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2013 PA SPEEDWEEK FORMAT

TIME TRIALS; Time trials will be single car with order determined by a

blind draw. Each track has the

option to conduct one or two lap time trials. Any driver missing their as-

signed spot by more than two positions will get one lap at the end of time tri-

als and will not make the invert for the heat race.

HEATS RACES; Heat race lineups will be set with an invert of four cars in

each heat based on time

trials, regardless of the number of heat races run. If three heats are held six

cars will qualify. If four

heats are run five cars will qualify.

B-MAIN; The B-main will be aligned heads up by time. If three heats were

run six cars will qualify. If

four heats were run four cars will qualify.

FEATURE; The top two finishers from each heat, and the top two time trial-

ers who qualify in their

heats but don’t finish in the top two will be placed into the feature inversion.

These drivers will be

aligned by time and the fastest qualifier will draw for an invert of 4-6-8 or 4-

6 if inversion pool is less

than 8 cars. The remainder of the field will be aligned by time regardless of

whether they qualified in

their heat or the B-Main.

POINT STRUCTURE;

TIME TRIALS; 40-35-30-29-28-27-26-25-24-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-

14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-

4-3-2-1-1-1-1

HEATS; Points awarded only to qualified cars; 20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2-1

B-MAIN; Points awarded only to qualified cars; 8-7-6-5-4-3

FEATURE; 125-100-95-90-85-80-75-70-65-60-55-50-45-40-35-30-25-20-15

-10-5-5-5-5

STANDARD PA SPRINT CAR RULES WILL APPLY

410 cubic inch engine displacement.

1400 pounds with driver after any event.

Approved Hoosier right and left rear tires

25 square foot Flat Top Wing with maximum 1 inch wickerbill.

Each track is responsible for its on track racing rules and insurance.

MINIMUM FEATURE PAYOFF: Point Fund – Total dependent on all 9 races completed

1.$5,000 11. 900 1. $2,000

2. 2,000 12. 750 2. 1,500

3. 1,700 13. 600 3. 1,000

4. 1,500 14. 500 4. 900

5. 1,400 15. 450 5. 800

6. 1,300 16. 425 6. 700

7. 1,200 17. – 24. 400 7. 600

8. 1,100 8. 500

9. 1,050 9. 400

10.1,000 10. 300

Tow for non-qualifiers - $50 Minimum

1. 39 Greg Hodnett* 887+ 2. 20s Fred Rahmer 872+

3. 19 Stevie Smith* 863+

4. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 860+ 5. 27 Lance Dewease 822+

6. 19M Brent Marks 807+

7. 48 Danny Dietrich* 743+ 8. 1/11 Danny Lasoski 735+

9. 7/5L Chad Layton 540+

10. 21 Brian Montieth 503

11. 1s Logan Schuchart 502+

12. 87 Alan Krimes* 483 13. 15 Adam Wilt 394

14. 2W/59 Jim Siegel 369

15. 11c Cory Haas 283

16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276

17. 12 Blane Heimbach* 275 18. 99 Brady Bacon 270

19. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 262+

20. 25 Aaron Ott 235+

21. 55 Mike Wagner 212

22. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr 206

23. 2T T J Stutts 201

24. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 181

25. 2W/5 Glenndon Forsythe 175

26. 10 Dave Blaney* 169 27. 17B Steve Buckwalter 144

27. 20 Ryan Taylor 144

29. 29 Ryan Wilson 139

30. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 138+

31. 98 Doug Esh 137

31. 11 Mike Erdley 137

33. 27H Mark Smith 132

34. 75 Nicole Bower 130

35. 747 Davey Sammons 124

36. 44 Rodney Westhafer 98

37. 8 Billy Dietrich 97

38. 5 Dylan Cisney 96

39. 18 Ryan Bohlke 81

40. 1a Jacob Allen 75+

41. 8H Keith Kauffman 68

42. 56 Nate Snyder 66

43. 45 Kevin Nagy 65

44. 44 Joey Hershey 61

45. 55K Robbie Kendall 60

46. 69 Tim Glatfelter 53

47. 25 J J Grasso 49

48. I07 Cliff Brian 31

49. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27

50. 2H Dave Hahn 26

51. 99M Kyle Moody 25

52. 38 Scott Wilson 21

53. 25 Jimmy Seager 18

54. 1080 Jordan Mackison 13

55. 0 Steve Storrie 6

56. 21 Kyle Reinhardt 5

56. 21A Will Rose 5

56. 12W Troy Fraker 5

59. 18 Bob Bennett 4

60. 51 Karl Baker 3

60. 29T Robin Dawkins 3

62. 95 Hunter Mackison 2

63 33 Curt Stroup 1

63. 8s Trenton Sheaffer 1

63. 21 Rod Stroup 1

63. 30 Daryl Stimeling 1

63. 24B Dustin Baney 1

63. 22T Matt Boland 1

63. 23 Todd Rittenhouse Jr 1

63. 21T Scott Fisher 1

63. 12 Mike Bittinger 1

63. 4 John Rudisill 1

* indicates win + indicates has attended all shows

2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS.

Hodnett saves Posse pride. Greg Hodnett narrowly avert-ed a disaster when he won the 2013 rendition of the Pennsylvania Sprint Speed-week (his fourth PA Speed-week crown).

The pending disaster was the thought of a non Pennsylva-nia (PA) Posse driver winning the championship for the first time ever, and to make mat-ters worse it was Texan Sam Hafertepe Jnr who, if not for one bad night, looked likely to break the trend.

Hodnett himself knows what it feels like to come in and beat the posse as the former Mem-phis native was only a rela-tively newly deputised mem-ber of the posse when he won his first speedweek back in 2002.

