ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/29/09 - It was a tale of two races at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night. And the more things changed, the more they stayed the same.

Defending track champ Brian Montieth didn’t take kindly to being edged by 23^rd-starting Fred Rahmer for sixth at the line of the first of Twin 20's for the 410 sprint cars and losing the points lead to second-place finisher Alan Krimes. So he went out and won the second feature.

The irony was that Montieth’s seventh-place finish (eight-thousandths of-a-second behind Rahmer) put Montieth up one row to sixth starting spot for the second feature event.

Montieth passed polesitter Bobby Weaver for third by the end of the fourth lap, then caught Cory Haas for second on a 10^th-lap restart. He pulled onto the back bumper of race-long leader Johnny Mackison, Jr. during a 13^th-lap caution for a spinning Brian Leppo in turn four, and chased the B&B Metal Refinishing #65 for the next two lap before making the race-winning pass under Mackison coming off turn four of lap 14.

Montieth pulled away to a two and-a-half second lead on lap 17 before entering lapped traffic on the final lap and crossing .81 seconds ahead of Rahmer, who caught Mackison for second on lap 17.

Ninth-starting Cody Darrah got by Mackison for third at the finish line, with Krimes coming from 11^th to finish fifth.

The win put Montieth and Krimes back where they started in points at the beginning of the night, with Montieth holding a narrow 10-point lead heading into the final points race of the season next Saturday night.

18-year-old Gerard McIntyre, Jr. scored his first career win in the crash-marred opener.

The crashes started early, with Jim Siegel flipping in turns three and four of the first lap. Siegel collected Rahmer, who tipped onto his side. The crash also took out the Racers Used Part Warehouse #88 of Danny Dietrich, who needed brief medical attention before walking to the pits.

Rahmer was able to return to the starting grid, and came through the field to edge Montieth for sixth at the line. That gave Krimes a brief 15-point lead entering the second feature of the night.

McIntyre, who started sixth, grabbed the lead from polesitter and race-long leader Todd Rittenhouse, Jr. coming off turn two of an 11^th-lap restart.

That pass came just before a spectacular crash which saw third-place Doug Esh vault higher than the catch fence in turn two, bringing out the red. Though he was conscious and talking to emergency crews, Esh was taken to York Hospital with an unspecified back injury.

Ott assumed third after the crash. But on the restart, second-place Rittenhouse did a wheelie coming off turn four and came down on Ott, sending the Miller Automotive/Don Ott Racing Engines #25 into a series of flips on the frontstretch, bringing out the red again. Ott was uninjured in the crash.

That put 11^th-starting Krimes in the runner-up spot for the restart, but McIntyre was up to the challenge, driving flawlessly over the remaining eight non-stop laps to cross .63 seconds ahead Krimes. Mark Smith, Darrah, and 18^th-starting Daryn Pittman completed the top five. Sixth through tenth were Rahmer, Montieth; Rittenhouse , Brent Marks and Haas.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/21/09 - After reeling off 22 straight racing programs, Lincoln Speedway was forced to bow to the weather Saturday night, August 22^nd. With the threat of rain all around the Central Pennsylvania area, Lincoln Speedway promoters Bob and Don Leiby, along with Alan Kreitzer, were hopeful as the a light drizzle began to fall just 15 minutes before the gates were scheduled to open.

With no significant change in the radar after two hours of watching and waiting, the promoters were forced to cancel the racing program.

"Kids Night" has been rescheduled for next Saturday, August 29^th. It was also the second of two York County Racing Club Nights on the season, and promoters will check with the club before rescheduling the next club night before season’s end.

The cancellation now reduces the number of 410 sprint car point races remaining in ‘09 to three, two of which will be the "Twin 20's" next Saturday night.

That points chase will likely go down the final laps of the last points race on Fisher Auto Parts Night September 5^th. Defending champ Brian Montieth holds a ten-point lead over Alan Krimes entering next Saturday’s Twin 20's.

