Dirt Track Digest

Friesen fends off Decker to take second straight SEF Small Engine Fuels 200 at New York State Fairgrounds

Friesen Captures Second Consecutive SEF Small Engine Fuel 200 At The New York State Fairgrounds Young Canadian Star Turns Back Decker’s Bid For Unprecedented Sweep Of Super DIRT Week XL SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 9, 2011 – Stewart Friesen of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., cemented his place in Super DIRT Week history on Sunday at the one-mile New York State Fairgrounds, winning the SEF Small Engine Fuel 200 presented by Ferris & Snapper for the second consecutive season. One year after earning acclaim as the first Canadian to capture DIRTcar Big-Block Modified racing’s most prestigious event, the 28-year-old star authored an even…More

Decker does it! Holds off last lap challenge from Friesen to take Nationwide 150 at New York State Fairgrounds

Syracuse Superstar: Decker Captures Unprecedented Fourth Consecutive DIRTcar 358-Modified Nationwide Insurance 150 New York Veteran Has Chance To Sweep Super DIRT Week XL Big-Block & 358-Modified Events In Sunday’s SEF 200 SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 8, 2011 – By Kevin Kovac/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – Billy Decker made Super DIRT Week history on Saturday afternoon at the New York State Fairgrounds, winning an unprecedented fourth consecutive Nationwide Insurance 150. And thanks to his record sixth career victory in the marquee DIRTcar 358-Modified event, Decker has a chance to put an even bigger stamp on the biggest DIRTcar racing week of the…More

New Jersey’s Neal Williams Is The Real Deal In DIRTcar Sportsman Championship 30 Victory During Super DIRT Week XL

SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 8, 2011 – By Jamie Weaknecht/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – In order to finish first, first you have to finish. In Saturday night’s DIRTcar Sportsman Championship 30 at the New York State Fairgrounds, New Jersey standout Neal Williams did both. Williams, 21, of Pittsgrove, N.J., ended two years of torture at Super DIRT Week, driving to the biggest victory of his young career in the caution-plagued 30-mile Championship event. In two previous Super DIRT Week Sportsman starts, Williams had found speed in qualifying but never the finish line in the feature. He won the DIRTcar Sportsman Futures…More

Warner wins wild one in Bacc off Pro Stock race at New York State Fairgrounds

Rocky Warner Pulls Off Thrilling Victory In Sunday’s BACC-OFF Pro Stock Championship 25 At Syracuse Mile SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 9, 2011 – By Kevin Kovac/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – If Sunday afternoon’s BACC-OFF Pro Stock Championship 25 was Rocky Warner’s last Super DIRT Week appearance as a full-fender division regular, he certainly made it memorable. With a move to the DIRTcar Sportsman class in his plans for 2011, Gloversville, N.Y.’s Warner capped his Pro Stock career with a flourish, winning the division’s 25-mile Super DIRT Week XL headline event at the one-mile New York State Fairgrounds for the second consecutive…More

Gypsum Racing Teammates Decker & Ward Join Upstart Dunn As Victors In Big-Block Modified Triple 20s At New York State Fairgrounds; Friday Night ‘Under The Lights’ Sends 30 More Drivers Into Sunday’s SEF 200; Decker & Bachetti Divide 358-Modified Twin 20 Heat Races For Nationwide Insurance 150

SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 7, 2011 – By Kevin Kovac/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – Gypsum Express Racing teammates Billy Decker and Pat Ward joined rising youngster Billy Dunn as victors in Friday night’s Big-Block Modified Triple 20-lap heat races for the SEF 200 Presented by Ferris & Snapper at the New York State Fairgrounds. The three Big-Block events closed out a historic racing card at the Syracuse Mile, which for the first time in the history of Super DIRT Week played host to an evening heat-race program. Three portable Musco light towers were positioned in the infield of the massive oval…More

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Britten (Big-Blocks) & Blewett (358-Modifieds) Highlight Friday’s DIRTcar Futures Race Winners At New York State Fairgrounds; McPherson & Hackel (Sportsman), Achzet (Pro Stocks) Also Reach Victory Lane In Events For ‘Moody Mile’ Newcomers

SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 7, 2011 – By Kevin Kovac/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – Aussie Pete Britten (Big-Block Modifieds) and asphalt Modified convert Jimmy Blewett of Howell Twp., N.J. (358-Modifieds) headlined the list of victors in Friday afternoon’s DIRTcar Futures features during Super DIRT Week XL at the New York State Fairgrounds. Other winners in the short sprints reserved for drivers making first visits to the venerable Syracuse Mile in their respective classes included Cody McPherson of St. Catharines, Ont., and Bobby Hackel IV of Rensselaer, N.Y. (Sportsman) and Rick Achzet of Gloversville, N.Y. (Pro Stocks). Britten, a rising 23-year-old talent…More

The Doctor Danny Johnson scores Rolling Wheels 358 DIRTcar series win Thursday night

Danny Johnson Turns Back Hearn’s Challenges To Capture DIRTcar 358-Modified Series 75 At Rolling Wheels Raceway Park Defending Small-Block Tour Champion Grabs Points Lead With Second Victory Of Season ELBRIDGE, NY—Oct. 6, 2011 – By Jamie Weaknecht/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – Another chapter was added to the greatest rivalry in DIRTcar Modified racing after Danny Johnson held off Brett Hearn’s relentless challenge to capture Thursday night’s DIRTcar 358-Modified Series ‘Fast Track 75’ at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park. Rochester, N.Y.’s Johnson drove Mike Payne’s Waste Management/Honeoye Auto Parts No. 27J past Stewart Friesen of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., for the lead on lap 40…More

Fulton Speedway supporters loud and proud at Volney Town Meeting Thursday; Vote on new noise by-law postponed indefinitely

PHOTOS BY JAY FISH Volney, New York – The racing community united Thursday night to show oppositon to a proposed noise ordinance brought by the town of Volney. This ordinance, if passed, could severely impact operations of the Fulton Speedway moving forward. The small building used to hold the meeting couldn’t handle the crowd that assembled leaving some supporters on the outside looking in, but that didn’t dampen spirits. The sentiment of the crowd was felt by everyone in attendance on either side of the table. According to General Manager Cory Reed in statements made to the media the ordinance…More