In 2018, sixteen-year-old Tyler Thompson won the supermodified rookie-of-the-year award at the Oswego Speedway. The following August, he became the youngest driver to ever win a supermod feature at this lakeside oval.
Two weeks later at age seventeen, this Oswego driver set another record when he became the youngest winner of the Budweiser International Classic 200 in his family-owned super.
Saturday night at the Oswego Speedway, Tyler added another chapter to his racing resume by winning his first Mr. Supermodified title at age twenty-one. The $10,000 triumph in the 75-lap main event was a convincing one.
Starting third, Thompson shot into the lead on the fourteenth lap and he never gave it up. Brandon Bellinger and Alison Sload pressured him at times, but his Hawk-built super, powered by a Doug Holmes big-block Chevrolet engine never skipped a beat and he was in control to the finish.
Track point leader, Dave Shullick Jr., had to settle for fourth, with Jeff Abold, Dan Connors, Michael Barnes, Dave Danzer, Russ Wood and Joe Gosek completing the top ten finishers.
Sokolic survives
Oswego 350 super point leader Josh Sokolic survived a pair of multi-car tangles at the start of the 350 main event with minor body damage.
He pitted for repairs, returned at the rear of the field and passed leader Jeff Battle with fourteen laps to go in their 30-lap feature for his fourth win this season and a $2,000 check. Cameron Rowe won the 35-lap, small-block super feature for a $1,500 payday.
Friday night
Larry Wight won his fourth Brewerton Speedway DIRT big-block modified feature Friday night. Jimmy Phelps and track point leader Tim Sears Jr. were second and third.
The Albany-Saratoga, Can-Am and Accord Speedway’s were all rained out Friday night.
Gary Lindberg won the DIRT 358 mod feature at Ransomville, but Mat Williamson went to the BPR modified program at the Marion Center (Pennsylvania) Speedway where he won his nineteenth feature of the year.
Thursday night at the Utica-Rome…
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