Weekend News

Hagerstown Speedway has released their schedule, and the big-block modifieds will make one appearance in 2014. The weekend of October 24-25 the modifieds will be part of a 6-division end-of-the-year special. October 24th will be qualifying, and Saturday October 25th will be the feature events. The modified portion of the event will pay $12,000 to win.

Western PA's Tri-City Speedway will be re-opening in 2014, but under a different name. The Franklin, PA dirt track will now be known as "Allegheny Motor Speedway." The track has a 5-race schedule planned for the big-block modifieds, all of which will be sanctioned by the BRP Modified Tour.

Speaking of the BRP Tour, they've released their 2014 schedule with 10 races currently scheduled between 4 tracks. Notable tracks currently missing from the tour are Wayne County Speedway, Eriez Speedway, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, and most notably, Lernerville Speedway. However, there are currently 3 "TBA" dates left on the schedule. Two of those (July 4 & July 18) are Fridays, so it's safe to assume that Lernerville will be included on the schedule with one of those dates. The other is August 30th, which is a Saturday that Sharon Speedway has off. Here's the current schedule...

May 18: Allegheny Motor Speedway
June 15: Allegheny Motor Speedway
July 4: TBA (Lernerville?)
July 6: Allegheny Motor Speedway
July 10: Expo Speedway
July 12: Mercer Raceway Park
July 13: Mercer Raceway Park
July 18: TBA (Lernerville?)
July 30: Sharon Speedway
August 24: Allegheny Motor Speedway
August 30: TBA (Mercer?)
September 13: Sharon Speedway
September 21: Allegheny Motor Speedway

Brewerton and Fulton regular Chris Hile is the latest driver to announce his intention to run the Super DIRTcar Series in 2014. Hile joins Billy Decker, Larry Wight, Ryan Phelps, Stewart Friesen, Rob Bellinger, Vince Vitale, and Jimmy Davis as drivers who plan to follow the tour this year that did not in 2013. Drivers who followed the tour last season that have announced they will be back in 2014 include Brett Hearn, Matt Sheppard, Jimmy Phelps, Dale Planck, Danny Johnson, Billy Dunn, Peter Britten, Justin Haers, Rich Scagliotta, Billy VanInwegen, and Matt Billings.

Canandaigua Motorsports Park schedule was leaked momentarily. Tenatively they have a $2,000 to win race for the modifieds scheduled against Fulton Speedway's Super DIRTcar Series opener on April 26. No word on whether or not it will be a non-points race or not.