![]() The Classic win was the fourth of Otto’s now legendary Oswego career. The next time Sitterly would visit Victory Lane was the International Classic in a dominating run in the 200-lap grind. Following a P2 finish in the Oswego season opener, Sitterly drove to his sixth Shampine Memorial victory, which surprisingly, would be Otto’s only regular-season win of the year. 2014Ģ014 was another big season for Sitterly and the Nicotra team. In yet another points race that went to the wire, Sitterly entered the last night of the season ahead of Joe Gosek by only 11 markers and won the championship by only 13 points. Two weeks later Otto wrapped up Nicotra Racing’s fifth Oswego Supermodified track championship and his sixth overall. Otto finished P2 to Bob Bond in the International Classic 200. While Otto was involved in an accident, Davey raced off to his first Oswego win since the 1997 Classic. Hamilton gave Nicotra his first Oswego feature win with a driver other than Sitterly on opening day 2013. This time Otto crossed the stripe ahead of teammate Davey Hamilton. On Labor Day weekend Sitterly notched the team’s third International Classic 200 triumph in a second consecutive Nicotra Racing one-two Classic finish. ![]() Otto kicked off the season in fine fashion, winning the May 5 opening day show and backing it up with the team’s third Shampine Memorial on May 26 on his way to another Oswego track championship, which would mark Nicotra’s fourth and Otto’s fifth overall. Nicotra Racing enjoyed another terrific season in 2012. Lichty held on for second to make it a Nicotra Racing one-two finish. ![]() Otto would win the season’s ultimate prize - the 2011 International Classic - with a last-lap pass on teammate Mike Lichty to win his second Classic. ![]() Sitterly would win three features in ’11 but finish third to Joe Gosek and Randy Ritskes in the final points. Otto Sitterly added more success to Nicotra Racing’s resume in 2011. Click here to read a 2010 National Speed Sport News (NSSN) story on Nicotra Racing 2011 Hamilton would finish podium in the Classic with a fine third-place result. Otto led much of the 2010 Classic but a late-race incident relegated him to a P9 finish. He'd also finish second three straight weeks between July 17 and August 7, and go on to win Nicotra Racing’s third consecutive Oswego track championship. In 2010 Sitterly opened the year with four straight feature wins, including a second straight Shampine Memorial victory. In a lengthened race that would go to 207 laps, Otto passed defending Classic winner Doug Didero late in the race and from there would cruise to his first win in the popular Labor Day event. While another championship was important to the third-year team, the highlight of the campaign was clearly Sitterly and Nicotra’s first Budweiser International Classic 200 win Labor Day weekend. Sitterly would win two regular-season races, including his first Jim Shampine Memorial on Memorial Day weekend, and he'd capture the team’s second straight Oswego track championship. The Nicotra team’s breakout year came in 2009. Hamilton led the Nicotra team in the Classic, finishing fourth. Including his May 10 victory, Sitterly rounded up six top-five finishes. Otto put together a very consistent season, capturing his first feature win behind the wheel of a blue Nicotra machine in the May 19 opening day show for the non-wing supers and he would go on to win the team’s first Novelis Supermodified Oswego track championship by 30 points over Pat Lavery. Nicotra Racing began to hit their stride in 2008. Over a dozen years later, Hamilton still competes at Oswego in a Nicotra Racing super, normally during International Classic weekend and at least one regular-season event. Ind圜ar and supermodified veteran Davey Hamilton, a native of Boise, Idaho and longtime John Nicotra friend, began joining the Nicotra team on a part-time basis in 2007, as well. Otto's best run of the season would come in the '07 International Classic, in which he finished second to Greg Furlong. Despite being shut out of victory lane in 2007, the Sitterly and Nicotra combination did seem to work well, as evidenced by a consistent string of top-five finishes and a fifth-place finish in the final Oswego super point standings. Success for the new Nicotra-Sitterly pair wasn't immediate. The former Limited (SBS) Supermodified standout and 2006 Oswego Supermodified track champion would be tabbed the new team's primary driver as well as chief mechanic maintaining the two new Hawk Jr Chassis No. The John Nicotra Racing supermodified team debuted at Oswego Speedway in 2007 with an up-and-coming Canajoharie, N.Y., racer named Otto Sitterly.
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