Mark Williams won his second Modified feature in a row at Randy’s Raceway.  But not before a great duel with up and coming Cory Reinhard in a classic lane 1 lane 8 battle.  Williams won all 8 segments on the evening and Reinhard won 5.  This was Cory’s best ever finish at the Berks Oval a strong follow up to his runner-up in the first Berks Lebanon Series last week.  Third spot

Modified starting 8

went to Brian Sponagle who was celebrating a birthday, Spoons waited until lane 8 to grab his lone segment win but consistent finishing propelled him to the third spot.  Fourth was Jim LeVan who was fast in all lanes but had a tough lane one.  He opened the night with a segment win on the smooth lane 8.  [Read more…]

Sprint car racing returned to Randy’s Raceway for race 3 of it’s 6 season, and Scott Bender scored 7 segment wins on way to his 2nd win of the season. Mark Wiliams ran his Zemco #1 to 5 segment wins to finish 2nd. Making his 1st Sprint car start of the season Jim LeVan ran his bright Orange #1 to 6 segment wins to finish 3rd. Toby Reinhard continued his strong season had a

Sprint Car Starting Lineup

steady run of 19’s on the middle lanes and turned in his 2nd Top 5 finish to finish 4th. Cory Reinhard also having a good season scored his 2nd straight 5th place finish to close out the Top 5. [Read more…]

Mark Williams picked up his first win since week 2 in the Modified feature on the Tricky Tri-Oval.  Williams won all six segments after some heated battles with Toby, Brian S and Jim.  Second spot went to Randy J Haydt who won two segments on lanes 2 and 3.  Randy had a tough run on the challenging lane 6.  Third spot went to Brian Sponagle who won lanes 3-5 and was just 5 pieces behind Haydt at the finish.  Fourth was veteran Jim LeVan who won 2 segments and other than a rough outing on lane one was real strong this week.  Rounding out the top five was Bryan Kisthart who had his string of feature wins broken. [Read more…]

Holiday doubleheader action was on tap at Randy’s Raceway on Tuesday night and in the Cup opener Bryan Kisthardt turned in a perfect run winning all 6 segments to score his 3rd Cup win of the season. Randy Haydt scored 3 segment wins on the inner lanes to turn in his best Cup finish of the year coming home 2nd. Billy Decker scored 3 segment wins on way to a solid 3rd place finish, his 4th straight Top 5 of the season. John Kosmoski seems to have the new Tri -Oval surface figured out as he scored his 1st segment win of the year and a good 4th place finish. Mark Williams had a solid run going winning 2 segments but a rare crash out on lane 6 hurt his chances but still came home with a 5th place finish.

6th Mike Fitzgerald / 7th Brian Sponagle / 8th Scott Bender / 9th Tony Zappacosta ( 1win ) / 10th Brian VanBuskirk

FITZY SCORES IROC WIN.

It was race 4 of the IROC season this race with AW SUPER III cars. The 6 lap segments lead to some very close finishes and some very hard wrecks, making his 1st appearance at Randy’s Raceway this year and on the new surface Mike Fitzgerald scored 4 segment wins on way to his 1st IROC win. Long time regular Alex Amore scored 2 segment wins on way to a good 2nd place finish. Only 8 pieces of track behind point leader Mark Williams scored 2 segment wins to finish 3rd. Trailing Mark by only 3 pieces of track Billy Decker and Scott Bender crossed the line in a tie for 4th.

6th Randy Haydt / 7th Bryan Kisthardt ( 1win ) / 8th Brian Sponagle ( 1win ) / 9th Cory Reinhart/10th John Kosmoski ( 1win ).

HOT LAPS:
Good to see Bob& Alex Amore back with us along with Mike Fitzgerald. Good runs turned in by John Kosmoski 4th, Tony Zappacosta his 1st segment win and a 9th place finish, and Brian Van Buskirk 10th all in Cup action. Congrats to Mike F on the IROC win, and to Alex Amore finishing 2nd. Thanks to everyone who flagged, including Adam Zappacosta who flagged for his 1st time and did a good job. Fitzy’s win in IROC makes it 4 winners in 4 races. From 2nd to 9th in IROC were seperated by 1 lap. Thanks to Randy for preparing the cars, maybe we will see them later this year.

Race 1 of the Berks Lebanon Modified Racing Series will be at ‘Little T’s” Raceway  in Myerstown PA on Saturday December 5th. Practice starts at 1 racing at 2. Hot Stock arms will be 1 class, Tyco arms will be the 2nd.

