If you want to see these bad boys in action, Oswego's 2021 schedule is already up on their website and since the 2020 International Classic was cancelled, they're having 2 Classics in 2021! One in May and the other in September. You can check them out here: www.oswegospeedway.com/schedule/

The bastard child of an F1 Car, an Indy Car, a Stock Car and a Sprint Car No one knows it's genetic makeup and everyone is just too afraid to ask

70's: "you can do literally anything you want with the design of the car" 90's: "no independent front suspension."

As a central new yorker who eats sleeps and breaths dirt modified racing. (But i will watch any racing, anywhere). This is a very respectable and accurate short documentary on our area and racing. Well done slap!!!

9:00 “When running flat out, they can smoke a NASCAR cup car” Oh my god I want to see these things run at Talladega

6:04 is EXACTLY the kind of stuff that vague rules will allow and I love it.

A supermodified is pretty much an upgrade of when your regular asphalt modified can't fit both of your balls at once.

Bruh he started playing among us music

S1AP: so you know of the modified races right? Me: ya what about it S1AP: *WELL LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT SUPER MODIFIED* Me: excuse me what

The weirder the car, the better the S1ap video

S1apSh0es: *I like chaos. I like racing.* S1ap seeing Super Late Models: *THIS IS MY HEAVEN*

Many, many years ago I went to a race at Oswego, I think it was a Richie Evens Memorial Race, and saw the supers for the first time live. I sat in the old metal grandstands. Once they began going around the track in practice I realized I forgot to bring my ear plugs in with me. Believe me, if you sit in a metal grandstand with a roof, you WILL need ear plugs.

Thanks for calling attention to the Supers!! I work on a 350 up around Star Speedway, and man are they fun to wrench on.

Thank you for covering the ultimate short track racing machine. If you haven't seen these beats in person, they are a destination division for any short track racing fan. Loud, fast, and simply amazing to watch. They change the weather when they race, and there's video evidence of that. When you see them, watch the flags on the front and backstretch (if the track has them). They will blow in opposite directions.

Watching the Supermods at Oswego, and Lancaster is a thrill you'll never forget. The absolute speeds they're running is insane on the short tracks. Definitely one of my favorites to watch. I go to college in Oswego and I've heard some practice sessions over the past 2 months. Love watching these things race

Next: Brazilian Stock Cars or Argentinian Tursimo Carretera

"His name was J-" "I always hated backing up my tailer" Good ad timing.

They ran these car at Lucas Oil Raceway (IRP) earlier this year, definitely one of the more interesting cars to watch. They absolutely flew around that track.

I just wonder how long he gets this research, I wouldn't even find 10 photos. Got to give this boi alot of credit

Oswego is highly recommended, one year I was there and saw Kenny Schrader run a ROC race for Tony Stewart.

Jim Shampine was called “The Professor”. He was the reason the rear engine car got banned and he was running lap times back then that they run now. He lapped an entire field one race. My dad told me a story during a classic weekend where he was running that and someone was in his back up. The back up crashed and Jim let the other guy run his rear engine. He went back out a lap down and finished 4th I think.

Jimmy Shampine has to be put right up there with Colin Chapman, Smokey Yunick, and, A.J. Watson as one the greatest innovators in the history of motorsports. That offset, rear engine Super is simply incredible!!! By the way, that "3 wheeled Super" was the 3 to 1 Supermodified built by Kenny Reece. It was tested at Sandusky Speedway by the late Tim Richmond. Once the speed of it was found out it was instantly banned ( just like the rear engined Shampine Super) by the folks at Oswego...

Was that the BoJack Horseman theme?

Seeing the winged supermods as a kid was some of the coolest racing I’ve ever seen. Oswego was a cool trip to the USA too.

I live in Syracuse so all of these videos makes feel at home. When you go see these races when these beasts are racing the sounds will make your heart go to your throat.

The one thing I miss more than anything (Besides Family) when I moved from Oswego. But go back to the track every time I go back to visit.

I was actually watching a super modified race when this notification popped up

I had the absolute pleasure of owning and racing against some great minds, including Jim Shampine, in the late 70's. Jim was not only a genius designer and driver, he was a true human who helped other owners and drivers. A trip to Oswego is a must!

