Oswego Speedway’s conversion to dirt track for Super DIRT week begins

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Oswego Speedway is a five-eighths-mile asphalt track that runs weekly supermodified races. Each year following the Budweiser Classic Weekend, the lakeside oval coverts into a dirt track.

That process started Thursday with the placement of over 200 jersey barriers around the inside hub rail. John and Larry Wight of Gypsum Express then begin directing 10-wheel dump trucks that bring in clay to be spread around the racing surface. Between four and five hundred loads are expected to be dropped during this process.

The 49th annual NAPA Super DIRT Week 200 runs from Oct. 6-10.

Eric Kingsley manages the track preparation for Gyspum for this event.

“Once the clay is on the track, we like to get it about 10 inches thick,” said Kingsley. “We then disc it down about seven inches and roll it down again and get it as hard as we can. We got about half the track done Thursday and should finish up Friday.”

This discing and rolling process should continue daily up through the start of Super DIRT Week. Depending on the weather, water and calcium could be added to help get the surface as smooth and hard as possible.

Then, as soon as Super DIRT Week is complete, the process is reversed and the clay and barriers are scooped up and taken back behind the rear grandstands to be stored until Super DIRT Week 2022.

ANDY JANKOWIAK CRASHES

Andy Jankowiak started 19th in Thursday night’s ARCA 200 stock car race at the Bristol (Tennessee) Speedway. The second-generation racer from Buffalo then worked his way up to ninth after 140 laps but was bumped, and he crashed out of the event.

He was credited with 26th in the 31-car field. The race was won by Ty Gibbs.

FRIESEN GETS 4TH

Stewart Friesen started fifth in Thursday night’s NASCAR Truck Series 200, but the Sprakers driver ran a smooth, steady race in a crash-filled main event to finish fourth in his Halmar Racing Toyota and remain in the Truck Series playoffs.

Nineteen-year-old Chandler Smith won the event for his first-ever Truck Series victory.

ULTIMATE UNDERDOG

The Fonda 200 Weekend opened Thursday night with a 33-lap Ultimate Underdog feature for drivers who haven’t won a feature race in 2021. Forty-two non-winners entered the event, with 28 starting the 33-lap finale.

Brett Haas picked up the win and $2,000, with Phil Vigneri second and Brian Pessolano third.

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