9-Time SUPRS Champion Ray Sand Jr. Reloading for Small Block Super Assault at Oswego Speedway
OSWEGO, NY (December 9, 2015) – Ray Sand Jr., the son of longtime Oswego supermodified contender Ray Sand Sr., is reloading for another shot at the Pathfinder Bank Small Block Super division in 2016 at Oswego Speedway.
SUPRS Champion Ray Sand, Jr. is readying this car for an assault on Oswego Speedway in 2016. (Oswego Speedway PR photo)
Sand, who finished 26th in last year’s SBS standings after running a part-time schedule, is working hard this off-season after acquiring a former Russ Brown Hedger chassis which will be fit with an all-new engine for the upcoming season.
An accomplished open-wheel Micro Sprint racer, Sand competed in only a handful of events in 2015 at Oswego with a best finish of 16th position, but it was not for a lack of effort.
Ray Sand, Jr. won the SUPRS 11th Annual Turkey Shoot sim supermodified race for rFactor.
Sand, Jr. is also an accomplished online racer, having won the Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), Gold Crest Championship a total of nine times and is the current point leader of that league which features wing and non-wing supermodifieds at Oswego Speedway.
Along with primary sponsor Tandoi Asphalt and Seal Coating as well as associate sponsors The Tint Shop, Ken’s Auto Repair, Guglielmos Sauce, and RPM Auto Enterprises, Sand and team have committed to another go at the ‘Steel Palace’ and will be primed and ready to leave their mark at Oswego in 2016.
The 66th season of racing at Oswego Speedway will begin on Saturday, May 14 with the Novelis Supermodifieds, Pathfinder Bank SBS, as well as the Race of Champions Asphalt Modified Richie Evans Memorial 61.
Oswego’s full 2016 schedule will be announced in its entirety in the coming weeks.
Individual ticket pricing and season ticket packages will be announced after the full schedule release.
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About Oswego Speedway: Oswego Speedway, a sports entertainment company, is a 5/8 mile semi-banked pavement racing oval located off the shores of Lake Ontario in scenic Oswego, NY. Oswego Speedway has been a continuously run weekly racing venue since August, 1951. The premier open-wheel pavement short track cars in the world, Supermodifieds, run weekly at Oswego Speedway making Oswego the only weekly Supermodified racing venue in the world. The Small Block Supermodifieds accompany the full-blown Supers on a weekly Saturday night schedule which runs from May through September. Oswego Speedway is mentioned in racing circles as the “Indy of the East,” as no fewer than a dozen past and present competitors have competed at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway including Mario Andretti, arguably the greatest driver of all time, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, along with former International Classic Champions Bentley Warren, Joe Gosek, and Davey Hamilton.
