Dirt Track World Championship 2008

28th Annual Dirt Track World Championship goes to Birkhofer Official Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
By Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO- The Dirt Track World Championship always brings some type of magic to it. Saturday's 28th annual DTWC by gottarace.com before most likely its largest K-C crowd was no exception. "Dominating!" That one word is an understatement, but the closest word Webster had to offer in describing Brian Birkhofer's most prestigious career win. What started as a firefight in Carl Short’s premier event, quickly turned into a cakewalk as Muscatine, Iowa driver Brian Birkhofer pulled off the $50,000 victory in the late model portion of the DTWC program at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway near Chillicothe, Ohio. Read More

Brian Birkhofer 2008 Dirt Track World Championship winner! The dominator!

28TH Annual Dirt Track World Championship Modified official release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MODIFIEDS
By Scott Wolfe 10/18/2008
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-Loretta, Kentucky driver Jason Wheatley put his name in the record books as the winner of the 28th Annual Dirt Track World Championship by gottarace.com modified portion of Carl Short's "Crown Jewell" event at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway.
"I've always liked this track, but I've never had any luck here," sighed an obviously overjoyed Wheatley. "I ran out of gas here, I got in a wreck, and I got into one of those big uke tires y'all have down there. I felt like this place owed me one, but this will make up for it."
"The restarts were killing me," Wheatley noted. "He ( Rick Hensley) was getting a good jump and holding a good, fast line on the bottom. I had some good runs on him, but when I'd get set to make the pass, here came a caution. I knew if I was gonna get by I had to move up and make a move. We got together a little bit, but we kept it clean and I was fortunate enough to get by for the win."
Three days of first class, wheel-to-wheel racing culminated with Saturday night's first feature event-- the Open Wheel Modified main. With champions from many of regions top series, and many track champions the racing proved to be as good as it gets in any racing venue. One hundred-eleven cars from eight states and Ontario, Canada took time trials for opening night of the 28th annual Dirt Track World Championship at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway between Waverly and Chillicothe. Matt Aber of Wooster, Ohio, set fast time 0f 16:021 with an average speed of 105.3 miles per hour on the 3/8 mile clay oval. Read More

Jason Wheatley 2008 DTWC Modified Champion

Jim Dunn Memorial Winner at 2008 DTWC Eddie Carrier, Jr.

Chub Frank and Crew picking up the Dirtondirt.com fast time award of $1,000 from Michael Rigsby

At K-C Raceway Flyer click here

28th Annual Dirt Track World Championship Camping update
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-The 28th Annual Dirt Track World Championship presented by gottarace.com kicks off on Thursday evening October 16th as part of a three-day affair at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway. The weekend ends with the huge 100-lap, $50,000 to win championship race on Saturday, October 18. In conjunction with the event K-C Raceway has announced its camping arrangements.
camping arrangements.
All pull-behind campers or RV's can purchase a camping spot first come, first serve for the whole weekend with a nominal $50 charge for the front lot outside turn three and $40 for the side lot across from the back chute. This is a one time charge. "Campers can come a week early (October 13) and stay a week later if they want," said owner Jim Nier. "It's all for one price."(Read More)

< Camping Front Lot $50 for all three days

<Camping Side lot $40 for all three days

Ohio Veteran Rod Conley Celebrates First Career World of Outlaws Late Model
Series Victory Saturday Night At K-C Raceway
K-C Raceway Results August 23, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
World of Outlaw Late Models with Modified and Hobby Stock Results

By Scott Wolfe/Kevin Kovac
ALMA, OH - Aug. 23, 2008 - Rod Conley gave a simple answer when asked how
he felt after scoring his first career World of Outlaws Late Model Series
triumph on Saturday night at K-C Raceway.Read More about 8/23/2008

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K-C Announces Camping and 4 wheeler policies for 28th annual DTWC

CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-The 28th Annual Dirt Track World Championship presented by gottarace.com will be held from October 16-18, 2008 at Jim Nier's KC Raceway south of Chillicothe, OH near Waverly, OH and is being promoted by mega-promoter Carl Short. Management of the upcoming DTWC presented by GottaRace.com (DTWC)
and KC Raceway have announced its policy regarding ATV usage at the crown jewel race that will be held October 16-17-18 at Jim Nier’s Speed plant. Short will pay the winner of the crown jewel race $50,000.
No four-wheelers are allowed anywhere on the K-C Raceway premises. No ATV's are permitted in the
camping area, nor will they be permitted in the pits due to another anticipated overflow number of race teams. Golf carts, however, are permitted in the main parking lot and camping area only. No Golf carts in the pits. A five-mile per hour speed limit will be enforced to ensure the safety of all fans.
Camping is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis with 50 spots in the main area and several hundred in the adjacent field. All camping will be paid-camping this year at a nominal fee. K-C Raceway purchased the adjacent field last year to accomodate large crowds for the DTWC and has leveled off the hillside to make placing campers easier for its loyal fans. The construction also expanded the area to make more room, while an extensive drainage system was installed to help in damp weather.
Said Jim Nier, "We put a lot of time and money into making this a good set-up for the fans, especially those who camp and enjoy the atmosphere of this race. We want everyone to have an enjoyable time and feel like they are safe and welcome. The camping area should make a great place to set-up for camping and take in the racing."
All camping is primitive and there is no need to call to make reservations, however, fans are encouraged to call the speedway office with any questions (740-289-4114). Campers are asked to conserve space and clean up after themselves by bagging trash and observing the rights of other campers.
"We have a great facility, and most of all we have great racing," said Nier. "Both our staff and Carl (Short) are committed to this race and making it better each and every year. We've tried to keep up with the atmosphere of this race and worked on the logistics of the grounds. With the ATV's and Golf Carts we certainly apologize for any inconveniences, but safety is a concern. One injury is one too many."
Management noted that most people are responsible, but some get careless.
For the second year in a row dirtondirt.com will sponsor the Fast Time award. Brady Smith picked up a cool grand at last years DTWC for his efforts.
For more information fans can visit the DTWC website at << http://dirttrackworldchampionship.net >> or the K-C Raceway website at << www.kc-raceway.com >>

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K-C Raceway Results August 16, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Smith and Adams win points championships
By Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-Usually, something out of the ordinary happens when a full moon shines over K-C Raceway. This time it was just something extraordinary as one of the original outlaws Danny Smith, now of Chillicothe, Ohio pulled off the Tri-fecta by winning the 25-lap Season Championship Saturday night at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway. The feature win was an exclamation point on the veteran hot shoe's dream season as this weekend he claimed the Individual track championships at Skyline Speedway and K-C Raceway and also the combined K-C/Skyline Points Championship. Additionally, he is the nation's winningest sprint car driver to date in 2008 with 17 wins.

Read More about 8/15/2008

Updated KC-Skyline Points Posting

The sprint points prizes can be picked up at Skyline Speedway on Aug. 22nd.
Last points race for sprints and hobby stocks are this week.

K-C Raceway and Skyline

2008 Combined Sprint Points Payout Revised

1st Place- 1- Set of All-Pro Heads Ported and Seats                                        $4,675.00

2nd Place- 1- JEI Chassis/Body Kit 2008                                                         $3,765.00

3rd Place- 1- DMI Bull Dog Rear End (Bare)                 ........                        $1,520.00

4th Place- 1- DMI Complete Front End Assembly                                            $800.00

5th Place- 1- DMI Drive line Assembly Complete                                             $760.00

(Torque tube, drive shaft, U-joint, Ball and Housing)

6th Place- 1-Set of tires (Hoosier)                                        ..                      .      $605.00

(2 fronts, 1 right rear, 1 left rear)

7th Place- 1- Set of American Racer Tires                                                   .     $595.00          

8th Place- 1- T.P. Front Nose Wing/DMI Wing Valve assembly                       $365.00

9th Place- 4- DMI torsion bars                                                           ...............  $340.00

10th Place- 1- Set of radius rods complete with heim ends, drag length........ $266.00

and steering arms.

