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Daily Times 2018 RACE WEEK Friday, October 12, 2018 1 Welcome Race Fans! 38th Annual Lucas Oil Rapid-Fired-Race-Tab.pdf 1 10/9/18 10:40 AM Dirt Track World Championship OH-70082264 C M pizza salad craft beer Y CM now serving pasta and calzones MY CY CMY K A special supplement to October 12, 2018 portsmouth order online th 1-866-get-rfp1 OH-70081323 828 11 st rapidfiredpizza.com Open 7 days Take-Out Orders available OH-70082327 2 Friday, October 12, 2018 2018 RACE WEEK Daily Times WELCOME RACE FANS! MAKE WEAVER'S NEW ADDITION "RUSTY CORK" YOUR NEW PIT STOP FOR THE BEST COLD BEVERAGES AND SPIRITS AROUND WITH THE CONVENIENCE OF A DRIVE THRU! 740-529-1361 OH-70082262 22878 St Rt 73 West Portsmouth OH Daily Times 2018 RACE WEEK Friday, October 12, 2018 3 DTWC returns to Portsmouth for seventh year Portsmouth Raceway Park will once Shinnston, WV’s Josh Richards again host the annual Dirt Track World capturing his first a season ago. New Championship October 18-20. The 38th Berlin, IL’s Brandon Sheppard and annual Rhino Ag DTWC presented by Mooresburg, TN’s Scott Bloomquist Optima Batteries has been a fixture at have also enjoyed success in recent PRP since 2012. years. Sheppard won it in 2013 and “We’re so blessed to be able to host 2016. Bloomquist, a three-time winner this race,” PRP Track Promoter Donna of the race, prevailed in 2014 and 2015. Rayburn said. “It’s like the Super From 1999 through 2013, the race Bowl to the NFL, the World Series to had 14 different winners in 15 years. baseball, and the Final Four to college Freddy Smith is a five-time DTWC basketball.” winner, which is the most of any driver. The DTWC is undoubtedly a crown The late Jim Dunn won the first one in jewel for Dirt Late Model Auto Racing. 1981. Photo courtesy of Tyler Carr Also racing at the DTWC will be cars in the modified division as drivers will compete for the $4,000 It’s $100,000-to-win payout makes this Five different Ohioans have won the to win prize. annual Fall tradition one of the richest race and four different Kentuckians. dirt-track events in all the world. Regional racers Charlie Swartz won winning it, they certainly became so Already this season, two provisional The Dirt Track World Championship, the DTWC in 1982 and the late “Black afterwards.” starting spots have been captured at which was created by Carl Short in Jack” Boggs captured the checkers In recent years, simply earning a Portsmouth Raceway Park. Salt Rock, 1981, has been won by some of the three times provisional starting spot has become WV’s Eddie Carrier is guaranteed a most notable Dirt Late Model drivers to “When you look over the list of the a goal of many drivers, which is starting position for claiming this year’s have ever sit behind the wheel. DTWC’s past winners, you’ll find the completely understandable considering PRP track championship, and Kite, The DTWC has had 25 different best names in the sport,” Rayburn the race pays $2,000 just simply to KY’s Brandon Fouts will have a starting winners over the last 37 years, with said. “If they weren’t well-known before start. See DTWC | 11 Let’s Go Green Flag Racing! SOUTHERN OHIO’S NEWEST AUTOMOBILE DEALERSHIP. MAKING OURSELVES THE OBVIOUS CHOICE, ONE CONSUMER AT A TIME! PORTSMOUTH, OHIO • 740-250-2333 OH-70082279 4 Friday, October 12, 2018 2018 RACE WEEK Daily Times Welcome The history of Portsmouth Raceway Park Race Fans!!! Source: www.portsraceway.com weekend. A lot of heavy machinery Portsmouth Raceway Park (PRP) was was brought to the track to make last once a camping ground for the Shawnee minute preparations. tribe of Native Americans, among other The night before the races were to tribes. start vandals used a dozer, to demolish On June 3, 1799, the town of the buildings and grandstand area. That Alexandria was plotted out. Eventually, night, the area was fogged in as it sets many floods forced the people from along the river and no one could see the land. During the years 1813 and what was happening. When workmen 1814, one by one the settlers moved to arrived the following morning, they higher ground, settling in what is now were devastated to find everything Portsmouth. As the years passed, this destroyed. The area was described to abandoned area was converted into have looked similar to a battle zone. farmland. It took a lot of prayer, strength and In the 1970’s, Boone Coleman farmed courage to meet this situation head The Scioto County Welcome Center is this same land. on, help of the community, family and During the summer of 1990, Boone friends, PRP