Hafertepe though displayed blistering speed, especially during time trials but was un-lucky with a couple of me-chanical issues however. Iin reality it was always going to be a huge ask for the driver of the Lone Star Speedway, Plumbfast 15H team to beat the notorious posse on their home tracks, and so Haf-ertepe is justifiably proud of the fact that he was able to score a feature win along the

way. “I couldn’t possibly be more proud,” ex-claimed Sam on his sam15.com website. “Central Pennsylvania is such a tough area of the country to come in and race at so to walk out of here with a victory is such an honor and a boost for our whole team.”

Admittedly Hodnett’s challenge was not as strong technically as in past years due to the absence of his ace crew chief Lee Stauffer for half of the tour due to a family wedding in Hawaii, and so it is

Greg Hodnett (39) sets up for the winning pass on erstwhile leader Danny Dietrich (48) @ Williams Grove

therefore ironic that the Trone Outdoor #39 team took their only win, and a somewhat lucky win at that, on opening night without Stauffer.

The 2013 tournament was schedule to be fought out over 9 events, at 7 different tracks over a 10 day period. Unfortunately the Selinsgrove finale was rained out just as teams were setting up pitside and the mid-tour Grandview event was also cancelled, possibly prematurely, due to the threat of inclement weather.

The 2013 tour however, was nothing if not ultra competitive with seven different winners and as an Antipodean added extra, both Victorian star Darren Mollenoyux and Tasmani-an veteran Robin Dawkins, were in action at all or some of the rounds.

Greg Hodnett (39) sets up for the winning pass on erstwhile leader Danny Dietrich (48) @ Williams Grove

Sam Hafertepe Jr. (above) stunned the locals with a new track record

while Danny Dietrich (right) was in the spot light, literally, after win-

ning heat 1 and then leading all but the last lap of the main event.

Kick-off date was June 28 at the hallowed grounds of Williams Grove where 34 cars were on hand including Aussie Molly.

Hafertepe telegraphed his intensions after a 25 hour drive north from the pan handle state with a new track record cutting the only lap in the 16 second bracket during time trials.

Heat wins were shared amongst Danny Dietrich, Lance Dewease, Rodney Westhaffer and Gerard McIntyre Jr.

Adam Wilt led home the B-Main challengers which included Aussie Molly.

The main event turned out to be a cracker when for the second week in a row a last lap pass netted the sprint car feature win at Williams Grove Speedway.

And who was the unlucky driver that almost led from go to whoa? It was double D Danny Dietrich.

The win was Hodnett’s first of the sea-son at Williams Grove and was worth $5,000. Dietrich and Chad Layton shared the front row for the start of the main event and two-time 2013 winner Die-trich took the lead at the start.

Hodnett couldn’t match the speed of Dietrich but was able to close with heavy lapped traffic even drawing alongside at one point.

With eight laps to go a final caution occurred and from here Hodnett was able to keep pace as Dietrich became a little erratic.

Hodnett ran down the leader and was leaving no room for error with just over a lap to go when Dietrich jumped the cushion in the third and fourth turns and hit the wall while heading towards the white flag and that was all Hodnett

needed to make a run for the win. He drove to Dietrich’s inside as the pair headed out of the second turn and onto the backstretch with the lead. Dietrich tried to reclaim control with a run that saw him slap the outside backstretch wall as he shot his car in-to the third corner but to no avail as Hodnett went on to take his 52nd ca-reer win at Williams Grove, ranking himself fourth on the oval’s all time win list. .

“Danny was having a

little problem getting off

of four,” Hodnett said of

Dietrich.

“He hit the wall a couple

laps before that.”

The win was also the 23rd of Hod-nett’s career in speedweek action.

Jim Siegel’s #2 (left), John Kovach IV (46) and Rejean Plante (79) in their SpeedSTRs (middle) & Aussie Darren Mollenoyux in the Adrian Parr 77AU (right).

SpeedSTRs The quirky looking SpeedSTR’s (Speed - Short Track Racers), a four cylinder Mopar engined machine that race on both dirt and asphalt, of-fered up some support to the main event and

there were many famous names among the en-tries including Brian “The Edge” Montieth, and second generation progeny Freddie and Branden Rahmer and Brad Brightbill. In the end it was John Kovatch IV who took the win in these strange looking cars.

Jim Siegel’s #2 (left), John Kovach IV (46) and Rejean Plante (79) in their SpeedSTRs (middle) & Aussie Darren Mollenoyux in the Adrian Parr 77AU (right).

6/28/13 WILLIAMS GROVE 25 LAPS 34 CARS 6 INVERT 1. 39 Greg Hodnett

2. 48 Danny Dietrich

3. 1 Danny Lasoski

4. 19M Brent Marks

5. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr.

6. 7 Chad Layton

7. 27 Lance Dewease

8. 20s Fred Rahmer

9. 87 Alan Krimes

10. 21 Brian Montieth

11. 2 Jim Siegel

12. 19 Stevie Smith

13. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr.

14. 15 Adam Wilt

15. 20 Ryan Taylor

16. 747 Davey Sammons

17. 11c Cory Haas

18. 29 Ryan Wilson

19. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux

20. 75 Nicole Bower

21. 44 Rodney Westhafer

22. 1s Logan Schuchart

23. 47 Eric Riggins Jr.

24. 2T T J Stutts

Lap Leaders; Dietrich 1-24,

Hodnett 25

Fast Time; Hafertepe 16.892

Heat Winners; Dietrich, Dewease,

Westhafer, 14 McIntyre Jr.

B-Main Winner; 15 Wilt

DNQ; Aaron Ott, Mike Erdley,

Glenndon Forsythe, Mike Wagner,

Troy Fraker, Karl Baker, Steve

Buckwalter, Donnie Kreitz Jr., Ja-

cob Allen, Ryan Smith

Heat 4 winner Gerard McIntyre Jr. (above) and Heat 3 winner Rodney Westhafer (below).

