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LIVE UPDATES 10\/10: NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Qualifying Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s Qualifying Day for the DIRTcar big-block Modified Syracuse 200 and ‘Salute to the Troops’ 358-Modified Championship 150 at the one-mile New York State Fairgrounds. Time Trials for both divisions are scheduled for this afternoon, beginning with the 358-Modifieds at 1:20 p.m. and then the big-block Modifieds at 2:45 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The top six starting spots in the Syracuse 200 and ‘Salute to the Troops’ 358-Modified Championship 150 will be locked in after today’s time trials. Results will also be used to align each division’s heat races during tomorrow’s S-T-R Trailer Repair ‘Friday Night Lights’ program.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click the ‘Read More’ link below for live updates of the action on the ‘Moody Mile’ and other news and notes throughout the day, and check back tonight for updates from the DIRTcar 358-Modified Series ‘Hurricane 100’ at Brewerton (N.Y.) Speedway. Be sure to refresh your browser regularly to read the latest information.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stewart Friesen made one spectacular lap of the one-mile New York State Fairgrounds oval on Thursday afternoon to put himself at the top of the qualifying list for the 42nd<\/sup> annual Syracuse 200. Then he topped that with an even faster<\/i> second circuit, securing his first-ever pole position starting spot for the DIRTcar big-block Modified classic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As one of the last drivers to hit the track during time trials, the two-time Syracuse 200 champion from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., blazed around the Moody Mile in 30.237 seconds to put a resounding exclamation point on his qualifying effort. His clocking was over seventh-tenths of a second quicker than defending Syracuse 200 winner Brett Hearn of Sussex, N.J., who will start Sunday\u2019s $50,000-to-win event from the outside pole after turning a lap of 30.963 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"101013Did Friesen, 30, think he could lay down a lap that was so much better than his rivals?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNot really,\u201d said Friesen, who won the Syracuse 200 in 2010 and \u201911 but dropped out of last year\u2019s event in his bid for a threepeat. \u201cAfter we hot-lapped and had a good lap it definitely felt like a car that was capable of it, but you never know. You try to do as well as you can and see what shakes out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friesen steered a brand-new Jeff Dailey & Sons-backed Teo-Pro car to his fast time honor. He earned a $1,000 check for his efforts from Pole Position Raceway.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe made a couple adjustments after practice and (motor builder) Chuck Cici did some tuning on the engine and it worked great,\u201d said Friesen. \u201cIt\u2019s just a good combination and we made good adjustments. Matt (Hearn) and myself work really good together, and with Loren and the Rochinski boys\u2026we got a good group of close friends who just are working for the same goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s real cool to be on the pole. We\u2019ll make a big deal of it all the way from now until Sunday. The boys work hard, so it\u2019s something to celebrate about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hearn, 55, had his Madsen Motorsports Teo-Pro car\u2019s No. 20 at the top of the scoreboard until being knocked off by Friesen. He fell short of his first Syracuse 200 fast-time since 2002, but beginning his bid for a record seventh victory in the event from the front row left him extremely satisfied.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe car feels very stable, it\u2019s rolling the corner real good and it\u2019s getting down the straightaway real good,\u201d said Hearn, who received $1,000 for his outside-pole performance from Page Trucking. \u201cI think we\u2019re gonna have a way different track on Sunday than we have right now though \u2013 it widened out really good but it\u2019s actually taking rubber in spots, which it hasn\u2019t done in a few years \u2013 so we\u2019re gonna have to keep an eye on the conditions and adjust to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hearn was a bit awestruck by Friesen\u2019s sizzling circuit, however.