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March 18, 2023
‘ICEBREAKER’ - SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
‘Icebreaker’ Modiefieds (40 laps)
Michael Maresca, Billy Pauch, Jr., Matt Stangle, Alex Payne, Danny Creeden, Jeff Strunk, Mike Mahaney, Matt Sheppard, Peter Britten, David Schilling, Ryan Krachun, Mike Gular, Jimmy Horton, Ryan Watt, Michael Trautschold, Brandon Grosso, Danny Johnson, Tyler Dippel, Ryan Riddle, Danny Bouc, Andy Bachetti, Dillon Steuer, Ryan Godown, Billy Osmun, Ajay Potrzebowski, Jr., Jordan Watson
Did Not Qualify: Bud Phillps, Cale Ross, Kevin Root, Joseph Watson, Bobby Watkins, Sammy Martz, Jr., Shawn McPhee, Rick Laubach
Crate 602 Sportsman (25 laps)
Joe Toth, Tom Moore, Jr., Kyle Smith, Brandon Edgar, Dylan Madsen, Matt Smith, Rick Wegner, Jr., Dakota Kohler, Kris Lilick, Nick Van Wickle, Paulie Hartwig III, David Miloszar, Ryan Simmons, James Friesen, Mike Nagel, Jr., Stephen Kemery, Tim Guild, Brandon Watkins, Brad Brightbill, Dylan Swinehart, Matt Peck, Brian Papiez, Greg Crooker, Trent Willey, Logan Watt, Levi Riley, Scott Hitchens
Did Not Qualify: Adam White, Talan Carter, Bubba McPhee, Matt Yoder, Bryan Rhoads, Michael White, Richie Walls, Jr., Noah Mamo, Ben Feldman, Thomas Moon, Chris Jukubiak, Kasey Hufcut, Nick Giardina, Andy Ressler, Thomas Prychka, Joey Vaccaro, Eric Kormann
April 1, 2023
Cancelled – Weather
April 8, 2023
Cancelled – Water Leak
April 22, 2023
Cancelled - Rain
April 23, 2023
Dietrich, Stremme win in Selinsgrove Speedway’s return
By Steve Williams For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - Under sunny skies and buffeted by a brisk wind, Selinsgrove Speedway got the second part of its season underway Sunday.
The track took a two-week hiatus after a water leak at the decades-old facility.
Former track champion Danny Dietrich, of Gettysburg, was the winner in the 410 sprint cars feature, while former NASCAR driver David Stremme won the I MCA Modifieds event.
Blane Heimbach shot from the pole position to the front of the sprint car feature, followed by Dylan Cisney, Dietrich, Tyler Ross and Anthony Macri. Heimbach and Cisney exchanged the lead until lap five when Cisney took control.
Two laps later, Dietrich moved to second, and Macri followed into third.
Cisney opened a 1 '/2-- seconds lead, but Dietrich was on his tail by lap 18 and tried to get around on the high side of turn four. Dietrich got loose, which allowed Cisney to get away. It appeared as though Cisney was headed to victory lane when Dietrich changed to the low line and drove into the lead coming off the second turn on lap 23, ultimately winning by 0.158 seconds.
“We were all running around the high side,” Dietrich said. “I knew if I wanted to get by him, I was going to have to change my line. So I went down low.
“We’ve been mixing and matching the old and the new tires.” Dietrich added, referring to new tires Hoosier introduced. “It’s been working out pretty good for us. We’ve been really consistent here at the beginning of the season. My guys have been working really hard, and it shows.”
Cisney, Macri, Heimbach and Devon Borden rounded out the top five.
The 410 heats were won by Freddie Rahmer, Dietrich and Heimbach. Macri set a fast time of 17.247 seconds in the time trials.
Stremme, who started the modified race in 10th position, took the lead on the third lap and drove to an easy victory.
Rich Michael Jr., Eddie Sites, Brad Sites and Rodney Morgan finished in the top five.
Keith Jack and Michael Jr. won the the IMCA Modified heats.
410 Sprint Car Results
Danny Dietrich #48, Dylan Cisney #5, Anthony Macri #20, Blane Heimbach #12, Devon Borden #23, Jeff Halligan #45, Freddie Rahmer #51, Tyler Ross #75, Jason Shultz #35, Kyle Reinhardt #91, Lucas Wolfe #5w, Justin Whittall #67, Chris Windom #4, Mike Walter II #33w, Billy Dietrich #12b, TJ Stutts #11, Austin Bishop #11a, JJ Hickle #97, Tim Wagaman #11p, Tyler Bear #77, Jake Karklin #5k, Sean Rayhall #19, Dustin Baney #24, Steven Kissamore #77k, Devin Adams #99, Mark Smith #19
IMCA Modifieds
David Stremme #35, Rich Michale Jr #17x, Eddie Sites #5s, Brad Sites #115, Rodney Morgan #89, Mike Stoddard #23, Gary Roberts #U23, Randall Paxton #22, Bobby Maynard #29, Tyler Belcher #7, Keith Jack #98k, matt Benjamin #9, Lane Conley #69c, #777 (DNS)
May 6, 2023
Fannasy, Frye, Bissinger win at Selinsgrove
By Steve Williams
For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - The Winged Super Sportsmen made a stop at Selinsgrove Speedway Saturday night and Jay Fannasy pulled off the win. The Late Models and Roadrunners were also making their first appearance of the season with Coleby Frye winning the Late Models and Keith Bissinger parked “The Tank” in the Roadrunner Victory Lane.
Matt Ondek shot to the front of the Super Sportsmen feature, and was followed by John Edkin, Jay Fannasy, Scott Dellinger and Tony Rhome. By lap 3, Fannasy got by Edkin then got inside of Ondek and passed him for the lead off turn two. Lap 11 caution put Edkin on Fannasy’s nerf bar, but Fannasey pulled away. Late in the race, Edkin drew close, but couldn’t make a pass for the lead. Fannasy ran the rest of the distance and took the checkered flag over Edkin, Tony Jackson, Ondek and Kenny Edkin. “I saw the push trucks running in the top groove.” Fannasy said. “I put my car up there and didn’t lift until I saw the 22 (Daniel John) blow a tire and then I held on. “I had oil sprayed all over my drivers’ suit a few weeks ago, and Lucas Wolfe lent me one of his. He may not get it back.” Sportsmen heats went to Jackson, Mike Enders and Dellinger.
Frye rocketed to the front of the Late Model race followed by Bryan Bernheisel, Dylan Yoder, Jim Bernheisel and Chris Casner. The caution came out on lap four when Jim Bernheisel slammed the inside backstretch fence and collected Gene Knaub. The track was immediately red flagged to make the cleanup efforts easier. The drivers were uninjured. Frye stayed in front on the double-file restart, but Yoder went up to the fence and passed Bryan Bernheisel for second. Yoder dogged Frye for several laps hoping to take advantage of lapped traffic, but Frye sliced through, opening an even larger lead. A lap 12 caution for Eric Hons slowed the pace. The side-by-side restart put Yoder on the front row but this time Bernheisel slid underneath to regain second and brought Dan Stone along into third. Yoder fought his way back ahead of Stone and planted the nose of his number 24 racer on the rear bumper of Bernheisel. The front three ran nose to tail through lapped traffic when Stone rejoined the fray.
A lap 24 caution grouped the field again, but this time without Bernheisel who dropped from the action. Frye led the final lap winning over Yoder, Stone, Andrew Yoder and Deshawn Gingerich. “This is our first race of the season, so I didn’t want to see those cautions.” Frye said. “It did give me a chance to catch my breath though. I’ve been working hard all winter and haven’t had a chance to work out. “I saw (Dylan) Yoder pull beside me on the front stretch but my car was getting through the middle of the turn. I did screw up on that last lap and missed my mark and got up high. Yoder must have been back a little bit.” Stone, Jim Yoder and Bryan Bernheisel were winners in the Late Model heats.
Matt Ney took the Roadrunner race lead, but all eyes were on Bissinger, who slid into second from row three. Levi Vial, Tom Underwood and Jake Jones followed in the top five. Bissinger used the marbles by the fence on the second lap to take the lead. By the middle part of the race, Jones was all over the back of “The Tank” as the pair got some separation on the rest of the field. Late in the race Vial pulled to Jones rear when the caution flew on the last lap. That was bad news for Jones, who withdrew from the race with a smoking engine, Bissinger won over Vial, Ney, Underwood and Nate Romig. Vial and Romig won the Roadrunner heats.
