Newsmaker of the Week

This past weekend, Jim Bernheisel launched his Appalachian Mountain Super Late Model Series, a carefully crafted series of eight races over ten days. Clinton County, Port Royal, and Hagerstown were the first three venues and each one of the events was an unqualified success. Bernheisel and his staff had thought out all of the details: how to run races, how …

It may very well be the toughest ‘double’ in all of auto racing – winning back-to-back 410 Sprint races at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night and at Lincoln Speedway or Port Royal on Saturday night. Though many can, and do win at both tracks over the course of a single season, very few do it in succession. That’s why …

Lance Dewease, the unofficial leader of the PA Posse, had a weekend to remember against the All Star Circuit Of Champions who came to Central PA this past weekend. Dewease won the $10,000-to-win Williams Grove opener, then finished fourth at Port Royal ($1,800) the next night. He was just getting warmed up. On Sunday, with $29,000 on the line for the …

It’s a certainty that no driver in auto racing history had ever won a major 410 Sprint race and two NASCAR National Series races in the same week. The Sprint race, a High Limit Series event at Wayne County, Ohio, was a high profile affair. A come-behind-win at North Wilkesboro, NC in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck race was spectacular. But …

Asphalt Modified driver Ronnie Silk has spent a good many years in the sport, long enough to experience the highs, such as winning a NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series title, and the lows, such as losing rides after coming off winning seasons. Since teaming with Tyler Haydt and Joe Yannone and the No. 16, Silk has been riding high. Stafford …

Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania-based Super Late Model standout Mason Zeigler demonstrated last Friday night at the Bedford Fairgrounds why he’s become one of the top Super Late Model drivers in the nation. The win was the first of 2023 for Zeigler, who intends to run a schedule of his own choosing, running “where the money is”. On this night, armed with …

At Dover Motor Speedway this past weekend, the brothers Truex, Martin and Ryan, each claimed huge wins. For older brother Martin, his NASCAR Cup win broke a winless streak that extended back into 2021. His younger sibling Ryan’s win was a personal milestone, his first in any of NASCAR’s three upper echelon national series. Neither win in and of itself …

Mat Williamson opened the Super DIRT Series 2023 point season with a big win at Bridgeport Motorsports Park on Sunday night. Williamson had to outrun the usual Super DIRT Series threats but also an upset-minded Matt Stangle who drove the race of his life and nearly pulled off a last lap pass to take the win. Williamson’s win was actually his …

Duane Howard is on a roll. This past Friday, Howard won the $10,000 ‘Money In The Mountains’ 358 Modified race at Big Diamond Speedway. It’s a rich race, but the larger impact Howard’s win had on the Northeastern Dirt Modified racing community is that this was his third win of the year and it came on his third different track. …

Jack Ely, Jr. has been racing Asphalt Modifieds for several years. He started in Pennsylvania because he was too young to race Mods in New Jersey. He came to follow the Race Of Champions Modified Touring Series for most of his career and while always competitive, an RoC win had eluded him. Until Saturday. Driving the race of his life, …