Heat 2 winner and local legend Lance Dewease (below).

6/28/13 WILLIAMS GROVE 25 LAPS 34 CARS 6 INVERT 1. 39 Greg Hodnett


3. 1 Danny Lasoski

4. 19M Brent Marks


6. 7 Chad Layton

7. 27 Lance Dewease

8. 20s Fred Rahmer

9. 87 Alan Krimes


11. 2 Jim Siegel

12. 19 Stevie Smith

13. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr.

14. 15 Adam Wilt

15. 20 Ryan Taylor


17. 11c Cory Haas

18. 29 Ryan Wilson


20. 75 Nicole Bower




24. 2T T J Stutts

Lap Leaders; Dietrich 1-24,

Hodnett 25

Fast Time; Hafertepe 16.892

Heat Winners; Dietrich, Dewease,

Westhafer, 14 McIntyre Jr.

B-Main Winner; 15 Wilt

DNQ; Aaron Ott, Mike Erdley,

Glenndon Forsythe, Mike Wagner,

Troy Fraker, Karl Baker, Steve

Buckwalter, Donnie Kreitz Jr., Ja-

cob Allen, Ryan Smith

2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS

1. 39 Greg Hodnett* 173

2. 48 Danny Dietrich 144 3. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr 143

4. 1 Danny Lasoski 142 5. 19M Brent Marks 131

6. 20s Fred Rahmer 121 7. 7 Chad Layton 119

8. 27 Lance Dewease 114 9. 87 Alan Krimes 103 10. 21 Brian Montieth 85

11. 2 Jim Siegel 83 12. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 82

13. 19 Stevie Smith 80 14. 15 Adam Wilt 76

15. 20 Ryan Taylor 60 16. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 54

16. 29 Ryan Wilson 54 18. 747 Davey Sammons 50

19. 44 Rodney Westhafer 47 20. 75 Nicole Bower 46

20. 11c Cory Haas 46 22 2T T J Stutts 26

23. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 24 24. 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr. 21

25. 1s Logan Schuchart 18 26. 25 Aaron Ott 10 27. 5 Glenndon Forsythe 9

28. 55 Mike Wagner 6 29. 17B Steve Buckwalter 4

30. 11 Mike Erdley 3 31. 1A Jacob Allen 2

32. 69 Ryan Smith 1 32. 12w Troy Fraker 1

32. 51 Karl Baker 1

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Heading into night two, redemption from Deitrich was expected as after all, he is the reigning Lincoln track champion. However, the night be-longed to veteran Alan Krimes who led all 30 laps to take the $5,000 and the speedweek points lead along with it.

Stevie Smith set fast time at 13.251 seconds just beating Hafertepe on 13.253.

Sadly Molly had a mag-neto problem which meant he only got one

timed lap at the end of the session which basi-cally culled his chances of a solid result.

“It was a brand new maggie (Magneto), it doesn’t make any sense.” Stated car own-er Adrian Parr after-wards.

Montieth, Wilt, Dietrich and Jim Siegel (in a dif-ferent car to the one he runs at the Grove) won the heats, while 23 year old former Rookie of the year at both Williams Grove and Port Royal Nicole Bower took out the B-Main in her pretty orange #75.

As hard as he tried Molly couldn’t overcome his early set backs and failed to progress out of the B-Main.

Sometimes though, it’s just your night, and Speedweek feature number two belonged to veteran Alan Krimes who should now consid-er changing his number from 87 to 4. Krimes timed fourth-quick time and finished fourth in his heat. Both Smith and Fred Rahmer finished in to top two of their heats, putting Krimes into the inversion for the feature. When Smith picked pill number four for the inversion, Krimes found himself on the pole for the “A” Main. And he didn’t waste the opportunity, outrunning 168-time Lincoln winner and 13-time Speedweek champion Rahmer to the first turn and leading every lap of the 30-lap, $5,000-to-win event for

Heading into night two, redemption from Deitrich was expected as after all, he is the reigning Lincoln track champion. However, the night be-longed to veteran Alan Krimes who led all 30 laps to take the $5,000 and the speedweek points lead along with it.

Stevie Smith set fast time at 13.251 seconds just beating Hafertepe on 13.253.

Sadly Molly had a mag-neto problem which meant he only got one

timed lap at the end of the session which basi-cally culled his chances of a solid result.

“It was a brand new maggie (Magneto), it doesn’t make any sense.” Stated car own-er Adrian Parr after-wards.

Montieth, Wilt, Dietrich and Jim Siegel (in a dif-ferent car to the one he runs at the Grove) won the heats, while 23 year old former Rookie of the year at both Williams Grove and Port Royal Nicole Bower took out the B-Main in her pretty orange #75.

As hard as he tried Molly couldn’t overcome his early set backs and failed to progress out of the B-Main.

Sometimes though, it’s just your night, and Speedweek feature number two belonged to veteran Alan Krimes who should now consid-er changing his number from 87 to 4. Krimes timed fourth-quick time and finished fourth in his heat. Both Smith and Fred Rahmer finished in to top two of their heats, putting Krimes into the inversion for the feature. When Smith picked pill number four for the inversion, Krimes found himself on the pole for the “A” Main. And he didn’t waste the opportunity, outrunning 168-time Lincoln winner and 13-time Speedweek champion Rahmer to the first turn and leading every lap of the 30-lap, $5,000-to-win event for

Track champ

Double D, Danny

Dietrich kept the

large crowd

(both above)

happy with a heat

win while Stevie

Smith (centre)

set quick time.

