After five years of being neglected a second Gator trophy, Curt Spalding was not going be denied another on Thursday night. The Watervliet, MI driver commanded all 20 laps of the opening DIRTcar UMP Modifieds Feature while fending off former marquee winners at the Barberville, FL racetrack. Spalding and Shirleysburg, PA driver George Dixon brought … Read more
Kyle Strickler has four titles he’ll be chasing at Volusia Speedway Park in February and his chances for one of them recently got an unexpected boost. The Mooresville, NC driver didn’t plan on running the opening portion of DIRTcar’s UMP Modified Florida Speedweeks – a 15-race trek across the “Sunshine State” – this month but … Read more
Strickler now tied with David Reutimann, Nick Hoffman as event’s only two-time winners
With a record 57 DIRTcar UMP Modifieds in the pits for the 11th annual Emil & Dale Reutimann Memorial, 20 drivers have now qualified for Saturday night’s main event at Volusia Speedway Park. Four individual, 15-lap Showdown Features hit the track Friday night, locking the top five finishers into the Feature and taking the top … Read more
Dotson, Strickler represent past winners while track champion Geary defends home turf
The Modified and Late Model veteran clinches his first DIRTcar points championship with two wins in Florida Coming into the 13th and final race of UMP Modified Florida Speedweeks, Kyle Strickler sat 43 points behind the leader with only one 30-lap Feature left in front of him. He was set to take the green flag … Read more
Lining up 17th on the starting grid, Kyle Strickler said he thought he had “no chance” in winning the Gator Championship Feature Saturday night. Thirty trips around Volusia Speedway Park later, he had passed every car in front of him, led the field back around to the checkered and pulled into Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar … Read more
DIRTcar UMP Modified competition continued Tuesday night at the 53rd Federated Auto Parts DIRTcar Nationals, putting six more drivers in Volusia Speedway Park Victory Lane – five who added to their growing gator trophy collection and one first-timer. The lone first-time gator winner was Tom Berry Jr, who made the trip out from his home in … Read more
Wallace, Lee, Strickler, Allgaier and more names set to join projected field of 100-plus cars DIRTcar UMP Modified Florida Speedweeks multi-week grind continues with a weeklong affair at Volusia Speedway Park – Monday-Saturday, Feb. 5-10 – and the single toughest endurance test in all of open-wheel dirt Modified racing – the 53rd Federated Auto Parts … Read more
Strickler clinches first career DIRTcar Nationals title, Lee wins Speedweeks points In the most grueling stretches of DIRTcar UMP Modified racing in the country, few will survive and even fewer thrive. Kyle Strickler and Lucas Lee were part of an exclusive group to do a lot of thriving in the past three weeks, and now … Read more