Syracuse Super Nationals
Super Dirt Week 1978
This is the 1978 Supernationals run on the same weekend as the Schaefer 200. It was an ill-fated experiment to run the sprinters on the big mile without wings as many crashed heavily.
The supers ruled on this day with Bobby Stelter qualifying quickest in the Tobin #21 super and Bentley Warren, in the Snyder 77 taking overall combined honors with a win in the first 50km and a 4th in the second after starting far back. Stelter got second overall and the next super in the finishing order was Steve Gioia who was credited with 16th overall.
Ed Thompson, Ronnie Wallace, Gary Albritain, Eddie Bellinger and Don Mclaren all also competed in supers. Chuck Ciprich raced a sprinter in the event.
They ran this format in '79 also but with wings... can't remember who won but I think the sprints had the edge this time.
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credits
78 race results
79 entry list
79 Oswego qualifier report - only win for the Shampine rear engine car
Bentley Warren article
Chuck Ciprich article
The supers ruled on this day with Bobby Stelter qualifying quickest in the Tobin #21 super and Bentley Warren, in the Snyder 77 taking overall combined honors with a win in the first 50km and a 4th in the second after starting far back. Stelter got second overall and the next super in the finishing order was Steve Gioia who was credited with 16th overall.
Ed Thompson, Ronnie Wallace, Gary Albritain, Eddie Bellinger and Don Mclaren all also competed in supers. Chuck Ciprich raced a sprinter in the event.
They ran this format in '79 also but with wings... can't remember who won but I think the sprints had the edge this time.
Below are some links to larger full page images that will open in a new window...
credits
78 race results
79 entry list
79 Oswego qualifier report - only win for the Shampine rear engine car
Bentley Warren article
Chuck Ciprich article
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more super vs sprint notes...
Although it doesn't look like it, the car pictured here used to be the colt 45 upright that Red Barnhardt drove in the 60s.
• I'm also told that a similar event was held in 1967?? at Trenton?
• I would also like to know exactly how the Supers fared in the '79 Super Nationals.
• While on the mixing of divisions subject, didn't Open Wheel magazine once suggest that Jim Shampine should give Indy a shot with his new offset back in '76 or '77...
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