Changes to Syracuse 200

The competitor's notes on the Super Dirt Series website have some interesting changes listed for the 2010 SEF 200 which will highlight this year's edition of Super Dirt Week.

First, the mandatory pit stop after lap 100 is no more. The only mandatory pit stop is you have to pit after lap 50, however, that shouldn't be a problem since nobody will be able to run 150 laps on a tank of fuel. Also, double file restarts will be in affect until lap 190 of the 200 which should make restarts a whole lot more exciting, and lapped cars will be forced to restart behind the lead lap cars. During some yellow flags a water truck and a sweeper will clean off the outside in hopes of keeping the track 2 grooves throughout the race. Finally, over the last 50 laps of the 200, big block teams are allowed to run a normal DIRT Hard tire, which is softer than DIRT's Syracuse tire, on the right rear, the tires sidewall must be painted purple so the fans will know who decided to took the gamble with the softer tire.

We'll have to see how it plays out, but DIRT continues to try to make the racing better at the mile.