Sprint car fans will get a little appetizer of a Speedweek type series this week as the first annual Dupont Tyvek Keystone Cup Sprint Series hits local speedway’s.

 The series, which kicked off last night at the Grandview Speedway features six straight nights of 410 Sprint car racing at some of the area’s most exciting sprint car tracks.

 Tonight, the 410 Sprints will make their only season appearance at Big Diamond Raceway, located in Minersville. Greg Hodnett seems to have the winning touch at Big Diamond and is looking forward to taking the Jim and Sandy Kline owned sprinter for a fast ride around the joint.

 Williams Grove Speedway will host the Keystone Cup on Friday night followed by a Saturday night stop at Lincoln Speedway, Sunday at Selinsgrove Speedway and ending Monday with an afternoon show at the Port Royal Speedway.

 All races will pay $5,000 to win with the exception of last night’s Grandview event which was sanctioned by the World of Outlaws.

 There will be a point fund of $5,750 for the six race series with $1,700 going to the overall series point champion. The top eight drivers in points will receive point fund money.

 It will be interesting to see what the team and fan support will be for this week’s event as the Outlaws just left the area and the normal Cindy Rowe Pennsylvania Speedweek just a month away. Besides the fact that gas prices have went above the $3.00 per gallon mark for the first time ever, will it be enough to keep people away for these events.

 The weather looks good for the weekend so hopefully fans have planned in advance to attend the races this week and help make the Keystone Cup a series to return to the schedule every season.


DRAMA AT LINCOLN
 Saturday night’s Super Sportsman tour event at Lincoln Speedway produced some drama with multi-time champion Frankie Herr.

 Herr and Paul Miller made contact during the running of the 25-lap feature resulting in Herr crashing hard into the inside front stretch guardrail. Herr was not injured but not happy with Miller.

 Herr walked to the backstretch where Miller was sitting inside his car during the red flag. Herr hit Miller before returning to his pit area.

 As of Tuesday night, tour series organizer Alan Kreitzer and track owners Don and Bob Leiby had not made a decision on Herr. 

 “Right now it’s under review, I would say, I don’t have anything definite at this point,”  Kreitzer said Tuesday night. Kreitzer said any penalties would be brought down prior to Saturday’s Tour race at Port Royal Speedway.

 Herr holds a 130 point lead over Rich Eichelberger on the Sportsman Tour.


BUSY LINCOLN MONTH AHEAD
 With Mother Nature not cooperating with most tracks, especially Lincoln Speedway, track officials have announced some schedule changes and makeup dates for the next few weeks.

 The fourth annual Weldon Sterner Memorial will be on the card on June 2 along with the makeup 410 Sprint car feature rained out on April 28. Time trials set the stage for the Sterner race.

 Last week’s rained out John Gleim Excavating 55th Anniversary race will be ran on Wednesday, June 13 at 7 p.m.

 That race will be a kickoff to three big Pennsylvania visits by the O’Reilly All Star Sprints with a Thursday, June 14 date at Port Royal, which is also a makeup for the Bob Weikert Memorial. The All Stars will be at the Grove on June 15 and at Lincoln June 16.


WHATS HAPPENING
 Susquehanna Speedway Park hosts its biggest show of the year tonight as the ASCS ASCoT National Tour invades the Newberrytown track for a 30-lap $3,000 to win event.  Racing begins at 7 p.m. with the likes of Gary Wright, Jason Johnson, Kenny Adams and more on hand.

 SSP will also race the Sportsman, 358 late models and street stocks on Saturday night and will be in action again Sunday night with the 358 Sprints will be the headline division, replacing the 410 Sprints which had been scheduled. The 358 feature pays $1,200 to win.

 Trail-Way Speedway is back twice this weekend with Friday night 358 Sprint car action and Micro Sprint action Saturday night.

 Path Valley Speedway will feature Micro sprint racing along with 305 sprint car action Friady night.

 Hagerstown Speedway features the Richard Bonebrake Memorial for late models on Saturday night while Port Royal Speedway will host the Sportsman tour, 305 Sprints and 4-cylinders.

 Selinsgrove Speedway sees action two times this weekend with a Saturday night regular show of 358 Sprints along with the Late Model Championship paying $2,500 to win. The track returns for the 410 Sprint show Sunday night.

 Shippensburg Speedway returns Saturday with its regular classes headlined by the 600 Micro Sprints.


PIT STOPS
 Wayne Johnson tuned up for Thursday’s ASCoT ASCS event at SSP with a Sunday night win in the $1,200 to win main. He led the entire distance over Travis Rilat, Foster Landon, Dave Ely and Andy Shouse…

 Steve Kinser won Sunday night’s World of Outlaw event at New Egypt Speedway from the front row. It was his second win in five days. He won over Jason Sides, Tim Kaeding, Mechanicsburg’s Lucas Wolfe and Craig Dollansky. Billy Pauch piloted the Don Ott owned No. 25 to a 10th place finish. The Outlaws will be in action at the Lowes Motor Speedway on Friday and then at Rolling Wheels on Monday night…

 Shane Stewart captured his first win since joining Junior Holbrook  Saturday night. Stewart won at Eldora Speedway over Rob Chaney, Danny Smith, Greg Wilson and Brock Mayes…

 Chuck Hebing and Travis Rilat were winners of the Bully Hill Vineyards 360 events last weekend at Black Rock Speedway…