Archives for September 2017

Bender Wins Modified Main Becomes Fourth Different Winner

Scott Bender won his 6th career Modified feature win and is the fourth different winner in four weeks at Randy’s Raceway.  The Reading Racer is now tied with Little T for 9th in Modified victories.  Bender scored a narrow win over Bryan Kisthardt by only 3 pieces of track.  Bender won 4 segments including an impressive win on lane 2.  BK won 6 of his 8 segments but did go down a lap on lane 3.  Third spot on the evening went to Randy Haydt.  The opener winner took 2 segment wins bringing his Modified career total to over 200 now. [Read more…]

Shane Hiester, Tim “ Little T” Bowers Win Series Opener

Middle: 1st Shane Hiester ///// Right: 2nd Toby Reinhard ///// Left: 3rd Randy Jay Haydt ///// Photo by: Scott Bender

The Berks / Lebanon Modified Racing Series opened its 3rd season of racing on Saturday at “Little T’s ” Speedway. Big Block Modifieds got everything started with Shane Hiester scoring the win. Shane scored 4 segment wins to collect his 1st Berks Series win. Following Shane across the line by only 9 pieces of track Toby Reinhard scored 3 segment wins turning in a very good 2nd place finish it was his best Big Block Series finish. Only 3 pieces of track behind last year Series Champ Randy Haydt scored 3 segment wins to finish 3rd. [Read more…]

Jim LeVan Wins Sprint Car Opener

It was the season opener for the fast Sprint cars on the 8 lane Tuesday night at Randy’s Raceway. Getting the season off to a strong start Jim LeVan turned in 6 segment wins on way to the win. Jim also pulled that #2 pill that he always likes ! Last year Sprint car champion Brian Kisthardt  scored 2 segment wins including a win on lane 1, to come home 2nd. Cory Reinhard also had a strong machine scoring 2 segment wins for a good 3rd place finish. Trailing Cory by only 8 pieces of track Randy Haydt scored 1 segment win to finish 4th. Mark Williams scored 3 segment wins. With a win on lane 8, to close out the top 5.

6th Scott Bender / 7th Toby Reinhard ( 1 win ) / 8th Billy Decker / 9th Bob Amore ( 1 win ) / 10th Tony Zappacosta.

TEAR OFFS:

Jims win makes it 3 different winners in the Season Openers. The field was good with 16 racers in the pit area. Had 7 different segment winners. Next Week the Modifieds  are back on the 8 lane.

Berks Lebanon Series Opener Saturday at “Little T’s”, Warmups @1 racing @2.

Haydt Takes Modified Opener for 2017 – 2018 Season

Veteran Randy Haydt won the season opening Modified Feature for the 17th version here at Randy’s Raceway.  The veteran is coming off a strong finish to last season and is now off to a good start for this season.  Haydt bested fellow ECHORR racer Bryan Kisthardt who came home second.  Third spot went to Scott Bender in a strong finish for the Reading Racer.  Brian Sponagle continued his torrid start to this season with a fine fourth place run in his Brightbill Pinto.  Rounding out the top five was Jim LeVan.  Toby Reinhard was the first of 3 TCS racing teammates to make the top ten this week.  Alex Amore making a rare start came home seventh in his Modified prepared by his Dad.  Billy Decker was eighth followed by Cory Reinhard and Savvy Cunnius.

18 racers were on hand for the opener which went 25 lap segments.  8 different winners took the segments- Randy (5), BK (4), Jim (2),  Spoons (2), Toby (2), Billy (1), Scott (1), and winning her first ever Modified segment Savvy Cunnuis.  Way to go Savvy you kicked our ………

Mark Williams Wins Cup Opener

 

The 17th season of racing kicked off Tuesday night at Randy’s Raceway with NASCAR Cup action starting things off. Veteran Mark Williams got the year off on a strong note with the opening night victory. Mark scored 2 segment wins and had a ” TORRID ” battle holding off a strong run by Brian Sponagle. Spoons won 3 segments and just missed out on the win by 17 pieces of track. Trailing Spoons by 23 pieces of track Jim LeVan scored a good 3rd place finish winning 2 segments. Scott Bender scored  a segment win on lane 1 to finish 4th. Randy Haydt ( who had many issues during the night ! ) somehow scored 1 segment win rounding out the Top 5. [Read more…]