Archives for October 2010

Tuesday November 26, 2010 was the second race for the Sportsman and IROC divisions at Randy’s Raceway for the 2010 – 2011 season.  There were 15 drivers in attendance for the event.  Taking the win on Monk’s short track was Sheldon Hiester.  Sheldon drove the Josh Biever prepared Sportsman to 5 victories on the night.  Second went to little brother Shane Hiester who drove his Brad “Pap Pap” Brightbill to 4 victories on the night for a close second place finish.  Coming home third on the night was Lim Levan in another one of his really slow cars.  Jim won 1 segment on the night. 

[Read more…]

Brett Gilmore once again won the Modified feature at Randy’s Raceway. This time he had to out duel his Dad Kenny Gilmore who made a rare start in the Modified division.  Brett won 5 segments including a tough race on lane one when he had to make up a big gap.  Kenny Gilmore in his fast Green machine won 5 segments as well.  Third spot went to Readings Scott Bender who won 2 segments and turned in his best performance in quite some time.  Bender drove his beautiful Bailey replica racer.  Shane Hiester wound up fourth winning 3 segments on the evening.  Rounding out the top five was Bill Brenner driving his Eric Beard wrenched dirt car.  Brenner won 1 segment.  The rest of the top ten were as follows, Eric Beard, Sheldon Hiester, Jim Levan, Mark Williams and Alex Amore.

[Read more…]

The second Cup race of the year was on Monks short track, it was another competitive race as Jim Levan scored his 1st Cup win of the year. Jim won 4 segments on lanes 1-4, on way to the win. Only 20 pieces of track behind Shane Hiester scored 3 segment wins turning in a strong 2nd place effort. Last Years Cup champion Bob Amore continued his strong runs on the short track scoring 2 segment wins to finish 3rd. Sheldon Hiester won 2 segments to claim a 4th place finish. Mark Williams won1 segment to round out the top 5. 6th Scott Bender – 7th Randy Haydt – 8th Brett Gilmore (4wins) – 9th Toby Reinhard – 10th Billy Decker.

[Read more…]

Brett Gilmore won for the third straight time in the modified division and continues his mastery of this division.  This time he won 5 segments although he was lapped once on his lane 1 run.  Second spot went to the fast Reading racer Jim Levan.  Levan won 4 races on the tri-oval.  Third spot was Bob Amore who also won 4 segments.  Rounding out the top five in fourth was Sheldon Hiester followed by little brother Shane.

Tuesday Night was the 2010-2011 season opener for the Sportsman and I R O C divisions.  The Sportsman race had 13 drivers on hand for the event.  The event was won by Shillington, PA’s Shane Hiester winning 5 of 6 segments on the Tri-Oval, missing the perfect night by only 2 track sections.  Second went to Bob Amore winning 4 segments on his way to a good run.  Third went to Mark Williams who won 2 segments and was the driver who kept Shane from his perfect night.  Fourth went to Randy Haydt who ran on the lead lap in every segment but couldn’t get the segment win.  Rounding out the top 5 was Sheldon Hiester who won 1 segment.  The Sixth through tenth finishers were: 6th- Billy Decker, 7th- John Kosmoski, 8th-Jim Levan, 9th-Brian Vanbuskirk, and 10th- Cory Reinhart.

[Read more…]