MODIFIED SEASON WRAP

Here is the 2011 / 2012 Randy’s Raceway Modified season wrap up.  We had 34 racers compete in the headline division in 15 shows during the season.  Nine drivers made all 15 races.  I will review the top 20 in points and also have career stats included with the summaries.

20th  SAM SOBOEWSKI  Sam ran with us 3 times and is Bretts buddy.  He learned real quick and seemed to get better each time out.

19th  LARRY SANDERS   Larry made in in for 3 races this season and has been working on his tyco program trying to get the set up just right.  Larry just missed the top ten on all three runs finishing 11th each time.

18th  NICK WUMMER   Nick ran the early part of the season before he got involved with a job that limited his attendance here.  Nick races hard and had a top 10 this season. [Read more...]

Annual Banquet Well Attended

The 11th annual awards banquet was held at Randy’s Raceway recently and it was very well attended.  With almost 30 in attendance the point fund was distributed and Point Champions Shane Hiester, Jim Levan and Mark Williams received the hardware sponsored by Dale Stengele.  Promoter Randy Haydt thanked the many hands that help during the season and the group also honored Randy with a gift certificate to Harbor Freight.  [Read more...]

Veteran Bill Brenner Wins Season’s Final Mod Event

Veteran slot car racer of 5 decades Bill Brenner out of Manheim PA won the season’s final Modified feature is a stunner.  Brenner won 2 segments on lanes 2 and 3 and had all lead lap rune except lane 7.  Brenner powered the Eric Beard prepared car to the win.  This was the first ever feature win for the car builder from Gettysburg.  Shane Hiester wound up second and just missed winning by 6 pieces of track.  A win in Modified would have given the Shillington racer a feature win in every division this season.  Hiester won 3 segments on the night. [Read more...]

Williams Wins Sixth Feature

Mark Williams won his sixth Modified feature of this season and locked up the season points championship.  Williams ran the pink Kenny Gilmore prepared tyco sweeping all eight lanes with only 5 falloffs.  17 racers were on hand and Shane Hiester ran a strong race winning his first 5 segments to grab 2nd on the evening.  Sheldon Hiester won on lane 1 and then turned in steady runs the rest of the way grabbing third spot.  Fourth was Brett Gilmore in his #7 followed by Toby Reinhard who picked up his first modified segment win of the season and a real strong top 5 finish.  Sixth through tenth were Bill Brenner, Jim Levan, Eric Beard, Tony Z and veteran Mike Feltenberger in his Bulllock #76.

Modified Madness

Veteran Bill Brenner had a good run in the Beard #18 bringing it home 6th in the next too last race for this season.  Tony Z also won a segment in the Billy Decker prepared #44.  Decker has fielded 2 strong modified teams all season and the combination of Bill and Tony has been a real surprise this year.  Good luck to that team the rest of this season and we hope they return as a team next year.  Cory Rienhard made his night a good one finishing 13th even though he did not feel taht good.  With the whole sppring ahead daylight savings time coming this weekend does anybody have a clue what the clocks at Randy’s raceway will look like on Tuesday night……………..

Kenny Gilmore Returns to Winners Circle

Former modified champion Kenny Gilmore made a rare start and sweep the modified show on the super competitive Tri-oval to take a modified feature win for the first time in a few years.  Gilmore beat a tough field of 20 racers on hand at Randy’s Raceway.  Mark Williams wound up second and extended his point lead.  Williams won 5 segments with his only 19 coming while Gilmore was on the track.  Third spot was veteran Jim Levan who won 4 segments in his fast #1.  Fourth spot was Sheldon Hiester who notched 3 segment wins.  [Read more...]

Williams Wins Twin Bill

Mark Williams won his first Cup feature of this season taking the 15 lappers on the Tri-Oval.  11 racers were on hand to test the tough Tri-Oval once again and many tight races were presented on the track with a third turn.  Williams won 4 segments on his way to a narrow victory over Sheldon Hiester (4 seg.) by 7 pieces of track.  Third went to veteran Jim Levan in his familiar orange Cup car.  Levan had 2 segment wins.  Fourth went to current point leader Shane Hiester who had consistent runs on all 6 lanes.  Rounding out the top 5 was Billy Decker out of Nazareth PA winner of 2 segments.
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Williams Wins Modified Main Event

Mark Williams won his second feature in a row in the Modified division taking all 8 lanes on the big oval at Randy’s Raceway.  Second spot went to veteran Manheim racer Bill Brenner driving the Beard #18 winning 1 segment.  Third spot went to Jim Levan who took 3 segments followed closely by Scott Bender with 1 segment win to his credit.  Rounding out the top five was Eric Beard winner of 3 segments.  Toby Reinhard finished 6th with Shane Hiester and Sheldon Hiester 7th and 8th and Tony Z 9th with his car owner Bill Decker 10th.

Jim Levan Wins Third

Veteran Jim Levan won his third Modified Feature of the season at Randy’s Raceway, becoming the 3rd three-time winner this year.  In a stacked field of 16 racers Levan won all six segments on the Short Track race and only had 4 falloffs all night.  Current point leader Mark Williams was runner-up winning 5 segments after coming back on lane 1 after just missing a win on the first race of the night out in lane 6.  [Read more...]

Williams Wins Third Feature in the Modifieds

Mark Williams won his third Modified Feature of the season and moved into the point lead, as Brett Gilmore was not in attendance.  Williams won 7 segments driving a fluoresant Pink Modified owned by Kenny Gilmore.  Shane Hiester wound up a close second as he won 6 segments in his fast #102.  Third spot went to last week’s winner Jim Levan.  Levan won 3 segments in his white coupe bodied racer.  [Read more...]

Levan Wins Again

Veteran slot car driver and one of the original Randy’s Raceway drivers Jim Levan won the Modified Feature for the second time this season.  The win was also his second in the last three weeks.  Jim ran his #1 white bodied racer to 3 segment wins and stayed on the lead lap in every race but 1.  Second spot went to hard charging Shane Hiester who won 2 segments on lanes 4 and 6.  [Read more...]