Lincoln Speedway
Race Results
www.lincolnspeedway.com
06/25/07
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., June 30, 2007 (7:30 PM) - 17TH ANNUAL
PENNSYLVANIA SPEEDWEEK
OPENER/8TH ANNUAL KEVIN GOBRECHT MEMORIAL -
410 Sprints & Thundercars (Time
Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Sat., July 07, 2007 (7 PM) - 358 Sprints,
Super Sportsman, Silver Spring
Limited Late Models & Thundercars (Regular &
Make-up 4/28 Features)
Sat., July 14, 2007 (7:30 PM) - DARYL GOHN/GLENN
GOHN SR. MEMORIAL - 410
Sprints, 358 Sprints & Thundercars
HODNETT WINS SAL SCARPITTA MEMORIAL;
358's to Hammaker; Thundercars fall to
Tuckey
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 6/23/07 - It was a night
that honored the late Sal
Scarpitta at Lincoln Speedway. And on the
track it was another dominating
performance by Greg Hodnett.
Hodnett used a good time trial lap to put
himself into position to
drive away from the field to win the special
30-lap Sal Scarpitta Memorial
for his fourth win of the season at the
Pigeon Hills oval.
Hodnett inherited the lead on the 13th lap
when polesitter and
race-long leader Brian Leppo came to a stop
with mechanical problems. Once
taking the top spot, the Thomasville driver
was able to keep Lincoln's all
time winningest driver Fred Rahmer at bay
during numerous restarts before
driving to his 20th career win at Lincoln,
moving him into a tie with Bud
Folkenroth and Bobby Hersh for 12th spot on
the all time track win list.
Hodnett's win was worth $5,900 for the win
in plus another $500 from
Don Ott Racing Engines.
Hodnett was proud to be the first ever
winner of the Scarpitta
Memorial, a race run in memory of Scarpitta
who passed away earlier this
year. Scarpitta was a long time sprint car
owner in Central Pennsylvania and
a world renowned artist.
"It's nice to honor Mr. Scarpitta because of
his efforts in
promoting our sport, not only in print but
also on canvas and video,"
Hodnett said after being presented a Silver
Cup from Scarpitta's daughters
Stella and Lola. "He's done a lot for our
sport not only from owning a race
car but for everything else. I am very proud
to win this race tonight."
Polesitter Leppo jumped out front early and
drove away from Hodnett
until his racer came up lame on the 12th lap
turning the lead to Hodnett.
Rahmer, who started eighth moved into the
top four on lap nine and then used
the lap 12 yellow flag to drive by Jeff
Shepard for third place on lap 13.
Then defending track champion Doug Esh
suddenly slowed at the
half-way point of the 30-lap contest
allowing Lincoln's all-time win leader
to close on Hodnett's bumper.
Rahmer made an move on the restart in turn
one to steal the lead
from Hodnett but Hodnett pulled off the
second turn with the lead and
continued to lead until lap 19 when Chad
Layton and Cris Eash tangled in
turn one.
Hodnett was ready on the restart, not giving
Rahmer a chance at
making a move for the lead and was able to
distance himself from Rahmer and
the rest of the field.
"I don't know if we could have got by Leppo
but we were both running
the same lane and it was the wrong one
tonight," he stated. "I saw Fred was
up to third so I figured the bottom was the
place to be and my guys told me
to get down there...I wasn't getting down
the straightaways very well
tonight and actually we were just sliding
all around because we decided to
keep the car loose, luckily for us, we were
able to position ourselves and
stay out front."
It was Hodnett's seventh overall win this
season in the Jim and
Sandy Kline owned No.22 sprinter.
Rahmer settled for second over Shepard, 11th
starting Lance Dewease
and Bobby Weaver.
Rounding out the top-10 were Lucas Wolfe,
Jim Siegel, Alan Krimes,
Steve Buckwalter and Chris Knopp.
Heats were won by Josh Wells, Doug Esh and
Chad Layton. Chris Knopp
won the consolation. Lucas Wolfe set fast
time in time trials over the
29-car field with a one lap time of 13.575
seconds.
Dale Hammaker, who lives about two miles
from Jim and Sandy Kline
who's car won the Scarpitta Memorial earlier
in the evening, kept the
Grantville winning streak alive as he
captured the 20-lap 358 Sprint car
feature.
Hammaker started 11th and chased-down race
leader Steve Owings with
two laps to go to take the lead and raced
away to his first Lincoln win of
2007.
Owings settled for second, with Danny
Dietrich, Brian Eichelberger
and Adrian Shaffer completing the top five.
Adam Wilt, Scott Geesey, Brad McClelland,
Cory Haas and Jessie
Morrison rounded-out the top 10.
Steve Owings, Jeff Rohrbaugh, Joe Trone, Jr.
and Adam Wilt won heat
races for the 38 358 Sprints on hand with
twin consolations going to Cory
Haas and Gerard McIntyre Jr..
Biglerville's Nat Tuckey raced side-by-side
with Mike Zeigler, Jr.
for two laps before taking control of the
20-lap thundercar feature to
register his fifth win of the season.
Tuckey, who started seventh in the 21 car
field, continued his
winning ways over Mike Zeigler Jr., Duane
Watson, Scott Fisher and Sam
Gallagher.
Thundercar heats were won by Smoke
Christine, Nat Tuckey and Sam
Gallagher.
Lincoln Speedway returns to action next
Saturday, June 30 with the
17TH ANNUAL PENNSYLVANIA SPEEDWEEK
OPENER/8TH ANNUAL KEVIN GOBRECHT MEMORIAL
with $10,000 awaiting the winner of the
annual Speedweek opener for the 410
Sprints. The thundercars will round out the
evening's racing action which
will get underway with time trials at 7:30
PM. Gates will open at 5:30 PM.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - June 23, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottsown, PA
SAL SCARPITTA MEMORIAL
410 Sprints:
Feature (30 Laps) - 1. 22-Greg Hodnett
($5,900); 2. 51-Fred Rahmer; 3.
1-Jeff Shepard; 4. 25-Lance Dewease; 5.
X-Bobby Weaver; 6. 5W-Lucas Wolfe;
7. 59-Jim Siegel; 8. 87-Alan Krimes; 9.
17B-Steve Buckwalter; 10. 6K-Chris
Knopp; 11. 39-TJ Stutts; 12. 6W-Josh Wells;
13. 21-Brian Montieth; 14.
38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 15. 08-Joe Ilg; 16.
7E-Cris Eash; 17. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 18. 45-AJ Michael; 19. 43-Doug
Dodson; 20. 23-Todd Zinn; 21.
U1-Chad Layton (DNF); 22. 30-Doug Esh (DNF);
23. Brian Leppo (DNF); 24.
47J-Jeff Busby (DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Brian Leppo (1-12), Greg
Hodnett (13-30)
1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 6W-Josh
Wells; 2. 47J-Jeff Busby; 3.
59-Jim Siegel; 4. 5W-Lucas Wolfe; 5.
21-Brian Montieth; 6. X-Bobby Weaver;
7. 6K-Chris Knopp; 8. 08-Joe Ilg; 9.
93-Jonathon Eriksen. No Time
2nd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30-Doug
Esh; 2. 39-TJ Stutts; 3.
51-Fred Rahmer; 4. 22-Greg Hodnett; 5.
25-Lance Dewease; 6. 1-Jeff Shepard;
7. 43-Doug Dodson; 8. 45-AJ Michael; 9.
4-John Rudisill. No Time
3rd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. U1-Chad
Layton; 2. 7E-Cris Eash; 3.
87-Alan Krimes; 4. 71-Brian Leppo; 5.
38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 6. 17B-Steve
Buckwalter; 7. 30C-Steve Clabaugh; 8.
23-Todd Zinn; 9. 96-JJ Willett. No
Time
Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
6K-Chris Knopp; 2. 08-Joe Ilg; 3.
30C-Steve Clabaugh; 4. 45-AJ Michael; 5.
23-Todd Zinn; 6. 43-Doug Dodson; 7.
93-Jonathon Eriksen; 8. 96-JJ Willett; 9.
4-John Rudisill. No Time
Time Trials - 1. Lucas Wolfe, 13.575
seconds; 2. Jeff Shepard, 13.614; 3.
Steve Buckwalter, 13.631; 4. Bobby Weaver,
13.639; 5. Greg Hodnett, 13.719;
6. Brian Leppo, 13.784; 7. Jim Siegel,
13.828; 8. Fred Rahmer, 13.852; 9.
Steve Clabaugh, 13. 874; 10. Chris Knopp,
13. 915; 11. Lance Dewease,
13.938; 12. Alan Krimes, 13. 946; 13. Josh
Wells, 14.082; 14. Doug Esh,
14.121; 15. Chad Layton, 14.166; 16. Jeff
Busby, 14.173; 17. TJ Stutts, 14.
175; 18. Cris Eash, 14.265; 19. Joe Ilg,
14.272; 20. AJ Michael, 14.294; 21.
Nick Schlauch Jr., 14.336; 22. Brian
Montieth, 14. 369; 23. Doug Dodson,
14.523; 24. Todd Zinn, 14.662; 25. Jonathon
Eriksen, 14.806; 26. John
Rudisill, 14.842; 27. JJ Willett, 16.069;
27. Niki Young, NT; 29. Pat
Cooper, NT.
358 Sprints:
Feature (20 Laps) 1. 66-Dale Hammaker; 2.
35-Steve Owings; 3. 88-Danny
Dietrich; 4. 55-Brian Eichelberger; 5.
21-Adrian Shaffer; 6. 15-Adam Wilt;
7.91-Scott Geesey; 8. 6-Brad McClelland; 9.
39-Cory Haas; 10. 18-Jessie
Morrison; 11. 1-Tim Wagaman; 12, 99-Joe
Trone Jr.; 13. 115-Scott Ellerman;
14. 8D-Billy Dietrich; 15. 27-Jay Galloway;
16. 11T-Eric Tomecek; 17.
28H-Billy Heltzel; 18. 16-Gerard McIntyre
Jr. (DNF); 19. 66N-Nate Hammaker
(DNF); 20. 1W-John Westbrook (DNF); 21. 80
Todd Reed (DNF); 22. 7V-Jeff
Rohrbaugh (DNF); 23. 84C-Chad Criswell (DNF);
24. 21D-Elvin Diller III
(DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Jay Galloway (1-2), Steve
Owings (3-18), Dale Hammaker (19-20)
1st Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
35-Steve Owings; 2. 66-Dale Hammaker;
3. 80-Todd Reed; 4. 55-Brian Eichelberger;
5. 11T-Eric Tomecek; 6. 16M-Craig
Myers; 7. 39-Cory Haas; 8. 23B-Jimmy Bewley;
9. 50-Jimmy Strausbaugh; 10.
25-Aaron Ott (DNF). Time - 2:34.22
2nd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
21D-Elvin Diller III; 2. 7V-Jeff
Rohrbaugh; 3. 84C-Chad Criswell; 4.
28H-Billy Heltzel; 5. 32-Chad Myers; 6.
91-Scott Geesey; 7. 6-Brad McClelland; 8.
5-Adam Lawrence; 9. 51n-Nick
Palmerino (DNF). Time - 2:37.25
3rd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 99-Joe
Trone Jr.; 2. 1W-John Westbrook;
3. 88-Danny Dietrich; 4. 1-Tim Wagaman; 5.
8D-Billy Dietrich; 6. 28-Keith
Prutzman; 7. 4R-Glenndon Forsythe; 8. 2-Paul
Hively III; 9. 10-Zach
Eucalano; 10. 7M-Mike Mansfield. No Time
4th Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 15-Adam
Wilt; 2. 27-Jay Galloway; 3.
21-Adrian Shaffer; 4. 18-Jessie Morrison; 5.
16-Gerard McIntyre Jr.; 6.
66N-Nate Hammaker; 7. 77-Derek Locke; 8.
115-Scott Ellerman; 9. 36T-Peter
Bartley. Time - 2:42.78
1st Consolation (10 Laps/4 to qualify) -
1.39-Cory Haas; 2. 11T-Eric
Tomecek; 3. 6-Brad McClelland; 4. 91-Scott
Geesey; 5. 32 Chad Meyers; 6.
16M-Craig Myers; 7. 25-Aaron Ott; 8.
23B-Jimmy Bewley; 9. 5-Adam Lawrence;
10. 50-Jimmy Strausbaugh (DNF); 11. Nick Pal
merino (DNS). No Time
2nd Consolation (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
16-Gerard McIntyre Jr. 2.
8D-Billy Dietrich; 3. 66N-Nate Hammaker; 4.
115-Scott Ellerman; 5. 2-Paul
Hively III; 6. 4R-Glenndon Forsythe; 7.
28-Keith Prutzman; 8. 10-Zach
Eucalano; 9. 7M-Mike Mansfield (DNF); 10.
77-Derek Locke (DNF); 11. Peter
Bartley (DNF). No Time
Thundercars:
Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 22-Nat Tuckey; 2.
21A-Mike Zeigler Jr.; 3. 3W-Duane
Watson; 4. 20-Scott Fisher; 5. 81S-Sam
Gallagher; 6. 60-Danny Beard; 7.
1-Neil Smith; 8. 9-Al Crammer; 9. 61M-Mike
Slaybaugh; 10. 76-Bob Bare; 11.
8MD-David Prunkl; 12. 129-Jimmy Combs; 13.
1E-Greg Emlet; 14. 33-Gino Comi;
15. 35C-Dave Crone; 16. 21-Ronnie Thomas (DNF);
17. 4R-Jason Watson (DNF);
18. 35-Smoke Christine (DNF); 19. 61-Frankie
Topper (DNF); 20. 54W-Roy
Warehime (DNF); 21. 9A-Bob Allen (DNS). No
Time
1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 35-Smoke
Christine; 2. 21A-Mike Zeigler
Jr.; 3. 3W-Duane Watson; 4. 60-Danny Beard;
5. 1E-Greg Emlet; 6. 35C-Dave
Crone; 7. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh. Time - 2:44.25
2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 22-Nat
Tuckey; 2. 1-Neil Smith; 3.
20-Scott Fisher; 4. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 5.
4R-Jason Watson; 6. 76-Bob Bare
(DNF); 7. 9A-Bob Allen (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 81S-Sam
Gallagher; 2. 33-Gino Comi; 3.
9-Al Crammer; 4. 8MD-David Prunkl; 5. 54-Roy
Warehime; 6. 129-Jimmy Combs;
7. 61-Frankie Topper. No Time
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., June 23,
2007 (7:30 PM) - SAL SCARPITTA MEMORIAL -
410 Sprints (30
Laps, $5,900-to-win), 358 Sprints &
Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Sat., June 30, 2007 (7:30 PM) - 17TH ANNUAL
PENNSYLVANIA SPEEDWEEK
OPENER/8TH ANNUAL KEVIN GOBRECHT MEMORIAL -
410 Sprints & Thundercars (Time
Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Sat., July 07, 2007 (7 PM) - 358 Sprints,
Super Sportsman, Silver Spring
Limited Late Models & Thundercars (Regular &
Make-up 4/28 Features)
RAHMER MAKES HISTORY AT LINCOLN SPEEDWAY;
Tuckey wins second in-a-row, fourth of the
year in thundercars
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 6/16/07 - Ten years ago,
Steve Smith's 150th and
final win at Lincoln Speedway came in a May
4th All-Star Circuit of
Champions show. He has sat at the top of the
all-time Lincoln win list ever
since. Until now.
Fred Rahmer achieved his ultimate goal
Saturday night, taking the
lead from his outside front row starting
spot on the backstretch of the
first lap and holding off determined rival
Jeff Shepard for his
record-breaking 151st career Lincoln win.
The victory in the non-stop
30-lap, $5,000-to-win All-Star "A" Main came
by 1.57 seconds over the Zemco
Headers #1z in a total elapsed time of 8
minutes, 28.85 seconds.
"I've working at this since 1986," said a
visibly emotional Rahmer
in upon exiting the Chad and Jen
Clemens-owned Miller Brothers
Automotive/C&S Lawn and
Landscaping/Materials Handling Systems #51,
"And
there are too many people to mention. Bud
Lawrence, Joe Harz, Al Hamilton,
Bob Stewart...you know I'm forgetting a lot
of people and it won't be
right...but there's a little bit of every
deal I've been with in this. I've
been with nothing but good people. Jim and
Sandy (Kline) gave me a great
ride last year. It's a pretty emotional deal
to tell the truth."
"I have so much respect for all the greats
who have raced here,"
added Rahmer while being sprayed with
champagne, "Bobby Allen's here
tonight...Mr. Smith...Kenny Weld...so many
great names...some that are still
running here. Perseverance has kept me here
long enough to get it done.
I've never been in a bad race car. I have
all of the sponsors that I
started with still with me. Everybody knows
me as a 'no good SOB,' but all
the people around us I respect and I
appreciate everything they've done.
"It's a good night to get this done,"
continued Rahmer, "This has
been a burden on me for a long time, and I'm
just glad it's over. Right
now, the way the tracks are and everything,
you've got to be off the front."
"I've been dragging a lot of my friends here
to try to see this 151
deal, and hopefully they'll still keep
coming because we always have a good
time," concluded Rahmer, "But I'd say
there's a major hangover in my
future!"
Rahmer set seventh-quick time, but started
on the front row after
Niki Young(4th quick) and Greg Hodnett
(second quick) failed to qualify in
their heats. Rahmer outraced polesitter Jim
Siegel to the third turn on the
opening lap, and never looked back. Jeff
Shepard got around Siegel for
second on the second lap, and those two
drivers ran second and third the
rest of the way.
Fast timer Chad Layton came from sixth to
catch fifth-starting Lucas
Wolfe for fourth on lap 27, and those two
crossed fourth and fifth. Sixth
through tenth were Cory Haas, 11th-starting
Greg Hodnett, Dale Blaney, Doug
Esh, and Alan Krimes.
Rahmer's win was his seventh in an All-Star
race at Lincoln (two
more than any other driver), and gave the PA
Posse 21 wins in 22 races
against the All-Stars in the Pigeon Hills
dating back to 1981. Blaney was
the only one of eight All-Stars who
qualified for the "A" main to finish in
the top ten.
Sprint heats were won by Kenny Jacobs, Brian
Montieth, Paul May and
Doug Esh, with Greg Hodnett winning the
B-Main. Fast time in time trials
over the 39-car field was set by Chad Layton
with a one-lap time of
13.545-seconds (99.668 MPH).
Jacobs and Rahmer finished in a rare "tie"
in the six-lap dash.
Electronic scoring scored both drivers with
identical times of one minute,
31.917-seconds.
Biglerville's Nat Tuckey picked up his
second win in-a-row in the 20
lap thundercar feature. Tuckey charged from
his eighth starting position to
pass polesitter and race-long leader Danny
Beard on the seventh lap and held
off all challengers through several cautions
to take the checkered
1.10-seconds ahead of Mike Slaybaugh for his
fourth win of 2007. With the
win, Tuckey increased his all-time win total
to 18 career wins, putting him
into a tie with Bobby Beard for eighth place
on Lincoln Speedway's all time
thundercar win list.
Duane Watson came from 12th to finish third,
Beard fourth and points
leader Neil Smith fifth.
Completing the top-10 were Sam Gallagher,
Craig Wagaman, Nate
Topper, Al Crammer and Gino Comi.
Heats for the 20 thundercars were won by
Gallagher, Wagaman and
Comi.
Next Saturday night, June 23rd it will be
the much anticipated Sal
Scarpitta Memorial. The 410 Sprinters will
be going after the $5,900 to
prize in their 30 lap feature. Time trials
will start at 7:30 PM and will be
used to determine starting positions.
Joining them will be the 358 Sprint
and Thundercar regulars. Gates will open at
5:30 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - June 16, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
ALL STAR CIRCUIT OF CHAMPIONS
410 SPRINTS
Feature (30 Laps) - 1. 51-Fred Rahmer
($5,000); 2. 1-Jeff Shepard; 3. 59-Jim
Siegel; 4. U1-Chad Layton; 5. 5W-Lucas
Wolfe; 6. 11C-Cory Haas; 7. 22-Greg
Hodnett; 8. 2-Dale Blaney; 9. 30-Doug Esh;
10. 87-Alan Krimes; 11. 09-Craig
Mintz; 12. 28-Brian Paulus; 13. W20-Greg
Wilson; 14. 25-Lance Dewease; 15.
71-Brian Leppo; 16. 29-Kenny Jacobs; 17.
4-Danny Smith; 18. 6W-Josh Wells;
19. 21-Brian Montieth; 20. 6K-Chris Knopp;
21. X-Bobby Weaver; 22. 38N-Nick
Schlauch Jr.; 23. 71M-Paul May; 24. 6-Bill
Rose. Time - 8:28.85
Lap Leaders - Fred Rahmer (1-30)
1st Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
29-Kenny Jacobs; 2. U1-Chad Layton; 3.
6K-Chris Knopp; 4. 1-Jeff Shepard; 5. 59-Jim
Siegel; 6. W20-Greg Wilson; 7.
47J-Jeff Busby; 8. 7E-Cris Eash; 9.
20E-Brian Ellenberger; 10. 26-Pat
Cooper. Time - 2:24.03
2nd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
21-Brian Montieth; 2. 28-Brian Paulus;
3. 6-Bill Rose; 4. 09-Craig Mintz; 5.
11C-Cory Haas; 6. 71-Brian Leppo; 7.
22-Greg Hodnett; 8. 12-Mike Bittinger; 9.
30C-Steve Clabaugh; 10.
11M-Brandon Martin. Time - 2:27.343
3rd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
71M-Paul Mays; 2. 51-Fred Rahmer; 3.
2-Dale Blaney; 4. 5W-Lucas Wolfe; 5. X-Bobby
Weaver; 6. 38N-Nick Schlauch
Jr.; 7. 39-TJ Stutts; 8. 11B-Brock Mayes; 9.
43-Doug Dodson; 10. 45-AJ
Michael. Time - 2:34.183
4th Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 30-Doug
Esh; 2. 25-Lance Dewease; 3.
6W-Josh Wells; 4. 4-Danny Smith; 5. 87-Alan
Krimes; 6. 17B-Steve Buckwalter;
7. 20-Ryan Taylor (DNF); 8. 4X-John Rudisill
(DNF); 9. 10N-Niki Young (DNS).
No Time
B-Main (15 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 22-Greg
Hodnett; 2. W20-Greg Wilson; 3.
71-Brian Leppo; 4. 38N-Nick Schlouch Jr.; 5.
7E-Cris Eash; 6. 39-TJ Stutts;
7. 11M-Brandon Martin; 8. 47J-Jeff Busby; 9.
12-Mike Bittinger; 10. 26-Pat
Cooper; 11. 17B-Steve Buckwalter (DNF); 12.
20E-Brain Ellenberger (DNF); 13.
45-AJ Michael (DNF); 14. 4X-John Rudisill (DNF);
15. 11B-Brock Mayes (DNF);
16. 10N-Niki Young (DNF); 17. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh (DNF); 18. 43-Doug Dodson
(DNF); DNS - 20-Ryan Taylor. No Time
Dash (6 Laps) - 1. 29-Kenny Jacobs & 51-Fred
Rahmer (tie); 3. 2-Dale Blaney;
4. 6-Bill Rose; 5. 09-Craig Mintz; 6.
28-Brian Paulus. Time - 1:31.917
Time Trials - 1. U1-Chad Layton, 13.545
seconds (99.668 MPH); 2. 22-Greg
Hodnett, 13.546; 3. 5W-Lucas Wolfe, 13.642;
4. 10N-Niki Young, 13.701; 5.
1-Jeff Shepard, 13.746; 6. 11C-Cory Haas,
13.782; 7. 51-Fred Rahmer, 13.832;
8. 17B-Steve Buckwalter, 13.846; 9. 59-Jim
Siegel, 13.890; 10. 09-Craig
Mintz, 13.899; 11. 2-Dale Blaney, 13.917;
12. 87-Alan Krimes, 13.945; 13.
W20 Greg Wilson, 13.985; 14. 28-Brian
Paulus, 13.992; 15. 39-TJ Stutts,
13.993; 16. 30-Doug Esh, 14.012; 17.
6K-Chris Knopp, 14.018; 18. 21-Brian
Montieth, 14.034; 19. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.,
14.068; 20. 6W-Josh Wells,
14.077; 21. 29-Kenny Jacobs, 14.079; 22.
6-Bill Rose, 14.125; 23. 71M-Paul
May, 14.141; 24. 25-Lance Dewease, 14.165;
25. 47J-Jeff Busby, 14.250; 26.
71-Brian Leppo, 14.257; 27. X-Bobby Weaver,
14.265; 28. 4X-John Rudisill,
14.275; 29. 20E-Brian Ellenberger, 14.305;
30. 30C-Steve Clabaugh, 14.327;
31. 43-Doug Dodson, 14.362; 32. 4-Danny
Smith, 14.367; 33. 26-Pat Cooper,
14.376; 34. 11M-Brandon Martin, 14.422; 35.
11B-Brock Mayes, 14.442; 36.
20-Ryan Taylor, 14.529; 37. 7E-Cris Eash,
14.706; 38. 12-Mike Bittinger,
14.727; 39. 45-AJ Michael, 14.876.
THUNDERCARS:
Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 22-Nat Tuckey; 2.
61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 3. 3W-Duane
Watson; 4. 60-Danny Beard; 5. 1-Neil Smith;
6. 81S-Sam Gallagher; 7.
30-Craig Wagaman; 8. 6-Nate Topper; 9. 9-Al
Crammer; 10. 33-Gino Comi; 11.
1E-Greg Emlet, Jr.; 12. 61-Randy Menges; 13.
20-Scott Fisher; 14. 129-Jimmy
Combs; 15. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 16. 76-Bob
Bare; 17. 35-Smoke Christine (DNF);
18. 54W-Roy Warehime, Jr. (DNF); 19.
1M-Duane McMillen (DNF); 20. 35C-Dave
Crone (DNS). No Time
Lap Leaders - Danny Beard (1-6); Nat Tuckey
(7-20)
1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 81S-Sam
Gallagher; 2. 9-Al Crammer; 3.
60-Danny Beard; 4. 3W-Duane Watson; 5.
54W-Roy Warehime, Jr.; 6. 1E-Greg
Emlet, Jr.; 7. 35C-Dave Crone. No Time
2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30-Craig
Wagaman; 2. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh;
3. 1-Neil Smith; 4. 6-Nate Topper; 5.
129-Jimmy Combs; 6. 20-Scott Fisher;
7. 1M-Duane McMillen. Time - 2:44.93
3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 33-Gino
Comi; 2. 35-Smoke Christine; 3.
22-Nat Tuckey; 4. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 5.
76-Bob Bare; 6. Randy Menges. Time -
2:43.00
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Wed., June 13,
2007 (7 PM) - 55TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN
GLEIM JR. EXCAVATING
NIGHT - 410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win)
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
Sat., June 16, 2007 (7:30 PM) - ALL-STAR
CIRCUIT OF CHAMPIONS - 410 Sprints
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Sat., June 23, 2007 (7:30 PM) - SAL
SCARPITTA MEMORIAL - 410 Sprints (30
Laps, $5,900-to-win), 358 Sprints &
Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
MONTIETH WINS ON CAR OWNER'S SPONSORED
NIGHT AT LINCOLN;
Layton best of 36-car URC field; Tuckey
claims third of year in thundercars
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 6/9/07 - Brian Montieth has
a lot of faithful fans
that have watched and waited for the
high-flying Phoenixville-racer to find
that groove that would put him back into
victory lane.
Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway, their
wait was over. And he
couldn't have picked a better night.
On a night that was sponsored car owner
Jerry Parrish's Premier Auto
Works and Auto Locator, Montieth put his
fans on "the edge" by charging from
his tenth starting spot to grab the lead
with a typical high-side move in
the third and fourth turns of the 11th lap,
and then led the rest of the way
to register his first win of 2007 in the
25-lap feature. Montieth, who had
only won one race at the Pigeon Hills oval
last year after his breakout 2005
season, became the eighth different winner
in 10 events in 2007 at Lincoln,
which has become one of the most competitive
seasons in recent memory at the
lightning-quick high-banked 3/8th-mile
Pigeon Hills oval.
"Normally (Premier Auto Works/Auto Locator
Night) is disastrous for
us," said Montieth in victory lane, "I lost
two good cars that I really
loved this year, and they ended up putting a
brand new one together for us
for tonight. This one really works."
Polesitter AJ Michael grabbed the lead at
the outset with
fourth-starting Josh Wells, third-starting
Cory Haas and fifth-starting Alan
Krimes in tow. A caution on the fourth lap
for a Doug Dodson spin gave Wells
the opportunity to drive around Michael on
the restart for the lead.
While Wells was pacing the field, all eyes
looked back as Montieth
was surging forward from his tenth starting
spot in his usual rim-riding
style, getting by Niki Young, Alan Krimes
and Cory Haas on the sixth lap to
move into third as Wells hung on to a slim
1.76-second lead over Michael.
Montieth shot by Michael for the runner-up
spot on the seventh lap
and set his sights on the leader. He wasted
no time, making his high-side
winning move around Wells in the third and
fourth turns of the 11th lap.
A Chris Knopp spin on the 14th lap and a
Chad Layton miscue heading
into turn one of the 15th lap kept Wells
close. But Montieth used the
ensuing green-flag laps to open up a
commanding lead of 3.81 seconds with
five laps to go.
A tangle involving Jeff Busby and Knopp in
turn four of the 22nd lap
erased Montieth's advantage, and gave a
charging Niki Young life as he was
working his way around Krimes and Haas to
move into third just before the
red flag came out for multi-car crash
exiting turn four involving Doug
Dodson, Nick Schlauch Jr., Ryan Taylor and
Jeff Busby.
With Wells blocking Young's charge on the
bottom on the restart,
Montieth easily pulled away over the final
three laps to take the checkered
2.43-seconds ahead of Wells for the $3,000
victory. The win was Montieth's
eighth of his career at Lincoln.
"We had a wing cylinder come off half way
through," said Montieth,
"I wasn't sure if we were gonna be able to
get 'er done or not. But the
guys gave me a good car and it's pretty much
all them."
"You've gotta get out front," said Montieth
of the stiff Lincoln
competition this season, "If you're not
right...if you're 95
percent...you're going to finish fifth."
Young settled for third, defending track
champion Doug Esh came form
12th to finish fourth, Krimes fifth and TJ
Stutts sixth.
Fred Rahmer came from his distant
19th-starting spot to finish
seventh and was awarded the $200 hard
charger award from Premier Auto Works.
Haas, Greg Hodnett and Cris Eash rounded out
the top ten.
Heats for the 30 "410" sprinters were won by
Wells, Krimes, and
Michael, with Rahmer winning the
consolation.
Harrisburg's Chad Layton piloted his
family's Trades of New
Cumberland/YTI #55 to victory in the 25-lap
United Racing Company feature.
Counting the 410 sprints and 358 sprints, it
was the third different type of
sprint car Layton has driven to victory lane
at Lincoln.
Layton started third and went to the bottom
to grab the lead from
polesitter and early leader Brian Seidel in
the third and fourth turns of
lap three. He led the rest of the way, with
second-starting Kramer
Williamson reclaiming the runner-up spot
from Seidel late in the race.
Seidel settled for third, with Jason Clauss
fourth and Chris Coyle fifth.
Completing the top ten were Michael Carber,
Trevor Lewis, Jeff Van Dusen,
Mark Bitner, and Curt Michael.
A ten-car pileup on turn two of the first
lap brought out the red.
No one was injured in the crash which
involved rows five, six, ten, eleven,
and the inside cars on rows seven, eight,
and nine. Mark Bitner cleared the
crash but suffered a flat and went to the
pits for a tire change. He came
back to finish ninth. Michael was involved
in the crash and returned to
finish tenth. Lewis started 24th after
barely qualifying in the consolation
event, and ended up starting 12th after the
initial red.
Heats for the 36 URC sprints were won by
Seidel. Williamson, Layton
and Coyle, with Brook Weibley winning the
B-Main.
Biglerville's Nat Tuckey became the first
three-time winner in 2007
by winning the 20-lap thundercar feature.
Tuckey came from his
seventh-starting spot to grab the lead from
Bob Bare on the fourth lap and
then held off a determined Duane Watson over
the final 13 laps, which
include a final one-lap dash to the
checkered, to register his 17th career
thundercar win at Lincoln Speedway.
David Prunkl drove a solid race to finish
third, Al Crammer fourth,
Smoke Christine fifth. Greg Emlet, who led
lap number two, finished sixth,
point-leader Neil Smith seventh and Danny
Beard eighth. Those were the only
cars to finish of the original 24 starters.
Heats for the 26 Thundercars were won by Sam
Gallagher, Tuckey and
Christine.
Lincoln Speedway swings back into action
this Wednesday night, June
13th, with the rescheduled 55th
Anniversary/John Gleim Jr. Excavating Night.
The Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 410 Sprints will
be going after the $5,500 winners
check in the 30-lap event. Joining them will
be the popular thundercar
regulars. Gates will open at 5 PM, with time
trials getting underway at 7
PM.
Then next Saturday night, June 16th, the All
Star Circuit of
champions will invade in the Pigeon Hills
oval to take on the Pennsylvania
Posse. Once again, the thundercars will
round out the evening's racing
action. Gates will open at 5:30 PM, with
time trials getting underway at
7:30 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - June 9, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
410 SPRINTS
PREMIER AUTO WORKS/AUTO LOCATOR NIGHT
Feature (25 Laps) - 1. 21-Brian Montieth
($3,000); 2. 6W-Josh Wells; 3.
10N-Niki Young; 4. 30-Doug Esh; 5. 87-Alan
Krimes; 6. 39-TJ Stutts; 7.
51-Fred Rahmer; 8. 11C-Cory Haas; 9. 22-Greg
Hodnett; 10. 7E-Cris Eash; 11.
59-Jim Siegel; 12. 17B-Steve Buckwalter; 13.
71-Brian Leppo; 14. 45-AJ
Michael; 15. 20-Ryan Taylor; 16. 4-John
Rudisill; 17. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.
(DNF); 18. 47J-Jeff Busby (DNF); 19. .08-Joe
Ilg (DNF); 20. 6K-Chris Knopp
(DNF); 21. 43-Doug Dodson (DNF); 22. X-Bobby
Weaver (DNF); 23. U1-Chad
Layton (DNF); 24. 12-Mike Bittinger (DNF).
No Time
Lap Leaders - AJ Michael (1-3), Josh Wells
(4-10), Brian Montieth (11-25)
1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 6W-Josh
Wells; 2. 43-Doug Dodson; 3.
22-Greg Hodnett; 4. 47J-Jeff Busby; 5.
U1-Chad Layton; 6. 39-TJ Stutts; 7.
12-Mike Bittinger; 8. 6K-Chris Knopp; 9.
93-Jonathan Eriksen; 10. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh. Time - 2:26.576
2nd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 87-Alan
Krimes; 2. 30-Doug Esh; 3.
17B-Steve Buckwalter; 4. 10N-Niki Young; 5.
4-John Rudisill; 6. .08-Joe Ilg;
7. 59-Jimmy Siegel; 8. 38N-Nick Schlouch
Jr.; 9. X-Bobby Weaver; 10.
47-Billy Kimmel. Time - 2:31.591
3rd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 45-AJ
Michael; 2. 20-Ryan Taylor; 3.
21-Brian Montieth; 4. 11C-Cory Haas; 5.
71-Brian Leppo; 6. 7E-Cris Eash; 7.
51-Fred Rahmer; 8. 44-Joey Hershey; 9.
49-Bob Howard; 10. 25-Aaron Ott.
Time - 2:35.185
Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
51-Fred Rahmer; 2. 59-Jimmy Siegel;
3. 12-Mike Bittinger; 4. 6K-Chris Knopp; 5.
38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 6.
X-Bobby Weaver; 7. 93-Jonathan Eriksen; 8.
49-Bobby Howard; 9. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 10. 25-Aaron Ott; 11. 44-Joey
Hershey; DNS - 47-Billy Kimmel. Time
- 2:33.523
UNITED RACING COMPANY SPRINTS
Feature (25 Laps) - 1. 55-Chad Layton
($2,000); 2. 73-Kramer Williamson; 3.
5G-Brian Seidel; 4. 08-Jason Clauss; 5.
83-Chris Coyle; 6. 19H-Michael
Carber; 7. 21-Trevor Lewis; 8. 56D-Jeff
VanDusen; 9. 15-Mark Bitner; 10.
99-Curt Michael; 11. 21A-Ed Aikin; 12.
2W-Kevin Welsh; 13. 12-Jimmy Stitzel;
14. 37S-JR Stewart; 15. 89H-Andy Hannula;
16. 8B-Alain Bergeron; 17.
56M-Mares Stellfox; 18. 79-Davey Sammons (DNF);
19. 37-J.J. Grasso; 20.
89-Robbie Stillwaggon (provisional-DNF); 21.
69-Justin Collett (DNF); 22.
92-Todd Rittenhouse, Jr. (DNF); 23. 25-Brook
Weibley (DNF); 24. 3-Dave Ely
(DNF); 25. 63-Josh Weller (DNF). No time.
Lap Leaders - Brian Seidel (1-2), Chad
Layton 3-25)
1st Heat (8 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 5G-Brian
Seidel; 2. 08-Jason Clauss; 3.
69-Justin Collett; 4. 99-Curt Michael; 5.
12-Jimmy Stitzel; 6. 40-Mike
Kostic; 7. 89-Robbie Stillwagon; 8. 39-Tim
Hogue. Time - 1:59.40
2nd Heat (8 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
73-Kramer Williamson; 2. 19H-Michael
Carber; 3. 89H-Andy Hannula; 4. 21A-Ed Akin;
5. 8B-Alan Bergeron; 6.
25C-Brook Weibley; 7. 36-Gary Gollub; 8.
00-Randy West (DNF); DNS - 22-Dave
Betts. No Time
3rd Heat (8 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 55-Chad
Layton; 2. 92-Todd Rittenhouse
Jr.; 3. 3-Dave Ely; 4. 63-Josh Weller; 5.
56M-Mares Stellfox; 6. 25-Michael
Parent; 7. 37-JJ Grasso (DNF); 8. 17-Jimmy
Martin (DNF); 9. 1-Scott Purcell
(DNF). No Time
4th Heat (8 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 83-Chris
Coyle; 2. 79-Davey Sammons; 3.
15-Mark Bitner; 4. 2W-Kevin Welsh; 5.
56D-Jeff VanDusen; 6. 37S-JR Stewart;
7. 18-Adam Gordon (DNF); 8. 21-Trevor Lewis
(DNF). No Time
B-Main (12 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 25-Brook
Weibley; 2. 37-J.J. Grosso; 3.
37S-J.R. Stewart; 4. 21-Trevor Lewis; 5.
18-Adam Gordon; 6. 39-Tim Hogue; 7.
89-Robbie Stillwaggon; 8. 17-Jimmy Martin,
Jr.; 9. 22-Dave Betts; 10.
40-Mike Kostic (DNF); 11. 25C-Michael Parent
(DNF); 12. 36-Gary Gollub
(DNF). No Time
THUNDERCARS
(Night #1 of the Trail-Way/Lincoln Speedway
Thundercar "Shoot Out")
Feature (20-Laps) - 1. 22-Nat Tuckey; 2.
3W-Duane Watson; 3. 8MD-David
Prunkl; 4. 9-Al Crammer; 5. 35-Smoke
Christine; 6. 1E-Greg Emlet, Jr.; 7.
1-Neil Smith; 8. 60-Danny Beard; 9.
21-Ronnie Thomas (DNF); 10. 61-Mike
Slaybaugh (DNF); 11. 20-Scott Fisher (1 lap
down); 12. 81S-Sam Gallagher
(DNF); 13. 76-Bob Bare (DNF); 14. 77-Justin
Mong (DNF); 15. 54-Kyle Martin
(DNF); 16. 6-Nate Topper (DNF); 17. 21A-Mike
Zeigler, Jr. (DNF); 18.
35C-Dave Clouser (DNF); 19. 33-Gino Comi (DNF);
20. 07-Bob Stough (DNF); 21.
7-Mark Scott (DNF); 22. 4R-Jason Watson (DNF);
23. 129-John Hansen (DNF);
24. 2W-Brian Walls (DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Bob Bare (1), Greg Emlet Jr.
(2), Bob Bare (3), Nat Tuckey
(4-20)
1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 81S-Sam
Gallagher; 2. 33-Gino Comi; 3.
3W-Duane Watson; 4. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 5.
20-Scott Fisher; 6. 6-Nate Topper;
7. 54-Kyle Martin; 8. 35C-Dave Crone (DNF);
9. 7-Mark Scott (DNS). Time -
2:43.72
2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 22-Nat
Tuckey; 2. 1-Neil Smith; 3.
