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Macri and Rine Share Victory Lane at Selinsgrove Speedway
SELINSGROVE, PA (September 6, 2020): Anthony Macri scored career win number one at Selinsgrove Speedway and locked up a starting position in the Jim Nace Memorial National Open coming up a few weeks hence. At the other end of the spectrum, Jeff Rine notched his 112th career win on the Snyder County oval. The ULMS Late Model score also sealed his championship in the North vs. South Series hosted by Williams Grove and Selinsgrove Speedways.
The top eight drivers in passing points from the Sprint Car heats redrew for starting positions for the thirty lapper. Getting the pole was A.J. Flick. Macri lined up second with Brent Marks and Brian Montieth in row two. The third row was populated by Lucas Wolfe and Brock Zearfoss. Freddie Rahmer, Jr. and Blaine Heimbach were in row four. The fifth row belonged to Kyle Reinhardt and Brian Brown, teh Missouri invader. Danny Dietrich, fresh off a pair of wins at Lincoln Speedway did not fare well in the passing points game and he rolled off in seventeenth position.
Macri wasted no time blasting into the lead. Marks and Rahmer slipped by Flick, but the red lights flashed on as the field was coming through turns three and four. Justin Peck and Dylan Cisney turned over entering the third corner and George Hobaugh was collected as well. None of them were injured but all were through for the night.
Although Flick was better prepared for the second attempt, he still was unable to keep pace with Macri. “We really got our big track program pretty good,” Macri said in a bit of an understatement. He has scored multiple wins at Port Royal Speedway and has been knocking on the door at Williams Grove as well.
Macri was ripping around the top of this big track, as has become his trademark. Marks fell into second and remained within striking distance through most of the contest. Brock Zearfoss cleared Flick for third six laps into the race and he gave chase to the leaders.
Behind the four lead cars, things were rather interesting. Montieth ran in fifth for the first ten laps, but Brian Brown moved ahead of him near the halfway mark. Rahmer, Wolfe, Heimbach, and Reinhardt were mixing it up, while Dietrich started his march forward.
Marks and Zearfoss started to close in on Macri and there was a spirited three car battle for the lead in the middle stage of the race. Zearfoss lost ground, but Marks kept applying the heat to Macri as the race moved into the third stage. Marks got a good run down the front stretch and slid under Macri entering turn one to take the lead with nine to go.
However, Macri came back to regain the lead entering the third turn. “I was just riding around trying to save my stuff,” Macri said. “Then I realized I had to get going. I heard him coming and after he passed me, I got down and the car stuck in three. I went to the bottom to try to regroup mentally,” he added. After getting the lead back, Macri went upstairs again, but now he was mashing the loud pedal for all that it was worth.
In the final laps, Marks began to fade somewhat. Zearfoss came on to grab second, bringing Brown with him. Dietrich reached fifth in the final lap, taking the hard charger award for the night. He was plus 12. Heimbach and Rahmer also raced past Flick in the final laps. After Flick came Montieth and T.J. Stutts.
The heat victories were scored by Marks, Wolfe, and Heimbach. The B Main winner was Cisney.
In the ULMS Late Model feature, which was also 30 laps in distance, Hayes Matetrn and Jared Miley had the front row. Veteran Jim Bernheisel and Wyatt Scott were in row two, with Kyle Knapp and Max Blair behind them. David Scott and Brett Schadel were in the fourth row. Shaun Jones was paired up with Jeff Rine in row five.
While Miley took the early lead, Bernheisel settled into second. Blair raced along in third until the first restart took place, with seven laps completed. Positioned on the outside of row two for the Delaware double file restart, Blair was able to ride the rim into second in turn one. He set out after Miley and the two Western PA stars staged their own race within the race.
Meanwhile Rine was steadily moving forward from his tenth starting spot. He found the outside groove to his liking and he started to close in on the leaders. Like Blair before him, Rine used the outside line in turns one and two to move into second after a restart. But, unlike Blair, Rine continued to pound the cushion. Two laps after taking second, Rine blasted into the lead.
