MARCH 31 MECHANICSBURG, PA -- Williams Grove Speedway will switch to its Friday night schedule on March 31 when the Outlaw-type late model stock cars will make their first appearance of the season along with the sprint cars. In the past Williams Grove has always attracted some of the top late model drivers in the East and this year should be no exception. Rain postponed the only scheduled appearance of the late models in 2005 on April 1, but the teams were invited back to run their rained-out feature and another complete program in August. Gary Stuhler won the rained-out feature and Dan Stone won the second event of the night. It was the second career victory for Stone at Williams Grove. Stuhler is the leading active late model winner at this historic speedway. His total of 17 victories places him behind only Bobby Goodling (31), Ronnie McBee (26) and Gary Snellbaker (20) on the track's career win list for late model drivers. The late models were once a regular weekly attraction at Williams Grove along with the sprint cars, but in recent years have made only one or two appearances per season. The powerful stock car division has been plagued with weather problems at Williams Grove in the past. This year a second sprint/late model double header has been set for April 21. "We have had tremendous support from the late model teams and their fans in the past despite our problems with the weather," said Justin Loh, co-manager of Williams Grove Speedway. "This year we've given ourselves a second opportunity to beat the weather and present some exciting late model racing at Williams Grove." The super sportsman cars will return to the Grove along with the sprint cars on April 7.

SPEED DAWG CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SPRINT CAR POINT SERIES

standings after 3/26/06 listing position, car number, driver, points, series wins

1. 25 Lance Dewease 252 2
2. 77 Greg Hodnett 231 1
3. 22 Fred Rahmer 187
4. 30 Doug Esh 184 2
5. 88 T J Stutts 173 2
6. 12 Chad Layton 150
7. 10N Niki Young 124 1
8. 7 Keith Kauffman 105 1
9. 93 Chris Knopp 86
9. 5W Todd Shaffer 86

ESH FIRST TO REPEAT IN 410 SPRINTS AT LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
"The Hammer" wins 2nd of 2005
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 3/25/06 - The famous “wing dance” told the tale after a wild 25-lap 410 sprint feature in the first night race of the year at Lincoln Speedway Saturday.

Doug “the Hammer” Esh took advantage of a 17th-lap tangle involving Chad Layton and Fred Rahmer to advance from fourth to second and then a 21st-lap spin by World of Outlaw star Daryn Pittman to drive around leader Eric Stambaugh on the restart and storm to his second win of the year in the Pigeon Hills.

Points handicapping placed Esh seventh for the start. He drove by Cory Haas to enter the top five on lap two, then got by Danny Dietrich and Brian Montieth to advance to third on lap five.

One lap earlier, fourth-starting Sam Schlosberg got by Stambaugh for the lead on a restart following a caution for Pat Cooper, who came to a stop on the front stretch. Schlosberg led the next five laps before Stambaugh reclaimed the lead, a position he maintained until yielding the Esh on lap 21.

Esh followed Stambaugh and Schlosberg as they raced for the lead, but gave up third to a charging Chad Layton on lap 11. Layton and Esh both got by Schlosberg for second and third on lap 13, but then 11th-starting Fred Rahmer got by Esh for third two laps later. Just when it looked like the eventual winner would have to settle for a solid top five run, disaster struck for two of the most famous cars in sprint car racing.

Stambaugh’s lead was 2.61 seconds when Rahmer and Layton got together in turn four of lap 17. The contact flattened the right rear of Rahmer’s J&S Fabrication/Miller Brothers Chevrolet #22 and left rear tire of Layton’s York Excavating Company/Apple Dealerships #12. Both drivers made tire changes and joined the rear of the field, with Rahmer coming back through the field to finish sixth and Layton recovering the finish eighth.

Esh assumed second for the restart, and chased Stambaugh for the next four laps before Pittman, who had advanced from 14th starting spot, spun in turn four while running fourth.

On the restart, Esh drove to the edge of the cushion to get around the Swope’s Salvage & Recycling #4, then held off repeated challenges of Stambaugh through two more cautions over the last four laps to score the .50-second win, the 11th of his career at Lincoln.

