Forrest Rogers Wago Crown Jewel Fantasy League Picks

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There they are, scroll down to the bottom to see everyone's picks for Saturday's Forrest Rogers Memorial $10,000 to win small block race at Grandview Speedway. My apologies for missing the Friends of Mike race at New Egypt, I didn't realize they were paying $10,000 to win when I made up the league, sorry everyone.

Sorry for not updating it in a while, I'll have results from this weekend posted on Monday, then I'll get back into the swing of things!

Varin Wins RoC Dirt Tour at Utica Rome

Bobby Varin continued his amazing 2009 season, adding a RoC Dirt Tour win to his list of accomplishments this season Wednesday night at Utica Rome. Varin, a former RoC Dirt Tour Champion, held off a charging Pat Ward to pick up the $5,000 win. Ward held on for second, rounding out the top five were Stewart Friesen, Brett Hearn, and Willy Decker.

Wago Fantasy League Updated after Race #2

Standings after Race #2 of 15 of the 2009 Club Wago Crown Jewel Fantasy League presented by Area Auto Racing News and Zach Aubertine Motorsports are available here, http://jw4.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=262

Race #2 was held at Cayuga County Fair Speedway, the All-Star 100 which paid $20,000 to win. Interesting note, the previous 2 seasons saw the winner of each race picked at least by someone in the fantasy league, this season, after 2 races, the winner of a race has yet to be picked, nobody picked Gary Tomkins for the Victoria 200 at Utica Rome Speedway, and nobody picked Ryan Phelps for the All-Star 100 at Cayuga County Fair Speedway. Thanks again to everyone who signed up for 2009!

Plenty of Tuesday Tidbits

First things first, the Fantasy League standings will be updated tonight. Now, onto the tidbits.

The Eastern Rigging Racing Team has announced the Steve Weikel is out of the #11 small block modified, and Mike Gular will take over the helm for weekly action at Big Diamond Raceway. South Jersey Dirt Racing was the first to break the news. This will be the team's 3rd driver of the season, Sean Merkel started off the year in the car. Gular will continue to enter select big block races in his own #53, and run Grandview Speedway weekly aboard the Terry Fastnacht Racing #53.

According to a very good source, the Super Dirt Series big block modifieds will make their return to Lowe's Motor Speedway in November of 2010, as part of the World Finals, joining the World of Outlaw Late Models and World of Outlaw Sprint Series. It's not official yet, so stay tuned.

Kenny Brightbill will be running a handful of shows New Egypt driving as a teammate to Mike McAleer, starting this weekend.

Look for Jake Spraker to possibly make a return to fielding a big block modified for Super Dirt Week this year.

Also, Fonda Speedway's Thunder Series race scheduled for tonight has been cancelled, tomorrow night the RoC Dirt Tour invades Utica Rome Speedway for a $5,000 to win feature event.

Ryan Phelps has HUGE Weekend; Weekend Round-up

Well, it was a huge weekend of racing, that saw Friday night as a complete wash, but a beautiful Saturday and Sunday made up for it.

Saturday night saw a slew of special shows on the east coast. The Canadian Dirt Series was in action at Autodrome Drummond for a 100 lap feature for the small block modifieds, David Hebert went on to pick up the popular win. In other small block action from Saturday, Kevin Hirthler and Craig Von Dohren split features at Grandview Speedway, Jerry Higbie won at Orange County Fair Speedway, and Larry Lampman used lap traffic to pick up the win at Merrittville Speedway. In big block action from Saturday night, the Thunder Series was at Fonda Speedway for a 50 lap, $5,000 to win feature, and Tony Pepicelli shocked the field to pick up his first win in close to 5 years. The Super Dirt Series was in action for preliminary night at Cayuga County Fair Speedway, and Ryan Phelps pulled off the upset win, which was the first series win of his career. In other action from Saturday for big blocks, Kenny Tremont notched off another win at Lebanon Valley Speedway, Joe Morel picked up career big block modified win at Orange County Fair Speedway, Chad Jones picked up his second win of the season at Mahoning Valley Speedway, Rob Kristyak picked up the popular win at Sharon Speedway, Martin Roy added another win to his total at Airborne Speedway, Bobby Puckett and Brian Weaver split features at Five Mile Point Speedway, Billy Pauch continued his dominance at New Egypt Speedway with another win, Jimmy Horton continued to build momentum with another win at Bridgeport Speedway, and Jamie Mills won topless night at Delaware International Speedway.

On Sunday, it was time for the All-Star 100 which paid $1,000 just to take the green for the Super Dirt Series big block modifieds, and $20,000 to win. When it was all said and done, it was Ryan Phelps who shocked the modified world to complete the sweep of All-Star Weekend. In other big block action from Sunday night, Pat Ward picked up his second win in a row at Utica Rome Speedway, and Kenny Tremont picked up his second win of the weekend with another win at Devils Bowl Speedway.

Congratulations to all this past weekends winners, especially the only Wago driver to win this past weekend, Ryan Phelps, who won 2 races this past weekend, which netted him $23,000 for the weekend!

Redline Raceway Closes, Brian Malcolm '09 Track Champ; Wago Fantay League Picks

Here are the picks for Sunday's race at Cayuga County Fair Speedway, it's race #2 of 15 in the 2009 Wago Crown Jewel Fantasy League. Click the link to see who everyone picked, http://jw4.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=256&page=1

Here are the current standings
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Also, Redline Raceway has announced they will be closing down. No word on what will become of the track. Here are the 2009 Final Point Standings from the speedway (top 10)
1st #119 Brian Malcolm
2nd #8jr J.R. Crouse
3rd #55 Kevin Hartnett
4th #19 Brent Boyer
5th #3x Chris Schupp
6th #71 Russ Zimmerman
7th #24x Jason Andrews
8th #13z Dave Calamna
9th #169 Josh Purcell
10th #37 Serenity Sutherland

Congrats to Brian Malcolm, the 2009 Redline Raceway track champion. We hope Redline Raceway can return to racing in 2010 and the future!

Huge Weekend of Racing; Gular Wins at Grandview on Wednesday night

Mike Gular came away with a big win in the Thunder on the Hill Series race for the small block modifieds on Wednesday night, July 15th. Gular held off Jimmy Horton for the win, rounding out the top 5 were all former Grandview Speedway modified track champions with Jeff Strunk, Terry Meitzler, and Duane Howard taking positions 3 through 5.

We've got a huge weekend or racing coming up this weekend. It all starts on Friday night, as Accord Speedway has their annual Joe Winne Memorial which pays $3,000 to win the 55 lap feature event, on top of that, the final 16 laps from last week's feature will be run as well. On Saturday night, the Thunder on the Thruway Series continues for the big block modifieds, this time at Fonda Speedway, as the drivers will run a 50 lap feature paying $5,000 to win. The All-Star 100 preliminary is also scheduled for Saturday at Cayuga County Fair Speedway, with $3,000 going to the winner of the 50 lap feature. Grandview Speedway and Five Mile Point Speedway also have double features for their premier divisions. Then, on Sunday, it's the innagural All-Star 100 for the Super Dirt Series, as the drivers get set to battle for $20,000 to win the 100 lap main event, which also pays $1,000 just to qualify.

Happy Birthday to Me! Weekend Roundup!

Well, I'm now officially 20 years old, one more year until the exciting one, haha. Thanks to everyone that wished me a happy birthday so far today! Now, let's jump into the results.

I was at the shore over the weekend so I missed posting Thursday's results from Brockville-Ontario Speedway. It was Brett Hearn who went on to stretch his points lead on the Super Dirt Series with the $6,000 triumph.

On Friday, the Super Dirt Series was again in action, this time it was Billy Decker holding off Hearn to pick up the win at Autodrome Granby. In other big block action from Friday, Kenny Tremont picked up the feature win at Albany-Saratoga Speedway, brothers Jeff and Al Rudalavage split twin features at Penn Can Speedway, Kevin Bolland notched off yet another win at Lernerville Speedway, Kevin Hartnett won his first race of the year at Redine Raceway, Bobby Varin continued his amazing season with another win at Glen Ridge Motorsports Park, Pat Ward invaded CanAm Motorsports Park and took home the win. In small block action from Friday night, the American Revolution Series had their second race at Mohawk International Raceway, and it was Brian McDonald picking up the feature win, Big Diamond Raceway saw Jeff Strunk continue to build momentum with another feature win, Eric Gauvereu notched off another win at Autodrome Edelweiss, and Rich Vinson led flag to flag at Ransomville Speedway.

On Saturday night, the Tri-Track Series invaded Bridgeport, and Rick Laubach went on to dominated the feature event and pick up the $3,000 feature event. In other big block action from Saturday, H.J. Bunting picked up his third win in a row at Delaware International Speedway, rain dominated the rest of the night.

On Sunday night, Utica Rome Speedwaysaw Pat Ward pick up his second big block race of the weekend. Andy Priest picked up career win #100 with the win at Tri-City Speedway. In small block racing action, Tommy Flannigan picked up his first win of the season by picking up the win at Humberstone Speedway.

Congratulations to all this weeks winners, especially Wago drivers Brett Hearn, Al Rudalavage, and Jeff Strunk.

Danny Johnson RoCs at Five Mile Point

The RoC Dirt Tour invaded Five Mile Point Speedway on Wednesday night, July 8th, for a $4,000 to win 75 lap feature. Danny Johnson started on the outside pole for the feature event, and passed pole-sitter Jim Gabriel early, and never looked back as he went on to collect his second RoC Tour win of the season. Brett Hearn finished second, rounding out the top 5 was Brian Weaver, Kevin Bates, and Matt Sheppard.

Bunting and Jumpin' Jack Pick Up Tuesday Night Wins

On Tuesday night, July 7th, Delaware International Speedway and Sharon Speedway both had special races for the big block modifieds. Delaware had a 25 lap feature (Camp Barnes Benefit Race) and Sharon had a 30 lap feature (Lou Blaney Memorial), and both paid $3,000 to win their respective features.

At Delaware it was H.J. Bunting, who won this same race in 2008, who used his big motor to pick up the big win. While Bunting dominated and led every lap, the rest of the top 5 battled hard, in the end Stewart Friesen finished second, with Chad James, Rick Laubach and Richie Pratt rounding out the top 5.

At Sharon Speedway, Jack Johnson, like Bunting at Delaware, started deep in his heat, went on to win the heat in dominating fashion, started on the pole, and dominated the feature to collect the $3,000 top prize, leading every lap of the 30 lap main event. It was the legends 3rd win of the season, all of them coming at 3 different tracks. Rounding out the top 5 in the innagural Lou Blaney Memorial was Rob Curtis, Dean Pearson, Jeremiah Shingledecker, and Jim Weller.

Also, I missed two special shows coming up this weekend. First up, for the small block modifieds, the Mohawk International American Revolution Series has their second race of the season at Mohawk International Raceway on Friday night, this race was scheduled to run last week but got rained out and rescheduled for Friday. Then, on Saturday, the Tri-Track Series has their next race of the season as they return to Bridgeport Speedway for a $3,000 to win top prize.

Plenty of Monday Tidbits

Buzzie Reutimann will be running a big block modified this coming Saturday, July 11th, at Orange County Fair Speedway, Reutimann will make his return to big block racing in a back-up Mike Kolka car.

It looked as if Richie Tobias would be back in a Gagliardo Motorsports car for Super Dirt Week this year, however, it now appears that won't be the case. Instead, it looks like Bob Lineman Racing will return to big block racing for this first time since Lineman and Tobias almost won the race in 2007. Lineman Racing has been focusing on the sportsman and small block modified efforts of Lineman's son Bob Lineman Jr.

JB Motorsports, who already fields cars for Jeff Brownell and Matt Sheppard on the Super Dirt Series Tour, has added 2 more drivers to their stable for the $20,000 to win, $1,000 to start All-Star 100 coming up on July 19th at Cayuga County Fair Speedway. Pete Bicknell and Tim McCreadie will also be in JB Motorsports big blocks for that race.

Ryan Susice, current sportsman star on the Super Dirt Series, will be moving up to big block action in 2010, expect him to make his big block debut at Volusia Speedway in February.

Also, Dan Johnson Jr., son of Danny Johnson, made his big block debut at Ransomville Speedway, according to a Super Dirt Series press release, the younger Johnson will enter 6 races this year, next up being the All-Star 100, so he can keep his rookie status for 2010, when he apparently plans on running the entire tour.

Weekend Re-cap from Huge Fourth of July Weekend

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July weekend and saw some great racing action. Mother Nature once again cancelled some big races, but thankfully most racing got in from this weekend. Let's see who won and where they won at.

On Friday, July 3rd, the big block Super Dirt Series invaded Ransomville Speedway where current points leader Brett Hearn picked up the $6,000 feature win. In other big block action from Friday, Accord Speedway finally got another race in, and David Bush went on to pick up the win, Kenny Tremont took advantage of Hearn being at Ransomville with another win at Albany-Saratoga Speedway, Brian Swartzlander picked up the win at Lernerville Speedway, Craig Terrell picked up his second win of the year at Penn Can Speedway, and J.R. Crouse won his third in a row at Redline Raceway. The only small block race to be run on Friday night was the Georgie Stevenson Memorial at Big Diamond Raceway which paid $4,000 to win the 40 lap feature, Keith Hoffman finally ended his tough season with a huge win in that race.

