North Carolina driver dominates late model field during Hell Tour stop at Adams County Speedway

By Steve Eighinger | June 20, 2024
Max McLaughlin, a late model driver from Mooresville, N.C., celebrates in victory lane after winning Wednesday night's Hell Tour stop at Adams County Speedway. | Addi Zanger photo

QUINCY — Max McLaughlin is relatively young and inexperienced when it comes to the world of super late model racing. But he’s a quick learner, evidenced by his victory Wednesday night at Adams County Speedway in the UMP DIRTCar Summer Nationals event — “The Hell Tour” — before a turnout of 2,615 fans at 8000…

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Taking low line carries Winger to Hell Tour victory at Adams County Speedway

By Steve Eighinger | June 29, 2023
Ashton Winger, a driver from Senoia, Ga., powered his way to victory in the super late model feature race during Wednesday night's UMP Summer Nationals Hell Tour stop at Adams County Speedway. | Photo courtesy Gregg Teel

QUINCY — Ashton Winger is lovin’ life and livin’ large.  Really, really large. The 23-year-old native of Senoia, Ga., roared to Wednesday night’s super late model victory in the UMP Summer Nationals annual Hell Tour stop at Adams County Speedway. Winger, earning his second tour victory in a week, did so in exclamation-point fashion. He…

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Dirty Thirty: Hell Tour ready to invade Adams County Speedway

By Steve Eighinger | June 27, 2023
Bobby Pierce won the UMP Summer Nationals Super Late Model Hell Tour feature race at Adams County Speedway in 2022. | Photo courtesy Lacy Norgaard

QUINCY — Adams County Speedway will play host to the UMP Summer Nationals Super Late Model Hell Tour on Wednesday, always one of the season’s most anticipated shows at the venerable dirt track at 8000 Broadway. There was no racing last Sunday, allowing track workers some extra time to fine-tune the facilities for an event…

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Pierce cements Hell Tour lead with convincing win at Broadway Bullring

By Steve Eighinger | June 23, 2022
Bobby Pierce was the big winner Wednesday night at Adams County Speedway — Photo by Lacy Norgaard

Bobby “The Smooth Operator” Pierce, the 25-year-old dirt-track wunderkind from Oakwood, Ill., further cemented his status as one of the nation’s premier super late model drivers when he ran away from the UMP Summer Nationals Hell Tour field at Adams County Speedway. Pierce’s 43rd career Hell Tour victory came in resounding fashion when he hugged the low line for most of the final 27 circuits of the 40-lap feature in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Broadway Bullring.

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‘I grew up watching all of those guys’ Becerra beats loaded field; Hell Tour arrives at Adams County Speedway on Wednesday night

By Steve Eighinger | June 20, 2022
Austin Becerra

Becerra won his second straight modified feature Sunday night at Adams County Speedway. This triumph, however, was not so much how he accomplished the feat (like he did June 5), but rather who he did it against. Becerra led the final 14 laps, finishing with a relatively comfortable advantage over the likes of track legend Mark Burgtorf, former NASCAR hotshoe Kenny Wallace and four-time defending series champ Dave Wietholder.

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