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• Column: Fairbury racer chases hometown glory

  Posted: 08/05/2021, 07:53 am

  As the halfway point of Saturday’s 100-lap Prairie Dirt Classic approached, a healthy portion of the Fairbury (Ill.) Speedway faithful — specifically a group of fans in a section of the backstretch bleachers entering turn three — Full Story

• Notes: A resolve to race amid charred memories

  Posted: 08/05/2021, 07:33 am By Todd Turner

  The winningest season of Jeff Watson’s 21-year racing career faced an unimaginable setback when his racing garage burned to the ground a week ago. But the 49-year-old Campbellsville, Ky., racer, daunted but unbowed, isn’t allowing the Full Story

• Notes: Babb digs out of hole in Fairbury prelim

  Posted: 07/31/2021, 11:31 am By Kevin Kovac

  FAIRBURY, Ill. (July 30) — Shannon Babb was worried. Very, very worried. As Friday’s opening 25-lap qualifying feature for the Prairie Dirt Classic neared its halfway point, the 47-year-old star from Moweaqua, Ill., was still running Full Story

• Notes: Returnee Kirby piling up victories

  Posted: 07/29/2021, 12:12 am By Todd Turner

  Jon Kirby is a realist. The 47-year-old Russellville, Ark., driver knows his top-notch equipment gives him an edge over many lower-budget teams. And the former Comp Cams Super Dirt Series regular acknowledges that the competition level Full Story

• Notes: Improving Floridian paychecks on the rise

  Posted: 07/22/2021, 05:46 am By Todd Turner

  Colton Leyendecker’s career-biggest racing paychecks have been relatively unorthodox. The Holt, Fla., Crate Late Model driver has twice earned $2,500, both this season and both amid relatively unusual circumstances. The money spends Full Story

• Notes: Indecisive restart costs Heckenast at I-80

  Posted: 07/21/2021, 08:17 am By Kevin Kovac

  GREENWOOD, Neb. (July 20) — Frank Heckenast Jr. chalked up Tuesday’s opener of the Al Belt Custom Homes I-80 Nationals as a lesson on racing at I-80 Speedway. If only the 33-year-old from Frankfort, Ill., had more experience at the Full Story

• Notes: Oh what a feeling for North Dakota rookie

  Posted: 07/15/2021, 12:29 am By Todd Turner

  We regular folks might feel that adrenaline rush from a thrilling roller coaster or that first bungee jump. Race car drivers get it the first time they strap into a race car. Mike Greseth of Harwood, N.D., hadn't felt it for a while, accustomed Full Story

• Notes: Wisconsin driver returns to 'faster' competition

  Posted: 07/08/2021, 08:23 am By Todd Turner

  Jayme Zidar took a roundabout way toward competing regularly at dirt tracks his home state. The Greenfield, Wis., driver competed from 2000-11 in touring Super Late Model action — mostly venturing to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio Full Story

• Notes: West Virginian's confidence, wins on rise

  Posted: 07/01/2021, 08:20 am By Todd Turner

  Late Model racer Brandon Francis of Parkersburg, W.Va., has some good news and bad news about his 2021 season. Which do you want first? Let’s get the bad news out of the way. Engine woes have been a challenge with his primary powerplant Full Story

• Notes: Five-race win streak for Alabama racer

  Posted: 06/24/2021, 07:33 am By Todd Turner

  Veteran racer Brandon Brown of Hanceville, Ala., didn’t plot out his current winning streak that includes five Limited Late Model victories among four dirt tracks. But an accidental hot streak is as good as any other for the 42-year-old Full Story

• Notes: Cold call leads to hot opportunity

  Posted: 06/17/2021, 08:05 am By Todd Turner

  In an era where cell phone users skeptically view the dreaded "unknown caller," Jordan Bauer is certainly glad he picked up when Brian Thompson dialed. Getting a ring from Thompson, who Bauer had met when he wrapped the graphics on a Thompson-owned Full Story

• Notes: Nebraska rookie succeeds on a budget

  Posted: 06/10/2021, 08:18 am By Todd Turner

  There are plenty of Dirt Late Model racers who jump into the division wallet first. Top-dollar equipment. The best of everything. Open checkbook. Maxed credit card. Kyle Prauner is not that guy. When the 34-year-old Norfolk, Neb., racer Full Story

