By: Frank Buhrman Myerstown’s “Nitro Nick” Sweigart is planning to take his crowd- and sponsor-pleasing racing style and personality to the 410 sprint car world in 2022, and he made his likely final PA Sprint Series appearance a memorable one Saturday night, winning the Founder’s Cup portion of the Keystone…
By: Frank Buhrman 0.660 seconds. Ken Duke Jr.’s margin of victory over Doug Dodson in Friday’s PA Sprint Series feature at BAPS Motor Speedway indicates a close race. It doesn’t begin to tell the story. 11 minutes, 44.081 seconds does a better job. That’s how long the two veteran drivers…
By: Frank Buhrman Buddy Schweibinz learned quickly Saturday, adapting to a slick BAPS Motor Speedway track he’d never seen before and then using that knowledge to win the 20-lap PA Sprint Series/Mid Atlantic Sprint Series feature on Harvest Classic night. Schweibinz, the Petersburg, N.J., teenager who won his first sprint…
By: Frank Buhrman Derek Hauck may be running fewer races in 2021, but the work schedule that has kept him away from the race track hasn’t prevented him from assembling a season record that would be the envy of most full-timers. Hauck won his second straight PA Sprint Series feature…
By: Frank Buhrman Derek Hauck put on a clinic Saturday night to post an emphatic, start-to-finish victory in the PA Sprint Series 20-lap feature at Selinsgrove Speedway. The Allenwood driver, now in his second full season of sprint car competition in the Fultz Auto Body of Lock Haven/Hills Garage/White Horse…
By: Frank Buhrman On a bad night for a number of other drivers, Austin Reed of Etters tamed a difficult Williams Grove Speedway track surface and collected his first win with PA Sprint Series in Friday’s Jack Gunn Memorial program. Reed, who was running 358 sprints a decade ago and…
By: Frank Buhrman Ken Duke Jr. did everything he could to get past Mike Melair in Saturday’s PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver feature at Lincoln Speedway, then got the win after racing had finished, when Melair was disqualified for failing to report for a post-race weigh-in. The 18th win of Duke’s…
By: Frank Buhrman Buddy Schweinbinz, possibly the youngest driver among the 48 entered at Port Royal Speedway, showed that a little experience and a lot of talent can go a long way, winning the 20-lap PA Sprint Series feature Thirsday night at the Juniata County “Speed Palace.” The Petersburg, N.J.,…
By: Frank Buhrman It took Dom Melair 60 PA Sprint Series starts over four seasons to claim his first career win in IMCA/RaceSaver competition, but he clearly remembered how to do it. After finishing second in both starts following that first win, the Warrington driver led all 25 laps Saturday…
By: Frank Buhrman George Riden had been trying to get his RaceSaver sprint car out to the track more often. It paid off Sunday night, when the Elizabethtown veteran won his first PA Sprint Series race in nine years, taking the 20-lap feature at BAPS Motor Speedway. After finishing fourth…
By: Frank Buhrman Dave Grube II of York Haven survived a chaotic effort to start Saturday night’s PA Sprint Series race at Port Royal Speedway, then came out ahead after contact with 2021’s top winner Garrett Bard and won the IMCA/RaceSaver portion of the “Open Wheel Madness” program. It was…
By: Frank Buhrman After a number of “almosts,” Domenic Melair of Warrington scored a convincing first PA Sprint Series victory in Saturday night’s 20-lap IMCA/RaceSaver feature at Selinsgrove Speedway. It also was the first win for the team of Melair driving for PASS Director Rod Ort’s Glen Del Labradors/Black Rock…
By: Frank Buhrman Garrett Bard won his fifth PA Sprint Series race in his last sixth starts Saturday night, taking advantage of his second straight front-row starting position draw and fighting off stout challenges from Kenny Heffner and Tyler Snook to earn the 20-lap feature for IMCA/RaceSaver sprints. The Wells…
By: Frank Buhrman Rookie Zack Bealer from Lehighton found a way around Bloomsburg Fairgrounds Raceway that nobody else could match and scored his first win in a full-sized sprint car in Sunday’s IMCA/RaceSaver sprint feature co-sanctioned by the PA Sprint Series and the Mid-Atlantic Sprint Series. The former micro-sprint driver,…
By: Frank Buhrman Garrett Bard put disappointment behind him and scored a convincing victory Saturday night in the PA Sprint Series 25-lap feature event at Path Valley Speedway. The Wells Tannery driver in his family-supported CG Racing Engines/Barnett Self Storage/Environmental Earth Tech #95 had endured a rare failure-to-qualify Friday night…
By: Frank Buhrman Nagy Sparkles at Big Diamond Kevin Nagy ran his record to two-for-two Friday in Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic Sprint Series co-sanctioned events, dominating the 25-lap IMCA/RaceSaver sprint car feature at Big Diamond Speedway. The Wind Gap veteran in his Nagy Excavating #45 passed Devin Adams on a seventh…
By: Frank Buhrman & Stephanie Dodson Garrett Bard continued his mid-season resurgence Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway, scoring a convincing feature win for this third PA Sprint Series victory in a row. It also was his second victory at Selinsgrove in six days, and he has a Laurel Highlands Sprint…
By: Frank Buhrman Garrett Bard took another step toward recreating the magic of his 2020 IMCA/RaceSaver National Championship season Saturday night, winning a furious “young guns” battle with Derek Hauck to claim the 20-lap PA Sprint Series feature at Selinsgrove Speedway. The victory was Bard’s third in PASS this season…
By: Frank Buhrman It’s not that Garrett Bard doesn’t race well at Path Valley Speedway. In his last seven starts there, he had finished second four times, third once and fourth once. But his only previous win in a full-sized sprint car had come in September 2019, and since then…
By: Frank Buhrman In the first 10 races of Mike Melair’s first full season of PA Sprint Series competition, there had been steady improvement but not a whole lot to show for it, with a 13th at Selinsgrove two weeks ago the high point. But that didn’t mean that Melair…
By: Frank Buhrman Two young chargers put on an old-fashioned battle at Port Royal Speedway Saturday night before Derek Hauck emerged with the 20-lap feature victory over Garrett Bard at the “Speed Palace.” The Allenwood racer’s Fultz Auto Body of Lock Haven #33 took the lead for the final time…
By: Frank Buhrman & Stephanie Dodson Primed with plenty of fuses, blasting caps and other gear, “Nitro” Nick Sweigart of Myerstown blasted the field Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway, leading all 20 laps of the PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver feature for his second win of 2021, second at Selinsgrove, and…
By: Frank Buhrman & Stephanie Dodson If the story of 2020 in the PA Sprint Series was the dominance of Garrett Bard, the story in early 2021 has been the lack of that dominance, but Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway, the current story line may have changed. Bard, the Wells…
By: Frank Buhrman Donnie Hendershot of Clear Spring, Md., made career PA Sprint Series race #71 extra special Saturday night, earning victory #1 in the 25-lap feature at Path Valley Speedway. Hendershot, who began racing with PASS in 2013 after a successful tenure in micro sprints, had a pair of…
By: Frank Buhrman After an incredible three-car, 12-lap battle, Dave Grube II of York Springs held on for the win Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway, taking the PA Sprint Series 20-lap feature by 0.970 seconds over last week’s winner, Ken Duke Jr. of Selinsgrove, with Kenny Heffner of Watsontown…