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Greg Hodnett
Greg Hodnett
2013 Pennsyl
vania
2013 Pennsyl
vania
Sprint Spee
dweek Champion
Sprint Speed
week Champion
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2013 PA Speedweek Special
Edition 20
Editor;
Brett “Pirate” Swanson
PHOTO’S
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Brett Swanson &
Kieran Swanson for
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CONTRIBUTORS;
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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
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
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
4. 21 Brian Montieth
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
14. 1s Logan Schuchart
15. 25 Aaron Ott
16. 48 Danny Dietrich
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+
5. 19M Brent Marks 243+
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+
13. 7/5L Chad Layton 161+
14. 11c Cory Haas 135+
15. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 112+
16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 98+
17. 75 Nicole Bower 88+
18. 1s Logan Schuchart 83+
19. 29 Ryan Wilson 72+
20. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69+
21. 25 Aaron Ott 65+
22. 20 Ryan Taylor 60
23. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 55+
23. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 55+
25. 747 Davey Sammons 50
26. 44 Rodney Westhafer 47
27. 69 Tim Gklatfelter 42
28. 45 Kevin Nagy 28
29 2T T J Stutts 26
30. 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr. 21
31. 18 Ryan Bohlke 19
32. 1080 Jordan Mackison 12
33. 1A Jacob Allen 8+
34. 55 Mike Wagner 6
35. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5+
35. 25 J J Grasso 5
37. 99M Kyle Moody 4
38. 0 Steve Storrie 3
38. 11 Mike Erdley 3
40. 8 Billy Dietrich 2
41. 22T Matt Boland 1
41. 55K Robbie Kendall 1
41. 95 Hunter Mackison 1
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.
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.
6/30/13 BIG DIAMOND 30
LAPS 24 CARS 6 INVERT
1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr.
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
9. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux
10. 27H Mark Smith
11. 7 Chad Layton
12. 48 Danny Dietrich 13. 25 Aaron Ott
14. 1s Logan Schuchart
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
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT
STANDINGS
1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 436+
2. 39 Greg Hodnett* 394+
3. 20s Fred Rahmer 390+
4. 19m Brent Marks 384+
5. 27 Lance Dewease 379+
6. 19 Stevie Smith 377+
7. 1 Danny Lasoski 349+
8. 87 Alan Krimes* 311+
9. 48 Danny Dietrich 295+
10. 21 Brian Montieth 264+
11. 7/5L Chad Layton 257+
12. 15 Adam Wilt 203
13. 2/59 Jim Siegel 180
14. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 160+
15. 1s Logan Schuchart 149+
16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 146+
17. 25 Aaron Ott 137+
18. 11c Cory Haas 135
19. 29 Ryan Wilson 123+
20. 99 Brady Bacon 120
21. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 112
22. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 102+
23. 27H Mark Smith 94
24. 75 Nicole Bower 88
25. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69
26. 20 Ryan Taylor 60
27. 8 Billy Dietrich 59
28. 747 Davey Sammons 50
29. 44 Rodney Westhafer 47
30. 69 Tim Gklatfelter 42
31. 1A Jacob Allen 34+
32. 45 Kevin Nagy 28
33. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27
34 2T T J Stutts 26
35. 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr. 21
35. 38 Scott Wilson 21
37. 18 Ryan Bohlke 19
38. 25 Jimmy Seager 18
39. 1080 Jordan Mackison 12
40. 55 Mike Wagner 6
41. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5
41. 25 J J Grasso 5
43. 99M Kyle Moody 4
44. 0 Steve Storrie 3
44. 11 Mike Erdley 3
46. 22T Matt Boland 1
46. 55K Robbie Kendall 1
46. 95 Hunter Mackison 1
46. 12w Troy Fraker 1
46. 51 Karl Baker 1
* indicates win
+ indicates has attended all shows
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
6. 1s Logan Schuchart
7. 55 Mike Wagner
8. 12 Blane Heimbach
9. 2T T J Stutts
10. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr.
