Rocket Chassis news and photos are posted here. Rocket Chassis manufactures a line of dirt track racing cars. Below is a collection of news and photos featuring the chassis builder.
Clint Bowyer Racing machines revealed for 2019 dirt racing season; Bowyer talks rules and more
Rule changes, driver changes, manufacture changes and more from Clint Bowyer
For 2019, Stewart-Haas Racing has big changes on the way. Daniel Suarez will move to the #41. Beyond that, the bigger change is the switch to the Ford Mustang.
Read MoreLandon Simon and Tyler Erb to lead Best Performance Motorsports charge in 2019
Dirt late model, dirt midget and dirt sprint car racing for Best Performance Motorsports in the upcoming dirt racing season
St. Marys, Ohio (12/12/18) – Best Performance Motorsports is busily gearing up for the 2019 season,
Read MoreBrandon Overton and Joey Coulter team up for 2019 dirt late model season
Big Sexy to the #2 for Rum Runner Racing
We are blending things up at Rum Runner Racing for 2019. That’s right blending not shaking. You don’t shake a rum runner. Shaking is for martinis.
Read MoreJosh Richards to the #14 for Clint Bowyer Racing on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series tour for the 2019 dirt late model season
Yesterday, it was announced that Best Performance Motorsports would have a new driver for 2019. Tyler Erb will fill that seat.
Today, it has been announced that Josh Richards will move to the #14 for Clint Bowyer Racing.
Read MoreKyle Bronson calls the crew for Scott Bloomquist ‘whiny bitches’
To start 2018, Kyle Bronson made the switch from a Rocket Chassis to a Longhorn Chassis. In June, Kyle Bronson made another switch to a Sweet-Bloomquist chassis. Two new cars were put on order as Bronson began driving an old loaner car in the meantime.
Read MoreAs Dunn-Benson Motorsports boycotts WRG, Bobby Pierce is set to run World of Outlaws events in his family owned machine
On June 9th, 2018, Bobby Pierce and Dunn-Benson Motorsports rolled into Eldora Speedway. The Dirt Late Model Dream paid $100,000 to the winner and was sanctioned by DIRTcar UMP, a World Racing Group subsidiary.
Read MoreKyle Bronson is back in a XR1 Rocket Chassis starting Friday in Granite City!
(BRANDON, FLORIDA) Following a thirteenth place effort against the stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in the 20th Annual ‘Grassy Smith Memorial’ last Friday night, July 6 at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina,
Read MoreTyler Bare: “To be able to run with Bloomquist, Davenport and finish right behind them… It’s just like winnin’ to us.”
In 2017, Tyler Bare ran weekly with the Fastrak Touring Series. He fielded the #30 machine, a car owned by his father. Bare went on to claim the 2017 Fastrak MOV Touring Championship.
Read MoreBobby Pierce: “A few things we did, just putting too much tail weight in the back. I think, that might have been some of the problem.”
Ahead of this season, Bobby Pierce made the transition to Dunn Benson Motorsports. The multi-time UMP Summer Nationals champion is now running full-time on the national tour.
Read MoreBob Pierce: “This Docol, you can get it pretty darn thin. It flexes, it’s got memory, it comes back, it doesn’t break. It’s badass.”
It’s a never ending search to find an advantage in auto racing. The search is spent in every corner of the sport. Teams will spend the entire year seeking mechanical advantages,
Read MoreOver $360,000 in points fund money distributed for the 2017 racing season
SPRINGFIELD, IL — Champions from around the country were honored on Saturday, January 14th during the 34th Annual DIRTcar Racing Tribute to Excellence National Awards Banquet at The Crowne Plaza in Springfield, IL. National and regional champions across 10 divisions were honored for their accomplishments from the 2017 racing season as over $360,000 in points fund money was distributed throughout the gala evening.
Read MoreBob Pierce: “It takes $200,000 – $250,000 to run 80 or 90 races per year.”
On Saturday night at The Dome, Bobby Pierce made one final appearance in the Bob Pierce Race Cars #32. It’s likely to be the final time the ‘Smooth Operator’ pilots one of his fathers’ cars,
Read MoreDunn Benson Motorsports and Bobby Pierce to Team Up in 2018, New Sponsors Announced
Dunn, NC (November 30, 2017) – Dunn Benson Motorsports owners Carlton and Kemp Lamm are excited to announce Bobby Pierce from Oakwood, IL will be their driver in 2018. The Lamm’s contacted Bobby Pierce and his family about the possibility of driving their cars after Earl Pearson Jr decided to part ways with Dunn Benson Motorsports following the Dirt Track World Championship back in October.
Read MoreMark Richards: “We don’t need to be worrying about body rules like everybody’s talking about”
Recently, Mark Richards the owner of Rocket Chassis made a case for ‘less’ dirt late model rules. It’s the opposite view of many, yet he had many strong arguments. Point in case, “The more rules we make,
Read MoreBrandon Sheppard: “I don’t even like to think about an asphalt career or a NASCAR career”
Brandon Sheppard claimed 25 wins in 2017 via the Rocket1 Racing car. That’s a winning percentage of nearly 35%. If the #1 car was at the track there was a high he won the race that night.
Read MoreMark Richards: “I think we’d be better off with less rules and the cost would be lower.”
In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about rules and the costs of the sport. It’s a conversation that’s always been there, it just appears amped as of late.
Mark Richards is the man behind Rocket Chassis.
Read MoreDual interview: #49 driver Jonathan Davenport and car owner G.R. Smith
Jonathan Davenport is now driving for G.R. Smith. The #22 has been replaced by a #49. Smith has climbed out of the seat and put Davenport on the track.
It’s a new role for G.R. Smith. He’s never been the owner of a car that wasn’t driven by himself.
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