I can literally see this track from my house. Generally they don’t run wing supers here but once a year, the regular modified and super modified classes are weekly in the summer.

I can answer the title question with one word: cool. Edit: Love how my home track at Oswego is getting some love.

My Dad and uncle raced Supermods at Oswego in the 60s and 70s. Some truly wild cars were entered in those races.

I was happy as hell when this was uploaded. I've followed ISMA closely for my whole life, and I've never really seen the supers get any kind of widespread attention like this. I've seen people sharing this who have never heard of the supers, along with lifelong fans, promoters, and guys who are still racing them. A lot of those people are hard to please, and I honestly expected most of them to treat the video like it was made for us by agreeing with everything said, and shrugging it off as stuff we all know. That hasn't been the case at all. The reason I'm watching and commenting for a second time is because ISMA appreciated this video enough to post the link at the top of their homepage. I really hope an on location can happen in the future. Watching the supers run is seriously an experience, and I don't know how else to put it. I'd almost liken it to experiencing a top fuel race in person. The show is always amazing whether they're running on 1/3 mile bullrings like Seekonk, or throwing it into the corners at Thompson at 180 mph. And Oswego definitely makes a pretty killer hot dog.

I grew up in Oswego, moved to Greenville, SC and just returned to Oswego. I've seen races at almost every crown jewel event and series and nothing gives me the chills like the start of a feature at Oswego.

I’ve watched this video five times and keep coming back for the nostalgia. As a native of neighboring Fulton, New York, this video makes me feel at home. I’ve spent dozens of Friday and Saturday nights at the races in Brewerton, Fulton, and of course, Oswego. My personal preference is watching the dirt modifieds at Fulton Speedway, but I completely understand the allure of the Supers down the road. Looking forward to the S1ap on Location video from CNY one day.

I grew up in Central NY, and LOVED going to Oswego. J. Shampine lived two miles down the road from me at the time, so naturally he was my all time favorite Super driver. And yes, the hot dogs at Oswego are GREEAT!. (Hoffman franks I believe) The covered grandstands, the roar of the engines, the smell of methanol -- WOW! It all makes for a unique and exciting event!!

"these were guys like you and me, straight up building F1 cars in their backyards" epic line slapshoes

I need to see one of these around Bristol

1:38 Super Modified looking kinda sus Idk

As someone that grew up 10 miles as the crow flies from the Oswego track, I need to give you some important tips. 1) wear ear plugs and ear muffs. When I was a kid I could hear the cars 10 miles away. It gets loud. Very loud! Your hearing will thank me. 2) The hotdogs shown in the video are Coneys. Basically an unsmoked hotdog. I do believe they have another local favorite, Hoffmanns. 3 PLAN AHEAD! Lodging is very limited in Oswego itself, and some weekends are booked a year in advance. (We have a local state college, an annual festival that caused a few race events to change because both events could not be supported, and State Fair times can see an up tick in hotel occupancy. If you are going the camper route, you still need to book well enough in advance. There are some camp grounds in the county and relatively nearby. 4) Bring a fishing pole. You can buy a fishing license at the Walmart, and experience some great fishing. There are many charter boats in the area that can take you out into Lake Ontario, or there are other areas that you can fish at. Follow posted regulations (some places like up in Pulaski (pronounced pull ass sky) only allows fly fishing).

Awesome video! My dad is Joey Payne...well known veteran Supermodified driver. Were off to Oswego for last years Classic make up this weekend!

Me who lives in Oswego NY : (watches video) Video: (plays) Me: happily satisfied with the results Go Joe Gosek 00 joe!!!!

Fascinating and informative video as always! Honestly, I've never heard of this class before. Your video made me know more about the Super Modifieds. Good job! Keep it up.

Been to Oswego Speedway several times over the last 40 years, amazing racing and wonderful track, great video

Thank you Slap, for covering some less known forms of motorsport. I would love to see your take on the history and evolution of sprint car racing in a video someday soon!

I had the chance to see a super mod race at Lancaster Speedway in WNY a couple years ago and they were about the fastest thing I’ve ever seen on a short track.

