35th annual Dirt Track World Championship
(Complete DTWC coverage)
Dates: Oct. 15-17 (modifieds only on Thursday, Late Model prelims on Friday, modified and Late Model features Saturday)
Track: Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park (high-banked 3/8-mile clay oval).
Purse: $100,000-to-win Late Model feature and $3,000-to-win feature for non-qualifiers.
Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.
Last year’s winner: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
Tickets: $60 for three-day general admission ($40 for ages 12-17 and $25 for ages 7-11); $70 for three-day pit pass. All pre-sale tickets must be picked up at the will call window at the general admission gate. For more information, call (740) 858-6661 or email portsraceway@hotmail.com.
Television: Tape delayed on MavTV and NBC Sports Network.
On the web: lucasdirt.com or portsraceway.com.
Track phone: (740) 354-3278.
Primary race sponsors: Optima Batteries and NAPA Auto Parts.
Notes: The Carl Short-promoted race pays a race-record $100,000, matching the season-high first-place purse for Eldora Speedway’s Dream. … Short has scrapped time trials in favor of a double-heat race format on Friday that will use passing points to set up the feature lineup. … Jonathan Davenport will clinch the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series title by starting the 100-lap feature. … The DTWC has had 24 winners. … Scott Bloomquist became the sixth multiple-DTWC winner last season. … Portsmouth is the seventh track to host the DTWC; this marks the race’s fourth straight year at PRP. … Brandon Sheppard was the race’s youngest winner at 20 in 2013; Freddy Smith is the race’s oldest winner at 51 in 1998. … The track seats 4,000 spectators with 300 more seats in the pits. ... Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., is the only home-state winner to capture the DTWC, earning $60,000 for his 2003 victory at Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, Ky. ... The non-qualifiers’ race is known as the Jim Dunn Memorial, honoring the late first winner of the DTWC who rallied from the rear for a stirring victory in 1981 at Pennsboro. ... The modified feature pays $4,000-to-win.
DTWC winners
Year: Winner, hometown
2014: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2013: Brandon Sheppard, New Berlin, Ill.
2012: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2011: Don O'Neal, Martinsville, Ind.
2010: Earl Pearson Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.
2009: Jimmy Mars, Menomonie, Wis.
2008: Brian Birkhofer, Muscatine, Iowa
2007: Chub Frank, Bear Lake, Pa.
2006: Shannon Babb, Moweaqua, Ill.
2005: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2004: Rick Eckert, York, Pa.
2003: Darrell Lanigan, Union, Ky.
2002: Shannon Babb, Moweaqua, Ill.
2001: Bart Hartman, Zanesville, Ohio
2000: Wendell Wallace, Batesville, Ark.
1999: Steve Francis, Ashland, Ky.
1998: Freddy Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.
1997: Marshall Green, Dalton, Ga.
1996: Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.
1995: Jack Boggs, Grayson, Ky.
1994: Ronnie Johnson, Chattanooga, Tenn.
1993: Freddy Smith, Baton Rouge, La.
1992: Ronnie Johnson, Chattanooga, Tenn.
1991: Freddy Smith, Kings Mountain, N.C.
1990: Jack Boggs, Grayson, Ky.
1989: John Mason, Millersburg, Ohio
1988: Donnie Moran, Frazeysburg, Ohio
1987: Larry Moore, Dayton, Ohio
1986: Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.
1985: Freddy Smith, Kings Mountain, N.C.
1984: Jack Boggs, Webbville, Ky.
1983: Freddy Smith, Kings Mountain, N.C.
1982: Charlie Swartz, Ashland, Ky.
1981: Jim Dunn, Roseville, Ohio
DTWC purse
Feature event
1. $100,000
2. $20,000
3. $10,000
4. $7,000
5. $5,000
6. $3,500
7. $3,200
8. $3,000
9. $2,800
10. $2,500
11. $2,450
12. $2,400
13. $2,350
14. $2,300
15. $2,250
16. $2,200
17. $2,150
18. $2,100
19. $2,075
20. $2,060
21. $2,050
22. $2,040
23. $2,030
24. $2,020
25. $2,010
26. $2,000
Non-qualifiers’ race
1. $3,000
2. $1,500
3. $1,250
4. $1,000
5. $900
6. $800
7. $750
8. $700
9. $650
10. $600
11. $500
12. $400
13. $350
14. $300
15. $250
16. $200
17. $200
18. $200
19. $200
20. $200
21. $200
22. $200
23. $200
24. $200
25. $200
26. $200
Event schedule
(Subject to change)
Thursday, Oct. 15
2 p.m.: All gates open
5:30 p.m.: Drivers’ meeting
6 p.m.: Modified practice
6:45 p.m.: Modified time trials
8 p.m.: Modified heat races
9:30 p.m.: Modified consolations
10:30 p.m.: Modified non-qualifiers’ race
Friday, Oct. 16
2 p.m.: All gates open
5:30 p.m.: Drivers’ meeting
6 p.m.: Late Model practice
7:30 p.m.: First round of heats
9 p.m.: Second round of heats
Saturday, Oct. 17
2 p.m.: All gates open
4:30 p.m.: Dirt Racing Outreach service
5:30 p.m.: Autograph session
6:30 p.m.: Drivers’ meeting
7 p.m.: Late Model consolation races
8:15 p.m.: Modified feature
9 p.m: Jim Dunn Memorial non-qualifiers’ race
10 p.m.: 35th annual DTWC
Correction: Fixes modified winning purse to $4,000-to-win; adjusts ticket prices.