Super Late Models (23 Entries), 25 laps:
1) 32 Coleby Frye 2) 24 Dylan Yoder 3) 2 Dan Stone 4) 2 Andrew Yoder 5) 0G Deshawn Gingerich 6) C33 Chris Casner 7) 22 Brett Schadel 8) 27 Jim Yoder 9) 21H Joey Hoffer 10) 93 Cory Lawler 11) 20KColin Knaub 12) 19 Drew Weisser, 13) 7 Meade Hahn 14) 13M JT McLannigan 15) 12M Tyson Mowery 16) 88T Ernie Millon 17) 25K Kody Lyter 18) 89 John Schoch 19) 119 Bryan Bernheisel 20) 74 Randy Christine 21) 45 Eric Hons 22) 31 Jim Bernheisel 23) 1 Gene Knaub
Winged Super Sportsman (22 Entries), 20 laps:
1) 222 Jay Fannasy 2) 35 John Edkin 3) 88 Tony Jackson 4) 2m Matt Ondek 5) 55 Kenny Edkin 6) 30 Scott Dellinger 7) 3B Mike Enders 8) 11 Scott Geesey 9) 25 Tyler Wolford 10) 5D Luke Deatrick 11) 10 Troy Rhome 12) 42 Troy Fraker 13) 6s Shane McConnell 14) F14 Jason Fraker 15) 22 Daniel John 16) 29 Vaughn Williams 17) 91 Lanny Hake 19) 9B Blake Brooks
DNS: 66 Trent Yoder, 7 Timmie Barrick, 19R Eric Rutz, 55 Chad Criswell
** Criswell withdrew and allowed Kenny Edkin to run feature.
Roadrunners (14 Entries),12 laps:
1) 11B Keith Bissinger 2) 19 Levi Vial 3) 5 Matt Nye 4) 12 Tom Underwood 5) 25J Nate Romig 6) 77 Scott Dunham Jr 7) 83 Bob Bussey 8) 4X Chris Stredecker 9) 28 Miranda Minium 10) 7 Jake Jones 11) 3 Tom Brunson 12) 5W Rodney Wagner 13) 51 Hunter Whitcomb 14) 14 Cory Lindenmuth
May 14, 2023
Macri, Frye earn victories at Selinsgrove
By Steve Williams
For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - The Selinsgrove Speedway honored a past champion Sunday night with Anthony Macri wiring the field in the Ray Tilley Classic.
Coleby Frye made it two in a row in the Late Models.
The Speedway also honored Sharon Williamson, wife of former Sprint Car track champion Kramer Williamson. Sharon passed away earlier in the week and the fans, racers and officials wore pink.
Macri rocketed to the front of the Tilley Classic over Tyler Ross, Danny Dietrich, Rico Abreu and Lucas Wolfe.
Macri, who has been splitting time between competing locally and racing in the Mid-West, opened a big lead and the even lapped traffic didn’t slow him down. By the halfway point, he led by over five seconds.
With 10 laps remaining, the battle for second heated up as Dietrich got by Ross and Abreu was soon on his tail tank.
A caution flag slowed the field with four laps remaining.
With Dietrich on Macri’s tail, he moved up to the outside while Macri held his racer down low. Dietrich got to his tail, but eventually Macri prevailed by 1.58 seconds over Dietrich, Abreu, Ross and Justin Whittal.
“I really didn’t know how far we were into the race when the yellow came out,” Macri said. “I was using the high groove, but I knew it would rubber up and I’d have to come down low. I saw some of the lapped cars were faster down low than I was up high, so that’s when I came down.”
‘At these speeds we just react, we don’t really have a lot of time to think. We’ve been racing a lot all over the place and it really helps.”
Abreu, Macri and Michael Walter earned wins in Sprint Car heat races. Ross set a fast time of 17.051 seconds in time trials.
Austin Berry jumped to the front of the Late Model race followed by Dylan Yoder, Frye, Nathan Long and Brett Schadel.
Hayes Mattern brought out a lap four caution, spinning in the first turn.
With the Late Models restarting side by side, Frye and Berry raced even until Berry took control again. The restart benefitted Rick Eckert, who moved into the top five.
On laD 13. Frve was able to nose under Berry and root him up out of the bottom lane, taking the lead at the start-finish line. Two laps later, the caution flew again for debris on the speedway.
Jason Hons spun on lap 17, collecting Kody Lyter in the process. Both cars continued.
Frye led the final laps for his second consecutive win over Berry, Yoder, Schadel and Eckert.
“The track reallv rubbered up, so I knew that lapped traffic would come into play.” Frye said. “That’s why I jumped on Austin when I could. When you are really fast here, sometimes you have to jump out of your lane, but I tried to stay low.”
“We come here to race. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but we come to win.”
Frye, Yoder and Eckert won Late Model heats.
410 Sprint Cars (23 Entries), 25 Laps:
1) 39M Anthony Macri, 2) 48 Danny Dietrich, 3) 24 Rico Abreu, 4) 75D Tyler Ross, 5) 67 Justin Whittall, 6) 5 Dylan Cisney, 7) 23 Devon Borden, 8) 33W Michael Walter II, 9) 35A Austin Bishop, 10) 35 Jason Shultz, 11) 12 Blane Heimbach, 12) 6 Ryan Smith, 13) 1M Landon Myers, 14) 20 Ryan Tayler, 15) 5W Lucas Wolfe, 16) 5K Jake Karklin, 17) 20P Justin Peck, 18) 24B Dustin Baney, 19) 22 Tanner Brown, 20) 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr, 21) 11 TJ Stutts, 22) D57 Jeff Miller, DNS 51 Freddie Rahmer
Super Late Models (23 Entries), 25 Laps:
1) 32 Coleby Frye, 2) 86 Austin Berry, 3) 24 Dylan Yoder, 4) 22 Brett Schadel, 5) 0 Rick Eckert, 6) 31 Jim Bernheisel, 7) 63 Nathan Long, 8) 93 Cory Lawler, 9) 2J Jeff Rine, 10) 2 Andrew Yoder, 11) 32J Devin Hart, 12) 27 Jim Yoder, 13) 0 Deshawn Gingerich, 14) 06 Mike Lupfer, 15) 7 Meade Hahn, 16) 20K Colin Knaub, 17) 25K Kody Lyter, 18) 00 Alex Libby, 19) 45 Jason Hons, 20) 2 Dan Stone, 21) 9 Hayes Mattern, 22) 119 Bryan Bernheisel, DNS C33 Chris Casner
May 20, 2023
MOTHER NATURE COULDN’T STOP US THIS TIME!
Steve Williams for the Daily Item
SELINSGROVE, PA – Logan Spahr extended his winning streak to five with the Pennsylvania Sprint Series following a win in the 20-lap feature for the 305 sprints Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway.
In stock car action, Devin Hart won the 20-lap limited late model feature and Jake Jones the 12-lap roadrunner feature.
The show was completed quickly after rain delayed the start a few hours.
Spahr, of Lewisberry, started third in the feature as defending track champion Ken Duke Jr. grabbed the lead. On a fast racing surface, they quickly started lapping cars. Spahr grabbed the lead as they raced into turn three in heavy traffic on lap 10.
Duke stayed with him challenging for the lead a few laps later in turn three, but couldn’t complete the pass. It was Spahr scoring a record-setting fifth straight series win by about 1-second over Duke.
“Hats off to Selinsgrove, that was a great race track,” Spahr said. “I know how good Ken is on the bottom. Once I saw his nose down there, I had to take his line away as quick as I could. We went three-wide downthere and it was great racing.”
Doug Dodson, Owen Dimm and Seth Schnoke completed the top five. Austin Reed, Croix Beasom, Kruz Kepner, Zach Rhodes and Timmy Bitner rounded out the top 10.
Josh Spicer was the Hard Charger. He finished 13th.
Spahr has the fastest lap in warm-ups at 18.676 earning the Jim “Slippery” Snyder Fast Time Award and $50. The award was presented by Brian Snyder in honor of his dad, who passed away recently and hadbeen a push truck driver at Selinsgrove, and other area speedways, for over 50 years.