11. 19M Brent Marks
12. 48 Danny Dietrich
13. 19 Stevie Smith
14. 11c Cory Haas
15. 8H Keith Kauffman
16. 25 Aaron Ott
17. 1a Jacob Allen
18. 44 Rodney Westhafer
19. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr.
20. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux
21. 47 Eric Riggins 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”.
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS
1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 546+
2. 39 Greg Hodnett* 527+
3. 27 Lance Dewease 516+
4. 20s Fred Rahmer 512+
5. 1 Danny Lasoski 496+
6. 19m Brent Marks 463+
7. 19 Stevie Smith 445+
8. 48 Danny Dietrich 382+
9. 87 Alan Krimes* 337+
10. 1s Logan Schuchart 272+
11. 21 Brian Montieth 264
12. 7/5L Chad Layton 263+
13. 11c Cory Haas 208
14. 15 Adam Wilt 203
15. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 194+
16. 25 Aaron Ott 185+
17. 2/59 Jim Siegel 180
18. 10 Dave Blaney* 169
19. 69/92 Ryan Smith 146
20. 99 Brady Bacon 155
21. 55 Mike Wagner 135
22. 29 Ryan Wilson 130+
23. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 125+
24. 2T T J Stutts 116
25. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 112
26. 12 Blane Heimbach 109
27. 75 Nicole Bower 97
28. 27H Mark Smith 94
29. 44 Rodney Westhafer 88
30. 5/2w Glenndon Forsythe 69
31. 8H Keith Kauffman 67
32. 1a Jacob Allen 66+
32. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr 66
34. 20 Ryan Taylor 60
35. 8 Billy Dietrich 59
36. 747 Davey Sammons 50
37. 55K Robbie Kendall 43
38. 69 Tim Gklatfelter 42
39. 44 Joey Hershey 31
40. 45 Kevin Nagy 28
41. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27
42. 38 Scott Wilson 21
43. 18 Ryan Bohlke 19
44. 25 Jimmy Seager 18
45. 1080 Jordan Mackison 12
46. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5
46. 25 J J Grasso 5
46. 21A Will Rose 5
49. 12W Troy Fraker 4
49. 99M Kyle Moody 4
51. 0 Steve Storrie 3
51. 11 Mike Erdley 3
53. 22T Matt Boland 1
53. 95 Hunter Mackison 1
53. 51 Karl Baker 1
* indicates win
+ indicates has attended all shows
“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
6. 21 Brian Montieth
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+
2. 20s Fred Rahmer 632+
3. 19 Stevie Smith* 626+
4. 27 Lance Dewease 618+
5. 19M Brent Marks 603+
6. 39 Greg Hodnett* 600+
7. 1/11 Danny Lasoski 565+
8. 48 Danny Dietrich 512+
9. 87 Alan Krimes* 483+
10. 21 Brian Montieth 386
11. 5L Chad Layton 342+
12. 1s Logan Schuchart
312+
13. 15 Adam Wilt 291
14. 2W/59 Jim Siegel 285
15. 11c Cory Haas 261
16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 240
17. 77AU Darren Mol-
lenoyux 218+
18. 25 Aaron Ott 217+
19. 2W/5 Glenndon For-
sythe 175
20. 10 Dave Blaney* 169
21. 99 Brady Bacon 155
22. 55 Mike Wagner 135
23. 29 Ryan Wilson 136+
24. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 127+
25. 2T T J Stutts 116
26. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr
117
27. 12 Blane Heimbach 109
28. 75 Nicole Bower 98
29. 8 Billy Dietrich 97
30. 27H Mark Smith 94
31. 44 Rodney Westhafer 88
32. 18 Ryan Bohlke 81
33. 1a Jacob Allen 70+
34. 8H Keith Kauffman 67
35. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr
66
36. 45 Kevin Nagy 65
37. 55K Robbie Kendall 60
37. 20 Ryan Taylor 60
39. 69 Tim Glatfelter 53
40. 747 Davey Sammons 50
41. 25 J J Grasso 49
42. 44 Joey Hershey 31
43. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27
44. 38 Scott Wilson 21
45. 25 Jimmy Seager 18
46. 99M Kyle Moody 16
47. 1080 Jordan Mackison
13
48. 0 Steve Storrie 6
49. 17B Steve Buckwalter 5
49. 21A Will Rose 5
51. 12W Troy Fraker 4
52. 11 Mike Erdley 3
53. 95 Hunter Mackison 2
54. 22T Matt Boland 1
54. 51 Karl Baker 1
54. 23 Todd Rittenhouse Jr
1
54. 29T Robin Dawkins 1
54. 21T Scott Fisher 1
54. 12 Mike Bittinger 1
54. 4 John Rudisill 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.
