Two days later than expected, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series drivers completed qualifying heats for the Dirt Track World Championship Sunday afternoon at Eldora Speedway. Heat races were initially scheduled for Friday evening; however, rain showers on Friday and Saturday forced track officials to postpone the remaining schedule until Sunday.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series director Rick Schwallie has faced so many trials and tribulations while navigating the national tour’s 2023 schedule that nothing can surprise him anymore.

Eldora Speedway officials have announced that Friday's portion of the Dirt Track World Championship, the season final for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, has been postponed to Saturday afternoon. The decision was made following persistent rain showers in recent days that would've made the track unsafe for competition.

Questions and answers about October 20-21’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series finale at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP paying $100,000-to-win.

A compilation of anecdotes, stories and remembrances compiled by DirtonDirt.com from interviews and other sources about Freddy Smith, the Hall of Famer and native of Kings Mountain, N.C., who died Saturday at the age of 76 after developing pneumonia during a short battle with leukemia.

No one could blame Ricky Thornton Jr. for being a bit salty, if not downright angry, about the new-for-2023 Big River Steel Big Four program to determine the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion.

Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., confirmed to DirtonDirt.com today that he plans to make his return to competition driving a Devin Jones Racing Team Zero Chassis in the Oct. 20-21 General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

Overcoming two early-race restarts and two in the final 12 laps, outside-polesitter Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., led from flag-to-flag to win Friday's Great Lakes 50 at Raceway 7. Racing the day after he turned 33, he earned $12,000 while tallying his series-leading 18th full-field Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature victory of the season and further extending his points lead.

The stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series will converge in Brownstown, Ind. this Friday, and Saturday for one of the biggest weekends in Brownstown Speedway’s storied history.

Amid two red flags, multiple brushes with the backstretch wall and an early back-and-forth battle with three-time race winner Mike Marlar, polesitter Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., was worried he was going to blow it in Saturday's bid to sweep the lucrative three-race Knoxville Lucas Oil Nationals weekend.

Finding Chad Simpson outside his trailer in Knoxville Raceway’s pit area after Friday’s Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals preliminary program was a difficult task. He was simply engulfed by the thick crowd in his pit stall.

Just as Jonathan Davenport was gliding into the lead on lap 17 of Thursday evening’s 25-lap Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals preliminary feature, he suddenly ran into … A hurricane? A tornado? A wind tunnel? Wicked gusts across a bridge?

The 19th running of the Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals is set for this Thursday thru Saturday, September 14-16 at the famed Knoxville Raceway.

Ricky Thornton Jr. rallied from sixth after a lap 35 restart - storming to the lead on lap 41 and leading the rest of the way to pick up his record-setting 16th Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of the 2023 season on Thursday at Georgetown Speedway.

There’s a first time for everything, and Thursday, August 24 will be a first for six-time Short Track Super Series champion Matt Sheppard as he makes his debut with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in a Dirt Late Model at Delaware’s Georgetown Speedway.