Highlights
Hometown: Waterloo, N.Y.
Born: January 7, 1961
Team: Paine Motorsports
Entry: No. 7x Tallmadge Tire-Swarthout Recycling-Instant Heat Wood Pellets/Bicknell
Owner: Steve Paine
2009 Season Review: A solid Top-10 contender during the new millennium and front-runner on the Central New York DIRTcar circuit over the past three decades, the 2000 overall Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Big-Block champion salvaged 15th position with four Top-5s scored in 12 of the 20 events entered. Scaling back on his touring program while continuing to concentrate on activity closer to home at Canandaigua (NY) Speedway in '09, the ‘Hurricane’ posted two of his front-five feature finishes at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park beginning on Labor Day, with the Waterloo warrior taking five checkered flags in heat race qualifiers and leading 36 circuits in the Canandaigua 100-lapper staged last August.
2009 Super DIRTcar Series Stats
Points Diff Money Wins Top-5 Top-10 Starts
1,201 -843 $16,500 0 4 9 12
Series History: Claiming the Hoosier-VP racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Big-Block Championship to open the newest millennium, Paine has 27 career extra-distance Series wins to stand seventh on the all-time list. He also ranks fifth on the career chart with 17 Integra Shocks Fast Time Awards, setting the single-lap standard at Autodrome Granby (Que.) in 2008. A Series mainstay for three decades, Paine scored his first tour triumph at Canandaigua in 1985 and logged his latest extra-distance victory at Can-Am Motorsports Park in the summer of 2007. The ‘Hurricane’ collected a career-best six Series checkered flags in 2001, with victories gaining national attention at The Dirt Track @ Charlotte and the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. The inaugural tour winner at both Hagerstown and Charlotte, Paine was voted DIRTcar Northeast Driver of the Year in 1991.
DIRTcar Big-Block Modified Diary
DIRTcar Super DIRTcar Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels
Year Circuit Wins Series Wins Mr. DIRTcar Points
2009 4 -- 15th
2008 3 -- 8th
2007 6 1 5th
2006 4 -- 10th
2005 4 -- 7th
2004 11 -- 5th
2003 5 2 6th
2002 5 -- 11th
2001 13 6 3rd
2000 12 4 1st
1999 9 4 5th
1998 3 1 12th
1997 13 2 7th
1996 17 1 6th
1995 22 1 7th
1994 3 -- 14th
1993 6 1 5th
1992 6 -- 11th
1991 8 2 3rd
1990 3 1 13th
1989 7 -- 26th
1988 6 -- 37th
1987 -- -- 33rd
1986 1 -- 14th
1985 3 1 14th
1984 2 -- 22nd
1983 -- -- 27th
1982 -- -- --
Totals: 176 27 1 Title
DIRTcar Racing Record: Also a two-time overall Hoosier-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar 358-Modified champion, Paine joins Brett Hearn and the Brothers Johnson, Alan & Danny, as the only drivers to capture DIRTcar Racing Northeast's most coveted titles in both Big-Block and Small-Block divisions, ranking among the top-10 in tour victories with 27 Big-Block Modified (7th) and 27 358-Modified (4th) DIRTcar Series checkered flags. Along with collecting 28 track championships ---19 BB, 9 SB--- he has scored 272 (176 BB, 96 SB) open-wheel wins since graduating from the Late Model ranks in 1982, establishing an all-time DIRTcar Northeast record of nine straight point titles at Canandaigua (NY) Speedway from 2000-08.
Fun Facts: Started 24th and won his first ever race in his first ever start as an 18 year-old Street Stock rookie at Canandaigua Speedway in 1979; ultimately taking a dozen more checkered flags in full-fender competition at the ‘Land of Legends’ and reaching double-digits at sister track Cayuga County Fair Speedway. After adding an “x” to the family no. “7” in his return to racing in 1980, Paine captured a 100-lap New York State Late Model Championship and the number carried over to his 1983 rookie Modified campaign on the DIRT of Central New York circuit.
