Todd Root has made scattered starts with the Super DIRTcar Series since 2019, but this year he plans on being a familiar face.
When the Series returns to action at Can-Am Speedway on Saturday, April 12, Root will officially be the 20th full-time driver this season and the second MD3 Rookie of the Year contender.
“I ain’t getting any younger,” Root said. “Equipment-wise, we have the best that we’ve ever had. New cars, new motors, and I just felt it was time to give it a shot.”
Of Root’s 12 starts with the Series, his best finish came during his Series debut at Weedsport Speedway in 2019 where he finished ninth. He’ll get four opportunities to grab another top 10 at Weedsport in 2025 and a stop at his home track, Brewerton Speedway, during SummerFAST.
“We’ve had some pretty good runs with the Super DIRTcar Series at Weedsport before,” Root said. “I feel like you don’t get much better than the Brewerton crowd on Friday nights. There’s a number of Super DIRTcar Series guys that run Brewerton weekly and trying to be able to run with them is our ultimate goal this year.”
One of the challenges for Root in 2025 will be venturing to new tracks for the first time. It’s similar to Root’s MD3 Rookie of the Year rival, Matt Stangle, who will debut at several Series stops this season. The battle with Stangle is something Root said he’s looking forward to, and one he thinks will come down to the World of Outlaws World Finals in Charlotte.
“I think Matt’s a really good driver,” Root said. “I think it’s a bit different for Matt being on Hoosier’s and the [Super DIRTcar Series] side of things. I think he’s going to adapt pretty quick and it’s going to be a pretty good shootout between the two of us. It’s definitely huge for him not to make it to New Egypt. I was kind of bummed. I thought we had something good going in there, but that was a tough place to run my first Super DIRTcar Series race.”
The next race for Root is the Thunder in the Thousand Islands when the Series visits Can-Am on Saturday, April 12. While he’s raced the track before, it’ll be a new experience for Root, who will race his Big Block for the first time at the “Nasty Track of the North.”
Despite taking on something new this year, he has a season-long goal in mind, along with winning MD3 Rookie of the Year.
“The ultimate goal would be top 15 in points,” Root said. “You’re running against the best of the best. You don’t get much better than Matt Sheppard or Mat Williamson. So, if we can rip off a top five at a couple of these tracks, that would be like a win for our team.”
Root and the Super DIRTcar Series returns to action on Saturday, April 12, at Can-Am Speedway in LaFargeville, NY, during the Thunder in the Thousand Islands weekend.
If you can’t make it to the track, you can watch all of the Super DIRTcar Series action on DIRTVision, either online or with the DIRTVision app.
