ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 5) — Instant reaction and analysis from Friday’s Dream XXXII preliminary night at Eldora Speedway, a 50-lap, $30,000-to-win split-field program captured by Jonathan Davenport (RaceWire; complete Dream coverage):

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 4) — Instant reaction and analysis from Thursday’s Dream XXXII preliminary night at Eldora Speedway, a 50-lap, $30,000-to-win split-field program captured by Bobby Pierce (RaceWire; complete Dream coverage):

ELLISVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 21) — Ricky Thornton Jr. never thought he’d welcome the end of a weekend at All-Tech Raceway, a track that’s historically been one of his best. Yet when Saturday wrapped up the season-opening tripleheader on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, the Chandler, Ariz., superstar was already eager to move on.

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Jan. 10) — When Ricky Thornton Jr. stopped his race car in victory lane after winning Saturday’s 50-lap Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout opener at Central Arizona Raceway, the scene in front of him was especially joyous.

Dirt racing's finest assemble on the Tulsa Expo Raceway for the world's greatest midget race, the Chili Bowl Nationals.

Anthony Burroughs has signed on with Koehler Motorsports to serve as Ricky Thornton Jr.’s crew chief, rekindling a driver-mechanic pairing that enjoyed vast success during a previous stint of nearly three years.

Ricky Thornton Jr. was quite busy at The Dirt Track at Charlotte’s World Finals balancing driving duties with his regular Koehler Motorsports No. 20rt team and Bernie Stuebgen’s No. 71 Indy Race Parts sprint car.

There was a big event in Ricky Thornton Jr.’s home state of Arizona and his schedule was clear. It goes without saying that he’d want to run it — even though it wasn’t for Dirt Late Models.

Is everything aligning for Devin Moran to capture his first Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship?

Ricky Thornton Jr. didn’t waste any time in Friday’s Pittsburgher 100 preliminary feature at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. Six circuits into the 30-lapper, he was already in the lead with his eyes squarely set on padding his advantage in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series’s Big River Steel Chase for the Championship. | RaceWire

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — Since the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series instituted the Big River Steel Chase for the Championship in 2023, the national tour has made tweaks to the playoff-style format.

As 35-year-old Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., rolled into the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series postrace technical inspection area following his Jackson 100 victory at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway on Saturday, one well-known crew member repeated the same mantra over and over.

Ricky Thornton Jr.’s Koehler Motorsports team was in need of another crew member for the stretch run of his Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series title defense. The person who came on board to fill the role couldn’t have more impeccable credentials.

Following Jackson 100 weekend at Brownstown Speedway, two races are complete in the five-race Big River Steel Chase for the Championship on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series as the tour heads to Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway next Friday and Saturday.

The Big River Steel Chase for the Championship began with the so-called Big Four on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series taking a few lumps.