All American Outlaws.

Continuing the theme of weird looking support catego-ries was the All American Outlaws, a V8 engined 1930 3 or 5 window Coupe or Tudor style fiberglass body based on a 1978 to 1988 General Motors intermediate frame, Randy Doty dropped three spots from his outside front row starting spot, then worked his way back to the lead to win the rained-shortened 17-lap feature. The race was flagged off during a lap 18 red flag for a seven-car melee in turns three and four.

Aussie “Molly”

was hampered by

magneto trouble

(below) while

Randy Doty won

the All American

Outlaws rain

shortened support

feature (bottom).

his third Lincoln win of the year. Lapped traffic also played into his favor in the fea-ture. “I was pretty good on the top early,” said Krimes, “And then that yellow came out and I wasn’t as good on the top. I kinda stayed up there, but once I got around lapped cars that were running the bottom I moved down, and I felt a little bit better down there.” Krimes’ final margin of victory in his 13th career Lincoln win was 3.28 seconds.

Saturday June 29 6/29/13 LINCOLN 30 LAPS 36 CARS 4 INVERT

1. 87 Alan Krimes

2. 20s Fred Rahmer

3. 19 Stevie Smith


5. 27 Lance Dewease

6. 15 Adam Wilt

7. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr

8. 19m Brent Marks

9. 11c Cory Haas 10. 59 Jim Siegel

11. 92 Ryan Smith

12. 39 Greg Hodnett

13. 1 Danny Lasoski


15. 25 Aaron Ott


17. 2W Glenndon Forsythe

18. 5L Chad Layton

19. 45 Kevin Nagy

20. 75 Nicole Bower

21. 69 Tim Glatfelter

22. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr

23. 18 Ryan Bohlke

24. 47 Eric Riggins Jr

Local residents have some

of the best viewing plat-

forms around (left) while

another is the office of ul-

tra professional announc-

er Wayne Harper (bottom)

Lap Leaders; Krimes 1-30

Fast Time; S. Smith 13.251

Heat Winners; Montieth, Wilt, D. Dietrich, Siegel

B-Main Winner; Bower

DNQ; Jacob Allen, Steve Buckwalter, Matt Boland, Kyle

Moody, Darren Mollenyoux, Steve Storrie, Robbie Ken-

dall, Ryan Wilson, J J Grasso, Jordan Mackison, Hunter

Mackison, Billy Dietrich

2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT

STANDINGS

1. 87 Alan Krimes* 271+

2. 20s Fred Rahmer 269+

3. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr 269+

4. 39 Greg Hodnett* 264+


6. 19 Stevie Smith 233+

7. 27 Lance Dewease 231+

8. 1 Danny Lasoski 226+

9. 48 Danny Dietrich 216+

10. 21 Brian Montieth 215+

11. 15 Adam Wilt 203+

12. 2/59 Jim Siegel 180+


14. 11c Cory Haas 135+

15. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 112+

16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 98+

17. 75 Nicole Bower 88+


19. 29 Ryan Wilson 72+

20. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69+

21. 25 Aaron Ott 65+






27. 69 Tim Gklatfelter 42


29 2T T J Stutts 26

30. 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr. 21



33. 1A Jacob Allen 8+


35. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5+

35. 25 J J Grasso 5








41. 12w Troy Fraker 1

41. 51 Karl Baker 1

* indicates win

+ indicates has attended all shows

This one got away from Ryan

Wilson (above) & How close do

you want to stand? (below left)

Big Diamond – night 3.

The final event of the opening stanza was set for Big Diamond Raceway but the dodgy weather from the night before almost killed the event before it began. New promoter Jake Smulley made the hard decision to push on regardless and with an infield that resembled a swamp proceeded with night 3 which turned out to be a historic event when Hafertepe (pictured) scored his first ever PA Sprint Speed Week victory and first ever Big Diamond Speedway win in the 30 lap main event. Starting from the pole position, Hafertepe bolted into the lead at the drop of the green and immediately opened up a large lead over second place running Smith. On a late race restart, Smith made a daring move into turn 2 to try and wrestle the lead from Hafertepe, but to no avail, and

the Sunnyvale steerer was able to cruise to the $5,000 victory.

With a smaller field of only 24 cars it was all in for the final where Molly garnered his best result with a 9

th place finish

ahead of many central PA feature winners.

Heats were won by Brent Marks, blow-in Brady Bacon, and Chad Layton.

Fast time for the night was set by Dewease at 13.501 seconds.

With the win, Hafertepe was also able to take over the

points lead for the series.

Roadrunners In the sedan based Roadrunners support class

Marc Berzowski picked up win #7 of the season in the 20 lap main event

Berzowski took the lead from

Shon Elk on a lap 13 restart needed after race long leader Kyle Killian tangled with a lapped

car while completing lap 12. Elk was never far behind, and took a shot at the lead several times over

the last seven laps, but was never able to overtake Berzowski.

Highlights of this class included a heat where Elk and Chris

Holland raced almost the entire duration side by side.

Roadrunners victor Marc Berzowski

(66K) in the thick of the action with

Tim

Fitzpatrick Jr. (17R) & Devon Trexler

(181) (below middle).

PA legend Lance Dewease (bottom

right) set fast time.

Chad Layton (above) scored a heat win

as did Brady Bacon (above) and Brent Marks (below).

6/30/13 BIG DIAMOND 30

LAPS 24 CARS 6 INVERT


2. 19 Stevie Smith

3. 19M Brent Marks

4. 27 Lance Dewease

5. 39 Greg Hodnett

6. 1 Danny Lasoski

7. 99 Brady Bacon 8. 20s Fred Rahmer


10. 27H Mark Smith

11. 7 Chad Layton

12. 48 Danny Dietrich 13. 25 Aaron Ott


15. 8 Billy Dietrich

16. 29 Ryan Wilson

17. 47 Eric Riggins Jr

18. 21 Brian Montieth 19. 69 Ryan Smith

20. 7JR Jimmy Reppert

21. 1A Jacob Allen

22. 38 Scott Wilson

DNS 87 Alan Krimes

25 Jimmy Seager

Lap Leaders; Hafertepe 1-30

Fast Time; Dewease 13.501

Heat Winners; Marks,

Bacon, Layton


STANDINGS

1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 436+



4. 19m Brent Marks 384+






10. 21 Brian Montieth 264+


12. 15 Adam Wilt 203

13. 2/59 Jim Siegel 180



16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 146+

17. 25 Aaron Ott 137+



20. 99 Brady Bacon 120





25. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69






31. 1A Jacob Allen 34+



34 2T T J Stutts 26

35. 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr. 21






41. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5

41. 25 J J Grasso 5







46. 12w Troy Fraker 1

46. 51 Karl Baker 1

* indicates win


A drenched speedway,

occasional rain showers

in the morning and a

forecast of afternoon and

evening thunderstorms

through until mid-night

forced the decision to

cancel the Tuesday

night, July 2 event at

Grandview Speedway.

The 410 sprints and 358

modified double-header

is always a popular

event but due to weather,

it was not going to hap-

pen.

Sadly, as is often the

case, the afternoon re-

mained slightly overcast,

and the event could pos-

sibly have been run.

Who wants to be a pro-

moter? Not me.

In the end there was nothing between NASCAR

blow in Dave Blaney (#10) and challenger Danny

Lasoski (obscured) when the teams converged on

the stunning Hagerstown Speedway for night 5.

In the end there was nothing between NASCAR

blow in Dave Blaney (#10) and challenger Danny

Lasoski (obscured) when the teams converged on

the stunning Hagerstown Speedway for night 5.

Despite it being called the PA Speedweek, night number 5 was held at the impressive Hagerstown speedway in the state of Maryland.

Equally impressive was the performance of 1995 World of Outlaws Champion Dave Blaney who flew from Charlotte, NC to race at Hager-stown on the Wednesday evening.

I’m proud of it (winning),” Blaney said. “This is cool, to come and beat these guys, they’re so good in this area. The track is so nice all the time and it’s good to race on and we thought we could learn a lot and have fun.” He showed little signs of any rust with his performance and ended by taking the $5,000 victory after a late race dog fight with Dover’s Danny Lasoski “I’m proud of it (winning),” Blaney said. “This is cool, to come and beat these guys, they’re so good in this area. We had the money spot to start (pole) and the car was good enough to hang on. We looked really bad in Ohio Speedweek and we took it home and made some chang-es and wanted to come over here. The track is so nice all the time and it’s good to race on and we thought we could learn a lot and have fun. “ Blaney timed fifth quick of the 30 entries but after Logan Schuchart didn’t qualify, Blaney had the pole position in the four car invert with Danny Lasoski sitting alongside while Hafertepe and quick timer Mike Wagner were in row two. Blaney opened a lead early running the long way around the topside of the track before eventually moving back to the pole line. A rare spin by Donnie Kreitz Jr closed things up for a short sprint to the flag where Blaney wasn’t able to shake off Lasoski over the final laps leading to an exciting conclusion to the event. Finally Blaney stormed off the final turn just a length ahead of Lasoski and Dewease. Blaney said, “I could hear their motors running back there so I didn’t know where to run, whether to block a little bit, so I went with where I thought was best and hung on and it worked out.”

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Hodnett, Dewease (pictured dicing at right) and Hafertepe (15H speed shot previous page) were the heat winners. Bobby Allen’s grandson Logan Schuchart (bottom right) won the B main. Wagner rounded the track with fast time of 16.174 seconds. For Molly, Hagerstown produced another A-Main result after coming through the B-Main. Vintage

The support category was a mix of beautifully re-stored vintage and veteran open wheel and se-dan speedway vehicles, some of which were driven with great gusto. A couple of highlights included the fiercely driven “Lance Dewease” – Dyer Masonry – Brickmobile #461 and the superb Al Hamilton Special #78.

7/3/13 HAGERSTOWN 30 LAPS

30 CARS 4 INVERT

1. 10 Dave Blaney

2. 1 Danny Lasoski

3. 27 Lance Dewease

4. 39 Greg Hodnett

5. 20s Fred Rahmer


7. 55 Mike Wagner

8. 12 Blane Heimbach

9. 2T T J Stutts


11. 19M Brent Marks


13. 19 Stevie Smith

14. 11c Cory Haas

15. 8H Keith Kauffman

16. 25 Aaron Ott

17. 1a Jacob Allen


19. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr.



22. 44 Joey Hershey

23. 55K Robbie Kendall

24. 99 Brady Bacon

Lap Leaders; Blaney 1-30

Fast Time; Wagner 16.174

Heats Winners; Hodnett, Dewease, Hafertepe

B-Main Winner; Schuchart

DNQ; Chad Layton,

Ryan Wilson,

Nicole Bower,

Troy Fraker,

Alan Krimes,

Will Rose

Mike Wagner (top left) on his

way to fast time as Robert

“Jacob”Allen (middle left) and

Chad Layton (bottom left)

wing down hard trying to

match Wagners’ time.

A touch of nostalgia as the ex

Lance Dewease—Dyer Mason-

ry “Brickmobile”is put

through its paces (middle top).

The beautiful Lingle’s fiber-

glass “Cageless” Sprintcar

(top right) awaits some more

“spirited demonstration laps”.







