Super DIRT Week Heads to Oswego Speedway
Story By: PETE MACDONALD / RACERSGUIDE.COM Photos By: DAVE DALESANDRO /RACERSGUIDE.COM
Oswego NY.-July 13, 2016- For the second time in a calendar year the annual October festival of speed known as Super DIRT Week is on the move. New York state and World Racing Group officials announced today that Super DIRT Week 2016 will be held at the Oswego Speedway.
For 44 years “Racing’s Biggest Party” was held on the Moody Mile at the New York State Fairgrounds located in Syracuse, NY. On September 1st of last year it was announced that 2015 would be the last Super DIRT Week to be held at the NYS Fairgrounds. State officials said that the 16,000 seat fairgrounds grandstand would be torn down in the name of “progress” and turned into an RV park.
On September 30th of last year it was formally announced that Super DIRT Week will be moved to the then under construction Central New York Raceway Park, a project that is spearheaded by DIRT Founder Glenn Donnelly that is just adjacent to the Brewerton Speedway with funding from the state of New York. Part of the deal was to keep SDW (Super DIRT Week) in Central NY for the next ten years.
After not receiving payment from the State of New York construction was recently halted on CNYRP (Central New York Raceway Park) which left World Racing Group scrambling for a facility large enough to hold the 46th Annual Super DIRT Week.
Oswego Speedway, a 5/8 mile asphalt track located roughly 45 minutes from the Syracuse area will be covered with clay in time for Super DIRT Week 2016 which is scheduled to begin on October 5th. A public hearing has been scheduled to allow an extra 100 temporary camping spaces for Super DIRT Week at the Oswego City Hall.
Many facilities had been brought up as solutions to losing “The Moody Mile” such as Rolling Wheels Raceway Park, the newly refurbished Weedsport Speedway or even more of a “speedweek” where each track in Central NY would have its own race and a champion would be crowned at the very end.
More to come as this all unfolds, something tells me we still haven’t seen the last of this, not by a long shot.
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