Hometown: Edwards, N.Y.
Born: Oct. 28, 1967
Team: J&S Racing
Entry: No. 74 Smith Bros. Concrete Foundations-Hudson Valley Concrete Pumping/TEO
Owners: Steve Hastings & Joe Knoth

2009 Season Review: Juggling a country-wide full-fender schedule on the World of Outlaws Late Model trail with select Super DIRTcar Series events around the Northeast for a second straight summer, Fuller made the most of his special visits aboard the J&S Racing Big-Block machine as he reached 17th in the overall Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Championship point standings. He finished among the Top-5 in half of his 10 Series starts with his lone tour victory taken at Canandaigua (NY) Speedway in August, then added a runner-up tally in the inaugural All-Star 100 at Cayuga County Fair Speedway in July. Fuller continued at speed on the Syracuse Mile during Super DIRT Week, capturing his second straight Integra Shocks Fast Time award in October to secure the pole-position start for the Rite Aid 200 Presented By Ferris & Snapper Mowers at the New York State Fairgrounds, where he also started on the point in both the 2006 and ‘08 editions of DIRTcar Racing’s prize jewel event for Big-Block Modifieds.

2009 Super DIRT Series Stats
Points Diff Money Wins Top-5 Top-10 Starts
913 -1131 $33,250 1 5 6 10

Series History: Fuller recently improved his Super DIRTcar Series career win total to 18 in ’09 with the first-ever tour triumph at Canandaigua, raising his track total to 11 in six states since joining the premier band of Big-Block travelers in the mid 1990s. He won the last Series show staged at The Dirt Track @ Charlotte in 2005 and followed up in ’06 by winning at the famed Eldora Speedway currently owned by Cup star Tony Stewart. Following a decade of diligence around the DIRTcar NE circuit, 2004 was a break-out season in solidifying his status in the Big-Block ranks, winning the Super DIRT Week finale at the New York State Fairgrounds in October then following up the next year by capturing the prestigious overall Hoosier-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar crown. He came within 20 points of copping a 2nd Mr. DIRTcar crown in 2007, yet after 31 straight Top-10s, lost a 63-point advantage to eventual champ Brett Hearn in the season-finale at Orange County due to terminal motor trouble 30 laps from the finish. The ’04 Syracuse Rite Aid 200 victory was scored in dramatic fashion as he first watched runner-up Matt Sheppard suffer a flat tire on lap 199 then took immediate action when leader Kenny Tremont had his fuel tank run dry on the final lap and finally outlasted Gary Tomkins over the final half-mile to score the memorable $50,000 victory.

DIRTcar Big-Block Modified Diary 
            DIRTcar         Super DIRTcar             Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels
Year Circuit Wins       Series Wins                     Mr. DIRTcar Points
2009 2                                     1                                         16th
2008 --                                     --                                         17th
2007 4                                     3                                         2nd
2006 14                                   3                                         3rd
2005 14                                   6                                         1st
2004 18                                   4                                         3rd
2003 5                                     1                                         10th
2002 5                                     --                                         4th
2001 3                                     --                                         7th
2000 2                                     --                                         8th
1999 3                                     --                                         7th
1998 1                                     --                                         10th
1997 4                                     --                                         10th
1996 3                                     --                                         13th
1995 3                                     --                                         19th
Totals: 81                             18                                        1 Title

DIRTcar Racing Record: Since scoring his first DIRTcar-sanctioned Big-Block feature win 15 years earlier, the 1995 Motorsports Safety Systems/G-Force BB Modified Rookie of the Year has reached victory lane on 81 (14th all-time best/482 winners) occasions at 16 different tracks from Brockville, Ontario, Canada to Volusia Speedway Park, where he earned the 2003 Florida DIRTcar Nationals Championship. Fourteen of his 41 career small-block triumphs were tallied in Series competition, helping him take overall Hoosier-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar 358-Modified titles in 2003 and 1993. The Sportsman (1990-91) and Street Stock (1988-89) graduate is another in the line of talent-laden north country touring regulars, being named DIRTcar Northeast Driver of the Year in both 2004 & ’05 while collecting back-to-back track championships at Cayuga County and Fulton those same years as well as finishing first in the made-for-television Colton RV Empire DIRT Series in 2004. In 2005 Fuller accepted an offer from Gypsum Express team owner John Wight to enter select dirt Late Model events as a teammate to 2-time Mr. DIRTcar titlist Billy Decker, who was the best man at Fuller’s wedding. Two years later was named WoO LMS Rookie of the Year in his first full season.

Fun Facts: Fuller’s first race car was a street car that he bought for $60. The rollcage he installed in it came from the rusted pipes of a boat dock, and he towed it to the track using an ambulance and an open trailer made out of planks and an old mobile home framer. He received guidance early in his racing career from legendary New York Big-Block Modified driver ‘Barefoot’ Bob McCreadie, the father of open-wheel/full-fender standout Tim McCreadie. In May of 1995 Fuller quit his job working 3,100 feet underground in a zinc mine to become a full-time race car driver and in ‘09 purchased a former IGA supermarket in his native hometown of Edwards, N.Y., which is being rebuilt to become the ‘Last Lap’ Bar & Grill with plans to open in 2010.