Randy's Raceway

After great consideration we have decided that our season has come to a conclusion.  We are a slot car racing club and extended family.  And such as it is we have all our members to consider from our newest born to our older racers.  We need to take the current situation seriously and as much as we love the hobby and we all miss racing, these are unforeseen times.  This message is not all doom and gloom though, when this state of emergency is over and we are given an all clear let’s have a banquet, truck race, celebration of Wyatt and a blow out party for all to enjoy.

With deep respect and a wish for everyone’s health to be good.

Randy’s Raceway

Mark Williams capped off the Sprint car season with his 2nd win of the year, scoring 5 segment wins. Mark’s win was less than 1 lap ahead of Randy Haydt who dominated the season from the start was 2^nd, also claiming 5 segment wins. Cory Reinhard returned to his Sprint car form of last year as he scored 1 segment win, turning in a season best 3rd place run. Scott Bender had a steady run as he collected a 4th place finish. Toby Reinhard scored 1 segment win to finish 5th, that was his 3rd Top 5 finish of the year.

6th Jim L. (1win),  7th Tom W (1win),  8th Brian S.,  9th Billy D (1win), 10th Brian V., 11^th Tony Z, 12^th Jay B, 13^th Larry S, 14^th Mike Z, 15th Austin Yerk.

LAST LAPS:

Good having Mike Z back with us getting his 1st chance running these Super fast machines. Mike did well not having any crash outs. In need of a sharp Sprint car body check out the ones Toby is making. Congrats to our Sprint car champ Randy Haydt, more on that when the Sprint car Review comes out after the season. Modifieds are back on the 8 lane next week.

Veteran Racer John Kosmoski scores a huge modified feature event win on the special Bob Amore /Rob London Memorial Race Night. John raced to 3 segments while only deslotting 4 times all night to score the win. Finishing 2^nd was Modified Points leader Mark Williams. Mark won 4 segments on the night while securing the 2^nd place run. Finishing 3^rd was the Myerstown Missile –  Little T, Tim won 4 segments on the night cruising to a 3^rd place finish. 4^th Place, James Hammershock who just missed the podium. James had a very stong night with 4 segment wins. Completing the top 5, Mike Fitzgerald with 1 segment win. Fitzie had his usual strong run in the Modified class. [Read more…]

Track Owner Randy Jay Haydt wins the final NASCAR feature race of 2020 on the 8 Lane Tomy Oval. Randy running a freshly minted Freddy Mac painted Richard Petty #43 streaked to 5 segment wins in dominating fashion to score the feature event win. Chris Brubaker ran 1 of the strongest races all year in a very close 2nd place run. Chris won 2 segments on the night and his Decker Fab chassis was flying all night. Completing the podium on Tuesday, Mark Williams who wrapped up his 2020 NASCAR Point Title with a solid run in the top 3. Mark won 4 segments on the night. Mark won 4 NASCAR features in 2020 on the way to the point championship. Randy Haydt won 1 feature on the way to 2^nd in points. [Read more…]

Racing came to an end on the Tri-Oval for this year but quite a night as 20 racers filled the pit area with plenty of well detailed COUPES. Close racing again as Mark Williams and Randy Haydt tied for the win with Mark getting credit for the win as he had 5 segment wins, Randy had 4. A strong run for Tom Wenner as he scored 3 segment wins, running his Jim Shampine #8 to finish 3rd. Just 9 pieces of track behind Tim”LittleT” Bowers ran the Norcia#81 to 4 segment wins for a good 4th place finish. Trailing Tim by just 14 pieces of track Scott Bender ran his Bob Malzahn#99 to a 5th place finish.

6th Brian S(1win), 7^th Mike M, 8^th Toby R(1win), 9^th Billy D, 10^th Hiriam D, 11^th Jim L, 12th Cory R(2wins), 13^th Sam H, 14th Brian V, 15^th  Tony Z, 16th Savvy, 17th James H, 18^th Larry S, 19^th Joel L, 20^th Austin Y.

COUPE CAKES: Third field of over 20 racers and good job to everyone getting the race over by 8:30, no curfew fines this week! Good night for Little T as he scored 4 segment wins to finish 4th. For the 1st time it seemed the Coupes provided even closer racing, hope we see them on next year’s schedule. Next Week Cup racing closes out it’s season on the 8 lane.

Randy Haydt continued his strong Sprint car season as he scored 6 segment wins on way to his 2nd straight Winged win. Randy’s win was less than 1 lap. He held off a strong run from Tom Wenner who scored 4 segment wins for a good Runner Up finish. Trailing Tom by just 17 sections, Mark Williams scored 1 segment win on lane 1 than had a steady run of 19’s on way to a 3rd place finish. Strong run for Hiram Durant as he collected 4 segment wins on lanes 1-4 for a career best 4th place finish. Jim LeVan scored his 3rd Top 5 finish of the season to wind up 5^th.

