One of Indiana’s most celebrated dirt-track traditions returns this week when Brownstown Speedway hosts the 47th Annual WillScot Jackson 100 presented by Jackson County Visitor Center on Friday and Saturday, September 25-26.

The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series heads to one of its most prestigious events of the season when the Jackson 100 returns to Brownstown Speedway in Brownstown, Ind., on Sept. 25-26.

The stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series invade the Sprint Car Capital of the World for this weekend’s 22nd annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals. The three-day event begins with 25-lap, $10,000-to-win preliminary features on Thursday-Friday, with accumulative points setting consolation and main event lineups for Saturday’s 75-lap, $75,000-to-win finale. The top 24 point earners that compete both prelim nights will be locked into the main event with three transfers coming out of each consolation.

Many in NASCAR circles would call Craftsman Truck Series driver Brenden Queen one of the more fun-loving personalities in stock car racing.

The FloRacing schedule is packed this week with non-stop action from Aug. 31 - Sept. 6.

PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 29) — Takeaways and analysis from Saturday’s 50-lap Rumble by the River finale at Port Royal Speedway, a $50,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned event captured by Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga. (RaceWire):

Hayes Mattern had accomplished something often far-fetched for a regional racer — winning a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series heat race — Saturday at Port Royal Speedway when he casually delivered some considerably bigger news.

Jonathan Davenport snapped Ricky Thornton Jr.’s four-race Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series winning streak at Port Royal Speedway, leading all 50 laps of Saturday’s Rumble by the River finale.

PORT ROYAL, Pa. (Aug. 28) — Takeaways and analysis from Friday’s 40-lap Rumble by the River prelim at Port Royal Speedway, a $10,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned event captured by Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz. (RaceWire):

For yet another season, Gregg Satterlee couldn’t find any luck Friday in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series opener of the Rumble by the River weekend at Port Royal Speedway. | RaceWire

Long before Ricky Thornton Jr. mastered the uppermost reaches of Port Royal Speedway, he learned not to fear the ragged edge of Arizona’s most daunting speedplants.

Ricky Thornton Jr.’s run of success at Port Royal Speedway rolled on Friday as the Chandler, Ariz., driver led 38 of 40 laps to capture the Rumble by the River opener worth $10,000.

Port Royal Speedway hosts the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series for the seventh annual Rumble by the River weekend, with nearly $200,000 in total prize money on the line over the two-day event headlined by Saturday's $50,000 winner's share.

“I was always told that beans grow better in dirt. So, we’re going to test the theory.”

Enjoying a two-victory Iowa Speedweek that included a record-setting World of Outlaws Late Model Series checkered flag, Bobby Pierce of Oakwood, Ill., remained atop DirtonDirt’s power rankings for the fourth consecutive week.