was rebuilt. Within two accessible 7 days a week for travelers brought in graders, bulldozers, trucks weeks of the incident PRP was open and started tearing up the land. People and ready to race again. Businesses, make sure your brochures are on hand for locals and visitors. asked, “Boone, what are you doing?” He As the years went by, various Contact Kim Bauer, (740) 353-3116 replied, “My son, Tim, has a race car improvements were made at PRP such or [email protected] (mini sprint) and no place to practice!” as increased seating and improvements Before long, Coleman had quite a to the grounds to make PRP one of the Stay close to home this year and save time and money. bit of money put into the project, so nicest dirt racing facilities in the area. he thought, “I’ll put some seats in and In the fall of 1999, the track around Plus, you’ll discover new and exciting places you try to recover a little of this green stuff PRP was enlarged to 3/8 mile. can revisit again and again. (money).” Today, PRP hosts races every Now the farmer turned contractor Saturday night from May-September • Camping, golfi ng, hiking, boating turned track owner, called on an old so that local racing fans can enjoy one friend who had fooled around racing of America’s most historic sports. The • Historic Boneyfi ddle fi lled with antique shops, a micro-brewery, cafe, for a number of years. The friend came track hosts four divisions in its races: and the fl ood wall murals to Boone’s assistance, they managed late model, modified, limited late • Local coffee shops, cafes, eateries, & restaurants to build a beautiful racetrack for the model, and sport mod. drivers and fans’ enjoyment. Officials with PRP have a goal of • Performances at the Vern Riffe Center, River Days, Final Friday and more PRP opened in the late fall of 1990 making it one of the finest, cleanest and • Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth Area Arts Council Performances with only two races that year, with the most family oriented racetrack in the first full year of racing in 1991. tri-state area. By your attendance, you, & SSU Theatre In 1992, crews of workers were the race fans, are the ones that help • Scenic views from Shawnee Forest, Raven Rock, Alexander Point and preparing for a big “two day” show, PRP enjoy the success that it has had. the Ohio River area which was to be held the 4th of July Visit www.ohiorivertourism.com or stop in 342 Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio to explore. Submitted Photo OH-70082256 Portsmouth Raceway Park Daily Times 2018 RACE WEEK Friday, October 12, 2018 5 Portsmouth: The current and future home of the DTWC By Jacob Smith [email protected] “Overall, the event in Since 2012, when the Dirt Track the city of Portsmouth World Championships first chose has been a huge Portsmouth as the host city, hopes were high for what the event and the success. I don’t see track could build together through that changing any time consistency and hard work. For the in the near future.” seventh consecutive year, the DTWC will be returning to Portsmouth as fans - Marketing director and spectators are expected to flood the for the Lucas Oil Late city, as they always do for the event. Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Model Dirt Series, the organizers of the race and the Jeremy Shields series, has worked hand in hand with built around the event like who’s going Photo courtesy of Tyler Carr track promotor Donna Rayburn and Late model cars will compete in the 2018 DTWC hosted at Portsmouth Raceway Park as drivers to be the champion, it just seems like it compete for the $100,000 to win prize. owner of the track, Boone Coleman, to is everyone’s go to event every year. Not ensure, at least for the time being, that to take anything away from any other able to hold on, it’ll be the second of Last year’s DTWC crowd was actually Portsmouth will be the home for the event we do or venue we go to, but the his career. The competition level within the biggest crowd in the history of the championship race for the foreseeable DTWC in Portsmouth is kind of the our series right now is unbelievable. As event, there were over 10,000 fans future. Marketing director for the exclamation point of our season.” of last weekend, we’ve had 22 different there. Those things are big wins for us.” series, Jeremy Shields, believes that the With the reinvigoration of the winners in 50 events throughout this Hopefully, for everyone involved, partnership between the two has been downtown area by the infusion of season, which is a new record for us.