High season coming fast at Grandview
Two big nights of auto racing are coming up at Grandview Speedway. This Saturday night the BRC Late Models will be featured in their big event of the season, the Firecracker 40, with the popular Late Models racing an extra distance for extra prize money.
Four feature winner Ron Kline, a veteran Late Model talent, will headline the action. Joining the Salford racer will be point leader and multi-time champion Chuck Schutz, Brian Shuey, Wayne Pfeil, and a host of others.
Included in the tripleheader holiday weekend show will be the TP Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds along with the Sportsman stock cars. As pointed out the Late Models top their part of the show with a 40lap feature while the Modifieds race in a 30 lapper and Sportsman go in 25 laps. A series of qualifying events will decide which racers get to go in the features.
Fans will want to bring the kids out for Saturday, July 8th tripleheader card of racing. There will be boys and girls bicycles giving out to some lucky kids by Kory Fleming and his Sleepy Hollow Modified team. They have been doing this for several years.
*** What do you get when you combine the fastest cars of dirt track racing, a tight 1/3-mile clay oval, and a celebration of our nation’s independence?
One of the biggest dirt track racing events of the season.
The NAPA Auto Parts Thunder on the Hill Racing Series plays host to the Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek on Tuesday, July 4 at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, PA. The Speedweek event is presented by Pioneer Pole Buildings and features the 410 Sprint Cars and the NASCAR 358 Modifieds, in an exciting double header.
The 23rd running of the Grandview Speedweek event features a 35lap Sprint Car A-Main — the fifth race of a ten-race stretch for the winged warriors. Drivers from across the region will compete for a $5,000 winner’s share. Tenth place will pay $1,000 with $400 to start the Amain.
We are told that NASCAR Cup stars Kyle Larson and Kasey Kahne will be racing. Larson has been a hot streak having recently won the Cup race at Michigan and a couple of Sprint car races with the Tony Stewart All Star Circuit of Champions.
Also on the card, Grandview’s own NASCAR 358 Modifieds battle in a 30lap event, with $3,000 up for grabs.
Time Trials for the 410 Sprint Cars will open the show on Tuesday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. The pit gates will open at 2:30 p.m. and the Grandstands will open at 5:00 PM. Fans can get up-close to the drivers and their mighty machines with the Low Down and Dirty Meet and Greet kicking off at 5:00 PM. Sign up when you arrive at the front gate to do a free pre-race pit tour.
General Admission Adult tickets are $25, Children ages 6-11 are $10, and under 6 is free of charge. Pit admission is $35, and no license is required.
With no regular Sprint Car action that evening, drivers from all of the central Pennsylvania hotbeds are anxious to get on the neutral ground that Grandview provides. Expected entrants include: 2015 Thunder Cup Champion, Danny Dietrich; Greg Hodnett, an 8-time winner at Grandview Speedway; Lucas Wolfe, Ryan Smith, Freddie Rahmer, Brandon Rahmer, Alan Krimes and Aaron Ott.
The Grandview smallblock Modified stars will be out in full force defending their home turf including ten time track champion Jeff Strunk and defending champion Craig VonDohren locked in a close point battle, 2017 Thunder Modified winner, Duane Howard; and 4-time Thunder on the Hill winner, Doug Manmiller.
The area’s top modified competitors are marking their calendars. Rick Laubach, Ryan Watt, Billy Pauch Jr., Mike Gular, Ryan Godown, and Kevin Hirthler are all expected to be in attendance.
Advance tickets are on sale now and may be ordered by calling 443-5134456. Please provide your name and the number of tickets requested. Tickets may be picked up and paid for on race night after 4 p.m. Advance ticket holders may enter the grandstands at 4:30 PM, one half hour prior to the sale of General Admission tickets.
Fans may camp out at the Speedway for the ultimate Speedweek experience. Campers are asked to park in the turn 4 parking area, there are no hook-ups available, and no box camping allowed. Track officials ask that all fires be contained. There is no fee for camping.
NAPA Auto Parts continues their long run with the Thunder on the Hill Racing Series as the title sponsor joined by Pioneer Pole Buildings, Levan Machine and Truck Equipment and GALCO Business Communications.
*** Star Spangled Havoc returns to Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway on Saturday, July 1, as the USAC Eastern Regional Midgets presented by ARDC make their second appearance of the season at the progressively banked oval in Newmanstown, Pa. The mighty Midgets will be accompanied by wingless 600cc Micro-Sprints in Firecracker Frenzy and by the wingless 270cc Micros in the Clash at the Clyde.
Alex Bright, the Phenom from Collegeville, who cut his racing teeth in 600’s at the Clyde, will try to back up his April 1st victory. Bright also captured both stand-alone ARDC races at Clyde Martin in 2016 on his way to the ARDC point championship — his first with the proud 78-year old Midget racing club.
Along with A. Bright, this year’s ARDC winners include Trevor Kobylarz, Brendan Bright, Ryan Greth, Spencer Bayston, and Brady Bacon.
At Lanco’s No Wing Spring Fling on April 1st, Tim Buckwalter was victorious in the wingless 600 main while Mike Rutherford notched the triumph in the wingless 270 portion of the program.
The July 1st Star Spangled Havoc will see wingless 600 and 270 heat races begin at 6:00 p.m. The ARDC Midgets will hit the track for warm-ups at 8:00. Their heat races will follow, along with B-Mains and AMains for all three divisions.