Kepner, Dodson and Bitner won the heat races.
Devin Hart, of Port Royal, came out on top of a wild feature for the limited late models that saw several drivers battle for the top spot. Ryan Zook and Andrew Yoder followed Hart. Casey Steinhoff was the HardCharger.
Brenneman, Yoder and Smith won the heat races.
Jake Jones won the Roadrunner Challenge and $600. Levi Vail, Ty Huntsberger, Keith Bissinger and Nate Romig completed the top five. Eighth place finisher Hunter Whitcomb was the Hard Charger.
The speedway returns to action Saturday night, June 3, with a program of 360/358 sprints and limited late models. Gates open at 5 with racing at 7.
PASS 305 Sprint Car Feature (20 laps): 1. 5 Logan Spahr. 2. 67 Ken Duke Jr. 3. 20 Doug Dodson. 4. 17 Owen Dimm. 5. 29R Seth Schnoke. 6. 34 Austin Reed. 7. 98 Croix Beasom. 8. 19 Kruz Kepner. 9. 31 Zach Rhodes. 10. 01 Timmy Bitner. 11.5J Logan Jones. 12. 7 Drew Young. 13. 71 Josh Spicer. 14. 97 Kenny Heffner. 15. 25 Dustin Young. 16. 1M Paul Moyer. 17. 36 Domenic Melair. 18. 2 Erin Statler. 19. 56 Tyler Snook. 20. 06K Eric Knepp. 21. 99 Jonathan Swift. 22. 46 Mike Alleman. 23. 19K Chris Kreider. 24. 28 Jason Roush. 25. 77 Rick Romig. 26. 48 Derek Swartz. 27. 9 Mariah Romig
Limited Late Model Feature (20 laps): 1. 33K Devin Hart. 2. 28Z Ryan Zook. 3. 2 Andrew Yoder. 4. 2M Shawn Miller. 5. 58 Maddox Smith. 6. 22 Casey Steinhoff. 7. 24 Daulton Bigler. 8. 92 Shaun Lawton. 9. 12M Tyson Mowery. 10. 12K Jared Fulkroad. 11. 72 Kaiden Bard. 12. 32 Chris Leitzel. 13. 18C Dan Condo. 14. 33 Trent Brenneman. 15. 11T JR Toner. 16. 27X Cayden Ranck. 17. 89 John Schoch. 18. 86 Wayne Schaffer. 19. 27 Dylan Yoder. DNS- K32 Harold Ranck, 79 Chase Bowsman.
Roadrunner Feature (12 laps): 1. 7 Jake Jones. 2. 19 Levi Vail. 3. 65 Ty Huntsberger 4. 11B Keith Bissinger. 5. 25J Nate Romig. 6. 77 Scott Dunham Jr. 7. 91 Will Long. 8. 51 Hunter Whitcomb 9. 12 Tom Underwood. 10. 28 Miranda Minium. 11. 54 Chase Rehbein. 12. 6 Gordie Marshal. 13. 14 Cory Lindenmuth. 14. 4 Les Scrivens. 15. 40 Jim Farley. 16. 33 Mike Goodwin. 17. 5 Matt Ney. DNS- 3 Tom Brunson, 83 Bob Bussey, 5W Rodney Wagner, 4X Nick Strohele, 7J Johnny Palm.
June 3, 2023
Cancelled - Weather
June 10, 2023
Steve Williams for The Daily Item
Austin Reed, Daulton Bigler and Levi Vial Take June 10 Checkers
Austin Reed shed some early season misfortune Saturday Night at the Selinsgrove Speedway winning the PASS 305 Sprint Car feature.
Daulton Bigler wired the Limited Late Model field for his first win at the speedway.
Reed rocketed to the front of the Sprint Car feature from the outside pole position followed Doug Dodson from the second row,pole sitter Kenny Heffner, Erick Knopp and Logan Jones.
Mike Alleman rolled to a stop in the fourth turn bringing out a lap one caution.
On the restart Reed and Dodson opened a gap on the rest of the field running nose to tail.
A lap nine tangle between Colton Hoover and Dustin Young brought the yellow out as the front pair was starting to hit lapped traffic.
Dodson applied pressure on the low side while Ken Duke Jr and Logan Spahr made big moves further back in the pack.
Reed was able to keep Dodson behind him the rest of the distance winning by 1.021 seconds. Spahr, Heffner and Duke Jr. Rounded out the top five.
“I like these high speed places.” Reed said. “Our season hasn’t been going as good as we had hoped but this will help. I knew Doug (Dodson) was down there so I just held her steady.”
It was Reed’s second ever win at the speedway.
305 Sprint Car heats were won by Kopp, Dodson, Seth Schnoke and Logan Jones. Dustin Young won the B-Main.
Daulton Bigler got the jump on Devin Frey and took the lead of the Limited Late Model race. Jim Yoder, DJ Myers and Tyson Mowery followed.
JR Toner brought out his second caution with a spin in turn two on lap four. Toner withdrew from the competition.
As the front pair drove away, Myers got by Yoder for third and Tommy Slanker started applying pressure on Yoder for fourth. Myers soon joined the front two battling for the point.
Frey, while racing a close second, slowed on lap 12 bringing out the caution flag.
Myers tested Bigler over the next several laps trying to get underneath but Bigler held on for his first win by 4.3 seconds over, Myers, Yoder, Slanker and Zach Kauffman.
“I knew Devin (Frey) was underneath me a couple of times.” Bigler said. “We’ve been friends for a long time so I knew he’d race me clean. We had on hard tires so it took a while for them to come in after the cautions.”
Frey, Bigler and Myers won Limited Late Model heats .
Levi Vial came from deep in the pack to win his first Roadrunner feature of the season. The race was checkered after troubles caused the race to exceed the 20 minute time limit.
Jake Jones, Keith Bissinger, Alex Updegraff and Mike Goodwin rounded out the top five.
Nate Romig, Bob Scott and Jake Jones were victorious in the Roadrunner heats.
PASS 305 Sprint Feature – 20 Laps – 33 Entries
1) 34 Austin Reed 2) 20 Doug Dodson 3) 5 Logan Spahr 4) 97 Kenny Heffner 5) 29R Seth Schnoke 6) 67 Ken Duke 7) 5J Logan Jones 8) 36 Mike Melair 9) 19 Kruz Kepner 10) 71 Josh Spicer 11) 01 Timmy Bitner 12) 7 Drew Young 13) 56 Tyler Snook 14) 99 AJ Barton 15) R6 Reed Thompson 16) 98 Croix Beasom 17) J9 Jerald Harris 18) 51 Dave Graber 19) 19K Chris Kreider 20) 46 Mike Alleman 21) 06K Eric Knopp 22) 1M Paul Moyer 23) 17 Owen Dimm 24) 31 Zach Rhodes 25) 25 Dustin Young 26) 107 Colton Hoover DNQ 21VT Mia Koponen, 28R Jason Roush, 77 Ricky Romig, 47 Ben Miklos, 17R Frank Rusnock, 2 Erin Statler, 3J Josh Fox
Limited Late Model Feature – 25 Laps – 20 Entries
1) 24 Daulton Bigler 2) F1 DJ Myers 3) 27 Jim Yoder 4) 98 Tommy Slanker 5) 08 Zach Kauffman 6) 89 John Schoch 7) 86 Wayne Shaffer 8) 18C Dan Condo 9) 12M Tyson Mowery 10) 62 Devin Frey 11) 92 Shaun Lawton 12) 27 Cayden Ranck 13) 32 Chris Leitzel 14) 12K Jared Fulkroad 15) 11T JR Toner 16) 32K Steve Bailor DNS 72 Kaiden Bard, 56 Chaz Buchinsky, 58M Maddox Smith, 2 Shawn Miller
Roardunner Feature – 12 Laps (Shortened to 6 for time) – 21 Entries
1) 19 Levi Vial 2) 7 Jake Jones 3) 11B Keith Bissinger 4) 1 Alex Updegraff 5) 33 Mike Goodwin 6) 5 Matt Ney 7) 65 Scott Sipe 8) 83 Bob Bussey 9) 40 Scott Dunham Jr 10) 47 Bob Scott 11) 3 Tom Brunson 12) 11 Sammy Rial 13) 25J Nate Romig 14) 51 Hunter Whitcomb 15) 8 John Wright 16) 28 Miranda Minimum 17) 12 Tom Underwood 18) 54 Chase Rehbein 19) 4x Nick Strohecke DNS 77 Jim Farley, 81 Tom Beers
June 18, 2023
Satterlee tracks down leader to win Paul Long Memorial
By Steve Williams
For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - The Appalachian Mountain Speedweek wrapped up late Sunday night at Selinsgrove Speedway with the Paul Long Memorial. Gregg Satterlee, of Rochester Mills, took the win and the $6,300 first-place prize.
