SHULTZ WIRES FIELD FOR OPENING DAY 360 SPRINT CAR VICTORY;
RINE SHINES IN LATE MODEL OPENER;SLANKER SCORES PRO STOCK THRILLER
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- The gates swung open for the 55th consecutive season opener at Selinsgrove Speedway Saturday night presented by Insinger Performance Sunoco Race Fuels/Stinger Racing Alcohol.
Carlise native Jason Shultz took the $2,500-to-win opening 360 Sprint Car Spring Showdown event that was co-sanctioned with Empire Super Sprints. Danville’s Jeff Rine claimed his second opening night win in a row in the Late Model main event and Tommy Slanker of York was the Pro Stock winner.
Shultz led the field for the first 16 laps under the green flag while trying to maneuver around lap traffic. Schultz had his hands full when he came upon two lap cars battling side by side while Davie Franek closed in from the second spot. Franek wasn’t the only one closing in on the leaders. Chad Layton had moved into third and was also closing in on the lead duo. A yellow flag flew on Lap 16 that settled the action. Shultz used the open race track to open the lead back up on the field before action slowed again for a lap 19 yellow flag.
At that point in the race Nate Snyder was running the quickest laps in the field and was into the fourth spot. Franek was stout on the next restart staying right with Shultz into turn one. Snyder also continued his charge moving into third spot.Although Shultz was challenged, he was able to pull away in the final two laps to secure the victory over Franek and Snyder. Layton was fourth and Larry Kelleher finished out the top five. Steve Collins, Derek Locke, Colby Womer, Troy Betts, and Ryan Kissinger rounded out the top ten finishers. Heat races went to Larry Kelleher and Nate Snyder for the Sprint Cars.
Bryan Bernheisel won the heat race for the Late Models. The redraw did not fall into Bernheisel’s favor with a draw of four. Donnie Schick benefited by starting on the pole and leading the race early. Schick was using a different line on the outside of the speedway than the drivers chasing him, Steve Campbell and Jeff Rine.
As Schick came upon lap traffic he had to make a quick decision that paid off by clearing the first lap car. He would not fair as well on the second car to go a lap down. Schick used the inside line along with Campbell. As if Rine could see the future he slid to the outside of the race track to go by the top two into the top spot. Rine struggled a little in dirty air as he dealt with some lap traffic which allowed Campbell to again close, but Rine would clear the lap car and drive to his second opening night win in a row.
Campbell, Bernheisel, Tony Adams, and Hayes Mattern made up the top five across the line. Meade Hahn, Dan Green, Schick, Ernie Millon, and Nate Long crossed the line as the top ten.
Brandon Moser brought the field to the green flag in the A&A Auto Stores season opener before his car stumbled and handed the race lead over to Shawn Lawton. Lawton raced in the lead just ahead of Tommy Slanker. Slanker closed the point paying races out with a victory last season and looked to carry that momentum into victory lane in the season opener for 2017.
Slanker made his move on lap five on the outside of the race leader Lawton. Lawton stayed in hot pursuit of the race leader until the closing laps when Lawton began to reel the leader back in. As the white flag flew Lawton had pulled even with the race leader before a red flag flew for John Shock who had an engine fire on the backstretch. Shock was okay.
Slanker sat ten feet shy of the finish line, but now he had to hold off the field in a one lap shootout. On the restart, third place running Kyle Bachman drove to the inside of Lawton and Slanker drifted away. Lawton made his final bid out of turn four, but fell just short as Slanker claimed the opening night win after finishing second in the opening event a year ago. Lawton came home in second followed by Bachman, John Fowler, and Moser. Dustin Snook came from last to finish sixth just ahead of Bill Conrad, Nate Stroup, Curtis Lawton, and John Shock. AJ Hoffman and Kyle Bachman won heat races for the Pro Stocks.
In memory of late Pro Stock driver Jim Payne the leader on the fourth lap of the feature, Shawn Lawton, and fourth place finisher John Fowler received bonus money. Payne raced the number 4 for many years at the speedway and passed away last fall.
Cold temperatures kept a few teams hibernating at the Season Opener. Next week at Selinsgrove Speedway the 360 Sprint Cars will be back in action along with the Super Late Models and the Pro Stocks. Start time will remain at 6 p.m.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SUMMARY - 8 April 2017
360 Sprint Cars - 18 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 29 Jason Shultz 2) 28F Davie Franek 3) 56 Nate Snyder 4) 35 Chad Layton 5) 76 Larry Kelleher 6) 67 Steve Collins 7) 77 Derek Locke 8) 3Z Colby Womer 9) 22 Troy Betts 10) 66 Ryan Kissinger 11) C4 Jim Shuster 12) 10 Joe Kata 13) 2T Michael Thomas 14) 67W Justin Whittall 15) 1W Eric Tomecek 16) 99K Cody Keller 17) 33 Michael Walter II 18) 49S Mallie Shuster Heat Winners: Larry Kelleher, Nate Snyder
Late Models - 10 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 2J Jeff Rine 2) 2C Steve Campbell 3) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 4) 88 Tony Adams 5) 9 Hayes Mattern 6) 7M Meade Hahn 7) 46 Dan Green 8) 6 Donnie Schick 9) 88M Ernie Millon 10) 63 Nathan Long Heat Winners: Bryan Bernheisel
Pro Stocks - 15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 92 Shawn Lawton 3) 99 Kyle Bachman 4) 02 John Fowler 5) 8M Brandon Moser 6) 15 Dustin Snook 7) 14C Bill Conrad 8) 26 Nate Stroup 9) 33 Curtis Lawton 10) 89 John Schoch 11) 40 Nick Gentile 12) 6C AJ Stroup 13) 55 Lori Croop 14) 26 AJ Stroup 15) 88 Matt Hornberger Heat Winners: AJ Hoffman, Kyle Bachman
April 15. 2017
Davie Franek of Wantage, N.J.; Donnie Schick of Middleburg; and Brad Mitch of McClure gave the fans their money's worth in feature racing Saturday at Selinsgrove Speedway. The night’s racing provided stiff battles for the top spots and valued trips to victory lane for each of the winners.
A collective groan went through the Selinsgrove crowd when Mark Smith's name was announced as the polesitter for the 25 lap 360 Sprint Car feature event. It's not that Smith isn't popular among fans, it’s merely the fact that when the fast guy starts up front there is usually little to no chance there will be a pass for the win. That wasn’t the case Saturday night.
Smith bolted to the race lead while second-place starter Davie Franek gave chase. A mid-race yellow proved valuable for Franek as he pulled to the rear bumper of Smith's m1 machine for the restart. Franek rolled around the outside on the restart and challenged Smith before the yellow flag flew when Chad Layton crashed in turn four.
Franek again used the outside on the restart. This time it would pay off with a successful slide job in turn three. Franek was now the race leader with Smith in chase. As Franek closed in on lap traffic in the final stages on the race, Smith would close slightly but not enough as Franek picked up his first win of the season.
“It's rare you pass Mark Smith for a win,” Franek said in victory lane afterward, thanking his crew for their many hours in the shop to help them get the win. Smith crossed the line second ahead of opening night winner Jason Shultz. Mallie Shuster and Michael Walter completed the top five finishers. Layton and Shultz took heat races.
Donnie Schick has not been to victory lane at Selinsgrove since 2011 in the Jeff's Auto Body Super Late Models. In the opening night feature event Schick looked like he might end that streak before a misjudged lap car took him out of the race lead. Schick came back this weekend and was out for redemption for himself, his race team, and his legion of fans.
Schick had challenges from Tony Adams and Danny Snyder, but neither ever posed a real threat to Schick. Schick crossed the line for the win in what he called an unbelievable moment. Adams and Snyder closed out the podium finishers. Jim Bernheisel made a rare Late Model start and drove to fourth with Dave Zona closing out the top five. Danny Snyder was the heat race winner.
The A&A Auto Stores Pro Stocks usually roll off as the first feature of the night. On this night, they made for a hard act to follow. Tommy Slanker was carrying all the momentum in the class after winning the season opener and jumping to the early race lead Saturday. On a lap four restart defending champion Brad Mitch, making his season debut, made a big move to slide into the race lead. Slanker crossed Mitch over and took the top spot back as the two continued the exchange.
Mitch would come away with the top spot after the two leaders "traded some paint" in the battle. Slanker lost some ground on lap 12 after slipping above the racing groove. Slanker quickly recovered and closed the gap with one lap to go. Even with Slanker's advances Mitch held on for his first win of the season. Slanker was second ahead of John Fowler, Brandon Moser, and Kyle Bachman. Fowler and Mitch came across the line first in heat races.
Selinsgrove Speedway will sanction the first race of the season with the United Racing Club next Saturday, April 22. The 360 Sprint Cars will compete in the 37th annual Jack Gunn Memorial race. The Super Late Models and Pro Stocks will also be on the racing card. There has been a start time change with the racing rolling off at 7pm rather than the original 6pm scheduled time. Track gates will open at 5pm.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SUMMARY: 15 April 2017 360 Sprint Cars –18 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 28F Davie Franek 2) M1 Mark Smith 3) 29 Jason Shultz 4) 49S Mallie Shuster 5) 33 Mike Walter 6) 99K Cody Keller 7) 77 Derek Locke 8) 3Z Colby Womer 9) 56 Nate Snyder 10) C4 Jim Shuster 11) 10 Joe Kata 12) 22M Nyle Berkes 13) 2T Michael Thomas 14) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 15) 35 Chad Layton 16) 22 Troy Betts 17) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18) 1W Eric Tomecek Heat Winners: Chad Layton, Jason Shultz
Late Models – 11 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 6 Donnie Schick 2) 88 Tony Adams 3) 4S Danny Snyder 4) 119B Jim Bernheisel 5) 99Z Dave Zona 6) 15 Luke Hoffner 7) 7M Meade Hahn 8) 63 Nathan Long 9)77D Dick Houtz 10) 2C Steve Campbell 11) 9 Hayes Mattern Heat Winner: Danny Snyder
Pro Stocks – 16 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 10M Brad Mitch 2) 40 Tommy Slanker 3) 02 John Fowler 4) 8M Brandon Moser 5) 99B Kyle Bachman 6) 71 Kurt Wray 7) 33 Curtis Lawton 8) 14C Bill Conrad 9) 26 Nate Stroup 10) 86 Wayne Shaffer 11) 55 Lori Croop 12) 6C AJ Hoffman 13) 40G Nick Gentile 14) 92 Shawn Lawton 15) 89 John Schoch 16) 15 Dustin Snook Heat Winners: John Fowler, Brad Mitch
April 22, 2017
FRANEK HOLDS OFF HODNETT FOR SPRINT CAR GUNN MEMORIAL VICTORY; MATTERN POWERS TO FIRST LATE MODEL WIN OF SEASON; MITCH REPEATS IN ANOTHER CLOSE PRO STOCK FINISH
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- Davie Franek of Sussex, N.J., scored the $2,500 win over a talented 360 sprint car field in the 30-lap 37th annual Jack Gunn Memorial Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway. The victory was Franek’s second in a row at the track this season, 13th career, and first in the Gunn race.
Brad Mitch of McClure joined Franek as repeat winners from last week by taking another close win in the 15-lap pro stock feature. It was Mitch’s 24th career pro stock win.
Hayes Mattern of Beavertown powered to a convincing win in the 25-lap super late model feature. The win was Mattern’s first of the season and third career in super late model racing at Selinsgrove.
Chris Coyle led the field in the early laps of the Jack Gunn Memorial race. Coyle soon had some pretty strong company with last week’s winner, Davie Franek, and Greg Hodnett closing in. A yellow flag put Coyle back in front of Franek as the field had not completed a lap with Franek at the front.
Franek took advantage of the restart to take the helm while Hodnett followed him through into the second spot on lap eight. A fuel stop was called when Chad Layton and Mark Smith got together in turn two while racing for the fifth spot. Franek paced the field for the next ten laps after the fuel stop before he got into lap traffic. Hodnett quickly closed the gap that Franek had opened up.
Hodnett's opportunity quickly dwindled away as the laps counted down and Franek began to drive away again in traffic. Franek crossed the line to claim his first Jack Gunn Memorial race. Franek said in victory lane he was not sure what to expect after the fuel stop because he didn't feel his car was good on a full fuel load. It made no difference on this night though with Franek winning for the second week in a row. Hodnett, Curt Michael, Robbie Stillwagon, and Adam Carberry were the top five across the line. Kevin Nagy led the charge for sixth through tenth ahead of Coyle, Josh Weller, Derek Locke, and Larry Kelleher.
Nate Snyder took the Fast Tees Fast Time Award in Memory of Jim Nace. Franek, Stillwagon, Coyle, and Carberry won heat races while Troy Betts took the checkered flag in the consolation event.
Hayes Mattern must have learned from Jeff Rine when Rine used the outside to pass him for the race lead on Saturday in the Jeff's Auto Body and Recycling super model feature event. Rine's car slowed on lap five and Mattern went back to the race lead.
Mattern had moved to the top side of the race track even though Mattern's crew encouraged him to run the inside line in the feature event. But as the race went on it appeared Mattern had made the right choice to stay loyal to the outside line. Mattern fended off challenges from Tony Adams and maneuvered through lap traffic without losing any distance of his lead.
The only moment when the race lead seemed in jeopardy was when Mattern tried to cross over to a clear race track and caught the tail of one of the cars going down a lap. Both drivers recovered quickly allowing Mattern to finish off his bid for his first win of the season. Adams followed Mattern to the checkered flag ahead of Dylan Yoder and a hard charging Kyle Hardy. Chad Hollenbeck rounded out the five finishers. Andy Haus, Steve Campbell, Bryan Bernheisel, Jim Yoder, and Andrew Yoder finished out the top ten. Hollenbeck, Adams, and Rine were heat winners.
Brad Mitch took the race lead away from Dustin Snook with a slide job in turn one on lap two. From that point, it looked like Mitch was locked and loaded for this second straight win heading into the Pro Stock 20 on May 6.
Mitch commanded the field until lap 13 when opening night winner Tommy Slanker pulled to his rear bumper. Slanker hounded Mitch the last two laps of the race, but never could work by the 10m. Mitch, who was under the weather much of the week, claimed the victory over Slanker and John Fowler. Strong runs for AJ Stroup and Dustin Snook were rewarded with top five finishes. AJ Hoffman came from 14th to finish sixth followed by Shawn Lawton, Brandon Moser, Kurt Wray, and Curtis Lawton. Shawn Lawton and Dustin Snook were heat race winners for the Pro Stock field.
