Late Model Twin 20's Night winners Hal Browning & Kenny Pettyjohn
Plenty Of Racin Left In This Season
August 26, 2010
By Bonnie Nibblett
Delmar, DE 19940….The end of the summer is here and so fast it seems. When my birthday rolls around at the end of July, I always know that summer will be soon be over. I like having the evenings lighted for hours, wearing no coats, and watching racing at my home track is the best of summer eves. Well, it’s not too late to get into it and watch some good racin that’s left to entertain us for the year.
The Delaware Motorsports Complex located in Delmar, DE is the place to get into some fast, speedy, amazing racing by offering three different tracks with three different forms of racing. The complex is the home of the Delaware International Speedway (DIS), U S 13 Dragway, the U S 13 Kart Club Track just on the left before you enter the main grounds or of the complex. There’s still few great shows left this year at any of the tracks.
August, the speedway, had the King of Kings Late Model. Which had each feature winner in late models; nine different winners in all season to race a 10 lap shoot out for $500. Mark Pettyjohn won that night. King of Kings for the Big Block Modified is this Saturday, 28th. The last “Topless Night” just passed last Saturday.
The URC sprints will return Saturday, Sept 4, two more races after that will round out the points events, then speedway will be off Sept. 18 for Dragway special.
Next up on the ½ mile oval is the new format for the Delaware State Dirt Track Championships. This year the events switched to night racing instead of the 2 day event in Nov. The championship will be Friday, & Saturday, Oct. 22-23 night for the first time. If all the racers come as they do for his special in Nov. we will be in for some awesome, fantastic racing shows. This will be new, racing, at the end of the season championship at a night show should make more side by side racing. For details log on to the tracks web at www.delawareracing.com or any track questions call the office at 302-875-1911, open 9-4 m-f.
Long time Modified racer Kenny Brightbill has brought some tight racing action in the NAPA Big Blocks
I think everyone knows my first choice of racing is on the ½ mile clay oval track. This offers five different weekly divisions of racing on clay dirt with Big Block Modified, Super Late Models, two Crate Divisions, and Modified Lite. Along with that, each week has a special guest form of racing rather it be the mighty URC Sprints, Little Lincoln & Vintage Cars, or slide-4-five. Now some may not know what the differences are meant by those divisions in racing? Which should give you the notion to find out what is the difference in them, hopefully? Come on try it?
The difference can really be complicated if you want to know all the differences in detail or tech. Simply, most the divisions are different by body style of the car, horsepower, speed, shocks, tires and more. Speeds can range from 80 to 110 MPH. Then you can decide which your favorite class of racing is, then your favorite driver, and you are a race fan just like that? Visit the tracks web for a schedule of events to the dirt track at www.delawareracing.com or call the track hot line at 302-846-3968.
Another form of racing on the Complex grounds is the ¼ mile asphalt Dragway strip. You might want to check out that racing with speeds up & over to more than 200 MPH. This track have their own classes of divisions to race against one another as well. There are some fast Pro Car, Dragsters, Pro Bikes, and Imports to name a few. Again some are faster, different style, horsepower and so on. The Dragway just started back on Sunday’s for the race day, gates open 10:30 AM. Visit the tracks web at www.delawareracing.com for upcoming events or join us on Facebook, too.
Young Tyler Reed runs full season in Modified Lite action claiming 4 feature wins
Finally, one more form of racing at the Complex is the go-kart clay circle track, US 13 Kart Club Track. Just before entering the grounds on the left is the go-kart track. Now this kind of track has people bringing their own go-karts to race in the different divisions offered. I’ve had some ask if they can rent a kart to race or drive. This is not that kind track. But, kids race, adults young & old race. The track is off this Friday, but will have the state race Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Gates open 7 AM, visit the web at www.dekarting.net, or join us on Facebook.
Be sure to check out www.redbud69racing.com Your Delaware and Surrounding Tracks Race News Plus NASCAR for all your DE news, results, and photos. Visit the largest message board on the shore at http://redbud69racing.proboards2.com/index.cgi which is powered by Hab Nab Trucking of Seaford, DE. See you at the track!