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s pretty amazing,\u201d said Hearn, shaking his head. \u201cI could see (the pole winner being) a couple tenths faster, but seven-tenths \u2013 that\u2019s pretty big. That\u2019s traction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jimmy Phelps of Baldwinsville, N.Y., earned the third starting spot for the Syracuse 200 with a lap of 31.055 seconds in the HBR Racing Troyer car.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The surprise of qualifying was Jeff Rockefeller of Scotia, N.Y., whose lap of 31.101 seconds early in time trials with his Bicknell car held up to place him fourth-fastest in the final rundown. He became the rare driver to make a career-first start in the Syracuse 200 from a position in the top six.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Syracuse 200 winner Matt Sheppard of Waterloo, N.Y., guided Jeff Brownell Sr.\u2019s Bicknell machine to the fifth starting spot with a lap of 31.164 seconds while Carey Terrance of Hogansburg, N.Y., locked into the headliner in sixth place with a circuit of 31.187 seconds. Terrance was the lone driver to qualify in the top six for both the Syracuse 200 and 358-Modified 150.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pictured below are the top six qualifiers for the Syracuse (l-r): Carey Terrance, Brett Hearn, Matt Sheppard, Jimmy Phelps, Stewart Friesen and Jeff Rockefeller.
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For full results from Syracuse 200 qualifying, click here<\/a>.
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Second-generation racer Ronnie Johnson of Duanesburg, N.Y., led the way in time trials for the 358-Modified 150, turning a lap of 31.754 seconds to earn the pole position in Saturday afternoon\u2019s headliner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The son of two-time Syracuse 200 winner Jack Johnson, Ronnie steered Alton and Carol Palmer\u2019s Teo-Pro No. 76a to his first fast-time honor in the 358-Modified ranks at NAPA Super DIRT Week. He will make his sixth career start in the 150 hoping to better his personal-best finish of fourth, which he achieved in 2010 and \u201912.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"101013Johnson, who will celebrate his 40th<\/sup> birthday on Nov. 2, has a string of three consecutive top-five finishes in the 358-Modified 150 \u2013 all earned behind the wheel of equipment owned by the Palmers. He was proud to put the personable husband-and-wife team on the point for Saturday\u2019s headliner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been with the Palmers probably since 2005,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cWe got to know each other from racing at Fonda (Speedway) and we just kind of hit it off. We became good friends and our relationship has grown ever since. I\u2019m very fortunate to be able to race for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Johnson knows that Alton Palmer \u2013 a successful veteran Modified racer in his own right \u2013 and his better half always provide him a competitive car to run at the Mile. Nevertheless, besting the small-block field in today\u2019s time trials still surprised him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCarol and Alton put this car away to save it just for coming here,\u201d said Johnson, whose pair of fourth-place finishes in the 358-Modified 150 sandwiched a fifth-place run in 2011. \u201cWe just run it here and we usually unload a top-10 car, but I never dreamed we\u2019d be on the pole with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t know how good we were because you\u2019re out there by yourself. I\u2019ve run a lot of time-trial laps and felt like that was the fastest one and I come in and I\u2019m 10th<\/sup> or 12th<\/sup>, so you never know. But when I took the white flag lap I saw the (number) 76 up on the board so I knew we must have been pretty good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rising young star Chris Raabe of Napanee, Ont., timed a career-best second at 32.236 seconds, earning the outside pole starting spot for Saturday\u2019s 150. The two-time overall DIRTcar Sportsman champion will make his second career start in the event; he finished 29th<\/sup> in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Carey Terrance of Hogansburg, N.Y., was third-fastest at 32.289 seconds to earn his seventh career start in the 150 (top finish: ninth in 2012). Marc Johnson of Guilderland, N.Y., was fourth-fastest at 32.328 seconds for his fourth career start in the event (top finish: sixth in \u201910); Larry Wight of Phoenix, N.Y., was fifth-fastest at 32.349 seconds (sixth career start with a top finish of fourth in \u201909); and Willy Decker was the final driver to lock in to the 150 with a sixth-fastest lap of 32.464 seconds (sixth career start with a best finish of eighth in \u201906).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pictured below are the six fastest qualifiers (l-r): Willy Decker, Marc Johnson, Ronnie Johnson, Chris Raabe, Carey Terrance and Larry Wight.
