Super DIRT Week returns to Oswego Speedway, Oct. 2-8, with plans to be the biggest party yet Super DIRT Week 51 will start a new era for Racing’s Biggest Party at Oswego Speedway. While the Northeast’s biggest dirt racing event will still see the best drivers from across the country contend in the historic event
Ahead of his induction into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame, racing great Tim Fuller recounts winning Super DIRT Week, Super DIRTcar Series title When Tim Fuller received the call informing him of his induction into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame this summer, it brought several aspects of his professional life into
The Beasts of the Northeast will venture to six different states, and Canada, for a nearly 30-race schedule After making history at Super DIRT Week and ending the season in thrilling fashion, the Super DIRTcar Series is building to an exciting 2023 season. For the first time in 16 years, the Series will visit six different states
Sheppard, Williamson, and Decker repeat Time Trial success in Qualifying Heats After an hours long rain delay, the stars of the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds hit the track at Oswego Speedway Saturday night one more time before Sunday’s Feature race. Three 25-lap Qualifying Heats saw 24 cars qualify for the $50,000-to-win, Billy Whittaker
Sheppard sets the quickest time, while Williamson and Decker look to contend for the win The legends came out to play as the top six positions for the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 were locked in with the Super DIRTcar Series Time Trials Friday afternoon at Oswego Speedway. Three Qualifying Heats were also on the evening’s
Reutimann, Balough join today’s superstars to help kick off ‘Racing’s Biggest Party’ From the inaugural winner in 1972 to the most recent driver to take the checkered flag, NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week celebrated 50 years of history on Thursday by honoring past champions of the event. After each former winner — from 1972
Williamson will aim to be the third driver in history to win three straight Super DIRT Week Big Block Modified titles Upon Mat Williamson’s approach to try and win his third straight Super DIRT Week title, he’s left with more uncertainties than years past. Tracks he and his Buzz Chew Racing team expected to run
With five races remaining on the 2022 Super DIRTcar Series tour and a 123-point lead entering the Malta Massive Weekend on Saturday, Matt Sheppard has one focus. “The heck with the points racing. We want to win races,” said Sheppard, of Waterloo, NY, as he eyes his ninth Super DIRTcar Series title this year. “I
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,
The first step in doubling the population of Oswego for a week commenced Wednesday morning when a load of clay was dropped on Oswego Speedway. It began the process of turning the 5/8-mile asphalt track into a dirt track for the historic 50th Running of NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week, which brings more than
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
With 50 days to go, the excitement for the 50th NAPA Super DIRT Week is building among drivers and fans Ask any Big Block Modified driver about NAPA Super DIRT Week and they’ll tell you… “It’s our Super Bowl,” said Super DIRTcar Series star Jimmy Phelps, echoing the sentiment of his competitors. The event, which
Kenny Brightbill will return to NAPA Super DIRT Week and the Super DIRTcar Series, after a 13-year absence, to try and add his name to another page in the history books this October. The 74-year-old, from Sinking Springs, PA, is teaming up with fellow NAPA Super DIRT Week champion Larry Wight to pilot the LJL
‘Mad Max’ will be on the hunt for his second Weedsport Speedway victory with the Super DIRTcar Series during the Hall of Fame 100 on July 24 Max McLaughlin’s win at Land of Legends Raceway in June did more than give him his first points-paying Super DIRTcar Series win. With Land of Legends having similar
Marking 30 years since his first Super DIRT Week championship, Richie “Toby” Tobias Jr. is climbing back behind the wheel of a Big Block Modified for the 50th NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week. The 1992 Super DIRT Week champion, from Lebanon, PA, will pilot Dan Humes’s Clayton Racing Big Block Modified for the entire
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 Moody Mile and Steel Palace bring history to the one-of-a-kind Big Block trophy Fifty years of NAPA Super DIRT Week history will be bestowed upon the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 champion in October. The stories and legacy of the event will be encapsulated in a more than two-foot-tall golden cup like no other. Upon
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Only milliseconds could measure Larry Wight’s lightning response to his goals for 2022 – “Win every race.” The certain confidence stems from the restructuring of LJL Racing over the off-season with the team downsizing from a three-car team to a one-car team with Wight. By combining all their best efforts into one car, the Phoenix,
Jimmy Phelps will enter his 26th season of racing with the Super DIRTcar Series in 2022 eager to return to Victory Lane and eager to still learn. In particular from his 21-year-old teammate. Phelps, of Baldwinsville, NY, will run full-time with the Series again in 2022, with Max McLaughlin returning as his teammate at Heinke-Baldwin
Stewart Friesen had one of his best runs with the Super DIRTcar Series in 2021, collecting a career-high eight wins in a season. Then, a pause: the off-season. Now, he’s counting the days to shake off the rust – or probably Northeast ice – with five days of on-track action at Volusia Speedway Speedway Park during
