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2010 Quick Stats
Starts	51
Top 10's	31
Top 5's	8
Wins	1
2010_Results Career Wins

LATEST NEWS
RYAN PHELPS GRABS SECOND CAREER BIG BLOCK MODIFIED WIN AT BREWERTON SPEEDWAY
BREWERTON, NY - JULY 30,2010 – (By Dave Medler) – After last week’s heavy rains that cancelled racing, Friday night race fans and race teams were treated to a picture perfect night for racing at the Brewerton Speedway. Ryan Phelps using the top of the speedway on a lap 9 restart went from 4th to the lead in one lap when he got by Tony Steiner exiting turn four to be scored the race leader on lap ten. Once out front Phelps survived a late yellow and challenge from Chuck Bower to win the 35 lap DIRTcar Big Block Modified feature. For the Newark, NY driver it was his second ever Big Block Modified win at the D-Shaped Dirt Demon.

2010 Tentative Schedule Posted
Check out team Big Red's 2010 tentative schedule. The team plans to run at John Wight's Brewerton and Fulton Speedways weekly. The Big Red Towing, Dave Miller auto body 99 also plans to compete at the Cayuga County Fair Speedway on Sundays, along with entire Super Dirtcar Series. The schedule also includes stops at some good paying non-series shows including Utica-Rome, Penn Can, Five Mile Point, Fonda and Middletown. All races are subject to change, look for updates throughout the season on the schedule/results page.

Phelps Eyes Big Money Shows To End Late Season Slump
(9/27/09) – After a very successful season, it is no secret that the Big Red Towing #99 has found itself in a few rough spots late in the season. With two races left on the schedule, the team hopes to finish the season on a postive note. The Victoria 200 at Fulton Speedway could be a great place to rebuild some momentum on October 3rd. Ryan finished 5th in last seasons $20,000 to win race and hopes build off his success this year to cash in on another big pay day. The team is also awaiting a rebuilt Enders Syracuse engine to debut at the 50,000 plus dollar to win Super Dirt Week races on October 7th-11th.

Ryan Phelps Rolls On To Score Historic DIRTcar All-Star 100 Victory Worth $20,000.
(7/19/09) – By Tom Skibinski, Super DIRTcar Series PR Director
(Bill Moore Photo)
All eyes were on the Cayuga County Fairgrounds for the richest event in 54 years of racing in Weedsport and when the curtain finally dropped Sunday evening on the inaugural edition of DIRTcar All-Star Weekend it was rising star Ryan Phelps etching his name in history with a command performance in the ‘All-Star 100’ that rewarded him with a record $20,000 payoff at the birthplace of DIRTcar Big-Block Modified Racing.

Capturing his first career Super DIRTcar Series victory just 24 earlier at the storied 3/8-miler in the ‘All-Star 50’ preliminary event, Phelps proved it was no fluke by overtaking pole-sitter Matt Sheppard past the halfway point then holding off a late-race rally by Tim Fuller to post a dramatic win in front of a capacity crowd on this landmark occasion.

“This is great, just unbelievable,” remarked Phelps, 25, as he struggled to find the words to describe easily the biggest triumph of his budding career steering the Big Red Towing no. 99 Dave Miller Auto Body/Bicknell entry in DIRTcar Racing Northeast’s premier tour for Big-Blocks in the nation. “I’m really speechless.” [Read More]

ROCKET BLOG [Blog Archive]

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Big Races on the Horizon

This weekend kicks off a series of several big Super Dirtcar Series races. I'm happy with where we have come so far this year. We already have ten top fives on the year, which is more than our team has ever had in an entire season. We've got a win under our belt and we also just scored ourselves a new Bicknell chassis that we plan to debut Friday night at Ransomville. This next stretch of our season is going to feature some really great shows and some great race tracks.

Ryan

PAST NEWS

May Day, May Day...Ryan Phelps wins his First event of 2009 at Brewerton!
(5/1/09) After knocking on the door numerous times to kick of the 2009 season, Ryan showed just how strong his Big Red Towing #99 was this past Friday night. Starting back in 8th position, Ryan was able to pass some really good cars and finally grabbing the lead on lap 27 from the #56 of Vinnie Vitale. The low side proved to be in great shape and the Rocket used it to his benefit. Ryan was able to hold on the remaining laps to claim win #1 for 2009.

Coming soon...Blog entry from Ryan on his Brewerton win, Video Highlights, Photo Gallery...

Knocking on Door (From the Syracuse Post-Standard on 3/26/09)

(3/26/09) There are three types of drivers who will be competing in this weekend's Super DIRTCar Series opener in Hagerstown, Md.

There are those who unload their race hauler knowing they have the skills and the equipment to win on any given night. At the other end of the spectrum are the many still searching for their first win and hoping to gain a reputation in the sport by making that trip to victory lane.

Then there are folks like Ryan Phelps. The 24-year-old Fulton native and Newark Central Schools history teacher is beginning his seventh season in modified competition. He is one of those guys who is on the cusp of being a top driver, and he comes from a racing family.

Ryan is beginning his seventh season in modified competition and has two feature wins, the most recent coming at Can Am in 2007. He knows the competition is tough, but he also knows he is improving with every lap.

"I've spent a lot of years slowly progressing in trying to get to be one of the top DIRT guys that you always look up to as a little kid," he said. "I don't know that I'm there yet, but I do think that we're really getting closer than we've ever been to being there. Now, whether that means I've got another handful of years before we can get there or not, I don't know." (Read the Full Story)