OSWEGO, N.Y. (NCC News) –– Over 900 campsites and 300 racers will fill Oswego Speedway until the 48th Super Dirt Week ends on Sunday. This week, four different classes of cars will compete to win $400,000.
The Director of DIRTcar Northeast, Dean Reynolds, said each car is described as store-bought.
“They’ll buy the motors from somebody. They’ll buy the frame from somebody. They could get a body from somebody else,” Reynolds said. “And there’s some cars here that there’s $80,000 invested.”
Some of the cars look similar to cars on the road, but they sure don’t drive like them. DIRTcars race around 130 mph on the straightaways. Reynolds says they turn at 90 mph with about three or four cars beside each other.
“But when you are talking 90 mph sideways, and the car next to you is closer than the car next to you in the parking lot at a Walmart… That’s why the excitement. That’s why the fans will be here in the thousands,” Reynolds said.
The four different types of cars isn’t the only thing that separates DIRTcar racing from other forms of racing. A parent of a driver, Wendy Lindberg, has been coming to the event for eight years.
“You get to know everybody. You even get to know the officials. Like everybody sorta looks familiar after awhile,” Lindberg said.
Lindberg says the comradery extends from the fans to the drivers.
“For the most part they are competitors on the track but when they are off the track they’re friends,” Lindberg said.
The competitions began Wednesday night and end Sunday afternoon.
