There remain only four features on the 2025 Super DIRTcar Series schedule, with the final events packed into a stretch of eight days.
The Super DIRTcar Series will race at Georgetown Speedway in Delaware on Nov. 1 and then head to the Dirt Track at Charlotte for the Outlaws World Finals Nov. 5-8. Nov. 5 is marked as a qualifying night, with features then scheduled for Nov. 6-8.
The Georgetown date marks the first visit of the Super DIRTcar Series to Georgetown in 17 years, racing during the annual Mid-Atlantic Championship Weekend.
The 75-lap feature will pay $12,075 to the winner. HJ Bunting won the last SDS event contested there, back in 2008. The Nov. 1 event is scheduled to be the ninth SDS event contested at that facility.
The World Finals will include four nights, with the first being a qualifying night on Wednesday and then three nights of racing, Nov. 6-8. Feature events on Nov. 6 and 7 will pay $10,000-to-win, and the Nov. 8 main event pays $15,000 to the winner.
Tim Fuller, champion Mat Williamson and Anthony Perrego won features in 2024. Williamson clinched his second Super DIRTcar Series championship.
Williamson is poised for history if he can replicate his 2024 efforts. Only one driver has won both the Super DIRTcar Series Championship and the DIRTcar 358-Modified Series title in the same year — Danny Johnson (who tied with Steve Paine) swept both titles in 1999.
Williamson had technically closed out the 358-Modified chase before heading to Brockville Ontario Speedway’s Fall Nationals last weekend, winning the Salute to the Troops 150 at Super DIRT Week. For added effect, he swept Brockville, book-ending the small block and big block events with wins.
On the big block side, he owns a 98-point lead on Alex Yankowski.
After the World Finals’ last features, all three 2025 Series Champions will be crowned, with the Super DIRTcar Series champion sharing the limelight with the World of Outlaws Sprint and Late Model Series champions.
There is one event to be contested at the Dirt Track at Charlotte before the World Finals.
The World Short Track Championships are on the table first, scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
The DIRTcar Sportsman Series will rejoin the DIRTcar Pro Stock Series on the first night of features during the 10th running of the World Short Track Championships. In all, 10 different premier DIRTcar classes will be in action.
DIRTcar Sportsman Series champion Shane Pecore is looking forward to the races in South Carolina. Entering Brockville, he had a thin four-point lead over Emmett Waldron. Waldron started on the pole but suffered a flat tire; that bad luck helped smooth Pecore’s path to the championship. He is now the seventh driver to win multiple Sportsman Series Championships, joining Cody McPherson (3), Kevin Root, Mathieu Desjardins, Tim Sears Jr., Chris Raabe, Russ Hefti, and Steve Hall. He finished the year with 13 wins and 28 top fives.
Pete Stefanski is also looking at The World Short Track Championships as a means to cementing an already stellar legacy.
Stefanski will be racing as the DIRTcar Pro Stock Champion, taking a record sixth career Pro Stock Series crown as he prepares to head to Charlotte. He won the Pro Stock features there in 2023 and ’22. He will be putting his No. 2 on the shelf and instead will drive Phil DeFiglio’s No. 28.
“I’m optimistic. I’m happy. I’m excited. We’re just really looking forward to going down there,” said Stefanski in a DIRTcar release, noting the pressure is off when racing in the World Championships. “It’s like a mini vacation. You get to go racing, which obviously I love to do. Trying to get another one would be awesome. We got a great car going down, too. We’ll just see what happens.
Tickets to the World Finals and World Short Track Championships are available online at DIRTcar.com. The events will also be aired live on DIRTVision.
EASTERN STATES WEEKEND
Saturday, Anthony Perrego pulled down a keystone victory, taking the 100-lap Eastern States 358-Modified Championship. The victory was worth $10,000. Mat Williamson was again looking quite convincing before a flat at the halfway mark derailed his hopes of winning. Perrego made the change in fortunes, passing Matt Sheppard. Behind the lead pair, Williamson was charging around the high line, racing back to second in the final run down. He worked past Sheppard in the final laps, and made a bid for the win off the final corner. Perrego missed his mark and pushed up on the exit, opening the inside line for Williamson. Perrego had enough momentum and room to hold onto the win by .056-seconds. Jessica Friesen raced to third, with Felix Roy and Brian Calabrese filling the top five. There was no information shared from the NEWS Sprint feature.
Friday, Jared Labagh won the 50-lap Orange County Fair Sportsman feature, worth $5,000. He won on the heels of a stellar battle in the waning circuits. He passed Tyler Peet on a lap 48 restart to secure the lead, and held off the challengers to win from eighth on the initial grid.
The top six fastest modifieds locked into the 200 through time trials. Matt Stangle earned the pole with a lap of 23.048-seconds. The top six included Alex Yankowski, Sheppard, Max McLaughlin, Jimmy Phelps, and Williamson. Jack Lehner, Tanner Van Doren, and LJ Lombardo also locked in, having ranked as the top three in points for the Big Series 2 and will start in grid slots seven, eight and nine. Peter Britten, David Schilling, Corey Cormier, Felix Roy, Ryan Godown, Danny Tyler and Ryan Behrent won heat races.
In small block qualifying for Saturday’s 100-lap 358-Modified Championship race, Williamson locked into the pole spot with a lap of 22.796-seconds. Sheppard, Noah Walker, Brian Calabrese, Mat Stangle and Jessica Friesen also locked into the top six
On Thursday, Sheppard rolled off from third on the initial grid, and motored away to a convincing win in the Hard Clay Finale. The event was contested as the kick off to Eastern States Weekend. Sheppard took home the 50-lap win, and in doing so, finished his charge to the Short Track Super Series North Region Championship. That title comes with a $15,000 prize.
Williamson raced to second ahead of Perrego, Chris Raabe and Yankowski.
Regional racing crowd mourns the passing of Dave Guererri
“Big Dave” Guererri passed Oct. 25 following a valiant fight with cancer.
Tracks were posting memorials over the weekend, paying tribute to Dave — who is the father of Hannah, Davie and CJ Guererri. CJ Guererri won the Street Stock Championship this year, helping make a dream a reality for the whole Guererri family. Davie was part of the LOLR tech team.
Dave Guererri, 60, drove the pace car at Land of Legends Raceway and was recognizable at Outlaw Speedway.
His family will be holding a celebration of life on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Sons and Daughters of Italy in Geneva at 1 p.m. They want everyone to wear their favorite racing shirt as “that’s what David would have wanted.”
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