“Eric raced me hard,” said the happy winner in victory lane, “It was good, clean racing. We used to race together in micros. He’s one of the best competitors out here...he’s just struggling a little bit.”

“We did get lucky there,” added Esh, “Layton got good around the bottom and got by me, and I should have moved down. Then Fred got by me, and I don’t know what happened down there (the Layton-Rahmer tangle). We got lucky. We weren’t the best car at that point, and there’s a lot of friends here that have been coming for a long, long time...and we couldn’t for them, but we did tonight.”

Stambaugh settled for second, with 13th-starting Lance Dewease crossing third, 12th-starting Greg Hodnett fourth, and 20th-starting Chris Knopp fifth. Completing the top ten were Rahmer, Alan Krimes, Layton, Scott Geesey, and Pittman.

Heats for the 27 “410" sprinters were won by Stambaugh, Esh and Steve Clabaugh, with Brian Leppo winning the consolation event.

Rochelle set 15-lap record en route to win
Jason Rochelle drove to his second win in as many nights (Path Valley on Friday) to remain undefeated in the 2006 Glick Fire Equipment Company campaign with his record-breaking performance in the non-stop 15-lap INEX Legends feature. Rochelle bested teammate Ronnie Dunstan in an event which completed a caution-free night for the Legends, with former record-holder Tim Tomson finishing third, Steve Nederostek fourth, and 15th-starting Rod Kistler fifth.

The non-stop feature saw 28 of 29 starters finish the race. Rochelle’s 15-lap time of 5 minutes, 16.67 seconds shattered the old record of 5:30.39 set by Tomson on September 1, 2001.

Heats for the 27 INEX Legends were won by Rochelle, Josh Morrow and Dunstan.

Wagaman becomes 5th different thundercar winner
Gettysburg’s Craig Wagaman out-dueled Mike Walls for 14 straight laps en route to his 22nd career win in the 20-lap thundercar feature. Wagaman was the fifth different driver to arrive in victory lane in as many races.

Wagaman, who started third, trailed polesitter Danny Beard and sixth-starting Mike Walls after the first lap, and watched as Walls took over on the second lap. Beard regained the lead on the third lap as Wagaman then got around Walls for second on the fifth lap. Wagaman then slipped by Beard for the top spot on the sixth lap with 18-time career winner Walls falling in behind on the seventh lap.

From there the top-pair dueled high and low at both ends of the speedway over the remainder of the race with Wagaman holding on for a .67-second win, his first of 2006.

10th-starting Neil Smith finished third, 16th-starting Jim Martz Jr. fourth and opening day winner Duane Watson fifth. Completing the top-10 were Rick Weaver, Dan Zechman, Smoke Christine, Mike Gladfelter and Mike Slaybaugh.

Heats for the 26 thundercars were won by Wagaman, Walls, and Christine, with Bob Stough winning the consolation event.

Next Saturday night, April 1st, Lincoln will run-off it’s second evening show of 2006 featuring the 410 Sprint and Thundercar regulars, along with the former Silver Spring Limited Late Model division cars at 6 PM.. Gates will open at 4 PM.

To get all the latest news, results, schedule changes and rule changes, visit Lincoln Speedway’s website at http://www.lincolnspeedway.com to stay up-to-date on all the action or pending weather conditions at Central Pennsylvania’s “Premier” Saturday night race track - The Fabulous Lincoln Speedway.

RACE RESULTS
Saturday - March 25, 2006
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
410 SPRINTS:
Feature (25-Laps) - 1. 30-Doug Esh ($3,000); 2. 4-Eric Stambaugh; 3. 25-Lance Dewease; 4. 77-Greg Hodnett; 5. 93-Chris Knopp; 6. 22-Fred Rahmer; 7. 87-Alan Krimes; 8. 12-Chad Layton; 9. 41-Scott Geesey; 10. 21T-Daryn Pittman; 11. 47J-Jeff Busby; 12. 69-Michael Carber; 13. 92-Chris Coyle; 14. 88-Danny Dietrich; 15. 11C-Cory Haas; 16. 71-Brian Leppo; 17. 10N-Niki Young; 18. 03-Clark Simonton; 19. 70-Sam Schlosberg (DNF); 20. 14-Glenndon Forsythe (DNF); 21. 30C-Steve Clabaugh (DNF); 22. 21-Brian Montieth (DNF); 23. 0-Rick Lafferty (DNF); 24. 26-Pat Cooper (DNF). No Time