6th Scott B (1win), 7^th Billy D, 8^th Toby R, 9^th Mike F, 10^th Cory R, 11^th Tony Z, 12^th Brian V, 13^th Jason B, 14^th Savvy, 15^th Austin Y, 16^th Larry S.

HOT WINGS: Good to see Hiram Durant with a good run finishing 4th. Also good to see youngster Austin Yerk back making his 2nd Sprint car start, doing a good job with no come off”s. No security issues or Pit row problems as Jim L had everything under control! Next Week Modifieds on the Tri-Oval for the last time with Coupe Bodies.

It was a “FEROCIOUS” finish Tuesday night on the Tri-Oval as Mark Williams scored his 8th win of the year by 1 piece of track over Randy Haydt. Each scored 5 segment wins as lane 1 was the difference as Mark scored 18.16 and Randy 18.15. Good Tri-Oval run by ‘Rookie” Mike Mackaravitz as he scored 1 segment win on way to a solid 3rd place finish. Scott Bender scored 1 segment win to finish 4th. Billy Decker scored his 3rd straight Top 5 winning 2 segments to round out the Top 5.

6^th Jim L., 7^th Brian S,  8^th Cory R(2wins),  9^th Tom W, 10^th Sam H(1win), 11^th Mike F, 12^th Toby R, 13^th Tony Z, 14^th James H, 15^th Gene K, 16th Larry S, 17^th Joel L.

TRI-OVAL TALK: Another close finish among the Top 5 as they were separated by a lap and a half. Good having Gene Koose back with us. After his IROC win last week Sam Heller was back in the field getting a 10th place finish and a segment win. Next Week Sprint cars are back on the 8 lane, the following week Modifieds back on the Tri-Oval for the final time will be running Coupe bodies.

By Brian Sponagle

Seventeen racers checked into the pits for the IROC series double header at Randy’s Raceway Tuesday night January 28th. This would be the second double header of the six race series. The racing was highly competitive on Randy’s Raceway Tri-Oval. The action began with Dash IROC Indy T-Jets provided by Tom Wenner and expertly tuned by Hiram Durant. Sam Heller (2Wins) edged out Jim Levan (3 Wins) by two sections of track for the win. The top 4 racers were separated by only 5 sections of track. Finishing third was track owner Randy Haydt (2Wins), fourth was rookie Mike Mackaravitz who was edged out in a tie for third based on segment wins and finishing fifth was Hiram Durant (2 Wins). Rounding out the top ten, 6. Scott Bender, 7. Chris Brubaker (1 Win), 8. Brian Sponagle (1 Win), 9. Mark Williams and 10. Brian VanBuskirk (2 Wins). [Read more…]

Modified racing was back on the Tri-Oval and Mark Williams turned in a “Sweep” on way to his 4th straight Modified win. Having a solid run on the Tri-Oval, Tom Wenner scored 4 segment wins on the middle lanes to finish 2nd. Trailing Tom by just 10 pieces of track was Jim LeVan scoring his 6th Top 5 of year with a steady 3rd place finish. Just 7 pieces of track behind, Billy Decker scored 1 segment win on way to a season best 4th place finish. After a bad start on lane 1 Randy Haydt came back to score 2 segment wins to close out the Top5.

6th Toby R.(2wins) 7^th Mike F. (1win) 8^th Brian S (3wins) 9^th Scott B. 10th Tony Z,

11th-Cory R. 12^th Hiriam D, 13^th Brian V. 14^th Savvy 15^th Jason B. 16^th Larry S. 17^th Keith Sr. 18^th Joey S. 19^th Keith Jr.

TAKE OUTS: A good field of 19 racers entered. Good having Keith Stanley Jr making his 1st laps on the Tri-Oval, did well having no crash out’s. Close racing from 2nd to 5th separated by 1 lap. And 6th to 8th also separated by 1 lap. Good night for Spanky as he survived the night not getting run over! Next Week IROC doubleheader on the Tri-Oval.

Randy Haydt ended his string of Runner Up finishes with his 1st winged win of the season. Haydt drew the lucky #7 pill then collected 4 segment wins to score the victory. Randy held off Mark Williams by 29 pieces of track, a strong run for Mark who scored 3 segment wins on his way to a 2nd place finish. Turning in his best Sprint car run, Toby Reinhard ran his #24 car to 5 segment wins to finish 3rd. Just 20 pieces of track behind Scott Bender scored 3 segment wins to finish 4th. [Read more…]