August 23World of Outlaw Late Models plus Modifieds and Hobby Stocks

K-C Raceway World of Outlaw Late Model promo
By Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-The World of Outlaw Late Model series will be coming to
Jim Nier's K-C Raceway, Saturday, August 23 when the greatest show on dirt
comes to the Buckeye state.  The nation's premier late model series will
also serve as the K-C late model season championship joined by Modifieds
running for their season championship. Hobby Stocks will round out the
racing card.
 Also coming August 16 will be the season championship for 410 Sprints and
Hobby Stocks with Modifieds.
 Darrell Lanigan holds a narrow lead over young charger Josh Richards.
Lanigan has a few wins at the K-C speedplant, but it has been a long dry
spell for the traveling star. Josh Richards of Shinnston, WV is lurking in
second and has a string of good runs at the K-C oval, where he finished a
solid second in the 2007 Dirt Track World Championship.
 Third in points is Steve Francis, who cut his teeth at the K-C high-banks.
Francis is the 2007 outlaw champion. Shane Clanton is fourth in points just
ahead of "Chubzilla" Chub Frank the defending DTWC champion.
 Shannon Babb, Rick Eckert, Clint Smith, Tim Fuller, John Blankenship, Vic
Coffey, and Joe Isabell round out the top ten in points.  These traveling
stars will be joined by local stars Ben Adkins, Jason Montgomery, Delmas
Conley, Rod Conley, Mike Wilson, Jeff Houser, Bobby Kitchen, Rick Combs,
Donnie Stewart, Greg Oliver, and Keith Berner.
 For more information fans should visit the K-C Raceway website at <<<
www.kc-raceway.com  >>> or call 740-289-4114 or 663-4141. K-C Raceway is
located 12 miles south of Chillicothe off SR 23, three miles out Blain
Highway at Alma.

K-C Raceway World of Outlaw Results July 26, 2008
By Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-For the 12th time this season and his third win in six K-C tries, Sioux Falls, South Dakota driver Donnie Schatz throttled to victory at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway in the 40-lap Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws A-main. Former champ Keith Berner claimed the 25-lap late model main.
Great racing highlighted the entire evening as always with the notorious traveling group.
By virtue of winning the Crane Cams dash, Northern Ohio driver Chad Kemenah paced the WoO field to the green flag, only to have Donnie Schatz put on a slide job that wouldn't stick. Kemenah continued to lead the first three laps until Daryl Pittman brought out the race's first caution with a turn four spin.
Schatz tried Kemenah on the restart, but Kemenah rode the high side, reminiscent of his championship days. Just as Dale Blaney applied pressure on Schatz, Sam Hafertepe, Jr. brought out the caution with a spin in turn two. In a replay of the previous restart, Schatz dove low, but Kemenah's momentum once again carried him to the front.
Two laps later, Jimmy Stinson was collected up in a turn-four melee with Shane Stewart as the field took evasive action. A great battle developed between Jason Meyers and Terry McCarl, as Kemenah began to stretch it out for some breathing room. On lap 14 track owner/promoter Jimmy Nier snagged the turn three wall and flipped wildly several times before landing on his side. Moments later, Terry McCarl, commited to the top, piled in and hit the motionless car of Nier. Nier emerged only shaken, but his car was much worse for wear.
Schatz put on full battle armor for his dual with Kemenah; however, Kemenah repelled the South Dakota driver's challenges for several more laps. Dave Blaney made it a three-way race as the two-front runners engaged. On lap 24 Schatz finally made it stick as he blasted by Kemenah in turn three. A couple laps later, Blaney followed in suit and began to run down Schatz. Everyone kept an eye on Kraig Kinser as he charged from the tail to 11th.
Blaney closed in on Schatz between laps 25-30, but lapped traffic stifled his winning bid. The top ten were-Donny Schatz, Dale Blaney, Jason Meyers, Chad Kemenah, Joey Saldana, Kerry Madsen, Jac Haudenschild, Steve Kinser, Butch Schroeder, and Tim Shaffer
"In the early going I just had to by my time a little bit and figure out my car a little bit. I had to figure out how to make it stick," said Schatz in victory lane. "Once I figured out where I was fast things came to me. I was a little better on green flag runs, but accidents do happen. The car was fast all night long."
On the last lap after the checkered flag had waved Butch Schroeder tangled with King of the Outlaws Steve Kinser as both tumbled to a stop with Schroeder landing partially on top of Kinser.
The C-main Last Chance showdown was won by Adam Strausser followed by young Cale Conley who also transferred to the B-main. The Crane Cams Dash was won by Ohio charger and former K-C champ Chad Kemenah over Donnie Schatz. Delaware, Ohio driver Todd Kane earned a spot in the A-main with a B-main win over California's Paul McMahan, Rob Chaney and Tony Bruce, Jr. who all transferred to the feature.
Kraig Kinser was the hard charger in coming from 25th to 12th. Cale Conley won the Super Clean "Clean Start" Award.
Wheelersburg, Ohio driver Rod Conley took the initial lead in the 25-lap companion late model main, but his run was cut short when he lost a drive shaft on the second lap. Former champion Keith Berner inherited the point with Ben Adkins close-by in the catbird's seat.
With Berner jumping into a comfortable lead, the battle of the race was for second between Ben Adkins and Greg Oliver. The fierce assault would not dissolve as the pair rode within inches of each other to the halfway point. By now Adkins shook Oliver and closed the gap somewhat on Berner. On lap 14 Berner rode into lapped traffic, and slowed just enough that Adkins quickly closed the gap.
Then came a caution, setting the stage for what many thought would be an old fashioned shootout. It didn't materialize as Berner was lightning fast with clear sailing ahead of him. Jason Montgomery finally won a race-long scuffle with Mike Wilson for fifth.
"It's great to get this win tonight," said Berner in victory lane. "We kind of beat ourselves up all week, cause I felt we gave one away when I hit the wall last week. This sort of redeems us. And its the first one of won for my car owner and that's good for us and the team."
Behind second place Adkins, was Oliver, Delmas Conley, Jason Montgomery, Mike Wilson, Doug Dodd, Skip Watterman, John Whitney, Jeff Houser, and Larry Smith. Veteran Delmas Conley was the hard charger of the race.
K-C sits idle for the next two weeks, then reopens August 16 for the Sprint car season championship and Modified championships.


