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NEWS FROM NASCAR SANCTIONED GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY, BECHTELSVILLE, PA
Track promoter: Bruce Rogers @ 610.754.7688
MEDIA CONTACT: Ernie Saxton@215.752.7797-Cell:267.934.7286
EMAIL: Esaxton144@aol.com

Race results written by Vicki Gehris with additions from Ernie Saxton

Coming events:

Note: Saturday night events start at 7:30 p.m. effective May 7th until Freedom 76 weekend.
Saturday, May 7, 7:30 p.m. T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.
Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Whelen Engineering Night: T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.
Sunday, May 15, 1 p.m. Enduro and Blast from the Past Vintage Car racing. This event postponed from May 1.
Saturday, May 21, 7:30 p.m. T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models, Sportsman and Blast from the Past Vintage racers.
Saturday, May 28, 7:30 p.m. T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.

NASCAR STOCK CAR RACING FEATURES AT GRANDVIEW GO TO HOWARD, SHUEY AND HENN ON SATURDAY NIGHT

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. May 1, 2016 . . . Racing action was fan pleasing wild and furious at the “fast” 1/3-mile high banks of Grandview Speedway on Saturday night.

Duane Howard survived the numerous skirmishes to become the first repeat winner in the T.P. Trailers NASCAR 358 Modified All-American Racing Series 30-Lap feature. “We were driving like a bunch of animals and there wasn’t one car that wasn’t bent,” commented Howard in victory lane. He also garnered $250 from T.P. Trailers.

Late Model action also had a two-time season winner as Brian Shuey scored his second BRC 25-Lap feature victory in the Scott and Sue Lee-owned No. 177. He also received $100 from T.P. Trailers and the Dan’s Deli ½-way hoagie award.

Jordan Henn, who has been close on numerous occasions to winning a 25-Lap NASCAR Sportsman feature, finally was able to put the “Moose” Eisenhard No. 77 in the winner’s circle by a narrow margin over runner-up and last week’s feature winner Mike Lisowski to claim a well-deserved first career win. He also was awarded the T.P. Trailers $100 bonus and the Dan’s Deli ½-way Hoagie award.

VP Racing Fuels product awards went to the top finishing racers in each division that used their racing gasoline and carried the proper decals and patches.

NASCAR stock car racing action returns to Grandview Speedway on Saturday, May 7th at 7:30 p.m. when the T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars are in action. Spectator gates open at 5:30 p.m. The weekly Meet and Greet featuring three different drivers and their race cars each Saturday takes place at the main gate at 5:30 p.m. Adult admission is just $15 while youngsters under 12 are admitted FREE.

The Modified feature took three tries to complete one lap in which seven cars were eliminated in the multiple incidents.

When the first lap was recorded Ron Haring Jr. was the early pacesetter followed by Chris Gambler, Ray Swinehart, Tim Buckwalter and Jared Umbenhauer.

Swinehart, who almost rolled his car on one of the many early cautions never losing a position, charged past Haring Jr. on the second lap multi-car caution to become the new leader.

Buckwalter overtook second on the third lap to challenge the veteran leader. He made several bids to pass him, but to no avail as the door was shut on him as Swinehart protected his lead. Advancing to third from his 16th starting spot was 10-time point champion and the point leader going into the feature, Jeff Strunk who was gaining ground on the pair.

Lapped traffic moved into the picture by the half-way mark and by now Strunk was second challenging Swinehart for first.

The lead changed for the third time on the 1th lap when Strunk put the Glenn Hyneman-owned No. 126 into first.

Strunk’s lead was short-lived as mechanical issues sidelined him on the 20th lap which also caused him to drop in the standings giving the lead back to Swinehart.

While Swinehart and Buckwalter diced for first, this allowed Howard, behind the wheel of the Petruska-owned Atlas Paving No. 66 to gain ground on them.

It wasn’t long before a five-car battle brewed between Swinehart, Buckwalter, Howard, Umbenhauer and Craig VonDohren as they all built momentum coming out of the fourth turn.

Howard got a strong run coming off the turns and stormed past Buckwalter and then Swinehart to take charge of the top spot on the 24th circuit.

Jeremy Banos stopped in the second turn with a flat tire unable to pull into the infield bringing out the caution on the 26th lap. Howard held his ground on the restart while Swinehart and VonDohren battled for second with Buckwalter and Umbenhauer waiting in the wings for something to happen.

Something did occur when Swinehart and VonDohren headed into the first turn. Contact was made, Swinehart went around and VonDohren continued with the yellow out on the 28th lap. Umbenhauer barely squeezed by as he made contact and the innocent victim was Ryan Grim being through for the night along with Swinehart. It was still Howard first when action resumed with VonDohren trying to unseat him.