Lap Leaders - Eric Stambaugh (1-3), Sam Schlosberg (4-8), Eric Stambaugh (9-20), Doug Esh (21-25)

1st Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 4-Eric Stambaugh; 2. 21-Brian Montieth; 3. 70-Sam Schlosberg; 4. 87-Alan Krimes; 5. 25-Lance Dewease; 6. 11C-Cory Haas; 7. 71-Brian Leppo; 8. 03-Clark Simonton Jr.; 9. 28-Chad Jumper; 10. 85-Nathan Berwager. Time - 2:18.84

2nd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30-Doug Esh; 2. 12-Chad Layton; 3. 22-Fred Rahmer; 4. 41-Scott Geesey; 5. 21-Daryn Pittman; 6. 92-Chris Coyle; 7. 0-Rick Lafferty; 8. 14-Glenndon Forsythe (DNF); DNS - 69-Michael Carber. No Time

3rd Heat (10 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30C-Steve Clabaugh; 2. 77-Greg Hodnett; 3. 88-Danny Dietrich; 4. 10N-Niki Young; 5. 26-Pat Cooper; 6. 47J-Jeff Busby; 7. 93-Chris Knopp; 8. 59-Jim Siegel; 9. 55-Phil Weinsteiger, Jr. (DNS). Time - 2:26.77

Consolation (10 Laps/6 to qualify)- 1. 71-Brian Leppo; 2. 93-Chris Knopp; 3. 0-Rick Laffery; 4. 03-Clark Simonton, Jr.; 5. 14-Glenndon Forsythe; 6. 69-Michael Carber; 7. 59-Jim Siegel; 8. 28-Chad Jumper; 9. 85-Nate Berwager. Time - 2:24.16

THUNDERCARS:
Feature (20-Laps) - 1. 30-Craig Wagaman; 2. 1W-Mike Walls; 3. 1-Neil Smith; 4. 34M-Jim Martz, Jr.; 5. 3W-Duane Watson; 6. 70X-Rick Weaver; 7. 2-Dan Zechman; 8. 35-Smoke Christine; 9. 3-Mike Gladfelter; 10. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 11. T44-Tom Slusser, Jr.; 12. 18-Bob Johnson (alternate); 13. 22-Nat Tuckey; 14. 8G-Mike Gladfelter II; 15. 54J-Jimmy Combs; 16. 15S-Josh Schrum; 17. 76-Bob Bare; 18. 35M-Marshall McMullen (DNF); 19. 07-Bob Stough (DNF); 20. 81S-Sam Gallagher (DNF); 21. 51-Chad Myers (DNF); 22. 60-Danny Beard (DNF); 23. 21A-Mike Zeigler Jr. (DNF); DNS - 01-Tim Fake, 37-Jim Rost. No Time

Lap Leaders - Danny Beard (1), Mike Walls (2), Danny Beard (3-5), Craig Wagaman (6-20)

1st Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 30-Craig Wagaman; 2. 60-Danny Beard; 3. 1-Neil Smith; 4. 35M-Marshall McMullen; 5. 15S-Josh Schrum; 6. 34M-Jim Martz, Jr.; 7. 07-Bob Stough; 8. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 9. 5-Gene Knaub (DNF); 10. 17-Choya Young (DNS). Time - 2:44.16

2nd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 1W-Mike Walls; 2. 21A-Mike Zeigler, Jr.; 3. 70X-Rick Weaver; 4. 2-Dan Zechman; 5. 51-Chad Myers; 6. 01-Tim Fake; 7. 37-Jim Rost; 8. 54J-Jimmy Combs; 9. T44-Tom Slusser, Jr. (DNF); 10. 8-Bob Allen (DNS). Time - 2:47.87

3rd Heat (8 Laps/6 to qualify) - 1. 35-Smoke Christine; 2. 3-Mike Gladfelter; 3. 22-Nat Tuckey; 4. 3W-Duane Watson; 5. 81S-Sam Gallagher; 6. 76-Bob Bare; 7. 8G-Mike Gladfelter II; 8. 18-Bob Johnson; 9. 1E-Greg Emlet Jr. (DNF). Time - 2:50.30