8Md-David Prunkl; 4. 76-Bob Bare; 5. 07-Bob
Stough; 6. 60-Danny Beard; 7.
21A-Mike Zeigler, Jr.; 8. 77-Justin Mong; 9.
54W-Roy Warehime. Time -
2:44.58
3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 35-Smoke
Christine; 2. 9-Al Crammer; 3.
2W-Brian Walls; 4. 1E-Greg Emlet Jr.; 5.
4R-Jason Watson; 6. 61-Randy
Menges; 7. 129-John Hansen III; 8. 61M-Mike
Slaybaugh (DNF); 9. 70-Rick
Weaver (DNF). No Time
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., June 9, 2007
(7:30 PM) - PREMIER AUTO WORKS/AUTO LOCATOR
NIGHT - 410
Sprints, URC Sprints & Thundercars
(Trail-Way/Lincoln Speedway Shoot-out)
Wed., June 13, 2007 (7 PM) - 55TH
ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN GLEIM JR. EXCAVATING
NIGHT - 410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win)
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
Sat., June 16, 2007 (7:30 PM) - ALL-STAR
CIRCUIT OF CHAMPIONS - 410 Sprints
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
WOLFE WINS FOR SECOND STRAIGHT WEEK IN
WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL;
HODNETT HOLDS OFF SMITH, RAHMER IN APRIL
28TH MAKE-UP FEATURE;
Owings DQ hands win to Haas in "358"
sprints; Watson wins second of year in
thundercars
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 6/2/07 - Mechanicsburg's
Lucas Wolfe has served
notice that he is a force to be reckened
with in Central Pennsylvania.
After winning his first career Lincoln
Speedway 410 sprint feature
last week in Keystone Cup action, Wolfe
rolled to his second straight
Lincoln win in the 30-lap 4th Annual Weldon
Sterner Memorial. Counting last
week's $5,500 winner's check and the
$5,000-to-win the Sterner Memorial,
Wolfe has won $10,500 and the respect of the
Pennsylvania Posse.
Wolfe out-raced polesitter Stevie Smith into
the first and second
turns from his outside front row starting
position and held the former New
Oxford racer at bay the entire 30-lap
distance to pick up the win.
Ironically, Wolfe's final margin of victory
for the Sterner Memorial was
69-hundredths of-a-second.
Wolfe and Smith ran one-two the entire way,
with Fred Rahmer coming
from seventh starting spot to grab third
from fifth-starting Lance Dewease
on the 28th lap. Dewease settled for fourth,
with ninth-starting Greg
Hodnett completing the top five. Hodnett
missed the four-car inversion and
started ninth after dropping out of his heat
race.
Rounding out the top ten were T.J. Stutts,
Brian Montieth, Jim
Siegel (carrying the Sterner Cement #69
colors), hard charger Niki Young
(who started 18th), and Jeff Busby. Young's
hard-charger award was worth
$200 extra from Pat Sterner and Don Althoff.
The outset of the Sterner Memorial saw a
five-car crash in turn two
which resulted in a spectacular flip by
Darren Eash. Eash was uninjured,
but Cody Darrah suffered an arm injury in a
four-car pileup on the inside of
turn two. He was taken to York Hospital for
treatment.
Heats for the 410 sprinters were won by
Wolfe, Cris Eash, Chad
Layton and Young, with Hodnett winning the
B-Main. Doug Esh set fast time in
time trials over the 39-car field with a
one-lap time of 13.343-seconds
(101.177 MPH).
Greg Hodnett, the Northeast's winningest 410
sprint car driver to
date, became Lincoln's winningest driver of
'07 by claiming his third win of
the year in the 25-lap make-up feature from
April 28th.
Hodnett started third had the lead by the
end of the first lap.
Again, it was Stevie Smith the bride's maid,
chasing Hodnett unsuccessfully
the entire way but scoring his second
runner-up finish of the night, 1.82
seconds behind the J&S Fabrication/Macri
Concrete/Rock-It Pizza #22. Points
leader Fred Rahmer came from tenth starting
spot to score his second
third-place finish of the night, with
11th-starting Doug Esh fourth and Cris
Eash fifth. Completing the top ten were
17th-starting Niki Young, Jeff
Busby, Joe Ilg, race alternate Steve
Buckwalter, and Bob Howard.
Dallastown's Cory Haas became Lincoln's
all-time winningest "358"
sprint driver when an illegal top wing on
the car of apparent winner Steve
Owings resulted in an Owings
disqualification. The win was the 12th of
Haas'
Lincoln career, moving him one win ahead of
Doug Esh on the all-time win
list.
Owings started sixth and ran down race-long
leader Mike Ressler on
lap 11. From there, he drove away to his
apparent first career 358 sprint
win. But a post-race inspection resulted in
the disqualification.
Following the "DQ," 12th-starting Jeff
Rohrbaugh was awarded second,
with 16th-starting Glenndon Forsythe third,
19th-starting Dale Hammaker
fourth, and 13th-starting Adrian Shaffer
fifth. Completing the top ten were
18th-starting Brad McClelland, 21st-starting
Scott Geesey, Ressler, Jeff
Young, and Chad Jumper.
Chad Trout was transported to York Hospital
for a check-up after
climbing the second-turn catch fence and
dropping several feet onto all four
wheels during a heat crash.
Heats for the 42 "358" sprints on hand were
won by Owings, Joe Trone
Jr., Rohrbaugh and Haas. Twin consolations
were won by Aaron Ott and
McClelland.
Abbottstown's Duane Watson raced Nat Tuckey
wheel-to-wheel and came
out on top to pick up his second win of the
year in the 20-lap thundercar
feature.
Fifth-starting Tuckey passed Mike Zeigler
Jr. on the third lap to
take the lead while ninth-starting Watson
was working his way to the front.
Watson inherited second place on the 10th
lap when David Prunkl slowed with
problem and then went to work on Tuckey for
the top spot.
Racing high and low, Watson edged ahead of
Tuckey on the 15th lap
and then held on to take the checkered
1.70-seconds ahead for his 12th
career Lincoln win.
Smoke Christine finished a strong third with
Al Crammer fourth and
Craig Wagaman fifth (who came from the rear
after a first lap incident).
Completing the top-10 were Zeigler, Ronnie
Thomas, Sam Gallagher, Roy
Warehime, Jr. And Scott Fisher.
Heats for the 23 thundercars on hand were
won by Tuckey, Gallagher
and Christine.
Next Saturday night, June 9th, at 7:30 PM,
it will be PREMIER AUTO
WORKS/AUTO LOCATOR NIGHT with the URC
Sprints on hand to join the Cindy Rowe
Auto Glass 410 Sprints and Thundercars.
For the thundercars, they will be racing in
night two of the annual
Trail-Way/Lincoln Speedway Shoot-out, with
bonus money on the line for the
ten drivers with the best two-night combined
finishes on Friday (Trail-Way)
and Saturday (Lincoln) nights.
Gates will open at 5:30 PM, with hot laps at
7 PM and the first heat
taking the green flag at 7:30 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central ennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - June 2, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
4TH ANNUAL WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL
410 SPRINTS
Feature (30 Laps) - 1. 5W-Lucas Wolfe
($5,000); 2. 19-Stevie Smith; 3.
51-Fred Rahmer; 4. 25-Lance Dewease; 5.
22-Greg Hodnett; 6. 39-TJ Stutts; 7.
21-Brian Montieth; 8. 69-Jim Siegel; 9.
10N-Niki Young; 10. 47J-Jeff Busby;
11. X-Bobby Weaver; 12. 20-Ryan Taylor; 13.
67-Cris Eash; 14. .08-Joe Ilg;
15. 49-Bobby Howard; 16. 17B-Steve
Buckwalter; 17. U2-Chad Layton; 18.
14-Glenndon Forsythe; 19. 45-AJ Michael (DNF);
20. 71-Brian Leppo (DNF); 21.
30-Doug Esh (DNF); 22. 6K-Chris Knopp (DNF);
23. 89-Cody Darrah (DNF); 24.
7E-Darren Eash (DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Lucas Wolfe (1-30)
1st Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
5W-Lucas Wolfe; 2. 30-Doug Esh; 3.
51-Fred Rahmer; 4. X-Bobby Weaver; 5.
47J-Jeff Busby; 6. 89-Cody Darrah; 7.
.08-Joe Ilg; 8. 1F-Richie Fitz; 9. 43-Doug
Dodson; 10. 29-Chris Weiss (DNF).
Time - 2:27.076
2nd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 67-Cris
Eash; 2. 19-Stevie Smith; 3.
69-Jim Siegel; 4. 49-Bobby Howard; 5.
14-Glenndon Forsythe; 6. 4-John
Rudisill; 7. 74-JR Berry; 8. 26-Pat Cooper (DNF);
9. 22-Greg Hodnett (DNF);
10. 11C-Cory Haas (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. U1-Chad
Layton; 2. 6K-Chris Knopp; 3.
71-Brian Leppo; 4. 25-Lance Dewease; 5.
17B-Steve Buckwalter; 6. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 7. 93-Jonathon Erickson; 8. 45-AJ
Michael; 9. 44-Joey Hershey; 10.
96-JJ Willett. Time - 2:31.203
4th Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
10N-Niki Young; 2. 39-T.J. Stutts; 3.
20-Ryan Taylor; 4. 21-Brian Montieth; 5.
7E-Darren Eash; 6. 12-Mike
Bittinger; 7. 38N-Nick Schlauch, Jr.; 8.
23-Todd Zinn; 9. 87-Alan Krimes
(DNF). No Time
B-Main (12 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 22-Greg
Hodnett; 2. 89-Cody Darrah; 3.
.08-Joe Ilg; 4. 45-AJ Michael; 5. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 6. 12-Mike Bittinger;
7. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 8. 93-Jonathan
Ericksen; 9. 43-Doug Dodson; 10.
44-Joey Hershey; 11. 4-John Rudisill; 12.
74-JR Berry; 13. 29-Chris Weiss;
14. 96-JJ Willett (DNF); 15. 1F-Richie Firtz
(DNF); DNS - 26-Pat Cooper,
23-Todd Zinn. No Time
Time Trials - 1. 30-Doug Esh, 13.343 seconds
(101.177 MPH); 2. 22-Greg
Hodnett, 13.374; 3. 71-Brian Leppo, 13.379;
4. 87-Alan Krimes, 13.436; 5.
5W-Lucas Wolfe, 13.439; 6. 19-Stevie Smith,
13.486; 7. 25-Lance Dewease,
13.566; 8. 21-Brian Montieth, 13.585; 9.
51-Fred Rahmer, 13.645; 10. 69-Jim
Siegel, 13.650; 11. 17B-Steve Buckwalter,
13.665; 12. 39-TJ Stutts, 13.671;
13. 47J-Jeff Busby, 13.697; 14. 11C-Cory
Haas, 13.725; 15. U1-Chad Layton,
13.731; 16. 20-Ryan Taylor, 13.752; 17.
X-Bobby Weaver, 13.774; 18. 67-Cris
Eash, 13.801; 19. 6K-Chris Knopp, 13.939;
20. 10N-Niki Young, 14.024; 21.
.08-Joe Ilg, 14.072; 22. 49-Bobby Howard,
14.099; 23. 30C-Steve Clabaugh,
14.129; 24. 12-Mike Bittinger, 14.148; 25.
89-Cody Darrah, 14.224; 26.
14-Glenndon Forsythe, 14.255; 27. 45-AJ
Michael, 14.285; 28. 38N-Nick
Schlauch, Jr., 14.292; 29. 1F-Richie Fitz,
14.296; 30. 4-John Rudisill,
14.301; 31. 93-Jonathon Erikson, 14.362; 32.
7E-Darren Eash, 14.364; 33.
43-Doug Dodson, 14.437; 34. 26-Pat Cooper,
14.578; 35. 44-Joey Hershey,
14.593; 36. 23-Todd Zinn, 14.612; 37.
29-Chris Weiss, 15.012; 38. 74-JR
Berry, 15.155; 39. 96-JJ Willett, 15.639.
410 Sprint 4/28 Make-up Feature (25 Laps) -
1. 22-Greg Hodnett ($3,000); 2.
19-Stevie Smith; 3. 51-Fred Rahmer; 4.
30-Doug Esh; 5. 67-Cris Eash; 6.
10N-Niki Young; 7. 47J-Jeff Busby; 8.
.08-Joe Ilg; 9. 17B-Steve Buckwalter;
10. 49-Bobby Howard; 11. 69-Jim Siegel; 12.
44-Joey Hershey; 13. 20-Ryan
Taylor; 14. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 15.
71-Brian Leppo (DNF); 16. 4-John
Rudisill (DNF); 17. 12-Mike Bittinger (DNF);
18. 1F-Richie Fitz (DNF); 19.
39-Cory Haas (DNF); 20. 6K-Chris Knopp (DNF);
21. X-Bobby Weaver (DNF); 22.
U1-Chad Layton (DNF); 23. 30C-Steve Clabaugh
(DNF); 24. 14-Adam Lawrence
(DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Greg Hodnett (1-25)
358 SPRINTS
Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 39-Cory Haas; 2.
7V-Jeff Rohrbaugh; 3. 4R-Glenndon
Forsythe; 4. 66-Dale Hammaker; 5. 21-Adrian
Shaffer; 6. 6-Brad McClelland;
7. 91-Scott Geesey; 8. 38-Mike Ressler; 9.
22D-Jeff Young; 10. 28J-Chad
Jumper; 11. 1W-John Westbrook; 12. 16M-Craig
Myers; 13. 8D-Billy Dietrich;
14. 99-Joe Trone Jr.; 15. 66N-Nate Hammaker;
16. 33T-Todd Spangler; 17.