With his second-place finish, Tyler Emory from King George, Virginia, was crowned the Speedweek champion.
The URC Sprint Cars were also on the schedule after being rained out two weeks ago. Tyler Reeser in just his second race in his new ride won the 25-lap feature regaining the lead, late in the race.
Tyler Emory shot to the front of the Late Model feature from the outside pole followed by Gregg Satterlee, Hayes Mattern, Rick Eckert and Jason Covert.
Emory, who had already won two Speedweek races, soon opened a sizable lead as the front runners started to get into lapped traffic.
A lap 10 caution was unfurled when Coleby Frye stopped on the speedway.
Choosing the outside position on the two-abreast restart, Emory went back up to the fence to maintain the point and again opened a large lead.
A lap 14 caution came out again, this time for defending track champion, Bryan Bernheisel.
Emory again chose the outside to restart as the cars behind reshuffled with Covert moving to fourth and Eddie Carrier Jr. moving to sixth.
With 10 laps remaining the front three of Emory, Satterlee and Eckert had broken from the pack. Satterlee stalked Emory, slowly chipping into his lead and made the pass for the win coming off turn two with seven laps remaining.
Satterlee went on to win by 1.478 seconds over Emory, Eckert, Carrier Jr. and Dylan Yoder.
Frye, Jeff Rine, Mike Lupfer and Carrier Jr won the Late Model Heats. Matt Cosner and Randy Christine won the B -Mains.
Tylor Emory set fast time in time trials at 18.361 seconds “It feels good to finish a long stretch of racing with a win,” Satterlee said. “We’d hoped we would have run a little better on some nights The competition was tough with all the good cars.
“We were able to get by Tyler down low but congratulations to him and those guys on the championship. Thanks to Jim (Bernheisel) for reviving this series we are looking forward to doing it again next year.”
Tyler Reeser rocketed to the front of the Sprint Car feature leading Derek Hauck, pole-sitter Matt Swift, Jake Karklin and Josh Weller into the first turn.
Bryan Nornhold brought out the caution on lap seven when he slowed but could not get off the speedway.
Reeser maintained the lead, but with Hauck on his tail tank, the caution came out again one lap later when Swift and TJ Stutts got together.
Following a rash of yellow flags, Jason Shultz started a charge forward moving to fourth with Mark Smith on his tail.
Reeser and Hauck sliced through traffic with Hauck taking the lead down the backstretch on lap 18 using lapped traffic to his advantage but Reeser fought back regaining the lead in lapped traffic and the win with just two laps remaining. Hauck, Josh Weller, Shultz and Smith rounded out the top five.
“We both got caught up in lapped traffic,” Reeser said. “I was able to stay with him and got back by on the low side.” The win was Reeser’s first ever at the speedway.
URC Sprint Car heats went to Jake Karklin, Matt Swift and Tyler Reeser. Reese Nowotarski won the B-Main.
Appalachian Mt Speedweek/Paul Long Memorial/Super Late Model National Open (33 Entries, 35 Laps)
1. Gregg Satterlee (22), 2. Tyler Emory (72), 3. Rick Eckert (0), 4. Eddie Carrier Jr. (66Jr), 5. Dylan Yoder (24), 6. Jason Covert (43A), 7. Kyle Hardy (45), 8. Hayes Mattern (9), 9. Austin Berry (86), 10. Dan Stone (2), 11. Andrew Yoder (0), 12. Jim Yoder (27), 13. Randy Christine (74), 14. Tim Wilson (3), 15. Scott Flickinger (15), 16. Ken Trevitz (61), 17. Brett Schadel (22s), 18. Jason Schmidt (11) DNF, 19. Bryan Bernheisel (119) DNF, 20. Mike Lupfer (06) DNF, 21. Coleby Frye (21) DNF, 22. Matt Cosner (66c) DNF, 23. Chris Casner (c33) DNF, 24. Jeff Rine (2J) DNF DNS: Randy Croop (98), Colin Knaub (20K), Kody Lyter (25K), Meade Hahn (7), Ernie Millon (88T), Larry Neiderer (121), Joey Hoffer (21H), Nathan Long (63), Shaun Jones (32J), Drew Weisser (19)
URC 360 Sprint Car A Feature (28 Entries) (25 Laps): 1. 7-Tyler Reeser[2]; 2. 33-Derek Hauck[4]; 3. 63-Josh Weller[3]; 4. 35-Jason Shultz[5]; 5. 19R-Mark Smith[12]; 6. 77-Derek Locke[15]; 7. 11T-TJ Stutts[16]; 8. 47-Adam Carberry[10]; 9. 89-Robbie Stillwaggon[13]; 10. 28F-Davie Franek[18]; 11. 14T-Tyler Walton[14]; 12. 4-Ken Meisner[11]; 13. 5K-Jake Karklin[8]; 14. 66A-Cody Fletcher[6]; 15. 10X-Reese Nowotarski[19]; 16. 11H-Hayden Miller[26]; 17. 18J-JT Ferry[23]; 18. 11-Ryan Stillwaggon[7]; 19. 669-Brandon McGough[17]; 20. 17K-Kyle Keen[22]; 21. 9-Brady Dillon[25]; 22. 22B-Jacob Balliet[20]; 23. 3Z-Johnny Smith[9]; 24. 27-Jacob Galloway[21]; 25. 03-Matthew Swift[1]; 26. 7T-Brian Nornhold[24]; 27. (DNS) 3-Will Brunson; 28. (DNS) 07-Curt Stroup
June 24, 2023
Cancelled - Rain
July 2, 2023
PA 410 Speedweek – Cancelled Due To Weather
Jan Opperman/Dick Bogar/Ralph Heintzleman Memorial Postponed Until July 9, 2023
July 8, 2023
Reed, Mitch pick up Selinsgrove feature wins
- By Steve Williams For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE — After a July 4th weekend filled with thunderstorms and cancellations, the Selinsgrove Speedway opened a two-race weekend Saturday night with Todd Reed picking up the win in the PASS 305 Sprint Cars.
In the big race of the season, Brad Mitch, who ran his first race of the season, and started 10th, won the Lil’ Bob’s Roadrunner feature against a large field.
Zach Rhodes blasted to the front of the sprint car feature from the pole followed by Kenny Heffner, Austin Reed, Timmy Bittner and Kruz Kepner. A lap three caution came out for Bittner, who slowed on the speedway. While under caution, Paul Moyer and Jonathan Swift also pulled from competition.
Rhoads maintained the point but soon had Reed on his tail as Heffner fell back with nose wing damage. Kepner took over third as Jeff Weaver and Doug Dodson battled for fifth.
A lap 13 melee in the fourth turn brought out the yellow again, but was quickly changed to a red for fuel leaking from Chad Phillips racer. No drivers were injured.
On the restart, Reed took the high line around the speedway, and was glued to the back of Rhodes. On lap 16, he nosed ahead but Rhodes fought back to maintain the lead. On the next lap, Reed came off the second turn, and drove into the lead and win. Rhodes, Dodson, Kepner and Ken Duke Jr. rounded out the top five.
“I was glad for that restart.” Reed said. “They gave me a little lane around the top, and I knew my car was good on restarts, but then the motor sputtered. I thought, ‘Jeez’, but it picked back up, and I really got off the second turn and held on in the third and fourth turn.”
305 Sprint Car heats were won by Rhoads, Bittner and Weaver.
Alex Updegraff shot to the front of the 20-lap Roadrunner feature followed by Mike Goodwin, Matt Ney, Bob Bussey and Mitch.
