There’s no slowing down for Cody Darrah.

 Fresh off his biggest career sprint car win last Saturday night,  Darrah and his team will head to the state of Iowa this weekend to get some laps at Knoxville Raceway in preparation for next week’s 49th annual Super Clean Knoxville Nationals. Darrah will compete in Saturday night’s regular show at the track.

 “We hope to keep up the momentum we have and go out and get some laps,” said the 19-year-old on Tuesday night. “We want to go out and shake down the car, get some laps and hopefully that will make us a little better next week.”

 Darrah continued to live out his dream of racing sprint cars in a big way Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway.

 The Red Lion driver captured his biggest career sprint car win at the Port as he convincingly won the third annual Dream Race Extreme. The win was his second career win at Port Royal and paid a career high $15,000 to the Darrah Motorsports owned team.

 “It was such a big win for the entire team and it just continues our great season,” he said about his fifth overall win in 2009. “My Dad has given me a great opportunity and with Beazer (crew chief Steve Suchy) making it easy for me to drive the car, it would be dumb of me to just jump ship and move to another team,” said Darrah, referring to persistent rumors that he might land a ride elsewhere for the 2010 season. “We have an awesome team here and we just keep building it. We started with nothing and we’ve got it to where we are today and it’s just a great deal. I’m looking forward to big things from this team.”

 Next up for Darrah and Suchy will be the national spotlight in the way of the Nationals and the $150,000 paycheck that goes along with it.

 “Last year were were terrible in time trials and that put us behind all week,” he said of his first ever appearance at Knoxville. “We had a new driver, a new car and fell behind early. We did start passing some cars later in the week and I think we made it into the C-Main somewhere.”

 Last season is behind him and Darrah is  looking at the present time and a time where he can show the nation just how good he really is.

 “That’ why we’re going out early because none of us think it’s too far out of reach,” he said about having a good showing at Knoxville and racing his way into Saturday night’s 40-lap A Main. “We know we need to qualify well and that will put us into a good position for the week and hopefully I can put it in the show. That would make our whole season.”
 Darrah qualifies on Wednesday night.

 Before heading west, Darrah will compete in tonight’s Kasey Kahne Foundation Battle at the Grove driving a car owned by Godfrey Motorsports.

 “The car will be painted a nice pink for Breast Cancer Awareness and we hope to be able to help spread the word against breast cancer,” Darrah said.


WHATS HAPPENING
 URC will make its final appearance of the season at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, joining the 410 Sprints. And amazingly the forecast as of now is for a sunny and no rain Friday! Williams Grove can’t catch a break with the weather this season.

 The Grove returns with the Saturday Night Series on Saturday with the Super Sportsman, 358 late models, street stocks and 4-cylinders. The Sportsman will go in Twin 20’s.

 After a two week absence, the 410 Sprints will return to Lincoln Speedway Saturday night for a regular show while the 410 Sprints also headline Saturday action at Port Royal. Selinsgrove features 358 Sprints while the 358 Sprints are also at Trail-way and Lincoln this weekend as well. Late Models see action at Selinsgrove, Port Royal and Hagerstown while the 358 late models are once again the headline at Susquehanna.

PIT STOPS
 Carl Billet finally ended a season long winless streak with a win Saturday at Susquehanna Speedway Park. The win was the Carlisle drivers 49th career at SSP and it made the 24th consecutive season  Billet was won a feature…

 Carlisle’s Erin Statler became only the second female to win a feature at Lincoln Speedway when she won last Saturday’s PASS 305 Sprint car feature. Statler joined Becca Anderson, who won a 358 Sprint car feature at the track. The win was Statler’s first ever Pennsylvania series win…

 Donny Schatz extended his World of Outlaws points lead to 50 points over Jason Meyers after his win at KC Raceway last weekend. Schatz won over Steve Kinser, Dale Blaney, Meyers and Joey Saldana, who three weeks ago was less than 20 points behind Schatz and has since fallen to over 100 points back after several dismal runs…

 Fred Rahmer will be in the field at this weekend’s Ironman 55 World of Outlaws event at Missouri’s I-55 Speedway. Saturday night’s feature will be 55 laps and pay $20,000 to win. Stevie Smith and Daryn Pittman are also scheduled to be in competition…

 Randy Hannagan, Kerry Madsen, Scott Winters and Terry McCarl were winners on the Thunder through the Plains tour with the All Star Circuit of Champions last week. Hannagan won the opening night event at US 36 Speedway while Madsen won opening night at the Belleville High Banks on Thursday. Friday night at Belleville was rained out as Winters and McCarl came back to score wins at Husets Speedway…

 Jeff Rohrbaugh went on top of the Central PA 358 Sprint car series point standings after last weekend. Fans can check out the series at www.centralparacing.com…

Brooke Tatnell flew home earlier this week after undergoing surgery on his left leg at Hershey Medical Center. Tatnell was making his first start in the Pete Postupack owned No. 25 at Port Royal and had the driveshaft break during his time trial lap. Tatnell suffered a compound fracture to his tibia and fibula. Get well wishes go out to Brooke during his recovery...