Archives for October 2018

Modiifed racing was back on the Tri -Oval and Mark Williams made it 3 wins in a row turning in a ‘sweep” on way to the win. A strong run by Randy Haydt to finish 2nd scoring 4 segment wins and a win on lane 1. Ed Kenderdine turned in his best career  Modified finish winning 2 segments on the outside lanes to finish a good 3rd. Jim LeVan scored his 2nd straight Top 5 winning 2 segments also on the outside lanes to finish 4th. Only 8 pieces of track behind Scott Bender had a steady run finishing 5th.

6th Toby Reinhard / 7th Cory Reinhard ( 2 wins ) / 8th Brian Sponagle / 9th Tom Wenner / 10th Billy Decker.

TRI-OVAL TANGLES:

Close racing in mid pack as 6th to 9th were seperated by only 13 pieces of track. Field of 18 racers were signed in. Thanks to Billy D for the Hallowen treats he had for everybody. John K. scored 1 segment win but a rare crash out for him put him 11th in the final run down. Spanky reports about a lot of problems on pit road this week.? Next week Sprint cars return to the 8 – lane for their 2nd race of the season.

Mark Williams drove his Bud #50 to a one lap victory in the NASCAR portion of the twin Bill Tuesday in Kutztown.  Williams won 4 segments to earn the win his second this season.  After battling with Adam Zappacosta on lanes 1 and 2 Williams won the final 4 segments.  Second spot went to Cory Reinhard who won 3 segments in his fast team TCS racer.  Third spot went to the Orange #40 of Jim LeVan who won 4 segments, followed by Randy Haydt in his Gold number 2, the racing Promoter took a segment win on lane 5.  Rounding out the top five was Adam Zappacosta who scored three segment wins in a very impressive run.  [Read more…]

Modified racing returned to the Tri-Oval for the 1st time this year and Mark Williams just missed a ‘Sweep’ by 1 piece of track to score his 2nd Modified win of the season. Less than 1 lap behind Cory Reinhard scored 4 segment wins on the middle lanes for a good 2nd place run. Adam Zappacosta scored 1 segment win for a career best 3rd place run. Scott Bender scored 1 segment win to come home with a 4th place finish. Jim Levan scored 1 segment win on lane 6 to close out the Top 5. A tie for 6th between Brian Sponagle and Randy Haydt each won 1 segment with tie Breaker going to “Spoons” with 1 less come off. Lauden Seigfried was 8th.Tom Wenner won 2 segments but a bad run on lane 1 cost him, but still scored a good 9th place finish. “Savvy” was 10.

TRI-OVAL TALK:

Close racing  as Top 5 were separated by less than 3 laps. Great run by Adam Z with a strong 3rd place run. Good field as 17 racers were in the pit area. Racing goes back to the Tri-Oval next week as NASCAR and IROC racing returns.

Cory Reinhard won the Cup event and his Dad Toby won the IROC event as the action moved over to the Tricky Tri-Oval.  A field of 18 racers was on hand for the double show and a very orderly event was spun off in a short time. For Cory Reinhard this was his third feature win overall this season already, and his first in the NASCAR class.  It was his second career win in NASCAR after winning 4 segments.  The young Boyertown racer was very impressive winning tough segments over veteran Jim LeVan in the middle lanes.  Second spot went to Mark Williams who was the Opening Night winner.  Williams took 4 segment wins as well in his #50 racer.  Third spot went to Jim LeVan who won three segments in his Orange #40.  Fourth was Randy Haydt (AKA Mr NASCAR) who won a single segment on lane 5.  Rounding out the top five was Brian Sponagle who won 4 segments on the evening.  [Read more…]