Historic night at Utica-Rome Speedway
VERNON — Brett Hearn came away victorious in the Race of Champions VP Racing Fuels 100 Modified feature during the 50th anniversary Wednesday night special at Utica-Rome Speedway.
Hearn held off runner-up Danny Johnson to claim the $10,000 to win 100-lap race while Bobby Varin charged to a third place finish. Pat Ward came home with fourth place, Billy Decker took fifth and defending Utica-Rome Speedway Modified champion Stewart Friesen captured sixth.
Chad Brachmann, Matt Sheppard, Ronnie Johnson and Ryan Phelps rounded out the top 10, respectively.
Chuck Hebing went on win the 25-lap Empire Super Sprint Series feature as Steve Poirier raced to second place. Jason Barney claimed third, Shawn Donath was fourth and Kevin Ward, Jr. took fifth. George Suprick came away with sixth place, Lance Yonge picked up seventh, Tommy Wickham was eighth, Dylan Swiernik charged to ninth and Doug Emery finished 10th.
The speedway will host a regular show of Modifieds, Pro Stocks and Pure Stocks as well as a special appearance from the Race of Champions Sportsman Series on Sunday.
Gates open at 3:30 p.m. with racing beginning at 6 o’clock.
Wednesday’s event was one of the most historic night’s at the Vernon race track.
The Utica-Rome Speedway came to be in 1961 as a quarter mile asphalt oval just on the outskirts of Vernon in some farmland just off Route 5. Through the years, the speedway transformed from the quarter mile bullring to a 1/3 mile asphalt oval, and in 1962 an eighth mile drag strip was added which was run successfully for many years.
In 1979, a change in ownership brought some major changes to the speedway, most notably a change in size and in the surface. The asphalt was replaced with a dirt surface and the track was expanded to a big 5/8 mile oval. Several changes in ownership in the 1980’s brought the speedway to the brink of closing forever, but in 1989, Bub Benway along with Eric and Giselle Kingsley took control of the speedway.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Aug. 10, 2011 — The start of Super DIRT Week XL is less than two months away, and anticipation for the historical 40th anniversary continues to build amongst the tens-of-thousands of race fans and race teams that will eventually take over the New York State Fairgrounds for the legendary event every Columbus Day weekend.
Forty years of personality has been built into the Syracuse mile. History echoes off the grandstands and fills the racing surface. Syracuse has seen it all, the dramatics of Super DIRT Week are unmatched anywhere. It’s where Buzzie Reutimann claimed the first two Syracuse titles, “The Batmobile” dominated in 1980, where Kenny Brightbill took advantage of a late-race mistake by 2-time winner Jimmy Horton in 1988, where Alan Johnson won from last starting position after a late race crash involving the top-2 in 1989, it’s where Kenny Tremont ran out of gas twice on the final lap while leading, where Vic Coffey pulled off the biggest upset of them all in 2002, and where Billy Decker, Frank Cozze and Stewart Friesen have exceeded the limits of gas mileage on their quests to victory.
From the hard-concrete walls, to the hard-clayed surface, Syracuse puts man and machine to the limit. It’s destroyed countless racecars, broken thousands of hearts, yet it’s made careers, or completed them, for 21 superstars of the sport.
Reutimann, Osmun, Balough, Johnson, Treichler, Hearn, McCreadie, Horton, Brightbill, Hoffman, Decker, Tremont, Coffey, Fuller, Cozze, Sheppard, and Friesen are the names that have conquered the seemingly unconquerable track. They’re the modern-day gladiators that went face-to-face with the speeds and hazards of Syracuse, and came out on top, to standing ovations from the large covered grandstands.
Yet, Super DIRT Week has become much more than a race, it’s become a spectacle. In its 40th anniversary it celebrates the spectacle it has become, it celebrates 40-years of race fans sitting through sun, freezing temperatures, rain, or even snow to cheer on their favorite drivers, 40-years of campers being placed in lines weeks in advance to get onto the grounds early on Tuesday morning, 40-years of post-race entertainment at places like The Ghetto, The Voodoo Lounge and Club Wago.
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