BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Recapping the 53rd annual Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park with a list of superlatives from the two World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series features and three DIRTcar-sanctioned programs contested at the half-mile oval near Daytona Beach ( Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., tallied two victories on Wednesday — a 20-lap semifeature for $5,000 and a $7,000 score in the 25-lap A-main held over by rain ..read more

GIBSONTON, Fla. — Recapping the 48th annual — and final — Wieland Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park with a list of superlatives from six Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at the third-mile oval near Tampa ( Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., won his eighth career Winternationals feature with a strong run worth $12,000 in Friday’s 50-lapper and was the only driver to score four top-five finishes as he started the week with ..read more

Is the sky really falling? I hadn’t quite decided if I was Team Chicken Little or Team Cocky Locky — perhaps you should stop right here and take a minute to brush up on the 1943 version of Walt Disney’s “Chicken Little” if you’re not sure where I’m going — until I really started thinking about it. In short, the panicked Chicken Little, taking his queue from the conniving Foxy Loxy, believes the sky is falling, thus the end is surely near. Cocky Locky, the leader of the flock at ..read more

I genuinely hate that lately I have only been inspired to write in the wake of the death of someone within the sport. I realize that it's just part of growing older — people I have known for years will start to pass on. But that doesn’t make it any easier. Just last week we lost the great Evans, Ga., racer Ed Basey, and then a few days later my old buddy Jeff Walker of McMinnville, Tenn. I remember the very first time I ever met Jeff Walker. In my earliest days working for the Southern All ..read more

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The announcement that Tim McCreadie will no longer be the Longhorn Chassis house car driver beginning with the 2024 season set social media ablaze on Wednesday. It’s not a surprise, big news tends to spread like wildfire. I just wish before people question the decision made by both Longhorn and Paylor Motorsports they’d read the entire press release that Longhorn posted online. The nuts and bolts of it are posted in DirtonDirt.com’s DirtWire section, a place we regularly post news and notes ..read more

I don’t claim to be an expert in track prep. I do know how drive a tractor (have since I was 12). I know how to bushhog a field and plow a field and pull a variety of equipment behind said tractor. That’s just part of the stuff you learn when growing up out in the country. But just because I know how to handle certain farm equipment, that doesn’t mean I’m a farmer by any means. I left our home at 18 — a little Tennessee farm with a few dozen milk cows and a decent size hay field — and ..read more

Parity in our sport seems to be at an unprecedented level. Or is it? I don’t think we’ve ever seen a stretch in Dirt Late Model racing’s history where so many drivers had a legitimate chance to win a big race, even a crown jewel event, but somehow, on most nights the cream seems to rise to the top. Right now, that’s Chandler, Ariz.’s Ricky Thornton Jr. and Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill. Thornton has nearly 20 victories this season, including a $100,000 triumph in Tuesday’s XR Super ..read more

Dirt racing fans are a passionate lot. Following July 8’s NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 finale at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., a race that ended in a photo finish — sort of — between Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., and Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., social media was once again at a fever pitch as the Dirt Late Model crowd weighed in on the result. Though it appeared to the naked eye that O’Neal, who took the lead from Chris Madden on the 36th lap, beat Pierce to the ..read more