There will be no racing next Saturday night April 29th. Selinsgrove Speedway returns at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 6, with the annual Pro Stock 20 presented by A&A Auto Stores. The 360 sprint cars, super late models, and roadrunners will be in action as well. Track gates will open at 5 p.m.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY – 22 April 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 32 Entries 30-Lap Jack Gunn Memorial: 1) 28F Davie Franek 2) 27 Greg Hodnett 3) 5G Curt Michael 4) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 5) 47 Adam Carberry 6) 45 Kevin Nagy 7) 56C Chris Coyle 8) Josh Weller 9) 77 Derek Locke 10) 76 Larry Kelleher 11) 56 Nate Snyder 12) 29 Jason Shultz 13) 99K Cody Keller 14) 3Z Colby Womer 15) 66 Ryan Kissinger 16) 22 Troy Betts 17) 49S Mallie Shuster 18) 7A Ed Aikin 19) 73B Brett Michaski 20) 10 Joe Kata 21) M1 Mark Smith 22) 35 Chad Layton 23) 67W Justin Whittall 24) 33 Michael Walter 25) 08 Jason Clauss 26) 706 Mark Sasso Heat Winners: Adam Carberry, Chris Coyle, Robbie Stillwaggon, Davie Franek B-Main Winner: Troy Betts
Time Trial Results: 1) 56 Nate Snyder 17.346 2) 29 Jason Shultz 17.375 3) 1 Mark Smith 17.377 4) 28F Davie Franek 17.445 5) 63 Josh Weller 17.518 6) 35 Chad Layton 17.529 7) 5G Curt Michael 17.576 8) 27 Greg Hodnett 17.607 9) 47 Adam Carberry 17.652 10) 67W Justin Whittall 17.687 11) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 17.737 12) 77 Derek Locke 17.746 13) 45 Kevin Nagy 17.817 14) 56C Chris Coyle 17.892 15) 3Z Colby Womer 17.894 20) 20 C4 Jim Shuster 18.089 21) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18.110 22) 08 Jason Clauss 23) 10 Joe Kata 18.145 24) 99K Cody Keller 18.158 25) 7A Ed Aikin 18.265 26) 33 Michael Walter 18.357 27) 7K Kris Lilick 18.422 28) 5 Cory Thorton 18.651 29) 12 Brent Shearer 18.690 30) 33U Bill Unglert 18.854 31) 2T Michael Thomas 19.091 32) 706 Mark Sasso 19.520
Late Models -23 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 9 Hayes Mattern 2) 88 Tony Adams 3) 24 Dylan Yoder 4) 99 Kyle Hardy 5) 4D Chad Hollenbeck 6) 76 Andy Haus 7) 2 Steve Campbell 8) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 9) 27 Jim Yoder 10) 2Y Andrew Yoder 11) 24M Kenny Moreland 12) 3 Tim Wilson 13) 15 Luke Hoffner 14) Z14 Dave Brouse Jr. 15) 63 Nathan Long 16) 6 Donnie Schick 17) 99Z Dave Zona 18) 0 Larry Baer 19) 2J Jeff Rine 20) 20 John Myers 21) 77D Dick Houtz 22) 0V Coleby Frye 23) 7M Meade Hahn Heat Winners: Chad Hollenbeck, Tony Adams, Jeff Rine
Pro Stocks -16 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1)10M Brad Mitch 2) 40 Tommy Slanker 3) 02 John Fowler 4) 26S AJ Stroup 5) 15 Dustin Snook 6) 6C AJ Hoffman 7) 92 Shawn Lawton 8) 8M Brandon Moserr 9) 71 Kury Wray 10) 33 Curtis Lawton 11) 89 John Schoch 12) 26 Nate Stroup 13) 14C Bill Conrad 14) 55 Lori Croop 15) 99B Kyle Bachman 16) 86 Wayne Shaffer Heat Winners: Shawn Lawton, Dustin Snook
April 29, 2017
NO RACING SCHEDULED
May 6, 2017
CANCELLED - WEATHER
May 13, 2017
CANCELLED - WEATHER
May 20. 2017
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY FINALLY BEATS THE WEATHER SATURDAY NIGHT: SMITH (360 SPRINTS), BERNHEISEL (LATE MODELS) & SLANKER (PRO STOCKS) ALSO VICTORIOUS!
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – After three weeks off, two due to inclement weather, Selinsgrove Speedway pulled off an exciting three division show despite another serious effort to dampen the action by Mother Nature.
The Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprint series sanctioned the Mach 1 Chassis 360 Sprint Car Spectacular at on Reinhart Food Service Night Saturday with a strong 30-car field.
A multi-car incident on the start of the 25-lap main event in turns one and two resulted in Adam Carberry’s sprint car flipping over. All drivers escaped injury. At the drop of the green flag to restart the A-Main Jason Barney showed the way with Ryan Kissinger in pursuit.
Derek Locke drove into the top spot on the following lap with Kissinger in chase. Kissinger then closed in on Locke quickly in lap traffic. Kissinger's car developed mechanical problems on lap 11 and slowed to bring out a yellow flag.
A restart on lap 12 gave the field a shot at Locke after he led the race early. The double file restart brought Robbie Stillwaggon and Mark Smith to Locke, but a yellow put the field back to single file. Smith took advantage of the restart to take the top spots with a sweeping move around both Stillwaggon and then Locke. Once out front Smith drove away from the field.
The yellow flew on lap 20 to bunch the field up once more. On the restart, Chad Layton would take over second from Locke but as the two drivers battled Smith would drive away to his first win of the season at Selinsgrove and collect $2,000. Locke would secure the second spot before the drop of the checkered flag and Layton would round out the podium. Barney and Davie Franek were the top five finishers.
Heat races for the 360 Sprint Cars were won by Jeff Cook, Robbie Stillwaggon, and Davie Franek. The B-Main was won by Jason Shultz and the dash went to Michael Walter.
Track records were falling on a fast Selinsgrove Speedway. Michael Walter has the new track record in the 4 lap dash. Davie Franek now owns the track record for the 10-lap distance for sprint cars.
Bryan Bernheisel showed the field to the green flag in round two of the Moon Shine Camo Route 35 Late Model Challenge series. Bernheisel led early holding off the advances of a hard charging Jeff Rine.
Various yellow flags throughout the event allowed Rine to get close, but he was never able to make the pass of Bernheisel. In the final corner Rine made one final bid but was unable to get by.
The Delaware double file restarts definitely made things challenging said Bernheisel in victory Lane. He continued by saying, “I was trying to do something a little different and diamond them on the starts so that Rine wasn't able to get by me as easy on the inside.”
It all paid off for the 119 with "Kid Lazer" taking his first win of the season worth $2,000. Rine and 10th place starter Coleby Frye rounded out the podium. Chad Hollenbeck came from 19th to finish fourth followed by Jim Yoder.
Steve Campbell, Rick Singleton, and Tony Adams were the heat race winners for the Jeff's Auto Body Late Models.
AJ Stroup battled Dustin Snook early on in the pro stock feature event. The race was the final time for the drivers to tuneup for the rescheduled Pro Stock 20 next weekend.
Tommy Slanker showed he will be a force to be reckoned with driving from the 10th spot up into the top three before lap three ever went on the board. On lap six Slanker dove to the inside and made the pass of Stroup for the race lead. Soon Shawn Lawton would move into the runner-up spot and by lap 12 the lead was shrinking.
Lawton put all of his eggs in the basket going into turn three coming to the white flag when he went to the inside of the race leader Slanker. Lawton pushed up the track and Slanker was able to get away for his second win of the season.
Lawton crossed the line in second but was penalized at the end for passing before the cone. Stroup moved to second followed by Snook, Lawton, and Brandon Moser.
Heat races for the Pro Stocks were won by Shawn Lawton and AJ Stroup.
Next Saturday night, May 27, Selinsgrove Speedway is back in action on Pepsi Night over the Memorial Day weekend. Racing on May 27 will feature the 360 Sprint Cars plus Late Models, the rescheduled A&A Auto Stores Pro Stock 20, and Roadrunners plus Fireworks! Racing will kick off at 7pm. Track gates will open at 5 p.m.
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SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY: 20 May 2017 360 Sprints – 30 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 1 Mark Smith 2) 77 Derek Locke 3) 35 Chad Layton 4) 87 Jason Barney 5) 28F Davie Franek 6) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 7) 76 Larry Kelleher 8) 29 Jason Shultz 9) 79 Jordan Thomas 10) 22 Troy Betts 11) 88C Chad Miller 12) 21 Alex Vigneault 13) 90 Matt Tanner 14) 10 Jeff Cook 15) 1W Eric Tomecek 16) 19K Paul Kinney 17) 14B Brett Wright 18) 56 Nate Snyder 19) 66 Ryan Kissinger 20) 63 Josh Weller 21) 33 Michael Walter 22) C4 Jim Shuster 23) 14 Coleman Gulick 24) 47 Adam Carberry 25) 99K Cody Keller 26) 49S Mallie Shuster Heat Winners: Robbie Stillwaggon, Davie Franek, Jeff Cook Dash Winner: Michael Walter B-Main Winner: Jason Shultz
Late Models – 20 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 2) 2J Jeff Rine 3) 0 Coleby Frye 4) 4D Chad Hollenbeck 5) 27 Jim Yoder 6) 17 Nick Dickson 7) 88 Tony Adams 8) 2 Steve Campbell 9) 99 Rick Singleton 10) 86 Austin Berry 11) 06 Mike Lupfer 12) Z14 Dave Brouse Jr. 13) 4S Danny Snyder 14) 7M Meade Hahn 15) 63 Nathan Long 16) 0 Larry Baer 17) 9 Hayes Mattern 18) 11 Jason Schmidt 19) 46 Dan Green 20) Dylan Yoder Heat Winners: Steve Campbell, Rick Singleton, Tony Adams
Pro Stocks – 18 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 26 AJ Stroup 3) 15 Dustin Snook 4) 92 Shawn Lawton 5) 8M Brandon Moser 6) 33 Curtis Lawton 7) 70J John Schreffler 8) 89 John Schoch 9) 14C Bill Conrad 10) 55 Lori Croop 11) 71 Kurt Wray 12) 40 Nick Gentile 13) 11B Jake Buck 14) 99B Kyle Bachman 15) 86 Wayne Shaffer 16) 55T John Troxell 17) 6C AJ Hoffman 18) 02 John Fowler Heat Winners: Shawn Lawton, AJ Stroup
May 27, 2017
SNYDER RETURNS TO SELINSGROVE SPRINT CAR VICTORY LANE; MATTERN BECOMES FIRST REPEAT LATE MODEL FEATURE WINNER; MITCH SCORES SECOND CAREER PRO STOCK 20; BUSSEY WINS ROADRUNNER SEASON OPENER
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- The sun shined for one of the first times on a Saturday night all year as Selinsgrove Speedway offered one of its most exciting weekends in racing. PEPSI Night at the track saw the second appearance of the season by the United Racing Club 360 sprint cars plus the Pro Stock 20, Late Models, and season opener for the Roadrunners.
Eddie Strada showed the way early before he had car problems taking him out of contention on lap number seven of the 25-lap URC 360 sprint car main event. Nate Snyder was in search of his first win at the track since 2011. Numerous restarts gave Derek Locke and Cody Keller opportunities to try to go by the race leader. Snyder held tough at the front.
On lap 17 Locke made his best attempt to take the race lead after reeling in Snyder in lap traffic. Locke pulled even with Snyder, but Snyder fended off the challenge and got away from Locke on his way to the checkered flag. Locke finished in second just ahead of Mallie Shuster.
Jason Shultz gave the fans a thrill coming from the 19th starting spot to finish in fourth in front of Keller. Larry Kelleher, Chad Layton, Chris Coyle, Curt Michael, and Troy Betts completed the top ten finishers.
Heat races for the 360 Sprint Cars were won by Jason Clauss, Eric Tomecek, and Brett Michalski.
Hayes Mattern looked like a lock to be the Late Model feature winner on Saturday night as he drove away from the field in the 20-lap feature. A lap eight yellow flag would change the whole complexion of the race. Mattern did not get a good restart and Danny Snyder took advantage of it racing into the top spot. Snyder led the way until lap 12 when Mattern would get the top spot back and bring Steve Campbell with him.
Campbell followed Mattern closely for the next few laps before pulling to the inside on lap 19 to try to grab the win away. Campbell's car spun at the exit of turn two during the battle on the final lap.
The spin set up a one lap shootout that saw Mattern hold off a pretty tough charge from Donnie Schick who finished second. Snyder was third across the line followed by Tony Adams and Gene Knaub.
Luke Hoffner finished sixth with Dave Stamm, Nate Long, Zach Kauffman, and Meade Hahn crossing the line as the top ten.
Late model heat wins went to Meade Hahn and Danny Snyder.
Brad Mitch can recall a lap 12 caution flag as one of the crucial moments in his quest to be a two time winner of the A&A Auto Stores Pro Stock 20. Mitch slid up the race track and allowed Tommy Slanker to take the race lead, but a yellow flag negated the pass and Mitch was placed back in first spot.
Slanker spent the rest of the race tailing Mitch at the front with Shawn Lawton hanging in the shadows running third. On the final lap Slanker dove to the inside of Mitch setting up a drag race finish. The finish became very melodramatic when Slanker's car began dumping fluid and his car slowed off turn 4 allowing Mitch to pull away to the win over Shawn Lawton.
AJ Stroup, Slanker, and John Fowler were the top five finishers. Johnny Bouse finished in sixth with Brandon Moser, Peanut Heintzelman, Noah Jensen, and John Schoch rounding out the top ten finishers.
Tommy Slanker, Shawn Lawton, and Brad Mitch won heat races with Lawton winning the cash dash. Each heat race winner received $40 from the family of Jim Payne as well a dash payout.
The night cap run by the Roadrunners kept the fans on the edge of their seat. Keith Bissinger, the defending champion, flipped in his heat and was starting deep in the field. A returning Bob Bussey grabbed the lead away from Ryan Leister early on. Brian Johnson got into the outside wall on a restart that saw he and Bissinger run a lane higher than what the track had to offer. It was at that point that Bussey realized he needed to move up to the high side of the track before he got passed.
Bussey did just that and won the Roadrunner season opening event. Bissinger finished second ahead of Will Brunson, Smith Cope, and Leister.
Roadrunner heat race wins were captured by Ryan Leister and Darren Rice.
For the second week in a row the speedway had many of the standing track records broken. Meade Hahn broke the track record In the Late Models after the first heat race of the night before Danny Snyder broke it again in the second one.
Next Saturday will mark the third race of the season at Selinsgrove Speedway for the united racing club in the annual Kramer Cup in memory of former champion Kramer Williamson. The Race will run 30 laps and pay $2,573 to win.
The Mid Atlantic Modifieds and Econo Late Models will also join the Sprint Car teams as well as the Pro Stocks.
Track gates will open at 5 p.m. Racing will start at 7 p.m.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY – 27 May 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 30 Entries 25-lap A-Main: 1) 56 Nate Snyder 2) 77 Derek Locke 3) 49 Mallie Shuster 4) 29 Jason Shultz 5) 99K Cody Keller 6) 76 Larry Kelleher 7) 35 Chad Layton 8) 56C Chris Coyle 9) 5G Curt Michael 10) 22 Troy Betts 11) 33 Michael Walter 12) 73 Brett Michalski 13) 22M Nyle Berkes 14) C-4 Jim Shuster 15) 13 Ryan Higgins 16) 29S Derek Steward 17) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18) 1W Eric Tomecek 19) 42E Eddie Strada 20) 3Z Colby Womer 21) 08 Jason Clauss 22) 67 Justin Whittal 23) 28F Davie Franek 24) 87 George Suprick 25) 47 Adam Carberry 26) 63 Josh Weller Heat Winners: Jason Clauss, Eric Tomecek, Brett Michalski Consolation Winner: Jason Shultz Late Models – 14 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 9 Hayes Mattern 2) 6 Donnie Schick 3) 4S Danny Snyder 4) 88 Tony Adams 5) 1 Gene Knaub 6) 15 Luke Hoffner 7) 10 Dave Stamm 8) 63 Nathan Long 9) 08 Zach Kauffman 10) 7 Meade Hahn 11) 2 Steve Campbell 12) 27 Jim Yoder 13) 115 Shaun Miller 14) 77 Dick Houtz Heat Winners: Meade Hahn, Danny Snyder Pro Stocks – 20 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 10M Brad Mitch 2) 92 Shawn Lawton 3) 26 AJ Stroup 4) 40 Tommy Slanker 5) 02 John Fowler 6) 28J Johnny Bouse 7) 8M Brandon Moser 8) 99 Peanut Heintzelman 9) 6J Noah Jensen 10) 89 John Schoch 11) 14 Bill Conrad 12) 71 Kurt Wray 13) 33 Curtis Lawton 14) 6C AJ Hoffman 15) 11 Jake Buck 16) 88 Matt Hornberger 17) 15 Dustin Snook 18) 55t John Troxell 19) 55 Lori Croop 20) 55C Tommy Dawson Heat Winners: Tommy Slanker, Shawn Lawton, Brad Mitch Dash Winner: Shawn Lawton Roadrunners – 17 Entries 12-Lap A-Main: 1) 76 Bob Bussey 2) 11 Keith Bissinger 3) 8B Will Brunson 4) 1 Smith Cope 5) 14 Ryan Leister 6) 8 Daren Rice 7) 12 Tom Underwood 8) 2B Brian Mabus 9) 44 Jim Collier 10) 22 Ricky Buss 11) 19 Kyle Smith 12) 0 Kevin Dobson 13) 7 Kyle Kissinger 14) 31 Brandon Shultz 15) 201 Brian Johnson 16) 3 Tom Brunson 17) 28 Jason Zook Heat Winners: Ryan Leister, Daren Rice
June 3, 2017
SMITH WINS THIRD URC 360 SPRINT CAR KRAMER CUP; LAWTON DRIVES TO FIRST CAREER PRO STOCK VICTORY; YODER TAKES CHECKERS IN 355 ECONO LATE MODELS
SELINSGROVE, PA. – Saturday night marked the fourth annual running of the Kramer Cup at Selinsgrove Speedway. The Kramer Cup, a literal pink cup presented to the winner each year, went home with Sunbury’s Mark Smith for the third time out of the four tribute races in memory of sprint car driver Kramer Williamson.
Williamson was the 2008 Knoxville Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver Kramer who lost his life in a racing accident in 2013. He is a former track champion a Selinsgrove Speedway and had unmeasured success and impact on central PA Sprint Car racing.