Despite a one-lap shoot-out set up when Danny Erb and Mike Kellner tangled in the fourth turn, Howard went on to chalk up his 70th career win trailed by defending point champion Von Dohren. Finishing third and fourth for their season best outings were Buckwalter and Umbenhauer with Mike Gular, fifth. Sixth through tenth were Doug Manmiller, John Willman, Billy Pauch Jr., Don Norris Jr. and Brian Houseknecht.

Ray Swinehart, Brett Kressley and Steve Swinehart won the heats. The consi went to Chris Esposito.

Drew Weisser was the early leader of the Late Model feature and he held onto that spot until Shuey dove underneath him coming out of the fourth turn on the eighth lap. Weisser didn’t surrender easily as he made several attempts to regain first.

In a matter of time Shuey had a comfortable lead built up and was running up on lap traffic.

The yellow was thrown for Ron Kline when he was stopped in the second turn with a flat tire on the 21st lap. At the same time Weisser relinquished second and pulled into the infield out of competition. Shuey pulled away quickly with Cory Merkel now second giving him a run for the money.

Shuey managed to keep C. Merkel behind him, “not knowing he was there,” and went on to score another win. Following them across were Lou Egrie Jr., Dan Green and Bill Henning. Rounding out the top ten were Lou Egrie, Randy Stoudt, making a rare appearance; Wayne Pfeil, Dave Ogin and Sean Merkel. Chuck Schutz, last week’s winner and defending point champion dropped out early in the event finishing a disappointing 17th.

Bryon Sipe and Weisser were the heat winners.

Rookie Andrew Kreis was the early pacesetter on the Sportsman feature.

The red was thrown on the fourth lap when cars went three-wide in the second turn and found themselves out of racing room. As a result Jim Housworth, who scored his first career victory recently, hit the wall, got turned into traffic and flipped along the backstretch with others involved as they all scattered. All drivers involved were uninjured, with Housworth’s car sustaining heavy damage.

On the restart Mark Kemmerer grabbed the lead trailed by Kreis, another rookie Ryan Higgs along with Henn and Jack Butler, another rookie.

Ken Eckert Jr. brought out the yellow on lap seven as he stopped in the turn one infield at a dangerous spot. The restart was void for a multi-car first turn tangle. On this restart Henn powered into first as Kemmerer seemed to be experiencing problems since he started to fall off the pace loosing several positions.

Challenges for Henn came in the form of Higgs, Kreis, Dean Bachman and Butler with Lisowski, last week’s winner, soon joining the thick of the battle.

Lisowski advanced to second on the 19th lap and set his sights on Henn who had a slight edge built up.

With two laps to go Higgs, who was running a solid third, hit the fourth turn infield marker tire putting him out of contention with the yellow out. Henn was still the leader on the restart with Lisowski giving him no room to error.

It was a drag race to the checkered between Henn and Lisowski, but Henn hung on for the win. Third went to Brett Gilmore followed by Brad Brightbill and Bachman. Completing the top ten were Joe Funk III, Kreis, Butler, Brad Grim and Brian Papiez.

Higgs, Ryan Lilick, Butler and Lisowski were the heat winners. Consies went to Ken Eckert Jr. and Brad Brightbill.

RACE RESULTS

T.P. Trailers Modified Feature (30 Laps): 1. Duane Howard, 2. Craig VonDohren, 3. Tim Buckwalter, 4. Jared Umbenhauer, 5. Mike Gular, 6. Doug Manmiller, 7. John Willman, 8. Billy Pauch Jr., 9. Don Norris Jr., 10. Brian Houseknecht, 11. Kyle Weiss, 12. Chris Gambler, 13. Bobby Gunther-Walsh and 14. Carroll Hine III. DNF: 15. Mike Kellner, 16. Danny Erb, 17. Ray Swinehart, 18. Ryan Grim, 19. Ron Haring Jr., 20. Jeremy Banos, 21. Jeff Strunk, 22. Kenny Gilmore, 23. Chris Esposito, 24. Ron Seltmann Jr., 26. Steve Swinehart, 26. Kevin Hirthler, 27. Eric Biehn, 28. Brett Kressley. DNQ: Justin Grim, Meme DeSantis, Kyle Borror and Kory Fleming.