I think this means you need to do an episode or two specifically on Dirt Track racing, cars, history, etc. Just my two cents worth.

I race at oswego and from a fans standpoint one of the coolest part for race fans is after the race they open the pits to the fans where you can go right in to the pits at no charge and look over the cars, meet the drivers and crews and yes most of us will even let you climb in and sit behind the wheel for a photo or two.

This kind of race car is very clever, crafty, and tricky idea, but a darn good one too. Who da thunk you'd come up with a legendary look like that when you get ideas from World of Outlaws, Indy Car, F1, and Nascar all together. Great video S.S

This is A+! I'm glad to see Super Mods getting some love!

As a Northeast dirt modified racer, thank you so much for throwing in Super Dirt Week and Gary Balloughs win. The Batmobile had such a massive effect on the development of our cars that can still be seen even 40 years later!

Love the video! Please keep exploring these more obscure forms of motorsport and motorsport history. I've heard of super modifieds but never had a clue what that meant. Great video.

thank you for talking about dirt modifieds my dad used to race them in the 90s and i have alot of freinds who run them. they are such a fun series that everyone needs to watch

I’ve seen these cars at Toledo Speedway a few times, they’re incredible!

This is the kind of content I love. And honestly, there is so much great racing history in Upstate NY, You could spend a ton of time up here for Slap On Location for some real Gems.

Awesome video Slap, absolutely love it. I’m a northern fella, grew up going to every ISMA race no matter where it was. Awesome to see you shouting out these badass machines. Please come to the 2021 Oswego Classic, and bring some friends, you won’t ever see anything like the supers!

Hey the super modifieds are getting the slapshoes treatment! Hell yeah, what a great video man! I saw these cars for the first time ever last year and was absolutely blown away. If you are at all a short track racing fan, Oswego Speedway NEEDS to be on your bucket list. And as an aside, it would be incredible to see these cars in iRacing, finally getting the recognition outside the northeast that they deserve.

1:27 That looks like Mr Cleetus McFarland and friend's newly acquired track

Next video:”what exactly is a super duper modified?”

Another great video. I have watched these cars race on TV for over 40 years and never knew their history. Bravo!

I cant tell you how happy I am to see this video my grandfather raced supermodifieds in Oswego in the heyday and my cousins continue to do so... looking at this video reminds me of the photos on my grandfathers shop walls

These cars are always the star of the show. When I go too the Thompson World Series every year I ALWAYS look forward to these beasts!

Love these cars, I remember seeing one as a kid and thinking it was cool it had a 4cyl out the side until I got closer and realized it was a V8. Then it was bad freaking ass

I’ve seen the IMSA super mods a couple times at the Waterford speedbowl. Even at a 3/8 mile track, it’s shocking how quick they can be

The monsters my Grandfather and his friends built and wheeled from the 60s to the 80s. My Dad always traveled to Oswego with my Grandfather and helped crew the car and watch the race. Thank you for covering this.

I love watching the ismas at star speedway and lee speedway

9:00 To be fair, you can go to any local asphalt oval track in the country on a Friday night and find late models that would smoke a cup car. Cup cars aren't even close to the fastest oval cars.

Never heard of this specific class before and now Oswego is on my bucket list. Awesome machines, and great video

I love watching your videos and just encountering the most off the wall selection of music, its great.

I would love to see the Winged Supers run at Indianapolis. What Indy cars would be if the rear engines cars hadn't shown speed.

You better come to oswego this place is great in every way possible

I was at a test session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway where they brought both the big block super mods and the small block 350 super mods and these things will blow any cup car out of the water there. They're one of the coolest, fastest cars you will ever see, they also sound completely different than anything else.

Excellent video S1ap! You have captured the essence of super modified racing. Once again, GREAT JOB!

Hey Slap I dare you to do a video on the more "unusual" types of dirt track racing. Like lawn mower racing for example. Both the US and UK have their own leagues and the UK have a 12 hour long event, racing lawnmowers!