Timed hot laps set heat races with inversions. When everything was said and done Smith was on the pole of the 30-lap main event in search of Kramer Cup number three. Derek Locke was the first challenger for Smith, and Locke was the only driver other than Smith to see the daylight of the race lead in the early laps. Locke took advantage of a restart and led the field into turn one before his car turned sideways and Smith went back into the lead. Cody Keller took advantage of the sideways Locke to take second.
On lap 11 the race leader was into traffic, but Keller could not make up ground as Smith sliced his way through the back of the field. A caution flag flew at half way that put Keller aside of the Smith for the double file restart with new challenger Greg Hodnett joining the front duo. Derek Locke climbed back into the race for second with Keller and Hodnett while Smith started to drift away. Keller’s strong run came to an end when he lost his right rear tire on lap 18. Hodnett was the challenger to Smith on the restart before Selinsgrove point leader Davie Franek moved into second. Franek closed on Smith initially after taking the spot, but never got close enough to challenge Smith for the win.
Smith crossed the line ahead of Franek, Hodnett, Locke, and Jason Shultz, who started 19th. Robbie Stillwagon, 2015 winner of the event, Josh Weller, Chad Layton, Chris Coyle, and Mallie Shuster were the top ten finishers. Heat races were won by Franek, Weller, and Nate Snyder. Shultz won the B-Main.
Kramer Williamson’s daughter, Felecia Williamson, paced the field in the “Pink Panther” number 73 before the feature event. The Williamson family also joined Mark Smith in victory lane with the 73 at the conclusion of the feature race. The beautiful Kramer Cup was custom finished by Keller’s Auto Body in Selinsgrove.
Last lap heroics were written all over the first ever Econo Late Model feature at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday night. Shaun Miller led the whole feature event with Andrew Yoder in chase. Miller ran the middle of the track, while Yoder peddled around the bottom of the race track. Yoder kept constant pressure on Miller the whole race.
On lap 12 the front runner began to catch lap traffic and soon Tim Fedder had joined the duo at the front. Miller’s line around the outside allowed him to move past the traffic until the white flag was given. Miller tried to pass a lap car around the outside and although he completed the pass, it was not before Yoder turned down across the speedway to pull even with the leader.
As they drove under the white flag Yoder began to inch ahead securing the race leader in turn two. Yoder made a bold move on the back stretch and into turn three splitting some laps cars leaving Miller and Fedder behind on his way to the win. The feature ran green to checkered. Yoder, Fedder, and Miller led Todd Snook and Tim Krape across the line. Sixth through tenth finishing positions went to Kenny Yoder, Ander Shoop, Troy Miller, Jared Fulkroad, and Chase Bowsman.
Miller and Yoder won heat races.
There is an old saying that if you continue to put yourself in good spots, good things will happen. That was the case for the A&A Auto Store Pro Stock winner. Shawn Lawton has been in contention all season long and finally overcame the challenges to pick up his first win on Saturday night. Lawton dominated the feature event running through mostly unchallenged.
AJ Hoffman and Dustin Snook waged a tight battle for second while Lawton drove away. Hoffman won out on that battle to finish in the runner up spot. It was Lawton’s first career Selinsgrove Speedway win. Hoffman, Snook, Jake Buck, and AJ Stroup were the top five finishers. John Fowler, Brandon Moser, Bill Conrad, Nate Stroup, and Nick Gentile made up the top ten finishers in the feature event.
Lawton and Hoffman were heat race winners.
Selinsgrove Speedway returns to racing action at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 10, hosting the finale to the Appalachian Mountain Late Model Speedweek Series plus 360 sprint cars and pro stocks. Track gates will open at 5 p.m. The 40-lap super late model main event will pay $4,000 to win. Stay in touch with the speedway by visiting SelinsgroveSpeedway.com or following the track on Facebook and Twitter.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY: 3 June 2017 360 Sprints – 30 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) M1 Mark Smith 2) 28F Davie Franek 3) 27 Greg Hodnett 4) 77 Derek Locke 5) 29 Jason Shultz 6) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 7) 63 Josh Weller 8) 35 Chad Layton 9) 56C Chris Coyle 10) 49S Mallie Shuster 11) 5G Curt Michael 12) 67W Justin Whittall 13) 22 Troy Betts 14) 76 Larry Kelleher 15) 66 Ryan Kissinger 16) 3Z Colby Womer 17) 7A Ed Aiken 18) 13 Ryan Higgins 19) C4 Jim Shuster 20) 7K Kriss Lilick 21) 99K Cody Keller 22) 1W Eric Tomecek 23) 45 Kevin Nagy 24) 33 Michael Walter 25) 73B Brett Michalski 26) 56 Nate Snyder Heat Winners: Davie Franek, Nate Snyder, Josh Weller B-Main Winner: Jason Shultz
Time Trials (Overall): 1) 27 Greg Hodnett 17.609 2) 56C Chris Coyle 17.657 3) 28F Davie Franek 17.744 4) 77 Derek Locke 17.922 5) 35 Chad Layton 18.109 6) M1 Mark Smith 18.112 7) 5G Curt Michael 18.189 8) 63 Josh Weller 18.201 9) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18.222 10) 29 Jason Shultz 18.267 11)99K Cody Keller 18.282 12) 1W Eric Tomecek 18.365 13) 67 Justin Whittall 18.457 14) 56 Nate Snyder 18.505 15) 49S Mallie Shuster 18.559 16) 73B Brett Michalski 18.647 17) 22 Troy Betts 18.725 18) 76 Larry Kelleher 18.738 19) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 18.834 20) 7A Ed Aikin 18.880 21) JJ Grasso 18.931 22) 13 Ryan Higgins 18.934 23) 3Z Colby Womer 18.985 24) 7K Kris Lilick 19.253 25) 45 Kevin Nagy 19.292 26) 33 Michael Walter 19.335 27) 29S Derek Steward 19.490 28) C4 Jim Shuster 19.552 29) 706 Mark Sasso 20.650 30) 71 Jessica Whitenight DNT
355 Econo Late Models – 15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 2 Andrew Yoder 2) 24 Tim Fedder 3) 115S Shaun Miller 4) 23 Todd Snook 5) 07 Tim Krape 6) 7 Kenneth Yoder 7) S8 Andrew Shoop 8) 115 Troy Miller 9) 12K Jared Fulkroad 10) 79 Chase Bowsman 11) 13H Jess Trometter 12) 4 Jason Nace 13) 30 Andy Snyder 14) 7 Jason Davis 15) 11 Derick Garman Heat Winners: Shawn Miller, Andrew Yoder
Pro Stocks – 15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 92 Shawn Lawton 2) 6C AJ Hoffman 3) 15 Dustin Snook 4) 11B Jake Buck 5) 26 AJ Stroup 6) 02 John Fowler 7) 8M Brandon Moser 8) 14C Bill Conrad 9) 26N Nate Stoup 10) 40G Nick Gentile 11) 55 Lori Croop 12) 40 Tommy Slanker 13) Wayne Shaffer 14) 55T John Troxell 15) 89 John Schoch Heat Winners: Shawn Lawton, AJ Hoffman
June 10, 2017
RINE’S 104th CAREER SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY LATE MODEL VICTORY WORTH $4,000 & APPALACHIAN MOUNTIAN DIRT LATE MODEL SPEEDWEEK SERIES TITLE; OUT-RUNS ECKERT IN INTENSE A-MAIN ON SUPER RACING SURFACE! TOMACEK SCORES FIRST OF SEASON IN 360 SPRINTS; SLANKER DUELS WITH MITCH FOR PRO STOCK VICTORY
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Jeff Rine’s 104th career super late model victory at Selinsgrove Speedway Saturday night was worth $4,000 and the Appalachian Mountain Dirt Late Model Series title. The Danville driver didn’t take the lead until lap 30 in the intense 40-lap thriller and held off Rick Eckert of York for the prestigious win.
Rine came into the event trailing series leader Jason Covert of York Haven by only 27 points and bested a stellar field of 32 super late model drivers. Covert finished second in the series points with last year’s champion Kenny Pettyjohn of Millboro, Del., rounding out the top three.
Eric Tomacek of Abbottstown put on a show around the top of the race track to score his first win of the season in the 25-lap 360 sprint car main event, while Tommy Slanker of York out-dueled Brad Mitch of McClure for this third victory of the year in the 15-lap pro stock main event.
Selinsgrove Speedway will present a two-race weekend Friday, June 16 and Saturday, June 17. Friday night’s race at 8 p.m. will feature the first appearance of the season by the 410 sprint cars in the 30-lap, $4,000-to-win Ray Tilley Classic plus 355 econo late models. Track gates on Friday will open at 6 p.m.
Saturday night’s racing card will showcase the 360 sprint cars in the Patriot Sprint Tour-sanctioned Joe Whitcomb Memorial plus super late models, pro stocks, and roadrunners at 7:30 p.m. Track gates will open at 5 p.m.
Polesitter Matt Cosner and second-place starter Rick Eckert drag raced around the half-mile oval at the start of the late model main event. Eckert had a slight lead until Cosner pulled in front on lap three. By lap seven, fourth-place starter Jeff Rine and Eckert were dueling for second as Cosner led the way.
At the lap nine marker, Cosner began to encounter slower traffic. Kyle Hardy, who started twelfth, showed a lot of speed around the top of the race track and stormed into the fourth spot on lap 12. He then passed Rine for third on the 17th circuit. At the halfway point, Cosner led Eckert, Rine, and Hardy.
Hardy eventually moved into second and began to reel in Cosner. The race’s first caution flag unfurled on lap 28 when Austin Hubbard’s car rolled to a stop. When the race resumed, Hardy drifted too high and lost spots as a war on wheels unfolded at the front of the pack. On the 30th circuit, Rine took the lead from Cosner with an outside pass in turn four.
Despite two more restarts, Rine held off Eckert for the checkered flag by just .89 of second. Cosner, Hardy, and Steve Campbell rounded out the top five.
Outside front row starter Eric Tomacek powered into the lead at the start of the 360 sprint car feature over polesitter Derek Steward. Fourth-place starter Michael Walter drove into the second spot on lap three and began to close in on Tomacek. By lap five, Tomacek was the pacesetter over Walter, fifth-place starter Cody Keller, Steward, and third-place starter Justin Whittal.
Chad Layton, who started seventh, advanced to fourth on lap nine. At the halfway point, Walter was in striking distance in slower traffic. The first caution flag unfurled at halfway for Michael Thomas who was able to rejoin the race.
When the race resumed, 11th-place starter and current points leader Davie Franek stormed into the top five. With 10 laps remaining, a close three-car battle unfolded between Walter, Keller, and Layton for the runner-up spot.
In the final laps, Layton posed a threat to Walter for the second spot as Tomacek drove to victory. Walter finished a strong second with Layton, Keller, and Franek rounding out the top five.
Second-place starter AJ Hoffman took the lead at the start of the pro stock feature. Fourth-place starter AJ Stroup quickly took over the runner-up spot. On lap four, the caution flag unfurled when Hoffman’s car developed a flat tire.
For the lap five restart, Stroup inherited the lead only to have seventh-place starter Brad Mitch power into the front spot a lap later. Current points leader and sixth-place starter Tommy Slanker followed Mitch in the second position. For the next several laps, Mitch and Slanker see-sawed for the lead and switched lanes around the quick half-mile oval.
With three laps remaining, Slanker secured the lead and drove to victory over Mitch, Shaun Lawton, Stroup, and Noah Jensen in the top five.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY: 10 June 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 21 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 1W Eric Tomecek 2) 33 Michael Walter 3) 35 Chad Layton 4) 99K Cody Keller 5) 28F Davie Franek 6) 29 Jason Shultz 7) 56 Nate Snyder 8) 67W Justin Whittall 9) 77 Derek Locke 10) 76 Larry Kelleher 11) 49S Mallie Shuster 12) 15 Mark Bitner 13) 29S Derek Steward 14) 22M Nyle Berkes 15) C4 Jim Shuster 16) 22T Dave Thrush 17) 24 Mike Haggenbottom 18) 2T Michael Thomas 19) 3Z Colby Womer 20) 66 Ryan Kissinger 21) 80M Dan Richcreek Heat Winners: Michael Walter, Eric Tomecek, Justin Whittall
Late Models – 32 Entries 40-Lap A-Main: 1) 2J Jeff Rine 2) 7E Rick Eckert 3) 66C Matt Cosner 4) 3V Kyle Hardy 5) 2 Steve Campbell 6) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 7) 4D Chad Hollenbeck 8) 24 Dylan Yoder 9) 38 Kenny Pettyjohn 10) 5W Waylon Wagner 11) 2D Dylan Yoder 12) 76 Andy Haus 13) 72 Jason Covert 14) 6 Donnie Schick 15) 88 Tony Adams 16) 9 Hayes Mattern 17) 11 Jason Schmidt 18) 2Y Andrew Yoder 19) 1C Mike Pegher Jr. 20) 11 Austin Hubbard 21) 24J Jim Yoder 22) 7M Meade Hahn 23) 06 Mike Lupfer 24) 4S Danny Snyder 25) 0 Coleby Frye Heat Winners: Rick Eckert, Jeff Rine, Jason Covert B-Main Winner: Hayes Mattern
Pro Stocks – 15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 10M Brad Mitch 3) 92 Shaun Lawton 4) 26 AJ Stroup 5) 6 Noah Jensen 6) 11B Jake Buck 7) 99 Peanut Heintzelman 8) 14C Bill Conrad 9) 40G Nick Gentile 10) 89 John Schoch 11) 15 Dustin Snook 12) 86 Wayne Shaffer 13) 55 Lori Croop 14) 6C AJ Hoffman 15) 28J Johnny Bouse Heat Winners: Shawn Lawton, AJ Hoffman
June 16, 2017
SELINSGROVE BEATS RAIN, WOLFE WIRES FIELD FOR TILLEY CLASSIC SPRINT VICTORY; ANDREW YODER REPEATS IN ECONO LATE MODELS
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Selinsgrove Speedway fended off the rain while Lucas Wolfe of Mechanicsburg fended off Brock Zearfoss of Jonestown for the victory in Friday night’s 30-lap Ray Tilley Classic for 410 sprint cars.
It was Wolfe’s second win in a row at the track in 410 sprint car competition after having won the National Open last September, the last time the 410 sprints competed at the track.
The victory, Wolfe’s third career at Selinsgrove and fifth overall this season, was worth $4,088 plus the custom crystal trophy cup from the Tilley family.
Andrew Yoder of Middleburg won his second straight 355 econo late model race at the track in the division’s 15-lap main event.
TJ Stutts and Lucas Wolfe shared the front row for the start of the sprint car main event with Wolfe grabbing the lead down the backstretch. Fourth-place starter Brock Zearfoss raced underneath Stutts at the same time and began his pursuit of the leader.
By lap six, Wolfe began to encounter slower traffic as Zearfoss raced second, followed by Stutts, and third-place starter Danny Dietrich. At the halfway point, Zearfoss began to close in on Wolfe in a high-speed chase around the Superspeedway of Dirt Track Racing.
With eight laps to go, Zearfoss almost got within striking distance in traffic. The race’s first and only caution flag unfurled on lap 25 when fifth-place runner Jason Shultz blew a tire and parked his sprinter sideways in turns one and two.
When the race resumed, Wolfe maintained the front spot with Zeafoss in tow. The final two laps saw Dietrich power by Stutts for the third position. At the checkered flag, Wolfe was victorious by just two seconds over Zearfoss, Deitrch, Stutts, and Aaron Ott.
Polesitter Tim Fedder led the start of the econo late model main event. A close battle unfolded at the front of the pack between Fedder, Todd Snook, and Shaun Miller. On the second circuit, second-place starter Andrew Yoder reclaimed the position and set his sights on the leader.
