With 13 days remaining until the International Classic, the countdown continues with No. 13, Nolan Swift’s most improbable International Classic win, coming in 1968. The 1968 season was a most humbling experience for 1967 track champion, Swift. After selling his seven year old Modified/converted to Supermodified, Swift and his partner Bill Wright unveiled a rear engine car, which proved to be a failure.
Novelis Supermodified Main (50-laps): 1. 90 – Kody Graham, 2. 68 – Michael Barnes, 3. 37 – Randy Ritskes
Pathfinder Bank SBS Twin #1 (20-laps): 1. 04 – Kreig Heroth, 2. 18 – Andrew Schartner, 3. 57 – Dan Abt
Rain showers began to fall on the Speedway during hot laps at 4:30 p.m., bringing all warmup periods to an end. Speedway officials made the call some 90 minutes later to postpone racing to the posted raindate of Sunday. Pit gates will open Sunday at 10 a.m. with grandstand gates opening and hot laps beginning at 11 a.m.
Oswego Speedway’s racing action, presented by Oswego County Federal Credit Union and Bosco’s Famous Italian Sausage, will start 30 minutes early tonight with Pathfinder Bank Small Block Super heats taking the green at 6 p.m. Most regional weather models are showing weather moving into the area later tonight. As a result Speedway officials have decided to bump up the start time for tonight’s event to 6 p.m.
With 16 days remaining until the International Classic, the countdown continues with No. 16, Jack Murphy and Nolan Swift’s photo finish in the inaugural International Classic. The Murphy/Swift battle of ’57 was the race that launched the International Classic into an annual and very successful event. As the first 100-lap Classic neared its completion, Swift and Murphy, two of stock car racing’s most famous drivers, were hooked in a bitter battle.
Nine weeks after suffering a compression fracture to his lower back in a June 14 Pathfinder Bank Small Block Super incident at Oswego Speedway, Mike Bond has entered the Bud Light SBS Classic 75 at the ‘Steel Palace.’ Bond, a three time series champion and three time SBS Classic champion, plans to return to the seat in a limited role during the Speedway’s Small Block Super Twin 20 events this Saturday in preparation for Budweiser International Classic Weekend.
Prolonged lake effect rains overnight and into Friday have forced Oswego Kartway officials to postpone the Justin Lamb Memorial to the Kartway’s Track Championship Night on August 22. With cool and cloudy conditions expected throughout the day, the track surface was deemed too saturated to be turned around for clean and effective racing tonight (Aug. 15). The Kartway returns to action on August 22 with the second annual Justin Lamb Memorial as well as Track Championship night.
Ticket renewals for the upcoming 58th annual Budweiser International Classic Weekend at Oswego Speedway August 29-31 will close at the end of business on August 18. Renewal forms have been available for reserved seating on all three days of Budweiser International Classic Weekend since last year’s running of the richest and most prestigious Supermodified race in the world.
With a fourth place finish in last weekend’s Novelis Supermodified main event, Otto Sitterly has regained the series point lead in search of his historical seventh Speedway title. Despite a point penalty earlier this season which withdrew 19 markers from Sitterly’s overall total, the driver of the Nicotra Racing No. 7 has rebounded, now leading championship runner-up Dave Gruel by 7 points.
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