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By Mike Leone
September 3, 2008
Strongstown, PA…After last Friday’s rain out, the FASTRAK Northeast Late Model Touring Series will try again this Friday night, September 5 to complete their second event of the season at Jim and Sharon Michny’s Dog Hollow Speedway.
Dog Hollow will play host to their final visit of the season by the Northeast Touring Series featuring a 25-lap featuring paying $1,200 to-win, $150 to-start. Last year’s event was won by Bobby Powell and earlier this year defending Series champion, Alan Dellinger, topped a 32-car field for his first win at the track.
“Hopefully the weather will cooperate this Friday night,” stated Northeast Co-Director Vicki Emig. “We expect a good turnout of cars as this is the only FASTRAK-sanctioned event all weekend as Raceway 7 and Tri-City Speedways have completed their seasons and the division is off at Mercer and McKean County. It’s good to see Dog Hollow’s weekly car count has been on the rise and we’ve averaged over 30 cars per event.”
Carl McKinney became the Touring Series’ eighth different winner in nine races when he won $2,100 in last Sunday’s non-stop feature at Tri-City. Thus far Max Blair is the only repeat winner. The Centerville, Pa. 18-year-old opened the 2008 Touring Series with a victory on May 24 at McKean County Raceway and backed that up with his second $1,200 victory on August 24 at Eriez Speedway after getting by Tom Snyder, Jr. on lap 21. The following drivers have also been victorious: Frank Guidace (Mercer), Alan Dellinger (Dog Hollow), John Lacki (Raceway 7), Kyle Drum (McKean), Bobby Powell (Expo), and Mike Pegher, Jr. (Raceway 7).
Blair has a 39-point lead over Powell heading into Friday and also leads the National Weekly Series points by five over Powell. Following Friday’s event, Mercer Raceway Park will hold their second and final event on Saturday, September 13 followed by the finale at McKean County on Friday, September 26. Both events will pay $1,200 to-win, $150 to-start.
“The amount of different winners is a testament of the competitiveness of the Series,” said Northeast Co-Director Mike Leone. “Then you factor in standout racers like Dick Barton, Tommy Snyder, Dennis Lunger, Jay Watson, Rusty Moore, Jim Frank, and Steve Hollabaugh, who are always competitive, haven’t even won a race. There has been a total of one caution in the last two events combined with just one stoppage at Eriez and none in last Sunday’s 30 lapper at Tri-City. At Tri-City, 16 cars were on the lead and all 24 cars finished the event!”
Current Touring Series Points (only Touring Series members are eligible to receive points): 1. Max Blair 279 2. Bobby Powell 240 3. Dick Barton 239 4. Tom Snyder, Jr. 238 5. John Lacki 228 6. Dennis Lunger, Jr. 210 7. Jay Watson 200 8. Rusty Moore 198 9. Jim Frank 183 10. Andy Buckley 177 11. Justin Kann 175 12. Roger French 168 13. Steve Hollabaugh 138 14. Jon Law 136 15. Bob Kish 133 16. Chad Myers 125 17. Bob Diver 120 18. Kevin Meadows 112 19. Mike Pegher, Jr. 111 20. Dereck Frank 97 21. Carl McKinney 93 22. Bert Cleer 89 23. Bobby Whitling 67 24. Kyle Drum 63 25. Brian Booher 62 26. Bob Dorman 38 27. Steve D’Apolito 37 28. Todd Sweet 36 29. Tommy Schirnhofer, Jr., Bryan Salisbury, & Dave Airgood, Jr. 10 32. Frank Guidace, Dan Karalagas, Gary Miller, Jr., Tim Schram, Mike Wonderling, Sr., Tommy Kronenwetter, Mike Lesky, John Eckenrod, Rocky Kugel, Alan Dellinger, Aaron Ridley, Tyler Dietz, Jeff Enos, Tony Hyde, Ron Smithley, Dan Angelicchio, Dave Lyon, Kyle Zimmerman, Bump Hedman, Greg Oakes, Alex Anderson, Dave Norton, Jr., Butch Lambert, Ben Black, Bryant Hank, Bob Vogt, Jr., Chris Haines, Dan Stives, Dave Osterberg, Gary Stahl, Scott Jones, Jason Stanke, John Haggerty, Kirby Tucker, Roger Laughlin, Chris Angelicchio, Wayne Mohawk, Mike Anderson (Jr.), Garrett Stephen, Bert Blackson, Tom Copeland. 0.
Feature payoffs for Dog Hollow: 1. $1,200 2. $650 3. $450 4. $350 5. $325 6. $300 7. $275 8. $260 9. $255 10. $250 11. $225 12. $210 13. $200 14. $175 15. $165 16. $160 17. $155 18-24. $150.
Pits open at 5:30 p.m. on Friday with racing at 7:30 p.m. There is a $50 entry fee. The Goodyear G45 or G50 tires are mandatory. They will be available at the track for $128 each or by calling BWR Performance at 330-509-1999.
Dog Hollow Speedway is a 4/10-mile dirt track located at in Strongstown, Pa. three miles north of US 422 on SR 403 then 0.1 miles east on Hamill. For more information on Dog Hollow, check out their website at www.dog-hollow.com or call 814-948-4252. The track number on race day is 814-948-6812.
2008 FASTRAK Northeast Touring Series associate sponsors thus far are Race 1, Fame RV Center, Yoder’s Performance Specialty & PRC, Bullitt Chassis, and Fred Beans Parts.
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