Past Stars at New Smyrna

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Darrell Waltrip in the familiar No. 11 Mountain Dew on the high-banked half-mile of New Smyrna Speedway.

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Reggie Ruggiero won five times en route to the 1988 tour-type Modified title. One of the winningest drivers on the Whelen Modified Tour, 'The Reg' won 26 times at New Smyrna and took home three World Series titles.

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A list of short-track's 'Who's Who' in a 1979 race: Mark Martin (2) shares the front row with Dick Trickle, while Joe Shear (36) and Mike Eddy (88) are in their tire tracks.

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A young Mark Martin is strapped in at New Smyrna during the 1978 World Series. The 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee won the World Series crown that year without winning a race.

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Richie Evans was a frequent visitor to Victory Lane at New Smyrna. 'The King of Modifieds' won an estimated 36 Modified races during the World Series and took home the championship six times (1977, 1979-81, 1983-84)

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How do you dethrone a king? Greg Sacks had the answer in 1982. Prior to his 1985 Firecracker 400 win at Daytona in the Cup Series, Sacks used six wins at the World Series to interrupt Richie Evans' reign.

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Geoff Bodine won 10 times in the Modified division between 1977-80 prior to his 1982 Cup Rookie of the Year season and 1985 Daytona 500 victory.

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Junior Hanley represented Canada well in the 'Sunshine State.' The native of Nova Scotia won World Series races in both Late Models and Modifieds, and took home the Late Model crown in 1980-81.

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Dick Trickle piled up hundreds of short track wins throughout his career, and his frequent trips to New Smyrna were no exception. Trickle won the Late Model Division title four times (1982, 1984-86).

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Jimmy Spencer went to Victory Lane on Feb. 16, 1985, edging runner-up Richie Evans and third-place Reggie Ruggiero. It was the third win of the week for 'Mr. Excitement' and secured his first World Series title.

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Tony Stewart drove to Victory Lane on Feb. 10, 1997, at New Smyrna. The future three-time Cup champion ran the World Series prior to going on to win the 1997 Indy Racing League title.

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Few drivers dominated at New Smyrna that way the late Ted Christopher did. With an estimated 43 tour-type Modified wins, the Connecticut driver nine titles (1998-2001, 2003, 2005, 2009-11) to go along with his 1991 title in the now-defunct SK Modified Division.

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A Florida racing legend, Dave Rodgers has made his home in New Smyrna's Victory Lane. He won the now Super Late Model division titles at New Smyrna in three different decades (1987, 1999 and 2009).

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Rodgers won the 1994 NASCAR weekly series national championship. He also has multiple wins in nearly every major extra-distance race at New Smyrna, including the Florida's Governor's Cup. The Super Late Model division is now named after Rogers, who passed away last year.

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