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A practice session is scheduled tonight [April 14, 2023] prior to the upcoming Newsome/Raceway Parts Network Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series-sanctioned Thunder in the Mountain scheduled April 15 at the Swims family-operated Rome Speedway. Practice sessions will take place from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m., and all divisions are welcomed. Pit gates open for practice at 4 p.m., and the first car will hit the dirt at 6 p.m. Pit gates on race day will open at 3 p.m., and grandstand gates at 4 p.m....more

ROME, Ga. (April 15) — Rome Speedway reopened its doors after a one-year absence and fans poured through the facility’s gates in large numbers to welcome back the high-banked track to a sport that holds the storied place in high regard, and Dillon Brown of Gaffney, S.C., grabbed a $10,000 victory Saturday night in the Thunder in the Mountain 50 as the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series competed for the first time at the historic facility. The track has been owned...more

A Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racing USA Dirt Late Model Series event scheduled April 28-29, 2023, at Deep South Speedway in Loxley, Ala., has been postponed due to inclement weather. The Deep South 100 at the high-banked track was scheduled to pay $10,000 to the winner, and would have been the third event on a 24-race schedule for the Adam Stewart-managed touring series. The series has averaged over 50 cars per race for its first two events of the season. Rain has been falling at the...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. — The Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series is closing upon a long-awaited return to the highly-racy Whynot Motorsports Park for a $5,000-to-win show slated May 6, 2023, at the quarter-mile facility. The House of Hook 50 is the third event of the season for the Eastaboga, Ala-based organization that features racing events for Chevrolet Performance 604 engine-equipped Late Model machines, and follows on the heels of a rained-out weekend April 28-29 at...more

MERIDIAN, Miss. (May 7) — The early afternoon hours were drifting steadily away, and Jason Welshan of Maryville, Tenn., knew he was supposed to be working on his car in the pit area while preparing for the night’s $5,000-to-win House of Hook 50 Saturday night at Whynot Motorsports Park, where the Newsome/Raceway Parts Network Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series was scheduled to make its first appearance at the track since May, 2019. Instead, Welshan was sitting on the side of the...more

EASTABOGA, Ala — Last November at Needmore Speedway in Norman Park, Ga., fans were treated to a down-to-the-wire finish between Early Bird 50 winner Jimmy Thomas and his chief challenger Hunter Peacock, and the multi-grooved event featured a side-by-side race to the checkered flag that capped a highly-competitive $10,000-to-win main event at the 3/8-mile oval. Looking back, that night might have been an early signal of a resurgence that is currently underway at the facility, and especially...more

NORMAN PARK, Ga. (May 13) — Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., has decided to chase the series championship on the 2023 Newsome/Raceway Parts Network Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, and moved into the points lead for the first time this season with a flag-to-flag victory over Joshua Bishop in the prestigious Gene Maine Memorial Saturday night in front of a good crowd at Needmore Speedway. The fourth edition of the annual event honors the late driver who was a regional favorite that...more

ELLISVILLE, Fla. (May 27) — Gaffney, S.C. driver Dillon Brown became the first two-time winner of the season on the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series and rolled around All-Tech Raceway as the leader for the entire distance Saturday night in the 50-lap Harvey Jones Memorial to pocket a victory worth $10,000 in the third edition of the prestigious race at the half-mile oval. The event honors the memory of a very successful driver who raced well into his 70s, and was a...more

EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 1) — It’s doubleheader time on the Newsome Raceway Parts Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series, and for the first time this season the Adam Stewart-managed touring series will stage two separate races at two different tracks in a single weekend. The first stop will be Fri., June 2 at the Shannon Littleton-operated I-75 Raceway in Niota, Tenn., marking the traveling circuit’s return to the oval after an absence of nearly six years. The touring series’ last appearance at...more

NIOTA, Tenn. (June 3) — Cory Hedgecock of Loudon, Tenn., drove 30 minutes from his home and later returned after a 50-lap feature with $5,000 in his pocket for leading from start to finish in a 50-lap Newsome/Raceway Parts Network Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Model Series event Friday night at high-banked I-75 Raceway. The Adam Stewart-managed touring series was returning to the track for the first time in a little less than six years, and the high-banked oval has undergone a configuration...more