Auto Racing News

By Tom Coughlin

The 38th annual Fulton Speedway Outlaw 200 Weekend actually began last night. On tonight's program are the Empire Super Sprints-360 winged sprint cars, DIRTcar pro stocks, 15-lap modified qualifiers, and heats and consolation races for the sportsman division. Gates open today at 5:00 pm. Saturday gates open at 3:00 pm. to begin the night's program leading up to the $20,000 Outlaw 200 for the 358 modifieds and the $2,500 sportsman Shootout.

Starting today the Ranch at Carlisle will host Snowmobile Grass Drags & Swap Meet. Racing will take place on Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 am. Today’s hours are 10:00 am. until 10:00 pm. Saturday 7:00 am. until 10:00 pm. Sunday gates open at 7:00 am. The awards ceremony for Saturday and Sunday will take place at 5:00 pm. The swap meet is all three days all day long. The Ranch at Carlisle is located at 442 Lykers Road, Carlisle, N.Y. 12035.

Super DIRT Week is here. The annual transformation of the 5/8 mile Oswego Speedway from the Steel Palace into the Clay Palace in preparations to host Super DIRT Week 52 is complete. The annual event has an adjusted schedule in 2024 and will kickoff on Sunday, October 6th at 9:00 am. with early camper & team load in. That evening at 6:00 pm. at the Lighthouse Lanes directly in front of Oswego Speedway. There will be free pizza, wings, beer specials, and bowling.

Wednesday, October 9 at noon will be the annual SDW parade, which begins at the pit gate exit of the speedway and traverses throughout the City of Oswego and returns to the speedway.

Feature events this year will start on Friday, October 11 with the DIRTcar 358 modified Salute to the Troops 150 and the DIRTcar pro stock 50. Saturday, October 12 will start with an autograph session at 1:00 pm. of the top 30 SDS drivers on the front stretch Midway. That will lead into the Billy Whittaker Cars 200 for the big block modifieds and the DIRTcar Sportsman Chevrolet Performance 75.

Results from last weekend show that entering into the C.R.S.A. 305 25-lap feature race at Utica-Rome Speedway on Friday. There was a tie in championship points between Kyle Pierce and Tomy Moreau. After redrawing the pole Zach Sobotka led every lap. Sobotka minus the front wing scored his first victory with the C.R.S.A.. Pierce finished third and Moreau fifth and this earned the school teacher Pierce his first championship by four points, as the final point show on Saturday for the C.R.S.A. at Land Of Legends Raceway near Canandaigua was cancelled due to rain.Jeff Trombley of Altamont finished 17th. and Chad Miller of Amsterdam finished 22nd.

The Short Track SuperNationals-15 Weekend kicked off on Friday with the Short Track Super Series crate 602 sportsman division competing in a 25-lap feature. Brian Calabrese of Johnstown earned the win over Blaine Klinger and Michael Ballestero. In the 20-lap pro stock feature A.J. Walters scored the victory ahead of Andy Graves and Ken Griffin.

In the 20-lap street stock feature Jason Samrov took the win over Josh Samrov and Mark Lester. The slingshots were also on the program with Brody Janczuk taking the 20-lap All-Star division victory and Sullivan Dickey earning the 15-lap Junior division win.

Stewart Friesen was competing with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in the Kubota Tractor 200 at Kansas Speedway, near Kansas City, Kansas. Stewart started in the eighth position and ran towards the front and had a fairly decent race pace until running out of fuel in

the closing laps and finishing a disappointing 24th.

Saturday afternoon at U-R kicked off with the limited sportsman where Eric Jensen won the 20-lap feature over Jeff Bobilin and Maddy Broedel. In the 20-lap SCDRA/ Fonda Fair 4-cylinder division feature Corey Valade claimed the win.

The night show saw a good field of modified cars competing in the Short Track SuperNationals 50-lap feature. After 14 different winners The modified feature saw Matt Sheppard lead 49 of the 50 laps on his way to becoming the first repeat winner of the Working Man’s Race.

Stewart Friesen and Tim Fuller filled the podium. For Sheppard it was his 50th. career win on the Short Track Super Series and his 12th of 2024.