Veteran racer Bryan Kisthardt continued his great start to the season winning his forth straight Modified main this week at Randy’s Raceway.  17 racers were in attendance  and the action looked close all night right from the practice sessions.  Kisthardt won all lanes except lane one to pick up the win in his brand new Amore body.  It looked like another veteran Jim LeVan was going to end a dry spell after a 19.13 on lane one he went on a tear and won 4 straight.  But really struggled on lane six and ran many laps on the bubble,  this relegated him to a fourth on the night.  Mark Williams won two segments to come home runnerup and had a couple of great battles with Tony Zappacosta on lanes four and five.  Third spot went to last weeks Sprint winner Scott Bender who continues his fine string of runs this year as well.  LeVan was fourth followed by Brian Sponagle who picked off a segment win on lane three and finished a strong fifth.  Rounding out the top ten were   Big T,   Cory Reinhard,   Randy Haydt,   Billy Decker    and   Chris Brubaker.

Modified Madness-

There never seems to be any boundary issues on the Tri-oval because we have green tape on the floor.  A special thanks to Randy for repaving the Tri-Oval after 15 seasons it was time and thanks to Jim LeVan for much of the track to complete the project we never missed a race and Randy spent a lot of time to make it right.  Thanks to Billy Decker and John Kosmoski for helping me with the flagger duties.  With a real strong field of 17 racers we had 8 different segment winners.  Tony Zappacosta had so much fun winning his first modified segment this season on lane four he came back and won number two on lane six.  Congrats to Tony who had a great run this week.  Good to have three veterans in the field again John Kosmoski, Big T and Bill Brenner.  Brian Vanbuskirk had a real good run on lane two and wound up 13th in the feature.  Hopefully Brian gets that segment win soon.  Also thanks to Gary Zappacosta for helping turn marshal (Ralph?)

Bryan Kisthart won his second Modified Feature in a row and third of the season last week at Randy’s Raceway.  He won 7 segments on the night. Second spot went to Mark Williams winner of three segments.  Third spot went to veteran Scott Bender who won a segment.  Cory Reinhard continues his fine season with a fourth spot and a segment win.  Rounding out the top five was Billy Decker who had 2 segment wins.

NOTES-  Nice to see the improvement this season for Adam Zapocosta and also thank to him for helping with the computer work.  Bill Brenner made his first start of the season and picked up a segment win on lane 3 to go along with his 7th place run.  Also great to have Corey Bailey in the field this week his modified is still fast.

Doubleheader action was on tap for the 8 lane fast track Tuesday night at Randy’s Raceway. The opening night winner Bryan Kisthardt ran his Budweiser #8 to 5 segment wins on way to his 2nd Cup win of the year. Mark Williams battled back from a slow start on lane 1 due to rear gear issues but still collected 3 segment wins on way to a 2nd place finish. After winning his 1st segment in the last Cup race Cory Reinhart turned in 2 more segment wins on way to a career best 3rd place finish. Scott Bender ran his M&M’s #38 to a 4th place finish his 2nd Top 5 run of the year. Billy Decker ran the Olive Garden #25 to a 5th place finish his 3rd Top 5 of the Cup season.

6th Jim Levan ( 1win ) / 7th Randy Haydt ( 2wins ) / 8th Toby Reinhart ( 2wins ) / 9th Brian Sponagle / 10th Tony Zappacosta.
Mark Williams Scores IROC Win

Race 3 of the IROC season were run with Aurora T-Jets with well detailed throw back paint schemes, thanks to Brian Sponagle. Mark Williams scored 2 segment wins on way to a very close win, his 1st IROC win of the season. Marks win was by only 3 pieces of track ahead of Bryan Kisthardt who scored 1 segment win to finish 2nd. Making his 1st IROC start of the season Dave Fitzgerald turned in a very strong 3rd place finish. Dave was only 3 pieces of track behind Bryan. Brian Sponagle scored 1 segment win, for a good 4th place finish his 3rd Top 5 IROC finish. Winner of the IROC opener Toby Reinhart scored 2 segment wins to finish 5th.

6th Jim Levan ( 2wins ) / 7th Brian Vanbuskirk / 8th Cory Reinhart ( 2wins ) / 9th Randy Haydt / 10th Billy Decker ( 1win ).

Veteran T-Jet Racer Bryan Kisthart has been improving each season and this year has become the first two time winner in any division at Randy’s Raceway in the Tyco series.  Kisthart won 4 segments on the moody Tr-Oval.  Mark Williams won a single segment on lane five and scored the runner-up spot and holds onto a slim Points lead this year.  Leighton’s Billy Decker was a solid third after winning three segments.  Fourth spot went to Jim LeVan driving his familiar Mod.  Rounding out the top five was Brian Sponagle in a good ride.  Spoons won 3 segments all on the even lanes.  That was odd.

John Kosmoski won his segment on lane 6 which was his 4th career Modified segment at the Berks group of ovals at Randy’s Raceways.  Cory Reinhard picked off another segment win also and wound up 7th in the field for a good run.  Scott Bender had a steady night coming home 6th.  Don’t forget Racing on Halloween night at Little T’s Speedway in Myerstown.  Racing starts at 4.