Consolation (1 Lap/6 to qualify) - 1. 07-Bob Stough; 2. 8G-Mike Gladfelter II; 3. 37-Jim Rost; 4. 61M-Mike Slaybaugh; 5. 54J-Jimmy Combs; 6. T44-Tom Slusser Jr.; 7. 18-Bob Johnson; DNS - 5-Gene Knaub, 1E-Greg Emlet Jr., 8-Bob Allen, 17-Choya Young. Time - 2:03.81

INEX LEGENDS:
Feature (15 Laps) - 1. 17R-Jason Rochelle; 2. 7R-Ronnie Dunstan; 3. 94-Tim Tomson; 4. 769-Steve Nederostek; 5. 99-Rod Kistler; 6. 29-Josh Morrow; 7. 555-Bill Harris; 8. 21-Greg Burd; 9. 7-Geremy Sheaffer; 10. 12-Denny Rothermel; 11. 37H-Jim Halbert; 12. 63-John Schirk; 13. 11-Robert Sobieski; 14. 22-Randy Fetterhoff; 15. 88-Andy Lupfer; 16. 14W-Ed Wentz; 17. 71-Bob Murray; 18. 48-Randy Kissinger; 19. 799-Rick Harring; 20. Z-Jim Black; 21. 2-Kenny Keyton; 22. 44-Daryl Bloom; 23. 12J-Clint Penkauskas; 24. 91-Lamar Shaffer; 25. 25-Tyler Bear; 26. 47-Nathan Van Zandt; 27. 95-John Shutt; 28. 20-Any Staver; 29. 90-Scott Spidle (DNF). Time - 5:16.67 (New 15-lap Track Record - old record was 5:30.39 set by Tim Tomson 9/1/01)

Lap Leaders - Jason Rochelle (1-15)

1st Heat (6 Laps) - 1. 17R-Jason Rochelle; 2. 769-Steve Nederostek; 3. 48-Randy Kissinger; 4. 12-Denny Rothermel; 5. 37H-Jim Halbert; 6. 25-Tyler Bear; 7. 2-Kenny Keyton; 8. 20-Amy Stauer; 9. 47-Nathan Van Zandt. Time - 2:06.09

2nd Heat (6 Laps) - 1. 29-Josh Morrow; 2. 63-John Schirk; 3. 555-Bill Harris; 4. 11-Robert Sobieski; 5. 88-Andy Lupfer; 6. 22-Randy Fetterhoff; 7. 14W-Ed Wentz; 8. 90-Scott Spidle; DNS - 799-Rick Harring. Time - 2:10.16

3rd Heat (6 Laps) - 1. 7R-Ronnie Dunstan; 2. 94-Tim Tomson; 3. 7-Geremy Sheaffer; 4. 21-Greg Burd; 5. 99-Rod Kistler; 6. 71-Bob Murray; 7. 12J-Clint Penkauskas; 8. 2-Jim Black; 9. 44-Daryl Bloom; 10. 91-Lamar Shaffer; 11. 95-John Shutt. Time - 2:08.81

NIKI YOUNG WINS SECOND OF HIS CAREER AT THE GROVE , DAVE CALAMAN WINS SUPER SPORTSMAN.


March 26, 2006 - Niki Young outran a strong field to win the
25-lap sprint car feature Sunday afternoon at Williams Grove Speedway
and Dave Calaman led flag to flag to win the super sportsman main event.


Young started on the pole and beat Michael Carber into the first
corner at the drop of the green.


Mike Erdley, who started fourth, drove into the runnerup spot on
the first lap and began to chase the leader.


Although Erdley was able to apply plenty of pressure, Young never
wavered and held on for his second career win at Williams Grove.
He earned $3000 for his performance.


Erdley, who has been second on several occasions, but has never won
at the Grove, was forced to settle for the runnerup spot again.
Todd Shaffer finished a strong third after starting sixth. Chad
Layton came from seventh to fourth and Fred Rahmer, who started tenth,
completed the top five.


