With two of the best DIRTcar UMP Modified drivers in the nation taking the green right next to each other for a 25-lap duel around Tri-City Speedway, the action did not disappoint. Mike Harrison, the six-time DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals champion from Highland, IL, and Nick Hoffman, the
He broke Thursday night while leading, but Friday night at Tri-City Speedway was Bobby Pierce’s race for redemption. The four-time and reigning DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion was forced to earn that redemption, however, working his way around fellow Hell Tour champion Dennis Erb Jr. in the second half of the
Chris Simpson crossed underneath the start/finish line with six laps remaining, over two seconds behind leader Bobby Pierce. It didn’t appear to him that he was going to catch Pierce before the checkered. And then, snap. The driveshaft yoke had busted on Pierce’s car, and he slowed suddenly in Turns
Many of Nick Hoffman’s recent DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals wins have been smooth, uncontested drives to the finish. Wednesday night at Peoria Speedway was anything but. Dave Wietholder, veteran wheelman and Peoria semi-regular racer from Liberty, IL, had chased Hoffman up to the halfway point in the 25-lap
Nine minutes, forty-seven seconds. That’s all it took for Bobby Pierce to carve-up the quarter-mile bullring of Peoria Speedway and collect his first Hell Tour Feature win of the season. “It was a fun race,” Pierce said. “This place has become one of the most fun tracks on the Hell
He’s back, boys and girls. Nick Hoffman picked up right where he left off in his history-making 2021 season with a win in the 2022 DIRTcar Summit Racing Equipment Modified Nationals season opener at Kankakee County Speedway Tuesday night. The four-time and defending champion started third on the grid, got
With lapped traffic in front and two multi-time DIRTcar Summer Nationals champions on his tail, Ryan Unzicker had a choice to make. Go now, or risk losing the lead. “That 14 car – I just caught him at the wrong time,” Unzicker said. “He left the door open and I
For the first time since 2017, DIRTcar Late Models are going racing at Charleston Speedway. The DIRTcar Summer Nationals Late Models will grace the banks of the three-eighths-mile oval in the inaugural Graves 40 to kick off Illinois-Indiana Week (Week #4) on Tuesday, July 5, accompanied by the DIRTcar Summit
Former national champion making his final laps this season Jeff Leka’s never been one to brag. He won’t tell you about his 40-plus years of racing around the Midwest, or his collection of over 350 Feature wins and a DIRTcar national championship, but he will embrace a well-deserved victory lap
St. Louis is one of the biggest sports cities in the country, with some of the most ardent fans anywhere. The Blues are once again skating toward another the Stanley Cup and the Cardinals are seeking a 13th World Series title, but this summer in the “Gateway to the West”
Potential $39,000 champion’s check on the line for thirty-two race season Two seasons in competition with a non-traditional Hell Tour format has brought the DIRTcar Summer Nationals back to the previous format for its 37th consecutive year. Thirty-two races over forty days comes with an increase in payouts and
Montpelier hosts for first time, Benton returns, Red Hill to reopen Less than 100 days until its 37th consecutive season begins, the DIRTcar Summer Nationals schedule is getting a boost. Four new dates have been added, along with two date changes, to the 2022 schedule, creating a 32-race stretch from