On a lap five restart, Yoder took the lead from Fedder with an inside through turn two. Fedder later brought out the caution flag for a flat tire and rejoined the race. Yoder continued to set the pace and posted a mere 1.39 second margin of victory over Miller, Fedder, Devin Hart, and Jared Fulkroad.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY – 16 June 2017 410 Sprint Cars – 20 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) 24 Lucas Wolfe 2) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 3) 48 Danny Dietrich 4) 11 TJ Stutts 5) 25 Aaron Ott 6) 27 Greg Hodnett 7) 39 Anthony Macri 8) 1W Eric Tomecek 9) 75 Frankie Herr 10) 29 Jason Shultz 11) 12 Blane Heimbach 12) 44 Trey Starks 13) 29S Derek Steward 14) 24B Dustin Baney 15) 28F Davie Franek 16) 49 Mallie Shuster 17) C4 Jim Shuster 18) 5B Justin Barger 19) Freddie Rahmer 20) 49H Bradley Howard Heat Winners: Aaron Ott, Trey Starks, Greg Hodnett Time Trials: 1) 11 TJ Stutts 16.419 2) 24 Lucas Wolfe 16.538 3) 48 Danny Dietrich 16.560 4) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 16.563 5) 29 Jason Shultz 16.577 6) 1W Eric Tomecek 16.590 7) 25 Aaron Ott 16.634 8) 44 Trey Starks 16.703 9) 27 Greg Hodnett 16.773 10) 49 Mallie Shuster 16.774 11) 39 Anthony Macri 16.803 12) 75 Frankie Herr 16.920 13) 12 Blane Heimbach 16.649 14) 28F Davie Franek 17.140 15) 5B Justin Barger 17.149 16) C4 Jim Shuster 17.232 17) 24B Dustin Baney 17.463 18) 29S Derek Steward 18.317 19) 49H Bradley Howard DNT 20) 51 Freddie Rahmer DNT Econo Late Models – 10 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 2 Andrew Yoder 2) 115S Shaun Miller 3) 24 Tim Fedder 4) 33K Devin Hart 5) 12K Jared Fulkroad 6) 7K Kenny Yoder 7) 79 Chase Bowsman 8) 30 Andy Snyder 9) 15 Luke Hoffner 10) 23 Todd Snook
June 17, 2017
SNYDER WINS WHITCOMB SPRINT CAR THRILLER BY HALF CAR-LENGTH; RINE SMASHES LATE MODEL TRACK RECORD FOR 105th CAREER WIN; SLANKER’S FOURTH PRO STOCK WIN STRENGTHEN POINTS LEAD; BRUNSON WINS FIRST CAREER ROADRUNNER RACE
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Selinsgrove Speedway capped off a big two-race weekend Saturday night in thrilling and record-breaking fashion with a strong field of race cars and another super racing surface.
The Patriot Sprint Tour invaded as part of the 14th Annual Joe Whitcomb Memorial for 360 sprint cars to honor the memory of the late Millersburg driver who lost his life in a racing accident at the track in 2003.
Nate Snyder led early in the 25-lap Sprint Car event showing the way over defending Patriot Sprint Tour champion Jarrid Zimbardi. Cody Keller quickly broke into the top three in the early laps.
The caution flag flew on lap 11 for a slowing Jordan Thomas and interrupted a great battle for second between Zimbardi and Keller.
On the restart Jason Shultz threw a slider on Keller to take over the third spot and soon worked his way by Zimbardi into second. Shultz began to close in on the race leader after securing second. Soon Chad Layton and Davie Franek charged to third and fourth.
Over the next few laps the top four closed up and with three to go Snyder led Shultz, Layton, and Franek in a tight high speed chase with no lap cars between them.
Shultz pulled the last corner slide job on Snyder and looked like he might have stolen the victory away. Snyder turned down the speedway and crossed Shultz over coming to the line for the win. Snyder's victory was by just .052, or half of a car-length, over Shultz. Franek ended up third followed by Layton and Makr Smith.
Jared Zimbardi, Robbie Stillwagon, Derek Locke, Larry Kelleher, and Eric Tomecek made up the top ten finishers.
360 Sprint Car heat race winners were Justin Whittall, Eric Tomecek, and Jason Shultz. George Suprick won the B-Main for the 29 car field.
The Fast Tees Fast Time award was taken by Mark Smith with a time of 17.577.
Tommy Slanker isn't the current A&A Auto Store Pro Stock point leader for nothing. Slanker drove from his eighth starting spot to make the pass of Dustin Snook for the race lead on lap 9. Snook, the race long leader, tried to come back and challenge Slanker but spun on lap 12 to bring out a caution flag.
John Fowler took over the second spot and gave Slanker headaches over the next two corners before AJ Stroup moved into the runner up spot. Stroup was out of time by the time he got to second as Slanker was crossing the line for his fourth win of the season.
Slanker dedicated the win to his dad and grandfathers on Father's Day weekend. His grandfather is the reason he runs the number 40. Stroup was second followed by Fower, Brandon Moser, and Lori Croop.
Heat races for the Pro Stocks went to Tommy Slanker and Dustin Snook.
Jeff Rine started in the eighth spot but wasted little time taking the race lead on lap eight from the race leader Tim Wilson.
Rine would pull away from the field and go on to win and set a new track record. Rine shattered the old record (9:02.203) by 17 seconds setting a new time of 8:45.459. Rine dedicated the win to the Eckert family and Rick Eckert who lost his dad Junior earlier in the day.
The battle everyone was watching on the track were for spots two through six. Tim Wilson spent the second half of the race trying to hold off a hard charging Dylan Yoder. Yoder caught Wilson on lap 17 and the two raced side by side for the next five laps before Yoder secured the spot pushing Wilson back to third.
Behind the battle for second was a tight race between Gene Knaub, Steve Campbell, and Hayes Mattern. Mattern held the spot before getting passed by Campbell. Once Campbell went to fourth Knaub followed him by. Knaub then made the pass of Campbell to take the fourth spot.
Rine, Yoder, Wilson, Knaub, and Campbell were the top five followed by Mattern, Dave Brouse Jr., Kenny Trevitz, Donnie Schick, and Jason Schmidt.
Late Model heat winners were Jeff Rine and Gene Knaub.
In a thrilling Roadrunner feature event Will Brunson passed Ryan Leister on the last lap to claim the checkered flag. Brandon Shultz finished third followed by Ryan Zook and Michael Smith.
Smith Cope, Butch Shaffer, Dennis Conrad, Bob Bussey, and Kevin Dobson finished out the top ten in the feature event.
Tom Underwood and Bob Bussey won Roadrunner heat races.
Next Saturday night Selinsgrove Speedway will swing back into action with Kid's Night featuring the 360 Sprint Cars, Super Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Roadrunners. The event will have a 7:30 start time. Track gates will open at 5 p.m.
Also make sure to mark your calendar for the Saturday, July 1, Selinsgrove event featuring the Selinsgrove Ford Market Street Race Car parade at 4 p.m. prior to the evening’s racing events. The 360 Sprint Cars will compete in the Firecracker 30 along with Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Roadrunners plus Fireworks.
For more information on the upcoming events at the speedway you can visit the speedway web site at SelinsgroveSpeedway.com and on social media via Facebook and Twitter.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY: 17 June 2017 360 Sprints - 29 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 56 Nate Snyder 2) 29 Jason Shultz 3) 28F Davie Franek 4) 35L Chad Layton 5) M1 Mark Smith 6) 25 Jared Zimbardi 7) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 8) 77 Derek Locke 9) 76 Larry Kelleher 10) 1W Eric Tomecek 11) 67W Justin Whittall 12) 98 Joe Trenca 13) 47 Kyle Drum 14) 67 Steve Collins 15) 79 Jordan Thomas 16) 87 George Suprck 17) 29S Derek Steward 18) C4 Jim Shuster 19) 81 Derek Jonathan 20) 45 Kevin Nagy 21) 99K Cody Keller 22) 33 Michael Walter 23) 66 Ryan Kissinger 24) 3Z Colby Womer 25) 49S Mallie Shuster Heat Winners: Justin Whittall, Eric Tomecek, Jason Shultz B-Main Winner: George Suprick Time Trials: 1) M1 Mark Smith 17.577 2) 67 Steve Collins 17.637 3) 49S Mallie Shuster 17.672 4) 67W Justin Whittall 5) 35L Chad Layton17.711 6) 29 Jason Shultz 17.755 7) 28F Davie Franek 17.755 8) 1W Eric Tomecek 9) 56 Nate Snyder 17.808 10) 99K Cody Keller 17.909 11) 35 Jared Zimbardi 17.915 12) 47C Adam Carberry 17.953 13) 77Derek Locke 17.965 14) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 17.986 15) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18.044 16) C4 Jim Shuster 18.055 17) 45 Kevin Nagy 18.078 18) 47 Kyle Drum 18.104 19) 98 Joe Trenca 18.159 20) 79 Jordan Thomas 18.170 21)29S Derek Steward 18.197 22) 76 Larry Kelleher18.223 23) 81 Derek Jonathan 18.419 24) 33 Michael Walter 18.444 25) 3Z Colby Womer 18.495 26) 87 George Suprick 18.510 27) 48Darryl Ruggles 18.594 28) 17 Josh Azzi 18.829 29) 1J Derrick Juliano DNT
Late Models - 16 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 2J Jeff Rine 2) 24 Dylan Yoder 3) 3 Tim Wilson 4) 1 Gene Knaub 5) 2 Steve Campbell 6) 9 Hayes Mattern 7) 14 Dave Brouse Jr. 8) 61 Kenny Trevitz 9) 6 Donnie Schick 10) 11 Jason Schmidt 11) 7M Meade Hahn 12) 10 Dave Stamm 13) 15 Luke Hoffner 14) 2Y Andrew Yoder 15) 88 Tony Adams 16)63 Nathan Long Heat Winners: Jeff Rine, Gene Knaub
Pro Stocks - 13 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 26 AJ Stroup 3) 02 John Fowler 4) 28J Johnny Bouse 5) 55 Lori Croop 6) 92 Shaun Lawton 7) 14C Bill Conrad 8) 15 Dustin Snook 9) 8M Brandon Moser 10) 55T John Troxell 11) 11B Jake Buck 12) 86 Wayne Shaffer 13) 40G Nick Gentile Heat Winners: Dustin Snook, Tommy Slanker
Roadrunners - 18 Entries 12-Lap A-Main: 1) 8B Will Brunson 2) 14 Ryan Leister 3) 31B Brandon Shultz 4) 28 Ryan Zook 5) 76S Michael Smith 6) 1 Smith Cope 7) 7 Butch Shaffer 8) 41D Dennis Conrad 9) 76 Bob Bussey 10) 0 Kevin Dobson 11) 12 Tom Underwood 12) 11 Keith Bissinger 13) 22 Ricky Buss 14) 3 Tommy Brunson 15) 28M Miranda Minium 16) 44X Jim Collier 17) 2B Brian Mabus 18) 8 Daren Rice Heat Winners: Tom Underwood, Bob Bussey
June 24, 2017
FRANEK STORMS FROM 12th STARTING POSITION TO WIN THIRD 360 SPRINT RACE; ADAMS, HOFFMAN & JOHNSON ALL SCORE FIRST STOCK CAR WINS OF SEASON
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The 360 Sprint cars had one week left to prepare before the big Firecracker 30 race at Selinsgrove Speedway coming up on July 1. Davie Franek of Wantage, N.J., proved he is more than ready. Franek charged from his 12th starting spot to pass race leader Eric Tomecek on lap 19 and go onto his third win of the season in the 25-lap 360 Sprint Car main event.
Tomecek passed race-long leader Ryan Kissinger on lap 11 after a restart. Once out front Tomecek led until a lap 15 caution flag which gave Franek the opportunity to be on the race leader’s rear bumper for the restart. Ryan Kissinger continued to struggle as Jason Shultz went past while in a battle with Justin Whittall. Whittall also completed the pass and then Derek Locke went by to fifth from his 14th starting spot.
As Franek crossed the line he was chased by Tomecek, Shultz, Whittall, and Locke. Franek mentioned in victory lane that the yellow flags fell his way during the event allowing him to come from his 12th starting spot. He also said he was better in traffic than he was once he was out front which also helped his cause.
Kissinger, Nate Snyder, Larry Kelleher, Colby Womer, and Nyle Berkes completed the top ten finishers. Justin Whittall, Eric Tomecek, and Jim Shuster won the heat races for the 360 Sprinters.
Tony Adams was the fastest car for much of the night in the Jeff’s Auto Body and Recycling Late Models. Adams started sixth and picked his way to the front to take the race lead away from Dave Zona on lap 11.
Once out front Adams looked to be a lock for his first win in five years at the speedway. A yellow flag on lap 21 changed everything. The yellow flag put Steve Campbell on his tail for the restart. Adams, who was concerned his tire might have gone away under the yellow flag was able to fend off the challenge of Campbell and pulled away to his first win since 2012.
Campbell came home second followed by Tim Wilson, Donnie Schick, and Hayes Mattern. Kenny Trevitz came across the line in sixth ahead of Nathan Long, Dave Stamm, Dave Zona, and Luke Hoffner. Wilson and Adams won heat races for the Super Late Models on Kids’ Night at the speedway.
The A&A Auto Store Pro Stock feature race had point imprecations the whole way through it. AJ Hoffman was in search of his first win of the season after winning five times a year ago. Hoffman is not in the top of the point battle so his main focus was a trip to victory lane.
On the other hand Shaun Lawton charged to the front of the field Saturday night hoping to better his point race counterpart Tommy Slanker. Slanker, the point leader, was caught up in an accident on lap five.
From that point on Lawton did all he could to work to the front and take a victory. Hoffman had other ideas while in a battle with Lawton, Kyle Bachman, and AJ Stroup. Hoffman and Lawton were left to settle the race for the win on the final lap.
Lawton led lap 14 of the 15 lap race. Hoffman came back and took the race lead back as the duo raced down the back stretch for the final time. In turns three and four Hoffman inched ahead and held on by just inches for the win over Lawton. Bachman, Stroup, and Dustin Snook competed the top five finishers.
Slanker recovered to run sixth, Jake Buck, Noah Jenson, John Fowler, and John Schreffler joined him in the top ten. Hoffman and Lawton were the heat race winners for the Pro Stocks.
The Roadrunners raced for the $400 payday on Saturday night. Daren Rice lead the way early in a tight battle with Keith Bissinger and Will Brunson. Bissinger lost his left front tire and that took him out of contention. On the restart, Brian Johnson made an attempt to slide in front of the leaders going into turn one and two after charging into the battle for the lead from his 15th starting spot.
Johnson made contact with Rice and Brunson took the lead. A yellow flag disregarded the pass for the lead. Rice held the lead until lap ten when Johnson made the winning pass. Johnson crossed the checkered flag ahead of Rice, Tom Brunson, Ken Schreffler, and Tom Underwood. Ricky Buss, Butch Shaffer, Will Bruson, Brandon Shultz, and Brian Mabus.
Smith Cope and Keith Bissinger won heat races for the Roadrunners.
Saturday July 1st is the Firecracker 30 at Selinsgrove Speedway. The prelude to the night’s racing will be the annual Selinsgrove Ford Market Street Race Car Parade at 4 p.m. The 360 Sprint cars will compete to be the winner of the 15th running of the Firecracker 30 paying $3,000 to win plus the Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Roadrunners.
Thanks to Todd Benner of Selinsgrove Ford there will be added purse money in each class. The winner of the Late Models will receive a $2,000. The Pro Stock ($650) and the Roadrunner ($450) winners will also receive extra money as well as the top three finishers in each class.
Saturday night was Kids’ Night at the speedway. A big thank you to all the fans that came out to take part in the events and also to the drivers and business’s that donated items for the kids.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY – 24 June 2017 360 Sprints – 21 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 28F Davie Franek 2) 1W Eric Tomecek 3) 29 Jason Shultz 4) 67 Justin Whittall 5) 77 Derek Locke 6) 66 Ryan Kissinger 7) 56 Nate Snyder 8) 76 Larry Kelleher 9) 3Z Colby Womer 10) 22M Nyle Berkes 11) 10 Joe Kata 12) C4 Jim Shuster 13) 22T Dave Thrush 14) 2T Michael Thomas 15) M1 Mark Smith 16) 22 Troy Betts 17) 33 Michael Walter 18) 99K Cody Keller 19) 49S Mallie Shuster 20)35 Chad Layton 21) 47C Adam Carberry Heat Winners: Justin Whittall, Eric Tomecek, Jim Shuster
Late Models – 13 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 88 Tony Adams 2) 2 Steve Campbell 3) 3 Tim Wilson 4) 6 Donnie Schick 5) 9 Hayes Mattern 6) 61 Kenny Trevitz 7) 63 Nathan Long 8) 10 Dave Stamm 9) 99Z Dave Zona 10) 15 Luke Hoffner 11) 8 Zach Kauffman 12) 7M Meade Hahn 13) 77D Dick Houtz Heat Winners: Tim Wilson, Tony Adams
Pro Stocks – 16 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 6C AJ Hoffman 2) 92 Shaun Lawton 3) 99B Kyle Bachman 4) 26 AJ Stroup 5) 15 Dustin Snook 6) 40 Tommy Slanker 7) 11B Jake Buck 8) 6 Noah Jensen 9) 02 John Fowler 10) 70J John Schreffler 11) 99H Peanut Heintzelman 12) 55 Lori Croop 13) 14C Bill Conrad 14) 71 Kurt Wray 15) 8M Brandon Moser 16) 40G Nick Gentile Heat Winners: AJ Hoffman, Shaun Lawton
Roadrunners – 16 Entries 12-Lap A-Main: 1) 201 Brian Johnson 2) 8 Daren Rice 3) 3 Tommy Brunson 4) 32 Ken Schreffler 5) 12 Tom Underwood 6) 22 Ricky Buss 7) 7 Butch Shaffer 8) 8B Will Brunson 9) 31B Brandon Shultz 10) 2B Brian Mabus 11) 11Keith Bissinger 12) 1 Smith Cope 13) 44C Cory Collier 14) 28M Miranda Minium 15) 0 Kevin Dobson 16) 41D Dennis Conrad Heat Winners: Smith Cope, Keith Bissinger
July 1, 2017
Cancelled - Weather
July 8, 2018
No Racing Scheduled
July 9, 2018 ABREU SCORES PA SPEEDWEEK FINALE WIN IN FIRST CAREER SELINSGROVE START SUNDAY; WOLFE CLINCHES ALWAYS RACING PA SPEEDWEEK TITLE FOR 410 SPRINT CARS
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Second-place starter Rico Abreu of St. Helena, Calif., led polesitter Anthony Macri at the start of the Jan Opperman/Dick Bogar Memorial Sunday in the PA Sprint Car Speedweek finale presented by Middleswarth Potato Chips at Selinsgrove Speedway.
