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• Notebook: Rookie rallies for West Plains success

  Posted: 05/24/2008, 01:52 am By Todd Turner

  WEST PLAINS, Mo. (May 23) — After what he termed "driver error" left Neil Baggett just 48th among 79 qualifiers, the 25-year-old driver from Shannon, Miss., knew he had his work cut out for him at West Plains Motor Speedway. To finish Full Story

• Show-Me: Freddy Smith earns pole with stunner

  Posted: 05/24/2008, 06:53 pm By Todd Turner

  WEST PLAINS, Mo. (May 23) — Freddy Smith's rally from his eighth starting spot in the first heat set off a flurry of rallies in heat race action at West Plains Motor Speedway for the 16th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts Show-Me 100. Smith Full Story

• Show-Me: Picking the 24 West Plains starters

  Posted: 05/23/2008, 08:40 am From staff reports

  WEST PLAINS, Mo. (May 22) — Picking in winner in race which two guys (Scott Bloomquist and Wendell Wallace) have dominated the past six years might not be too challenging. But picking the 24 drivers who will start the 16th annual Full Story

• Show-Me: Wallace leans toward new car over old

  Posted: 05/22/2008, 06:04 pm By Todd Turner

  WEST PLAINS, Mo. (May 22) — Each of the last two years at West Plains Motor Speedway's Show-Me 100, Wendell Wallace has fielded a brand new GRT Race Car. And each of the last two years, the Batesville, Ark., driver has stood in Full Story

• Reed joins first-time winner parade at Allison

  Posted: 05/22/2008, 04:11 am From series reports

  ALLISON, Iowa (May 21) — Justin Reed of Quincy, Ill., added his name to the growing list of first-time tour winners with his midweek run to the checkers in the Deery Brothers Summer Series feature at Highway 3 Raceway. Reed led all Full Story

• Notebook: Blaney to pilot Fuller car in Delaware

  Posted: 05/21/2008, 07:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standout Dave Blaney will face off with the stars of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series on May 29 when the national tour visits Delaware International Speedway. An Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Full Story

• Show-Me Three: Preview of biggie at West Plains

  Posted: 05/21/2008, 08:17 am By Todd Turner

  DirtonDirt.com presents the Show-Me Three, a preview of the 16th annual Show-Me 100 at West Plains (Mo.) Motor Speedway, where the nation's best Dirt Late Model racers will battle for a $42,000 winner's purse May 22-24: | Video preview Three Full Story

• Litton survives tangle, scores repeat at Pike

  Posted: 05/19/2008, 12:03 pm From series reports

  MAGNOLIA, Miss. (May 17) — Rob Litton of Alexandria, La., won for the second time in a row at Pike County Speedway in O'Reilly Auto Parts Southern United Professional Racing action for his third victory of the season on the Louisiana-based Full Story

• Frank denies Richards, triumphs at Lincoln

  Posted: 05/18/2008, 10:48 pm By Todd Turner

  LINCOLN, Ill. (May 18) — Turnabout is fair play. Chub Frank got the better of Josh Richards at Lincoln Speedway, holding off the 20-year-old sensation to capture the Land of Lincoln 40 before a standing-room-only crowd. It was the Full Story

• T-Mac pockets $10,000 for victory at La Salle

  Posted: 05/18/2008, 02:23 am From series reports

  La SALLE, Ill. (May 17) — Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., outdueled Brady Smith at La Salle Speedway for his second Dirt Late Model victory of 2008 and his first on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series since 2005. McCreadie took Full Story

• Ailing son on mind, Mars triumphs at Shawano

  Posted: 05/17/2008, 10:23 pm By Todd Turner

  SHAWANO, Wis. (May 17) — With his 4-month-old son still recovering from bacterial meningitis, Jimmy Mars scrubbed his long-traveling weekend racing plans. Mars had already been away from on a racing trip when Taylor first checked Full Story

• Mars rumbles to dash victory at Shawano

  Posted: 05/17/2008, 05:50 am By Shawn Fredenberg

  SHAWANO, Wis. (May 16) — Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis., won the fast dash at Shawano Speedway on the first-ever night of racing on the new WISSOTA-sanctioned Rumble Dirt Series. Mars, one of WISSOTA's top graduates, will be among Full Story

• Birkhofer collects $10,000 for Lucas Oil win at Farley

  Posted: 05/17/2008 From series and staff reports

  FARLEY, Iowa (May 16) — Celebrating his older son Cruz's sixth birthday, home-state driver Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine grabbed the lead from Brian Shirley on the 30th lap and fought off Shirley the rest of the way to to win the Banner Full Story

