Sitterly Searching For 8th Oswego Supermodified Title
Story By: DAN KAPUSCINSKI / OSWEGO SPEEDWAY MEDIA
Photos By: DAVE DALESANDRO / RACERSGUIDE.COM
OSWEGO, N.Y. –August 16, 2016- One of the Novelis Supermodified contenders aiming for the Oswego Speedway track championship as a part of this Saturday’s track championship special is seven-time speedway champion Otto Sitterly.
Despite scoring eight top-five finishes in 10 starts this season, Sitterly has yet to find victory lane this year, the first time since 2007 that the winner of 37 Supermodified main events at Oswego has gone this long without a win in one season.
Two different main event crashes this season have slowed Sitterly’s usual assault on the competition.
After claiming his seventh title in 2014, Sitterly has been on the hunt for Supermodified title number eight, which would break his current championship tie with legends Jim Shampine and Bentley Warren.
Only the Speedway’s grand champion, Nolan Swift, has won more track titles than Shampine, Warren, and Sitterly – as the ‘Old Grey Fox’ won eight championships between Modified and Supermodified competition at the ‘Steel Palace.’
With a 31-point deficit to current point leader Dave Gruel, Sitterly will have his work cut out for him in his bid for title eight. But, with a maximum of 115 points available between heat and feature action, the 31-point difference can quickly be erased and Sitterly is just the driver to make it happen.
Since his first title in 2006, Sitterly has not finished worse than fifth in the Novelis Supermodified driver’s championship, a streak that he hopes will continue in 2016 as fellow combatants Jeff Abold, Pat Lavery, and Dave Danzer sit behind the driver of the Nicotra Racing No. 7.