On Saturday, July 4th, the Super Dirt Series had their second race of the weekend as they headed to Fulton Speedway, this time it was Alan Johnson who went on to claim the top prize. The Tri-Track Series was also in action on Saturday night as the big blocks battled for $3,000 to win the 40 lap feature at New Egypt Speedway, this time it was Jimmy Horton picking up his second win of the tour. In other big block action from Saturday night, Mitch Gibbs and Rick Mill split feature as racing finally returned to Orange County Fair Speedway. Matt DeLorenzo stopped, at least for now, the dominance by Bobby Varin, by picking up the win at Fonda Speedway. Lebanon Valley Speedway saw their feature go non-stop and Steve Hough went on to capture the win. Airborne Speedway saw defending track champion Patrick Dupree go on and collect the big win, and at Mahoning Valley Speedway it was Randy Thomas picked up the dirt modified win. In small block action from Saturday, Jeff Strunk continued his hot-streak by picking up his second win in a row at Grandview Speedway, Billy Van Pelt won his third race of the year at Woodhull Raceway, and Chris Steele picked up another win at Merrittville Speedway.

On Sunday, July 5th, it was the BRP Tour that took center stage as they invaded Tri-City Speedway, Dave Murdick overcame mechanical problems early in the night to collect the big win in the annual Kodiak Memorial. In other big block action from Sunday night, Kenny Tremont won yet again at Devils Bowl Speedway, Bobby Varin added again to his 2009 win total with a win at Utica Rome Speedway, and in small block action from Sunday night Tim O'Brien went on to win at Cornwall Motor Speedway.

It's another big week in modified racing, on Tuesday, July 7th, there are two big races for the big block modifieds. At Sharon Speedway, it's the Lou Blaney Memorial, and the big blocks will battle for $3,000 to win the 30 lap feature. At Delaware International Raceway, it's the annual Camp Barnes Benefit Race as the big blocks battle for $3,400 to win the 35 lap feature. Then, on Wednesday night, July 8th, the RoC Dirt Tour invades Five Mile Point Speedway for 75 laps $4,000 to win. On Thursday night, the Super Dirt Series kicks off the Canadian Tour at Brockville-Ontario Speedway, as they battle for 100 laps and $6,000 to win. On Friday, the Dirt Series invades Granby, followed up by a stop at Drummondville on Saturday night, and rounding off the tour is the Series race at Cornwall Motor Speedway.

Expo Rained Out

The BRP Modifieds were to invade Expo Motor Speedway for the only time in 2009 on Thursday night, however rain caused a cancellation in the feature event.

Big Weekend In Dirt Racing

Well, it's Fourth of July weekend coming up, and what better way to celebrate this great country then to have some huge races coming up.

On Thursday, the first of a 2-race weekend for the BRP big block modified tour takes place as the big blocks make their annual appearance at the Expo Motor Speedway.

On Friday night, the Super Dirt Series return to life with a return to Ransomville Speedway in a 100 lap, $6,000 to win show for the big blocks. Also on Friday night, the American Revolution Mohawk Mini-Series has their second race of the season at Mohawk International Raceway for the small block modifieds. Much farther south on Friday, the small block modifieds battle for 40 laps and $4,000 to win in the Georgie Stevenson Memorial at Big Diamond Raceway.

On Saturday night, the Super Dirt Series has their second stop of the weekend, as they travel to Fulton Speedway for another $6,000 to win show for 100 laps. Also on Saturday night, the Tri-Track Series returns to New Egypt Speedway for a 40 lap, $3,000 to win race for the big block modifieds.

On Sunday, the BRP Big Block Tour ends the huge weekend with the Kodiak Memorial at Tri-City Speedway, which will pay $2,000 to win the 50 lap feature.
No matter where you go, have a great Fourth of July weekend, and enjoy the racing!

Howard Wins Thunder on the Hill Race at Grandview

Duane Howard finally returned to victory lane with a strong win in the small block modified portion of the Tuesday, June 30th, Thunder on the Hill show at Grandview Speedway. Jeff Strunk ended up in second, and rounding out the top 5 was Rick Laubach, Mike Gular, and Keith Hoffman.