2015

Eckert Anticipates Return To Gillette & Black Hills On World of Outlaws Late Model Series Wild West Tour

Pennsylvania Driver Returns to Gillette on Tuesday (July 14) & Black Hills on Wednesday (July 15) as Most Recent WoO LMS Winner at Both Tracks

By Joshua Joiner, WoO LMS PR

Rick Eckert may be more excited than anyone for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series to make its western most trip of the season for events this week at Gillette (Wyo.) Thunder Speedway and Black Hills Speedway in Rapid City, S.D.

That’s not surprising considering Eckert’s history at the two tracks. Eckert, the 2011 WoO LMS champion from York, Pa., is the most recent WoO LMS winner at both venues with victories at Gillette’s 3/8-mile oval in 2013 and the half-mile oval at Black Hills in 2012. He’ll look to continue his western success when the WoO LMS returns to Gillette on Tuesday and Black Hills on Wednesday as part of the five-race Wild West Tour.

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Refocusing Race Team and Chassis Business, Lanigan Steps Back From World of Outlaws Late Model Series Full-Time Competition

Three-Time Defending Series Champion Puts 2015 Campaign on hold after Going Winless through First Half of Season

By Joshua Joiner, WoO LMS PR

HIBBING, Minn. – July 10, 2015 – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series will continue its Wild West Tour without its defending champion.

After going winless through the first half of the WoO LMS season and virtually falling out of the national tour’s championship battle, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., has pulled off the series in order to refocus and regroup his race team and his Club 29 Race Cars business.

The 45-year-old Lanigan informed series officials of his intentions Friday morning after he finished 14th in the opening night of the WoO LMS Wild West Tour at Hibbing (Minn.) Raceway on Thursday. Friday’s Wild West Tour second-round event at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.D., will mark the first WoO LMS event the three-time series champion and all-time winningest series driver has missed since medical issues forced him to skip the tour’s 2011 season opener.

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Mars Set To Take On World of Outlaws Late Model Series Regulars During Five-Race Wild West Tour

Veteran Wisconsin Driver Joins National Tour For Events At Hibbing, River Cities, Gillette, Black Hills & Deer Creek

By Joshua Joiner, WoO LMS PR

Jimmy Mars doesn’t get the opportunity to race with the World of Outlaws Late Model Series nearly as much as he would like, but he makes up for that when the national tour visits his home region each summer for its Wild West Tour.

Mars, the 43-year-old veteran racer from Menomonie, Wis., will once again join the WoO LMS for its annual western trek, beginning with Thursday’s Wild West Tour opener at Hibbing (Minn.) Raceway. The five-race stretch then heads to North Dakota, Wyoming and South Dakota before returning to Minnesota for the finale on July 18 at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn.

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Atomic Speedway Adds Second World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event, Setting Up Aug. 21-22 Doubleheader

Ohio Oval to Host Back-to-Back WoO LMS Races as Part of Tripleheader Weekend with Pennsylvania’s Eriez Speedway

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – July 5, 2015 – August’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series visit to Atomic Speedway in Chillicothe, Ohio, has been expanded to two events, setting up an Aug. 21-22 WoO LMS doubleheader at the 3/8-mile track.

The additional Atomic event, which replaces a recently canceled race at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y., gives the national tour a three-race weekend with Eriez Speedway in Hammett, Pa., set to host the series on Sun., Aug. 23. The weekend opener at Atomic on Fri., Aug. 21 will pay $8,000 to the winner, while the event on Sat., Aug. 22 will pay $10,000.

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Ross Robinson Enjoys Learning Experience During World of Outlaws Late Model Series Northern Trek

Delaware Driver Makes All Five A-Mains Between WoO LMS Great Northern Tour & Lernerville Speedway’s Firecracker 100 Weekend

By Joshua Joiner, WoO LMS PR

The final two weeks of June were quite busy for Georgetown, Del., driver Ross Robinson. The 25-year-old racer competed at four new tracks while traveling more than 1,500 miles to New York, across the Canadian border into Ontario and back south to Pennsylvania.

Robinson followed the World of Outlaws Late Model Series for every race on the national tour’s northern excursion June 18-27, competing in three events during the WoO LMS Great Northern Tour through New York and Ontario before wrapping up the trip with the ninth annual Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa.

Robinson acquitted himself well during his time with the WoO LMS, making the A-Main in all of the trip’s five events. As he prepared to compete during the final night of the Firecracker 100 weekend on June 27 – a program that was eventually postponed to Sept. 5 due to heavy rain – Robinson was happy with his performance but even more pleased with all he had learned during his time on the tour.

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