The Super DIRTcar Series’ historic 2022 season will see an increase of epic proportions with the announcement of a new $200,000 overall points fund, paid to the top-15 full-time competitors at the end of the year — a $77,000 overall increase from 2021 with three additional drivers paid out. It’s a 67% percent increase from
Al Heinke helped change Max McLaughlin’s life six years ago. In 2022, he’ll try to do so again. McLaughlin will return to Heinke-Baldwin Racing next year, as Jimmy Phelps’s teammate, to chase the Super DIRTcar Series championship, along with running full-time at a couple of weekly tracks. It’s a reunion with the team that helped
Three championship trophies rose to the sky in tandem, each hoisted by living history. Brad Sweet, Brandon Sheppard and Matt Sheppard were crowned 2021 champions Saturday night at the Dirt Track at Charlotte during the conclusion of the NGK NTK World Finals, setting new milestones with the honor. Sweet claimed his third consecutive World of
With the roar of NAPA Super DIRT Week now a faded echo across Lake Ontario, the Beasts of the Northeast are heading south to tame the hunger of another marquee event. For the first time since 2019, the Super DIRTcar Series will return to the Dirt Track at Charlotte in November (4-6) for the NGK
Australia’s Peter Britten and DIRTVision coverage helping NAPA Super DIRT Week reach an international crowd beyond North America Growing up in Australia, Super DIRT Week sounded almost like a myth to Peter Britten. A 200-lap race around a mile-long track was hard to fathom. In Australia, the Big Block Modifieds – or V8 Dirt Modifieds,
The year-long journey of thrills, relentless grind and glory for the three premier dirt racing series in the country is less than two months away from converging to a history-making finale. The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars, World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Models and Super DIRTcar Series, while on different roads,
The anticipation for the 2022 DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park is growing larger as the huge two-week event will now kick off on Monday, Feb. 7. By beginning the DIRTcar Nationals a day earlier than previous years, it creates for a break between the two weeks of racing for a day of rest on
A week’s worth of activities are planned for what drivers call the biggest event of the year The city of Oswego will transform into a special haven for race fans in less than a month when Racing’s Biggest Party makes its grand return for the 49th NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week. Campers will fill
The weeklong event brings a large crowd and boost of business to the city of Oswego The city of Oswego has a population of 17,000. That number will more than double for a week in October, bringing a welcomed and needed boost to local businesses. Racing’s Biggest Party – the 49th NAPA Auto Parts Super
Super DIRTcar Series drivers have seven more chances to lock themselves into the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 With another day gone by, the horn has officially sounded – if you may – indicating to drivers and fans the 49th NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week, Oct. 6-10, is less than two months away. That’s less
Hidden from fans and competitors in the seat of his #21A Big Block Modified, Peter Britten couldn’t hold back the tears. He won. Finally. Again. After claiming his first career Super DIRTcar Series win in 2017, the Australian had used everything in his utility belt to land in Victory Lane again with the Series. However,
Everything is in place. The historic venue is open. The eclectic playlist of ground-pounding thunder is made. Even the parade is set to bring people back to the streets. Racing’s Biggest Party is back at Oswego Speedway for the 49th NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week, Wednesday to Sunday, October 6-10, in Oswego, NY. And
Max McLaughlin unlocked the opportunity to write his name on a blank page in the record books for Super DIRT Week. With his asphalt Supermodified win at Oswego Speedway on May 15, the 21-year-old could be the first driver in history to win a Supermodified race at the “Steel Palace” and the Billy Whittaker Cars
The Super DIRTcar Series and World of Outlaws’ championship-deciding spectacle at The Dirt Track at Charlotte will have some extra “spark” this November. In taking its decade-long partnership with NGK Spark Plugs to a new level, Charlotte Motor Speedway officials have announced that the industry-leading manufacturer and retailer will serve as entitlement sponsor for the
George Lucas was like Luke Skywalker; a teenager dreaming of leaving the family ranch for something greater. However, his initial dream wasn’t laser swords, Jedi and galactic space wars that would captivate millions around the world for generations. It was what the likes of Mat Williamson, Demetrios Drellos and Peter Britten will be doing Tuesday,
No detail is left unturned when it comes to putting on the best dirt car racing events in the country Fireworks fired into the sky along the backstretch at Bristol Motor Speedway, in sync with the race cars passing by. Banners hung around the colosseum-like facility like art in a house. Merchandise trailers lined in
The Short Track Incident Response Program provides the same level of safety training given to crews with Formula 1, IndyCar and more The world watched in silence and fear as Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean and his car disappeared in a hellish dome of fire after a crash during the Bahrain Grand Prix last year.
This is the second part in a two-part feature on Jimmy Phelps, the driver and promoter (Click here for Part I) Jimmy Phelps became accustomed to wearing two hats for the past eight years. One as a driver. The other, a promoter. Last year’s blip in racing didn’t allow him to wear either for the
Jimmy Phelps had his Heinke Baldwin Racing team revamped with new Bicknell Chassis at the end of 2019, ready to go after the Super DIRTcar Series championship in 2020. Then, a pandemic hit. Instead of a full year cleaning dirt off his #98H Big Block, it sat idly under the roof of the team’s shop
The Super DIRTcar Series is set for a triumphant return in 2021 and fans can watch the entire 30-plus race season, which includes the Series’ debut at Bristol Motor Speedway and Super DIRT Week, live on DIRTVision. After COVID put a halt on racing in the Northeast and Canada for a year, the ground-pounding, Earth-shaking,