By: Frank Buhrman “Nitro Nick” Sweigart of Myerstown became a multiple 2020 PA Sprint Series winner Sunday when he captured the 20-lap feature run as part of PA Sprint Speedweek at Selinsgrove Speedway. Sweigart, who started fourth and took the lead from Ron Aurand on lap five, was never seriously…
By: Frank Buhrman All John Walp wants is a little improvement – from his second-place finish in BAPS Motor Speedway’s standings for PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver sprints in 2019 to first in 2020. He’s off to a solid start toward that goal. Walp wired the field to win the 20-lap…
By: Frank Buhrman “Nitro Nick” Sweigart made up for a couple of early season disappointments with a dominating wire-to-wire win in the 20-lap PA Sprint Series feature Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway. The Myerstown racer took advantage of drawing the pole starting position and put his A.H. Moyer/Buckwalter Trucking/Gator…
By: Frank Buhrman Garrett Bard of Wells Tannery jumped from fourth starting position into the lead on the opening lap of the 20-lap feature at Port Royal Speedway Saturday. He scored his second win of the still-young 2020 PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver season It was Bard’s third win in only…
By: Frank Buhrman Johnny Scarborough made the 450-mile trip from Bomoseen, Vermont pay off Saturday night with a victory in the 25-lap PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver Sprint feature at Path Valley Motor Speedway. The veteran of multiple forms of racing took the lead on lap 11 when misfortune struck Jake…
By: Frank Buhrman 2019’s super-rookie Garrett Bard took advantage of a front-row starting spot and held back multiple challengers to win the 20-lap PA Sprint Series feature Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway. The Wells Tannery driver in the CG Racing Engines/Barnett Self-Storage/Lias Tire #95 drew the outside front row for…
By: Frank Buhrman Christian Rumsey removed “almost” from his resume Saturday night, winning the two-month-delayed 2020 season opener for the PA Sprint Series at Selinsgrove Speedway. In a survival-of-the-fittest race, Rumsey lead the final two laps after advancing from 14th starting position and collected the winner’s trophy (plus a cake,…
By: Frank Buhrman Garrett Bard put an exclamation point on an extraordinary rookie half season with a wire-to-wire victory Saturday night in the PA Sprint Series feature during Port Royal Speedway’s “Open Wheel Madness 3.” The driver from Wells Tannery recovered from a sub-par 12th-place finish Friday at BAPS Motor…
By: Frank Buhrman Seventeen-year-old Landon Price beat the competition and the cold Friday with a powerful performance to win the PA Sprint Series feature that was part of BAPS Motor Speedway’s 16th Annual Sunoco/Insinger Performance Nationals Fueled by Millers Racing Parts weekend. Price, who had advanced from 10th starting spot…
By: Frank Buhrman “Nitro Nick” Sweigart saw an opening on the last lap and seized it, passing both cars battling for the lead and holding on to win the 8th Annual Keystone RaceSaver Challenge at Port Royal Speedway Saturday night. The Myerstown driver, who had started 10th in the “Blue…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson Drew Ritchey won his seventh IMCA/RaceSaver race of 2019 Sunday by leading every lap of the 25-lap feature at Hagerstown Speedway. It was his third win in the PA Sprint Series and the fifth different track on which the Everett racer has claimed…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson Coming into Saturday’s racing at Bedford Speedway, rookie sensation Garrett Bard had three wins in PA Sprint Series competition and one with the Laurel Highlands Sprint Series – all in less than three months. Now he can add a win to both lists,…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson In some ways, the 2019 PA Sprint Series season has been divided into two parts: before and after July 13, the day Garrett Bard drove his first PASS/IMCA event. Bard added his third PASS victory and fourth overall in RaceSaver sprints Saturday night…
Dave Grube alluded to his tough 2019 season (“We tore up a bunch of cars this year.”) and his father’s resolve that the team “finish the season strong.” Fortunately, he was able to relate those comments from Victory Lane at Williams Grove Speedway. Grube made a fourth-lap pass to take…
By: Frank Buhrman Wells Tannery is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, Pa., with a nice community park. It’s also home to race driver Garrett Bard, but if Bard’s fortunes continue on their current upward curve, he may become the first thing you’ll know about Wells Tannery. The 23-year-old scored…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson Lebanon’s Devin Adams scored his third victory of the year Saturday night in the PA Sprint Series 20-lap feature at BAPS Motor Speedway. The win continues a dream sophomore season for the 18-year-old Adams, who has now finished in the top five in…
By: Frank Buhrman “Iceman” Ken Duke Jr. is enjoying a season most racers can only dream about, winning races and leading both the Pennsylvania and national IMCA/RaceSaver points, but one track was conspicuously missing from the top tier of his 2019 resume: BAPS Motor Speedway. On Sunday night, Duke and…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson Seventeen-year-old Landon Price claimed his first sprint car victory Saturday in the PA Sprint Series IMCA/RaceSaver feature at Port Royal Speedway. Price, whose previous best finish was fifth at BAPS Motor Speedway (twice) and whose previous best at Port Royal was 13th, took…
By: Frank Buhrman Veteran Scott Lutz claimed his third victory of the season Friday night at Clinton County Motor Speedway in a RaceSaver Sprints race co-sanctioned by the Laurel Highlands Sprint Series and the PA Sprint Series. Lutz held off rookie Garrett Bard by .683 seconds to take the win….
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson In a classic veteran-versus-rookie duel, 2018 PA Sprint Series Champion “Zach Daddy” Newlin held off the challenge of PASS/IMCA newcomer Garrett Bard to win the 25-lap feature Saturday at Path Valley Speedway Park. After a nearly race-long battle, Newlin and Bard spent the…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson A few years ago, a 410 sprint car driver was nicknamed “Big Block.” Given his performance over the last three months in PA Sprint Series events on the series’ two largest regular tracks, perhaps it’s time to anoint Devin Adams as “Big Track.”…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson Doug Dodson of Middletown, a PA Sprint Series’ “rookie-in-name-only” driver, collected his first career victory with the series Friday night in the 25-lap feature at Path Valley Speedway Park. Dodson, a rookie in PASS but an experienced Super Sportsman racer with considerable time…
By: Frank Buhrman and Stephanie Stevens Dodson “Nitro Nick” Sweigart passed defending PA Sprint Series Champion “Zach Daddy” Newlin on the final lap to claim the victory in Saturday night’s 20-lap PASS/IMCA feature at BAPS Motor Speedway. It was the Myerstown driver’s second win of the season in his A.H….
By: Frank Buhrman Selinsgrove’s Ken Duke Jr. capped a perfect racing weekend with a late pass for the lead and his second straight hometown victory in Saturday’s 20-lap PA Sprint Series feature at Selinsgrove Speedway. The Selinsgrove win followed Duke’s victory Friday night at Clinton County Motor Speedway and was…
By: Frank Buhrman Ken Duke Jr. emerged from an intense, nearly race-long, three-car battle to win the 25-lap RaceSaver/IMCA Sprint Series race, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Sprint Series and Laurel Highlands Sprint Series, Friday night at Clinton County Motor Speedway. The Selinsgrove racer, who has led the national RaceSaver/IMCA points…