Macri, running his first full Speedweek, pulled to Abreu's rear bumper on lap 11 while Abreu, an established nationwide star also running his first full Speedweek and making his first career start at Selinsgrove, negotiated his way through lap traffic before Marci's car slowed to a stop after losing an engine on the home stretch.
Once the green flag came back out Abreu drove away from third-place starter Danny Dietrich who had climbed to second.
Dietrich needed to win and to have sixth-place starter Lucas Wolfe finish eighth or worse to claim his second Speedweek title in a row. Wolfe was in search of his third title.
As Dietrich kept close tabs on race leader Abreu, Wolfe battled just outside the top five in sixth.
The car on the move after the restart for the Macri issue was Blane Heimbach. Heimbach raced his way into the top five and then grabbed fourth from Greg Hodnett on lap 16.
By the lap 20 mark, Abreu had opened a three second lead. Dietrich started to make up ground, cutting the lead down to one second, while Abreu again began to tip toe through lap traffic. This time the story was different though as Dietrich never got close enough to challenge Abreu.
At the end of the 30 lap feature, Abreu was the driver out front claiming the $5,000 in his first central Pennsylvania 410 sprint car win in the Always Racing Speedweek finale.
In victory lane Abreu said he was pacing himself through traffic knowing he could only go as fast as the cars in front of him. He added that one of his biggest support groups is in central Pennsylvnia and he thanked the fans for their support of not only him, but the week in general. Abreu showed his appreciation by joining fans after the race in the grandstand area at his merchandise trailer to sign autographs.
Danny Dietrich’s second place effort was not enough to net last year’s Speedweek winner and champion a second title. Lucas Wolfe crossed the line in seventh adding his third Spedweek crown (2007, 14, 17). Wolfe credited his team and their efforts all week, but admitted he was a little disappointed the team didn’t get a victory considering how strong they were leading into the week. This is Wolfe’s third title with three different teams. Wolfe won the Ray Tilly Classic at Selinsgrove Speedway in June.
Abreu, Dietrich, Dale Blaney, Heimbach, and Greg Hodnett were the top five. It was Blaney’s third third- place finish of the week.
Former 358 Sprint Car winner at Selinsgrove Speedway Brock Zearfoss was sixth followed by Wolfe, TJ Stutts, James McFadden, and Ryan Smith.
The SprintCarUnlimited.com fast time award was presented to Trey Starks. Fast Tees also put up a bonus that was presented to George Streaker.
Heat races went to Hodnett, Blaney, and Dietrich and the B-main was won by Tyler Walker.
In the 305 Sprint Car feature Kyle Ganoe was running third when the top two tangled in turns three and four and Ganoe inherited the race lead. The old adage that sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good came to mind, although Ganoe was running strong. Anytime a driver can jump from third to first is a good break.
Austin Bishop led early before he and Tyler Reeser got together on lap nine. Both drivers were out of the event. Reeser was running the high side of the speedway and Ganoe did the same the rest of the event getting away from any challenges from second place Jaremi Hanson for the win.
Hanson, Zach Newlin, Nathan Gramley, and Dave Grube were the top five finishers. Cale Reigle, Mike Alleman, George Riden, Erin Statlern, and Jared Sionkowski made up the top ten finishers.
Hanson and Ganoe were heat race winners.
The A&A Pro Stocks were on the card as the night cap and gave the fans a thriller as Shaun Lawton made a bold outside move to pass Kyle Bachman for second and then race leader AJ Hoffman as well for the lead.
Hoffman led the field, which predominantly ran the inside line, for the first nine laps of the 15 lap feature. Lawton was able to make the move on the outside line on lap ten and never looked back on his way to his second win of the season.
Dustin Snook recovered from an early race accident to finish second followed by Bachman, Tommy Slanker, and Hoffman. Jake Buck, Bill Conrad, Nick Gentile, Lori Croop, and AJ Stroup finished out the top ten.
Bachman won the heat race for the Pro Stocks.
The ninth annual Jeff’s Auto Body & Recycling Center Driver & Fan Appreciation Night Saturday, July 15, at Selinsgrove Speedway will offer plenty of giveaways for race fans, FREE child and student general admission for ages 17 and younger, plus bonus money for the top three finishers in the 360 sprint car, late model, pro stock, and roadrunner feature events. Race time is 7:30 p.m.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SUMMARY – 9 July 2017 410 Sprints – 29 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) 24R Rico Abreu 2) 48 Danny Dietrich 3) 1 Dale Blaney 4) 12 Blane Heimbach 5) 27 Greg Hodnett 6) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 7) 24 Lucas Wolfe 8) 11 TJ Stutts 9) 3 James McFadden 10) 07 Ryan Smith 11) 29 Jason Shultz 12) 51 Freddie Rahmer 13) 35 Tyler Walker 14) 44 Trey Starks 15) 0 Rick Lafferty 16) 92 Sammy Walsh 17) 75 Nicole Bower 18) 33 Jared Esh 19) 35 Daryl Stimling 20) 91 Anthony Fiore 21) 39 Anthony Macri 22) 49 Mallie Shuster 23) 66 Ryan Kissinger 24) 33 Michael Walter Heat Winners: Greg Hodnett, Dale Blaney, Danny Dietrich B-Main Winner: Tyler Walker Time Trials: 1) 44 Trey Stark 16.431 2) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 16.595 3) 24 Lucas Wolfe 16.609 4) 27 Greg Hodnett 16.619 5) 39Anthony Macri 16.632 6) 11 TJ Stutts 16.692 7) 24 Rico Abreu 16.762 8) 1 Dale Blaney 16.794 9) 48 Danny Dietrich 16.854 10) 12Blane Heimbach 16.857 11) 0 Rick Lafferty 16.893 12) 07 Ryan Smith 16.897 13) 75 Nicole Bower 16.976 14) 29 Jason Shultz 17.004 15) 3 James McFadden 17.046 16) 49 Mallie Shuster 17.083 17) 51 Freddie Rahmer 17.140 18) 92 Sammy Walsh 17.198 19) 33 Michael Walter 17.280 20) 35 Tyler Walker 17.297 21) 91 Anthony Fiore 17.432 22) 59 Colby Womer 17.491 23) 33 Jared Esh 17.517 24) C4 Jim Shuster 17.682 25) 35S Daryl Stimeling 17.867 26) 66 Ryan Kissinger 18.330 27) 33X Mike Walter 18.433 28) 19W Ryan Linder19.391 29) 17 George Streaker Jr. 27.477
305 Sprints – 18 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 0 Kyle Ganoe 2) 36 Jaremi Hanson 3) 11Z Zach Newlin 4) 23 Nathan Gramley 5) 3D Dave Grube 6) 99 Cale Reigle 7) 46 Mike Alleman 8) 99R George Riden 9) 2 Erin Statler 10) 41Z Jared Zionkowski 11) 88 Fred Arnold 12) 5 Fred Arnold 13) 51 Dave Graber 14) 74JR Vance Berry 15) 11 Austin Bishop 16) 5T Tyler Reeser 17) 67 Ken Duke 18) 137 Ian Cumens
Heat Winners: Jaremi Hanson, Kyle Ganoe Pro Stocks – 10 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 92 Shaun Lawton 2) 15 Dustin Snook 3) 99B Kyle Bachman 4) 40 Tommy Slanker 5) 6C AJ Hoffman 6) 11B Jake Buck 7) 14C Bill Conrad 8) 40G Nick Gentile 9) 55 Lori Croop 10) 26 AJ Stroup
July 15, 2017
SMITH, MATTERN, SNOOK & BUSSEY TAKE WINS
ON JEFF’S AUTO BODY & RECYCLING DRIVER & FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT!
BIG PROMOTIONAL NIGHT MET WITH GREAT CROWD, RACING & RECORD-SETTING TRACK SURFACE!
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- The ninth annual Jeff’s Auto Body & Recycling Center Driver & Fan Appreciation Night Saturday at Selinsgrove Speedway offered plenty of giveaways for race fans, FREE child and student general admission plus bonus money for the top three finishers in the 360 sprint cars, late models, pro stocks, and roadrunners.
The special night did not disappoint. A large crowd witnessed some of the best racing of the season on a great racing surface that produced plenty of wheel-to-wheel racing and a new 25-lap track record by Hayes Mattern of Beavertown in the super late model main event.
In the thrilling 360 sprint car main event, Adam Carberry was trading slidejobs in lap traffic with Mark Smith with Eric Tomecek lurking in the wings. Young Carberry had just secured the top spot with four to go from Smith off turn two when his car made hard contact with the outside wall ending his bid for his first Selinsgrove Speedway win.
Smith, who started tenth, timed his restart perfect to break away from Tomecek on his was to his third win of the season. Tomecek was second followed by point leader Davie Franek who started 12th on the racy half-mile surface.
Chad Layton earned a hard fought fourth place run after being involved in an early race accident. Nate Snyder came from 18th to finish fifth. Kevin Nouse was sixth across the line followed by Larry Kelleher, Ryan Higgins, Nyle Berkes, and Ryan Kissinger.
Brett Michalski, Adam Carberry, and Eric Tomecek won Sprint Car heat races.
In your best Tom Carnegie voice, "It's a new track record!" for Hayes Mattern in the Jeff's Auto body Super Late Models. It was Kenny Trevitz out front for the first half of the feature before Mattern moved to the lead on lap 11. Mattern had to maneuver through lap traffic while Trevitz and Jeff Rine dueled for the second spot. Rine soon secured the second spot and began to catch Mattern for the lead.
Mattern kept the advantage over one second for the remainder of the event on his way to his third win of the season in the Late Models. Rine was second followed by Trevitz, 11th starting Gene Knaub, and Bryan Bernheisel.
Steve Campbell, Tony Adams, Donnie Schick, Dave Stamm, and Meade Hahn were the top ten finishers.
Late Model heat races were won by Kenny Trevitz and Steve Campbell.
Kurt Wray broke away from a six car, race long battle for the second spot. Wray went unchallenged for much of the A&A Auto Stores Pro Stock feature. Curtis Lawton held second for a majority of the race before Dustin Snook snuck by. Snook started in 16th.
Tommy Slanker moved into third when Curtis Lawton and Shaun Lawton both made contact with the outside wall on the final laps of the race. AJ Hoffman was also able to get by for fourth.
After post race inspection was complete Wray's car was deemed illegal and Snook was awarded the victory. It was his first in the Pro Stock class.
Slanker was second followed by Hoffman, Shaun Lawton, and Curtis Lawton. Peanut Heintzelman finished in sixth. Seventh through tenth spots went too Bill Conrad, John Troxell, Wayne Shaffer, and Jake Buck.
Pro Stock heat winners were Shaun Lawton and Kyle Bachman.
Bob Bussey led the whole race for the Roadrunners on Saturday night on his way to his third win of the season. Bussey held off point leader Will Brunson just past half way. Bussey's win came over Ken Scheffler, Smith Cope, Tom Underwood, and Kyle Kissinger.
Will Brunson and Keith Bissinger took checkered flags in Roadrunner heats.
Next Saturday night the 360 Sprints will be joined by the Pro Stocks, Roadrunners, and the Moonshine Camo Route 35 Challenge Series for the Super Late Models. It is also Sunbury Eagle Club night. Racing begins at 7:30.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY : 15 July 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 22 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) M1 Mark Smith 2) 1W Eric Tomecek 3) 28F Davie Franek 4) 35 Chad Layton 5) 56 Nate Snyder 6) 16 Kevin Nouse 7) 76 Larry Kelleher 8) 13 Ryan Higgins 9) 22M Nyle Berkes 10) 66 Ryan Kissinger 11) C4 Jim Shuster 12) 49S Mallie Shuster 13) 22 Troy Betts 14)669 Brandon McGough 15) 80M Dan Richcreek 16) 29S Derek Steward 17) 47 Adam Carberry 18) 99K Cody Keller 19) 2T Michael Thomas 20) 73B Brett Michalski 21) 29 Jason Shultz 22) 77 Derek Locke (DNS) Heat Winners: Brett Michalski, Adam Carberry, Eric Tomecek Late Models – 16 Entries
25-Lap A-Main: 1) 9 Hayes Mattern 2) 2J Jeff Rine 3) 61 Ken Trevitz 4) 1 Gene Knaub 5) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 6) 2 Steve Campbell 7) 88 Tony Adams 8) 6 Donnie Schick 9) 10 Dave Stamm 10) 7M Meade Hahn 11) 15 Luke Hoffner 12) 63 Nathan Long 13) 57 Jon Rohacevich 14) 77 Dick Houtz 15) 24 Jim Yoder (DNS) 16) 0 Coleby Frye (DNS) Heat Winners: Kenny Trevitz, Steve Campbell
Pro Stocks – 17 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 15 Dustin Snook 2) 40 Tommy Slanker 3) 6C AJ Hoffman 4) 92 Shaun Lawton 5) 33 Curtis Lawton 6) 99 Peanut Heintzelman 7) 14C Bill Conrad 8) 55T John Troxell 9) 86 Wayne Shaffer 10) 11B Jake Buck 11) 85 Terry Lauver 12) 28 Dan Condo 13) 40G Nick Gentile 14) 8M Brandon Moserr 15) 99B Kyle Bachman 16) 71 Kurt Wray (DQ) 17) 55 Lori Croop (DNS) Heat Winners: Shaun Lawton, Kyle Bachman
Roadrunners – 13 Entries 12-Lap A-Main: 1) 76 Bob Bussey 2) 32 Ken Schreffler 3) 1 Smith Cope 4) 12 Tom Underrwood 5) 7 Kyle Kissinger 6) 8B Will Brunson 7) 11 Keith Bissinger 8) 2B Brian Mabus (DNS) 9) 31B Brandon Shultz (DNS) 10) 3 Tommy Brunson (DNS) 11) 22 Ricky Buss (DNS) 12) 201 Brian Johnson (DNS) 13) 41D Dennis Conrad (DNS) Heat Winners: Will Brunson, Keith Bissinger
July 22, 2017
CANCELLED - RAIN
July 29, 2017
SMITH SMASHES 360 SPRINT CAR RECORD WITH OPEN PRELIM WIN SATURDAY; RINE MAKES LATE-RACE PASS FOR 106th CAREER LATE MODEL VICTORY; SLANKER SCORES FIFTH OF SEASON IN PRO STOCK THRILLER
SELINSGROVE, PA. -- Mark Smith of Sunbury started off the Mach 1 Chassis National Open weekend with a dominating performance in the 360 Sprint Cars. Smith won the 25-lap preliminary event worth $3,000 and set a new track record for the distance in 7:54.603. Smith’s new record was more than 15 seconds faster than the standing record coming into the night. The win also locks Smith into the feature event for this Sunday night’s 17th Annual National Open Finale.
Smith took the top spot on lap three from Steve Collins in the nonstop feature event. Davie Franek moved to second on lap ten and began to try to close the gap on Smith. The lead would only shrink for a small time before Smith drove back away to the five second advantage he had at the end of the event.
