The 2018 Super DIRTcar Series is the 46th season of Big Block Modified racing sanctioned by DIRTcar Northeast & World Racing Group. The season will begin with the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park on February 12 (featuring 5 non-points races) while the first points scoring race of the season will be the Highbank Holdup at Can-Am Speedway on April 13 The season will end with the Can-Am World of Outlaws World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte on November 9. Matt Sheppard enters the 2019 season as the defending series champion.
The 2019 season will continue to feature qualifier races for NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week. Any qualifier race winner will have a guaranteed provisional starting spot in the 200 lap event at Oswego Speedway on October 13.
Team & Driver Chart
| No. | Race Driver | Car Owner / Entrant | Chassis | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billy Pauch | Pauch Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 1G | Darwin Greene | - | ||
| 1J | Rocky Warner | Jake Spraker Racing | 1 | |
| 1x | Willy Decker | 3 | ||
| 1z | Jessica Friesen | Halmar Racing Team | DKM-Bicknell | 1 |
| 2 | Jack Lehner | Teo-Bicknell | 1 | |
| 2L | 1 | |||
| 2RJ | Ronnie Johnson | Bicknell | 1 | |
| 3 | Justin Haers | Haers Brothers Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 3D | Matt DeLorenzo | 1 | ||
| 3G | Brian Gleason | 1 | ||
| 3J | Marc Johnson | 1 | ||
| 49 | Billy Dunn | Graham Racing | Teo | 2 |
| 4 | Billy VanInwegen | - | ||
| Andy Bachetti | 1 | |||
| 5 | Ryan Godown | Dieter Schmidt | Troyer TD4 | - |
| 5h | Chris Hile | Hile Motorsports | Bicknell | 2 |
| 5s | Tyler Siri | Siri Racing | - | |
| 6d | Dillon Steuer | - | ||
| 6h | Max McLaughlin | HBR Racing | Teo | 3 |
| Josh Horenforst | 1 | |||
| 6JH | 1 | |||
| 88 | Mat Williamson | Buzz Chew Racing | Bicknell | 2 |
| 7 | Rick Laubach | Gary & Lori Hermann | Teo | - |
| 7F | Matt Farnham | 2 | ||
| 8 | Rich Scagliotta | 3 | ||
| 8R | Rob Bellinger | 1 | ||
| 9 | Ryan Watt | Jeff Brown | - | |
| 9s | Matt Sheppard | Matt Sheppard Racing | Bicknell | 3 |
| 9x | Tyler Trump | 1 | ||
| 00 | Bobby Varin | 2 | ||
| 00T | Lou Torres | 1 | ||
| 02 | Roy Bresnahan | 2 | ||
| 07 | Tim Kerr | 2 | ||
| 10J | Jim Nagle | 1 | ||
| 11J | James Sweeting | 1 | ||
| 13 | Rick Regalski | Regalski Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 14 | C.G. Morey | 1 | ||
| 14j | Alan Johnson | 1 | ||
| 16b | Alan Barker | 1 | ||
| 17 | Kyle Sheldon | Elmo Reckner | Bicknell | - |
| 17K | Brian Krummel | 1 | ||
| 18 | Bodie Bellinger | 1 | ||
| 18J | Louie Jackson Jr. | 1 | ||
| 18JR | 2 | |||
| 19 | Tim Fuller | 3 | ||
| 19k | Brett Kressley | Brett Kressley Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 19m | Jessey Mueller | Mueller Motorsports | 1 | |
| 20 | Brett Hearn | Madsen Motorsports | Teo | 3 |
| 21 | Yan Bussiere | YB Racing | 1 | |
| 21a | Peter Britten | Troyer | 2 | |
| 21J | Ryan Jordan | 1 | ||
| 23 | Kyle Coffey | 2 | ||
| 24 | Jim Wilko | 1 | ||
