Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., has paired up with Kevin Rumley of Longhorn Chassis to race for the China Grove, N.C., manufacturer at Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events this Saturday and Sunday at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway and Ohio’s Atomic Speedway, respectively.

Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., left the Rocket Chassis house car team on Thursday, shockingly ending his wildly successful run of just of over one season with the powerhouse Shinnston, W.Va.-based operation co-owned by Mark Richards and Steve Baker.

It’s not too often the best drivers in Sprint Car and Dirt Late Model racing compete together on the same nightly program.

Hudson O’Neal isn’t going to hate seeing East Bay Raceway Park close just because of what he’s done at the third-mile oval. Everything he could do there in the years to come will make its shuttering even harder for him to accept. | Complete Speedweeks coverage

The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series has its opening night of the five-night Winter Nationals on Tuesdsay at East Bay Raceway Park, the third-mile oval in its final season of operations.

With one full week of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season come and gone, and Georgia-Florida Speedweeks halfway complete, there’s much to reflect on and bear in mind for potentially the weeks and months to come.

The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series had the second night of its doubleheader Winter Nationals swing on Wednesday at Florida's Ocala Speedway, formerly known as Bubba Raceway Park.

Did Hudson O’Neal put the competition across the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and beyond on notice with Thursday’s opening night victory at Golden Isles Speedway?

Winning Thursday night’s 25-lap preliminary feature to kick off the Castrol Gateway Dirt Nationals certainly excited Nick Hoffman. But it didn’t satisfy him.

As Devin Moran stood in the middle of Eldora Speedway’s first and second turns wearing street clothes and a winter jacket and surveying the wavy, chewed-up racing surface after Sunday’s 43rd General Tire Dirt Track World Championship, he succinctly summed up the titanic battle he had just engaged in with Hudson O’Neal to determine the 2023 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series title. | RaceWire

For the first time in Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series history, the "Big River Steel Chase for the Championship" was used to crown the 2023 season champion. Four drivers. One race. One champion.

The Dirt Track World Championship, the season finale for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, lived up to the hype Sunday evening at Eldora Speedway. A wild 100-lap race saw drama unfold for both the $100,000 race win and the $200,000 Lucas Oil championship.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — Saturday’s blow-by-blow updates at Eldora Speedway of the four contenders for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship at Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP. The Big River Steel Big Four is made up of Ricky Thornton Jr. of Chandler, Ariz., Hudson O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., and Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio.

Questions and answers about October 20-21’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series finale at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, Carl Short’s 43rd annual General Tire Dirt Track World Championship presented by ARP paying $100,000-to-win.

No one could blame Ricky Thornton Jr. for being a bit salty, if not downright angry, about the new-for-2023 Big River Steel Big Four program to determine the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion.