Two words, VICTORY LANE....Thats where you can find CVD's #1C Teo modified parked after every race event the Oley Pa racer enters these days....Everyone knows CVD is a SUPERSTAR modified racer, his resume consists of numerous track championships, and hundreds of feature wins at tracks all over the Northeast and even Florida....He's been a mainstay on the Pa SBM scene for over 25 yrs, being a dominate racer at Big Diamond Raceway, Grandview Speedway (he's the leading all time feature winner at both) and the now closed Penn National Speedway....He's done his share of winning at all of them.
But right now CVD is on a roll that really hasn't been seen around these parts in many MANY YEARS....The veteran racer just picked up his 12th win of the season last Friday night at BDR(4th overall there), the "BAKERS DOZEN" if you will, lol....The most impressive part of that total is, it's only the beginning of July, there is a ton of racing left to do this racing season....He's racked up 8 wins at his Saturday night home on the hill at Grandview Speedway....And NONE of them were more impressive than the one he won the night of the Super Dirt Series DIRT Traffic Jam 100....CVD ran his Grandview legal sbm motor against the "big boys" and their big block power plants....The man had to get into the feature event by qualifying through the consi, started 23rd, and raced by EVERYONE on his way to the top spot and the HUGE WIN....In the month of June he won every race at Grandview but one, and to start July off he won the special mid week sbm TOTH show that was part of the Pa 410 Sprint car Speedweek at the place....Comes right back and backs that win up with the normal Saturday night feature event three days later....The man is just downright INCREDIBLE right now.
With the Pa sbm racing scene being one of the toughest, most competitve racing circuits around (the wins get spread around pretty well at these tracks), just makes what CVD is doing right now, that MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE....It just doesn't usually happen this way around these parts....Thinking back, and off the top of my head, I can only think of racers/seasons I compare what CVD is doing to....Back a few years ago at BDR, Doug Hoffman and Moose Eisnehard teamed up and had a season for the record books....Doug won I believe 11 or 12 features that year at BDR, and went on to win the NASCAR (BDR was a sanctioned track back then) regional title that year which was worth over $40,000....And going back many many moons ago, when Billy Pauch Sr was wheeling the Hyneman #126 at Penn National Speedway back in the 80's, he was racking up win totals the one season that were in the lower teens range....Thats about it for me right off the top of my head....You just don't see season that often like the one CVD is having right now, and it's a PLEASURE to watch.
Von Dohren is a veteran, he's been around a long time....He's been a part of the racing game for what seems like forever....The man knows this won't last forever, but I'm sure he also knows you just go with it and see how long it will last....Hopefully it will last a little longer, just to see at years end what kind of numbers he can actually rack up this year....But no matter what happens the rest of the way, I'm sure it has been and still is, ONE HELL OF A RIDE.
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