| 25 | Erick Rudolph | Randy Chrysler 21K Racing | Bicknell | 1 |
| 25H | Katelyn Hile | Hile Motorsports | Bicknell | 1 |
| 25J | Chad Jesso | 1 | ||
| 25R | Erick Rudolph | Randy Chrysler 21K Racing | Bicknell | 2 |
| 27J | Danny Johnson | Graham Racing | 3 | |
| 28p | Eldon Payne Jr. | Paynes Motorsports | Bicknell | 1 |
| 30 | Jamie Mills | - | ||
| 30M | Joseph Watson | - | ||
| 32 | Jim Rasey | - | ||
| 34 | Andrew Ferguson | 1 | ||
| 35 | Francois Bellemare | - | ||
| 36 | Kenny Wallace | Willy & Becky Auchmoody | 1 | |
| 38 | Tim Harris | Hig Fab | 1 | |
| 39 | Tim McCreadie | Sweeteners Plus / CME | Bicknell | 1 |
| 42 | Matt Pupello | 1 | ||
| 42p | Pat Ward | Gypsum Racing | Bicknell | 3 |
| 43 | Jimmy Horton | Halmar Racing Team | DKM | - |
| Keith Flach | 2 | |||
| 44 | Anthony Perrego | 1 | ||
| Stewart Friesen | Halmar Racing Team | DKM-Bicknell | 1 | |
| 44F | 1 | |||
| 44R | Russell Morseman | Morseman Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 46 | Jeremy Smith | Jeremy Smith Racing | Bicknell | - |
| 48t | Dave Rauscher | Rauscher Racing | 3 | |
| 62 | Tom Sears Jr. | Sears Racing | Bicknell | 1 |
| 63 | Adam Roberts | SNR Motorsports | Bicknell | 3 |
| 65 | Scott Hitchens | - | ||
| 66X | Casey Terrance | 1 | ||
| 73 | Kevin Poitras | Bicknell | - | |
| 74 | J.R. Heffner | J.R. Heffner Racing | - | |
| 83x | Tim Sears Jr. | Sears Racing | Bicknell | 1 |
| 84 | Gary Tomkins | 2 | ||
| 85 | H.J. Bunting | - | ||
| 35 | Mike Mahaney | Bicknell | 3 | |
| 91 | Billy Decker | Jeremy Smith Racing | Bicknell | - |
| Gypsum Racing | 3 | |||
| 93 | Danny Varin | 3 | ||
| 96 | Jean-Francois Corriveau | 3 | ||
| 97G | Ryan Godown | 1 | ||
| 97K | Kris Vermold | 1 | ||
| 98h | Jimmy Phelps | HBR Racing | Teo-Bicknell | 3 |
| 99L | Larry Wight | Gypsum Racing | Bicknell | 2 |
| 109 | Billy Whittaker | Bicknell | 2 | |
| 111 | Demetrios Drellos | 1 | ||
| 115 | Kenny Tremont | 1 | ||
| 118 | Jim Britt | Jim Britt Racing | - | |
| 165 | Rex King | - | ||
| 816 | Jeff Rockefeller | 1 | ||
| B16 | Alan Barker | 2 | ||
| cb3 | Chad Brachmann | Brachmann Racing | - | |
| R2 | Rusty Smith | 3 | ||
| R13 | Ralph McBride | - | ||
| X | Chad Phelps | 1 | ||
| Z | Butch Tittle | 3 |
Driver & Team Changes
- - HBR Racing (Max McLaughlin & Jimmy Phelps) will chase the Super DIRTcar Series championship once again in 2019. Max will compete part time due to his full time Nascae K&N Pro Series Ride.
- - Peter Britten has left Graham Racing to chase the points championship in the Super DIRTcar Series alone.
- - Billy Decker will return to Gypsum Racing for the 2019 season starting at the points season opener at Can Am.
- - Stewart Friesen and the Halmar Friesen Racing team will only run in select races that don't conflict with Friesen's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule.
- - Tim McCreadie will only run in select races that don't conflict with McCreadie's dirt late model schedule this year he will only run the unsanctioned Eastern States 200 at Orange County Fair Speedway.