Jake Jones and Nate Romig quickly got by Bussey as Goodwin pulled beside Updegraff down the back stretch on the second lap then suddenly slowed to a stop with a flat tire.
Following the restart, Jones dogged Ney at times, pulling beside him before making the pass for second. A lap later Jones was beside Updegraff before making the pass for the lead coming off the second turn in the outside lane. Mitch followed into second, and Ney stopped on the track bringing out the yellow.
When the race resumed, the top four ran nose to tail in a high speed game of tag before Mitch ducked low in the third turn, and took the lead.
Mitch opened a lead and beat Romig, Updegraff, Will Long and Ty Huntsberger.
“I knew I’d have to be patient with Jake.” Mitch said. “He was really fast up high so I knew I’d have to get him low.”
Victorious in the Roadrunner heats were Ney, Romig and Goodwin.
A scary looking accident in the third turn involving Chris Leitzel and Wayne Shaffer occurred late in the Limited Late Model feature with Leitzel ending up on his roof on the inside guardrail. Neither driver was injured but the cleanup effort was still underway at press time.
PASS 305 Sprint Car A-Main (20 Laps) 30 Entries
1) 34 Austin Reed 2) 31Z Zach Rhodes 3) 20 Doug Dodson 4) 19 Kruz Kepner 5) 67 Ken Duke 6) 52 Jeff Weaver 7) 7 Drew Young 8) 36 Mike Melair 9) 25 Dustin Young 10) 29R Seth Schnoke 11) 71 Josh Spicer 12) 17 Owen Dimm 13) 46 Mike Alleman 14) 56 Tyler Snook 15) 98 Croix Beasom 16) 2 Erin Statler 17) 47 Ben Meklos 18) 1R Christian Rumsey 19) 22K Mike Koehler 20) 98 Chad Phillips 21) 461 Colton Hendershot 22) 28R Jason Roush 23) 9 Mariah Romig 24) 97 Kenny Heffner 25) 99 Jonathan Swift 26) 01 Tommy Bitner 27) 1M Paul Moyer DNS: 5 Logan Spahr, 61 Johnny Scarborough, 73 Tyler Brehm
Limited Late Model A-Main (20 Laps) 17 Entries
1) 2* Shaun Miller 2) F1 DJ Myers 3) 2 Andrew Yoder 4) 11 JR Toner 5) 27 Jim Yoder 6) 12K Jared Fulkroad 7) 89 John Schoch 8) 24 Daulton Bigler 9) 12M Tyson Mowery 10) 98 Randy Croop 11) 32 Chris Leitzel 12) 86 Wayne Schreffler 13) 5J Jeremy Ohl 14) 27x Cayden Ranck 15) D34 Kirk Baker 16) 18C Dan Condo 17) 18A Matt Cochran
Roadrunner A-Main (20 Laps) 22 Entries
1) 10M Brad Mitch 2) 25J Nate Romig 3) 1 Alex Updegraff 4) 91 Will Long 5) 65s Scott Sipe 6) 65H Ty Huntsberger 7) 28 Miranda Minimum 8) 992 Terry Kramer 9) 12 Tom Underwood 10) 83 Bob Bussey 11) 7 Jake Jones 12) 23B Ryan Murphy 13) 33 Mike Goodwin 14) 11 Keith Bissinger(DQ) 15) 5 Matt Ney 16) 5W Rodney Wagner 17) 3 Tom Brunson 18) 14 Corey Lendenmuth 19) 40 Scott Dunham 20) 81 Tom Beers DNS: 56 Ken Schreffler, 77 Jim Farley
July 9, 2023
Cancelled Weather
July 23, 2023
Borden wins 410 feature; Weller wins Whitcomb Memorial race
By Steve Williams
For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - The 410 sprint cars returned to Selinsgrove Speedway on Sunday night.
Devon Borden from Raymond Washington raced to the win from deep in the field.
The URC 360 sprint cars were also on hand for the Joe Whitcomb Memorial. Series point leader Josh Weller picked up the victory.
Dylan Cisney shot to the front of the 410 sprint car feature from the outside front row starting position, and followed by Derek Locke, Danny Dietrich, Steve Buckwalter and TJ Stutts.
Cisney, the Mayor of Port Royal, quickly opened a straight-away lead as Dietrich moved into second, and started to close down on the lead. Dietrich chopped about three quarters of a second off the lead before a lap nine caution flew for Locke, who smacked the fourth turn fence.
The restart saw Borden, who started the feature ninth, blast by Dietrich coming out of turn two, and a lap 21 yellow put him on Cisney’s rear nerf bar.
Borden ran low, and after a two-lap battle took the lead. A lap later, Dietrich was running second. Borden went on to claim his first win at the speedway by 1.5 seconds over Dietrich, Cisney, Jason Shultz and Buckwalter.
“I knew it would come down to the restart.” Borden said. “I got right on his rear bumper, and timed it just right to get by. Wow, coming from ninth, my guys gave me a great car.
Shultz and Dietrich took the 410 sprint car heat races.
The initial start of the URC feature was quickly red flagged when Jason Shultz hit the back stretch fence, hard, spun and came to a stop. Shultz was not injured.
On the restart, Adam Carberry took the lead from the pole position, and was followed by Mike Thompson, Weller, Kyle Reinhardt and Kyle Smith.
Weller and Reinhardt got by Thompson. The top three running under a blanket, pulled away from the rest of the field until a lap four caution for a slowing Reese Nowotarski bunched the field.
Weller stalked Carberry trying to get by on the bottom side but Carberry held strong until Weller finally got by in the third turn on lap 18. The caution again came out with five laps to go for a spinning John Smith.
Reinhardt, running second on the restart, was not able to keep pace with Weller, and settled for the runner-up position. Smith, Carberry and Jacob Galloway rounded out the top five.
Smith and Weller won the URC Sprint Car heats.
410 Sprint Car A-Main (25 Laps)(19 Entries)
A-Main: 1. 23 Devon Borden 2. 48 Danny Dietrich 3. 5 Dylan Cisney 4. 35 Jason Shultz 5. 17B Steve Buckwalter 6. 11 TJ Stutts 7. 5W Lucas Wolfe 8. 5K Jake Karklin 9. 75 Tyler Ross 10. 12 Blane Heimbach 11. 39 Cameron Smith 12. 20 Tim Buckwalter 13. 33W Michael Walter II 14. 77 Derek Locke 15. 90 Jordan Givler 16. 35E Tyler Esh 17. 14T Tyler Walton 18. 55 Dallas Schott 19. 88C Chad Miller
URC 360 Sprint Car Joe Whitcomb Memorial
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 63-Josh Weller[4]; 2. 7-Kyle Reinhardt[7]; 3. 32-Kyle Smith[3]; 4. 47-Adam Carberry[1]; 5. 27-Jacob Galloway[13]; 6. 11T-Mike Thompson[2]; 7. 89-Robbie Stillwaggon[12]; 8. 3-Will Brunson[8]; 9. 11H-Hayden Miller[11]; 10. 19R-Tylar Rutherford[16]; 11. 3Z-Johnny Smith[14]; 12. 10X-Reese Nowotarski[9]; 13. 14T-Tyler Walton[6]; 14. 4-Ken Meisner[10]; 15. 35-Jason Shultz[5]; 16. 7X-Tim Buckwalter[15]
July 29, 2023
Young, Jones and Sites pick up wins at Selinsgrove Speedway
By Steve Williams For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - Drew Young of Beaver Spings took the lead on lap nine and drove to his first PASS 305 Sprint Car win at Selinsgrove Speedway on Saturday night.
Jake Jones won the Roadrunner race and Kody Sites won the Street Stock feature.
Young won the drag race down the front stretch at the start of the Sprint Car race, but Doug Dodson put momentum to work taking the lead at the conclusion of lap one. Young, Zach Rhodes, Jason Roush and Kenny Heffner followed in the top five.
Young stayed glued to Dodson's tail and on lap nine swept underneath in turn four and took the lead. Dodson kept pace and drew close in lapped traffic, but on an open track Young stretched his lead.
Young held on for his first win by 2.068 seconds over, Dodson, Rhodes, Heffner and Roush.
“I knew it was going to be tough to get around Doug.” Young said. “He doesn't make mistakes. I went low into the third turn and held on. It worked coming off four. After that, I just hung on.”
