Patrick "Pat" Ward (March 6, 1957) is an American Dirt Modified racing driver, currently credited with over 145 career wins at 17 tracks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
Racing career
Pat Ward began his racing career in 1973 in a late model Mustang at Weedsport Speedway Since progressing to the Modified division, he has claimed track championships at
Can-Am
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an SCCA/ CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1974, and again from 1977 to 1987.
The Can-Am rules were deliberately simple and placed few limits on the entries. This led to a wide variet ...
, Fulton, and Utica-Rome speedways in New York state. He has also competed and been victorious at the east coast race tracks from Florida to Canada, including Brewerton Speedway NY, Fonda Speedway NY,
Selinsgrove Speedway
Selinsgrove Speedway (nicknamed The Fastest Half-Mile on The East Coast, Auto Racing's Showcase since 1946) is a high-banked Dirt track racing, clay dirt oval south of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Syracuse Mile NY.
Ward is also a respected fabricator and mechanic, having built his own cars and engines for much of his early career, and then joining manufacturer Howard Conkey's Show Car Engineering company in 1982.
Pat Ward was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2021.