States Article, Winners and Mall Pictures

THE STATES RUNDOWN

by Mark Williams and Scott Bender

 


BRETT GILMORE WINS STATES CHAMPIONSHIP RACE IN THE PRO DIVISION

Brett Gilmore scored a perfect 6 win day with only one falloff on his
way to victory in the first States championship at the Reading
Fairgrounds Mall show.  Gilmore drove his modified prepared by his
father to the win.  Second place went to Mark Williams also driving a
Gilmore modified.  Williams had 5 segment wins.  Third spot went to Sam
Heller followed by Bill Brenner and Shane Hiester.  A plaque was
presented to the winner of the Pro Division by  Tom Hiester and all the
Division Champions received a trophy sponsored by Ted and Lincoln
VanPelt. Participants also received awards from Randy’s Raceway and
parts donated by Wizzard Racing.

POWDER PUFF DIVISION

CINDY COOPER WINNER
Cindy Cooper won her very first feature in the first annual States race at the Reading Fairgrounds Mall Show on Saturday February 28th.  Cindy won 5 out of her 6 segments to score the win.  Second spot went to Helen Levan who won 1 segment.  Finishing third was Kym Koch followed by Susan Fry.
 
AMATEUR DIVISION

RODNEY KOCH  WINNER
A good field of 10 racers were on hand for the Amateur Division race and Rodney Koch won 3 segments on his way to the win. Matthew Keller scored 2 segment on lanes 5 & 6 to finish second. Mark Stufflet won 1 segment on lane 6 to finish third. Only 6 sections of track behind was Chad Favinger winning 1 segment to finish fourth. John Angstadt Jr. turned in a good effort to finish fifth. 6th Logan Schellenberger – 7th Bruce Heller (2wins) – 8th Payton Kochel – 9th Nick Wummer – 10th John Angstadt Sr.

SEMI-PRO DIVISION

TROY BOWERS WINNER:
In a field of 8 racers Troy Bowers turned in a perfect run on way to the victory. Jim Levan won 1 segment on way to a second place finish. Alex Amore won 1 segment finishing third. Eric Beard ran steady all day collecting a fourth place finish. Tom Herbert came close to winning on lane 2, but still turned in a fifth place run. 6th Steve Kersher – 7th Dennis Kersher – 8th Tony Zappacosta

A big thank you goes to Bob Miller (Speedway Promotions LLC) who was the mall show promoter that provided Randy’s Raceway Racers a great store to show off our hobby.

Also a thank you goes to all the racers and non racers who came out to help during the mall show week  (we all know how to put cars on the track after this week). It was a good thing to see the help and cooperation that came from other area race tracks. I hope everyone had fun and enjoyed showing everyone that this is a great hobby to get involved with. 

photos by Scott Bender

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