Sheppard’s
2nd Straight Title Puts Him Among Elite
Young
New York star only sixth driver in 36-year history
to win championships in back-to-back seasons
WEEDSPORT, NY – Nov. 14, 2011 – By Kevin
Kovac/DIRTcar Racing PR - No one had to tell Matt
Sheppard why his 2011 overall DIRTcar Big-Block Modified
championship holds so much significance. That fact
hit him head-on as soon as he glanced at the select
list of drivers who preceded him as winners of DIRTcar
Northeast’s most prestigious title in back-to-back
seasons.
With his second straight Big-Block points crown, Sheppard
became just the sixth competitor to capture consecutive
championships in the 36 years that the trophy has
been awarded. He joined a group of DIRTcar Big-Block
Modified immortals that features Alan Johnson (2002-2003),
Brett Hearn (outright in 1996 and co-champ in ‘97),
Bob McCreadie (1994-95), Jack Johnson (1984-85, 1987-88)
and Will Cagle (1978-79). That’s pretty heady
company for Sheppard, a DIRTcar Northeast circuit
lifer from Waterloo, N.Y., who, at 29, is by far the
youngest driver in history to win consecutive Big-Block
titles. ...read
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Tim McCreadie wins 2nd of two World Finals Super DIRTcar
Series Events
Matt
Sheppard captures second straight Super DIRTcar Series
Big Block Title beating out Billy Decker
CONCORD, N.C. — Nov. 5, 2011 — Tim McCreadie
completed a sweep of the Lowes Foods World Finals
Presented by Tom’s Snacks, Coca-Cola and Nature’s
Own at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Saturday night,
while Matt Sheppard captured his second straight Super
DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified championship.
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Matt Sheppard and team win Gater
News Best Appearing Car & Crew award during Super
Dirt Week XL.
Sheppard caps off profitable weekend with $7,700 win
in the Rumble at the Ridge
Sheppard extends Super DIRTcar Series points lead
with Drummondville triumph
DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec — Sept. 10, 2011 —
Matt Sheppard continued to be “Super” in
the second half of the Big-Block Modified Super DIRTcar
Series with an important victory at Saturday night
at Autodrome Drummond’s Race Mania Weekend feature
event, and more importantly, extending his 2011 Super
DIRTcar Big-Block Series points lead over Billy Decker.
Danny Johnson, who won the DIRTcar 358-Modified Series
main event the previous night at Drummond, led the
30-car starting field to the green flag with Billy
Decker to his outside. Johnson got the initial jump
on the leaders, but a turn-1 lap-1 tangle between
Dany Bilodeau and Tommy Sears negated the start. Billy
Decker would get the jump on the restart and take
an early advantage. ...read
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Matt Sheppard Wins Feature And The Tracey Road Equipment
Big Block Modified Track Championship On The Final
Points Night At The Brewerton Speedway
Coming into the final point night of the 2011
season, Matt Sheppard knew he had an uphill battle
to be crowned the 2011 Tracey Road Equipment Big Block
Modified Champion. Being 12 points behind Stewart
Friesen, Sheppard had to go out and win the feature
and let the points fall where they may.
Sheppard
started seventeenth, worked his way into the top-five
on lap 14 then on lap 22 took the lead from Chad Phelps.
Once in the lead, there was no slowing down Sheppard
as he outran Jimmy Phelps to the checkers by over
three-seconds. ...read
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Stewart Friesen, Matt Sheppard And Jimmy Phelps Lay
It All On The LineThis Friday September 2 At The Brewerton
Speedway
It all comes down to one race this Friday, September
2nd to crown the 2011 Tracey Road Equipment Big Block
Modified Track Champion at the Brewerton Speedway.
At
the start of the 2011 season Stewart Friesen wasn’t
sure if he would be a weekly competitor at the “D-Shaped
Dirt Demon”. Right out the box Friesen picked
up a win, and has been a strong presence on a weekly
basis behind the wheel of his M.R Burdick, No.85,
TEO. Going into Friday he has a slim 12 point over
Matt Sheppard lead going into the final point’s
race.