410 Sprints (42)
World of Outlaws 07-26-08
K C Raceway

Qualifying
1) 2B-Dale Blaney 11.829 2) 15-Donny Schatz 11.885 3) 84-Jimmy Stinson 11.922 4) 2-Craig Dollansky 11.933 5) 6X-Todd Kane 11.939 6) 21-Daryn Pittman 11.946 7) 14-Jason Meyers 11.968 8) 9-Joey Saldana 12.005 9) 83-Shane Stewart 12.008 10) B20-Butch Schroeder 12.070 11) 83A-Tim Shaffer 12.075 12) 8K-Chad Kemenah 12.078 13) 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr. 12.083 14) 24-Terry McCarl 12.092 15) 7S-Jason Sides 12.093 16) 6-Paul McMahan 12.104 17) R19-Jac Haudenschild 12.116 18) 24H-Rob Chaney 12.142 19) 7K-Blake Feese 12.177 20) 11-Steve Kinser 12.179 21) 55-Kerry Madsen 12.217 22) 18-Tony Bruce Jr. 12.227 23) W20-Greg Wilson 12.248 24) 80-Spud Gustin 12.260 25) 12-Caleb Griffith 12.272 26) OO-James Nier 12.297 27) 51-Aaron Higgins 12.344 28) 20-Kraig Kinser 12.405 29) 5C-Chad Hillier 12.453 30) 8-Dean Jacobs 12.538 31) 22-Brandon Martin 12.545 32) 40-Mark Imler 12.721 33) 65-Adam Strausser 12.754 34) O6-Brandy Bower 12.948 35) 3C-Cale Conley 13.063 36) 22D-Josh Davis 13.082 37) 59J-Kirk Jeffries 13.106 38) 7A-Dave Dickson 13.302 39) 28X-Hud Horton 13.313 40) 4-Danny Smith 13.497 41) 41-Randy Fink 13.948 42) 33S-Keith Baxter 14.091

Heat 1 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) 83-Shane Stewart 2) R19-Jac Haudenschild 3) 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr. 4) 2B-Dale Blaney 5) 55-Kerry Madsen 6) 5C-Chad Hillier 7) 65-Adam Strausser 8) 12-Caleb Griffith 9) 59J-Kirk Jeffries 10) 41-Randy Fink 11) 6X-Todd Kane

Heat 2 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) 15-Donny Schatz 2) 24-Terry McCarl 3) 21-Daryn Pittman 4) OO-James Nier 5) B20-Butch Schroeder 6) 24H-Rob Chaney 7) 18-Tony Bruce Jr. 8) 8-Dean Jacobs 9) 7A-Dave Dickson 10) O6-Brandy Bower 11) 33S-Keith Baxter