6. 19m Brent Marks 463+










16. 25 Aaron Ott 185+

17. 2/59 Jim Siegel 180

18. 10 Dave Blaney* 169

19. 69/92 Ryan Smith 146







26. 12 Blane Heimbach 109




30. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69

















46. 25 J J Grasso 5

46. 21A Will Rose 5







53. 51 Karl Baker 1

* indicates win


“Obviously it’s seven grand, but that’s far from

the purpose. It was the Kevin Grobrecht Me-

morial. I don’t think there’s a driver that can

stand out here that had more of a relationship

with him than me.”- Stevie Smith in Victory

Lane at the Kevin Gobrecht Memorial at Lin-

coln.

While at nearby Gettysburg they were packing up and relaxing from the 150th anniversary July 4 re-enactment, at Lincoln there was no acting as the teams battled it out for the prestigious Kevin Gobrecht Memorial.

It was fitting and appropriate therefore that Stevie Smith took his first 2013 PA Speed-week win when in victory lane he explained,

“Obviously it’s seven grand, but that’s far from the purpose. It was the Kevin Grobrecht Memorial. I don’t think there’s a driver that can stand out here that had more of a relation-ship with him than me. We all grew up together…we beat on each other…and this is a great night to win.”

“At one point in time, the Gobrechts and I were worried about football. We weren’t really

into racing,” said Smith, “I think we got tired of running up and down the field, so we all started looking at race cars. I actually sold Kevin his first go cart and that’s where he start-ed. We dragged him to the races with us…. His death was a sad time, but I think it’s amaz-ing the power he still has behind him from the fans here all these years later.” For the second straight Lincoln Speedweek show, Smith set fast time. But then he pulled the #8 pill for the inversion, putting himself on the outside of row four for the start beside Saturday night Speedweek winner Alan Krimes. Points leader Hafertepe, led the first three laps from outside the first row before third-starting Brent Marks rim-rode to the lead on lap four. From there, Marks pulled away to a 2.66-second lead by the time he hit lapped traffic on lap 11.

Marks, Hafertepe, and Smith ran first through third the next six laps, as a surging Krimes entered the picture when he caught Brian Montieth for fourth on lap 18.

Things got interesting with six laps to go, as Smith finally caught Hafertepe for second, and Krimes caught Hafertepe for third a lap later.

The race quickly became a three-car battle for the win with three laps to go.

Smith grabbed the lead from Marks as the three leaders drove near-ly side-by-side under the white flag. Smith was scored the leader of the lap, and held off both Marks and Krimes in another three-wide run under the chequered flag. Smith’s win was the 24th in his Lincoln career, and he became the 10th different winner in 19 races at Lincoln this year. Heats were won by Hafertepe, J J Grasso, Wilt, and Rahmer.

Adam Wilt (left)

took anoher heat

win as did points

leader Sam Haf-

ertepe (below)

JJ Grasso (left)

made a one-off ap-

pearance and won

a heat and pole for

the final

Aaron Ott won the B-Main. Fast time in time trials over the 39-car field was set by Smith with a one-lap time of 13.506-seconds (99.956 MPH). Aussie Molly was joined pit side by compatriot Tasmanian Dawkins who’d run a couple of Ohio Speedweek shows before heading fur-ther east.

As expected Molly was the better performer again coming out of the B-Main into the feature. Dawkins was still finding his feet and failed to finish the B-Main while all the while gaining pace.

Aaron Ott (right)

charged out of he B

-Main into the fea-

ture

The King of Central

PA Sprintcar racing

Fast Fred Rahmer

(right) had to settle

for only a heat win

Central PA Legends

Support act Scott Haudeshell raced to his first Lincoln career win in the Central PA Legends. Haudeshell led every lap despite heavy pressure.

7/4/13 LINCOLN 30 LAPS 39 CARS 8 INVERT

1. 19 Stevie Smith

2. 19M Brent Marks 3. 87 Alan Krimes

4. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr 5. 48 Danny Dietrich


7. 20s Fred Rahmer 8. 59 Jim Siegel

9. 2W Glenndon Forsythe 10. 27 Lance Dewease

11. 92 Ryan Smith 12. 15 Adam Wilt

13. 39 Greg Hodnett 14. 11 Danny Lasoski

15. 5L Chad Layton

16. 11c Cory Haas 17. 1s Logan Schuchart

18. 18 Ryan Bohlke 19. 45 Kevin Nagy

20. 25 Aaron Ott 21. 77Au Darren Mollenoyux

22. 55K Robbie Kendall

23. 25 J J Grasso 24. 8 Billy Dietrich

Lap Leaders; Hafertepe 1-3, Marks 4-28, S. Smith 29-30

Fast Time; S. Smith 13.506

Heat Winners; Hafertepe, Grasso, Wilt, Rahmer

B-Main Winner; Ott

DNQ; Jacob Allen, Gerard McIntyre Jr, Ryan Wilson,

Scott Fisher, Eric Riggins Jr., Nicole Bower, Mike Bit-

tinger, Kyle Moody, Tim Glatfelter, Jordan Mackison,

Hunter Mackison, Robin Dawkins, John Rudisill, Steve

Storrie, Todd Rittenhouse Jr

2013 PA SPEEDWEEK

POINT STANDINGS

1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr *

676+






7. 1/11 Danny Lasoski 565+




11. 5L Chad Layton 342+


312+




16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 240

17. 77AU Darren Mol-

lenoyux 218+

18. 25 Aaron Ott 217+

19. 2W/5 Glenndon For-

sythe 175








117









35. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr

66












47. 1080 Jordan Mackison

13



49. 21A Will Rose 5





54. 51 Karl Baker 1

54. 23 Todd Rittenhouse Jr

1





* indicates win

+ indicates has attended all

shows

Williams Grove – night 7. Extra money and extra prestige saw Dietrich get some redemption at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night in the Mitch Smith Memorial before a large and vocal crowd.