“I felt pretty good there at the beginning,” Rine said. He continued, “on that restart, Miley and Blair were on the bottom and we got something going on the top. There was a good cushion and it wasn’t up against the fence.” Rine summed things up by saying “that’s the most fun I had in a while.”
Rine led a Western PA trio to the checkers. Second was Miley, then Blair. Fourth went to Gregg Satterlee who also had an outstanding restart once when he passed four cars on a single lap. Taking fifth was Jim Bernheisel. Jim Yoder, Jones, Mike Lupfer, Schadel, and Nathan Long completed the top ten.
Blair, Knapp, and Matter scored preliminary wins. There was no B Main. Blair was the evening’s fastest qualifier, turning the big half mile in 18.870 seconds.
Selinsgrove Speedway will be off until September 26 when the 410 Sprint Cars return for the 38th running of the National Open. The race will honor former champion Jim Nace who lost his battle with cancer several years ago. The 305 Sprint Cars will also be on the card.
SARVER, PA (April 26, 2024) AJ Flick picked up his first Peoples Natural Gas Sprint Car win of 2024 at Lernerville Speedway on Friday night and Michael Norris made it back-to-back wins in the Late Model Division.
Flick started fourth on the grid and passed leader and pole-sitter Carl Bowser using the bottom side on lap 8 while Bowser worked the high side. Bowser wouldn’t go away easily, pulling side-by-side with Flick at the halfway mark. Flick eventually was able to hold Bowser at bay, building a three-second lead as he encountered lap traffic.
A caution flag with five-laps-to-go bunched up the field but Flick got an impressive restart and kept the field at bay to pick up the victory. Bowser finished second and Michael Bauer finished third after starting eighth.
“I didn’t expect it to slick off as much as it did,” Flick said about the track conditions. “It was odd because it wasn’t really wide but yet the actual racing groove was getting slick and starting to come in already. I missed it in the heat race, but come feature time it seems like we’re starting to dial it in a bit more.”
Norris started 10th and put on a clinic coming through the field to make it two straight at ‘The action Track.’
“Luck was on our side tonight,” Norris said. “I always seem to have late race cautions. Thanks to John Garvin for leaving me a lane, he got me pretty good on that last restart but I knew as long as I could be even with him going into turn one, the top was so good and it was.”
Erick Rudolph made the trip to Sarver from Ransomville, New York and it paid off. Rudolph took home the feature victory in the Diehl Automotive Big Block Modified main event.
“There’s something about Lernerville Speedway,” said Rudolph. “It’s one of my favorite tracks in the country and anytime we get a chance to come down here it’s always something we look forward to.”
Tyler Dietz proved to be the class of the field once again, garnering his first feature win in the Millerstown Pic-A-Part Pro Stock main event. Dietz survived a late race restart and held off front row starter Tim Bish and a hard charging Chris Schneider to grab the checkered flag.
“I kind of thought that he (Bish) was going to take the bottom,” Dietz stated, remarking about the crucial restart. “I was hoping he would go high because I think I was better up high but I just never got the chance to go up there.”
PITTSBURGH, PA (April 24, 2025) The Historic Stock Car Racing Association (HSCRA) is joining the lineup of racing groups at this year’s Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (PVGP) Historics at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. This is the first time the HSCRA will race in the PVGP Historics 3-day weekend, July 26 to 28, 2024.
“We are thrilled to welcome the HSCRA to our 2024 event,” said Dan DelBianco, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. “Their participation not only broadens the appeal of the PVGP Historics but also aligns with our mission to celebrate all automotive history. This is a fantastic opportunity for race fans of all types to witness the power and beauty of historic stock cars in action.”
The HSCRA, renowned for its commitment to preserving and celebrating the history of stock car racing, will bring a new dimension to the PVGP Historics. The group is open to all stock cars that ran in one of the major NASCAR series.
