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The King of Wings Crowned Classic Champion

By - Chris Porter
Photo – Jim Feeney

Mexico’s Bobby Bond killed two birds with one stone Monday evening, making his first non-winged Oswego supermodified feature win the International Classic 200 at the Oswego Speedway. Bond caught and passed 2010 Oswego Speedway Track Champion Otto Sitterly with 13 laps remaining en route to capturing his second checkered flag at the famed lakeside oval this season. Earlier this year, Bond was crowned “King of Wings” after winning the annual winged supermodified event. That win was his first super feature victory of any kind.

“Everything just fell my way,” Bond said. “With 50 to go, the car just kept getting better and better. I could see the guys in front of me getting looser and looser. Everything just worked out my way … . I could see Otto was really loose and slipping. I was pretty sure I could get him at that point because my car was pretty good at the end.”

However, it wasn’t that way for Bond at the start.

“I thought I was in trouble in the first 100 laps,” he said. “The car wasn’t good. It was loose and slipping a bit. But, once that fuel burned off, it came around.”

Bond qualified his No. 25 Ed Matteson-owned machine ninth, with at time of 16.965 seconds. It put him on the inside of the fifth row, which he was OK with. What was most important for Bond was to just give himself an opportunity to do something at the end. To do that, he knew he had to first still be running.

“I knew the car was pretty good,” he said of his qualifying run. “I wasn’t worried about the time trial. I wanted to be in the top 10 and that’s all we did. That was good enough. We just hung out the first 100 laps. You’ve got to be there at the end to win. If you’re not there, you can’t win.”

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Bond first came into play for the win after following Greg Furlong underneath the second-place running Davey Hamilton No. 6 on the 169th lap. Furlong and Bond both chased down Sitterly, and the trio began to distance themselves from the field.

As the . . . (cont.)

Posted Sep 07, 2010 at 10:57 am

ABT-solutely Dominant – Steve Abt Leads All 100 in SBS Classic

By – Chris Porter
Photo – Jim Feeney

Steve Abt led all 100 laps of the Small Block Supermodified (SBS) Classic on Monday, capturing his first SBS Classic win. Having been twice bumped to the next day due to rain showers, Abt first time trialed atop the field, before beating Andrew Schartner into the first turn to earn the early lead. From that point on, Abt says he didn’t remember seeing another competitor’s challenging wheel. It was his third win of the 2010 season.

“I didn’t see a wheel all night,” Abt said. “I don’t know how close some guys were to me. I never saw a wheel, I just kept my line. Lapped traffic was great. They listened. They stayed down low. I was able to get by them pretty easily. The car was great all night. It never changed from the first lap to the 100th lap.”

SBS qualifying had actually started on Saturday, but was eventually washed away. Abt says he was disappointed with his run that night, feeling that his car had much more potential. Qualifying started from scratch on Monday and after pulling pit-side after his time trial, he knew he’d done better simply by the reactions of his crew.

“We time trialed before the rain there, the track was pretty green . . . We had a (19.6), I was pretty discouraged because I knew the car had a whole lot more. So I was pretty excited to wake up today knowing the track was going to have some rubber on it before we went out … I pulled in and all of the guys gave me the thumbs up, so I knew we had it, pretty exciting.”

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Schartner filed in behind Abt at the (cont.)

Posted Sep 07, 2010 at 10:56 am

Supermodified News

BEN SEITZ TAKES FIRST ISMA WIN AT OSWEGO SUPER NATIONALS

By – Carol Haynes, ISMA PR
Photo - Jim Feeney

Oswego, NY – After a rain-filled weekend, the clouds finally broke enough at Oswego to begin some racing on Labor Day Monday morning allowing Bourne, MA’s Ben Seitz to claim his first ISMA win. Seitz took the ISMA Bud Light Super Nationals 50 victory after a late race pass of leader Mike Lichty. Seitz started third but lost that spot to Russ Wood in the yellow-plagued first half of the race. With 20 to go, the Richard Bien-owned 17 began moving forward and on lap 44, he and Lichty went side by side as they approached  . . . (cont.)

Posted Sep 06, 2010 at 10:30 pm

Mother Nature 3, Classic Weekend 0

Photos/Update – Chris Porter

Mother Nature has delivered another gut-wrenching blow to Oswego Speedway’s Classic Weekend on Sunday.  After, both Friday and Saturday night’s events were axed due to persistent rains, the call was made to postpone Sunday’s efforts to Monday as well. This forces SBS Classic, ISMA Supernationals and International Classic to all be held on Labor Day, Monday. At 2 p.m. on Sunday, the rains had stopped. Efforts to dry the track began, and drivers and teams were asked to be at the speedway no later than 4 p.m. However, just an hour later, it was announced that the show was . . . (cont.)

