When there’s big money on the line, any advantage including where you start is crucial to most people. Matt Hirschman is not most people. On Saturday at Evergreen Speedway in the Tom Wanick, Jr. Memorial Modified 200 lapper, Hirschman elected to start at the back of the 24-car field after having earned the right to redraw for a starting spot in …
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Newsmaker of the Week // Matt Sheppard
The wins just keep on coming for Matt Sheppard. His three wins last week, at Utica Rome and his Oswego Super DIRT Week Big Block and Small Block sweep. have added luster to a season that seems to have no limit of success. By year’s end, he’ll likely set an all-time single season earnings record for a Dirt Modified driver. And more …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Matt Sheppard
Super Matt Sheppard has done it again. He won last Saturday night at Fulton Speedway in the prestigious Outlaw 200, this on a speedway he seldom competes at. The win was number 36 for the Dirt Modified master, and just to mix it up a little, Sheppard defied conventional wisdom by running a Big Block under his hood in a …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Selinsgrove Speedway
Selinsgrove Speedway will be in new hands come 2023. When the promotional team that led Selinsgrove for the past seven years opted not to renew its lease, the Selinsgrove Fair Board wasted no time in issuing a ten-year lease to Stephanie Baker and her family. Baker has an extensive background in the sport and intends to make progressive changes. It …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Craig Von Dohren
Craig Von Dohren soared to victory Saturday night at Grandview Speedway, earning over $32,000 by taking the checkered flag first in the Freedom 76er. The week before, Von Dohren had sewn up yet another 358 Modified track title. Though nothing is ever effortless in racing, CVD seemed in control of his own destiny from the time the green flag dropped. …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Anthony Macri
Anthony Macri reaffirmed his standing as Central Pennsylvania’s go-to-guy when the the stakes are highest in 410 Sprint racing when he won Port Royal Speedway’s rich Tuscarora 50 Saturday night. Macri set the stage when he won the first of two preliminary nights Thursday, then drove a spectacular race coming back, through traffic, to win a total of $71,000 over …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Grandview Speedway
Wins are lauded, successful promotions applauded. That’s the good side of racing news. There is another side of the sport, that, while undeniably sad, is no less potent in eliciting powerful emotion. This past week, the news that Grandview Speedway track owner Theresa Rogers had accepted an offer to sell the speedway property to Copart, whose expressed purpose is to …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Justin Peck
The whirlwind five-day, six-race All Star Circuit Of Champions swing through Pennsylvania and New Jersey was a career week for Justin Peck. Peck won races at Bloomsburg, Bridgeport and Lincoln, missing only at Williams Grove and Bedford. He solidified his standing in the All Star Series points and made up ground on leader Tyler Courtney. Two of his three wins were …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Craig Lutz
Thompson Motor Speedway’s 150-lap NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series race left many with frayed nerves, but driver Craig Lutz and car owner Danny Watts couldn’t have been happier. The team won the race and in so doing, put Lutz back in Victory Lane in an NWMT event for the first time in three years and car owner Watts for the first …
Read More »Newsmaker of the Week // Donny Schatz
For the eleventh time in his incredible driving career, Donny Schatz has won the Knoxville Nationals. He did so while in the midst of several consecutive frustrating seasons. He came from way off the pace in the first half of the race to pass car after car, and finally got the job done with a slider-to-end-all-sliders to take the lead …
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