WOW....Questions on the Pa Mod Scene

As the holiday season is upon us, seems there are many questions surrounding on what drivers will be racing what cars, at what race tracks for 2010....It's still pretty early yet in the off season, but no doubt questions are abound as to what's going to all go down when spring time rolls around, as even some of the "top dogs" haven't offically announced plans yet....Two of the "Big 3" here in Pa, Craig Von Dohren and Jeff Strunk have yet to offcially announce plans or the race teams they will be driving for next year, but SPECULATION (that's all it is) has it both COULD return to their deals for '09, with CVD back with Mike Harvey, and Strunk back with the Gagliardo racing team for next year, but nothing has been offically announced....The other part of the "Big 3", Duane Howard, has announced plans for next season, as Howard will be back with BPG Racing, and their main focus will be winning the title at Grandview Speedway, with many big block specials planned during the season, as there has been no mention of definite Friday night plans as of now....Many qustions and rumors going around about Ryan Godown for 2010, as Ryan won some BIG races at both BDR and Gview last year while driving for JR Motorsports, but that combo has split, and Ryan is exploring all his options for 2010, maybe even leaving the Pa sbm scene and returning to NES next year, stay tuned on that one....Billy Pauch Jr is another who is out there putting together plans for next season, as PPB Racing has decided to take a year off from the sport, and word has it he's close to announcing them, at least for one of the 2 nights of weekly racing next year....With Norm Hansell wanting one driver that will run both nights next year, which can't happen with Rick Laubach as Rick runs NES on Sat, who'll be in the seat of the #357 is a "hot" topic right now....Talk has several teams are cutting back or are waiting to see what kind of sponsorship can be is found to see if they will be racing next year, as Brett Deyo reported in this weeks AARN that Shawn Reimert and Kyle Weiss are two of them....Brad Missimer's owner Don Schaeffer has announced he'll be stepping away this year, leaving Missimer looking at options for racing at Gview next season....Guys like Rick Laubach and Ryan Watt have made it known they are looking for deals for BDR next year as of now.

With the tough economy and the times being really tough right now for so many, it's going to be interesting, to say the least, as to what the local 2010 racing scene is going to look like once April comes along, and right now, just seems there are way more questions then there are answers, I guess we'll find out what some of those answers are as the winter rolls along.