Gilpin to Pilot Blackwood Car Starting Saturday at Brownstown!
(July 30, 2026) Six-time Brownstown Speedway Late Model Track Champion and Northern Allstars Late Model Dirt Series driver Devin Gilpin of Columbus, Indiana will be driving the Blackwood Motorsports #93 Longhorn Chassis starting this Saturday, August 1 at the Brownstown Speedway for the Jackson County 4-H Fair Race paying $3,000 to win.

Plans are also in place to run the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned 44th Annual Sunoco Race Fuels North-South 100 on August 6-8 at the Florence Speedway in Union, Kentucky. The team has intentions to enter the August 21 and 22 Northern Allstars Late Model Dirt Series events at the Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis and the Brownstown Speedway for the C.J. Rayburn Tribute Race and the Hall of Fame Classic.

Gilpin, who currently sits fifth in the Northern Allstars championship points race has been plagued by mechanical issues over the last few months.

Zak Blackwood, who is the regular driver for his father's team has been idle since the May 29 and 30 Northern Allstars races at Bloomington and Brownstown because of lingering effects from his eye surgery in early spring.

"The doctor said it would be a few more months before I was completely healed to be able to race again this year. Devin's grandpa (Don Fleetwood) called me to see if we could do something for Devin since his equipment is down. I talked with my dad (Jeremy), and we said the car has just been sitting here, and we haven't been racing and we have marketing partners to take of, so we agreed to put Devin behind the wheel."

"I want to thank Zak and Jeremy for the opportunity to race their car. They have good equipment and we plan to race it until my equipment is back up and running," said the 35-year-old Gilpin, who is the 2018 Eldora Speedway Late Model Track Champion, and a 3-time UMP DirtCar Modified National Champion.

Blackwood Motorsports would like to thank their marketing partners for 2026 including Blackwood Lawn and Landscaping, J&A Electric, The Kroot Corporation, Kendall Trucks and Parts Yoder Farms, Blair Home Improvement, The Dent Healer and Columbus Restoration, LLC.

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