21D-Elvin Diller III; 18. 28-Keith Prutzman
(DNF); 19. 77-Derek Locke (DNF);
20. 25-Aaron Ott (DNF); 21. 32-Chad Myers (DNF);
22. 81B-Bob Anderson (DNF);
23. 80-Todd Reed (DNF); DISQUALIFIED -
35-Steve Owings (Top wing not
square). No Time
Lap Leaders - Mike Ressler (1-10), Steve
Owings (11-20)
1st Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
35-Steve Owings; 2. 22D-Jeff Young; 3.
81B-Bob Anderson; 4. 21-Adrian Shaffer; 5.
25-Aaron Ott; 6. 91-Scott Geesey;
7. 88K-Travis Keeney; 8. 18-Jessie Morrison;
9. 5-Adam Lawrence; DNS -
16-Gerard McIntyre Jr., 50-Jim Strausbaugh.
Time - 2:30.40
2nd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 99-Joe
Trone Jr.; 2. 16M-Craig Myers;
3. 80-Todd Reed; 4. 28-Keith Prutzman; 5.
66-Dale Hammaker; 6. 77-Derek
Locke; 7. 15-Adam Wilt; 8. 88-Danny
Dietrich; 9. 23B-Jim Bewley; 10.
51N-Nick Palmerino (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 7V-Jeff
Rohrbaugh; 2. 38-Mike Ressler;
3. 28J-Chad Jumper; 4. 1W-John Westbrook; 5.
6-Brad McClelland; 6. 66N-Nate
Hammaker; 7. 11T-Eric Tomecek; 8. 6S-Bill
Sherman; 9. 1-Tim Wagaman (DNF);
10. 7C-Chad Trout (DNF); DNS - 27-Jay
Galloway. No Time
4th Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 39-Cory
Haas; 2. 32-Chad Myers; 3.
33T-Todd Spangler; 4. 4R-Glenndon Forsythe;
5. 8D-Billy Dietrich; 6.
55-Brian Eichelberger; 7. 21D-Elvin Diller
III; 8. 28H-Billy Heltzel Jr.; 9.
84C-Chad Criswell (DNF); 10. 85-Nathan
Berwager (DNF). No Time
1st Consolation (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
25-Aaron Ott; 2. 66-Dale
Hammaker; 3. 91-Scott Geesey; 4. 77-Derek
Locke; 5. 88-Danny Dietrich; 6.
15-Adam Wilt; 7. 88K-Travis Keeney; 8.
18-Jessie Morrison; 9. 16-Gerard
McIntyre Jr.; 10. 51N-Nick Palmerino; 11.
23B-Jim Bewley; 12. 5-Adam
Lawrence; DNS - 50-Jim Stausbaugh. Time -
2:42.09
2nd Consolation (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
6-Brad McClelland; 2. 8D-Billy
Dietrich; 3. 21D-Elvin Diller III; 4.
66N-Nate Hammaker; 5. 11T-Eric
Tomecek; 6. 55-Brian Eichelberger; 7.
28H-Billy Heltzel Jr.; 8. 6S-Bill
Sherman; 9. 1-Tim Wagaman (DNF); 10.
84C-Chad Criswell (DNF); 11. 85-Nathan
Berwager (DNF). No Time
THUNDERCARS
Feature (20-Laps) - 1. 3W-Duane Watson; 2.
22-Nat Tuckey; 3. 35-Smoke
Christine; 4. 9-Al Crammer; 5. 30-Craig
Wagaman; 6. 21A-Mike Zeigler, Jr.;
7. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 8. 81S-Sam Gallagher;
9. 54W-Roy Warehime, Jr.; 10
20-Scott Fisher; 11. 61-Randy Menges; 12.
7-Mark Scott; 13. 33-Gino Comi;
14. 1-Neil Smith; 15. 70-Rick Weaver (DNF);
16. 76-Bob Bare (DNF); 17.
8MD-David Prunkl (DNF); 18. 29-Jeff Zinn (DNF);
19. 93-Gary Warehime (DNF);
20. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh (DNF); 21. 1E-Greg
Emlet, Jr.; 22. 60-Danny Beard
(DNS); 23. 129-Jimmy Combs (DNS). No time.
Lap Leaders - Gino Comi (1); Mike Zeigler,
Jr. (2); Nat Tuckey (3-12); Duane
Watson (13-20)
1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 22-Nat
Tuckey; 2. 3W-Duane Watson; 3.
8MD-David Prunkl; 4. 33-Gino Comi; 5.
20-Scott Fisher; 6. 93-Gary Warehime;
7. 29-Jeff Zinn; 8. 7-Mark Scott (DNF). No
Time
2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 81S-Sam
Gallagher; 2. 21A-Mike Zeigler,
Jr.; 3. 70-Rick Weaver; 4. 9-Al Crammer; 5.
1E-Greg Emlet, Jr.; 6. 61-Randy
Menges; 7. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 8. 129-Jimmy
Combs (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 35-Smoke
Christine; 2. 21-Ronnie Thomas;
3. 1-Neil Smith; 4. 76-Bob Bare; 5. 30-Craig
Wagaman; 6. 54W-Roy Warehime
Jr.; DNS - 60-Danny Beard. Time - 2:43.48
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., June 2, 2007 (Time Trials @ 7 PM)
4TH ANNUAL WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL
410 Sprints (Regular & April 28th Make-up
Feature), 358 Sprints &
Thundercars Gates open @ 5 PM)
Sat., June 9, 2007 (7:30 PM) - PREMIER AUTO
WORKS/AUTO LOCATOR NIGHT - 410
Sprints, URC Sprints & Thundercars
(Trail-Way/Lincoln Speedway Shoot-out)
Wed., June 13, 2007 (7 PM) - 55TH
ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN GLEIM JR. EXCAVATING
NIGHT - 410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win)
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
WOLFE SCORES FIRST CAREER LINCOLN WIN IN
KEYSTONE CUP "A" MAIN;
Roy Warehime also a first-time winner in
thundercars; Rochelle again in
Central PA Legends
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/19/07 - Night number four
of the Inaugural
Keystone Cup Series belonged to Lucas Wolfe.
The Mechanicsburg youngster showed a packed
house that he's becoming
a veteran in scoring his first career
Lincoln win and claiming the $5,000
event plus the $500 Kline's Services
sponsorship night bonus.
Wolfe, who started on the pole after Steve
Buckwalter and Steve
Clabaugh failed to qualify in their
respective heats and make the six-car
inversion, led the first two laps and kept
his cool when third-starting Doug
Esh rode the cushion to take the race lead
in turns three and four of lap
three.
Believing the top would go away, Wolfe
patiently followed the Kinard
Trucking #30, kept hitting his marks, and
reclaimed the lead for good on the
backstretch of lap 16.
"Racing with these guys...you sure gain a
lot of experience," said
Wolfe upon exiting the Allebach #5W, "I'm
fortunate enough to run a lot of
races. That's the only way you're going to
get better at it. I kept
hitting my line every lap. Early...when he
got me...I was pushing a little
hard and he was able to get away. Once I
slowed myself down, I was able to
get better."
Once he got the lead, Wolfe pulled away to a
1.57-second lead before
the third and final caution of the race came
when Brian Montieth dropped off
the pace with a flat right rear on lap 20.
Though fifth-starting Lance Dewease caught
Esh for second on lap 18
and pulled onto his rear bumper for the
restart, it was all Wolfe after
that. His lead was nearly two seconds on the
next-to-last lap before he
backed off to keep from dealing with a
lapped car on the final circuit. His
final margin of victory over the Vogele/Pete's
Bridge Street Motors/Hank's
Performance Products #25 was .94 seconds.
Esh settled for third, with Greg Hodnett
fourth and points leader
Fred Rahmer fifth. Completing the top ten
were Keith Kauffman, Cory Haas,
Niki Young, Mark Smith, and Brian Leppo.
Heats for the sprinters were won by Hodnett,
Rahmer, Young and Todd
Shaffer, with Steve Buckwalter winning the
B-Main. Brian Leppo set fast time
in time trials over the 41-car field with a
one-lap time of 13.155-seconds
(102.623 MPH).
Josh Wells won a special 5-lap $1,000
"winner take all"
non-qualifiers dash.
Jason Rochelle added another notch to his
Lincoln win belt in the
15-lap Central PA Legends feature, leading
every lap from the pole despite
heavy pressure from Ronnie Dunstan over the
final three laps of the feature.
Dunstan started sixth and got by
fourth-starting Jeff Condran for the
runner-up spot on lap 12. He appeared to be
setting up for a race-winning
pass when the only caution of the race came
out for 2004 national champ
Randy Kissinger, to came to a stop in turn
four of the next-to-last lap.
Rochelle then drove away to the win,
followed by Dunstan, Condran,
Rick Potts, and Steve Nederostek. Brian
Levan came from 20th starting spot
to finish sixth.
Heats for the 36 Legends on hand were won by
Josh Morrow, Kissinger
and Potts, with Geremey Sheaffer winning the
consolation.
Manchester Maryland's Roy Warehime Jr.
finally found his way to
victory lane for the first time in his
career at Lincoln Speedway in the 20
lap thundercar feature.
Warehime, who started fourth, watched
frontrow starters Danny Beard
and Mike Zeigler Jr. Battle for the lead
over the first half of the feature.
Warehime's car kicked into another gear just
before the halfway point to
move into second place after passing Zeigler
on the eighth lap, and then
powered his way into the lead on the 11th
lap in a wild six-car scramble for
the lead involving Beard, Zeigler, Duane
Watson, Nat Tuckey and Smoke
Christine. Once in front, Warehime had to
hold off several challenges by
Watson over the final laps with Warehime
holding on in a final drag race to
the checkered off of turn for the win.
Watson settled for second, Zeigler third,
Tuckey fourth and Sam
Gallagher fifth.
Completing the top-10 were Christine, Neil
Smith, Beard, Al Kramer
and Greg Emlet.
Heats for the 27 thundercars on hand were
won by, with Craig
Wagaman, Duane Watson and Smoke Christine.
In addition to sponsoring the Memorial Day
weekend holiday fireworks
display, Kline's Services added $500 to the
410 sprint winner's share and
$250 to the winner's take for both the
Legends and thundercar features.
Kline's also put $450 of the $1,000 up for
the winner-take-all
non-qualifiers dash.
Next Saturday night, June 2nd Lincoln
Speedway will host the 4th
Annual Weldon Sterner Memorial for the Cindy
Rowe Auto Glass 410 Sprint
cars. Time trials will be used to determine
starting line-ups.
In addition to the Sterner Memorial, the 410
sprints will run the
make-up feature from April 28th.
Joining them will the 358 Sprints and
Thundercars.
Gates will open at 5 PM, with hot laps 6:30
PM and time trials for
the 410 sprints getting underway at 7 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - May 26, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
KEYSTONE CUP (Race 4 of 6)
410 SPRINTS
Feature (30 Laps) - 1. 5W-Lucas Wolfe
($5,500); 2. 25-Lance Dewease; 3.
30-Doug Esh; 4. 22-Greg Hodnett; 5. 51-Fred
Rahmer; 6. 7-Keith Kauffman; 7.
11C-Cory Haas; 8. 10N-Niki Young; 9. 07-Mark
Smith; 10. 71-Brian Leppo; 11.
17B-Steve Buckwalter; 12. 88-Todd Shaffer;
13. 39-TJ Stutts; 14. 12-Kevin
Nouse; 15. 11-Mike Erdley; 16. 6K-Chris
Knopp; 17. 38N-Nick Schlauck Jr.;
18. 19-Stevie Smith (DNF); 19. 21-Brian
Montieth (DNF); 20. 35-Alan Cole
(DNF); 21. X-Bobby Weaver (DNF); 22. 89-Cody
Darrah (DNF); 23. 47J-Jeff
Busby (DNF); DNS - 59-Jim Siegel. No Time
Lap Leaders - Lucas Wolfe (1-2), Doug Esh
(3-15), Lucas Wolfe (16-30)
1st Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 22-Greg
Hodnett; 2. 07-Mark Smith; 3.
30-Doug Esh; 4. 71-Brian Leppo; 5. X-Bobby
Weaver; 6. 59-Jim Siegel; 7.
43-Doug Dodson; 8. 2-Brooke Tatnell (DNF);
9. 69K-Donnie Kreitz Jr. (DNF);
DNS - 87-Alan Krimes. Time - 2:21.39
2nd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 51-Fred
Rahmer; 2. 25-Lance Dewease; 3.
21-Brian Montieth; 4. 11-Mike Erdley; 5.
89-Cody Darrah; 6. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 7. 9-Craig Keel; 8. 6W-Josh Wells;
9. 3-Bob Bennett; 10. 12-Mike
Bittinger. Time - 2:22.80
3rd Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1.
10N-Niki Young; 2. 19-Stevie Smith; 3.
7-Keith Kauffman; 4. 39-TJ Stutts; 5.
6K-Chris Knopp; 6. 35-Alan Cole; 7.
49-Bobby Howard; 8. 38N-Nick Schlauck Jr.;
9. .08-Joe Ilg; 10. 4-John
Rudisill. No Time
4th Heat (10 Laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 88-Todd
Shaffer; 2. 5W-Lucas Wolfe; 3.
47J-Jeff Busby; 4. 11C-Cory Haas; 5.
12N-Kevin Nouse; 6. 17B-Steve
Buckwalter; 7. 45-Billy Brian, Jr.; 8.
67-Cris Eash; 9. 93-Jonathan
Ericksen; 10. 44-Joey Hershey (DNF); 11.
26-Pat Cooper (DNS). No Time
B-Main (12 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 17B-Steve
Buckwalter; 2. 35-Alan Cole; 3.
