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Oswego supermodified in 1978 Oswego supermodified in 1979. The Oswego Speedway is a 1 ⁄ 2 mi (0.80 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.
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 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 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.
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 ...
Oswego .626mi (Paved) 25 Jan Leaty 47 1997 Oswego .626mi (Paved) Tony Hirschman 48 1998 Oswego .626mi (Paved) 77 Sege Fidanza 49 1999 Oswego .626mi (Paved) 22 Chuck Hossfeld: 50 2000 Oswego .626mi (Paved) George Kent Sr. 51 2001 Oswego .626mi (Paved) George Kent Sr. 52 2002 Oswego .626mi (Paved) 93 Tim Mangus 53 2003 Oswego .626mi (Paved) Sege ...
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.