Six laps in practice. Three laps in qualifying. And 125 laps in the 1980 Schaefer 200 during Super DIRT Week. Those are the only laps Gary Balough got to make in the famous #112 “Batmobile.” After dominating the event, pacing the field two seconds faster than he had the three previous years he’d won it,
Matt Sheppard has been paving a gold path to the 50th Running of NAPA Super DIRT Week, leading the Super DIRTcar Series points, collecting the most wins of all Series drivers and claiming the inaugural SummerFAST title. But the more success he has, the higher the pressure to win the historic event at Oswego Speedway
Williamson is eyeing his second Super DIRTcar Series championship and third consecutive NAPA Super DIRT Week title By the numbers, Mat Williamson is off to a better start with the Super DIRTcar Series than he was last year, putting himself in early championship contention. However, if you ask Williamson, he’d say they haven’t been good.
Brett Hearn won five Super DIRT Week titles between 1985 and 1995, but it wasn’t until he spent 17 years trying to win it again that he fully understood the significance of the victories. He had the formula for what it took to win the prestigious event but when that formula stopped working and the
The event will award $10,000 and a guaranteed 50th NAPA Super DIRT Week starting spot The historic Orange County Fair Speedway will host the Super DIRTcar Series for its only stop at the Middletown, NY track this year on Thursday, July 28. Along with a $10,000 payday to the winner, the event will also award
When Matt Sheppard dreamed of being a race car driver, he never dreamed this big. Never saw himself with eight Super DIRTcar Series championships. Never saw having more than 70 Series wins. Never saw having five NAPA Super DIRT Week titles across three divisions. He just wanted the opportunity to drive a Big Block Modified
With track championships and a couple of Super DIRTcar Series wins already on Anthony Perrego’s resume, he’s eager to take the next step in his career. Vinny Salerno is giving the Montgomery, NY driver that chance, hiring Perrego to drive his famed #4* Big Block full-time on the 2022 Super DIRTcar Series tour. “In the
Before stepping into the 2022 Super DIRTcar Series season, featuring a new $200,000 overall championship purse, several new tracks and the 50th NAPA Super DIRT Week, there’s much to celebrate about 2021. From the Series return to full-time racing to multiple fan-favorite victories, the Super DIRTcar Series produced another season of unforgettable thrills that will
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
BREWERTON, NY – Crisp air, clear skies, and changing leaves are all upon us for the greatest week in dirt racing. Add a little sulfur to the mix Tuesday night at Brewerton Speedway and “The Demon” awakens. The 49th annual NAPA Super DIRT Week hits the ground running with the $10,000-to-win Demon 100 at Brewerton
WEEDSPORT, NY – Big Blocks are being tuned to perfection across the Northeast. The first whiffs of VP Racing Fuel are hitting noses and brand new Hoosier Racing Tires are getting loaded up in preparation for the Super DIRTcar Series tour to begin this Saturday, April 10, at Can-Am Speedway. Seventeen elite drivers are going
CONCORD, NC – After eight successful years as title sponsor of Big Block Modified racing’s biggest event — Super DIRT Week — NAPA Auto Parts is extending its partnership with a multi-year deal, which will include the 50th edition. Entering its 49th year, NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week, Oct. 6-10, is Racing’s Biggest Party featuring the best
Historic 2021 Schedule Takes Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds to New Heights Bristol Throwdown, NAPA Super DIRT Week, Can-Am World Finals Highlight High-Flying $1.5 Million Super DIRTcar Series Tour WEEDSPORT, NY – From the 50th DIRTcar Nationals at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park to Tennessee’s legendary Bristol Motor Speedway, back to Quebec’s Autodrome Drummond, NAPA
2020 continues to be a year without precedent. Given the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions — knowing NAPA Super DIRT Week just wouldn’t be Super DIRT Week without thousands of spirited fans on location — DIRTcar Racing has scheduled a six-day extravaganza of the four premier Northeast divisions, spotlighting the Super DIRTcar Series. With purses and prize
CONCORD, NC — Many would agree that wheeling a Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modified takes a unique driver skill set. Massively powerful, torque-heavy engines, center steer chassis, wide bodies, and dirt-kicking Hoosier Racing Tires combine to make Big Block Modifieds one of the most exciting, and challenging forms of oval racing in the world.
OSWEGO, NY – As we all wait impatiently for the start of this year’s edition of the Super DIRTcar Series, I look back to when it all started. I was just a junior in college at SUNY Oswego. There had been various modified racing series over the years. There were Challenge Cups and there were
OSWEGO, NY – Oct. 13, 2019 — Would he make it or not? The closing laps of Sunday’s Billy Whittaker Cars 200 capped a drama-filled NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week at Oswego Speedway, where Mat Williamson had enough fuel to charge to the checkers while the car that was closing fast did not. A
Mat Williamson followed up his Thursday 358 Modified Hurricane 100 win at Brewerton Speedway with a repeat at Sunday’s NAPA Super DIRT Week main event, the Super DIRTcar Series Billy Whittaker Cars 200. With several Big Block Modified favorites falling out of the race under caution, Williamson became the guy to beat for the second
OSWEGO, NY – October 10, 2019 – The Top 6 drivers from today’s Time Trial session are locked into the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 on Sunday, October 13. Billy Decker, from Unadilla, NY, won the STOP Tech/GPS Pole Award at Oswego Speedway with a quick-time of 20.316 seconds for his eighth NAPA Super DIRT Week
CONCORD, NC — March 7, 2019 — Fulton Speedway and DIRTcar Racing are stepping up the Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified game for the annual “Win and You’re In” event during NAPA Super DIRT Week at Oswego Speedway.