Posted Sep 05, 2010 at 12:22 pm

Classic Weekend Practice Pics & Bits From Friday

Recap/Photos – Chris Porter

Dozens of crews and drivers participating in Oswego Speedway’s 2010 Classic Weekend took the opportunity to test and tune their machines Friday afternoon during an open practice session. Cars from Oswego’s regular non-winged big and small block supermodified divisions were joined by some of the winged International Super Modified Association (ISMA) and Midwest Supermodified Association (MSA) teams.

For the most part, incidents were few and far between, with no more than a half-dozen spins on the day. However, Shawn Muldoon’s No. 1 supermodified clocked the third-turn wall (aftermath below) with tremendous force near the end of the practice session. Something appeared to have gone amiss mechanically, as the recently finished super had … (cont.)

Posted Sep 04, 2010 at 12:01 am

International Classic 200: BY THE NUMBERS

By – Danny Kapuscinski

There isn’t much to say about the International Classic that hasn’t already been said. Each Labor Day Weekend it features some of the best open-wheel drivers anywhere in the country, in the most extreme and hybrid open-wheel short track cars on the planet. It is arguably the greatest short track event run in the United States.

To put it in prospective, just this past June I sat at a banquet table in Knoxville, Iowa as a part of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum luncheon. Across from me sat an older gentlemen probably in his seventies, forgive me for forgetting his name, but after a short period of conversation he learned that I had grown up in Oswego and was a huge fan of the Speedway. Before long, he began to recount broken stories that he had heard of “those guys at Oswego … and if you beat Swifty, you really did something. It was the PLACE to race!”

He went on to say that … (cont.)

Posted Sep 03, 2010 at 12:02 am

Around The Lake

KENT DOMINATES MODIFIEDS AGAIN; J. ZACHARIAS AND L.SHARPSTEEN MOVE CLOSE TO TITLES; DINEEN AND ALCARO ALSO WIN AT SHANGRI-LA II

***Shangri-La Press***

TIOGA CENTER. N.Y. – The last time the Modifieds raced at Shangri-La II Motor Speedway, J.R. Kent led all the way in the 61-lap Richie Evans Memorial. Saturday night he picked up where he left off, starting on the pole and leading every circuit of the 35-lap feature. The Horseheads, N.Y. veteran has now paced 96 consecutive  . . . (cont.)

Posted Sep 05, 2010 at 5:03 pm

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

* Spencer Speedway Press *

WILLIAMSON, NY – Late afternoon rain last Friday, September 3, has created a truly special 2010 season finale for Spencer Speedway next Friday, September 10.

“I talked with Andy (Harpell) and we have agreed to run the 100-lap RoC Modified show next Friday,” stated Spencer Speedway promoter John White. The super fast RoC modifieds are getting ready for their 60th annual Race of Champions show at Oswego Speedway, September 23-25. Seven different classes will be in competition over the weekend, including the powerful RoC Modifieds, RoC Sports Modifieds, Street Stocks, Late Models, Super Stocks, Mini-Stocks and 360 Super Modifieds. For more information about this event go to the Race of Champions website – www.RaceOfChampions.net.

The RoC Modifieds will … (cont.)

Posted Sep 04, 2010 at 12:42 am

7 Crowned at Quarter Midget Classic

By – Chris Porter

The Oswego County Quarter Midget Club held its annual Classic event Saturday afternoon at “Claytona’s” 1/20-mile track, located at the corners of Howard and Silk Roads in Volney. Beautiful weather greeted all in attendance as seven race winners were crowned in their respective classes.

The first race on the schedule was the largest – the 40-lap, 10-car Sr. Honda event. Camden Proud nabbed the early lead from the pole position, bringing Zach Sobotka, Kyle Perry and Amylynn Holland across the stripe with him to complete the maiden lap.

Proud and  Sobotka broke away early, but . . . (cont.)

Posted Aug 29, 2010 at 4:13 pm

SEGE FIDANZA VICTORIOUS IN HOLLAND BUDWEISER 100

* HOLLAND NASCAR MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX *

Holland, NY – In his long and successful racing career, Sege Fidanza of Middleport, NY has earned a number of wins in high profile racing events. On Saturday evening, he added another marquee race win to his resume with a victory in the Budweiser 100 at the Holland NASCAR Motorsports Complex. The 47th running of this annual . . . (cont.)

Posted Aug 29, 2010 at 4:12 pm