He grabbed the lead from Kreitz on lap 18 and went on to score the Mitch Smith Memorial win and $10,000 in his third Grove win of 2013. “We were pretty good from the get-go,” said Dietrich. “Donnie was good too and had a lot of corner speed. It was making it hard to slide him in three and four. I saw Fred (Rahmer) stick his nose in there and I knew I had to get by Donnie be-fore I got racing with Fred. This is one of the biggest local shows of the year and it feels good to put it on the frontstretch. I should have had one last week, but there was driver error on the last lap.” Kreitz started on the pole with Oklahoma invader Bacon and grabbed the early lead. Bacon would flip in the first turn with one lap completed bringing out the red flag. He was okay. Dietrich started third and was in second for the restart.

He started to hound Kreitz for the lead, but couldn’t make the slide-job work in turns three and four. For a while, the top five drivers were all racing only a few car lengths apart. Dietrich was next to Kreitz in turn three on lap 16 but couldn’t clear the pass and fell back into second. The next time around, he tried it again and made the move work and was the new leader with 18 laps completed. Dietrich would go unchallenged over the final 12 laps for the win. After successfully meeting t he weight limit Dietrich re-fired the Gary Kauffman owned #48 where he drove to the Beer Hill Gang in turn 3 and stopped to salute them, much to their vocal delight.

Hodnett set fast time over the 34-car field with a lap of 16.980.

Kreitz, Rahmer, Bacon and Layton won the 10-lap heat races.

McIntyre Jr. won the consolation.

Aussies Molly and Dawkins were again in action with the latter slightly nervous about running the fast track. Molly parlayed his night into another A-Main finish while Dawkins was there for the experience. All American Outlaws.

For the second straight time Doty pushed the #6 to victory lane.

Surprisingly, there was no big firewroks display on July 4 at Lincoln and instead it was held at the Grove and it turned out to be a very extensive showing held prior to the main event.

7/5/13 WILLIAMS GROVE

30 LAPS 34 CARS 8 INVERT



3. 39 Greg Hodnett

4. 19M Brent Marks


6. 20s Fred Rahmer

7. 19 Stevie Smith


9. 7 Chad Layton

10. 15 Adam Wilt

11. 27 Lance Dewease


13. 2T T J Stutts

14. 2 Jim Siegel


16. 20 Ryan Taylor

17. 69 Ryan Smith


19. 75 Nicole Bower

20. 27H Mark Smith

21. 17B Steve Buckwalter

22. 11c Cory Haas

23. 1 Danny Lasoski

24. 99 Brady Bacon

Lap Leaders; Kreitz 1-17,

Dietrich 18-30

Fast Time; Hodnett 16.980

Heat Winners; Kreitz, Rahmer,

Bacon,

Layton

B-Main Winner; McIntyre

DNQ; Mike Wagner,

Jacob Allen,

Eric Riggins Jr,

Robin Dawkins,

Troy Fraker,

Karl Baker,

Ryan Wilson,

Davey Sammons,

Aaron Ott,

Alan Krimes

(Top left) Dietrich slides inside Kreitz for the

lead, (left) Randy Doty wins another All Ameri-

can Outlaws feature, & (right) Greg Hodnett

scored only a heat win this night.

7/5/13 WILLIAMS GROVE

30 LAPS 34 CARS 8 INVERT



3. 39 Greg Hodnett

4. 19M Brent Marks


6. 20s Fred Rahmer

7. 19 Stevie Smith


9. 7 Chad Layton

10. 15 Adam Wilt

11. 27 Lance Dewease


13. 2T T J Stutts

14. 2 Jim Siegel


16. 20 Ryan Taylor

17. 69 Ryan Smith


19. 75 Nicole Bower

20. 27H Mark Smith


22. 11c Cory Haas

23. 1 Danny Lasoski

24. 99 Brady Bacon

Lap Leaders; Kreitz 1-17,

Dietrich 18-30

Fast Time; Hodnett 16.980

Heat Winners; Kreitz, Rahmer,

Bacon,

Layton

B-Main Winner; McIntyre

DNQ; Mike Wagner,

Jacob Allen,

Eric Riggins Jr,

Robin Dawkins,

Troy Fraker,

Karl Baker,

Ryan Wilson,

Davey Sammons,

Aaron Ott,

Alan Krimes

(Top right) Hunter Nester #1

dices inside Bryan Green.


STANDINGS







7. 48 Danny Dietrich* 680+









16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276


18. 25 Aaron Ott 224+
































50. 21A Will Rose 5





54. 51 Karl Baker 2






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STANDINGS
















16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276


18. 25 Aaron Ott 224+
































50. 21A Will Rose 5





54. 51 Karl Baker 2






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and Donnie Kreitz Jr.

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Despite this track being even faster than the Grove due to its more open and flowing nature - read flat to the boards, a host of locals added to the field to pro-duce the biggest field so far.

It was quasi local young gun Blane Heimbach who made a pass with just over a lap to go to score the feature event worth $5,000 after a thrilling dice with Doug Esh.

Heimbach started second in the 30-lap feature race and took the lead over polesitter Doug Esh when the green flag waved. The Port Royal venue offers a variety of racing lines with some drivers electing to run the high speed dance against the cushion or the equally as effective run around the pole line, or many other lines in be-tween. While the highline is visually stunning for the fans it is also fraught with danger as the slightest slip up can result in destroyed cars, or worse, physical injury. Earlier in a heat race, Aaron Ott, son of engine building legend Don, destroyed his once pristine #25 after a se-ries of bone jarring flips when he tagged the turn 1 fence after a miniscule mis

cue. Incredibly this was only the second roll-over of the week and thankfully Ott was able to walk away.

