Car show coming back to Coventry Mall this weekend
Scott Hoffmaster with sponsor Wicked Effects Car Club will host their 13th annual car show at the Coventry Mall in Pottstown, PA on March 5th through March 7th.
The show is open to street and race cars with move-in set for March 4th after 7 p.m.
Grandview Speedway will be well represented. There will be no admission charge with the show open during mall hours (11 am to 7 pm on Friday and Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm on Sunday). For more information check in with Scott Hoffmaster at shoffy66@gmail.com.
With the recent announcement by NASCAR, weekly racers at Grandview Speedway will have something more to race for in 2021 as part of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series when the season gets started officially on Saturday, April 10th for the T.P.Trailers Modifieds and T.P.Truck Equipment Sportsman. The sanctioning body is re-introducing regional championships to its weekly racing format.
Each Division I regional champion will receive a $15,000 prize for their achievement, with a total of $35,000 being paid out to the top-10 drivers in each region. Drivers racing in Divisions II-V will compete for regional championship recognition.
A driver’s 14 best finishes within their respective regions will count towards regional championships.
Tracks that are part of the
NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series include North Carolina’s historic Hickory Motor Speedway, California’s Irwindale Speedway and Pennsylvania’s Grandview Speedway, among many others.
NASCAR will also continue to crown track champions, U.S. state and Canadian province champions, in addition to the overall NASCAR Weekly Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion. The national champion will earn a $25,000.
A free-to-the-public practice session is set for Saturday, March 27th at noon. This gives fans the opportunity to see many of their favorites testing their new equipment. Also fans will be able to purchase their season tickets, which include all Saturday night events, for just $350. The full schedule can be found at www.grandviewspeedway.com.
The prestigious 4th Annual Bruce Rogers Memorial will take place on Saturday, April 3rd with the winner of the 50-lapper, pitting big blocks against small blocks, earning $7,500. Sportsman stock cars will also be part of the night of racing starting at 7 p.m. For the fourth year in a row the Rogers Memorial will be sponsored by VP Racing Fuels.
Reigning Williams Grove Speedway track champion Freddie Rahmer may only be 25 years old as he embarks on the 2021 racing season, but he has the perspective of a driver twenty years his elder as he eyes the oval’s season opener coming up in just two weeks. His father was one of the best when he raced Modifieds and certainly one of the best in Sprints.
The Cumberland County track will open the new season with a 410 sprint car only racing program coming up on on Sunday afternoon, March 14 at 2 pm.
The Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprints will race in a $5,500 to win, 25-lap main event to cap off the afternoon, presented by Hoosier Tire.
Rahmer and his RBR Racing No. 51 sprint car team are ready to defend his 2020 track title when they hit the clay at Williams Grove in two weeks.
“I think we are in good shape. We might be a little more prepared than we’ve been the last couple years,” Rahmer says of his team’s readiness for another assault on the prestigious track laurels.
“We work as hard as you can all winter. We don’t take too much time off at all. If we don’t start off good, we’ll work at it and make it good.”
“We are gonna’ shoot for that,” Rahmer says of his intentions to put up back to back track crowns during the new season ahead.
“We’re gonna’ try to win races first but that’s a goal. We’re gonna’ try again for sure.”
Rahmer also took a track crown in 2017, his first in the sport.
“I don’t think I’ve shown what we’re capable of yet and hopefully this year me and my dad and everyone else can just break through and show what we’re capable of really,” he said of his past performances and how they might stack up against the races to come.
“I think we’ve been close in the last couple years, I know we’re capable of going to the next step up.”
Rahmer says mostly he thinks it all will come down to him, personally, as he sits in the race car, at speed.
“I don’t think we’re missing anything equipment-wise or anything you can purchase,” Rahmer says.
“I’m always focused when we’re there but to try to get the best we can out of every lap — I think things build on each other but I think It’s mostly me, being in a good mental spot at the race track and I think we’re in a good position to do that.”
And according to Rahmer, all the extra purse money that Williams Grove announced for the 2021 season in December made it a, “no-brainer,” to decide to stay at Williams Grove on Fridays for the new season when the team was making its plans during the winter months.
“It’s a no-brainer. We’re 100 miles from the track. The Rahmers call Salfordville home. They didn’t have to do it and they did and it’s the best paying local track and one of the best in the whole country so we’re definitely gonna’ support them,” Rahmer noted.
“We’re lucky to race there.”
Fans will be treated to a pleasing $15 adult general admission price for what is sure to be a great field of sprinters on hand for the lidlifter.
Youths ages 13 – 20 will be admitted for $10 while kids ages 12 and under are always FREE at Williams Grove Speedway.