Austin Reed, Erin Statler and Rhodes were winners of the 305 Sprint Car heats.
Levi Vial blasted to the front of the Roadrunner feature, but spun at the completion of lap one taking runner up Matt Ney with him. Both cars rejoined the field but it put Nate Romig, Alex Updegraff, Jones, Miranda Minium and Tom Underwood in the top five.
Jones soon nosed ahead of Updegraff for the runner up spot and took off after Romig.
On lap seven, Jones drove high into turn one, turned down and shot past Romig for the lead going down the back straight.
“I was driving like I had an egg under the accelerator pedal.” Jones said. “I went into one high and diamond off turn two. If you get your car straight, it works really great.”
Updegraff, Minium and Kyle Knaub finished after Jones and Roming.
Jones and Romig were also victorious in the Roadrunner heat races.
Kody Sites took the lead at the start of the BAPS Speedway Street Stock race and led the entire distance winning over Stan Warner, Jake Toney, Danny Beard and Jim Palm.
PASS 305 Sprint Cars – 25 Entries – 20 Laps
1) 7 Drew Young 2) 20 Doug Dodson 3) 31Z Zach Rhodes 4) 97 Kenny Heffner 5) 34 Austin Reed 6) 5 Logan Spahr 7) 28R Jason Roush 8) 19 Kruz Kepner 9) 25 Dustin Young 10) 17 Owen Dimm 11) 2 Erin Statler 12) 56 Tyler Snook 13) 36 Mike Melair 14) 46 Mike Alleman 15) 98X Chad Phillips 16) 98 Croix Beasom 17) 99B AJ Barton 18) 71 Josh Spicer 19) 01 Timmy Bittner 20) 48 Derek Swartz 21) 99 Jonathan Swift 22) 21 Drew Boyer 23) 32B Ethan Beasom 24) 5W John Walp 25) 67 Ken Duke Jr
Roadrunners – 14 Entries – 12 Laps
1) 7 Jake Jones 2) 25J Nate Romig 3) 1 Alex Updegraff 4) 5 Tyler Knaub 5) 28 Miranda Minium 6) 19 Levi Vial 7) 77 Scott Dunham 8) 12 Tom Underwood 9) 3 Tom Brunson 10) 5 Matt Ney 11) 14 Cory Lindenmuth 12) 5W Rodney Wagner DNS: 0 Kevin Dobson, 4X Chris Strohecke
BAPS Speedway Street Stocks – 10 Entries – 15 Laps
1) 99K Kody Sites 2) 64 Stan Warner 3) 6T Jake Toney 4) 60 Danny Beard 5) 7P Jim Palm 6) 11S Russ Shoop 7) 60A Aaron Beard 8) 5R Matthew Rodger 9) 40 Jim Farley DNS: 19M Bobby Moixsell
August 5, 2023
Spahr returns to track, victory lane
By Steve Williams For The Daily Item
A month ago, Logan Spahr rode the third turn fence at Selinsgrove Speedway. The mishap extensively damaged the frame and put his team out of commission for a few weeks. Saturday night Spahr returned to victory lane in the same car, nicknamed “The Spray Paint Bandit,” winning the PASS 305 Sprint Car race.
Part-time race car driver and part-time softball coach Brad Mitch continued to bat 1.000 winning the Roadrunner race.
In the 305 sprints, Spahr rocketed to the front of the feature, followed by Timmy Bittner, Jason Roush, Seth Schnoke and Austin Reed.
Early in the race Ken Duke Jr. started his move forward and was running third by lap five. Duke had just passed Bittner for second when the caution flew for Doug Dodson who stopped in the first turn after hitting the fence, returning him to third for the restart.
Spahr again opened a lead while Duke re-passed Bittner for the runner-up slot behind the leader.
Duke was not able to close the distance and had to settle for second behind Spahr. Schnoke, Bittner and Zach Rhodes rounded out the top five.
“I thought maybe I had forgotten how to get here,” Spahr said, standing in victory lane. “The front of the car was pretty much torn off. My guys worked really hard to get it put back together and it feels good to get back in the groove again. Last year this place was our favorite place to race but this year our luck has been horrible.”
The win was Spahr’s eighth of the season but his first since June 17.
Sprint car heats were won by Reed, Spahr and Drew Young
Mitch blasted to the point of the Roadrunner feature followed closely by Levi Vial, Scott Dunham, Ty Huntsberger and Keith Bissinger.
Mitch, in only his second outing of the season, weathered pressure first from Vial and then after a restart, Dunham but held on to win by 1.5 seconds over Dunham, Vial, Bissinger and Huntsberger.
“I should have never won that race,” Mitch said. “My motor wasn’t running right. I kept waiting for Jake (Jones) or Bissy (Keith Bissinger) to drive by me. I’d like to thank everybody that helps me out. They are the real reason I won.”
Nate Romig and Bissinger won the Roadrunner heats.
PASS 305 Sprint Cars – 24 Entries – 20 Laps
1) 5 Logan Spahr 2) 67 Ken Duke Jr 3) 29R Seth Schnoke 4) 01 Timmy Bitner 5) 31Z Zach Rhodes 6) 19 Kruz Kepner 7) 34 Austin Reed 8) 7 Drew Young 9) 25 Dustin Young 10) 28R Jason Roush 11) 36 Mike Melair 12) 98 Croix Beasom 13) 71 Josh Spicer 14) 2 Erin Statler 15) 52 Jeff Weaver 16) 98x Chad Phillips 17) 98C Cory Hunsberger 18) 48 Derek Schwartz 19) 325B Ethan Beasom 20) 46 Mike Alleman 21) 51 Dave Graber 22) 20 Doug Dodson 23) 19K Kris Kreider DNS: 1M Paul Moyer
Roadrunners – 18 Entries – 12 Laps
1) 10M Brad Mitch 2) 77 Scott Dunham Jr 3) 19 Levi Vial 4) 11B Keith Bissinger 5) 65H Ty Huntsberger 6) 7 Jake Jones 7) 25J Nate Romig 8) 76 Bob Bussey 9) 1 Alex Updegraff 10) 88 Toby Chase 11) 12 Tom Underwood 12) 40 Jim Farley 13) 81 Tom Beers 14) 5W Rodney Wagner 15) 5 Matt Ney 16) 28 Miranda Minimum 17) 14 Corey Lindenmuth DNS: 56 Kenny Schreffler
August 20, 2023
Steve Williams for the Daily Item
The All Star Circuit of Champions wrapped up its New York/Pennsylvania swing Sunday night at Selinsgrove Speedway with Zeb Wise picking up the 30-lap Kramer Cup Memorial win and the $10,000 first-place prize.
Kruz Kepner from Kreamer was the winner of the PASS 305 Sprint Car feature.
Wise rocketed to the front of the All Star sprint car feature, followed by Kerry Madsen, Tyler Courtney, Justin Peck and Dylan Cisney.
In a high-speed chase, Wise immediately opened a sizable lead. By the midway point, Wise still led, though Madsen drew close in traffic. All eyes soon shifted to Brent Marks, who worked his way to third, and, a lap later, passed Madsen for second.
Marks was unable to track down the high-flying Wise who led from green to checkered.
Marks, Danny Dietrich, Courtney and Peck rounded out the top five.
“I don’t even know what to say,” Wise said. “I really stink at half-miles, and we hesitated to put this Shaver Ford engine in with the points chase so close, but it was really bad-fast.”
Wise held a 96-point lead over Chris Windom at the start of the race.
“This really sets us up for the end of the season, and really gives us a boost,” Wise said.
An anonymous donor gives $1,000 to the charity of the driver’s choice if an All Star regular wins. Wise donated that prize to Race Rudeen Foundation to help fight addiction.
All Star heats were won by Madsen, Peck and Wise. Wise won the dash, and Courtney set a fast time trial of 16.203 seconds.
The race was the All Stars’ first Selinsgrove visit in five years, and it was the 18th time the series visited the track with 17 different winners, including Bobbie Adamson, who won the first race in 1970.
Kruz Kepner took the early lead of the PASS race, but Logan Spahr muscled his way by to lead the first lap. Austin Reed, Zach Rhodes and Mike Alleman followed.
