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• Best of 2017: Top five lists from busy season

  Posted: 12/01/2017, 06:32 am By Robert Holman

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2017 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2017 Full Story

• Breakouts, newcomers and comebacks for 2017

  Posted: 11/29/2017, 06:20 am By Robert Holman

  As part of its ongoing Best of 2017 coverage, DirtonDirt.com hands out awards to worthy Dirt Late Model drivers. We rank the top breakout drivers, top newcomers and most improved drivers and comeback drivers for the past season. This season’s Full Story

• Sheppard tops 2017's Driver of the Year chase

  Posted: 11/28/2017, 06:21 am By Alli Collis

  With the 2017 racing season in the books, DirtonDirt.com takes a closer look at top five national drivers as well as regional and weekly Dirt Late Model competition. Check our video coverage for DirtonDirt.com’s Top Five Drivers overall, Full Story

• Column: Team change bittersweet for Roberts

  Posted: 11/22/2017, 10:48 am

  Losing in the final laps of Sunday’s Blue-Gray 100 at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C., was hard enough for Casey Roberts. Losing under the unique circumstances the race presented to him made it even more difficult to accept. With Full Story

• Fast Talk: Analyzing the stellar career of Francis

  Posted: 11/20/2017, 11:59 am

  Our weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products discusses Steve Francis’s retirement, a busy stretch of Silly Season news and some end-of-season racing in the Southeast (edited for clarity and length): In the wake of Steve Full Story

• Column: Young O'Neal perseveres as top rookie

  Posted: 11/01/2017, 01:20 pm

  Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., didn’t begin the 2017 season with the expectation, let alone a plan, of chasing the full Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule. “No, not at all,” admitted O’Neal, the son of veteran star Full Story

• Quick Time: Scenarios for Lucas Oil title chase

  Posted: 10/11/2017, 11:34 am

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Column: Title chase view for T-Mac? No pressure

  Posted: 10/11/2017, 06:26 am

  Tim McCreadie stood in the lounge of his Sweeteners Plus team’s trailer, already changed into street clothes shortly after Saturday’s completion of Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway’s Pittsburgher 100. He was worn out from Full Story

• Fast Talk: Dominating winners less common?

  Posted: 10/09/2017, 08:53 am

  DirtonDirt.com’s weekly roundtable sponsored by Out-Pace Racing Products reviews the Pittsburgher 100 and weighs in with a few short-term and long-term predictions (edited for clarity and length): Are dominating performances like Don Full Story

• Notes: After winless stretch, Blackburn back on track

  Posted: 09/28/2017, 12:23 am By Alli Collis

  After a disappointing couple of seasons, racing veteran Steve Blackburn of Greensboro, N.C., has bounced back in 2017. Piloting a new Rocket XR1, the 45-year-old driver has reached the double-digit victory mark, with no plans of slowing Full Story

• 2017 Late Model series and track champions

  Posted: 12/15/2017, 11:31 am

  Series champions Region-by-region champions on Dirt Late Model series and racing organizations for 2017: National Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series - Josh Richards World of Outlaws Late Model Series - Brandon Sheppard Midwest American Full Story

• Notes: Clarksville Crate standout piles up victories

  Posted: 09/21/2017, 07:09 am By Alli Collis

  With back-to-back seasons a top-five finishes in UMP DIRTcar weekly points, Michael Zimmerman of Clarksville, Tenn., has established himself as one of the top Crate Late Model racers in the division. Zimmerman’s 2017 championship chase Full Story

• Column: Happy, fast Marlar on top of game

  Posted: 09/20/2017, 03:51 pm

  For an outgoing, approachable guy like Mike Marlar, the whirlwind of adulation in which he found himself Saturday in Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway’s pit area after winning $40,000 for the second consecutive year was a wonderful moment to savor. The Full Story

• Notes: Montana racer keeps piling up victories

  Posted: 09/14/2017, 01:53 am By Alli Collis

  After a successful start to the 2017 season, Chris Dunn of Great Falls, Mont., currently finds himself in the top three of two racetrack’s weekly points standings, along with sitting runner-up in Montana’s WISSOTA state points. But Full Story

• Fast Facts: 14th Knoxville Nationals

  Posted: 09/13/2017, 05:41 pm By Robert Holman

  14th Knoxville Nationals Dates: Sept. 14-16 ($7,000-to-win preliminary features Thursday and Friday and heats, consolations and $40,000-to-win main event Saturday) | Complete Knoxville Nationals coverage. Track: Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Full Story

• World 100 heat race lineups/prelim points

  Posted: 09/09/2017, 09:58 am

  ROSSBURG, Ohio — Unofficial heat race lineups for Saturday's 47th annual World 100 based on points accrued through Thursday and Friday preliminary events (complete World 100 coverage): Heat race lineups (15 laps; top three transfer) First Full Story

• Notes: Illinois youngster clicks off Super goals

  Posted: 09/07/2017, 07:16 am By Alli Collis

  At the top of his class at Limestone Community High School, honor roll student and teenage driver Matt Shannon of Bartonville, Ill., knows how to set goals and strive toward reaching them. When the 15-year-old made the jump to the Super Full Story

• Quick Time: How Dream winners fare at World

  Posted: 09/06/2017, 10:50 am

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Rine gets party started with his first WoO victory

  Posted: 09/04/2017, 05:40 pm By Kevin Kovac

  SELINSGROVE, Pa. (Sept. 3) — Jeff Rine and his crew didn’t take long at all to load their Dirt Late Model and lock up their trailer after Sunday night’s World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series-sanctioned National Open at Selinsgrove Full Story

• Handicapping drivers for Eldora's 47th World 100

  Posted: 09/04/2017, 11:19 am By Andy Savary

  Hypothetical winner odds for Eldora Speedway’s 47th annual World 100 in Rossburg, Ohio, a $50,000-to-win crown jewel event scheduled for Sept. 7-9 (complete World 100 coverage): Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn. Odds: Even World Full Story

• Notes: Knuckles streaks to six straight Taz wins

  Posted: 08/31/2017, 09:08 am By Alli Collis

  Dakotah Knuckles of Ewing, Va., has been on a summer hot streak, piling up victories at Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway. Aiming for the 2017 track title, the 23-year-old driver has no intentions of slowing down. Kicking off his season with a Full Story

• Fast Talk: Busy Labor Day weekend beckons

  Posted: 08/28/2017, 12:55 pm

  Our Out-Pace Racing Products-sponsored roundtable wraps up August and looks ahead to Labor Day weekend as the special event season beckons (edited for clarity and length): Evaluate the weekend's national touring action. Michael Rigsby, Full Story

• Notes: Big-block grad Homan shining in Crates

  Posted: 08/24/2017, 03:57 am By Alli Collis

  A former big-block modified racer, Chad Homan of Penfield, N.Y., has only piloted a Crate Late Model for a couple of seasons. But in that short time, he’s already piled up victories and is aiming for a pair of track championships in 2017. In Full Story

• Quick Time: Dropoff of rich unsanctioned races

  Posted: 08/23/2017, 01:16 pm

  Take a quick lap around the proverbial dirt track with Todd Turner and Andy Savary for a roundup of Dirt Late Model racing through the latest weekend of action along with some other quirks of racing (and the occasional ax-grinding). Quick Full Story

• Notes: Maryland ace wins five straight races

  Posted: 08/17/2017, 08:06 am By Robert Holman

  Kyle Lear hardly had time to celebrate his milestone 50th career victory. Less than 24 hours after picking up the win Aug. 11 at Potomac Speedway in Budd’s Creek, Md., Lear was already celebrating career win No. 51, which came across Full Story