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
1. 48 Danny Dietrich
2. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr
3. 39 Greg Hodnett
4. 19M Brent Marks
5. 1s Logan Schuchart
6. 20s Fred Rahmer
7. 19 Stevie Smith
8. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr.
9. 7 Chad Layton
10. 15 Adam Wilt
11. 27 Lance Dewease
12. 21 Brian Montieth
13. 2T T J Stutts
14. 2 Jim Siegel
15. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr
16. 20 Ryan Taylor
17. 69 Ryan Smith
18. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux
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
1. 48 Danny Dietrich
2. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr
3. 39 Greg Hodnett
4. 19M Brent Marks
5. 1s Logan Schuchart
6. 20s Fred Rahmer
7. 19 Stevie Smith
8. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr.
9. 7 Chad Layton
10. 15 Adam Wilt
11. 27 Lance Dewease
12. 21 Brian Montieth
13. 2T T J Stutts
14. 2 Jim Siegel
15. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr
16. 20 Ryan Taylor
17. 69 Ryan Smith
18. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux
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 right) Hunter Nester #1
dices inside Bryan Green.
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT
STANDINGS
1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 799+
2. 20s Fred Rahmer 759+
3. 39 Greg Hodnett* 747+
4. 19M Brent Marks 739+
5. 19 Stevie Smith* 728+
6. 27 Lance Dewease 706+
7. 48 Danny Dietrich* 680+
8. 1/11 Danny Lasoski 609+
9. 87 Alan Krimes* 483+
10. 21 Brian Montieth 478
11. 5L Chad Layton 444+
12. 1s Logan Schuchart 433+
13. 15 Adam Wilt 394
14. 2W/59 Jim Siegel 369
15. 11c Cory Haas 283
16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276
17. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 261+
18. 25 Aaron Ott 224+
19. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr 206
20. 99 Brady Bacon 202
21. 2T T J Stutts 201
22. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 181
23. 2W/5 Glenndon Forsythe 175
24. 10 Dave Blaney* 169
25. 55 Mike Wagner 145
26. 29 Ryan Wilson 139+
27. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 135+
28. 75 Nicole Bower 130
28. 27H Mark Smith 130
30. 20 Ryan Taylor 116
31. 12 Blane Heimbach 109
32. 8 Billy Dietrich 97
33. 44 Rodney Westhafer 88
34. 18 Ryan Bohlke 81
35. 1a Jacob Allen 74+
36. 8H Keith Kauffman 67
37. 45 Kevin Nagy 65
38. 55K Robbie Kendall 60
39. 747 Davey Sammons 59
40. 69 Tim Glatfelter 53
41. 25 J J Grasso 49
42. 17B Steve Buckwalter 39
43. 44 Joey Hershey 31
44. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27
45. 38 Scott Wilson 21
46. 25 Jimmy Seager 18
47. 99M Kyle Moody 16
48. 1080 Jordan Mackison 13
49. 0 Steve Storrie 6
50. 21A Will Rose 5
50. 12W Troy Fraker 5
52. 29T Robin Dawkins 3
52. 11 Mike Erdley 3
54. 95 Hunter Mackison 2
54. 51 Karl Baker 2
56. 22T Matt Boland 1
56. 23 Todd Rittenhouse Jr 1
56. 21T Scott Fisher 1
56. 12 Mike Bittinger 1
56. 4 John Rudisill 1
* indicates win
+ indicates has attended all shows
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT
STANDINGS
1. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr * 799+