Chris Knopp completed a strong effort to finish sixth.
Cindy Rowe Auto Glass point leader Lance Dewease turned in the best
passing performance of the afternoon as he charged from the 19th
starting position to finish seventh.


World of Outlaws invader Daryn Pittman of Owasso, Oklahoma, was
almost as impressive moving from 18th to eighth.


Heats for the 35 sprint cars were won by Young, Carber and Erdley.
The consolation race went to Dewease.


Calaman started third and took the lead on the first lap of the
20-lap sportsman feature, then cruised to his fifth career win in the
division at Williams Grove.


Danny Hager finished second, .88 off Calaman's pace. John Stehman
was third, Frankie Herr fourth and Paul Miller fifth.


Heats for the 38 sportsman cars went to Steve Wilbur, Calaman, Rich
Eichelberger and Herr. The consolation races were won by Leroy Martin
and Gregg Foster.


Williams Grove switches to Friday night racing on March 31 with
sprints and late models as the featured attractions.

SELINSGROVE, Pa. - TJ Stutts of Liverpool picked up his second win of the season at Selinsgrove Speedway. Stutts was followed by Keith Kauffman, Todd Shaffer, Lucas Wolfe, and teenager Ryan Bohlke in fifth. Sixth through tenth went to Fred Rahmer, Mark Freeland, Lance DeWease, Blane Heimbach, and Todd Hestor. National Sprint Tour Invader Darryn Pittman suffered a flat tire late in the event and wound up outside the top 10. Greg Hodnett led much of the main event, until he blew a right rear tire sending him into the turn 2 wall, ending any chance of a feature win for the Hamilton Motorsports #77. John Westbrook flipped violently out over the turn 1 guardrail, similar to last week's Mark Smith crash. John was ok. Complete story and results to follow.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (March 24, 2006) – Louisiana’s Jason Johnson provided the spice in Friday night’s O’Reilly American Sprint Cars on Tour Spring Nationals at Oklahoma City’s State Fair Speedway, besting a field of 55 entries by capturing his first series victory of the season in the 25-lap preliminary feature event.

Johnson charged past early pacesetter Zach Chappell following a lap six restart, then held off a fast-closing Danny Lasoski, who fell little more than a car length short at the checkered flag after charging from the 19th starting position.

Chappell settled for the show position, with two-time and defending series champion Gary Wright taking the fourth and final lock-in position to Saturday night’s Spring Nationals finale.

Saturday's Oklahoma City Spring Nationals finale at State Fair Speedway is slated to get under way at 7:15 p.m.

From Bill Wright: Time to start checking for pre-entries in our "Event" sections on the homepage! Michael Carber, an 18 year old youngster from Pipersville, PA is the first one entered in the 46th Annual Knoxville Nationals presented by Midwest Ford Dealers. The purse has been boosted close to $900,000 and a stellar field is expected in the unsanctioned event.

Ryan Voss of Okoboji, IA and Eric Baldaccini of Keller, TX (who also has entered the Brodix Tournament of Champions) are the first to throw their hats in the ring for the 16th Annual 360 Nationals, which will return to a three-day format August 3-5. Check out our updated 360 Nationals Statistics in our "History" folder.

Dale McCarty of Eldorado Springs, MO, AJ Weaver of Houston, TX, and Edd French of Justin, TX, plan to return for this year's Hoosier Tire Midwest Masters/Young Guns Challenge on June 2. Russ Harper of Watkins, CO and Doug DeWitt of Sunnyvale, CA are the first to enter the 5th Annual Pepsi/Mt. Dew Knoxville Midget Nationals, which will be held June 2-3.

Check back often as pre-entries will be updated on a regular basis.

Drivers can access entry forms for the Knoxville Nationals, 360 Knoxville Nationals, Lucas Oil Late Model Nationals, Pepsi/Mt. Dew Knoxville Midget Championship and the Brodix Tournament of Champions on the front page at www.knoxvilleraceway.com by clicking on the "Entry forms" link above the "Event" sections on the right-hand side of the page.

