Southern Tier Speedworld Photos

Another mall show is going on currently, and Doug's Dirt Diary has posted pictures from the show. There are a slew of modifieds and other divisions of cars there, some of the modified cars that are there include Steve Babicek's #s1, Ken Titus' #9, Glenn Knapp's #26, James Cornell's #J3, Joel Batzel's #1k, and Tim Votra's #45, among others.

Cayuga County's "All-Star 100" Date Announced

The first ever All-Star 100 for the Super Dirt Series big block modifieds, which will pay $20,000 to the winner, will take place Sunday July 26th. The event will pay $1,000 to start. This will be one of the must see shows of the season!

Rick Clay Returns with Rick Laubach

Rick Clay, who a few years ago owned a big block for MeMe DeSantis in special shows, will return to big block action in 2009 with Rick Laubach. Clay and Laubach will run specials together, starting this Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway.

Laubach will run his own #20 big block weekly at New Egypt Speedway and will also run his own car at the NJ/DE Tri-Track Series races. He'll run Fridays with Guy Germano's #542 small block weekly at Big Diamond.

Jim Young of RaceSong Productions broke the news.

NOTE: That was a typo I made about Laubach going to Bridgeport, my mistake, he'll be running New Egypt weekly, the post is corrected above.

Eric Kocher Paint Scheme, Updates, Racing this Weekend!

Here is Big Diamond regular Eric Kocher's 358 modified for the 2009 season, http://greenflag314.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=photo&action=display&thread=1798

Also, note on the driver's links page I added Craig Hanson's link.

Still no word on two racing teams (that I know of), Wilson Motorsports still hasn't announced their drivers for 2009, although it's starting to look like unfortunately that the popular #16w won't make a full-time assault anywhere. Also, the Saracino Racing team has yet to announce a driver for their car, although there have been reports about possibly Donny Radd jumping into the #91 car, although that has yet to be confirmed

Hagerstown Speedway will open it's doors in 2009 on Saturday afternoon with an Octoberfest qualifier for the big block modifieds and super late models. Both races will pay $2,000 to win.

Mall Shows!

Arguably the best mall racecar show in the entire northeast is taking place this week at the Reading Fairgrounds Square Mall. With tons of racecars, driver interviews, autograph signings, and celebrity bartending taking place, Bob Miller does a fantastic job, as always, doing something for everyone of the fans. Pictures from the show are available on SouthJerseyDirtRacing.com.

The CVRA mall also took place this weekend, pictures are available on Dirt Track Digest, although no modifieds were there, a couple of sportsman teams unveild their paint schemes.

Club Wago Crown Jewel Fantasy League Now Open!

The Club Wago Crown Jewel Fantasy League is officially taking entries. Five people have already signed up, and we hope to have more participants than the 33 people that signed up last year. The league is free to enter. We'll be giving away a 2010 Season Pass to the track of the winner's choice, a free 6-month Area Auto Racing News subscription to the highest finisher that isn't a subscriber (if the winner already gets AARN, it gets passed down to second place, and so on), along with merchandise donated to us by teams throughout the year.

Special thanks to Zach Aubertine Motorsports for the season pass donation, and to Jeff Withey and everyone at Area Auto Racing News for the free subscription.

Also, thanks to Brett Thayer from http://www.cowpattynation.blogspot.com/ for making that cool fantasy league logo!

Click here to read the rules and to sign up! http://jw4.proboards85.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=251&page=1

Troy Wink 2009 Paint Scheme

Well, Troy Wink won't be driving the #27 car that was posted on his website, or shown at the Atlantic City mall show early this year. Instead, he'll be driving a #44 which is a throwback to the early 90s. A picture of the car is available on his website here, http://www.winkmotorsports.com/team_44_results.htm#Team%2044%20Results

Big Diamond Added to Super Dirt Series Schedule

Big Diamond Raceway has announced that they will have their first Super Dirt Series race in a few years on April 26th. The race will be 75 laps and will pay $6,000 to win.

This now makes Big Diamond and Lernerville the only 2 tracks in Pennsylvania that are on the series schedule, there currently are no Dirt Series races scheduled in New Jersey or Delaware.

Matt Sheppard News...

Another paint scheme layout was found, this time a forum member of Dirt Track Digest pointed it out. Matt Sheppard's Tom Cullen owned #1x has the layout for it's 2009 scheme posted on Sheppard's website at http://www.matt-sheppard.com/news07.htm

That also answers some questions as to who would be behind the wheel of the Tom Cullen #1x in 2009. Willy Decker drove the car for most of the year last year, but the two sides parted ways late in 2008. Decker will run Utica Rome with his own #1x, no word on where Cullen will run with Sheppard.

Jimmy Horton in with Biever

Jimmy Horton will jump over to the Dick Biever Racing #14 big block modified for 2009, Chris Budihas confirmed on South Jersey Dirt Racing. No word on whether the team will run weekly, or just part-time. If the team will run weekly, that leaves another vacant ride with the Gino Postarivo #X big block modified.