Votra wins Five Mile Point Make-up

Tim Votra picked up his 1st Five Mile Point Speedway modifieds victory Wednesday night as they made up their event from last Saturday.

DJ Teaming with Forte?

Looks like Danny Johnson may be driving for Mark Forte at Orange County tomorrow night. Danny left JIR Motorsports earlier in the week. Forte is taking 2 cars to Orange County tomorrow, one for himself, and the other possibly for Johnson.

Friesen Done with Hansell

Stewart Friesen will now no longer be driving for Stewart Friesen this weekend, or for the Chad Miller Race. Friesen decided he wants to stay home this weekend and run for the $5,000 to win modified race at Fonda Speedway, instead of making the tow to Grandview, which upset car owner Norm Hansell. Friesen will continue to run weekly at Utica Rome with his own #1, and will pick and choose other specials throughout the rest of the season. Rick Schaffer will continue to drive the Norm Hansell mount.

Specials I missed...

Sorry, but I missed 2 specials being run this weekend. Bridgeport will have their 4-dozen which will be for the big block modifieds, there will be 4 features at 12 laps each. Also, Albany Saratoga has their 2nd 100 lapper of the year with the CVRA.com 100. Finally, Fonda Speedway will be having their $5,000 to win special sponsored by BBL.

Ward takes Penn Can RoC Race

Pat Ward opened up his RoC Dirt Tour points lead with a $4,000 triumph at Penn Can Speedway on Wednesday night. Ward also won this race last season. The top 5 was Ward over Stewart Friesen, Dan Vauter, Jeff Rudalavage, and Joey Grammes.

Also worth noting that Bob Henry has taken over for Danny Varin in the Masagarus #93 for weekly competition at Fonda.

Chad Miller Memorial Race....Ckeck It Out

Here is the IMPRESSIVE list of sponsors that has come on board to help make the 2nd annual Chad Miller Memorial Race BIGGER and BETTER...
GARY SHILEY.....$15 Fastest SBM Heats/$10 Fastest SPTS heats
ART BAIR.....1 Wheel To Winner OF Cash Dash
BURKHART BROTHERS.....$100
DAVE REEDY/PENSKE SHOCKS.....Cash Dash Sponsor
LITECH RACE SYSTEMS.....$200 Hard Charger Award
MISSY'S CRAFTS.....$100 Children For Cash Dash $50/$25/$25
NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY.....$300---$100 For 1st 2nd and 6th Finishers SBM
TOUCH OF GREEN.....$500 Total Lap 11,17,21 Leader Donate Team Hat And Shirt
HOOVER CHEVROLET
NATIONAL EARTH SERVICE
WINK MOTORSPORTS
BOB GREENE/PPB.....Nights Winnings To Purse
HAUS AUTOMOTIVE
MERKEL REBAR
LIGHTNING BODIES
KEYSTONE RACINGMANMILLER RACINGARTS RADIATOR4 STAR LETTERING.....Banners And Checks
READING KUBOTA"THE DOG POUND".....$200 17th Place Finisher SBM
FRANKS TRUCK LETTERING
ARK RENTALS
ALPINE BUILDINGSPOWERCOS&S TIREJOEY ADAMS LETTERING.....$25
TEO FABRICATIONS
BFP SPECIALTIES
KEYSTONE RACING/TOUCH OF GREEN.....Hat And Shirt Auction
CLARK ANGSTADT.....Donating Art
KAUFFMANS BBQ.....$400
ALBERTS BODY SHOP.....$100 Heat Race Sponsor
PEPSI.....Leather Jacket To SBM Winner
D.A HANSONS POKER PALACE
MIKE GRIMS
READING FAIRGROUNDS HISTORICALBUCK RUBS.....Heat Race Sponsor
GLICK FIRE EQUIPMENT
GOLLUBS AUTO REPAIR
FELTY FARMS.....Spts Cash Dash
V&M TOWING
ROMAN DELIGHT.....$25
SHARMAN BUILDERS
JOHHNY REA MOTORSPORTS.....$400 Total 1st Fast Time, 2nd Fast Time, 6th Fast Time
CHRIS BUDIHAS/CHRIS GAMBLER MOTORSPORTS.....$100 Aw-Shucks I Just Missed Making The Show To 1st Alt Or Bubble Car
KOCHEL EQUIPMENT
BEER CITY
RACERS ROUND TABLE
RACERS ROUND TABLE GIRLS
C. IRWIN & SONS
ELK MOTOR SPORTS
DAN'S DELI
CORNERSTONE AUTO SALES
BRINCKMAN COINS
SPECIALTY RIGGING
J&J DEMOLITION DERBIES
CHEERS TAVERN
BOB WEAVER CEVROLET
***NOTE*** We have 2 CONFIRMED "INVADERS" for this event, Billy Pauch Sr and Stewart Friesen have made it known they'll be at BDR on August 8th for the Chad Miller Memorial Race...Stay tuned to see if more are added to the list.
A SPECIAL THANKS goes out to BIG DIAMOND RACEWAY, for letting all of Chad's friends and famliy come together to put on this SPECIAL EVENT, THANK YOU Buddy Biever, Barry Bashore and Dave Dissinger, without your cooperation this wouldn't be possible.
Also, don't forget, there will be a pre-race party getting started around 5pm on race day....The one and only Pete Knappenberger will be the hosting this event....There will also be an auction with all kinds of goodies up for grabs, including sheet metal from the #126 team....A 2008 BDR t-shirt autographed by all of the WoO Late Model drivers that competed at this event in June....A Roush/Fenway Racing t-shirt autographed by David Ragan and Jaime McMurray.
Folk's, make your plans NOW, hand in those vacation slips, move those schedules around, DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO....But PLEASE come out and help make the 2nd annual Chad Miller Memorial Race BIGGER and BETTER than last years....It's going to be a SPECIAL EVENT your not going to want to miss....It all happens at Big Diamond Raceway on August 8th.
There is still time to join this IMPRESSIVE list of sponsors, if you would like to help out, please contact Brad Reinhert @ (717) 278-1036, he's THE MAN who can HOOK YOU UP!!!

