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Portsmouth Raceway Park hosted The Lucas Oil Dirt Car Series Saturday for the Bob Miller Memorial River Days Rumble 50 Presented by Pepsi, and as he has done so often this season, Jonathan Davenport took the win. While Davenport has been no stranger to winner's circle this year, Modified driver Jody Puckett and Sport Mod racer Cody Gifford picked up their very first PRP feature wins. Saturday's victory marked Davenport's 12th Lucas Oil win of the season. The Blairsville, GA driver jumped out...more

PRP PRESS RELEASE By Chuck Greenslate Portsmouth Raceway Park welcomed the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Car Series Friday for the first of three visits in 2021. Jonathan Davenport took the checkers in The Able Air Independence 50, which paid $12,000 to win. Brian Skaggs and Jacob Curnutte scored wins in the Modified and Limited Late Model Divisions. Twenty-five Late Models were on hand for Friday's big race. The 50-lap feature saw several great battles up near the front of the field including...more

PRP PRESS RELEASE By Chuck Greenslate Ricky Thornton, Jr. took the checkers at Carl Short's 41st Annual General Tires Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries Saturday at Portsmouth Raceway Park. The Adel, IA driver became the 26th different winner of the $100,000-to-win event. Twenty-six drivers representing 13 different states started Saturday night's 100-lap race, which witnessed three different leaders, four lead changes, seven cautions, and took just over 50 minutes to...more

Portsmouth Raceway Park welcomed the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Car Series Friday evening for the Able Air Independence 50 that paid $12,000 to the winner. Thirty Late Models were on hand for the event which was won by 2021 Dirt Track World Championship winner Ricky Thornton Jr. from Adel, IA. The race was cut five laps short due to rain, which was fine with Thornton, who picked up his first Lucas Oil win of the season. The Late Model A-Main had two different leaders and was halted by five...more

Due to an unfavorable forecast, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event scheduled for September 3rd is cancelled.

History was made at Portsmouth Raceway Park over the weekend as 19-year-old Garrett Smith from Eatonton, GA became the youngest driver to ever win The General Tire Dirt Track World Championship Presented by Optima Batteries. While Smith etched his name into the history books in the Late Model Division, Nathon Loney scored the victory in the Modifieds. Matt Melvin prevailed in the Steel Blocks, and Tyler Scott took the checkers in the Legends Cars. For the 10th straight year, PRP was the host...more

Martinsville, IN's Ricky Thornton Jr. collected $25,000 for a couple evenings of work at Portsmouth Raceway Park, as PRP enjoyed two nights of exciting racing over Labor Day Weekend with big money on the line both evenings for Super Late Models. Thornton grabbed Friday's Boone Coleman Memorial "Gator 50" presented by Berndt-Murfin Insurance then followed that up by winning Saturday's River Days Rumble 50 presented by Pepsi, Army, and Roots Child Care Center. Friday's race paid $10,000 and...more

By Lucas Oil Late Model Series PR (Portsmouth, OH) -- Brandon Sheppard captured the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned 39th Annual Rhino Ag Dirt Track World Championship - Presented by Optima Batteries on Saturday night at Portsmouth Raceway Park. He earned $100,000 for his third career DTWC victory and also marked his 25th victory of 2019. PHOTO CREDIT: Heath Lawson Sheppard was one of four different race leaders in the 100-lap event. Mike Marlar finished in second, with 2019 Eibach...more

By Lucas Oil Late Model Series PR (Portsmouth, OH) -- Chris Ferguson and Shane Clanton will make up the front row for Saturday night's 39th Annual RhinoAg Dirt Track World Championship - Presented by Optima Batteries at Portsmouth Raceway Park. The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt series-sanctioned event drew 66 entries for preliminary events on Friday night of the $100,000-to-win event. Ferguson will start on the pole after earning the most combined points from qualifying and heat races in Group A....more

By Lucas Oil Late Model Series PR (Portsmouth, OH) -- Josh Richards won his second straight Rhino Ag Dirt Track World Championship presented by Optima Batteries on Sunday afternoon at Portsmouth Raceway Park. Richards took the lead on lap 22 from Brian Shirley and led the rest of the way to pick-up the $100,000 first-place prize and his third Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of the season. Jonathan Davenport; the newly crowned Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series National Champion; finished in...more