Now, onto some news, Alan Johnson has parted ways with Kingsley Motorsports after just one start with the team. Johnson and Kingsley had planned to hit all the end of the season shows, including Super Dirt Week, but have parted ways for unknown reasons. Tommy Sears started off the season with the team before he was let go. No word on any replacements. Younger brother Danny Johnson, despite rumors, will finish out the season on the Super Dirt Series driving for Dave Thompson Motorsports. He will also finish the year at Accord Speedway with the Mike Trauschold owned #28 modified, with whom he's already picked up at win this season at Accord with, and will also run the RoC Dirt Tour races with that team, along with the Fulton 200, among other specials. Johnson will also drive a second Norm Hansell owned small block modified in next weekend's Freedom 76er. Special thanks to some of my friends at Dirt Track Digest for giving me the info pertaining to Johnson and the Thompson team.
Dirt Motorsports has announced there will be a major change to this year's Rite-Aid 200. There will be a mandatory pit stop before lap 100, and a mandatory pit stop after lap 100, which means all teams will be forced to make 2 pit stops during the $50,000 to win feature event. Since the late 90s, the race has come down to fuel mileage, with almost all of the field running the race on only one pit stop. This eliminates the fuel mileage game, and makes it a whole new animal.
Now, onto some points championship winners. Since I've updated last, there have been a ton of points championships decided. Last weekend, it was Jeremiah Shingledecker (big block modifieds) at Lernerville Speedway, who claimed his first career points title, and Duane Howard (small block modifieds) at Big Diamond Raceway, who now has more championships at Diamond than any other driver at the Raceway. Then, already this weekend, on Friday night the racing world saw Billy Dunn claim the Can-Am Motorsports Park big block championship, Lance Willix claim the Can-Am Motorsports Park small block championship, Roy Tarbell picked up the small block championship at Mohawk International Raceway, Todd Burley claim another Ransomville Speedway small block modified championship, and Matt Sheppard pick up the big block championship at Brewerton Speedway.
On Saturday night, at Fulton Speedway it was Billy Decker claiming the big block points title, Jeff Strunk claimed yet another Grandview Speedway small block points championship, Matt Sheppard picked up his second points title of the season with a big block title at Canandaigua Speedway, Lebanon Valley Speedway saw Andy Bachetti sweep the season and pick up both the big block and small block track championships, also at Lebanon Valley, Eddie Marshall picked up the "King of the Valley" Mini-Series points championship, Martin Roy claimed the small block modified championship at Airborne Speedway, Jeff Brownell won his second consecutive big block championship at Glen Ridge Motorsports Park, Brian Weaver claimed yet another big block modified track title at Five Mile Point Speedway, Larry Lampman won the small block modified title at Merrittville Speedway, and at Orange County Fair Speedway it was Chuck McKee who won the small block modified championship, and Jerry Higbie and Chuck McKee have (or will, McKee will win a protest that will give him one more spot due to a scoring error, which will lead to tie for the championship) been crowned big block modified track champions.
Congratulations too all this year's champions, especially Club Wago drivers Duane Howard, Andy Bachetti (2), Matt Sheppard (2), and Lance Willix.
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