Specials for This Week

Well, it's another big week in dirt modified racing. It all starts tomorrow night at Penn Can Speedway as the RoC Dirt Tour invades for a 75 lap $4,000 to win big block special. On Wednesday Five Mile Point Speedway will be running the completion of their show from last weekend which will include features for all divisions plus a modified consi. Then, on Thursday, the Super Dirt Series runs at Orange County Fair Speedway for 100 laps with $6,000 going to the winner. Also on Thursday, the Canadian Dirt Series will head to Mohawk International Raceway for a 100 lap $3,000 to win big block event. On Friday night the Canadian Dirt Series continues their busy weekend with a trip to Edelweiss Speedway for another $3,000 to win 100 lap big block special. Also on Friday, the 358 Super Dirt Series heads to Ransomville Speedway for the prestigious Alex Friesen Memorial which will pay $6,800 to the winner of the 68 lap event. On Saturday the Canadian Dirt Series heads to Brockville Ontairio Speedway for yet another 100 lap $3,000 to win show, at Lebanon Valley on Saturday will be race #3 of the 4 race mini-series which will eventually crown the King of the Valley, and also on Saturday the Forrest Rogers Memorial will be run for small block modifieds at Grandview Speedway which will pay $10,000 to the winner of the 50 lap feature. Finally, on Sunday, the Canadian Dirt Series will run it's finale at Cornwall Speedway with their final 100 lapper.

Danny Johnson Done at JIR

For the 2nd time in 3 years, Danny Johnson has quit the JIR Racing Team. Johnson, who currently sits in 9th in Super Dirt Series points with 3 top 5s and 4 top 10s, and picked up a win at Utica Rome's Victoria 200 that payed him $10,000 to win. He's also been making select Late Model starts with the team. Danny currently has no ride with the exception of the Mike Payne 358 modified, which he'll be running part-time, splitting his time this year in the car with Gary Tomkins. Joe Isabell, Jeff Isabell, Jeff Isabell Jr, Sean Beardsley, and Johnny Hill will continue to pilot JIR cars, at least on a part-time basis, for the rest of the year. Stayed tuned for Danny Johnson news.

Swartzlander Takes Tyler County, Sunday night Winners

I forgot to mention in the Saturday night winners that the only big block modified race in West Virgina was won by Brian Swartzlander who extended his points lead in the BRP Modified Tour. According to our own Josh Bayko on Dirt Track Digest, Swartzlander started 23rd and picked up the win.

Stewart Friesen won at Utica Rome and broke Pat Ward's hot streak, Robert King picked up a popular win at Devils Bowl, Alex Fortier picked up an exciting win at Cornwall, and I also forgot to mention that Brian Swartzlander also notched off the win at Lernerville on Friday night.

Friday/Saturday Modified Winners

Friday night saw; Jeff Strunk open up his points lead at Big Diamond with a win, Pete Bicknell adds another win to his list of accomplishments with another win at Ransomville, Joey Grammes picked up another win at Penn Can, defending champion Willy Decker picked up a big win at Brewerton, Mel Schruffer pulled off the upset win at Accord, Lee Ladouceur won at Edelweiss, and Matt DeLorenzo picked up his 2nd win of the year at Albany.

Saturday night saw a lot of rain, but of the tracks that did run, Jamie Mills ended H.J. Bunting's hot-streak with a win at Delaware, Jeff Heotzler won his 2nd race in a row at Orange County, Craig Von Dohren completed his big week with a win at Grandview, Donnie Ackner picked up the popular win in race #2 of the King of the Valley series at Lebanon Valley, Tad Cox, Tim Tanner, Rick Laubach, won the first 3 features at New Egypt, and Keith Hoffman won the final feature at New Egypt which netted him $5,000, and Jimmy Chester picked up his 1st win of the season with a win at Bridgeport. Stayed tuned for Sunday night's winners!