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For full results from 358-Modified time trials, click here<\/a>.
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Friesen\u2019s frustration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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3 p.m. –<\/strong> <\/em>Two-time Syracuse 200 winner Stewart Friesen\u2019s bid to add the 358-Modified 150 trophy to his list of accomplishments has already taken a difficult path. The engine in his Jeff Daley & Sons-backed small-block expired during this morning\u2019s hot laps \u2013 and with no spare in his arsenal, he\u2019s had to scramble to find a replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friesen secured a powerplant \u2013 albeit not in time to participate in today\u2019s 358-Modified time trials, which are currently underway \u2013 thanks to his relationship with Capital District Modified driver Jeremy Wilder, who lives less than 10 minutes from Friesen\u2019s new residence in Sprakers, N.Y. With Wilder not entering the NAPA Super DIRT Week activities for the first time since 2007 (he\u2019s started the last five 358-Modified 150s with a top finish of 12th<\/sup> in \u201908), his father, Kelly, offered Friesen the use of the Jack Boyd-built engine that was in Wilder\u2019s car here last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, Wilder\u2019s engine is back in the team\u2019s shop, so Friesen dispatched two of his crewmen \u2013 Ryan Wilder (Jeremy\u2019s cousin) and \u2018Wild Bill\u2019 \u2013 to fetch the piece and bring it back to the Mile. Friesen, who will drive Scott Kerwin\u2019s small-block in tonight\u2019s DIRTcar 358-Modified Series event at Brewerton Speedway, and his team will install Wilder\u2019s engine in their car when it arrives and start scratch in one of tomorrow night\u2019s twin 20-lap 358-Modified heat races.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friesen has started the 358-Modified 150 six times since 2004. He\u2019s finished second twice, in 2007 and \u201911.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2:15 p.m. –<\/strong> <\/em>Want to know everybody who has signed in for NAPA Super DIRT Week competition so far? Then click the following link to go directly to the entry lists for all four divisions, which are current as of this afternoon. Click here for NAPA Super DIRT Week entry lists<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big news for 2014
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1:55 p.m. –<\/strong><\/em> The annual NAPA Super DIRT Week Media Conference recognized event sponsors and provided press members an opportunity to interview top Syracuse 200 contenders Billy Decker (whose Gypsum Racing car sports NAPA sponsorship for the week) and Billy Dunn, but it will mostly be remembered for the 2014 DIRTcar Northeast news that was released by the organization\u2019s Director of Series & Sanctioning Joe Skotnicki.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"101013Sitting in front of the assembled media on a director\u2019s chair alongside announcer Shane Andrews, Skotnicki announced the expanded 2014 Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified schedule that currently shows 20 points races at 18 different tracks. (Four non-points races on Feb. 19-22 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., will start the tour\u2019s season.) Several new additions dot the schedule, including Fulton (N.Y.) Speedway (April 26); Utica-Rome Speedway in Vernon, N.Y. (June 25); Big Diamond Raceway in Minersville, Pa. (July 15); Glen Ridge Speedway in Fultonville, N.Y. (July 16); and Weedsport (N.Y.) Speedway (Aug. 7).<\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition, Skotnicki confirmed that new Glen Ridge promoter Mike Sowle will make the Capital District a Sunday-night DIRTcar-sanctioned oval in 2014 and John Wight will bring Brewerton (N.Y.) Speedway back into the DIRTcar Big-Block Modified fold for Friday-night action next season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2014 Super DIRTcar Big-Block Modified Series Schedule (subject to change)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wed-Feb. 19 \u2013 Volusia Speedway Park\/Barberville, FL (30 laps-N\/P)<\/p>\n

