Nobody asked me but…
What a week Stevie Smith and the Zemco team had during Keystone
Cup. Smith proved he is still one of the best to ever wheel a
race car with some thrilling wins and his first ever Cup title.
New blood is always good.
Speaking of the Zemco team, it stinks for Pennsylvania that the
team isn’t a full time deal anymore. But they are fresh and
always at the front so who can blame them for taking some time
off to regroup. It’s amazing that Smith is a close second in
Grove points despite missing some races and ranks third in the
Speed Dawg. He’s definitely the real deal this year.
It amazes me that some teams chose not to support the Keystone
Cup with its extra purse and time trial format. How many times
have we heard about how unfair the handicapping rules are and
tracks need to pay more money, etc., but when they do, some
teams don’t support them? Makes no sense to me.
Even more disheartening is how many teams race Virginia Motor
Speedway on Saturday night, some of which don’t even race when
the Outlaws are local? I guess the incentives to show up were
good even though none of the finishes were very impressive.
All I’ve heard and read recently is how horrible Lincoln
Speedway’s surface is and how awful the racing is per the fans.
But what I saw there on Saturday night surely didn’t support any
of those statements. I do believe it was one of the best races
I’ve seen anywhere in a long time, as are most races in the
Pigeon Hills.
It’s good to see Cody Darrah getting back on track with a very
impressive Lincoln win Saturday night. Unfortunately for Cody, a
second win in the makeup was nullified when Chad Trout brought
out the caution after he took the lead. Cody got outmuscled by
Fred Rahmer on the restart and had to settle for third but had
it not been for the caution, it was a Darrah sweep.
We wish Pat Cannon much luck in his future sprint car racing.
Cannon has proven in the past several years that he can wheel a
sprint car but in my opinion, he wasn’t given a fair chance this
year for many reasons. Cannon will return to the Highlands team,
a team he was very successful with.
And Daryn Pittman will probably do well in the Keen Motorsports
car given the right personnel on the car. It will be interesting
to see if Pittman gets the team to hit the road fulltime in 2010
if things click.
And of course this leaves the Pete Postupack car vacant, kinda
like it was before the season started when Pittman came looking
for a ride. Hopefully the car can remain on the track with a
good driver on board.
Congrats to Lucas Wolfe on his Indy Lights deal for 2010. We
know it’s what Lucas wanted and certainly hope he can find
success at it. He just moved into the top 10 on the World of
Outlaws points.
It’s a shame Chad Layton can’t get a full-time gig in a 410
Sprint car and race more often. In the handful of times he’s
raced the 410 this season, he has been very fast and up front.
But as of now, it appears the Jimmy Layton owned team will
continue to concentrate on the URC circuit and make the three
and four hour tows each weekend to race.
Congratulations to Fred Rahmer on his National Sprint Car Hall
of Fame induction this Saturday in Knoxville, Iowa. He joins
quite an elite group of drivers that have made it into the HoF.
WHATS HAPPENING
It’s back to regular racing this weekend on the 410 Sprint car
tour with Friday night action at Williams Grove and Saturday
night at Lincoln and Port Royal Speedway’s.
The 358 sprint cars are back in action at Williams Grove on
Friday, Trail-Way on Friday and Lincoln and Selinsgrove on
Saturday while the Super Sportsman are back for another Saturday
Night Series event at Williams Grove joined by the 358 late
models and street stocks.
The World of Outlaws late models invade Hagerstown Speedway
for Saturday’s Concocheague 50 lapper along with the late model
sportsman. The super late models also have shows scheduled at
Bedford, Port Royal and Selinsgrove.
There will be all sorts of stock car action at Susquehanna but
the 358 late models get the night off this week. Lincoln
Speedway will present a big Fireworks display.
Don’t forget the USAC Sprints will make their appearance in the
area next week including a June 3rd date at Williams Grove.
PIT STOPS
Mike Dicely took home the big $5,780 payday with his win in
Sunday’s micro racing.com Spring Nationals Super 600 Showdown at
Trail-Way Speedway. Dicely led every lap in his win over Mike
Rutherford, Heath Hehnly, Shane Lewis and Tim Dietz. Rutherford
won the 270 Micro portion of the event over Todd Hoover, Brian
Marriott, Sean McAndrew and Richie Hartman. Jesse Snyder won the
Sidewinders 1000 event over Mark Strickler, Sean McAndrew, Joe
Robertson and Chad Hough…
Aaron Eichelberger won Sunday’s Super Sportsman tour event at
Bedford Speedway over Frankie Herr, Bobby Hockenberry, Dylan
Cisney and Carmen Perigo, Jr…
Joey Saldana won Friday night’s World of Outlaws event at the
Dirt Track at Lowe’s and came back for another win Saturday at
Virginia Motor Speedway. Donny Schatz ended the WoO weekend with
a win Monday at Canandaigua Speedway. Both drivers have combined
for 13 wins in 20 starts this season…
Danny Smith topped All Star Sprint car action Saturday at
Fremont Speedway…
The third show of the Dirt Track Scene from Sports Plus Video
will air on Harrisburg’s ABC Channel 27 digital channel on
Wednesday night at 8pm. The show will repeat Saturday May 30th.
This week’s show will include the WoO event from Eldora on May
9th, the May 15th Williams Grove WoO show won by Greg Hodnett,
an over the edge segment and the Good old Daze from the 50’s…
