Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series is a dirt late model touring series owned and operated by Lucas Oil . The series competes on dirt ovals across the United States , primarily throughout the east coast and the midwest. The cars feature a purpose-built chassis design specifically for dirt late model racing. With many chassis builders within the sport, chassis design and components are always on the cutting edge of innovation and technology. The cars are powered by aluminum-head V8 engines (usually ranging between 400c.i. and 430c.i.) that produce over 800 horsepower.
7-678: Among the marquee races on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule include Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park , Show-Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway , Silver Dollar Nationals at Huset’s Speedway , Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway , Knoxville Late Model Nationals at Knoxville Raceway , the Pittsburgher 100 at Pittsburgh's PA Motor Speedway , and the Dirt Track World Championship at Eldora Eldora Speedway . The series
14-549: A clay surface. The oval is 400 ft (120 m) wide, 4,000 ft (1,200 m) long, and 12 ft (3.7 m) of banking. The interior of the oval is capable of holding 90,000,000 US gal (340,000,000 L) if it were watertight. The off-road course at the Lucas Oil Wheatland Complex is 1.3 mi (2.1 km) long with seven left-hand turns and 2 right-hand turns, with large jumps. The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series held races on
21-466: Is currently broadcast on FloSports This motorsport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lucas Oil Speedway Lucas Oil Speedway is a motorsports racing facility located at the intersection of U.S. Route 54 and Missouri Route 83 , in Wheatland, Missouri . Its primary circuit is a dirt track banked oval motorsport race track . Co-located at
28-418: The circuit from 2015 until the series folded after the 2020 season (and it was on the tentative 2021 schedule. The May 21, 2019 event was cancelled after severe weather caused some damage to the facility. Lucas Lake , the artificial lake includes a drag boat course for drag racing race boats. It is the world's first artificial lake built for drag boat racing. This water sports -related article
35-475: The conversion renovation, the track reopened as the Lucas Oil Speedway , with new visitor, VIP, and competitor, and track facilities. An artificial lake, Lucas Lake was added to host drag boats and motorboat circuit racing. The boating facility was completed in 2011. With its opening, it became the world's first artificial lake for drag boat racing. An offroad supercross-motocross-style track
42-476: The site of the speedway is Lucas Lake , a motorboat racing venue, the first purpose-built boat drag racing lake in the world, located across from the track. Lucas Oil Speedway was originally built as the Wheatland Raceway , in 2001, as a 3/8-mile dirt track in a former agricultural field, by Ron and Mary Jenkins of Wheatland. It was purchased by Lucas Oil in 2004, and then was rebuilt. In 2006, after
49-431: Was added to host off-road dirt buggy racing. The construction was started in 2016 and completed by 2017, with inaugural events in 2017. Racing on the track includes offroad trucks, offroad buggies, motocross bikes. As of 2017, it is the only one of its type in southwest Missouri. Wheatland Raceway or Lucas Oil Speedway (aka The Diamond of Dirt Tracks ) is a 3 ⁄ 8 mi (0.60 km) semi-banked oval with
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