“The HSCRA is anxious to bring NASCAR to Pittsburgh,” said Carlus Gann of HSCRA. “We look forward to making this a regular stop on our tour. Western Pennsylvania has deep roots in racing, and building a world-class track at Pitt Race in Beaver County makes it a perfect fit.”
The most popular class is Generation 4 Cup cars built for the 1992-2007 seasons. During this era, teams built a few cars for the two road courses on the schedule.
“We are hoping for a full field of meticulously restored stock cars,” added Chris Evans of the HSCRA. “Former NASCAR winners like Joe Nemechek and a competitive lineup of today’s top historic stock car drivers will be on hand.”
Gary Moore, a seasoned participant in over a dozen PVGP races, knows the intricacies and challenges of the Pitt Race track. Moore will be showcasing his 1969 Mercury Cyclone (right), victoriously driven by Cale Yarborough, exclaiming, “It’s quite the adventure behind the wheel!”
The HSCRA will have a practice session in the morning and a qualifying race in the afternoon on Friday, July 26. A morning and afternoon practice session on Saturday, July 27. Sunday, July 28 will see the HSCRA have a short morning warm-up prior to being one of the featured Sunday afternoon races.
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Motorsport Festival features two weekends of racing action. The first weekend is the PVGP Historics at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. The second weekend is racing through a 2.33-mile road course set on the streets of Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park. In addition to the race weekends, the PVGP stages car shows, parties, road rallies, and a black-tie formal. The PVGP’s mission is to provide residential care, treatment and support for people with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities – donating $6.7 million to charity since 1983.
IMPERIAL, PA (April 20, 2024) Aliquippa’s Tim Shaffer started on the pole position and survived several caution flags and restarts to win the Herb Scott Memorial Saturday night at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway (PPMS).
“Boy I earned that one huh,” said Shaffer following the race. “These wins just keep getting better and better. Herb Scott won a lot of features and I have a long way to go to catch him, but my career went on the road and it became hard to win races. It’s kind of back home racing now for me and it’s a lot of fun.”
Brock Pinkerous and Dave Hess Jr. staged an epic battle over the last several laps with Pinkerous scoring an emotional runner-up finish.
“Congrats to Tim on the win,” said Pinkerous, who hails from Ellenville, NY. “He’s really good at this track. Him and Dave are legends around this area. It’s really cool to battle with them; they raced me clean and I raced them clean. Even though we didn’t win tonight, this is for my uncle tonight who passed away about a month ago. I hope he’s watching over us tonight, and I really love you uncle Chris.”
“We were really good on those restarts,” said Hess, the 39-year-old Waterford, Pa. driver. “A little tweak to the car and maybe a gear change and we could have had something for the leaders. Once those two (Shaffer and Pinkerous) got rolling, they were a little better than I was.”
Kyle Lukon finished fifth and Logan Roberson rounded out the Top 5.
A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 45-Tim Shaffer[1]; 2. 555-Brock Pinkerous[4]; 3. 44-Dave Hess Jr[21]; 4. 184-Kyle Lukon[5]; 5. 17R-Logan Roberson[19]; 6. 10S-Joe Martin[16]; 7. 36-Cody Dawson[7]; 8. 3J-Jeremy Wonderling[10]; 9. 42-Daryl Charlier[6]; 10. 184C-Justin Chance[13]; 11. 21J-Jim Rasey[24]; 12. 184P-Cole Petrelle[20]; 13. 77-Tom Klein[23]; 14. 57-Charlie Sandercock[11]; 15. 36B-Colby Beighey[15]; 16. 18-Mike Wonderling[25]; 17. 29-Ryan Hare[17]; 18. 60H-Brian Huchko[22]; 19. 9R-Mike Reft[14]; 20. 25-Zachary Kane[9]; 21. 72B-Kassidy Kamicker[18]; 22. 75-Jared Miley[3]; 23. 60-Brandon Burgoon[2]; 24. 14AJ-AJ Miller[8]; 25. 14G-Jake Gunn[12]
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