• Column: For Dreams, J.D. gets in Eldora zone

  Posted: 06/09/2021, 05:53 am

  It’s Dirt Late Model Dream Week — make that “double” Dream Week this year — at Eldora Speedway, which means that Jonathan Davenport isn’t his usual self. He’s squarely in the midst of his twice-annual transformation into a Full Story

• Fast Facts: Eldora's Double Dreams week

  Posted: 06/08/2021, 07:34 am By Robert Holman

  Dates: June 9-12 (Twin $10,000-to-win features Wednesday and Friday; heats, consolations and $127,000-to-win main event Thursday; heats, consolations and $126,000-to-win main event Saturday). Track: Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio (high-banked Full Story

• Fast Talk: Are we only Dreaming? Yes, we are

  Posted: 06/07/2021, 09:26 am

  Reviewing a busy weekend and looking ahead the unprecedented Double Dreams week at Eldora Speedway, our roundtable convenes in the weekly feature presented by Castrol Motor Oil and Fluids (edited for clarity and length): What's your takeaway(s) Full Story

• Notes: J.D. gets WVMS sweep, overcomes illness

  Posted: 06/06/2021, 08:58 am By Kevin Kovac

  MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. (June 5) — Starting sixth in Saturday's 50-lap Historic 100 finale wasn’t the biggest challenge Jonathan Davenport faced in his quest to complete a sweep of the unsanctioned two-race weekend at West Virginia Motor Full Story

• Notes: Mississippi Crate speedster shuns tweaks

  Posted: 06/03/2021, 07:16 am By Todd Turner

  Most racers tinker and tinker with their Late Model’s suspension. Adjusting this. Tweaking that. Thinking about it some more before adjusting and tweaking a few more times. Mississippi Crate Late Model racer Jeremy Idom? He’s not interested Full Story

• Notes: Cosner takes aim at his first Show-Me start

  Posted: 05/28/2021, 06:18 pm By Joshua Joiner

  WHEATLAND, Mo. (May 28) — For years, Matt Cosner has watched the Show-Me 100 presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com online or on TV and dreamed of one day competing in the crown jewel event at Lucas Oil Speedway. After finally making the Full Story

• Notes: As father recovers, Pilkerton refocuses

  Posted: 05/27/2021, 12:21 am By Todd Turner

  To say Jeremy Pilkerton was preoccupied behind the wheel of his Crate Late Model on May 15 at Potomac Speedway is an understatement. Competing at the Budds Creek, Md., oval eight days after his 60-year-old father Jeff suffered a heart Full Story

• Notes: Overton adjusts in solid Port Royal debut

  Posted: 05/22/2021, 01:27 pm By Kevin Kovac

  PORT ROYAL, Pa. (May 21) — Brandon Overton arrived at Port Royal Speedway for the first time in his career with a specific idea about the track he would face. His reality on Friday night, however, was quite different. “They told me Full Story

• Notes: Racing fun again for South Dakotan

  Posted: 05/20/2021, 06:14 am By Todd Turner

  In his 10th year of successful auto racing, one in which he was fielding cars in two divisions, Cole Searing hit the wall last summer. On the way home from a victory at Miller (S.D.) Central Speedway, the 26-year-old Huron, S.D., driver Full Story

• Fuel crisis throws sport yet another curveball

  Posted: 05/13/2021, 03:13 pm By Kevin Kovac

  In his position as director of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Rick Schwallie is no stranger to unforeseen circumstances — i.e., the coronavirus pandemic, tornadoes, track conditions — forcing him to cancel or reschedule events. But Full Story

• Notes: Missourian gets chance in Late Models

  Posted: 05/13/2021, 12:01 am By Lyndal Scranton

  Driving a Late Model is something J.C. Morton always dreamed about growing up in Springfield, Mo., home of the famed Phillips clan. Morton was as much a Terry Phillips fan as his own father, Gene Morton, was a fan of Terry Phillips’ legendary Full Story

• Notes: With solid pedigree, Alabama racer shines

  Posted: 05/06/2021, 06:52 am By Todd Turner

  If you’re a dirt racer in northwest Alabama, you could do worse than learning the trade from two of the area’s most successful racers over the last 20 years, Decatur’s Mark Mears and Northport’s Ronny Lee Hollingsworth. Caleb Coan Full Story

• Taking ownership of TST is personal for Stewart

  Posted: 04/30/2021, 08:37 am By Robert Holman

  Taking over any successful business — large or small — can be daunting task. Taking over a successful racetrack that has been in operation more than 40 years under virtually the same leadership can take daunting to an entirely differently Full Story