Heat 3 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) 14-Jason Meyers 2) 7S-Jason Sides 3) 84-Jimmy Stinson 4) 83A-Tim Shaffer 5) W20-Greg Wilson 6) 7K-Blake Feese 7) 22-Brandon Martin 8) 3C-Cale Conley 9) 28X-Hud Horton 10) 51-Aaron Higgins

Heat 4 (10 Laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) 8K-Chad Kemenah 2) 9-Joey Saldana 3) 2-Craig Dollansky 4) 11-Steve Kinser 5) 4-Danny Smith 6) 40-Mark Imler 7) 20-Kraig Kinser 8) 22D-Josh Davis 9) 6-Paul McMahan 10) 80-Spud Gustin

Crane Cams Dash (8 laps, finishing order determined first 10 starting positions of A-feature)
1) 8K-Chad Kemenah 2) 15-Donny Schatz 3) 7S-Jason Sides 4) 2B-Dale Blaney 5) 14-Jason Meyers 6) 24-Terry McCarl 7) R19-Jac Haudenschild 8) 84-Jimmy Stinson 9) 83-Shane Stewart 10) 9-Joey Saldana

C-main (10 laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main)
1) 65-Adam Strausser [] 2) 3C-Cale Conley [] 3) 22D-Josh Davis [$125] 4) O6-Brandy Bower [$125] 5) 7A-Dave Dickson [$125] 6) 40-Mark Imler [$100] 7) 41-Randy Fink [$100] 8) 59J-Kirk Jeffries [$100] 9) 28X-Hud Horton [$100] 10) 33S-Keith Baxter [$100]

B-main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) 6X-Todd Kane [] 2) 6-Paul McMahan [] 3) 24H-Rob Chaney [] 4) 18-Tony Bruce Jr. [] 5) 20-Kraig Kinser [$200] 6) 7K-Blake Feese [$180] 7) 12-Caleb Griffith [$175] 8) 80-Spud Gustin [$160] 9) 5C-Chad Hillier [$150] 10) 8-Dean Jacobs

Late Models (16)
Fast Time- Ben Adkins 15:636
Dash-Rod Conley, Keith Berner, Greg Oliver, Ben Adkins
Heat One-Jason Montgomery, Delmas Conley, Lil John Whitney, Jeff Houser
Feature-Keith Berner, Ben Adkins, Greg Oliver, Delmas Conley, Jason Montgomery, Mike Wilson, Doug Dodd, Skip Watterman, John Whitney, Jeff Houser, Larry Smith, Donnie Stewart, Dusty Campbell, Jonathan Day, Rex Frohnapfel, Rod Conley

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Coming WoO Late Models 8/23

K-C Raceway World of Outlaw Late Model promo
By Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-The World of Outlaw Late Model series will be coming to Jim Nier's K-C Raceway, Saturday, August 23 when the greatest show on dirt comes to the Buckeye state. The nation's premier late model series will also serve as the K-C late model season championship joined by Modifieds running for their season championship. Hobby Stocks will round out the racing card.
Also coming August 16 will be the season championship for 410 Sprints and Hobby Stocks with Modifieds.
Darrell Lanigan holds a narrow lead over young charger Josh Richards. Lanigan has a few wins at the K-C speedplant, but it has been a long dry spell for the traveling star. Josh Richards of Shinnston, WV is lurking in second and has a string of good runs at the K-C oval, where he finished a solid second in the 2007 Dirt Track World Championship.
Third in points is Steve Francis, who cut his teeth at the K-C high-banks. Francis is the 2007 outlaw champion. Shane Clanton is fourth in points just ahead of "Chubzilla" Chub Frank the defending DTWC champion.
Shannon Babb, Rick Eckert, Clint Smith, Tim Fuller, John Blankenship, Vic Coffey, and Joe Isabell round out the top ten in points. These traveling stars will be joined by local stars Ben Adkins, Jason Montgomery, Delmas Conley, Rod Conley, Mike Wilson, Jeff Houser, Bobby Kitchen, Rick Combs, Donnie Stewart, Greg Oliver, and Keith Berner.
For more information fans should visit the K-C Raceway website at <<< www.kc-raceway.com >>> or call 740-289-4114 or 663-4141. K-C Raceway is located 12 miles south of Chillicothe off SR 23, three miles out Blain Highway at Alma.