Literally smiling ear to ear over this video. I was lucky enough to work as media at the last few Syracuse Mile races, The Classic Weekend and the first year of Super DIRT Week at Oswego. I love the video and you got a lot of information into a short timeframe. A S1AP on Location is 1000% in order... Might I suggest next year you take off a couple weeks from the end of september to the beginning of October and hit both the Classic and SDW up. You will NOT be disappointed... Also, for those wondering just how fast a Super Modified is, the track record at Oswego Speedway, a 5/8ths mile FLAT oval is 15.800 seconds. That's the same time cup cars run around Martinsville. A half-mile flat oval. Here's a couple video links for anyone interested in diving deeper... 2016 Track Record (15.802)- Mike Lichty: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9R4ZN2lztucg2w.html IMRRC: A History of The Supermodified: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atuRptejzNXSZ4E.html

As a followup, you might want to have a look at the west coast Super scene, contemporary with the northeast scene covered here. As Mark Chaves Jr. notes in a separate comment, there were cars called Super Modifieds racing at San Jose as early as the '60's. These looked somewhat like sprint cars except they had frames with rectangular tube bottom rails, squared off tails, and single 4-barrel carburetors. By the 1980's there were radical offset cars running all over California, Oregon and Washington. I helped out on one of these in 1986. Tracks included Mesa Marin (Bakersfield), Madera, Evergreen, and even Phoenix. The main west coast sanctioning body was the SMRA. USAC also ran Supers. We ran both USAC and SMRA with the same car. The only rules difference was that for USAC you had to have a single-element wing. Ours had a big main element and a small one at the trailing edge. For USAC, we just put duct tape over the gap and they let us run that way. SMRA's philosophy in the '80's was "best rules is no rules." There were safety rules but that was about it. I never saw a moveable wing. I think maybe they had a rule against moveable aerodynamic devices. There were no suspension rules. There were some really interesting cars. The Triguiero brothers had a rear-engined one with 4-wheel drive. Doug Gore designed a rear-engined one with an aluminum big-block Chevy mounted backwards ahead of the left rear wheel and a gear train at the front driving a drive shaft back to the usual quick change beam axle. There was the Gerhardt Offy car, which was a "conventional" radical offset chassis, but with a turbocharged 4-cylinder Offenhauser. There was one car with an injected Keith Black aluminum Hemi, with Keith Black himself often present in the pits helping wrench it. Our car was "conventional", with a 434 Fisher Donovan small block Chevy. I'm trying to remember the car builder's name, without success. I think his surname was German. His shop was on the east side of Fresno. Maybe somebody here can help me out on that. I left California in 1990. I understand there have been other sanctioning organizations, and more rules, including mandatory beam axles, left percentage limits and wing size limits. I believe there were even two different wing size limits, tied to left percentage; if you ran less left percentage you could have more wing. Lately they have been running winged sprints and Supers together at Madera. There are a number of videos here on YT of these races. The sprints are competitive with the Supers because they're allowed much bigger wings. Here's a recent event at Madera: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sM52dq2TqcXbfGg.html

I’ve always been a DIRT track race fan at ❤️heart(Orange county fair speedway in Middletown,N.Y., Accord speedway, Syracuse, Lebanon valley...etc, etc.). My grandpa took my up to Oswego in the mid 70’s. He said, “Boy, you wanna see 👀some fast cars👍🏼? 😍Let’s go upstate to Oswego for the weekend. His brother in law up had a farm👨🏻‍🌾 in nearby Savanna. We went up on a Thursday afternoon and came back on Monday morning. I didn’t want to leave, I loved the farm, the cars, the experience and as I got older, the girls🥰. We would go up several times during the summer until he passed away in 1984, I graduated high school and went into the Marines. I’ve returned a few times since, but not as often as I’d like. I’m sure glad someone recognized how important this track is. Thanks a lot for bringing back the memories of my childhood.

My first thought: The unholy offspring of a Modified and a Sprint car.

damn man, i'ma miss the modified madness NY is known for. but i have plans on going to nevada so it all works out in the end. just glad upstate new york is getting limelight still.

Slap! I grew up going to Lorain County Speedway where my dad was track photog watching these. Thanks for highlighting them.

I lived in Osweego for 2.5years in the late 90s. Remember going there a few times very vaguely as I was pretty young.

They're the loudest and baddest cars I've ever had the privilege of watching.

