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• Notes: Kopka rubs elbows with Volusia heroes

  Posted: 04/17/2025, 06:28 am By Matt Skipper

  Mikey Kopka grew up watching drivers he considered icons make a name for themselves at Volusia Speedway Park. Since 2024, Kopka has gotten to work closely with two greats of Florida’s Dirt Late Model history, piloting a 604 Late Model Full Story

• Column: Crate windfall buoys Wilson's efforts

  Posted: 04/16/2025, 05:23 pm

  A Crate Late Model race paying $50,000-to-win at his hometown’s Fayetteville (N.C.) Motor Speedway? Daulton Wilson couldn’t pass up that rare opportunity. So once April 10-12’s XR 602 Crate Nationals began drawing closer, Wilson Full Story

• Drivers prepare (and brace) for tire revision

  Posted: 04/14/2025, 02:27 pm By Kyle McFadden

  As a Hoosier Racing Tire dealer, racer Matt Cosner of Ridgeley, W.Va., knew changes were coming to the tire brand’s National Late Model Tire, the limited-compound program that governs many tours, including the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Full Story

• Column: Feger unlocks success in home region

  Posted: 04/10/2025, 06:05 pm

  Jason Feger doesn’t call it a comeback. Nor does the veteran from Bloomington, Ill., subscribe to the theory that, at 46, he’s a reborn Dirt Late Model driver. While there’s no doubt that the MARS Championship Series becoming an Full Story

• Column: Eckert's vintage No. 24 impressive in '25

  Posted: 04/03/2025, 07:05 am

  While Rick Eckert might have the youthful face and thick hair of a man who isn’t aging, time does march on and he’s now 59 years old with the big 6-0 coming in December. He’s eclipsed four decades as a race car driver as well. But Full Story

• Column: MARS director makes career of racing

  Posted: 03/27/2025, 02:58 pm

  Jonathan Clayton can’t say for certain that he saw himself destined for a career as an official in the dirt track racing game. But when the 31-year-old director of the MARS Late Model Championship Series looks back at his early days attending Full Story

• Notes: RTJ smiling after near-perfect weekend

  Posted: 03/23/2025, 10:57 am By Kyle McFadden and Bryan Ault

  BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (March 22) — Falling just short of sweeping the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series weekend wasn’t a disappointing outcome for Ricky Thornton Jr. In fact, the 34-year-old star from Chandler, Ariz., gracefully accepted Full Story

• Northern, Western Late Model tour previews

  Posted: 03/13/2025, 01:57 pm By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on more regional tours, two in the North and one in the West, for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, Full Story

• Photographer's unique ritual: victory lane cigar

  Posted: 03/11/2025, 07:48 am By Todd Turner

  Mike Ruefer’s ritual at the conclusion of a Dirt Late Model feature is like that of most racing photographers. The Davenport, Iowa, resident heads for victory lane, makes sure he’s got the right lens on his Canon camera and positions Full Story

• Previewing Midwest's regional Late Model tours

  Posted: 03/06/2025, 11:50 am By Kyle McFadden

  With spring just around the corner (we hope), here's a look at developments on the Midwest’s Dirt Late Model tours for the 2025 season. The brief capsules, with information primarily from series officials and directors, focus on changes Full Story

• Column: Earl Pearson Jr. moves on to second act

  Posted: 02/27/2025, 08:42 am

  For the last three decades, Georgia-Florida Speedweeks meant one thing to Earl Pearson Jr.: climbing in a Dirt Late Model and tossing it around a track. But this year was different for the 53-year-old racer from Jacksonville, Fla. He was Full Story

• Fast Talk: Resetting after long Speedweeks grind

  Posted: 02/24/2025, 12:04 pm

  Following a quiet post-Speedweeks weekend without Super Late Model racing, our roundtable gathers to offer a reset of the 2025 season in the weekly feature presented by MD3 and Five State Race Car Bodies (edited for clarity and length): With Full Story

• Column: J.D. poised for more Speedweeks wins

  Posted: 02/06/2025, 05:27 pm

  Four runner-up and one third-place finish through the first seven races of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks 2025 is a performance record most drivers would relish. But Jonathan Davenport? That’s a few too many close-but-no-cigar runs to satisfy Full Story

• Sorensen starting 2025 strong in New Mexico

  Posted: 01/11/2025, 12:15 pm By Todd Turner

  VADO, N.M. (Jan. 10) — Things are trending the right direction at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout for Dustin Sorensen, the 24-year-old Rochester, Minn., driver who later this month will tackle his second season on the Full Story

• Vado racers deal with frigid Wild West Snowout

  Posted: 01/10/2025, 04:20 pm By Todd Turner

  VADO, N.M. (Jan. 10) — The Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout has long had a mascot, the skeleton gunslinger depicted in the miniseries logo. That frightful six-shooting cowboy might have to make room for another icon for this Full Story

• Best of 2024: Top-five lists of memorable year

  Posted: 12/27/2024, 05:45 am By Kevin Kovac

  With Driver of the Year and other driver honors already published, DirtonDirt.com takes a look at other top-five lists from the 2024 season, running the gamut from the top-five performances to top-five clashes of the year (Best of 2024 Full Story

• Notes: Former Alabama driver Smith dies at 69

  Posted: 12/20/2024, 11:49 am

  Longtime Dirt Late Model racer and former North Alabama Speedway promoter Noland Smith of Ford City, Ala., died Tuesday. He was 69. The driver often called “Rollin’ Noland” while racing at tracks in Alabama and beyond was a steady Full Story

• Best of 2024: Southern state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/18/2024, 01:04 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Southern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2024 coverage): Alabama Top Full Story

• Best of 2024: Northern and Western state caps

  Posted: 12/17/2024, 06:57 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Northern (including Canada) and Western states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best Full Story

• Best of 2024: Midwest's state-by-state capsules

  Posted: 12/16/2024, 04:24 am By Todd Turner

  Dirt Late Model racing’s 2024 superlatives of Midwestern states (individually for states with significant weekly Late Model action; other states combined), primarily focusing on local and regional events (Best of 2024 coverage): Illinois Top Full Story

• Saturday's updates from Indy's PRI Trade Show

  Posted: 12/14/2024, 06:13 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 14) — The Indiana Convention Center doors reopen at 9 a.m. Saturday for the last of three days at 2024’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• Thursday's updates from Indy's PRI Trade Show

  Posted: 12/12/2024, 05:38 am

  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 12) — The Indiana Convention Center doors open at 9 a.m. Thursday for the first of three days at 2024’s Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, where more than 40,000 attendees are expected to check out more Full Story

• Gundaker issues 'save the date' for Dome party

  Posted: 12/11/2024, 02:59 pm By Kyle McFadden

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Dec. 7) — Gordy Gundaker always finds a way to have fun at the Gateway Dirt Nationals, but this year’s event inside The Dome at America’s Center was especially enjoyable. He pulled off the Tim Richmond throwback appearance Full Story

• Top national, regional and weekly drivers of '24

  Posted: 12/09/2024, 08:05 am By Todd Turner

  With the 2024 racing season mostly 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 Full Story

• Notes: Half-mile VMS oval won't open in '25

  Posted: 12/05/2024, 10:07 pm

  Citing financial struggles, Virginia Motor Speedway today announced to cease operations at the half-mile oval after 25 years under Sawyer family ownership. Inflation and the difficult financial climate since the pandemic has affected not Full Story