Ryan Gustin left the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout at Casa Grande, Ariz.’s Central Arizona Raceway encouraged by his performance being one of six drivers to lead laps in the miniseries, capped by two podium finishes and five straight top-eight results.

A part of Ryan Gustin takes pride in finishing fifth in Saturday’s World 100 at Eldora Speedway. Another part of the Marshalltown, Iowa, driver is upset he couldn’t hang onto a podium position or challenge for the lead once he got to third from the 12th starting spot by lap 43.

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.

The 54th annual World 100 at Eldora Speedway kicked off with Thursday's opening night preliminaries that featured split-field $12,000-to-win semifeatures.

GIBSONTON, Fla. — Ryan Gustin thought he threw his well-managed race away in one slip-up off the preferred bottom groove with 19 laps remaining in Wednesday’s feature at East Bay Raceway Park.

Brandon Overton stole the lion's share of the money (38 percent!) during Eldora Speedway's Double Dream weekend, but other drivers still left with some healthy earnings totals. Check out the full breakdown of feature purse earnings from June's lucrative weekend: