Eldora Speedway revealed its rosters for Thursday and Friday night for the Dirt Late Model Dream and there are a total of 83 registered to take on one of dirt late model’s biggest crown jewels.
The Thursday night roster includes:
- Garrett Alberson
- Shannon Babb
- Stacy Boles
- Jerry Bowersock
- Kyle Bronson
- KC Burdette
- Shane Clanton
- Rod Conley
- Dalton Cook
- Seth Daniels
- Cade Dillard
- Ethan Dotson
- Justin Duty
- Dan Ebert
- Dennis Erb Jr.
- Tyler Erb
- Chris Ferguson
- Carson Ferguson
- Mario Gresham
- Mike Hildebrand
- Jackson Hise
- Carson Hocevar
- Eli Johnson
- Tim Lance
- Chris Madden
- Dillon McCowan
- Tim McCreadie
- Devin Moran
- Dallon Murty
- Dustin Nobbe
- Hudson O’Neal
- Jake O’Neil
- Ryan Payne
- Bobby Pierce
- Josh Rice
- Jeff Roth
- Sam Seawright
- Brody Smith
- Mike Spatola
- Ricky Thornton Jr.
- Mark Whitener
- Greg Williams
The Friday night roster includes:
- Max Blair
- Tyler Bruening
- Freddie Carpenter
- Joe Chalmers
- Tristan Chamberlain
- Ryan Crane
- Jonathan Davenport
- Bryant Dickerson
- Jeffery Erickson Jr.
- Jason Feger
- Chase Frohnapfel
- Devin Gilpin
- Ryan Gustin
- Wil Herrington
- Nick Hoffman
- Trent Ivey
- Jason Jameson
- Joseph Joiner
- Chase Junghans
- Mike Marlar
- Dale McDowell
- Trey Mills
- Zack Mitchell
- Ryan Montgomery
- Luke Morey
- Todd Morrow
- Casey Noonan
- Brandon Overton
- Jimmy Owens
- Mathew Porter
- Steven Roberts
- Brandon Sheppard
- Austin Smith
- Garrett Smith
- Brenden Smith
- Kyle Strickler
- Tyler Thomason
- Drake Troutman
- Daulton Wilson
- Ahston Winger
- Mason Zeigler
The initial DLM Dream Thursday and Friday prelim night rosters have been set! New entries that get filed this week will be added in alternating fashion to the two preliminary nights.
Entry list page: https://t.co/NXbwVjBKeY pic.twitter.com/UbD1GcnkKV
— ELDORA SPEEDWAY (@EldoraSpeedway) May 31, 2026
The Dirt Late Model Dream week begins begins on Wednesday, June 3rd with the $20,000 to-win FloRacing Night in America series race. The Dream preliminaries will take place on June 4th and 5th with both features paying $30,000 to-win. Finally, on Saturday, June 6th there will be heats, B-Features and the $100,000 to-win Dirt Late Model Dream.
The format of the event sees the field split into two different qualifying nights. The track explains, “Each driver will compete in one preliminary night program – Thursday or Friday. Drivers may request a particular night, but officials cannot guarantee all requests get fulfilled. Ultimately, Thursday and Friday fields will be competitively balanced for the good of both competitors and fans.”
The qualifying order for these nights will be based on a random draw. Drivers will then take on hot laps and qualifying. The heat races are different from your typical standard program in that they will be inverted. After the heats there will be B-Features and then the 50-Lap $30,000 to-win A-Feature.
On Saturday, there will be six heat races that are seeded through the track’s Every Lap Matters points system that is based on the preliminary nights and then inverted based on the spin of the track’s Wheel of Misfortune. There will then be two B-Features and finally the Dirt Late Model Dream.
The Every Lap Matters points system awards drivers points based on how they qualify, where they finish in the heat races, and how they finish in the feature. Points are also awarded to the first 10 cars that do not qualify for the feature. Here’s how the point system breaks down:
Multi-Car Qualifying: the field will be split into two flightsfor Multi-Car Qualifying (Flight 1 & 2). Each flight earns points separately for their results – 1st) 100; 2nd) 98; 3rd) 96; 4th) 94; 5th) 92; 6th) 90; 7th) 88; 8th) 86; 9th) 84; 10th) 82; and balance of field decreases by 2 points per position.
Heat Races: 1st) 100; 2nd) 97; 3rd) 94; 4th) 91; 5th) 88; 6th) 85; 7th) 82; 8th) 79; 9th) 76; 10th) 73; 11th) 70; 12th) 67; 13th) 64; 14th) 61; 15th) 58; 16th) 55; 17th) 52; 18th) 49; 19th) 46; 20th) 43
Last Chance Showdowns: first 10 cars not advancing from any LCS) 222; 219; 216; 213; 210; 207; 204; 201; 198; 195 and balance of field decreases by 3 points per position.
A-Features: 1st) 300; 2nd) 297; 3rd) 294; 4th) 291; 5th) 288; 6th) 285; 7th) 282; 8th) 279; 9th) 276; 10th) 273; 11th) 270; 12th) 267; 13th) 264; 14th) 261; 15th) 258; 16th) 255; 17th) 252; 18th) 249; 19th) 246; 20th) 243; 21st) 240; 22nd) 237; 23rd) 234; 24th) 231; 25th)228; and 26th)225
Josh Rice won the Thursday preliminary last year while Jonathan Davenport won on Friday. In 2024, it was Ricky Thornton Jr. winning on Thursday and Devin Moran winning on Friday. Davenport has won the Saturday night feature the last three years and will be looking for his fourth consecutive win.
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