38N-Nick Schlauch, Jr.; 4. 59-Jim Siegel; 5.
30C-Steve Clabaugh; 6. 6W-Josh
Wells; 7. 12-Mike Bittinger; 8. 49-Bob
Howard; 9. .08-Joe Ilg; 10. 67-Cris
Eash; 11. 3-Bob Bennett; 12. 43-Doug Dodson;
13. 9-Craig Keel; 14. 44-Joey
Hershey; 15. 4-John Rudisill; 16.
93-Jonathan Eriksen (DNF); DNS - 2-Brooke
Tatnell, 69K-Donnie Kreitz Jr., 45-Billy
Brian Jr., 26-Pat Cooper. No Time
Time Trials - 1. 71-Brian Leppo, 13.155
(102.623 MPH); 2. 25-Lance Dewease,
13.310; 3. 7-Keith Kauffman, 13.371; 4.
17B-Steve Buckwalter, 13.373; 5.
30-Doug Esh, 13.382; 6. 30C-Steve Clabaugh,
13.418; 7. 19-Stevie Smith,
13.449; 8. 5W-Lucas Wolfe, 13.498; 9.
22-Greg Hodnett, 13.528; 10. 51-Fred
Rahmer, 13.541; 11. 35-Alan Cole, 13.600;
12. 11C-Cory Haas, 13.602; 13.
2-Brooke Tatnell, 13.610; 14. 21-Brian
Montieth, 13.616; 15. 10N-Niki Young,
13.618; 16. 88-Todd Shaffer, 13.642; 17.
07-Mark Smith, 13.689; 18. 89-Cody
Darrah, 13.723; 19. 6K-Chris Knopp, 13.764;
20. 47J-Jeff Busby, 13.766; 21.
X-Bobby Weaver, 13.779; 22. 12-Mike
Bittinger, 13.794; 23. 38N-Nick Schlauch
Jr., 13.795; 24. 12N-Kevin Nouse, 13.808;
25. 69K-Donnie Kreitz Jr., 13.818;
26. 11-Mike Erdley, 13.843; 27. 39-TJ Stutts,
13.844; 28. 45-Billy Brian
Jr., 13.853; 29. 43-Doug Dodson; 13.895; 30.
3-Bob Bennett, 13.921; 31.
49-Bobby Howard, 13.922; 32. 93-Jonathan
Eriksen, 13.987; 33. 59-Jim Siegel,
14.054; 34. 9-Craig Keel, 14.074; 35. 4-John
Rudisill, 14.086; 36. 67-Cris
Eash, 14.136; 37. 87-Alan Krimes, 14.151;
38. 6W-Josh Wells, 14.161; 39.
.08-Joe Ilg, 14.242; 40. 44-Joey Hershey,
15.073; 41. 26-Pat Cooper, NT.
KEYSTONE CUP POINT STANDINGS - 1. Lucas
Wolfe (523 points); 2. Fred Rahmer
(516); 3. Greg Hodnett (488); 4. Mark Smith
(415); 5. Brian Leppo (346); 6.
Lance Dewease (321); 7. Mike Erdley (304);
8. Stevie Smith (297); 9. Keith
Kauffman (296); 10. Doug Esh (291); 11. Todd
Shaffer (290).
CENTRAL PA INEX LEGENDS:
Feature (15 Laps) - 1. 12-Jason Rochelle; 2.
7R-Ronnie Dunstan; 3. 6-Jeff
Condran; 4. 38-Rick Potts; 5. 769-Steve
Nederostek; 6. 5K-Brian Levan; 7.
4X-Butch Brough; 8. 21-Greg Burd; 9. 71-Bob
Murray; 10. 27-Chad Glatfelter;
11. 39-Josh Morrow; 12. 46-Pat McDermott;
13. 23-Randy Fetterhoff; 14.
25-Tyler Bear; 15. 77-Scott Wilkerson; 16.
14W-Ed Wentz; 17. 66-Mike
Daugherty; 18. 88-Andy Lupfer; 19. 37-Brian
Weitzel; 20. 12A-Shaun Arndt;
21. 2-Kenny Keyton; 22. 48-Randy Kissinger (DNF);
23. 7-Geremy Sheaffer
(DNF); 24. 8-Allen Felix (DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Jason Rochelle (1-15)
1st Heat (6 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 39-Josh
Morrow; 2. 12-Jason Rochelle; 3.
71-Bob Murray; 4. 27-Chad Gladfelter; 5.
77-Scott Wilkerson; 6. 88-Andy
Lupfer; 7. 7-Geremy Shaeffer; 8. 5-Scott
Houdeshell; 9. 5K-Brian Levan; 10.
555-Bill Harris; 11. 37-Brian Weitzel; 12.
11-Robert Sobieski. Time -
2:09.56
2nd Heat (6 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 48-Randy
Kissinger; 2. 23-Randy
Fetterhoff; 3. 21-Greg Burg; 4. 4X-Butch
Brough; 5. 14W-Ed Wentz; 6. 66-Mike
Daughtery; 7. 2-Kenny Keyton; 8. 17R-Jim
Housworth; 9. 12A-Shaun Arndt; 10.
6M-Eddie Mehl; 11. 26-Reed Salony; 12.
4-Shane Gladfelter (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (6 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 38-Rick
Potts; 2. 769-Steve Nederostek;
3. 7R-Ronnie Dunstan; 4. 6-Jeff Condran; 5.
46-Pat McDerrmitt; 6. 8-Allen
Felix; 7. 14-Jason Chilton; 8. 25-Tyler
Bear; 9. 711-Ryan Ellis; 10. Y9-Rick
Heitwig; 11. 880-Jason Harpster; 12.
00-Jason Smith. No Time
Consolation (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
7-Geremy Shaffer; 2. 5K-Brian Levan;
3. 2-Kenny Keyton; 4. 25-Tyler Bear; 5.
37-Brian Weitzel; 6. 12A-Shaun
Arndt; 7. 11-Robert Sobieski; 8. 6M-Eddie
Mohl; 9. 711-Ryan Ellis; 10.
00-Jason Smith; 11. 26-Reed Salony; 12.
Y9-Rick Hartwig; 13. 14-Jason
Chilton (DNF); 14. 17R-Jim Housworth (DNF);
15. 4-Shane Gladfelter (DNF);
16. 555-Bill Harris (DNF); 17. 880-Jason
Harpster (DNF); DNS - 5-Scott
Houdeshell. No Time
THUNDERCARS:
Feature (20-Laps) - 1. 54W-Roy Warehime Jr.
($615); 2. 3W-Duane Watson; 3.
21A-Mike Zeigler Jr.; 4. 22-Nat Tuckey; 5.
81S-Sam Gallagher; 6. 35-Smoke
Christine; 7. 1-Neil Smith; 8. 60-Danny
Beard; 9. 9-Al Kramer; 10. 1E-Greg
Emlet Jr.; 11. 93-Gary Warehime; 12.
30-Craig Wagaman; 13. 61M-Mike
Slaybaugh; 14. 21-Ronnie Thomas; 15. 7-Mark
Scott; 16. 18-Bob Johnson; 17.
61-Frankie Topper; 18. 35C-Dave Crone; 19.
8MD-David Prunkl (DNF); 20.
20-Scott Fisher (DNF); 21. 33-Gino Comi (DNF);
22. 129-Jimmy Combs (DNF);
23. 76-Bob Bare (DNF); DNS - 4R-Jason
Watson. No Time
Lap Leaders - Danny Beard (1-10), Roy
Warehime Jr. (11-20)
1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30-Craig
Wagaman; 2. 76-Bob Bare; 3.
8MD-David Prunkl; 4. 1E-Greg Emlet, Jr.; 5.
61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 6. 93-Gary
Warehime; 7. 7-Mark Scott; 8. 61-Frankie
Topper; 9. 35C-Dave Crone. Time-
2:45.72
2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 3W-Duane
Watson; 2. 21A-Mike Zeigler,
Jr.; 3. 22-Nat Tuckey; 4. 9-Al Crammer; 5.
81S-Sam Gallagher; 6. 20-Scott
Fisher; 7. 129-John Hansen; 8. 8-Bob Allen;
9. 29-Jeff Zinn. Time -
2:45.84
3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 35-Smoke
Christine; 2. 33-Gino Comi; 3.
60-Danny Beard; 4. 54-Roy Warehime Jr.; 5.
1-Neil Smith; 6. 4R-Jason Watson;
7. 18-Bob Johnson; 8. 6X-Daryl Groft; 9.
21-Ronnie Thomas (DNF). No Time
MAY 16th ANNIVERSARY RACE
RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 13th;
Time Trials to set June 2nd Sterner Memorial
field
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/22/07 - Lincoln Speedway
promoters Don & Bob
Leiby, along with Alan Kreitzer, have
announced the rescheduling of the
rained-out 55th Anniversary show from May
16th and a format/start time
change for the upcoming June 2nd Weldon
Sterner Memorial.
The make-up date for the 55th
Anniversary/John Gleim Jr. Excavating
Night show has been set for Wednesday night,
June 13th. The Thundercars will
join the 410 Sprints who will be competing
in the 30-lap $5,500-to-win
event.
The annual show will now kick off a big week
of racing action in the
Central Pennsylvania area.
Following the Anniversary show on Wednesday
night, June 13th at
Lincoln, the All Star Circuit of champions
will then come into the area for
shows at Port Royal and Williams Grove
Speedways on June 14th and 15th
respectively before heading to Lincoln
Speedway on Saturday night June 16th.
It has also been announced that the 4th
Annual Weldon Sterner
Memorial on Saturday, June 2nd, will now use
time trials to determine
starting line-ups for the 410 Sprints. That
will move the original starting
time back to 7 PM instead of the originally
scheduled 7:30 PM start time.
Gates will now open at 5 PM for the three
division show which will also
include the make-up 410 sprint feature from
4/28, 358 Sprints and
Thundercars.
With the addition of time trials to the
Sterner Memorial and the
rescheduling of the 55th Anniversary Show,
that means the 410 sprinters will
have five (5) time trial shows to determine
starting line-ups over the next
seven (7) shows (5/26, 6/2, 6/13, 6/16 &
6/30).
Sat., May 26th - INAUGURAL KEYSTONE CUP
SERIES/KLINES SERVICES NIGHT - 410
Sprints, INEX Legends, Thundercars &
FIREWORKS (Time Trials @ 7 PM)
Sat., June 2nd - 4TH ANNUAL WELDON STERNER
MEMORIAL - 410 Sprints (Regular &
Make-up 4/28 Features), 358 Sprints &
Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7 PM)
Sat., June 9th - PREMIER AUTO WORKS/AUTO
LOCATOR NIGHT - 410 Sprints, URC
Sprints & Thundercars (Trail-Way/Lincoln
"Shoot-out" weekend for
Thundercars)(7:30 PM)
Wed., June 13th - 55TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN
GLEIM JR. EXCAVATING NIGHT -
410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win) &
Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7 PM)
Sat., June 16th - ALL-STAR CIRCUIT OF
CHAMPIONS - 410 Sprints & Thundercars
(Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Sat., June 23rd - 410 Sprints, 358 Sprints &
Thundercars (7:30 PM)
Sat., June 30th - 17TH ANNUAL PENNSYLVANIA
SPEEDWEEK OPENER/8TH ANNUAL KEVIN
GOBRECHT MEMORIAL - 410 Sprints &
Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7:30 PM)
Be sure to mark these schedule changes:
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
55TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN GLEIM JR.
EXCAVATING NIGHT
410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win) &
Thundercars
Gates open @ 5 PM
| $20 Gen. Adm. | $25 Pits | $12 Students |
| 6-11 yrs. old $2 | under 6 yrs old Free |
Saturday, June 02, 2007 (Time Trials @ 7 PM)
4TH ANNUAL WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL
410 Sprints, 358 Sprints & Thundercars
Gates open at 5 PM
| $15 Gen. Adm. | $22 Pits | $10 Students |
| 6-11 yrs. old $2 | under 6 yrs old Free |
This Saturday night, May 26th Lincoln
Speedway will host the
inaugural race of the Keystone Cup Series
for the 410 Sprints on Kline
Services Night. The thundercar regulars will
also be on hand and will be
joined by the Central PA INEX Legends.
Rounding out the evening's racing
action will be a spectacular Fireworks
display, courtesy of Klines Services.
Gates will open at 5 PM, with hot laps
getting underway at 6:30 PM. Time
trials for the 410 sprints will get underway
at 7 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., May 26, 2007
(7 PM) - INAUGURAL KEYSTONE CUP SERIES/KLINES
SERVICES
NIGHT - 410 Sprints, INEX Legends,
Thundercars & FIREWORKS (Time Trials @ 7PM)
Sat., June 2, 2007 (7:30 PM) - 4TH ANNUAL
WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL - 410
Sprints (Regular & April 28th Make-up
Feature), 358 Sprints & Thundercars
Sat., June 9, 2007 (7:30 PM) - PREMIER AUTO
WORKS/AUTO LOCATOR NIGHT - 410
Sprints, URC Sprints & Thundercars
(Trail-Way/Lincoln Speedway Shoot-out)
HODNETT CATCHES DARREN EASH LATE FOR
LINCOLN "410" SPRINT WIN;
Rhoads scores first Lincoln win in "358"
sprints; Carmen Perigo, Jr. takes
super sportsman main
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/19/07 - Sometimes you
have to slow down to speed up.
That was the case Saturday at Lincoln
Speedway, and Greg Hodnett's
driving skill and experience prevailed in
claiming his second win of the
year in the Pigeon Hills.