- - Mat Williamson has teamed up with Buzz Chew Racing to bring home the 2019 Super Dirtcar Series title driving the Buzzchew Chevy number 88 machine
Schedule
FloRacing will broadcast 20 nights of racing with live video online (12 regular season races, Super DIRT Week & the BBM portion of World Finals). DIRTvision.com will broadcast all races with live radio coverage, and will have live video for the Volusia races. MavTV will broadcast select races (Volusia, Weedsport, Oswego + others) on tape delay, in partnership with Speed Sport.
| No. | Date | Race title | Track | TV/Stream |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≠ | February 13 | DIRTcar Nationals | Volusia Speedway Park, Barberville, Florida | |
| ≠ | February 14 | |||
| ≈ | February 15 | DIRTvision.com | ||
| ≈ | ||||
| ≈ | February 16 | |||
| ≈ | February 17 | |||
| ≠ | April 28 | High Bank Holdup | Fulton Speedway, Fulton, New York | |
| ≠ | May 16 | Battle at the Bridge | Bridgeport Speedway, Bridgeport, New Jersey | |
| 1 | May 28 | Heroes Remembered 100 | Weedsport Speedway, Weedsport, New York | FloRacing |
| 2 | June 15 | Brewerton Speedway, Brewerton, New York | ||
| 3 | June 26 | The BIG Show 10 | Albany-Saratoga Speedway, Malta, New York | |
| 4 | July 1 | Cornwall Motor Speedway, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada | ||
| 5 | July 5 | Land of Legends Raceway, Canandaigua, New York | FloRacing | |
| 6 | July 8 | Freedom Fighter 100 | Utica-Rome Speedway, Vernon, New York | FloRacing |
| 7 | July 10 | Outlaw Speedway, Dundee, New York | FloRacing | |
| 8 | July 17 | TBA | TBA | |
| 9 | July 19 | Battle on the Midway | Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, New York | FloRacing |
| 10 | July 23 | Autodrome Granby, Granby, Quebec, Canada | FloRacing | |
| 11 | July 24 | Racing Stock 100 | Autodrome Drummond, Drummondville, Quebec, Canada | |
| 12 | July 28 | Hall of Fame 100 | Weedsport Speedway, Weedsport, New York | MavTV
FloRacing |
| 13 | July 31 | Battle of Plattsburgh 100 | Airborne Park Speedway, Plattsburgh, New York | |
| 14 | August 1 | Jack Johnson Tribute | Fonda Speedway, Fonda, New York | FloRacing |
| 15 | August 6 | Bob St. Amand Sr. Memorial | Merrittville Speedway, Thorold, Ontario, Canada | |
| 16 | August 7 | Summer Nationals | Ransomville Speedway, Ransomville, New York | FloRacing |
| 17 | September 1 | Mr. DIRT Track USA | Lebanon Valley Speedway, West Lebanon, New York | FloRacing |
| 18 | September 3 | Labor Day Double Play 100 | Weedsport Speedway, Weedsport, New York | MavTV
FloRacing |
| 19 | September 7 | Le RPM Speedway, Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada | ||
| 20 | September 8 | Blackout Race | Autodrome Drummond, Drummondville, Quebec, Canada | |
| 21 | September 14 | Duel at the Demon | Brewerton Speedway, Brewerton, New York | |
| 22 | September 15 | Mohawk 100 | Mohawk International Raceway, Akwesasne, New York | |
| 23 | September 22 | Thunder Along the Mohawk | Fonda Speedway, Fonda, New York | FloRacing |
| ≈ | October 3 | NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week XLVII | Oswego Speedway, Oswego, New York | FloRacing |
| ≈ | October 4 | |||
| ≈ | October 5 | |||
| ≈ | October 6 | |||
| 24 | October 7 | |||
| 25 | October 12 | The Loud & Dirty Northeast Fall Nationals | Brockville Ontario Speedway, Brockville, Ontario, Canada | |
| ≈ | November 1 | Textron Off Road World of Outlaws World Finals | The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina | FloRacing |
| 26 | November 2 | |||
| 27 | November 3 |
- - ≠ will state if the race was postponed or canceled
- - ≈ will state if the race is not for championship points
Schedule notes and changes
- - the races at Eldora Speedway, and Sharon Speedway won't return in 2018 as Eldora has selected a new division to support the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event.