Franek came home second while Cody Keller, Nate Snyder, and Steve Collins were the top five game. Curt Michael was sixth followed by Robbie Stillwagon, Josh Weller, Jason Schultz, and Ryan Kissinger. Heat races for the 360 Sprint Cars were won by Michalski, Franek, Eric Tomecek, while Chris Coyle won the B-Main.
Donnie Schick led the first half of the Jeff’s Auto Body and Recycling Center Super Late Model feature. Schick had opened up an impressive lead over Jeff Rine once Rine got to second on lap ten. Rine then began to close the gap on Schick. Schick’s straightaway lead dwindled over the next ten laps before Rine caught and passed Shick.
A yellow flag gave Shick a second chance, but Rine would complete the pass after the restart to take the lead away for second time. Rine led the rest of the way for his 106th career Selinsgrove Speedway win. Rine took the checkered flag over Schick, Bryan Bernheisel, Gene Kanub, and Tony Adams. Hayes Mattern was the sixth car across the line with Steve Campbell, Kenny Treveitz, Luke Hoffner, and Dan Green the top ten.
Bernheisel and Rine won the heat races for the Late Models.
Jake Buck brought the A&A Auto Store Pro Stock feature to the green flag on Saturday night. Shaun Lawton was able to wrestle the top spot away from Buck to lead lap number two. Once out front it looked like Lawton was going to drive to his third win of the season.
A yellow on a lap five restart reset the field nose to tail and allowed point leader Tommy Slanker to go to work. Slanker restarted fourth, but soon went past runner up Kyle Bachman to give chase to Lawton. On lap eight Slanker made an outside move around Lawton to secure the lead for good. Slanker drove to his fifth win of the season.
Lawton, Bachman, Dustin Snook, and AJ Stroup were the top five finishers. Johnny Bouse crossed the line in sixth followed by Brandon Moser, Jake Buck, Peanut Heintzelman, and John Schoch. Heat races for the Pro Stocks were won by Bachman and Lawton.
This Sunday, July 30, will be the Mach 1 Chassis 360 Sprint Car National Open. The 17th annual running of the event will pay $6,000 to win. The PASS 305 Sprint Cars and Econo Late Models will also be in action. Racing at 7:30. General Admission will be $15 with students paying $8. Kids 11 years of age and younger will be admitted FREE.
Next Saturday, Aug. 5, the speedway kicks off the final full month of racing this season with the Sunbury Eagles Club Night and the Eastern Museum of Motor on-hand for the rescheduled Firecracker 30 for the 360 Sprint Cars plus Super Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Econo Late Models.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 29 July 2017 360 Sprint Cars -31 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) M1 Mark Smith 2) 28F Davie Franek 3) 99K Cody Keller 4) 56 Nate Snyder 5) 67 Steve Collins 6) 5G Curt Michael 7) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 8) 63 Josh Weller 9) 29 Jason Shultz 10) 66 Ryan Kissinger 11) 73B Brett Michalski 12) 35 Chad Layton 13) 76 Larry Kelleher 14) C4 Jim Shuster 15) 49S Mallie Shuster 16) 22 Troy Betts 17) 56C Chris Coyle 18) 13 Ryan Higgins 19) 22G Bryn Gohn 20) 19 Colby Womer 21) 7K Kris Lilick 22) 1W Eric Tomecek 23) 706 Mark Sasso 24) 77 Derek Locke 25) 47C Adam Carberry Heat Winners: Brett Michalski, Eric Tomecek, Davie Franek, Mark Smith B-Main Winner: Chris Coyle Late Models – 14 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 2J Jeff Rine 2) 6 Donnie Schick 3) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 4) 1 Gene Knaub 5) 88 Tony Adams 6) 9 Hayes Mattern 7) 2 Steve Campbell 8) 61 Ken Trevitz 9) 15 Luke Hoffner 10) 46 Dan Green 11) 63 Nathan Long 12) 10 Dave Stamm 13) 7M Meade Hahn 14) 77D Dick Houtz Heat Winners: Bryan Bernheisel, Jeff Rine Pro Stocks – 18 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 92 Shaun Lawton 3) 99B Kyle Bachman 4) 15 Dustin Snook 5) 26 AJ Stroup 6) 28J Johnny Bouse 7) 8M Brandon Moser 8) 11B Jake Buck 9) 99 Peanut Heintzelman 10) 89 John Schoch 11) 14C Bill Conrad 12) 88 Matt Hornberger 13) 40G Nick Gentile 14) 28 Dan Condo 15) 6C AJ Hoffman 16) 86 Wayne Shaffer 17) 55 Lori Croop 18) 55T John Troxell Heat Winners: Kyle Bachman, Shaun Lawton
July 30, 2017
Greg Hodnett added his name to a prominent list of winners of the Mach 1 Chassis National Open for 360 sprint cars Sunday night at Selinsgrove Speedway. Hodnett drew the number one to start from the pole of the 30 lap Sprint Car spectacular.
Hodnett bolted into the race lead and left prelim night winner Mark Smith to battle with Jason Shultz for the runner up spot. Blane Heimbach came from his sixth starting spot to work by Shultz for third and then soon by Smith by the second spot.
By lap 14 Smith and Heimbach’s battle for second had closed in on Hodnett in lap traffic. A red flag for Nate Snyder stopped the race and gave Hodnett the open race track once again.
On the restart Heimbach was able to pull away from Smith and focus on the race leader. Hodnett’s lead began to shrink again when he caught the tail of the field on lap 24. By that time Curt Michael had climbed into the top five as well.
The yellow flag again unfurled on lap 25 ending the race for the lead. Heimbach’s number 12 had stopped on the home stretch ending his bid for the National Open crown.
With five to go Mark Smith would need to make his move quick on the restart. Smith kept the pace of the race leader for the next lap before Hodnett again extended the advantage. Michael was now by Shultz and on Smith’s tail for second.
Hodnett closed out the final laps of the 17th annual running of the National Open to take the $6,000 payday.
Smith was second followed on the podium by Michael.
Jason Shutlz and Davie Franek were the rest of the top five finishers. Lucas Wolfe was sixth followed by TJ Stutts, Steve Collins, Chad Layton, and Robbie Stillwagon.
Jeff Stere presented a hard charger award that went to Layton who came from 20th to finish in ninth.
Shutlz, Heimbach, and Billy VanInwegen won heat race for the 360 Sprint Cars while Larry Kelleher took the B-main victory.
The National Open wouldn’t have been possible without the help of the United Racing Club and Mach 1 Chassis. Title sponsor Mach 1 Chassis, located at 10 North Frederick Street in Mechanicsburg, engineers and builds race car chassis that are known for safety, strength, durability, and performance. In addition to chassis fabrication and repair, Mach 1 Chassis also manufactures front and rear bumpers, nerf bars, front axles, wing posts, and wing trees.
Dave Grube was in a race long battle with Cale Reigle during the 305 Sprint Car main event. Reigle took over the top spot from Grube on lap eight. Grube then entered into a tight battle with Tyler Resser for the second spot. Resser was able to grab the spot before Grube took it back.
The battle for second proved that much more important when the rear axel broke on Reigel’s number 99 on lap 14. It was the first and only caution flag of the race.
On the restart Grube had pressure right away from Reeser. Reeser continued to try to use the momentum of the outside line for the remaining laps to take the race lead away. Grube on the other hand stayed loyal to the inside line.
Although Reeser got very close on the last two laps, he was never able to pass Grube. Grube’s checkered flag was his first at the speedway.
Reeser was second with Zach Newlin, Jeremi Hanson, and Austin Bishop rounding out the top five finishers.
Sixth through tenth in the finishing order went to Ken Duke, Nathan Gramley, Jared Zionkowski, Andrew Hake, and Dave Graber.
Newlin and Hake took heat race victory in the 305 Sprint Cars.
The Econo Late Model inversion was a four for the feature event. Tim Krape picked the inversion and put himself fourth to start the feature in what he called a dismal year of racing. He thought maybe the pill draw was going to just be another part of his bad luck season.
Tim Fedder had a similar idea after taking the race lead from Troy Miller on the opening lap. Fedder continued to lead while Krape worked his way to second.
Krape would close on the race leader and then fall off again over the next 13 laps. When the two to go sign was given Fedder had begun to race in lap traffic.
Fedder tried to be a little more conservative around the slower cars and that allowed Krape to muscle the race lead away on the final lap going down the back stretch. There was not enough time for Fedder to recover and take the race lead back.
Krape lead only one lap of the main event but it was the most important one. Fedder was second followed across the line by Todd Snook, JR Toner, and Shaun Miller.
Andrew Stotler, Andrew Yoder, Troy Miller, Jason Schmidt, and Jason Davis closed out the top ten finishers. Krape and Toner won heat races.
For the latest news, results, and race status, visit selinsgrovespeedway.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. The speedway office can also be reached at 570.374.2266.
This coming Saturday, Aug. 5, the Selinsgrove Speedway kicks off the final full month of racing this season with the Sunbury Eagles Club Night and the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing on-hand for the rescheduled Firecracker 30 for the 360 Sprint Cars plus Super Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Econo Late Models. Racing at 7:30.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 30 July 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 28 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) 27 Greg Hodnett 2) M1 Mark Smith 3) 5G Curt Michael 4) 29 Jason Shultz 5) 28F Davie Franek 6) 5 Lucas Wolfe 7) 11 TJ Stutts 8) 67 Steve Collins 9) 35 Chad Layton 10) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 11) 49S Mallie Shuster 12) 33 Michael Walter 13) 56V Billy VanInwegen 14) 66 Ryan Kissinger 15) 19 Colby Womer 16) 76 Larry Kelleher 17) 42E Eddie Strata 18) 22 Troy Betts 19) 73B Brett Michalski 20) 12 Blane Heimbach 21) 56C Chris Coyle 22) 56 Nate Snyder 23) 1W Eric Tomecek 24) C4 Jim Shuster 25) 99K Cody Keller Heat Winners: Blane Heimbach, Billy VanInwegen, Jason Shultz B-Main Winner: Larry Kelleher
305 Sprint Cars – 19 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 3D Dave Grube 2) 5T Tyler Reeser 3) 11Z Zach Newlin 4)36 Jeremi Hanson 5) 11 Austin Bishop 6) 67 Ken Duke 7) 23 Nathan Gramley 8) 41Z Jared Zionkowski 9) 77 Andrew Hake 10) 51 Dave Graber 11) 137 Ian Cumens 12) 23L Samantha Lieberman 13) 5 John Walp 14) 2 Erin Statler 15) 61J Johnny Scarborough 16) 44K Kristine Hess 17) 88 Fred Arnold 18) 99 Cale Reigle 19) 86 Teddy Thomas Heat Winners: Zach Newlin, Andrew Hoke
Econo Late Models -11 Entries15-Lap A-Main: 1) 07 Tim Krape 2) 24 Tim Fedder 3) 23 Todd Snook 4) 11T JR Toner 5) 115S Shaun Miller 6) 50 Andrew Stotler 7) 2 Andrew Yoder 8) 115 Troy Miller 9) 13H Jason Schmidt 10) 7 Jason Davis 11) 30 Andy SnyderHeat Winners: Tim Krape, JR Toner
August 5, 2017
HEIMBACH RETURNS TO SELINSGROVE TO WIN THIRD FIRECRACKER RACE FOR 360 SPRINT CARS; BERNHEISEL MAKES LATE-RACE PASS FOR SECOND LATE MODEL WIN OF SEASON; MILLER SCORES ECONO LATE MODEL FEATURE; LAWTON TAKES PRO STOCK CHECKERS
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- Saturday was the rescheduled Firecracker 30 for the 360 Sprint Cars from July 1 at Selinsgrove Speedway. Coming into the night no driver had won the event more than two times. Hometown driver Blane Heimbach was in search of his third win when he drove by early race leader Jason Shultz on lap four of the 30-lap, $3,000-to-win event.
Shultz immediately began to pressure Heimbach as he tried to take the spot back. That pressure was short lived as Heimbach pulled away from Shultz and Selinsgrove Speedway point leader Davie Franek. By the halfway mark Heimbach’s lead was comfortable, but he was working into lap traffic.
Shultz wasted no time beginning his charge back to the rear bumper of the race leader’s car. As Heimbach tiptoed his way through lap traffic Shultz quickly made up ground. The leaders, although battling each other, extended their lead over Franek to nearly half the race track.
The blistering pace continued as Shultz made his best bid for the win diving to the inside of a lap car and Heimbach at the same time. Heimbach was able to power around on the top back into the top spot with three laps left. Shultz kept within striking distance to the race leader, but never got close enough to take the lead away from Heimbach as he drove to his third win in the Firecracker 30.
“We haven’t been very good this year, but this is where I started so it feels good to come here and get a win at a track I’ve run so many laps on,” said Heimbach in victory lane. Heimbach was a contender for the National Open win a week ago before he had a mechanical failure sideline him with five laps to go.
Shultz settled for second. Mark Smith closed out the podium finishers after starting mid-pack. Davie Franek and Eric Tomecek were the top five finishers.
Derek Locke crossed the line in sixth followed by Chad Layton, Adam Carberry, Michael Walter, and Nate Snyder.
Shultz and Heimbach won heat races for the 360 Sprint Cars.
Hayes Mattern certainly looked like the car to beat in the Late Models on Saturday night. Mattern used a long green flag run to pull a big lead over the field. As the run continued on, Bryan Bernheisel began to show some muscle as well as he closed in on the race leader.
Once again as lap traffic covered much of the speedway in front of the leaders, Bernheisel continued the pressure. Bernheisel stayed loyal to the inside line while Mattern used the high side of the race track. Mattern had the advantage as many of the lap cars ran the inside of the race track.
Bernheisel threw a slide job on Mattern on lap 19 to take the top spot away, just before a yellow flag came out.
Bernheisel used a great restart to break away from the field on his way to his second win of the season. Mattern and Gene Knaub were the top three finishers. Donnie Schick was fourth followed by Tony Adams. Adams was caught up in a first lap wreck, but recovered to finish fifth and salvage a good point night in the championship race.
Jim Yoder was sixth just ahead of point leader Steve Campbell. Dave Stamm, Meade Hahn, and Ken Yoder were the top ten finishers.
Tony Adams and Andrew Yoder took checkered flags in heat races for the Late Models.
Shaun Miller almost won the first Econo Late Model race of the season at Selinsgrove Speedway in June, but he was passed late in the race for the win. Saturday night had a similar feel when Tim Krape, the winner at the track last weekend, took the top spot off a restart with only five laps to go. Miller had lead every lap up until that point.
Krape’s car seemed very fast. In racing sometimes that’s when things go wrong, and in this case that is what happened. With five to go Krape’s car slowed to the infield.
Miller was back into the race lead with Todd Snook right there. Miller opened the lead up a little bit to give himself some breathing room over the last few laps on his way to his eighth career Selinsgrove Speedway victory. It was Miller’s first Econo Late Model win to go with his seven wins in the Pro Stocks.
Snook was second ahead of JR Toner, Eric Irvin, and Andrew Stotler. Sixth through tenth spots went to Tim Fedder, Cahse Bowsman, Ken Yoder, Andrew Shoop, and Doug Ishler.
Econo Late Model heat races were won by JR Toner and Todd Snook.
Ken Yoder competed in both Late Model divisions on Saturday night scoring a top ten in both.
The night cap belonged to the Pro Stocks and they did not disappoint. Dustin Snook slid into the race lead after an early race yellow flag. Snook set sail away from the rest of the field.
Snook’s lead looked like it was going to be enough to secure his second win of the season. Shaun Lawton had other ideas. Lawton was using a line no one else was around the outside of the speedway and began to close in on the race leader.
Lawton caught Snook and then made the pass for the top spot on lap 13. Right after Lawton took the race lead the yellow flag was displayed to the field. Snook would have another shot to take the lead back on the restart.
Lawton played the restart perfect and held off Snook for his third win of the season. Snook was second with Kyle Bachman third. Tommy Slanker came back from a wreck early on to finish fourth and AJ Hoffman was fifth.
Brandon Moser came across the line sixth being chased by Bill Conrad, Dan Condo, John Schoch, and Nate Stroup.
Hoffman and Snook locked down heat wins in the Pro Stocks.