Thurs-Feb. 20 \u2013 Volusia Speedway Park\/Barberville, FL (30 laps-N\/P)<\/p>\n

Fri-Feb. 20 \u2013 Volusia Speedway Park\/Barberville, FL (30 laps-N\/P)<\/p>\n

Sat-Feb. 21 \u2013 Volusia Speedway Park\/Barberville, FL (50 laps-N\/P)<\/p>\n

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Sat-April 26 \u2013 Fulton (NY) Speedway (100 laps)<\/p>\n

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Tues-June 17 \u2013 New Egypt (NJ) Speedway (60 laps \u2013 raindate June 18)<\/p>\n

Wed-June 25 \u2013 Utica-Rome Speedway\/Vernon, NY (100 laps)<\/p>\n

Sun-June 29 \u2013 Cornwall (ONT) Motor Speedway (100 laps)<\/p>\n

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Thurs-July 3 \u2013 Rolling Wheels Raceway Park\/Elbridge, NY<\/p>\n

Tues-July 8 \u2013 Albany-Saratoga Speedway\/Malta, NY (100 laps \u2013 raindate July 29)<\/p>\n

Tues-July 15 \u2013 Big Diamond Raceway\/Minersville, PA (75 laps)<\/p>\n

Wed-July 16 \u2013 Glen Ridge Motorsports Park\/Fultonville, NY (100 laps \u2013 raindate July 30)<\/p>\n

Mon-July 21 \u2013 Autodrome Granby\/Granby, QUE (100 laps)<\/p>\n

Tues-July 22 \u2013 Autodrome Drummond\/Drummondville, QUE (100 laps)<\/p>\n

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Mon-Aug 4 \u2013 Merrittville Speedway\/Thorold, ONT (100 laps)<\/p>\n

Thurs-Aug 7 – Weedsport (NY) Speedway (100 laps \u2013 Hall of Fame event w\/induction on Wed., Aug 6)<\/p>\n

Thurs-Aug 14 \u2013 Lebanon Valley Speedway\/W. Lebanon, NY (100 laps)<\/p>\n

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Sat-Sept 6 \u2013 Autodrome Granby\/Granby, QUE (100 laps)<\/p>\n

Sat-Sept 13 \u2013 Mohawk International Raceway\/Akwesasne, NY (100 laps)<\/p>\n

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Sun-Oct 12 \u2013 New York State Fairgrounds\/Syracuse, NY (200 laps \u2013 NAPA Super DIRT Week)<\/p>\n

Sun-Oct 19 \u2013 Brockville Ontario Speedway (100 laps – DIRTcar Fall Nationals)<\/p>\n

Sun-Oct 26 \u2013 Orange County Fair Speedway (200 laps \u2013 Eastern States 200)<\/p>\n

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Thurs-Nov 6 \u2013 The Dirt Track at Charlotte\/Concord, NC (Qualifying \u2013 World Finals)<\/p>\n

Fri-Nov 7 \u2013 The Dirt Track at Charlotte\/Concord, NC (40 laps \u2013 World Finals)<\/p>\n

Sat \u2013 Nov 8 \u2013 The Dirt Track at Charlotte\/Concord, NC (40 laps \u2013 World Finals)<\/p>\n