BRC Late Model Feature (25 Laps): 1. Brian Shuey, 2. Cory Merkel, 3. Lou Egrie Jr., 4. Dan Green, 5. Bill Henning, 6. Lou Egrie, 7. Randy Stoudt, 89. Wayne Pfeil, 9. Dave Ogin, 10. Sean Merkel and 11. Joe Fanelli. DNF: 12. Drew Weisser, 13. Ron Kline, 14. Dirk Rimrott, 15. Shawn Horning, 16. Devin Frey, 17. Chuck Schutz, 18. Eric Hoch and 19. Bryon Sipe.

Sportsman Feature (25 Laps): 1. Jordan Henn, 2. Mike Lisowski, 3. Brett Gilmore, 4. Brad Brightbill, 5. Dean Bachman, 6. Jo Funk III, 7. Andrew Kreis, 8. Jack Butler, 9. Brad Grim, 10. Brian Papiez (alternate), 11. Mark Kemmerer, 12. Brian Hirthler, 13. Kyle Lilick, 14. Mike Stringer, 15. Craig Whitmoyer, and 16. Ken Eckert Jr., DNF: 17. Dylan Swinehart, 18. Ryan Higgs, 19. Skylar Sheriff, 20. Jesse Landis, 21. Kurt Bettler, 22. Ryan Beltz, 23. Lex Shive, 24. Ryan Lilick, 25. Jim Housworth, and 26. Ryan Shupp. DNQ: Derrick Smith, Nathan Mohr, B.J. Joly, Mike Koffel, Paul Houseknecht, Brandon Whitmoyer, Chad Kohler, Josh Adams, Kenny Bock and Pat Conrad.

Grandview Speedway, a one-third-mile, banked clay track, is located on Passmore Road just off Route 100 in Bechtelsville, PA, 10 miles north of Pottstown. A full assortment of great concessions and novelty items are available. Free parking on the grounds. Fans are invited to the competition area after the events are completed to meet the racers. For information telephone 610.754.7688 or check in at www.grandviewspeedway.com, Twitter@GrandviewSpeedway and www.facebook.com/grandviewspeedway along with Rainedout.com(for rainout information).

ERNIE SAXTON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Public Relations, Sponsorship Consultant
Publisher: Motorsports Sponsorship Marketing News
Award winning motorsports journalist
www.saxtonsponsormarket.com
215.752.7797 & 267.934.7286-Esaxton144@aol.com
Esaxton144@aol.com

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NEWS FROM NASCAR SANCTIONED GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY, BECHTELSVILLE, PA
Track promoter: Bruce Rogers @ 610.754.7688
MEDIA CONTACT: Ernie Saxton@215.752.7797-Cell:267.934.7286
EMAIL: Esaxton144@aol.com

Race results written by Vicki Gehris with additions from Ernie Saxton

Coming events:
Saturday, April 30, 7 p.m. NASCAR T.P.Trailers 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.
Sunday, May 1, 1 p.m. Enduro racing and Blast from the Past Vintage Cars.
Note: Saturday night events start at 7:30 p.m. effective May 7th until Freedom 76 weekend.
Saturday, May 7, 7:30 p.m. T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.
Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Whelen Engineering Night: T.P.Trailers NASCAR 358 Modifieds, Late Models and Sportsman stock cars.

COZZE, SCHUTZ, LISOWSKI, PECK AND SMITH GARNISH FEATURE VICTORIES AT GRANDVIEW SATURDAY NIGHT

BECHTELSVILLE, PA. April 24, 2016 – Nine features have been run at Grandview Speedway since the 2016 April opener and thus far it has produced nine different winners in the three regularly scheduled NASCAR divisions.

Frank Cozze, in his second season behind the wheel of the Tom Umbenhauer-owned/Harry’s U-Pull It sponsored mount now sporting the No. 4, was MIA last week attending his daughter’s wedding. He returned this week and started the evening off right by winning the second heat. He then led the T.P. Trailers NASCAR 358 Modified All-American Racing Series 30-Lap feature from start to finish and one-hour prior to winning the event he learned his son and daughter-in-law made him a grandfather. The 60-year old Wind Gap veteran, who hasn’t won since July 2013, didn’t have an easy task in scoring his second Grandview victory. He dealt with lapped cars, three-wide racing with Kenny Gilmore and eventual runner-up Rick Laubach. “The track was tricky tonight because it was slippery and I didn’t want to make any stupid mistakes with the lap cars commented the elated winner and this win really helped the team.”

Defending late model champion Chuck Schutz and the Ty Zeigler-owned team really worked hard the past week to repair the No. ONE car that suffered significant damage the week before in the feature and arrived late to the track as they were putting the finishing touches on the car. Things finally went better for the seven-time champ as he turned crash into cash this week to score his first win of the season in the BRC NASCAR 25-Lap Late Model feature. He couldn’t thank everyone enough for all their efforts.

