Three-Peat for Kevin Swindell! 1/14/2012   Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 14, 2012) – It took a quarter of a century to crown the first back-to-back winner in Chili Bowl Nationals history. After crowning that champion last January, it only took one more year for a three-peat champion as 22-year-old Kevin Swindell of Germantown, TN, captured his third Golden Driller in a row by wiring the field in Saturday night’s 26th Annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals championship finale at the QuikTrip Center’s Tulsa Expo Raceway. And, for the second year in a row, it was Kevin taking Roger Slack’s…More

By Craig Revelle – Finish Line Web Design As a young kid, Billy Dunn caught the racing bug early.  With legendary DIRTcar Big Block Modified driver “Barefoot” Bob McCreadie working out of the Number One Speed race shop owned by Billy’s father Norm, he learned quickly from the best in the business. Billy first got his start in racing at Can Am Motorsports Park.  At the age of seven, Dunn got into BMX bike racing, and when the track made the decision to close up the bike track and turn it into a kart track, Dunn made the transition as…More

Sammy Swindell Scores Wednesday Win! 1/11/2012   Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 11, 2012) – Sammy Swindell kept up his winning ways at the QuikTrip Center’s Tulsa Expo Raceway by topping Wednesday night’s 25-lap River Spirit Casino Qualifier “A” Main event at the 26th Annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals. The five-time Chili Bowl champion battled ahead of Danny Stratton after a handful of circuits and raced on to his seventh preliminary Chili Bowl main event win in front of Stratton and reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who also locked into Saturday night’s 50-lap championship finale by virtue…More

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 10, 2012) – Coming off a remarkable breakthrough season in 2011, Kyle Larson added yet another notch to the win column by topping Tuesday night’s 25-lap Warren CAT Qualifying feature event to kick off the 26th Annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals at the QuikTrip Center’s Tulsa Expo Raceway. The 19-year-old from Elk Grove, CA, raced by Kevin Ramey for the lead on the high side on the fifth round and worked traffic flawlessly over the final ten circuits to post the victory in front of NASCAR Nationwide champion Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and New Zealand’s…More

  PHOTO BY JAY FISH   BOYERTOWN, PA – A defining season.   The 2011 campaign confirmed BD Motorsports Media as the industry leader in dirt Modified special events promotion. The statistics tell the tale.   BD Motorsports Media boasted the highest-single day event dirt Modified car count over the course of the year at any facility at Five Mile Point (N.Y.) Speedway on Oct. 8 with a pit-bulging 79 Modifieds signing in for the ‘Working Man’s Race’ Short Track SuperNationals.   On June 7, the ‘Clash at the Can’ $8,000-to-win event at Penn Can (Pa.) Speedway, a field of…More

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director CONCORD, NC – Nov. 4, 2011 – Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., extended his sizzling autumn surge to The Dirt Track at Charlotte with a runaway victory in Friday night’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series A-Main during the fifth annual Lowes Foods World Finals presented by Tom’s Snack, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own. The 28-year-old star roared off the outside pole to lead from start-to-finish in the caution-free event, which was contested before a huge crowd of over 14,000 fans. He was never seriously challenged en route to a $10,000 triumph that…More

CONCORD, N.C — November 4, 2011 — Even though he won’t claim a fifth series title this season, Donny Schatz is ending 2011 in a high note. Coming into the Lowes Foods World Finals presented by Tom’s Snacks, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own, Schatz holds a slim lead over teammate Steve Kinser for the second spot in the series standings. A strong qualifying effort propelled Schatz to the pole of the night’s feature event where he led all thirty laps to secure his fifth career win at the Dirt Track at Charlotte. (Mike Petrucci photo) “It feels really good to come…More

AFTON _ Wade Elliott Decker, 37, of Afton, passed away tragically on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, as the result of a logging accident. Wade was born on June 16, 1974, son of Hank Decker and Susan (Briggs) Decker in Sidney. On April 5, 1997, Wade married Brenda Scott in Bainbridge. Wade always had a passion of racing the “1W,” a hobby that was enjoyed by his entire family. When his daughter, Connor, arrived, his family shared in that new dream. In the last few years, Wade gave up racing to support his daughter in her dream: softball. He was an…More