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EASTABOGA, Ala. (Aug. 21) — Schedule changes and additions have been announced for the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series over the final three months of the racing season. Two weekends at the Chris and Joni Martin-promoted Cochran (Ga.) Motor Speedway have been added to the schedule, while the annual King of the Hill at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Summertown, Tenn., is now slated Saturday Sept. 17, as part of the already-scheduled Melissa Cothran Memorial at the...more

SENOIA, Ga. (Aug. 20) — Jason Welshan of Maryville, Tenn., entered a 40-lap Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series event Saturday night at Senoia Raceway as the current series points leader and the leading winner with two victories to his credit on the Adam Stewart-managed touring circuit. He extended his edge atop both statistical categories with a flag-to-flag performance at the 3/8-mile oval, establishing more than a half-straightaway advantage in the middle stages...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (Aug. 17) — A doubleheader weekend will carry Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series drivers to a pair of tracks in a single weekend as current series points leader Jason Welshan leads the popular Adam Stewart-managed touring circuit into a busy weekend that starts Friday night, Aug. 19, 2022, with Heroes Night in America at Boyd’s Speedway in Ringgold, Ga. The opening event of the two-race weekend pays $3,000-to-win at the third-mile facility, while the...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (July 28) — A dismal weather forecast with a high percentage of rain predicted for the coming weekend has forced postponement of a $4,000-to-win Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series event scheduled July 30, 2022, at steeply-banked Thunderhill Raceway Park. The decision was agreed upon between track promoter Jason Walker and series manager Adam Stewart, and a makeup date has been scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3, during Labor Day weekend. “We’ve got some...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (July 2) — Extending his current points lead on the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series and in the midst of a season that has just produced back-to-back victories through the touring circuit’s first 11 events, Maryville, Tenn., driver Jason Welshan rolled to victory lane Saturday night at Talladega Short Track in a 50-lap contest that served as the second night of the Salute to America Nationals weekend on the Adam Stewart-managed organization. Fresh...more

SEYMOUR, Tenn. (June 25) — There were 11 circuits remaining in the 71-lap J.T. Kerr Memorial Saturday night at 411 Motor Speedway when the race’s 11th of 13 caution flags slowed the action. The intensity cranked up just a notch, and two more cautions over the final circuits added more suspense, including one with a mere two laps to go. Pacing the field as he had from the start of the Newsome Raceway Parts-sponsored Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series event, and slowly circling the...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 6) — The laps were dwindling away in a highly-competitive 50-lap Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series event Sunday afternoon at East Bay Raceway Park when veteran driver Keith Nosbisch cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger, heading to the top side of the third-mile oval to sweep past race leader Wil Herrington enroute to a $5,000 victory at the famed oval. The race was the fifth completed event on the 2022 version of the eight-race miniseries that was originally...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 4) — Logan Roberson of Waynesboro, Va., was sitting in his car on the frontstretch after finishing second in a 30-lapper on the second night of a three-race Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series weekend tripleheader at East Bay Raceway Park. He reached to turn the ignition switch to the off position, removed his belts and harnesses, sat back for a few minutes to decompress from the high-speed racing that had just been completed at the third-mile oval, and looked briefly...more

GIBSONTON, Fla. (Feb. 3) — Kyle Hardy closed out last year’s version of the three-race Florida Winternationals with a bang, sealing a $5,000 victory in the Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series weekend finale at East Bay Raceway Park. He returned to the third-mile facility Thursday night to open the ’22 version of the weekend tripleheader in the same Chuck and Rosie Bowie-fielded entry, and fired yet another shot with his second victory in a row at the highly-competitive oval. “That’s two in...more

BARBERVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 21) — Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., kicked off the third edition of the DIRTcar Racing-sanctioned Sunshine Nationals with a $1,500 victory in a 25-lap event Friday afternoon at the half-mile oval, wheeling a brand new Savage Chassis entry to the checkered flag in the opening event of a planned three-day race weekend that also awarded points toward the Crate Racin’ USA Winter Shootout Series championship. It happened a day later than planned after a late night and a...more