The 26th season of the Midwest Auto Racing Series, otherwise known as the MARS Late Model Championship Series, gets going this Friday and Saturday with the season-opening Nippy 50 at Iowa's Maquoketa Speedway, the Jeff Hoker-promoted event that debuted last 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?

After more than 30 years of competing on dirt as a driver-crew chief brother combo, Dale McDowell and Shane McDowell are both quick to mention communication as a prime factor to their Dirt Late Model success.

The 2025 MARS Late Model Championship season kicks off this weekend, March 28-29, with the Nippy 50 at Maquoketa Speedway. Before we kick off the season live on FloRacing, let's take a look at schedule highlights, the expected driver roster, key questions and more for the 2025 campaign.

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. — While Mike Marlar wasn’t among the weekend’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series winners, the 47-year-old Winfield, Tenn., impressed with a pair of fourth-place runs at Ohio’s Atomic Speedway and Brownstown Speedway.

AUSTIN, Texas — FloRacing Night in America presented by Kubota is back for its fifth year of action in 2025.

BROWNSTOWN, Ind.— While the teams of Devin Moran, Ricky Thornton Jr. and Jonathan Davenport are seemingly firing on all cylinders entering the spring season, Hudson O’Neal is trying to take some consolation Saturday at Brownstown Speedway that he’s not far behind.

After Friday's entertaining feature at Atomic Speedway won by Ricky Thornton Jr., the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series post-Speedweeks campaign continued Saturday at legendary Indiana quarter-mile oval Brownstown Speedway.

After Friday's entertaining feature at Atomic Speedway won by Ricky Thornton Jr., the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series post-Speedweeks campaign continues Saturday at legendary Indiana quarter-mile oval Brownstown Speedway.

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.

The post-Speedweeks campaign on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series begins this weekend with Friday's stop at Ohio's Atomic Speedway and Saturday's visit to legendary Indiana quarter-mile oval Brownstown Speedway.

Three-time national touring champion Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y, and Drake Troutman of Hyndman, Pa., announced plans to enter this weekend’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series doubleheader at Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway, confirming their move to the national tour after each driver spent last season following the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

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.

When Jason Durham stepped down as Jonathan Davenport’s crew chief at the end of the 2022 season to spend more time with family, his departure from the Double L Motorsports team felt like an unofficial retirement from the week-to-week national touring grind.