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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The premiere event for the series is the Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux 200, a part of NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week which is currently held at the Oswego Speedway in Oswego, New York. The race features one of the biggest purses in dirt modified racing with the purse paying $50,000 to the winner.
The Race of Champions 250 originated in 1951 as the National Open on the dirt surfaced Langhorne Speedway in Middletown Township, Bucks County, near the borough of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. In order to secure the strongest modified field possible, promoters Al Gerber and Irv Fried guaranteed starting spots in ...
Jun. 10—OSWEGO — Throughout the two weeks since his breakthrough victory in the Oswego Speedway International Classic, Michael Barnes keeps giving his wife, Jodi, the same one-word answer when ...
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.
Southside Speedway: History. The 0.33-mile Southside Speedway opened in 1959 and is billed as "The Toughest Short Track in the South." Racing legends such as Richard Petty , Junior Johnson ...