- - night #1 of DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park (February 13) was canceled due to weather conditions.
- - night #2 of DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park (February 14) was postponed to February 15 due to fog.
- - the Highbank Holdup at Fulton Speedway (April 28) was canceled due to weather conditions.
- - the Battle at the Bridge at Bridgeport Speedway (May 16) was canceled due to weather conditions.
- - SDS series officials announced on June 1 that the series will return to Orange County Fair Speedway for the first time since 2014 on July 19. The race will be called "The Battle on the Midway" and will be a NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week qualifier race. The race will be $10k to win as well.
Results and Standings
Races
| No. | Race / Track | Winning driver | Winning team | Last Chance Showdown winner | Fastest Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≈ | DIRTcar Nationals (Night #3 / Race #1) | Tyler Siri | Siri Racing | Matt Sheppard | Stewart Friesen |
| Jimmy Horton | |||||
| Ryan Godown | Rick Laubach | ||||
| Tyler Siri | |||||
| ≈ | DIRTcar Nationals (Night #3 / Race #2) | Tim McCreadie | Sweeteners Plus / CME | Brett Kressley | Billy Pauch |
| Tim McCreadie | |||||
| Ryan Godown | Justin Haers | ||||
| Stewart Friesen | |||||
| ≈ | DIRTcar Nationals (Night #4) | Matt Sheppard | Matt Sheppard Racing | Jimmy Phelps | Danny Johnson |
| Ryan Godown | |||||
| Tyler Siri | Max McLaughlin | ||||
| Jimmy Horton | |||||
| ≈ | DIRTcar Nationals (Night #5) | Tim McCreadie | Sweeteners Plus / CME | Jimmy Phelps | Stewart Friesen |
| Mike Mahaney | |||||
| Larry Wight | Billy VanInwegen | ||||
| Max McLaughlin | |||||
| 1 | Heroes Remembered 100 | Stewart Friesen | Halmar Racing Team | Adam Roberts | Stewart Friesen |
| Billy Dunn | |||||
| Mat Williamson | Matt Sheppard | ||||
| Larry Wight | |||||
| 2 | Brewerton | Matt Sheppard | Matt Sheppard Racing | Andrew Ferguson | Pat Ward |
| Billy Decker | |||||
| Rob Bellinger | Matt Sheppard | ||||
| Tim Sears Jr, | |||||
| 3 | Brett Hearn's Big Show X | Stewart Friesen | Halmar Racing Team | Tim McCreadie | Tim Fuller |
| Peter Britten | |||||
| Stewart Friesen | |||||
| Erick Rudolph | Willy Decker | ||||
| Jessey Mueller |
See also
- - 2018 World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series
- - 2018 World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series
References
- "Sheppard Scores Nearly $50,000 with Mr. DIRTcar and Super DIRTcar Series Titles; Champions Honored to Close Out 2017 Season". 20 November 2017.
- "Six Super DIRTcar Series Events Will Now Serve as NAPA Super DIRT Week Qualifiers". www.superdirtcarseries.com. Archived from the original on 2018-03-24.
- "HBR Looking at Different Schedule for 2018". March 2018.
- "Britten and Graham Join Forces to Chase Super DIRTcar Championship". 26 February 2018.
- "DIRTcar Nationals Tuesday's Program Rained Out". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- "Rain Forces Cancellation of Super DIRTcar Series Highbank Holdup 100". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- "Battle at the Bridge Washed Out". www.superdirtcarseries.com. Archived from the original on 2018-05-19.
- "Orange County Fair Speedway to Hold NAPA Super DIRT Week Qualifier". www.superdirtcarseries.com. Archived from the original on 2018-06-04.