2. 20s Fred Rahmer 759+
3. 39 Greg Hodnett* 747+
4. 19M Brent Marks 739+
5. 19 Stevie Smith* 728+
6. 27 Lance Dewease 706+
7. 48 Danny Dietrich* 680+
8. 1/11 Danny Lasoski 609+
9. 87 Alan Krimes* 483+
10. 21 Brian Montieth 478
11. 5L Chad Layton 444+
12. 1s Logan Schuchart 433+
13. 15 Adam Wilt 394
14. 2W/59 Jim Siegel 369
15. 11c Cory Haas 283
16. 69/92 Ryan Smith 276
17. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 261+
18. 25 Aaron Ott 224+
19. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr 206
20. 99 Brady Bacon 202
21. 2T T J Stutts 201
22. 14 Gerard McIntyre Jr 181
23. 2W/5 Glenndon Forsythe 175
24. 10 Dave Blaney* 169
25. 55 Mike Wagner 145
26. 29 Ryan Wilson 139+
27. 47 Eric Riggins Jr 135+
28. 75 Nicole Bower 130
28. 27H Mark Smith 130
30. 20 Ryan Taylor 116
31. 12 Blane Heimbach 109
32. 8 Billy Dietrich 97
33. 44 Rodney Westhafer 88
34. 18 Ryan Bohlke 81
35. 1a Jacob Allen 74+
36. 8H Keith Kauffman 67
37. 45 Kevin Nagy 65
38. 55K Robbie Kendall 60
39. 747 Davey Sammons 59
40. 69 Tim Glatfelter 53
41. 25 J J Grasso 49
42. 17B Steve Buckwalter 39
43. 44 Joey Hershey 31
44. 7JR Jimmy Reppert 27
45. 38 Scott Wilson 21
46. 25 Jimmy Seager 18
47. 99M Kyle Moody 16
48. 1080 Jordan Mackison 13
49. 0 Steve Storrie 6
50. 21A Will Rose 5
50. 12W Troy Fraker 5
52. 29T Robin Dawkins 3
52. 11 Mike Erdley 3
54. 95 Hunter Mackison 2
54. 51 Karl Baker 2
56. 22T Matt Boland 1
56. 23 Todd Rittenhouse Jr 1
56. 21T Scott Fisher 1
56. 12 Mike Bittinger 1
56. 4 John Rudisill 1
* indicates win
+ indicates has attended all shows
(left –top to bottom) Heat
winners Brady Bacon,
Fred Rahmer, Chad Layton
and Donnie Kreitz Jr.
Brian Montieth works the
edge hard into turn 3 (top
right) while Gerard McIn-
tyre Jr (right) won the B-
Main.
Night—
8
July
6. 2013.
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
9. 17B Steve Buckwalter
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
16. 747 Davey Sammons
17. 19M Brent Marks
18. 48 Danny Dietrich
19. 1s Logan Schuchart
20. 20 Ryan Taylor
21. 21 Brian Montieth
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
Above winners Greg Hodnett & Blane Heimbach (heats) & Nate
Snyder (B-Main)
Below l-r Doug Esh, Darren Mollenoyux and Rod Stroup turning
off the dreaded turn 1/2 fence.
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
9. 17B Steve Buckwalter
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
16. 747 Davey Sammons
17. 19M Brent Marks
18. 48 Danny Dietrich
19. 1s Logan Schuchart
20. 20 Ryan Taylor
21. 21 Brian Montieth
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
Above winners Greg Hodnett & Blane Heimbach (heats) & Nate
Snyder (B-Main)
Below l-r Doug Esh, Darren Mollenoyux and Rod Stroup turning
off the dreaded turn 1/2 fence.
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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.
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS
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
Hodnett V Hafertepe
2013 PA SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS
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
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