• David Smith takes Fastrak at Travelers Rest

  Posted: 05/11/2008, 01:03 pm From track reports

  TRAVELERS REST, S.C. (May 10) — David Smith of Inman, S.C., raced to a $2,000 victory on the Fastrak Racing Series at Travelers Rest Speedway. Reigning Fastrak regional champion John Llewellyn of Knoxville, Tenn., was second followed Full Story

• Babb leads all 100 laps for Wheatland victory

  Posted: 05/11/2008, 12:42 pm By Todd Turner

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (May 11) — Shannon Babb's been in Missouri about 10 days now. The way things are going, he may never leave. Grabbing his second victory in the Show-Me State over the past two weekends, Babb collected one of Dirt Full Story

• Parker captures Fastrak event at Carolina

  Posted: 05/10/2008, 02:19 pm From track and correspondent reports

  GASTONIA, N.C. (May 9) — Ron Parker of Belwood, N.C., earned $2,000 for his Fastrak Racing Series victory at Carolina Speedway. John Pursley of Clover, S.C., kept pressure on the winner through most of the race but settled for second Full Story

• Scouting the heats for the Diamond Nationals

  Posted: 05/10/2008, 11:46 am

  WHEATLAND, Mo. — Drivers that can handle wet conditions might be the favorites for Sunday's rain-delayed Super Clean Diamond Nationals at Lucas Oil Speedway. DirtonDirt.com takes a crack at cracking Sunday's heats heading into the Full Story

• Wall injured as Clanton wins at North Alabama

  Posted: 05/10/2008, 08:50 am From series and team reports

  TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (May 9) — Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., took the lead on the last lap for an O'Reilly Southern All Star victory at North Alabama Speedway on an evening marred by Chris Wall's flipping accident that sent him to Full Story

• Notebook: Special safety checks at Wheatland

  Posted: 05/09/2008, 08:14 pm By Todd Turner

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (May 9) — Technical inspections at the second annual Super Clean Diamond Nationals included additional checks as former NASCAR driver and racing safety expert Randy LaJoie examined the cockpits of many of the 80 cars Full Story

• Bloomquist gets revenge, fast time at Wheatland

  Posted: 05/09/2008, 07:01 pm By Todd Turner

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (May 9) — Rebounding after missing the feature lineup for last year's Diamond Nationals, Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., was the only driver below 17 seconds in time trials for this year's $40,000-to-win event Full Story

• Birkhofer earns $7,000 for WoO win at Monett

  Posted: 05/04/2008, 09:35 pm By Kevin Kovac

  Brian Birkhofer still doesn’t have an official name for the new car he built with Jimmy and Chris Mars. But the Muscatine, Iowa, standout can certainly call the machine a winner after rolling to a flag-to-flag victory in the 40-lap Full Story

• Bloomquist tunes new car, wins at Bulls Gap

  Posted: 05/04/2008, 07:20 am By Robert Walden

  BULLS GAP, Tenn. (May 3) — If Scott Bloomquist, has a test track, its Volunteer Speedway. He used the 4/10-mile oval to shake down a new car at the Thunder at the Gap 50 and earned $4,000 for leading every lap of the Advance Auto Full Story

• Brady Smith tops KLMS for first Lucas Oil win

  Posted: 05/04/2008, 06:41 am By James Essex

  CALVERT CITY, Ky. (May 3) — Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., powered past Darren Miller of Chadwick, Ill., on a lap-20 restart and never looked back at Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway in notching his first-ever Lucas Oil Late Model Full Story

• Covert earns $5,000 at VMS Sawyer Memorial

  Posted: 05/02/2008, 06:42 am By Dave Seay

  JAMAICA, Va. (May 1) — Jason Covert of York Haven, Pa., led all 40 laps of the Super Late Model portion of the Paul Sawyer Memorial at Virginia Motor Speedway for an unsanctioned victory worth $5,000. The fast qualifier dominated Full Story

• Woodworth repels foes at Quincy, gets first victory

  Posted: 05/01/2008, 04:28 am From series reports

  QUINCY, Ill. (April 30) — Hometown driver Denny Woodworth saw a lot more of the back of the field than he wanted to before he saw the checkers fly at Quincy Raceway. Woodworth maintained a sometimes tenuous lead the last 44 times Full Story