Sportsman action proved that it isn’t over until it’s over. After Craig Whitmoyer, at the head of the pack, and Mike Lisowski, glued to his bumper trying to regain control went into the first turn after taking the one to go signal, Whitmoyer bobbled a bit. Lisowski quickly took advantage of the situation and took back the lead. Lisowski went on to score his first win of the year.

Cozze, Schutz and Lisowski received monetary awards from T.P. Trailers, Limerick and the Dan’s Deli ½-way hoagie certificate. The Loot For Lap 6 from Gramia’s Restaurant, Boyertown, went to Cozze, Schutz and Brandon Whitmoyer. The Cargo Trailers certificate recipients were Ryan Watt, Modifieds; Corey Merkel, Late Models and Jordan Henn, Sportsman.

On the initial green of the Modified feature, Cozze shot from second and past Bobby Gunther-Walsh to become the early pacesetter.

A homestretch tangle between Brett Kressley and John Willman brought out the first yellow on lap six with Kressley going off on the hook and Willman continued only to drop out later. Cozze held the top spot on the restart while Kenny Gilmore, Rick Laubach, Gunther-Walsh and Kevin Hirthler jockeyed for positions. Anticipating a slip-up so they could advance were Ryan Grim and Jeff Strunk.

By the 16th lap the front runners approached a gaggle of lap cars and had to thread the needle carefully to get by because some didn’t heed the mover-over flag.

The final caution was on the 24th lap when Eric Biehn slowed his pace and was unable to get into the infield quickly enough. As the yellow unfurled Strunk hit the first turn uke tire knocking it onto the track, but didn’t get penalized since it was after the yellow was thrown.

The battle for the lead went three-wide on the restart between Cozze, Gilmore and Laubach with neither one lifting while Grim and Strunk waited for something to happen.

Cozze held off all the competition and went on to claim his second career Grandview win. Grabbing second at the line was Laubach trailed by Gilmore, Grim and Strunk. First through fourth all posted their season best finishes. Jared Umbenhauer, Craig Von Dohren, Hirthler, Duane Howard and Ryan Watt completed the top ten.

Heats winners were Danny Erb, Cozze and Gunther-Walsh. Meme DeSantis won the consi.

Dan Green led four laps of the Late Model feature before Schutz put the Pioneer Pole Building special in first.

Cory Merkel, who was running a solid fourth spun in the fourth turn for the fifth lap caution. Schutz had just moved into first and resumed the position on the restart with Green and Lou Egrie Jr. trying to change the status.

Behind Schutz the action for second was hot and heavy between Green, Egrie Jr., Drew Weisser and Ron Kline with neither one about to give in.

Weisser was in the backstretch wall on the 15th lap after Dave Ogin and he tangled. Ogin continued not losing any spots. Schutz resumed the top spot on the restart while Green, Egrie Jr., Kline and Ogin diced for second through fifth. Soon joining the thick of the battle was opening night feature winner Sean Merkel.

Positions behind Schutz may have constantly been changing, but he never looked back and went on to claim his 41st career win. Finishing second for his season best performance was Green followed by Ogin, S. Merkel and Kline. Rounding out the top ten were Lou Egrie, Egrie Jr., Bill Henning, Brian Shuey, last week’s feature winner, and C. Merkel.

Green and Shuey were the heat winners.

Before the first lap of the Sportsman feature could be scored, an eight-car fourth turn tangle brought out the red. Once things got underway, Brandon Whitmoyer was in charge and immediately pulled away leaving Andrew Kreis, Kurt Bettler, Dylan Swinehart, all rookies second through fourth and Brett Gilmore in tow. Lisowski overtook second on the fourth lap and set his sights on B. Whitmoyer.

It took Lisowski two laps to reel B. Whitmoyer in and one lap to move into first. Behind the pair making it a three-way battle for first was C. Whitmoyer.

C. Whitmoyer overtook his brother Brandon for second on the 12th lap to pressure Lisowski for the top spot. Lisowski and C. Whitmoyer swapped paint many times, but the lead remained the same.

C. Whitmoyer took advantage of lap traffic on the 22nd lap with the pair still rubbing and move into first. After getting the white flag and on his way to a possible victory, C. Whitmoyer slipped up going into the first turn. Lisowski quickly pounced on the situation and was back in front.

Lisowski didn’t give up first and was in victory lane for his sixth career victory with C. Whitmoyer a close second. Finishing third was B. Whitmoyer trailed by Joe Funk and Gilmore. Sixth was Ryan Lilick followed by Brad Brightbill, Jim Housworth, Dean Bachman and Jordan Henn. B. Whitmoyer, Dylan Swinehart and Housworth won the heats. The consi went to Brad Brightbill.