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Scrambling
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11:55 a.m. –<\/strong><\/em> So much for Jimmy Blewett getting a lot of track time during practice.<\/span>
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The New Jersey driver and at least a half-dozen crewmen are currently working feverishly on Blewett’s car, which was damaged in a hot-lap incident. The machine’s left-arm torsion broke as he entered turn three, sending him into the inside berm and then the outside wall.
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Blewett and Co. have already put in a new front axle and are toiling on several other parts of the car, including the rear end. The right-front portion of the new car’s frame is also slightly bent, but it appears they should be able to have the mount ready for time trials this afternoon.
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Looking for speed
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11:45 a.m. –<\/strong><\/em> As the morning practice session nears its conclusion (on-track action will cease at 12 noon for the annual NAPA Super DIRT Week Media Day Press Conference in the infield media center), Matt Sheppard sits atop the big-block Modified speed chart with a lap of 30.761 seconds. Tim Fuller is second-fastest at 30.841 seconds, followed by Justin Haers (31.159), Stewart Friesen (31.272) and Tim McCreadie (31.406).
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Stewart Friesen, meanwhile, has turned the fastest 358-Modified lap so far at 32.315 seconds, topping Ronnie Johnson (32.689) and Billy Decker (33.047).
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11:30 a.m. –<\/strong> <\/em>Danny Johnson is thanking his lucky stars that he\u2019s able to walk around the New York State Fairgrounds this week, let alone compete in the NAPA Super DIRT Week activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Tuesday night at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park, Johnson was involved in a grinding wreck late in the Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified \u2018Stars & Stripes 100.\u2019 After breaking a wheel at high speed halfway down the homestretch, Johnson\u2019s Mike Petruska-owned Atlas Paving No. 66 began to roll and was t-boned hard at virtually full speed by Keith Flach. Many witnesses said it was one of the loudest car-to-car impacts they had ever heard \u2013 and Johnson called it one of the hardest hits he\u2019s ever experienced in over three decades behind the wheel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe headers were bent up over the air cleaner,\u201d Johnson said of the damage done to his machine. \u201cThe car was pretty much demolished. They left a pile of it over there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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After finishing second in last night\u2019s DIRTcar 358-Modified Series 75 at Weedsport (N.Y.) Speedway, Johnson looked back on the crash again. Neither Johnson nor Flach suffered anything more severe than soreness from the accident.
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\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate I didn\u2019t get hurt,\u201d said Johnson, who is running another Atlas Paving mount in this week\u2019s big-block action at the Mile. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I don\u2019t wanna do is get hurt in a race car.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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11:15 a.m. \u2013<\/strong><\/em> It appears that New Jersey’s Neal Williams has claimed the dubious honor of being the first victim of a blown engine at Syracuse during NAPA Super DIRT Week 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just minutes into today\u2019s practice, the powerplant in Williams\u2019s 358-Modified let loose. He said he had turned just five laps before the malfunction sent him limping to his pit stall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a shame,\u201d said Williams, who won the DIRTcar Sportsman Championship 30 during NAPA Super DIRT Week 2011 and finished 18th<\/sup> in his 358-Modified 150 debut last year. \u201cWe just got the motor back after having it refreshened after last year\u2019s race. Something just let go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Williams, who drives a car fielded by New Egypt (N.J.) Speedway owner Fred Vahlsing, quickly arranged for a wrecker to visit his pit area so his team could make an engine change before this afternoon\u2019s 358-Modified time trials. (That’s his steaming engine below.) He said he will have to use the Saturday-night small-block motor he uses at New Egypt \u2013 a good piece, but one that\u2019s not tuned for fuel mileage like the expired engine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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10:40 a.m. –<\/strong><\/em> One driver anxious to get as many laps in around the \u2018Moody Mile\u2019 as possible is Jimmy Blewett, a 32-year-old asphalt Modified specialist from Howell Twp., N.J., who is still in the process of adjusting to dirt-track racing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year marks Blewett\u2019s third attempt at NAPA Super DIRT Week in the 358-Modified division. He failed to qualify in 2011 and finished 28th<\/sup> in last year\u2019s 150-miler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Considering Blewett broke through this season to win features on dirt for the first time \u2013 at both of his home-state tracks, Bridgeport Speedway and New Egypt Speedway \u2013 he\u2019s bringing plenty of confidence to Syracuse. But he\u2019s still very much in the middle of the learning process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s coming,\u201d Blewett said of his dirt-tracking skills. \u201cI just need to run on dirt more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blewett is looking to make that happen in 2014. He said he has all of his family\u2019s asphalt Modified equipment for sale so he can concentrate on dirt racing next season; he\u2019ll only run on pavement next year if he finds a ride for selected events.<\/span><\/p>\n

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10:25 a.m. –<\/strong><\/em> The first big-block Modified practice session of NAPA Super DIRT Week 2013 has begun. DIRTcar officials plan to hot-lap the big-blocks until 11 a.m. before sending 358-Modifieds onto the speedway.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LIVE UPDATES 10\/10: NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Qualifying Day   It’s Qualifying Day for the DIRTcar big-block Modified Syracuse 200 and ‘Salute to the Troops’ 358-Modified Championship 150 at the one-mile New York State Fairgrounds. 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