Mark Williams won the season opener for Modifieds at Randy’s Raceway to kick off the 2011 / 2012 season, our 11th consecutive.  Williams drove a fluorescent green modified and won in a real battle with Brett Gilmore.  Williams won 4 segments to Gilmore’s 5 segment wins to score his third straight Modified Feature win going back to last season.  Gilmore brought a replica of his 358 Modified bodied Tyco home runner-up.  [Read more…]

The fastest five

Brett Gilmore once again dominated the Modified division this past season winning the points championship by 66 points and taking 11 out of the 15 features.  Brett the Jet ran his career feature win total to 40.  He started the year with 6 straight wins.  Gilmore won 75 segments bringing his career segment total to 349.  Shane Hiester finished 2nd in points as he scored 5 feature runner ups and 41 segments on the season.  His career segment win total moves to 89, so he is only 11 short of becoming a 100 segment winner.  [Read more…]

This years sprint car season also was a very competitive class as the point title was won by only 7 points, and other spots in the top 5 were not decided until the final race:

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After the 1st 4 races you might have thought the battle for the point title would have been settled, as Mark Williams started the season winning the 1st 4 races in convincing fashion. Mark also recorded 3 other top 5 finishes capping off a strong season to win the Sprint car point championship, by only 7 points. [Read more…]

This year’s Cup season turned out to be a very competitive season. A total of 24 drivers tried their hand, and a good group of  8 Rookies turning laps. For the 2nd year it was a 9-race season with races run on all 3 tracks. Turning his 1st Cup championship Randy Haydt scored 4 wins and 7 top 5 finishes on way to a well-deserved title. Doing everything but win, Shane Hiester scored 7 top 5 finishes, including 5 finishes 2nd or 3rd, to turn in a solid 2nd place finish in the final standings. [Read more…]

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Another great 10th racing season has ended at Randy’s Raceway ! I would like to thank all the racers who have helped make this season an exciting, challenging, and most of all fun. We welcome the new rookie racers into our group of Tuesday night action, without new racers the hobby we have been doing for so many years will go nowhere.

There are Tuesday nights scheduled once a month throughout the summer so everyone can stay in touch by learning more car building tips, tuning up his or her cars, and practicing.

For the upcoming season there are no chassis rule changes but there will be a few procedure changes.

A sign in sheet for each racer to check what race they are running that evening.

The tear down procedure is that only one of the dice will be rolled. The event winner will pick a number from 1 to 6 (this will be less then a 50/50 chance to teardown as before). If that number is rolled there will be a teardown of the top 3 cars. The forth place car will be held on standby. All the years we have been tearing down and found no one illegal has brought about this teardown procedure change. A great job goes to the racers for keeping everything legal and competitive here at Randy’s Raceway.

A no start rule will be in effect. If your car does not start 3 times in one race you will be charged with a fall off. This is a re0curring penalty within each race. Each 3 time no start you will be charged a fall off. Most of these no starts are because of poor car maintenance or little to no pick up shoe tension. This is all talked about during the tech and practice sessions throughout the summer to build a faster car.

All point fund money to be paid out will be to the qualifying racer who raced over half the races in each division he or she entered. EXAMPLE: Modified division 15 total races 2 drops leaving 13 actual point races. A racer must run 7 out of these 13 races to qualify for point money.

There will be a few other changes to be announced when the racing season starts in September.

A schedule is on its way to be posted soon.

Thanks again to all !

Regards,

Randy

Sixteen year old Brett Gilmore will be the driver of car #7 at Big Diamond Speedway this season.  Brett is the son of Current Modified Driver Kenny Gilmore who currently runs the #14 at Grandview. Brett is also the Grandson of Modified Driver Charley Gilmore.  Brett is the third generation from the Gilmore family who wheels Dirt Modifieds and comes from a long a sucsessfull career racing Go carts.  Mainly at Oreville Cart track in Topton Brett was a many time Champion and winner of more than 100 features.
Randy’s Raceway wishes the best of luck to one of our own members.

Tuesday April 12, 2011 was the Annual Awards Banquet at Randy’s Raceway.  The night started out with the awards being handed out to all the racers that ran enough events to be in the top 15 in points.  Each racer received a hat, yearly statistics book, and a cash reward.  Then it was time to eat.  Sandwiches, veggie tray, chips, pretzels, and plenty of desserts were there to eat.  What is better to do on a full belly than get an extra helping of a slot car race in afterwards.  There were 16 racers that stayed to wash down all the good food with a race.  [Read more…]

Tuesday April 19th Randy’s Raceway held an IROC style race on the original track of his club, the tricky tri-oval. Although it was a bit disappointing that several of Randy’s most successful racers over the years couldn’t come out to honor Randy for his dedication to providing H.O. racing for many racers from Pa. and even NJ, 13 racers did show up to race with and “roast” Randy as well as share some cake with him. [Read more…]