Story