The caution flew on lap three for a stalled Chris Kreider.
Kepner tested low on the restart, and re-took the lead off turn four. Spahr did not give up easily, almost tagging the outside fence in an attempt to keep pace. Kepner was in cruise control until Paul Moyer got a flat tire and brought out the yellow at the halfway mark.
Kepner easily held the lead on the restart, as Spahr got pressure and was passed by Reed.
Kepner, who started his racing career winning six championships in a go kart at Selinsgrove Raceway Park, the venue’s fifth-mile inner oval, held on for his first win on the big track by 5.5 seconds over, Reed, Rhoads, Ken Duke Jr. and Tim Iulg.
Duke, Owen Dimm and Alleman were victorious in the PASS heats.
410 All Star Circuit of Champions Kreamer Kup A-Main (30 Laps) 24 Entries
1) 26 Zeb Wise-1st SG Win 2) 19 Brent Marks 3) 48 Danny Dietrich 4) 7BC Tyler Courtney 5) 13 Justin Peck 6) 5 Dylan Cisney 7) 54 Kerry Madsen 8) 23 Devon Borden 9) 12 Blaine Heimbach 10) 45 Kyle Reinhardt 11) 11 TJ Stutts 12) 29 Brandon Spithaler 13) 35 Austin Bishop 14) 5K Jake Karklin 15) 5W Lucas Wolfe 16) 17B Steve Buckwalter 17) 4 Chris Windom 18) 66 Ryan Newton 19) 35 Jason Shultz 20) 44 Dylan Norris 21) 97 Zeth Sabo 22) 42 Sye Lynch 23) Conner Morrell 24) 2D Chase Dietz
PASS 305 Sprint Car A-Main (20 Laps) 28 Entries
1) 19 Kruz Kepner-1st SG Win 2) 34 Austin Reed 3) 31Z Zach Rhodes 4) 67 Ken Duke 5) 19a Tim Iulg 6) 46 Mike Alleman 7) 5 Logan Spahr 8) 36 Mike Melair 9) 7 Drew Young 10) 25 Dustin Young 11) 29R Seth Schnoke 12) 56 Tyler Snook 13) 17 Owen Dimm 14) 71 Josh Spicer 15) 01 Timmy Bitner 16) 89 Nick Sweigert 17) 11 Dylan Smith 18) 98 Croix Beasom 19) 98x Chad Phillips 20) I07 Colton Hoover 21) 28R Jason Roush 22) 21 Drew Boyer 23) 32B Ethan Beasom 24) 99 Jonathan Swift 25) 21M Mia Koponen 26) 1M Paul Moyer 27) 19K Kris Kreider 28) X RJ Panella
August 26, 2023
Fast Melair finally rewarded with victory
By Steve Williams
For The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE - Mike Melair has been fast at Selinsgrove Speedway this season, and now has the victory to show for it. Melair won the PASS 305 sprint car feature on Saturday for his first win of the season.
Trent Brenneman wired the field for the Limited Late Model win and Nate Romig won his first ever Roadrunner race.
Melair blasted to the front of the sprint car feature from the pole position but was quickly passed by Tyler Snook. Zach Rhoades, Austin Reed and Ken Duke Jr. followed.
Melair dove low going into the first turn, and regained the lead by the start of the second lap. Rhoads was soon on the move getting by Snook, and Nick Sweigart joined the fray in fifth.
By the crossed flags, Rhoades was glued to Melair’s rear nerf bar.
Melair was able to open a lead in clean air, but Rhoades closed the gap in traffic. Also able to draw close was Sweigart, who stole second from Rhoads in the final few feet of the race.
Melair’s margin of victory was .466 seconds over Sweigart, Rhodes, Snook and Duke.
“I heard him coming up behind me.” Melair said of Snook. “He had a head of steam, and drove hard into the turn. I was patient and when he washed up, I turned underneath him” Sprint car heats went to Kenny Heffner, Duke Jr. and Mike Alleman. John Smith won the consolation.
Brenneman drove to the front of the limited late model feature from the pole position, followed by Taylor Farling, Shaun Miller, Maddox Smith and Jared Fulkroad.
Miller and Fulkroad started to show some speed, advancing to second and fourth, respectively, when the caution flew on lap nine when Bucky Zeger spun in turn one.
Farling used the restart to retake second from Miller, a spot Miller got back two laps later.
The red flag flew over the speedway on lap 13 for Miller, who slammed into the outside fence, while still running second. Miller, a feature winner earlier this year, was able to walk to the ambulance where he was checked out. No further information was available.
Brenneman led the final seven laps, winning by 3.8 seconds over Farling, Fulkroad, Bigler and Smith.
“The track was really good tonight.” Brenneman said. “I knew starting up front would help, keeping the car in clean air.”
Miller and Brenneman won the Limited Late Model heats.
Romig grabbed the lead of the Roadrunner feature from the outside pole position, followed by Scott Dunham, Bob Bussey, Jake Jones and Levi Vial.
By lap three, Bussey was running second, and started to close on Romig. Jones was soon running third. Bussey pressed low as Jones dropped from the competition.
The caution came out with one lap remaking when Keith Bissinger spun in turn four.
Romig led the final lap beating Bussey, Dunham, Vial and Ty Huntsberger.
“He showed me a fender and I thought if he runs us hard into the turn I wasn’t sure what was going to happen.” Romig said. “I was running right on the edge.”
Road runner heats were won bv Jones and Huntsberger.
PASS 305 Sprint Cars – 28 Entries – 28 Laps
1) 36 Mike Melair 2) 89 Nick Sweigart 3) 31Z Zach Rhodes 4) 56 Tyler Snook 5) 67 Ken Duke 6) 19 Kruz Kepner 7) 25 Dustin Young 8) 34 Austin Reed 9) 5 Logan Spahr 10) 97 Kenny Heffner 11) 2 Erin Statler 12) 61 John Scarborough 13) 98X Chad Phillips 14) 46 Mike Alleman 15) 92 Johnny Smith 16) 29R Seth Schnoke 17) 71 Josh Spicer 18) 7 Drew Young 19) 461 Colton Hendershot 20) 98 Croix Beasom 21) 32A Austin Greenland 22) 32B Ethan Beasom 23) 1M Paul Moyer 24) R6 Reed Thompson 25) 47 Ben Miklos 26) 88 Fred Arnold 27) 19K Kris Kreider DNS: 28R Jason Roush
Limited Late Models – 19 Entries – 20 Laps
1) 33 Trent Brenneman 2) 8 Taylor Farling 3) 12K Jared Fulkroad 4) 24 Daulton Bigler 5) 58M Maddox Smith 6) 11K Kirk Baker 7) 27 Jim Yoder 8) 11T JR Toner 9) 19 Drew Weiser 10) 92 Shaun Lawton 11) 18C Dan Condo 12) 49 Zach Fedorchik 13) 86 Wayne Shaffer 14) Z7 Bucky Zeger 15) 2M Shaun Miller 16) 98 Randy Croop 17) D34 Curt Dunn DNS: 89 John Schoch, 12M Tyson Mowery
Roadrunners – 18 Entries – 12 Laps
1) 25J Nate Romig 2) 76 Bob Bussey 3) 77 Scott Dunham 4) 19 Levi Vial 5) 65H Ty Huntsberger 6) 12K Scott Landis 7) 5 Matt Ney 8) 12 Tom Underwood 9) 28 Miranda Minium 10) 11 Keith Bissinger 11) 17 Jim Farley 12) 7 Jake Jones 13) 81 Tom Beers 14) 65S Scott Sipe 15) 14 Cory Lindenmuth DNS: 4X Chris Strohecker, 56 Ken Schreffler, 0 Kevin Dobson
September 3, 2023
410 Sprint Cars – 25 Entries – 25 Laps
1) 21 Brian Brown 2) 5 Dylan Cisney 3) 6 Ryan Smith 4) 12 Blane Heimbach 5) 5W Lucas Wolfe 6) 35 Austin Bishop 7) 1M Landon Myers 8) 11 TJ STutts 9) 35 Jason Shultz 10) 77 Derek Locke 11) 95 Garrett Bard 12) 47K Kody Lehman 13) 5K Jake Karklin 14) 23 Devon Borden 15) 66 Ryan Newton 16) 24B Dustin Baney 17) 95 Hunter Mackison 18) 14 Todd Allen 19) 99 Shane Yost 20) 97 Brie Hershey DNS 6x Ryan Phipps, 86 Ron Aurand, D57 Jeff Miller, 77K Steve Kisamore, 41 Logan Rumsey
Super Late Models – 23 Entries – 25 Laps
1) 0 Rick Eckert 2) 2J Jeff Rine 3) 24 DylanYoder 4) 32J Shaun Jones 5) 2D Dan Stone 6) 31 Jim Bernheisle 7) 9 Hayes Mattern 8) 22 Brett Schadel 9) 119B Bryan Bernheisel 10) 93 Cory Lawler 11) 0Y Andrew Yoder 12) 1 Gene Knaub 13) 63 Nathan Long 14) 61 Ken Trevitz 15) 3W John Weaver 16) 45 Jason Hons 17) C33 Chris Casner 18) 7 Meade Hahn 19) 27 Jim Yoder 20) 25K Kody Lyter DNS 121 Larry Neiderer, 32 Coleby Frye, 14 Tyler Horst
Limited Late Models – 25 Entries – 20 Laps
1) 3B Coleby Frye 2) 86 Austin Berry 3) 28Z Ryan Zook 4) 62 Devin Frey 5) 12M Tyson Mowery 6) 2 Andrew Yoder 7) 18C Dan Condo 8) 7 Kenny Yoder 9) 58M Maddox Smith 10) 08 Zach Kauffman 11) 23 Lane Snook 12) 92 Shaun Lawton 13) 4 Eddie Richards 14) K32 Steve Bailor 15) 86 Wayne Shaffer 16) 18 Matt Cochran 17) 12K Jared Fulkroad 18) 33K Devin Hart 19) D34 Curt Dunn 20) 40 Tommy Slanker DNS 98 Randy Croop, 22 Casey Steinhoff, 11B Kirk Baker, 89 Jon Schoch, 49 Zach Fedorchik
September 16, 2023
Marks Claims 410 National Open Nace Memorial, Kenny Heffner Takes PASS Race To Hunting Season and Jones Wins Roadrunner Feature
With the end of the season fast approaching Selinsgrove Speedway held the 41st Annual 410 Sprint Car National Open Jim Nace Memorial Saturday night.