In the Main event, Dietrich also rattled the fence without flipping and a few, including the highly rated Bacon, also had some very near misses. On a lap 13 restart Esh pounced for control which he took before crossing the stripe as the new leader just before the red flag un-furled for a nasty first turn spill by Marks who became the latest victim of the turn 1 and 2 top-line. Marks’ was able to walk away alt-hough it was suggested by corner workers that he may have had a very short nap. When action resumed Smith bolted to the in-side for second but Heimbach had the mo-mentum of rolling the high side through the treacherous first and second turns and held onto the spot as the race went down the back chute. For a time it seemed as if Esh might streak to this third win of the season at the track but then as the race hit its final 10 laps, Heimbach dropped off of the high groove to begin cir-cling the middle of the track and that’s when he began really biting into Esh’s amassed ad-vantage. However, it took until just before the white flag for Heimbach to regain control after the lead-ers again encountered lapped traffic with sev-en laps to go. With Esh circling the high outside of the speedway, Heimbach put a drive on low into the third turn as they headed for the white flag that saw him drive up in front of Esh in the middle of the corners only to see Esh turn the car and try to rally back running low off of the fourth turn.

But it was not to be for Esh as instead Heim-bach went back to back in the 410-sprint divi-sion at Port Royal, scoring his third win of the season at the track and second in a row.

Schuchart had set fast time with a lap of 16.528 seconds but then spun in the main event before rallying back to a top 5 finish. Heats went to Mike Erdley, Hodnett, Rahmer and Heimbach. Nate Snyder scored the B Main. Unfortunately while Dawkins wasn’t competing Molly was but failed to make the main event. Series points leader Hafertepe just wasn’t fast from the moment they rolled the car out of the truck and found himself buried in the B-Main where a last lap move secured him the final transfer position.

He then struggled and for the first time all week finished outside of the top ten with as yet unrealised disastrous consequences as Hod-nett took the speedweek series point lead with one race to go as the series was set to con-clude the following night.

The top four in series points of Hodnett, Rahmer, Smith and Sam Hafertepe Jr. were separated by just 27 points in their quest for the title.

Late Models & Enduros

In the 20 lap Late Model main, Nick Dickson drove to just his second career win at the track aided in part by a multi car pile up, while Deron Henry took the enduro dash feature event.

Top—Fast timer Logan Schuchart.

Middle & bottom—Heat winners Mike Erdley (11)

& Fred Rahmer (20s)

7/6/13 PORT ROYAL 30 LAPS 40 CARS 8 INVERT

1. 12 Blane Heimbach

2. 98 Doug Esh

3. 19 Stevie Smith

4. 11 Mike Erdley

5. 39 Greg Hodnett

6. 1 Danny Lasoski

7. 20s Fred Rahmer

8. 27 Lance Dewease


10. 5 Dylan Cisney

11. 7 Chad Layton

12. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr

13. 99 Brady Bacon

14. 55 Mike Wagner

15. 56 Nate Snyder


17. 19M Brent Marks



20. 20 Ryan Taylor


22. I07 Cliff Brian

23. 2H Dave Hahn

24. 44 Joey Hershey

Lap Leaders: Heimbach 1-13, Esh 14-28, Heimbach 29-30

Fast Time; Schuchart 16.528

Heat Winners; Erdley, Hodnett, Rahmer, Heimbach

B-Main Winner; Snyder

DNQ; Kyle Moody, Rodney Westhafer, Kyle Reinhardt,

Eric Riggins Jr, Darren Mollenoyux, Bob Bennett, Daryl

Stimeling, Jacob Allen, Trenton Sheaffer, Karl Baker, Curt

Stroup, Aaron Ott, Mark Smith, Keith Kauffman, Rod

Stroup, Dustin Baney

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Unfortunately a great fina-le of 410 Sprintcars and 358 Sportsman (Effectively 360 Sprint-cars) was rained out due to a heavy thunderstorm hitting the venue just as teams were starting to amass for what was sure to be a fantastic finale.

Sadly for Hafertepe he had no shot at regaining the points lead and be-coming the first non-posse member to win in the events 23 year history. “Overall I’m really pleased with our performance,” said Hafertepe. “I don’t think many people thought an invader could contend for The PA Speedweek title and we proved them wrong. There were several nights where our lack of track time at these places forced us to make guess-es in terms of setup but, in general, I think we han-dled those situations pret-ty well. I was very proud to lead the deal going into the final night but be-tween our motor going sour at The Grove, our bleeder coming apart at Lincoln, the rear end go-ing at Hagerstown and our Port Royal qualifica-

tion we just didn’t quite get it done. You need eve-rything to go nearly per-fect to win this deal and we just had to fight off too many issues. I feel like we were fast every night and I feel like we gave The Pos-se all they could handle and I’m immensely proud of that, it just sucks to lead most of the way and lose the title on the last night.”

Instead Hodnett’s con-sistency handed him his fourth speedweek crown in what proved to be a very even series.

















16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276

17. 12 Blane Heimbach* 275



20. 25 Aaron Ott 235+











31. 98 Doug Esh 137



















50. 2H Dave Hahn 26







56. 21A Will Rose 5



60. 51 Karl Baker 3



63 33 Curt Stroup 1


63. 21 Rod Stroup 1








* indicates win


Hodnett V Hafertepe

















16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276

17. 12 Blane Heimbach* 275



20. 25 Aaron Ott 235+











31. 98 Doug Esh 137



















50. 2H Dave Hahn 26







56. 21A Will Rose 5



60. 51 Karl Baker 3



63 33 Curt Stroup 1


63. 21 Rod Stroup 1








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