Last
Friday night, Matt Sheppard put his XTREME Lubricants,
No.9s, Bicknell in victory lane for the fourth time
this season. Sheppard has related his team has really
hit on something during the last half of the season
and has one of the fastest cars when he unloads his
hauler on Friday nights.
Sitting
just 17 points out of the points lead is Jimmy Phelps
behind the wheel of his J&B Installations, No.99j,
Troyer. The defending track champion has one win in
the 2011 season but keeps racking up top finishes
to be in the fight on the final point’s night.
With
11 different feature winners at the Brewerton Speedway,
it’s no guarantee that Friesen, Sheppard or Phelps
will end up in victory lane. It all could come down
to a top-finish and staying out of trouble to determine
the Tracey Road Equipment Big Block Modified Champion.
Matt Sheppard is doing everything he can to win the
2011 Tracey Road Equipment Big Block Modified Track
Championship at the Brewerton Speedway.
Friday
night Sheppard started seventeenth and steadily worked
his way forward taking the lead on lap22 from race
leader Willy Decker. Once in the lead Sheppard held
off Jimmy Phelps for the win. Points leader Stewart
Friesen recovered from an early race incident to finish
fifth.
Going into next Fridays, September 2nd final point
race, Stewart Friesen leads Matt Sheppard by 12 points
and Jimmy Phelps by 17 points. ...read
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Sheppard scores 3rd straight Merrittville Super DIRTcar
Series win Monday night
Lapped traffic cost Chad Brachmann his first ever
Super DIRTcar Series Modified win Monday night at
Merrittville Speedway. Brachmann’s loss was Matt
Sheppard’s gain, however.
Sheppard took the lead with just a handful of laps
remaining, and he held off Brachmann’s late-race
challenge for his third straight win in big block
competition at Merrittville.
Quotes from victory lane:
Sheppard – We had a good car tonight, but i really
didn’t think I had anything for Chad. I rolled
up to him in the middle of the race, and i thought
I was going to drive right by him. It seemed like
we were dead even, and it seems like the lapped car
got him.
My
car was a little tight on entry. We were off just
a little bit. I think Chad was just a little better
than us. ...read more
Sheppard Hottest On Sizzling Summer Night In Canandaigua
Posted by Jeff on 2011-07-24 09:46:58 MDT
July 23, 2011 - Scorching temperatures greeted fans
and racers Saturday on Family Autograph Nite presented
by Victor Excavating & Landscape and Corvettes
By Turner at Canandaigua Motorsports Park, and for
the seventh time this season Matt Sheppard went out
and torched the field in the 35-lap Big-Block Modified
main.
Second-generation
driver Brandon Rauscher closed out the final show
of July as he made his way into the ‘Land of
Legends’ record book with his first Community
Car Care of Waterloo New Legends Sportsman win at
the ultra-smooth Ontario County Fairgrounds oval.
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Matt Sheppard Makes Spectacular Run From Last To Victory
Lane At The Brewerton Speedway In The Tracey Road
Equipment Big Block Modifieds
Winning from last once in a season is tough, but to
do it twice against one of the toughest Big Block
Modifieds fields in the Northeast is unheard of. Matt
Sheppard out of Waterloo, NY did just that Friday
night at the Brewerton Speedway.
Sheppard
didn’t even run his heat race and had his crew
scrambling to change a complete transmission before
the feature. After starting 25th Sheppard put on a
show coming through the field and taking the lead
on lap 26 from Rich Scagliotta and then went on to
victory in the 35 lap Tracey Road Equipment Big Block
Modified feature. It was Sheppard’s second win
in a row at the “D-Shaped Dirt Demon”.
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Matt Sheppard dominates at Autodrome Granby
By
Martin Bélanger
GRANBY, Quebec—July 19, 2011—After an early
pass of David Hébert for the race lead, Matt
Sheppard dominated the rest of the Super DIRTcar Big-Block
Series race from Autodrome Granby to pick up the win.
The Super DIRTcar Big-Block Series participated in
their second race in two-days in Quebec, this time
competiting at Autodrome Granby, the second race of
the popular “Great Canadian Tour.” Another
scorching hot day greeted the modified stars that
ran in the ‘Ste-Marie Centre du Camion 100’’
race #7 of the Super DIRTcar Series. ...read
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