Next Saturday the excitement will start before anyone ever gets to Selinsgrove Speedway. The annual Market Street Race Car Parade, starting the Selinsgrove Ford dealership, will take place at 4 p.m. When the fans and drivers arrive at the speedway it will be Selinsgrove Ford Night with the United Racing Club 360 Sprint Cars in a $2,500 to win event. Also the Super Late Models take the next step in crowing the Moon Shine Camo Route 35 Challenge series champion. That race will also pay $2,500 to win. The Pro Stocks and Roadrunners are on the card as well.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 5 August 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 19 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) 12 Blane Heimbach 2) 29 Jason Shultz 3) M1 Mark Smith 4) 28F Davie Franek 5) 1W Eric Tomecek 6) 77 Derek Locke 7) 35L Chad Layton 8)47 Adam Carberry 9) 33 Michael Walter 10) 56 Nate Snyder 11) 39 Eric Parker 12) 66 Ryan Kissinger 13) 76 Larry Kelleher 14) 99K Cody Keller 15) 22M Nyle Berkes 16) 669 Brandon McGough 17) 00 Chris Frank 18) 22D Hank Donovan Jr. 19 74J JR Berry Heat Winners: Jason Shultz, Blane Heimbach Late Models – 18 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 2) 9 Hayes Mattern 3) 1 Gene Knaub 4) 6 Donnie Schick 5) 88 Tony Adams 6) 24J Jim Yoder 7) 2 Steve Campbell 8) 10 Dave Stamm 9) 7M Meade Hahn 10) 7 Kenny Yoder 11) 63 Nathan Long 12) 2Y Andrew Yoder 13) 20 Joe Lusk 14)5 Jeremy Ohl 15) 30 Andy Snyder 16) 61 Kenny Trevitz 17) 83 Matt Wilson 18) 77 Taylor Houtz Heat Winners: Tony Adams, Andrew Yoder Econo Late Models – 17 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 115S Shaun Miller 2) 23 Todd Snook 3) 11T JR Toner 4) 87 Eric Toner 5) 50A Andrew Stotler 6) 24 Tim Fedder 7) 79 Chase Bowsman 8) 7Y Ken Yoder 9) S8 Andrew Shoop 10) 21E Doug Ishler 11) 115 Troy Miller 12)07 Tim Krape 13) 21Z Cam Zeigler 14) 2 Andrew Yoder 15) 7 Jason Davis 16) D34 Curt Dunn 17) 5M David Michael Heat Winners: JR Toner, Todd Snook Pro Stocks – 15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 92 Shaun Lawton 2) 15 Dustin Snook 3) 99B Kyle Bachman 4) Tommy Slanker 5) 6C AJ Hoffman 6) 8M Brandon Moser 7) 14C Bill Conrad 8) 28 Dan Condo 9) 89 John Schoch 10) 26 Nate Stroup 11) 55 Lori Croop 12) 40G Nick Gentile 13) 71 Kurt Wray 14) 86 Wayne Shaffer 15) 6 Cory Long Heat Winners: AJ Hoffman, Dustin Snook
August 12, 2017
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY WINS RACE WITH WEATHER SATURDAY! TOMECEK, BERNHEISEL, SLANKER AND ZOOK SCORE VICTORIES AND SELINSGROVE FORD BONUS MONEY!
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- The Super Late Models were competing in two different championship races on Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway. Drivers were challenging for the Jeff’s Auto Body and Recycling Selinsgrove Speedway title as well as continuing the charge for the Moon Shine Camo Route 35 challenge series. Neither championship was separated by more 25 points in the top three spots going into the night.
Bryan Bernheisel started from the front row and although he was challenged a few times throughout the event, it was a second straight victory for “Kid Lazer”.
Moon Shine Camo Route 35 challenge series point leader Colby Frye worked through lap traffic well gaining a couple spots to second, but never got in a position to challenge the race leader before a caution flag was thrown on lap 14.
The restart allowed Bernheisel to show some strength as he broke away from second place Frye and third place Chad Hollenbeck.
The yellow flag was back out a few laps later and this time Hollenbeck was able to take second from Frye. Bernheisel used that opportunity to pull away again.
The yellow was thrown for the final time on lap 20. Hollenbeck and Frye waged another battle for the second spot, but Frye slid back outside the top three. Bernheisel had set sail to his second win in a row in the 25-lap, $2,500-to-win feature followed by Hollenbeck and Dylan Yoder. Hayes Mattern and Frye crossed the line fourth and fifth.
Tony Adams recovered from an early race accident to run sixth followed by Steve Campbell, Meade Hahn, Kenny Trevitz, and Dave Stamm.
Heat races for the Late Models were won by Bernheisel, Frye, and Adams.
Eric Tomecek started from the pole position and admitted that a good starting spot in the Untied Racing Club’s appearance at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday played a part in a victory; however, it was not all an easy drive. A tricky race track pushed Tomecek to his limits as he raced the speedway and cut his way through lap traffic for the $2,500 win.
The battling was behind Tomecek for the second and third spots. Adam Carberry, Cody Keller, and Curt Michael traded the second spot at times over the 25-lap feature before Keller grabbed it for good. Jason Shultz rounded out the top three finishers from his 18th starting spot. Michael and Carberry were fourth and fifth.
Sixth through tenth in the finishing order were Derek Locke, Larry Kelleher, Davie Franek, Chad Layton, and Josh Weller.
Tomecek, Layton, and Nate Snyder won the heat races for the 360 Sprint Cars.
In an effort to take a big step toward his first Selinsgrove Speedway championship, Tommy Slanker was cautiously aggressive on Saturday night. Slanker made the pass of race leader Brandon Moser on lap five.
Slanker led the rest of the way to lock down his sixth win of the season. Moser, Kyle Bachman, Dustin Snook, and Shaun Lawton were the top five finishers. AJ Hoffman, Cory Long, John Schoch, Johnny Bouse, and Bill Conrad were the top ten finishers.
Bachman and Slanker crossed the line first in heat races on Saturday night.
Keith Bissinger led the early laps of the Roadrunner feature event before Ryan Zook made a late race pass to win his first Roadrunner feature at the track.
Zook had to maneuver around some lap traffic before the checkered flag. Bissinger got close but settled for a second place finish. Brian Johnson closed out the podium finishers.
Bob Bussey and Will Brunson were the top five.
Tom Underwood led the sixth through tenth place finishers. Behind Underwood were Chase Kapner, Tom Brunson, Brian Mabus, and Kyle Kissinger.
Roadrunner heats were won by Brian Johnson and Keith Bissinger.
Saturday night’s racing program was sponsored by Selinsgrove Ford.
Next Saturday, Aug. 19, Selinsgrove Speedway will offer racing from the 360 Sprint Cars, 305 Sprint Cars, Pro Stocks, and the rescheduled Collier Paving and Construction Roadrunner 20. The Penn Mar Vintage Race Cars will also be on hand.
General Admission will be $12 and kids (12-17) $7. 11 and under will be free for the show starting at 7:30.
For the latest news, results, and race status, visit selinsgrovespeedway.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. The speedway office can also be reached at 570.374.2266.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 12 August 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 24 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 1W Eric Tomecek 2) 99K Cody Keller 3) 29 Jason Shultz 4) 5G Curt Michael 5) 47C Adam Carberry 6) 77 Derek Locke 7) 76 Larry Kelleher 8) 28F Davie Franek 9) 35 Chad Layton 10) 63 Josh Weller 11) 73B Brett Michalski 12) 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 13) 49 Mallie Shuster 14) 67 Justin Whittall 15) 56C Chris Coyle 16) 22M Nyle Berkes 17) 22 Troy Betts 18) 7K Kris Lilick 19) 6 Sean Hosey 20) 33 Michael Walter 21) 66 Ryan Kissinger 22) 56 Nate Snyder 23) 08 Jason Clauss 24) C4 Jim Shuster Heat Winners: Nate Snyder, Chad Layton, Eric Tomecek Late Models – 23 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 2) 4Ds Chad Hollenbeck 3) 24 Dylan Yoder 4) 9 Hayes Mattern 5) 0 Coleby Frye 6) 88 Tony Adams 7) 2 Steve Campbell 8) 7M Meade Hahn 9) 61 Kenny Trevitz 10) 10 Dave Stamm 11) 2Y Andrew Yoder 12) 3 Tim Wilson 13) 63 Nathan Long 14) 6 Donnie Schick 15) Z14 Dave Brouse 16) 2J Jeff Rine 17) 06 Mike Lupfer 18) 22 Brett Schadel 19) 21 Dan Stone 20) 6F Jared Fulkroad 21) 77D Dick Houtz 22) 07 Tim Krape 23) 24Y Jim Yoder Heat Winners: Bryan Bernheisel, Coleby Frye, Tony Adams Pro Stocks –15 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 40 Tommy Slanker 2) 8M Brandon Moser 3) 99B Kyle Bachman 4) 15 Dustin Snook 5) 92 Shaun Lawton 6) 6C AJ Hoffman 7) 6N Cory Long 8) 89 John Schoch 9) 28J Johnny Bouse 10) 14C Bill Conrad 11) 86 Wayne Shaffer 12) 11B Jake Buck 13) 6 Noah Jensen 14) 40G Nick Gentile 15) 55 Lori Croop Heat Winners: Kyle Bachman, Tommy Slanker Roadrunners – 12 Entries: 12-Lap A-Main: 1) 28 Ryan Zook 2) 11 Keith Bissinger 3) 201 Brian Johnson 4) 76 Bob Bussey 5) 8B Will Brunson 6) 12 Tom Underwood 7) 12K Chase Kepner 8) 3 Tommy Brunson 9) 2 Brian Mabus 10) 7 Kyle Kissinger 11) 44C Corey Collier 12) 31B Brandon Shultz Heat Winners: Brian Johnson, Keith Bissinger
August 19, 2017
Cancelled - Rain
August 26, 2017
CARBERRY, FRYE, HOFFMAN & BUSSEY TAKE WINS ON FOSS JEWELERS CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- Foss Jewelers Championship Night at Selinsgrove Speedway Saturday produced some of the most exciting racing of the season, and the night was a roller coaster ride for several drivers in the hunt for track titles in the final points races of the season for the 360 sprint cars, super late models, pro stocks, and roadrunners.
Adam Carberry had a heartbreak moment a few weeks ago when a part broke while he was leading the 360 Sprint Car feature event. Carberry worked into lap traffic on lap eight while Michael Walter closed in on Carberry’s rear bumper in Saturday night’s 25-lap main event.
Carberry received an open race track when the yellow flag came out for Justin Whittall on lap nine. Carberry again broke away from the field while Walter and Cody Keller battled for the runner up spot.
Keller made a split-second decision to dive to the inside when Walter got stuck behind a lap car and grabbed the second spot. Keller began to close in on Carberry over the next few laps. Keller made up a lot of ground when Carberry got stuck behind a lap car with two to go.
Keller never got close enough to make the move as Carberry crossed the line for his first win at Selinsgrove Speedway and his first 360 Sprint Car win.
Carberry, Keller, Walter, Jason Shultz, and Eric Tomecek were the top five. Chad Layton, 2017 Mach 1 Chassis 360 sprint car points champion Davie Franek, Ryan Kissinger, Derek Locke, and Colby Womer rounded out the top ten.
Carberry and Kissinger were heat race winners for the 360 Sprinters.
Coleby Frye dominated the 25-lap Super Late Model feature event. Frye led from the front row while Jeff Rine charged from eighth to run second.
Rine closed in on Frye while he tried to make his way through lap traffic. Frye made the winning move in turns one and two when he made a three-wide pass in heavy traffic that Rine wasn’t able to make to remain in striking distance.
Once Frye cleared the traffic he was on track for the victory. At the finish, he crossed the line ahead of Rine, Dylan Yoder, Chad Hollenback, and Tony Adams.
Hayes Mattern finished sixth ahead of Dave Stamm, Kenny Trevitz, Kyle Rhoads, and Patrick Bryner.
Tony Adams was running fourth when the white flag was displayed. The spot was enough for him to win the championship. Hollenback passed Adams on the final corner to finish fourth and push Adams to fifth. With Mattern’s sixth-place finish he and Adams tied for the Jeff’s Auto Body & Recycling Center late model points championship.
AJ Hoffman and Brad Mitch gave the fans a thrilling end to the points paying season in the 15-lap A&A Auto Stores Pro Stock feature event. Hoffman led the feature race while Mitch pressured him. On one restart Hoffman got out of shape, but made a fantastic save.
On the next restart Mitch again began to challenge the leader. Hoffman, this time, would hang on to the top spot and start to pull away. Point leader Tommy Slanker moved into third and settled there over the final few laps allowing Mitch to continue his focus on the race leader.
Hoffman held on to grab his 48th career Selinsgrove Speedway win came over Mitch, Slanker, AJ Stroup, and Matt Hornberger.
Noah Jenson was sixth across the checkered flag ahead of Jake Buck, John Troxell, Wayne Shaffer, and Nick Gentile.
John Troxell, Kurt Wray, and Kyle Bachman won the heat races for the Pro Stocks.
The Collier Paving and Construction Roadrunner 20 led things off in the feature race line up on Saturday. Bob Bussey led much of the event while Keith Bissinger challenged him. Both drivers were previous winners of the big event. No one had ever won the race two times.
Bissinger put it all on the line on lap 14 when he dove to the inside of Bussey trying to take the victory. Bissinger slid up and tagged Bussey then spun to the inside of the track.
On the first lap point leader Will Bruson was involved in a wreck in turn one taking him out of the event. The fate of the championship sat in the hands of the now spun Bissinger who came into the night second in points.
Bussey’s race wasn’t over because Bissinger had to tag the back of the pack. Ryan Zook kept Bussey honest of the last six laps. Bussey held on to become the first two-time winner of the Roadrunner 20 that was worth $1,000. Zook was second followed by Brian Johnson, Michael Smith, and Tyler Amtower.
Bissinger finished sixth with Butch Shaffer, Tom Underwood, Dennis Conrad, and Brian Mabus in the top ten.
Bissinger originally crossed the line in seventh place which was enough for Brunson to claim the title. After the fifth place finisher came up light at the scale, Bissinger was credited with sixth. The bump up in points was enough for Bissinger to tie Brunson for the roadrunner points title.
Ben Leister, Jason Davis, and Corey Collier were the heat race winners for the Roadrunner 20.
Race night sponsor Foss Jewelers, located on Route 522 in Selinsgrove, has been serving friends and customers all across the central Pennsylvania region with affordable, high quality jewelry backed with unsurpassed customer service since 1949.
Dan Foss, now the sole proprietor of Foss Jewelers, sponsors the gold championship rings that will be presented to each of the track’s divisional champions at the awards banquet Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport. Banquet tickets are on sale now for $35 each for adults and $15 for kids ages 5-12.
Two of the four track championships Saturday night ended in a points tie, marking only the fourth and fifth times in Selinsgrove Speedway history.
Davie Franek clinched the Mach 1 Chassis 360 sprint car title, Tommy Slanker won the A&A Auto Stores pro stock title, the Jeff's Auto Body & Recycling Center super late model title chase ended in a points tie between
Hayes Mattern and Tony Adams, and the Collier Paving & Construction roadrunner championship ended in a points tie between Will Brunson and Keith Bissinger.
The last points championship tie at the track occurred in 2000 between 410 sprint car drivers Todd Shaffer and Keith Kauffman. The sprint car division also had a championship tie in 1964 between Dick Tobias and Leroy Felty. The late model division's only other title tie was in 1980 between Dale Kerstetter and Bob Smith.
Next weekend marks a two-race weekend over the Labor Day holiday at Selinsgrove Speedway!
The final 360 sprint car race of the year will be a 30-lap co-sanctioned event with the United Racing Club and Patriot Sprint Tour paying $3,000 to win and $300 to start Saturday, Sept. 2. The pro stocks and roadrunners will each run championship races.
Over the Labor Day Holiday weekend, Sunday, Sept. 3, the Craftsman World of Outlaws Late Model Series returns for the 40-lap, $8,000-to-win 19th annual Jeff’s Auto Body & Recycling Center Late Model National Open. The limited late models will share the racing card with the super late models.
Selinsgrove Speedway will close out the season Saturday, Sept. 16, with the $8,000-to-win Jim Nace Memorial 35th annual National Open for 410 sprint cars sanctioned by the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions. The 305 sprint cars, which were rained out on Aug. 19, have been rescheduled to join the 410 sprint cars at the track on Sept. 16.