Hodnett patiently waited for lapped traffic
to make his race-winning
move, a slide under polesitter and race-long
leader Darren Eash as the two
exited turn four of lap 23. Hodnett then
motored off to a 1.6-second win
over Eash, his third overall win of 2007 and
his 18th career win at Lincoln.
"The track was really tough tonight," said
upon exiting his J&S
Fabrication/Macri Concrete No.22 in victory
lane, "They had it tight because
they thought it was going to rain, and it
was really tough to get ahold of.
We came in after the heat race and changed
all four bars, all four
shocks...the only thing we didn't change was
the motor and the monkey behind
the wheel."
Hodnett started fifth and was still running
there at the end of the
first lap. Both Niki Young and Hodnett got
by Josh Wells for third and
fourth on the second lap, and Hodnett got
around Young for third on lap
three. Hodnett raced wheel-to-wheel with
second-starting Jeff Busby for the
runner-up spot on laps six and seven before
taking the spot for good on lap
eight. At the time, Eash's lead was 1.1
seconds.
The only caution of the night came out on
lap 11, when Aaron Ott
spun on turn three.
On the restart, Eash pulled away again,
moving out to a 1.23-second
advantage by the end of the 12th lap.
Hodnett stayed close, trimming Eash's
lead to .84-seconds by the end of lap 16.
Hodnett bided his time until the
two leaders hit lapped traffic on lap 19.
Hodnett pulled onto Eash's back
bumper as the two maneuvered through lapped
traffic over the next three
laps. On lap 23, Hodnett dove to the low
side of the track on the
backstretch, and squeezed under both Eash
and a lapped car as the two
exiting turn four.
"I've gotten a little excited here of late
in slick track
conditions, and it really takes my car right
out of the ballpark," explained
Hodnett, "I've got to calm down, and the
guys (crew) have been doing a good
job of getting the car to accommodate me.
We had to slow down and try to
hit that little wet spot coming off both
turns two and four, and it just
seemed like when guys slipped up just a
hair, I could squeeze back in under
them."
Busby scored his best finish of the year in
third, with Young and
points leader Fred Rahmer (who started 12th)
completing the top five.
Rounding out the top ten were Wells, Cris
Eash, Jim Siegel, T.J. Stutts, and
Doug Esh.
Heats for the 30 "410" sprints were won by
Busby, Young and Darren
Eash, with Bobby Weaver winning the
consolation.
New Danville's Randy Rhoads picked the
perfect night to win his
first career Lincoln Speedway win in the
25-lap $1,200-to-win Mid Season
Championship.
Rhoads, who started on the pole fought-off
outside frontrow starter
and newly crowned prom queen Jessie Morrison
at the drop of the green in his
Mopar-powered sprinter. Rhoads still held
the top spot over sixth-starting
Adam Wilt, Morrison and 12th-starting
Frankie Herr when the first caution
waved on the seventh lap.
Rhoads stayed glued to the inside line as
the laps wound down with
Wilt and Herr closing the gap as he entered
lapped traffic on the 16th lap.
Wilt appeared to get under Rhoads through
the first and second turns
of the 19th lap, but, a caution for a
spinning Chad Criswell negated Wilt's
potential race-winning move.
On the restart Rhoads drove to the bottom
and pulled away over the
final laps to take the checkered .97-seconds
ahead for his inaugural Lincoln
Speedway win over Wilt.
Herr settled for third with 11th-starting
Dale Hammaker fourth and
20th-starting Cory Haas fifth.
Completing the top-10 were Jeff Rohrbaugh
(who started 19th), Brad
McClelland, Glenndon Forsythe, Travis Keeney
and Brian Eichelberger
Heats for the 45 "358" sprints were won by
Rhoads, Morrison, Herr
and Wilt. Twin consolations were won by
Forsythe and Elvin Diller III.
Stoystown's Carmen Perigo Jr. rounded out
the evening's racing
action by driving his Ford-powered car to
the win in the 25-lap super
sportsman feature. Perigo started tenth and
was already running fifth by
the end of the first lap. He caught Chris
Reed for fourth on lap six,
passed Leroy Martin for third on lap seven,
got by Stan Wanner for second on
lap seven, and then climbed onto the back
bumper of race-long leader Jake
Raudabaugh following an eighth-lap red flag
for Frankie Herr, who flipped
violently down the front stretch after
making contact with Paul Miller while
racing for position.
Herr was uninjured, as was Rich Eichelberger,
who flipped in turns
three and four of lap six.
Perigo chased Raudabaugh for five more laps
before being scored the
leader in side-by-side racing down the
frontstretch of lap 14. Raudabaugh
came back to lead lap 15, but Perigo took
the lead for good on lap 16.
Raudabaugh, piloting the Walt Bigler No.93,
settled for second 1.67
seconds behind at the end, with Wanner
third, Glenn Keller fourth, and Danny
Hager fifth. Completing the top ten were
Ryan Rupp, Jason Fry, Leroy
Martin, Gregg Foster, and Bobby Hockenberry.
Heats for the 26 super sportsman were won by
Raudabaugh, Keller and
Miller.
Next Saturday night, May 26th Lincoln
Speedway will host the
inaugural race of the Keystone Cup Series
for the 410 Sprints on Kline
Services Night. The thundercar regulars will
also be on hand and will be
joined by the Central PA INEX Legends.
Rounding out the evening's racing
action will be a spectacular Fireworks
display, courtesy of Klines Services.
Gates will open at 5 PM, with hot laps
getting underway at 6:30 PM. Time
trials for the 410 sprints will get underway
at 7 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - May 19, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
410 SPRINTS:
Feature (25 Laps) - 1. 22-Greg Hodnett
($3,000); 2. 7E-Darren Eash; 3.
47J-Jeff Busby; 4. 10N-Niki Young; 5.
51-Fred Rahmer; 6. 6W-Josh Wells; 7.
67-Cris Eash; 8. 59-Jim Siegel; 9. 39-TJ
Stutts; 10. 30-Doug Esh; 11.
X-Bobby Weaver; 12. 87-Alan Krimes; 13.
71-Brian Leppo; 14. 21-Brian
Montieth; 15. 49-Bobby Howard; 16. 6K-Chris
Knopp; 17. 89-Cody Darrah; 18.
38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 19. 45-AJ Michael;
20. .08-Joe Ilg; 21. 44-Joey
Hershey; 22. 30C-Steve Clabaugh (DNF); 23.
12-Mike Bittinger (DNF); 24.
25-Aaron Ott (DNF). No Time
Lap Leaders - Darren Eash (1-22), Greg
Hodnett (23-25)
1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
47J-Jeff Busby; 2. 30-Doug Esh; 3.
67-Cris Eash; 4. 89-Cody Darrah; 5. 6-Brad
McClelland; 6. 45-AJ Michael; 7.
X-Bobby Weaver; 8. 4-John Rudisill; 9.
44-Joey Hershey; 10. 21-Brian
Montieth. No Time
2nd Heat (10 Lap/6 to qualify) - 1. 10N-Niki
Young; 2. 59-Jim Siegel; 3.
51-Fred Rahmer; 4. 6W-Josh Wells; 5.
71-Brian Leppo; 6. 87-Alan Krimes; 7.
12-Mike Bittinger; 8. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.;
9. 1F-Richie Fitz (DNF); 10.
26-Pat Cooper (DNF). No Time
3rd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
7E-Darren Eash; 2. 39-TJ Stutts; 3.
49-Bobby Howard; 4. 22-Greg Hodnett; 5.
.08-Joe Ilg; 6. 30C-Steve Clabaugh;
7. 96-JJ Willett; 8. 25-Aaron Ott; 9.
23-Todd Zinn; DNS - 20-Ryan Taylor. No
Time
Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
X-Bobby Weaver; 2. 12-Mike
Bittinger; 3. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 4.
44-Joey Hershey; 5. 21-Brian
Montieth; 6. 25-Aaron Ott; 7. 23-Todd Zinn;
8. 96-JJ Willet; 9. 4-John
Rudisill; 10. 26-Pat Cooper (DNS). No Time
358 SPRINT MID-SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP:
Feature (25 Laps) - 1. Randy Rhoads
($1,200); 2. 15-Adam Wilt; 3. 9-Frankie
Herr; 4. 66-Dale Hammaker; 5. 39-Cory Haas;
6. 7V-Jeff Rohrbaugh; 7. 6-Brad
McClelland; 8. 4R-Glenndon Forsythe; 9.
88K-Travis Keeney; 10. 55-Brian
Eichelberger; 11. 21-Adrian Shaffer; 12.
88-Danny Dietrich; 13. 18-Jessie
Morrison; 14. 7C-Chad Trout; 15. 77-Derek
Locke; 16. 32-Chad Myers; 17.
115-Scott Ellerman; 18. 11T-Eric Tomecek;
19. 27-Jay Galloway (DNF): 20.
84C-Chad Criswell (DNF); 21. 21D-Elvin
Diller III (DNF); 22. 16-Gerard
McIntyre, Jr. (DNF); 23. 91-Scott Geesey (DNF);
24. 35-Steve Owings (DNF).
No time.
Lap Leaders - Randy Rhoads (1-25)
1st Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
69R-Randy Rhoads; 2. 91-Scott Geesey;
3. 115-Scott Ellerman; 4. 6-Brad McClelland;
5. 7V-Jeff Rohrbaugh; 6.
23B-Jim Bewley; 7. 88-Danny Dietrich; 8.
1-Tim Wagaman; 9. 28J-Chad Jumper;
10. 38-Mike Ressler; 11. 28H-Billy Heltzel,
Jr.; 12. 66N-Nate Hammaker
(DNF). Time - 2:28.10
2nd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
18-Jessie Morrison; 2. 88K-Travis
Keeney; 3. 66-Dale Hammaker; 4. 35-Steve
Owings; 5. 7C-Chad Trout; 6.
4R-Glenndon Forsythe; 7. 16M-Craig Myers; 8.
22H-JR Fry; 9. 1W-John
Westbrook; 10. 81B-Bob Anderson (DNF); 11.
15Z-Zach Geesey (DNS). Time -
2:28.16
3rd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1.
9-Frankie Herr; 2. 55-Brian
Eichelberger; 3. 16-Gerard McIntyre, Jr.;
4.77-Derek Locke; 5. 5-Adam
Lawrence; 6. 23-Todd Rittenhouse, Jr. (DNF);
7. 27-Jay Galloway (DNF); 8.
80-Todd Reed (DNF): 9. 25-Aaron Ott (DNF);
10. 85-Nathan Berwager (DNF); 11.
39-Cory Haas (DNF). No Time
4th Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 15-Adam
Wilt; 2. 84C-Chad Criswell; 3.
11T-Eric Tomecek; 4. 32-Chad Myers; 5.
21D-Elvin Diller III; 6. 2-Paul
Hively III; 7. 9J-Jason Weiss; 8. 10-Zach
Eucalano; 9. 28-Keith Prutzman
(DNF); 10. 21-Adrian Shaffer (DNF); 11.
51N-Nick Palmerino (DNF). No Time
1st Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
4R-Glenndon Forsythe; 2. 7V-Jeff
Rohrbaugh; 3. 7C-Chad Trout; 4. 88-Danny
Dietrich; 5. 16M-Craig Myers; 6.
1-Tim Wagaman; 7. 22H-JR Fry; 8. 1W-John
Westbrook; 9. 28J-Chad Jumper; 10.
66N-Nate Hammaker; 11. 23B-Jim Bewley; 12.
81B-Bob Anderson; 13. 38-Mike
Ressler; 14. 28H-Billy Heltzel, Jr.; 15.
15Z-Zach Geesey (DNS). Time
-2:39.18
2nd Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
21D-Elvin Diller III; 2. 39-Cory
Haas; 3. 21-Adrian Shaffer; 4. 27-Jay
Galloway; 5. 2-Paul Hively III; 6.
25-Aaron Ott (DNF); 7. 5-Adam Lawrence (DNF);
8. 80-Todd Reed (DNF); 9.
51N-Nick Palmerino (DNF); 10. 28-Keith
Prutzman (DNF); 11. 23-Todd
Rittenhouse Jr. (DNF); 12. 9J-Jason Weiss (DNF);
13. 10-Zach Eucalano (DNF);
DNS - 85-Nathan Berwager. No Time
SUPER SPORTSMAN:
Feature (25-Laps) - 1. 2A-Carmen Perigo Jr.
($1,200); 2. 93-Jake Raudabaugh;
3. 64-Stan Wanner; 4. 9G-Glenn Keller; 5.
55-Danny Hager; 6. 33-Ryan Rupp;
7. 24-Jason Fry; 8. 66-Leroy Martin; 9.
29-Gregg Foster; 10. 25-Bobby
Hockenberry; 11. 58-Paul Miller; 12. 00-Rick
Barr; 13. 45-Dave Socks; 14.
3B-Mike Enders; 15. 1-John Stehman; 16.
14-Chris Reed; 17. 44-John Garman;
18. 20-Eric Eckert; 19. 5-Dave Berkheimer;
20. 73K-Rocky Magaro; 21. 56-Vic
Nauman; 22. 22H-JR Fry (DNF); 23. 99-Frankie
Herr (DNF); 24. 8-Rich
Eichelberger (DNF); 25. 318-Duaine Smith (DNF);
DNS - 11-Steve Fannasy. No
Time
Lap Leaders - Jake Raudabaugh (1-13), Carmen
Perigo Jr. (14), Jake
Raudabaugh (15), Carmen Perigo Jr. (16-25)
1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 93-Jake
Raudabaugh; 2. 2A-Carmen Perigo
Jr.; 3. 8-Rich Eichelberger; 4. 66-Leroy
Martin; 5. 45-Dave Socks; 6.
29-Gregg Foster; 7. 20-Eric Eckert; 8.