"3 wheels on the right of the car and 1 on the left; They said you had to have 4 wheels, but they never did say where those had to be located" *LOOOOOOOOL*

WOW thank you S1apSh0es what a great video i remember friends telling me about these years ago but "pre you tube era" and being former V8 Supercar builder here in Australia i can really appreciate the work and thought behind each and every car ! Thank you again for explaining the roots of this class of racing wish we had it here in OZ !

One of the MOST INFORMATIVE shows of this type that I've EVER seen. GREAT JOB!

"The super modified is an abomination to all that is holy in car construction". Everyone was thinking it but someone finally said it. LMAO, my mans called it a "godless set of circumstances" I'm crying.

1:37 there is 1 super modified among us.

WOW! I had forgotten about how blazingly fast the Super Modifieds were. Ive only seen them live a couple times and I remember a few of them in people's yards between races. I didn't realize they were still active. Thanks for the video reminder.

Central New Yorker here. Great video. The cars are awesome in action at the 5/8. Also there are a bunch of dirt tracks up here that run big block mods which is also an awesome show.

Oswego is the loudest speedway I've been too. They also have the best hotdogs. Just saying

By the way, unlike IMCA, ISMA is actually pronounced the way that it's spelled.

Great video! Totally enjoyed it. My friend Tom Naylor was killed in Super Modifieds back in 1992. Too bad he couldn't see the latest iteration of this AWESOME motorsport. But I know he died doing exactly what he loved.

Great video, thanks for the show, very interesting. one day I'll get out there to watch a race or two.

I have a cousin who lives up in Washington State that races sprint cars on asphalt short tracks including the Evergreen Speedways short track as well. Whenever my great aunt visits me and my family I asked her about her son races she tells me that she watches him race... and she tells me that he uses his racing skills as a hobby. In the summer of 2013 I finally got the chance to meet him, my cousins and most importantly his racecar got inside of it and I’ll admit it was pretty cool despite hearing the stories from my great aunt instead of him telling me in person how cool it is. From what I’ve learned so far is some of the cousins help him out on race weekends disappointingly I never got a chance to watch him race that summer... so how did he get the money? Well his wife and her family are coffee making geniuses in Hawaii and he asked her to use some of that money towards his hobby if he could race... crazy as it seems I guess because I don’t see them very often as I wished to in the first place...

man when you said play offs were B.S. at the 2021 prediction schedule video, I thought well play offs look awesome to me, but now looking at kevin harvick dominant 9 wins in his season coming to an end because he didn't punch his ticket while he was in first place in the points, I can understand why play offs are B.S. they weren't B.S. since 2004 to 2013, but now they kind of are, took me a while to understand why there B.S. wonder how I became blind of all of this, Because Nascar Fucked Kevin Havick 2020 career like A holes.

6:03 This one is honestly my favorite. I was drinking water when I saw this "machine" grace my screen and I nearly choked up. Just goes to show how desperate and downright Dr. Frankenstein these guys were in wanting to take the big man down. Oh and I just love the reasoning as to why its wheels were arranged in that "specific" way.

10:21. That lonnng loud sound brings back so many memories. Watching those cars fly through that corner and open up the throttle in front of the stands. SO LOUD but so worth it

"the super modified is an abomination to all that is unholly in car construction."

There were numerous rear-engined Supers in the eastern US in the '70's, and hardly anybody knows about them. Here's a page with a bunch of pictures of them: www.jakessite.com/07/re/index.html

Dirt modifieds will always hold a special place in my heart. One of my neighbors growing up ran UMP Modifieds and I spent a huge amount of my childhood hanging out in his garage and learning to turn wrenches.

Aside from what I consider your greatest work(Mark Martin series) this was awesome to see! Not a lot of people get to see these in action. I grew up in NH and the big block supers were a weekly division. There's no circle track car in existence that's as loud or fast! And with them being direct drive (driveshaft mounts to the crank and rear end directly. No starters or transmissions) once they push those off, that's it, they're going and there's no going back! When they attend your local track and you find yourself in the pit area during an event. You'd best keep your eyes up. Because when they roll back in. They can't just hit the brakes and let you walk by. Thank you for doing this video! Was looking forward to seeing it all day after my phone alerted me, you'd made a new video!