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EASTABOGA, Ala. — During a 21-event season on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, four determined drivers have battled fiercely for the $10,000 series championship, and especially during the final half of a long and arduous campaign. Rarely separated by many points in their back-and-forth, nip-and-tuck battle for the prestigious crown, Jason Welshan, Jimmy Thomas, Jake Knowles and Rookie of the Year candidate Tanner Collins have become friends, traded...more

NORMAN PARK, Ga. (Nov. 19) — Jake Knowles of Rome, Ga., has been chasing a championship for most of the season on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, and will enter the season-ending doubleheader weekend slated Nov. 19-20, 2021, at Needmore Speedway as one of four contenders for the title. All season long, his mother Cindy Dalton Knowles has been involved with a far more important battle in her life after a breast cancer diagnosis almost a year ago...more

NORMAN PARK, Ga. (Nov. 29) — Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series drivers descended upon Needmore Speedway Friday night to compete for a $2,000 prize in the opening event of the season-ending Early Bird doubleheader weekend, and with a series title hanging like a carrot in front of his eyes and facing a 22-point disadvantage to Jason Welshan entering the championship-deciding weekend, pole position starter Jimmy Thomas took off like a hungry rabbit and rolled to a...more

NORMAN PARK, Ga. (Nov. 20) — If the late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray were still alive and holding a microphone this weekend at Needmore Speedway’s traditional Early Bird event, he would probably use his career-defining trademark phrase to describe the sizzling Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series points battle that will be decided Nov. 20 in a 50-lapper at the Kelly and Mandy Walker-owned facility: Holy Cow! Six points. That’s not much. It’s the miniscule amount...more

NORMAN Park, Ga. (Nov. 20) — Jimmy Thomas of Phenix City, Ala., entered the final weekend on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series Saturday night at Needmore Speedway with three Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series victories under his belt, and trailing Jason Welshan by 22 points in a hotly-contested championship chase. Using a business-like efficiency through the weekend and ending the year in dream-like fashion, he...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (Nov. 26) — Riding a wave of momentum, the Eastaboga, Ala-based Crate Racin’ USA organization will kick off its annual Winter Shootout Series with a unique new twist on the just-released schedule: A long-awaited return to 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn., where the prestigious annual Hangover event will be held Jan. 1. The 604 Late Model portion of the weekend will be sanctioned by the Adam Stewart-managed organization, and pay $2,500 to win. The sanctioning body has been...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. — Jimmy Thomas of Phenix City, Ala., and Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., will headline the festivities, and both competitors will receive their accolades and rewards for their 2021 national championship seasons on Jan. 29, 2022, as the annual Crate Racin’ USA awards banquet is scheduled to take place at the famed International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Lincoln, Ala. Thomas was the overall series champion on the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. — The season-opening Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series event scheduled Jan. 1, 2022, as part of the traditional Hangover at 411 Motor Speedway has been canceled in a mutual decision between series director Adam Stewart and track promoter Mitch McCarter. A dismal weather forecast has placed the track’s management into scramble mode, and McCarter has revised the schedule and moved the entire event to a one-day show on Friday, Dec., 31, 2021, in hopes of beating the weather...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (Jan. 8) — Cory Hedgecock knew when the team unloaded their Black Diamond Chassis entry on the first morning of the three-day Ice Bowl at Talladega Short Track that their Eagle Racing Engines-powered machine was going to provide a fast ride during the weekend. He made a few practice laps on a day when rain interrupted activities for a few hours, and those trips around the third-mile facility gave an inkling of what might come the rest of the weekend for the Loudon, Tenn.,...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. — Coming off extremely cold temperatures in the annual season-opening Ice Bowl at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., three days in the sun now awaits competitors on the Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series as the third edition of the DIRTcar-sanctioned Sunshine Nationals hits the stage Jan. 20-22, 2022, at half-mile Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. Three separate nights of action featuring cars powered by 604 Chevrolet Performance Circle Track Engines will...more