With this week's 31st running of the Dirt Late Model Dream taking shape at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, we're ramping up our coverage of the $100,000-to-win event that's streamed live on FloRacing.

There's a strong contingent of Dirt Late Model drivers among the 130-plus competitors vying for this weekend's $100,025-to-win Modified World Championship at Mississippi Thunder Speedway in Fountain City, Wis., headlined by reigning Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion Ricky Thornton Jr.

Defending Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion Ricky Thornton Jr. is returning to his roots for a chance at another six-figure payday.

Tire changes. Crew changes. But the results stay the same.

The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series three-race weekend in the Northeast wrapped up Sunday at Pennsylvania's Port Royal Speedway, which hosted a 40-lap, $10,000-to-win event that served as the 14th race on the FloRacing-streamed tour in 2025.

As Ricky Thornton Jr.’s dirt racing career has rapidly progressed, he’s learned all the more just how much he excels on lane-sensitive, half-mile racetracks.

GEORGETOWN, Del. (April 25) — For nearly half of Friday’s 49-lap Melvin L. Joseph Memorial at Georgetown Speedway, the unquestioned Big Three of the 2025 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series — Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Davenport — appeared acutely vulnerable.

The hottest debate to begin the 2025 Dirt Late Model campaign is this: Who should be the No. 1 Dirt Late Model driver from the outset of the spring season?

The hottest debate to begin the 2025 Dirt Late Model campaign is this: Who should be the No. 1 Dirt Late Model driver from the outset of the spring season?

Last season’s lengthy Dirt Late Model silly season will perhaps never be topped again in uncanny developments and sheer craziness.

The post-Speedweeks campaign on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series began with Friday's stop at Ohio's Atomic Speedway before the tour visits legendary Indiana quarter-mile oval Brownstown Speedway on Saturday.

Ricky Thornton Jr.’s made it official. The reigning Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion is back on the FloRacing-streamed tour to defend his crown this season with his No. 20rt Koehler Motorsports team, the Chandler, Ariz., superstar announced on social media ahead of Friday‘s stop at Atomic Speedway near Chillicothe, Ohio.

Now that Georgia-Florida Speedweeks have come and gone, I've decided to evaluate 15 top Dirt Late Model drivers — specifically the top six in points on last year’s national tours and three wild cards picks — from the popular wintertime series.

After East Bay Raceway Park's closure, the Wieland Winternationals settles into its new home this week at Ocala Speedway for five nights of racing on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

ELLISVILLE, Fla. — Only a few days into February and the most demanding stretch of the 2025 season might have already come and gone for Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series campaigners.