For the latest news, results, and race status, visit selinsgrovespeedway.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. The speedway office can also be reached at 570.374.2266.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 26 August 2017 360 Sprint Cars – 18 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 47 Adam Carberry 2) 99K Cody Keller 3) 33 Michael Walter 4) 29 Jason Shultz 5) 1W Eric Tomecek 6) 35 Chad Layton 7) 28F Davie Franek 8) 66 Ryan Kissinger 9) 77 Derek Locke 10) 19 Colby Womer 11) 67W Justin Whittall 12) 76 Larry Kelleher 13) 13 Ryan Higgins 14) 49 Mallie Shuster 15) C4 Jim Shuster 16) 29S Derek Steward 17) 2T Michael Thomas 18) 71 Charlie Anderson Heat Winners: Adam Carberry, Ryan Kissinger Late Models – 16 Entries 25-Lap A-Main: 1) 0 Coleby Frye 2) 2J Jeff Rine 3) 24 Dylan Yoder 4) 4D Chad Hollenbeck 5) 88 Tony Adams 6) 9 Hayes Mattern 7) 10 Dave Stamm 8) 61 Ken Trevitz 9) 90 Kyle Rhoads 10) 4P Patrick Bryner 11) 7M Meade Hahn 12) 2 Steve Campbell 13) 63 Nathan Long 14) Jan Rohacevich 15) 15 Luke Hoffner 16) 77D Dick Houtz Heat Winners: Coleby Frye, Dylan Yoder Pro Stocks – 24 Entries 15-Lap A-Main: 1) 6C AJ Hoffman 2) 10M Brad Mitch 3) 40 Tommy Slanker 4) 26 AJ Stroup 5) 88 Matt Hornberger 6) 6 Noah Jensen 7) 11B Jake Buck 8) 55T John Troxell 9) 86 Wayne Shaffer 10) 40G Nick Gentile 11) 6N Cory Long 12) 14C Bill Conrad 13) 99B Kyle Bachman 14) 71 Kurt Wray 15) 99 Peanut Heintzelman 16) 55 Lori Croop 17) 15 Dustin Snook 18) S8 Andrew Shoop 19) 8M Brandon Moser 20) 92 Shaun Lawton 21) 26 Nate Stroup 22) 70J John Schreffler 23) 89 John Schoch 24) 8K Jeremy Kline Heat Winners: John Troxell, Kurt Wray, Kyle Bachman Roadrunners – 20 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 76 Bob Bussey 2) 28 Ryan Zook 3) 201 Brian Johnson 4) 76S Michael Smith 5) 19 Tyler Amtower 6) 11 Keith Bissinger 7) 7 Kyle Kissinger 8) 12 Tom Underwood 9) 41D Dennis Conrad 10) 2B Brian Mabus 11) 88 Jason Davis 12) 44C Corey Collier 13) 14 Ryan Leister 14) 1 Smith Cope 15) 28 Curtis Lawton 16) 32 Ken Schreffler 17) 3 Tommy Brunson 18) 77 Jeff Waltz 19) 41 Ben Leister 20) 8B Will Brunson Heat Winners: Ben Leister, Jason Davis, Corey Collier
September 2, 2017
Cancelled - Rain
September 3, 2017
RINE SCORES FIRST CAREER WORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL SERIES VICTORY IN 19th ANNUAL JEFF’S AUTO BODY & RECYCLING CENTER NATIONAL OPEN SUNDAY AT SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY!
KRAPE NOTCHES LIMITED LATE MODEL WIN
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Sunday night marked the annual appearance of the Craftsman World of Outlaw Late Model Series at Selinsgrove Speedway. Following a delayed start due to nuisance rain showers in the afternoon, the 19th annual 40-lap, $8,000-to-win Jeff’s Auto Body and Recycling Center Late Model National Open welcomed some of the area’s best Late Model drivers to the speedway to challenge the traveling Outlaws.
12-time track champion Jeff Rine of Danville bolted into the top spot on the start of the main event and led former World of Outlaws champion and polesitter Rick Eckert out of turn two on the opening circuit.
Rine continued to cut through lap traffic when he caught the tail of the field on lap eight. Current World of Outlaws points leader Brandon Sheppard kept pace and pulled away from the rest of the field as he did so. Sheppard worked a little more cautiously through the traffic, but there were no lap cars between the leaders when the yellow flag was displayed for the first time on lap 14 for Shane Clanton.
Chris Madden made the move on the restart to take over the third spot as Rine again broke away from the field when the race resumed with Sheppard and Madden in chase.
The caution flag flew on lap 19 for the second time in the event. Rine jumped away again on the restart, but only one lap made it to the scoreboard before the caution flag was seen again.
The lap marked the half way mark of the race with Rine the leader over Sheppard, Madden, Eckert, and Devin Devin Moran.
Rine and Sheppard went to battle on the ensuing restart. Sheppard pulled even with Rine off of turn four, but Rine shut the door. A yellow flag came out for Eckert who slowed from the third spot with 12 to go settled the battle for the top spot for a few second.
Sheppard looked like he was searching for some more racing line on the next restart before his right rear tire went down and he slowed on the backstretch.
Rine now led Madden and Moran for the lap 29 restart.
A four lap stretch ran before a yellow was thrown for Andy Haus as Sheppard retired with an over-heating race car. The car on the move was Coleby Frye from his 20th starting spot to run sixth with seven laps to go.
On the next restart Rine would seal his fate pulling away from the field and grabbing his first World of Outlaw series win in front of the Selinsgrove faithful.
Chris Madden and Devin Moran made up the podium finishers.
“It’s just awesome,” said Rine in victory lane. “I couldn’t do it without Jeff and Kathy [Kurtz] and my crew.”
Frank Heckenast Jr. and Morgan Bagley were the top five across the line.
Coleby Frye ended his charge in sixth followed by Chub Frank, Dylan Yoder, Bryan Bernheisel, and Tyler Erb.
The night’s quick time went to Brandon Sheppard with a 19.266.
Heat race wins were taken by Brandon Sheppard, Rick Eckert, and Shane Clanton.
The last chance showdown went to Chad Hollenbeck. 27 Super Late Models were on hand for competition on Sunday night.
Billy Moyer Jr. was the defending winner of the event.
George Dixon led the early laps of the 20-lap, $1,000-to-win Limited Late Model feature. Dixon showed the way with pressure from Matt Cochran.
Dixon stayed committed to the inside line before Tim Krape charged from his fifth starting spot to wrestle the lead away on the outside on lap 13.
Krape had to withstand a restart with just one lap to go. A good start at the drop of the green allowed Krape to get away from the rest of the field on his way to his second win of the season at Selinsgrove; his first was an Econo Late Model victory.
Krape crossed the line ahead of Dixon, Cochran, Brian Shuey, and Andrew Yoder.
Randy Christine was sixth with Shaun Miller, Eric Irvin, Travis Mease, and Dan Zechman finishing out the top ten finishers.
24 Limited Late Models signed in with heat race wins going to Todd Snook, Eric Irvin, and Tim Krape.
There will be no racing on Saturday, September 8.
Selinsgrove Speedway will return to action on Saturday, September 16, with the $8,000-to-win Jim Nace Memorial National Open for the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions 410 Sprint Cars. Joining the 410 Sprinters that night will be the 305 Sprint Cars that were rained out on August 19.
The Sept. 16 National Open for 410 sprint cars will close out the 2017 racing season.
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SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY - 3 September 2017 Super Late Models – 27 Entries 40-LapA-Main: 1) 2J Jeff Rine 2) 44 Chris Madden 3) 9 Devin Moran 4) 99J Frank Heckennast Jr. 5) 14M Morgan Bagley 6) 0 Coleby Frye 7) 1* Chub Frank 8) 24 Dylan Yoder 9) 119 Bryan Bernheisel 10) 91 Tyler Erb 11) 55 Gary Stuhler 12) 14Z Dave Brouse Jr. 13) 76 Andy Haus 14) 1 Brandon Sheppard 15) C33 Chris Casner 16) 7 Rick Eckert 17) 25 Shane Clanton 18) 86 Austin Berry 19) 90 Kyle Rhoads 20) 18 Eric Wells 21) 10 Dave Stamm 22) 66C Matt Cosner 23) 9M Hayes Mattern 24) 06 Mike Lupfer 25) 4Ds Chad Hollenbeck Heat Winners: Brandon Sheppard, Rick Eckert, Shane Clanton
B-Main Winner: Chad Hollenbeck
Time Trials: 1) 1 Brandon Sheppard 19.266 2) 7 Rick Eckert 19.436 3) 44 Chris Madden 19.452 4) 9 Devin Moran 19.496 5) 2J Jeff Rine 19.498 6) 25 Shane Clanton 19.498 7) 99J Frank Heckenast Jr. 19.593 8) 14M Morgan Bagley 19.653 9) 1* Chub Frank 19.701 10) 66C Matt Cosner 19.795 11) 24 Dylan Yoder 19.831 12) 55 Gary Stuhler 19.900 13) C33 Chris Casner 19.918 14) 119 Bryan Bernheisel 19.925 15) 06 Mike Lupfer 20.080 16) 18 Eric Wells 20.081 17) 91 Tyler Erb 20.500 18) 76 Andy Haus 20.602 19) 86 Austin Berry 20.609 20) 24Y Jim Yoder 20.710 21) 9M Hayes Mattern 20.760 22) 4Ds Chad Hollenbeck 21.271 23) 14Z Dave Brouse Jr. 21.275 24) 90 Kyle Rhoads 21.286 25) 10 Dave Stamm 21.863 26) 0 Coleby Frye DNT 27) 3 Tim Wilson DNT
Limited Late Models – 24 Entries 20-Lap A-Main: 1) 07 Tim Krape 2) 77 George Dixon Jr. 3) 16 Matt Cochran 4) 177 Brian Shuey 5) 2 Andrew Yoder 6) 74 Randy Christine 7) 115 Shaun Miller 8) 87 Eric Irvin 9) 116 Travis Mease 10) 2Z Dan Zechman 11) 7Y Kenny Yoder 12) 57 Mike Smith 13) 62 Devin Frey 14) 000 Matt Nailor 15) 22 Eric Hohol 16) 20 John Myers 17) 11B Ronnie Bottenfield 18) 68R Kevin Probst 19) 21 Doug Ishler 20) 30 Andy Snyder 21) 83 Matt Wilson 22) 32J Shaun Jones 23) 5J Jeremy Ohl 24) 23 Todd Snook Heat Winners: Todd Snook, Eric Irvin, Tim Krape
September 9, 2017
NO RACING
September 16, 2017
BROWN WINS ASCoC JIM NACE MEMORIAL NATIONAL OPEN IN FIRST CAREER SPRINT CAR START AT SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SATURDAY
SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- Although Brian Brown of Grain Valley, Mo., had never been to Selinsgrove Speedway before, he had a connection to the speedway and the final race of the season that was run Saturday. The Jim Nace Memorial 35th Annual National Open was special to Brown because his engine builder, Charlie Garrett, had built engines for Nace’s sprint cars as well.
At the start of the 30-lap, $8,000-to-win All Star Circuit of Champions 410 sprint car main event, outside front row start Brown outran polesitter James McFadden into turn one. Brown led the field until a red flag on lap three was displayed for Caleb Armstrong who flipped on the back stretch.
The field restarted, but then TJ Stutts flipped in turn four to bring out the red flag again on lap four. No driver injuries were reported.
Third-place starter Brock Zearfoss was the car on the move when the green flag came back out. Zearfoss was soon third closing in on James McFadden.
McFadden began to close a straight-away down to car lengths as Brown tried to work through the lap traffic. Brown negotiated the lap cars cautiously while McFadden and Zearfoss pushed as hard as they could to close the gap. Zearfoss made the pass of McFadden for second before McFadden slowed.
McFadden’s car stopped on the front stretch with mechanical issues to bring out the caution on lap 12. The opportunity for Brown to have an open race track on lap 12 was just what he needed. Brown pulled away to a large lead over Zearfoss while Zearfoss battled with fifth-place starter Greg Hodnett.
Trey Starks started 21st after breaking in his heat race. By the half way mark, Starks, had driven into the seventh spot.
Brown was just catching the tail of the field again when the yellow flag was presented on lap 21 for the All Star point leader Chad Kemenah when his car came to a stop in turn two.
Zearfoss knew with only ten laps remaining he would need to make his move on the restart. Zearfoss dove to the inside of Brown in turn one, but Brown was too strong off the outside of the speedway taking the race lead back.
Brown did catch lap traffic with two laps to go, but this time Zearfoss gained no ground.
Brown led the remaining laps on his way to his first All Star win in the National Open.
In victory lane Brown credited his crew with their hard work and his sponsors for their support to allow him to come to Pennsylvania to compete.
“I guess a half mile is to my liking. It’s not the same exact layout as Knoxville, but it has its similarities. I never seen the place before tonight and we were quickest in hot laps here tonight,” said Brown in Victory Lane. “Open air was so important, as it is anywhere, and we were able to take advantage of it tonight.”
Brown, Zearfoss, and Hodnett were the podium finishers. Anthony Macri finished fourth ahead of Trey Starks. Starks, the night’s Fast Tees Fast Timer over the 40-car field, was the hard charger gaining 16 spots.
Lucas Wolfe finished in sixth followed Danny Dietrich, Ryan Smith, Jason Schultz, and Tony Stewart.
Heat race wins went to Tim Kaeding, Blane Heimbach, Ryan Smith, Anthony Macri, while Trey Starks won the B-Main.
McFadden and Brown won the Dash’s.
Tommy Slanker led every lap of the Pro Stock season finale. Slanker, the 2017 track champion, took the lead right at the drop of the green flag. Shaun Lawton spent the race chasing Slanker but had to settle for second. Dustin Snook was third.
Cory Long and Brandon Moser were the remaining cars in the top five. Sixth through tenth finishing spots were taken by Kurt Wray, John Troxell, Noah Jenson, Matt Hornberger, and Bill Conrad.
Kyle Bachman and Shaun Lawton won the heat races.
The speedway was battling the threat of fog for much of the main events after an early evening rain shower. The fog got too thick to complete the night’s 305 Sprint Car feature in a safe manner. The cars were on the track, but then sent to the pit area. The purse was split equally between the drivers in the feature event.
Tyler Reeser, Tyler Denochick, and Dave Grube won the heat races for the 305 Sprint Cars.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY RACE SUMMARY: 16 September 2017 410 Sprint Cars – 40 Entries 30-Lap A-Main: 1) 21 Brian Brown 2) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 3) 27 Greg Hodnett 4) 39M Anthony Macri 5) 44 Trey Starks 6) 24 Lucas Wolfe 7) 29 Danny Dietrich 8) 94 Ryan Smith 9) 29 Jason Shultz 10) 14 Tony Stewart 11) M1 Mark Smith 12) 38 Steve Buckwalter 13) 5 Justin Barger 14) 41 Ryan Taylor 15) 3K Tim Kaeding 16) 13 Brandon Matus 17) 95 Hunter Mackinson 18) 10H Chad Kemenah 19) 51 John Garvin 20) 0 Rick Laferty 21) 3 James McFadden 22) 12 Blane Heimbach 23) 11 TJ Stutts 24) 17 Caleb Helms 25) 7C Caleb Armstrong Heat Winners: Tim Kaeding, Blane Heimbach, Dash Winners: James McFadden, Brian Brown B-Main Winner: Trey Starks
Time Trials: 1) 44 Trey Starks 15.995 2) Brian Brown 16.103 3) 10H Chad Kemenah 16.208 4) 27 Greg Hodnett 16.263 5) 11 TJ Stutts 16.320 6) 1Z Dale Blaney 16.333 7) 94 Ryan Smith 16.349 8) 17 Caleb Helms 16.377 9) 3K Tim Kaeding 16.412 10) 29 Danny Dietrich 16.440 11) 3Z Brock Zearfoss 16.453 12) 29S Jason Shultz 16.455 13) 3 James McFadden 16.459 14) 12 Blane Heimbach 16.505 15) 24 Lucas Wolfe 16.509 16) Tony Stewart 16.522 17) 35 Tyler Esh 16.549 18) Rick Lafferty 16.584 19) 39M Anthony Macri 16.586 20) 1080 Jordan Mackinson16.641 21) Justin Barger 16.642 22) Steve Buckwalter 16.649 23) 41 Ryan Taylor 16.656 24) 8M TJ Michael 16.663 25) 7 Kyle Reinhardt 16.668 26) M1 Mark Smith 27) 95 Hunter Mackison 16.696 28) 7C Caleb Armstrong 16.704 29) 91 Anthony Fiore 16.767 30) 33W Michael Walter 16.788 31) 33M Max Stabbaugh 16.801 32) 13 Brent Matus 16.834 33) C4 Jim Shuster 17.057 34) 9C Roger Campbell 17.155 35) 51 John Garvin 17.193 36) 49 Mallie Shuster 17.232 37) 35S Daryl Stimeling 17.298 38) 22 Brandon Spithaler 17.476 39) 10 Joe Kata 17.836 40) 33 Brent Matus 18.760