Seventh starting Brent Marks won the 44 lap feature and the $44,000 prize in addition to the halfway bonus.
The PASS 305 Sprint Cars were also on hand for the Race to Hunting season. Kenny Heffner wired the field for the win, his second at the track.
The Roadrunners were won by Jake Jones.
Dylan Cisney flew around the the top of the track to take the lead in the Nace Memorial; he was followed by Danny Dietrich, Justin Peck, Devon Borden and Brian Brown
On lap eight Dietrich passed Cisney for the lead and immediately started to drive away from the field. As Dietrich led, Brent Marks started to show some speed and moved into third.
Dietrich had built up a four second lead when he spun in turn two, on lap 16, handing the point to Marks who had passed Cisney for the runnerup spot. Dietrich was able to continue after replacing a right rear tire, which caused the spin.
The red flag flew over the speedway on lap 18 when Austin Bishop flipped his mount in turn one and collected Brent Shearer. Both drivers were un-injured.
Borden used the restart to take second from Cisney but could not catch Marks when the race was stopped at lap 22, the halfway point of the race giving the drivers a five minute pit stop.
Marks won $2600 as the halfway leader bonus.
“We were really good in the first segment.” Marks said, sitting on the front stretch. “We’re going to make a few changes and hopefully getting a little better.”
The restart of the second 22 lap segment was two abreast putting Borden on the outside of Marks on the front row.
Borden tried to dive under Marks but Marks, up on the fence, held the lead while Peck moved to third, Brown into fourth.
As the front five sliced through traffic Dietrich again re-entered the picture in sixth. Lap 33 saw Peck back in second and Dietrich in fifth while Marks stretched the lead to over five seconds.
Marks led the rest of the way finishing 4.5 seconds in front of Peck, Dietrich, Borden and Brown.
“Yeah this car was stellar in the feature, we weren’t very good in the heat but we got it together.” Marks said. “We finally got this win, we always seemed to come up short but we finally got the win.”
“We only changed the left rear tire at the break. We didn’t want to mess with the balance so we didn’t so anything else.”
410 sprint Car heats were won by Borden, Cisney and Peck. Brown set a fast time of 15.959 seconds in time trials.
Kenny Heffner rocketed to the front of the PASS 305 Sprint Car feature followed by
Nick Sweigart, Seth Schnoke, Ken Duke Jr. and Logan Spahr.
At the halfway point Duke was in second and challenging Heffner as the pair negotiated traffic. By lap 15 Kruz Kepner was in third and two laps later passed Duke for second but was not able to track down Heffner who won by 1.09 seconds. Duke, Spahr and Zach Rhodes rounded out the top five.
Spahr, Dustin Young, Kepner and Schnoke won the PASS Sprint Car heats. Tyler Snook won the B-Main.
Jason Davis grabbed the early lead in the Roadrunner race followed by, Ty Huntsberger, Scott Dunham, Nate Romig and Keith Bissinger. Jake Jones started his move forward and raced several side by side laps with Romig before securing third.
With just one lap remaining Jones dove low in turn three and came off turn four with the lead and the win.
Davis, Huntsberger, Romig and Dunham trailed.
410 Sprint Cars – 26 Entries – 44 Lap Jim Nace Memorial National Open
1) 19 Brent Marks 2) 13 Justin Peck 3) 48 Danny Dietrich 4) 23 Devon Borden 5) 21 Brian Brown 6) 11 TJ Stutts 7) 5 Dylan Cisney 8) 20 Ryan Taylor 9) 12 Blane Heimbach10) 2D Chase Dietz 11) 5W Lucas Wolfe 12) 19R Mark Smith 13) 45 Jeff Halligan 14) 10X Ryan Smith 15) 47K Kody Lehman 16) 88J Joey Amantea 17) 99 Devin Adams 18) 8S Trento Sheaffer 19) 24B Dustin Baney 20) 12S Brent Shearer 21) 5K Jake Karklin 22) 35B Austin Bishop 23) 77 Derek Locke 24) 33H Derek Hauck 25) 11T Mike Thompson 26) 17B Steve Buckwalter
PASS 305 Sprint Cars – 36 Entries – 20 Lap Race To Hunting Season
1) Kenny Heffner 2) 19 Kruz Kepner 3) 67 Ken Duke 4) 5 Logan Spahr 5) 31Z Zach Rhodes 6) 61 Johnny Scarborough 7) 71 Josh Spicer 8) 29R Seth Schnoke 9) 89 Nick Sweigart 10) 25 Dustin Young 11) 01 Timmy Bitner 12) 25G Nolan Groves 13) 36 Mike Melair 14) 34 Austin Reed 15) 20 Doug Dodson 16) 17 Owen Dimm 17) 7 Drew Young 18) 46 Mike Alleman 19) 56 Tyler Snook 20) 98X Chad Phillips 21) 98B AJ Barton 22) 1M Paul Moyer 23) 19B Danny Buccafusca 24) 28R Jason Roush 25) 461 Colton Hendershot 26) 53W Jimmy White DNS: 4W Kasey Weaver, 6R Reed Thompson, 2 Erin Statler, 98 Croix Beasom, I07 Colton Hoover, 19K Chris Kreider, 47 Ben Miklos, 5W John Walp, 98S Bill Sheehan
Roadrunners – Bussey’s Last Ride – 16 Entries – 15 Laps
1) 7 Jake Jones 2) 33 Jason Davis 3) 65H Ty Huntsberger 4) 25J Nate Romig 5) 77 Scott Dunham Jr 6) 11B Keith Bissinger 7) 76 Bob Bussey 8) 5 Matt Ney 9) 3 Tom Brunson 10) 17A Jim Farley 11) 81 Tom Beers 12) 7JR Johnny Palm 13) 28 Miranda Minimum 14) 12 Tom Underwood 15) 19 Levi VialDNS: 14 Cory Lindenmuth
September 17, 2023
Cancelled - Weather
September 23, 2023
Cancelled - Weather
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