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The speedway was covered by approximately 6,900 cubic feet of clay for DIRTcar modified drivers to compete in the NAPA 300, the richest dirt modified race in the world. The event took place on October 5 to 9, 2016. [4] It was the first time that the track had a dirt surface since 1952. [4]
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 ...
D. James "Jim" Shampine (March 25, 1941 – September 4, 1982) was one of the most successful drivers in Supermodified competition and an equally skilled racer in asphalt and dirt-track Modified stock cars. He won 92 feature races at Oswego Speedway NY, and with his innovative car designs captured 38% of the Supermodified events held from 1970 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
Treichler established himself in racing at the paved Lancaster Speedway where he won multiple track championships, and at the dirt track at Ransomville. [3] He went on to compete successfully at the east coast race tracks from Florida to Canada, including the Flemington Speedway NJ, Langhorne Speedway PA, Lebanon Valley Speedway NY, Oswego Speedway NY, Sharon Speedway OH, the Syracuse Mile NY ...