Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 in Pevely, MO

Pevely, MO (March 17th, 2020) – Following the guidelines of the State of Missouri, Jefferson County and the city of Pevely, MO along with the guidelines recommended by the Center of Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) to help combat the spread of the COVID019 virus, Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 will postpone the start of the 2020 racing season until the restrictions are lifted. Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 promoter Ray Marler has been closely monitoring the situation with the CDC’s recommendation as well as being in contact with city and county officials and the track will kick off the 2020 racing season as soon as there is a change in amount of people allowed at public gatherings. The 2020 racing season was set to kick off with a test & tune session on March 28th and then the first race was scheduled for April 4th. Please stay …

Pevely, MO (October 5th, 2019) The 2019 DIRTcar Nationals wrapped up with some great racing action at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55. With the forecast calling for 80% chance of rain beginning at 8pm, DIRTcar Officials made the decision to simply qualify and then run feature events. The DIRTcar Modifieds & DIRTcar Pro Modifieds locked in the top sixteen qualifiers into the feature and then ran two last chance qualifiers for the remaining cars to set the twenty-six car starting field. The DIRTcar Late Models & DIRTcar Sport Compacts lined up the entire feature starting field directly from qualifying. The DIRTcar Late Model feature appeared to be a run away win for pole sitter Daryn Klein who jump out to a tremendous lead at the drop of the green flag. Meanwhile Dave Jumper shot into the second spot and had settled in with a comfortable margin over third place …

Pevely, MO (October 4th, 2019) The 2019 DIRTcar Fall Nationals kicked off the opening night with some great racing action. Tyler Nicely put on a dominating performance in the DIRTcar UMP Modified main event. Nicely took the lead on lap four from pole sitter Rick Conoyer and stretched out a huge lead during a long green flag run. While Nicely pulled away, Conoyer, Mike McKinney and Jim Black had a fierce battle for second place as they diced through lapped traffic. A caution on lap twenty-six would tighten up the field. Conoyer would give Nicely a brief challenge for the top spot on the first two laps after the restart, but Nicely would stretch it out and would go on to victory finishing almost two seconds ahead of Conoyer. Conoyer was able to fiend off Jim Black to finish second, Black took third while McKinney finished fourth and Allen Weisser …