Inside Groove #205: What Becomes Of Super DIRT Week?

INSIDE GROOVE SHOW -- What happens to Super DIRT Week at Oswego after this year? - 205

Tom Baker is joined by SWN’s Jacob Seelman to dig into one of the biggest questions surrounding short track racing in New York right now. The current 10-year New York State funding agreement that helped bring Super DIRT Week to Oswego Speedway is coming to an end, and while 

World Racing Group wants Oswego to remain the event’s home, a new agreement is not yet in place.

Tom and Jacob talk about what they heard during World Racing Group’s recent media conference, the importance of state funding to the annual dirt conversion at Oswego, the massive crowd and tourism impact the event brings to the area, and whether changes to Oswego County’s tourism funding could potentially become part of the equation going forward.

Before that, the show gets personal.

Jacob shares the story of his uncle, Bob Seelman Jr., 41 years after he died in a supermodified racing accident at Kalamazoo Speedway. He talks about Bob Jr.’s racing career, his grandfather Bob Seelman’s place in open-wheel racing history, and how the Seelman family’s racing legacy ultimately helped lead Jacob into the sport himself.

It’s an episode about history, family, and the future of one of short track racing’s biggest events.

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