Steve Paine

Paine began his racing career in 1979 in a Street Stock class with 13 wins at the Canandaigua Speedway.^[2] He has competed and been victorious at the east coast race tracks from Florida to Canada, including Autodrome Granby, Quebec; Bridgeport Speedway, New Jersey; and Black Rock Speedway in Dundee, Fonda Speedway, Fulton Speedway, Ransomville Speedway, and Weedsport Speedway, all in New York.^{[1][2][5][6][7]}

Paine was crowned the overall Mr. DIRT champion in 2000, and he was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2017.^[2]

Paine comes from a racing family. As he was growing up, his parents, Don and Nancy, owned a race car, and through the 1980s brother Bobby also drove. In 2018, Steve's son Billy began the third generation in racing, and two years later son Tommy got into the driver's seat.^[3]