KAUFFMAN WINS 50TH CAREER AT GROVE,
HAAS WINS LIMITED SPRINT FEATURE


March 19, 2006 - Keith Kauffman, at age 55, outlasted 23 younger competitors to score a thrilling last lap victory in the sprint car feature Sunday afternoon at Williams Grove Speedway.

The victory, worth $3000, was the 50th of Kauffman's Hall of Fame career at Williams Grove.

When Opening Day winner Lance Dewease drew the pole starting position, he seemed like a good bet to lead flag-to-flag, which he nearly did.

Dewease beat T. J. Stutts into the first corner at the start of the 25-lap event and began to put some space between himself and the rest of the field.


Kauffman, who started fourth, drove into the runnerup spot on the first lap. But Stutts came back to pass Kauffman on lap ten.

Five laps later Kauffman regained the runnerup position, but Dewease still looked like the class of the field.

In the closing laps most eyes were on a tremendous battle for positions involving Stutts, Doug Esh , Fred Rahmer and Greg Hodnett. While positions were changing behind the leaders, Kauffman was beginning to close on the Dewease.

He found some rubber on the low side of the race track and drove alongside Dewease entering the third corner on the 24th lap and edged in front at the finish line. A lap later he finished with a .59 second margin over Dewease.

Esh held on for third with Stutts fourth and Rahmer fifth.

Hodnett, Chad Layton, Todd Shaffer, Alan Krimes and Rick
Lafferty finished in positions six through ten respectively.

Heats for the 33 sprint cars were won by Shaffer. Hodnett and Rahmer. Michael Carber won the consolation race.


Defending champion Cory Haas wired the field to win the 20-lap limited (358 c.i.) sprint feature ahead of Jimmy Layton, Kevin Nagy, Frankie Herr and Steve Buckwalter.

Heats for the 35 cars went to Nate Snyder, Haas, Kyle Purks and Herr. The consolation races went to Kevin Nouse and Billy Dietrich

The super sportsman cars join the sprints oon March 26 at 2:00 at Williams Grove Speedway.

Mark and team Zemco will be out of action for a few weeks. At Selinsgrove Mark took a nasty ride in turn one and two. On a restart Mark was running 4th with a lap car in between Mark and the third place car. Mark went to the outside of the lap car in turn one and two and the two made contact and sent Mark out of the track. Mark has a broken collarbone from the crash and will miss action for a while at this point. As more information is available it will be posted here on his site.

Go to www.marksmithsprint.com

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 3/18/06 - It was at Williams Grove’s season opener that Donnie Kreitz, Jr. proclaimed Lance Dewease the new “king of daytime racing.”

On Saturday he affirmed it, advancing from his ninth starting spot to become the fourth different winner in four races at Lincoln Speedway.

Dewease, who has passed more cars than anybody at both Lincoln and in Central PA this year, was sixth by the end of the first lap, passed Josh Wells for fifth on lap two, and was running third by the time the first caution flag came out for a four-car tangle involving Chad Layton, Cory Haas, Wells, and Doug Esh on lap seven.

Both Dewease and 12th-starting invader Joey Saldana got around Eric Stambaugh for second and third on the restart, and Dewease closed on last week’s winner and race-long leader Rick Lafferty over the next six laps before a caution came out for Brian Montieth, who popped a tire after hitting the turn two wall on lap 12.

It was on the restart that 14th-starting Niki Young made his presence known, driving around Saldana for third and closing in on Dewease as both cars reeled in Lafferty. Dewease slid under Lafferty for the race lead exiting turn four of lap 18, and Young made the pass on Lafferty for second two laps later. By that time, Dewease had opened a 1.45-second lead. But a 22nd-lap caution for a spinning Glenndon Forsythe in turn three slowed the pace and allowed Young to pull in behind the lapped car of Clabaugh just behind Dewease. Young made short work of Clabaugh, but showed Dewease the fast lane in trying to grab the lead.

“I was very fortunate, I’ll tell you what, Niki Young has come a long way,” exclaimed Dewease in victory lane, “He made a mistake by showing me inside line and not going by me. I shut the door on him and found the rubber. That’s what made it for us. He found the rubber before any of us, and was coming up through there, and he just didn’t make the pass on me. He’ll learn that. When you’ve got it, you need to go. He’s come a long way and he’s going to have a good year.”