Ronnie Peck, the ’74 and ’75 Grandview Late Model point champion, and Dave Smith were the winners of the two 15-lap Blast From the Past Vintage Car features.

RACE RESULTS

T.P. Trailers Modified Feature (30 Laps): 1. Frank Cozze, 2. Rick Laubach, 3. Kenny Gilmore, 4. Ryan Grim, 5. Jeff Strunk, 6. Jared Umbenhauer, 7. Craig VonDohren, 8. Kevin Hirthler, 9. Duane Howard, 10. Ryan Watt, 11. Tim Buckwalter, 12. Mike Gular, 13. Danny Erb, 14. Kyle Borror, 15. Doug Manmiller, 16. Meme DeSantis, 17. Steve Swinehart, 18. Don Norris Jr., 19. Brian Houseknecht, 20. Justin Grim, 21. Mike Kellner, 22. Chris Esposito and 23. Bobby Gunther-Walsh. DNF: Eric Biehn, Ray Swinehart, John Willman, Ron Seltmann Jr. and Brett Kressley. DNQ: Ron Haring Jr., Chris Gambler, Kory Fleming and Jeremy Banos.

BRC Late Model Feature (25 Laps): 1. Chuck Schutz, 2. Dan Green, 3. Dave Ogin, 4. Sean Merkel, 5. Ron Kline, 6. Lou Egrie, 7. Lou Egrie Jr., 8. Bill Henning, 9. Brian Shuey, 10. Cory Merkel, 11. Wayne Pfeil, 12. Devin Frey, 13. Joe Fanelli, 14. Shawn Horning and 15. Dirk Rimrott. DNF: Drew Weisser, Bryon Sipe and Eric Hoch.

Sportsman Feature (25 Laps): 1. Mike Lisowski, 2. Craig Whitmoyer, 3. Brandon Whitmoyer, 4. Joe Funk, 5. Brett Gilmore, 6. Ryan Lilick, 7. Brad Brightbill, 8. Jim Housworth, 9. Dean Bachman, 10. Jordan Henn, 11. Ryan Beltz, 12. Brian Hirthler, 13. Mark Kemmerer, 14. Ken Eckert Jr., 15. Paul Houseknecht, 16. Ryan Higgs, 17. Kyle Lilick, 18. Jack Butler, 19. Josh Adams, 20. Rich Jones and 21. Lex Shive. DNF: Dylan Swinehart, Andrew Kries, Kurt Bettler, Mike Stringer and Chris Jenkins.

Blast From The Past Feature (1st 15 Laps): 1. Ronnie Peck, 2. Kevin Kuser, 3. Mike Garris Jr. 4. Jack Reifnsyder, 5. Randy Bailey.

Blast From The Past Feature (2nd 15 Laps): 1. Dave Smith, 2. Wyatt Jacobus, 3. Bill Gerhart, 4. Todd Lapp, 5. Tom Orth, 6. Rich Decker, 7. Dave Dissinger, 8. Kerry Breon, 9. Booner Brush, 10. Rick Mutter.

NASCAR stock car racing returns to Grandview Speedway on Saturday, April 30th at 7 p.m. The T.P.Trailers, BRC Late Models and Sportsman stock cars will be the tripleheader attraction with at least 12 events making up the exciting night of auto racing. Spectator gates open at 5 p.m. and at the same time the weekly Low Down and Dirty Meet & Greet, featuring three different drivers and their race cars, will take place in the main gate area.

Adult admission is just $15 with youngsters under 12 admitted free. Military with proper ID are admitted free also.

Then on Sunday, May 1, 1 p.m. there is Enduro and Blast from the Past Vintage car racing.

Grandview Speedway, a one-third-mile, banked clay track, is located on Passmore Road just off Route 100 in Bechtelsville, PA, 10 miles north of Pottstown. A full assortment of great concessions and novelty items are available. Free parking on the grounds. Fans are invited to the competition area after the events are completed to meet the racers. For information telephone 610.754.7688 or check in at www.grandviewspeedway.com, Twitter@GrandviewSpeedway and www.facebook.com/grandviewspeedway along with Rainedout.com(for rainout information).

ERNIE SAXTON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Public Relations, Sponsorship Consultant
Publisher: Motorsports Sponsorship Marketing News
Award winning motorsports journalist
www.saxtonsponsormarket.com
215.752.7797 & 267.934.7286-Esaxton144@aol.com
Esaxton144@aol.com