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Oswego supermodified in 1978 Oswego supermodified in 1979. The Oswego Speedway is a 5 ⁄ 8 mi (1.0 km) race track in Oswego, New York. It was built in 1951 and was paved with asphalt since the 1952. The track has held dates on several national tours - the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, ASA National Tour, and USAC Silver Crown Series.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 3, 2020; Randall, Frank Alfred (1999). History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252024160; Sinkevitch, Alice (2004). AIA Guide to Chicago (2nd ed.).
He also competed successfully in a dirt-track modified at Langhorne Speedway PA and Weedsport Speedway NY, and captured the 1970 track championship at the Rolling Wheels Raceway in Elbridge, New York. [5] Jim Shampine died in a Modified racing accident at Oswego Speedway on September 4, 1982. [6]
The largest of the four major sanctioning bodies is the Liverpool, New York-based International Supermodified Association (ISMA), founded in 1974 by multi-time Oswego Speedway champions Jim Shampine and Nolan Swift to ensure the future of supermodified racing. With the help of local businessman Tom Heveron, they formed ISMA as a forum for ...
Oswego (/ ɒ s ˈ w iː ɡ oʊ /) is a village in Kendall and Will counties, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 34,485. [3] Oswego is the largest municipality in Kendall County. Part of the Chicago metropolitan area, it is an exurb of Chicago. [4] [5]
Oswego Speedway is a five-eighths-mile asphalt track that runs weekly supermodified races. Each year following the Budweiser Classic Weekend, the oval coverts into a dirt track. That process requires placement of over 200 jersey barriers around the inside hub rail, and then 10-wheel dump trucks that bring in between four and five hundred loads ...
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Murphy was also a fixture at other area tracks, including Canandaigua Speedway, Dryden Speedway, the Monroe County Fairgrounds and the Syracuse Mile, while occasionally travelling to Capital City Speedway ON, Langhorne Speedway PA and Trenton Speedway NJ, where he set what was then a world's record for fastest time.
2006 ISMA SuperModified. The ISMA was founded in 1974 by Jim Shampine and Nolan Swift, who had won multiple races and championships at the Oswego Speedway. [2] With the help of local businessperson Tom Heveron, they formed ISMA as a forum for owners and drivers to express their ideas and opinions.