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.

Each winner at the Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout celebrate at Vado Speedway Park donning a cowboy hat and firing the traditional six-shooters in victory lane at the six-race miniseries. But don’t be surprised if the winners of the opener and finale are smiling a little wider.

The 2025 Dirt Late Model season begins with this weekend's Rio Grande Waste Services Wild West Shootout presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts at FK Rod Ends Vado (N.M.) Speedway Park, where more than 50 Dirt Late Model drivers are expected to compete in the six-race miniseries bookended by $25,000-to-win programs.

The 2025 Wild West Shootout at Vado Speedway promises an exciting start to a new year of dirt track racing.

Perhaps no victory this season on the Lucas Oil Late Model Late Model Dirt Series will mean more to a driver than Mike Marlar’s triumph of the 45th annual Jackson 100 presented by Summit Racing Equipment at Brownstown Speedway.

BRANDON, S.D. (July 19) — Somehow, someway, Mike Marlar finished sixth in Sunday’s Silver Dollar Nationals at Huset’s Speedway on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

Hustling to keep up with Ricky Thornton Jr.’s blazing pace, Mike Marlar felt like he was in a real-life game of Mario Kart during Sunday's Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at Port Royal Speedway.

The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series capped off its Georgia-Florida swing to start the 2024 season on Saturday at Golden Isles Speedway with the $20,000-to-win Deuces Wild finale alongside High Limit Racing.

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.

Mike Marlar is going all in with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series this season.

With his 10-year tenure with Ronnie Delk recently drawing to a close, Mike Marlar is now proud to announce that he’s joined Skyline Motorsports.

Saying the next step of his racing career will be revealed soon, 2018 World of Outlaws Case Late Model Series champion Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., announced Wednesday the conclusion of his 10-year run with team owner Ronnie Delk.

Taking command when Nick Hoffman slipped over the frontstretch banking on the ninth lap, fourth-starting Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., led the rest of Friday’s 40-lap C.J. Rayburn Memorial at Brownstown Speedway for a $10,000 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory.

ROSSBURG, Ohio — Mike Marlar’s most anxious moments during Friday’s Dream XXIX preliminary feature at Eldora Speedway likely had nothing to do with runner-up Jonathan Davenport. Instead, posing the biggest danger to Marlar’s success was slower traffic, including a gaggle of cars right in front of him as the laps wound down in the 25-lap, caution-free race.

Pole-starting Mike Marlar led all 50 laps at Ponderosa Speedway en route to Friday's $12,000 win in the 19th annual John Bradshaw Memorial. Marlar notched his first Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory of the season and the 18th of his career. It's his third overall win of the season.