00-Rick Barr; 9. 5-Dave Berkheimer
Time - 2:46.75 (New 10-lap Track Record -
old record was 2:46.98 set by
Bobby Weaver on 9/6/98)
2nd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1.
9G-Glenn Keller; 2. 99-Frankie Herr; 3.
64-Stan Wanner; 4. 33-Ryan Rupp; 5. 24-Jason
Fry; 6. 1-John Stehman; 7.
318-Duaine Smith; 8. 73K-Rocky Magaro (DNF);
9. 11-Steve Fannasy (DNF). No
Time
3rd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 58-Paul
Miller; 2. 14-Chris Reed; 3.
55-Danny Hager; 4. 25-Bobby Hockenberry; 5.
44-Jon Garman; 6. 3B-Mike
Enders; 7. 56-Vic Nauman; DNS - 22H-JR Fry.
No Time
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., May 19, 2007
(7:30 PM) - BUCKLE UP PA NIGHT - 410
Sprints, Mid-Season
358 Sprint Championship & Super Sportsman
Sat., May 26, 2007 (7 PM) - INAUGURAL
KEYSTONE CUP SERIES/KLINES SERVICES
NIGHT - 410 Sprints, INEX Legends,
Thundercars & FIREWORKS (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
Sat., June 2, 2007 (7:30 PM) - 4TH ANNUAL
WELDON STERNER MEMORIAL - 410
Sprints (Regular & April 28th Make-up
Feature), 358 Sprints & Thundercars
RAIN CANCELS MAY 16TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW;
410 Sprints, Mid-season 358 Sprint
Championship & Super Sportsman on Tap May
19th
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/16/07 - What seems like a
stuck record comes in
the latest announcement from Lincoln
Speedway once again. Racing has been
canceled at Lincoln Speedway again.
A string of severe thunderstorms swept
through the Pigeon Hills
Wednesday afternoon forcing Lincoln Speedway
promoters Don and Bob Leiby,
along with Alan Kreitzer, to cancel the big
55th Anniversary Show scheduled
for Wednesday evening, May 16th.
After the first string of anticipated severe
storms swept through
the area, another line of storms lined up
behind them and continued to hit
the area later in the afternoon, ending any
hope of getting in the 410
sprint and thundercar show.
It has yet to be determined if and when the
special 55th Anniversary
racing program may be run.
This Saturday night, May 19th at 7:30 PM, it
will be BUCKLE UP PA
NIGHT with the 358 Sprints running in their
Annual Mid-Season Championship.
The Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 410 Sprints and
Super Sportsman will round out the
evening's racing action. Gates will open at
5:30 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY APRIL
28TH MAKE-UP DATES ANNOUNCED;
Saturday, May 19th show start time moved to
7:30 PM
Abbottstown, PA, 5/14/07 - Following the
latest cancellation due to weather,
Lincoln Speedway promoters Don and Bob Leiby,
along with Alan Kreitzer, have
announced the make-up dates for the April
28th features for the Cindy Rowe
Auto Glass 410 Sprints and Thundercars.
The 410 sprint feature from April 28th will
now be run on Saturday
evening, June 2nd, in conjunction with the
4th Annual Weldon Sterner
Memorial. The 410 Sprint make-up feature
will be added to the regularly
scheduled 410 Sprint, 358 Sprint &
Thundercar racing program. Green flag
racing for the three-division four-feature
show begins that night at 7:30
PM.
The thundercar feature from April 28th will
be added to the
Saturday, July 7th racing program of 358
Sprints, Super Sportsman, 358 Late
Models & Thundercars. Racing action gets
underway at 7 PM for the
four-division five-feature show.
There will be no increase in admission for
either date.
In one other scheduling adjustment, the
start time for this
Saturday's May 19th show has been changed
from the originally scheduled
start time of 7 PM to 7:30 PM. Gates will
open at 5:30 PM, with hot laps
getting underway at 7 PM for the 410 Sprint,
Mid-Season 358 Sprint
Championship & Super Sportsman show.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Wed., May 16, 2007
(7 PM) - 55TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW/JOHN GLEIM
JR. EXCAVATING
NIGHT - 410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win)
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
Sat., May 19, 2007 (7 PM) - BUCKLE UP PA
NIGHT - 410 Sprints, Mid-Season 358
Sprint Championship & Super Sportsman
Sat., May 26, 2007 (7 PM) - INAUGURAL
KEYSTONE CUP SERIES/KLINES SERVICES
NIGHT - 410 Sprints, INEX Legends,
Thundercars & FIREWORKS (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
FIVE-FEATURE LINCOLN SHOW RAINED OUT;
Stage set for Wednesday night 55th
Anniversary Show
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/12/07 - Once again rain
has ruined another night
of racing at Lincoln Speedway. A sudden late
afternoon storm swamped the
Pigeon Hills oval around 6 PM after the pits
and grandstand were full. After
waiting out the rain, track preparations
were underway and race cars were
being called to put heat in their motors
around 9:30 PM when another shower
hit the Speedway forcing officials to cancel
the evenings racing action.
Rain checks for the evenings show will be
honored for the next three
racing programs. The make-up 410 sprint and
thundercar features from April
28th will be made-up on a date to yet be
determined.
Lincoln Speedway swings right back into
action this Wednesday night,
May 16th, with it's 55TH ANNIVERSARY
SHOW/JOHN GLEIM EXCAVATING NIGHT
featuring the 410 sprints and thundercars.
Time trials will get underway at 7 PM for
the 410 sprints in the
annual 30-lap, $5,500-to-win event. Gates
will open at 5 PM and hot laps
getting underway at 6:30 PM.
Then next Saturday night, May 19th at 7 PM,
it will be BUCKLE UP PA
NIGHT. The 358 Sprint Mid-Season
Championship will be on tap as will the
Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 410 sprints and super
sportsman.
Gates will open at 5 PM, with hot laps
getting underway at 6:30 PM
and the first heat taking the green flag at
7 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Sat., May 12, 2007
(7:30 PM) - 410 Sprints (Regular & 4/28
Make-up Feature),
358 Late Models & Thundercars (Regular &
4/28 Make-up Feature)
Wed., May 16, 2007 (7 PM) - 55TH ANNIVERSARY
SHOW/JOHN GLEIM JR. EXCAVATING
NIGHT - 410 Sprints (30-laps/$5,500 to win)
& Thundercars (Time Trials @ 7
PM)
Sat., May 19, 2007 (7 PM) - BUCKLE UP PA
NIGHT - 410 Sprints, Mid-Season 358
Sprint Championship & Super Sportsman
HODNETT EDGES STUTTS IN LINCOLN 410
SPRINT THRILLER;
Rohrbaugh wins 358 sprint make-up, Westbrook
claims career first in second
358 sprint feature; Duane Watson wins first
of year in thundercars
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/5/07 - With a packed
house on its feet over the
final lap, York's Greg Hodnett used a lapped
car to buy time in turns one
and two and hold off a charging T.J. Stutts
by half a carlength to record
his first Lincoln win of the year in the 410
sprint feature Saturday night.
Fifty-seven truckloads of fresh clay
delivered on Monday and worked
into the surface by master track preparer
Fred Putney during the course of
the week had the 410 sprinters clocking
their fastest laps since the minimum
weight rule took effect five years ago.
"It was almost too good actually," said a
happy Hodnett upon exiting
his Jim and Sandy Kline J&S Fabrication
No.22 sprinter in victory lane, "It
was a very physical and fast race
track...you could see after about 10 laps
guys starting to miss their lines, and it's
tough to keep concentration when
things are happening this fast."
Hodnett started seventh and was running just
ahead of Jeff Busby
when he spun and collected five other cars
in turn two of lap two. There
were no flips in the incident, but Busby
(who started beside Hodnett on row
four), Cris Eash, Jim Siegel, and Steve
Buckwalter were unable to continue.
Hodnett entered the top five on lap three,
and was still running
fourth when fourth-starting Stevie Smith
caught race-long leader Doug Dodson
and took the top spot in heavy lapped
traffic on turns three and four of lap
10. Right after Smith took the lead, a
caution came out for Darren Eash,
who slowed on the frontstretch and pulled
into the pits.
On the restart, Hodnett drove around both
Niki Young and Dodson
exiting turn two to claim the runner-up
spot. He quickly on Smith and was
scored 17-thousandths of-a-second ahead of
the RAACE #19 as the two crossed
the flagstand to complete lap 12. Moments
later, a caution came out for
Alan Krimes, who lost a wheel and struck the
fourth-turn wall. Scorers
checked electronic scoring the confirm
Hodnett was the leader.
But the race of the night was turned in by
T.J. Stutts, who advanced
from 20th starting spot to fifth by the
Krimes caution. Stutts grabbed
fourth from Josh Wells on lap 15. Following
a 16th lap red flag for Doug
Esh, who hit the guardrail and flipped
exiting turn four, Stutts took third
from Young on the restart and then put away
Smith on lap 18. At the time,
Hodnett's lead was nearly two seconds.
Stutts knocked one and-a-half seconds off
Hodnett's lead over the
next five laps, and pulled onto Hodnett's
back bumper in lapped traffic with
the white flag waving.
"I heard somebody back there and I knew I
needed to get through
traffic better," said Hodnett, "I was trying
to pick and choose lanes, but
was getting a little tight in traffic...I
was trying to stay off the curb
and keep from screwing up and plugging it
into the fence or something
stupid."
Hodnett used a lapped car to block Stutts
through turns one and two
of the final lap, giving him just enough
space to hold off the Trone Outdoor
Advertising #39 by a half-carlength at the
checkered.
"Everybody said we wanted a tackier track,"
said Hodnett. "Well,
they got it!"
"Those guys did a great job. These were
regular speeds racing, not
qualifying. Fred Putney and all the guys did
in one week what normally takes
a track all winter. I commend them because
they did a great job."
The $3,000 win was the 17th of Hodnett's
Lincoln career, moving him
into sole possession of 15th on the all-time
Lincoln 410 sprint win list.
Heats for the 29 "410" sprints were won by
Dodson, Young and Smith,
with Brian Leppo winning the consolation.
Jeff Rohrbaugh came from sixth starting spot
to grab the lead from
race-long leader Adrian Shaffer in lapped
traffic on lap 14 to score the win
in the 20-lap 358 sprint make-up feature
from April 14th. Rohrbaugh's final
margin of victory was three-quarters
of-a-second over Shaffer, with Todd
Rittenhouse, Jr. getting by Dale Hammaker
for third on the final lap.
Hammaker settled for fourth with Derek Locke
fifth. Completing the top ten
were Danny Dietrich, Chad Criswell, Aaron
Ott, Glenndon Forsythe, and Nate
Hammaker.
In the regularly-scheduled 358 sprint
feature, John Westbrook
grabbed the lead from his outside front row
starting spot and led polesitter
Brad McClelland the entire way to score his
first career win.
Westbrook piloted the Jim Stausbaugh built
car to a .97-second
victory. Third through fifth behind
Westbrook and McClelland were
11th-starting Aaron Ott, 14th-starting Chad
Trout, and Gerard McIntyre, Jr.
Rounding out the top ten were Scott Geesey,
Jeff Rohrbaugh, Adam Wilt,
Adrian Shaffer, and Brian Eichelberger.
Heats for the 49 "358" sprints were won by
Geesey, McClelland,
Westbrook and Wilt. Twin consolations were
won by Danny Dietrich and Eric
Tomecek.
Abbottstown's Duane Watson came from ninth
starting spot to take the
lead from polesitter and race-long leader
Mike Zeigler, Jr. on the fifth lap
and score his first win of the year in the
20-lap thundercar feature.
Watson crossed under the checkered a
half-straightaway in front of Smoke
Christine, with 18th-starting David Prunkl,
Sam Gallagher, and Neil Smith
third through fifth.
Heats for the 29 thundercars were won by Nat
Tuckey, Christine and
Watson, with Prunkl winning the consolation.
Next Saturday night, May 12th at 7:30 PM, it
will another big night
at the Pigeon Hills oval as both the 410
Sprints and Thundercars will be
making up there April 28th postponed
features to start the night before
running there regularly scheduled racing
programs. They'll be joined by the
increasingly popular 358 Late Models. Gates
will open at 5:30 PM for the
five-division show, with hot laps getting
underway at 7 PM and the first
heat taking the green flag at 7:30 PM.
To get all the latest news, results,
schedule changes and rule
changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at
http://www.lincolnspeedway.com
to stay up-to-date on all the action or
pending weather conditions at
Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday
night race track - The Fabulous
Lincoln Speedway.
RACE RESULTS
Saturday - May 5, 2007
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
410 SPRINTS:
Feature (25 Laps) - 1. 22-Greg Hodnett
($3,000); 2. 39-TJ Stutts; 3.
19-Stevie Smith; 4. 51-Fred Rahmer; 5.
6W-Josh Wells; 6. 10N-Niki Young; 7.
20-Ryan Taulor; 8. 89-Cody Darrah; 9.
49-Bobby Howard; 10. 71-Brian Leppo;
11. .08-Joe Ilg; 12. X-Bobby Weaver; 13.
43-Doug Dodsen; 14. 30C-Steve
Clabaugh; 15. F1-Richie Fitz; 16. 44-Joey
Hershey; 17. 30-Doug Esh (DNF);
18. 87-Alan Krimes (DNF); 19. 6K-Chris Knopp
(DNF); 20. 7E-Darren Eash
(DNF); 21. 47J-Jeff Busby (DNF); 22. 67-Cris
Eash (DNF); 23. 59-Jim Siegel
(DNF); 24. 17B-Steve Buckwalter (DNF). No
Time
Lap Leaders - Doug Dodson (1-9), Stevie
Smith (10-11), Greg Hodnett (12-25)
1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 43-Doug
Dodson; 2. 7E-Darren Eash; 3.<