The 358 sprint cars now have just one event remaining on the season, the 358 Sprint Car Championship to be held on Saturday, September 12^th. That puts Dale Hammaker in the driver’s seat for the 2009 "358" sprint point championship. He has a 165 point lead on Glenndon Forsythe heading into the final event. The only other driver who has a mathematical shot at the point title is defending champ Jeff Rohrbaugh, who is 180 points behind Hammaker.

Next Saturday night, August 29th, Lincoln Speedway will hold Twin 20's for the 410 Sprints in the next to last point event in the season-long battle for the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprint Championship. Rounding out the evening’s racing program will be the always thrilling thundercars. It’ll also be Kids Night, with prizes for the kids one-week later than planned. Racing action will get underway at 7 PM, with gates opening at 5 PM and hot laps taking to the track at 6:30 PM.

To get all the latest news, results, schedule changes and rule changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at http://www.lincolnspeedway.com to stay up-to-date on all the action or pending weather conditions at Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday night race track - The Fabulous Lincoln Speedway.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/15/09 - He might have not know where he was, but the fans did.

And Danny Dietrich took advantage of a late caution to win a three-car battle for the lead and claim his second win of the year in the 25-lap "410" sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night.

" I don’t even know where I came from," said Dietrich jokingly in victory lane. "At the beginning I thought we were going to be in trouble. We went back and Cory (Haas) and Cris (Eash) passed up like we were sitting still and the next thing you know here comes Alan (Krimes) and the caution comes out. I’m sitting in 10^th and thinking we’ll just salvage something out of this. I didn’t feel good at all."

"We went back green and it seems like I was racing with Cris and Alan the whole time and the next thing you know the caution comes out and I’m sitting in third," said Dietrich, "I couldn’t believe it! I didn’t realize where I was."

Actually, Dietrich was in third by the time the final caution of the race came out for a stopped Doug Esh on the backstretch of lap 20. The caution was a bad break for tenth-starting Cory Haas, who had chased down Big Block Weaver and took the lead exiting turn two as the caution flag waved, forcing Haas back to second for the restart.

One lap later, Weaver, Haas, and Dietrich raced three-wide into turn one, with Haas doing a ‘360' and continuing but losing several spots. At the same time, Dietrich took to the cushion to drive around Weaver for the race lead. From there, he drove away to a 2.58-second win over Cris Eash, who passed Weaver for the runner-up spot on the last lap.

Weaver settled for third, with 12^th-starting Alan Krimes fourth and 14^th-starting Jim Siegel fifth. Completing the top ten were 22^nd-starting Brian Montieth, polesitter Ed Aiken (who led the first 10 laps before yielding to Weaver), Haas, Brian Leppo, and Brent Marks.

Heats for the 26 "410" Sprints were won by Todd Rittenhouse Jr., Aikin, and Big Block Weaver, with Esh winning the Consolation.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/12/09 - Lincoln Speedway is Rick Eckert’s house. And he proved it again Wednesday night, even with throttle problems.

Hometown hero Rick Eckert of York helped the Grinestaff family celebrate the race’s namesake by leading all 40-laps of the $7,000-to-win Second Annual Chargin’ Charlie Grinestaff Memorial at Lincoln Speedway Wednesday night.

"I love coming here and watching my nephew (Cody Darrah) run sprint cars," said Eckert after pulling the Raye Vest Racing #24 into victory lane, "I don’t know what happened, but during that first caution, I don’t know if something broke in the throttle linkage in the secondary got stickin’. They were wanting me to slow down during those caution flags, but I was burning the brakes out trying to slow down!"

The Grinestaff Memorial was originally scheduled as race five of seven of the Inaugural Appalachian Mountain Dirt Late Model Speedweek series back on June the 10^th, but was postponed due to rain after all the heats and one consolation were in the book.

And with only three cars on hand for the continuation of the second consolation, the consolation was not needed and all that remained was the big 40-lap feature.

Eckert drove from his outside front row starting position into the lead over polesitter Jeff Rine at the drop of the green. Fourth-starting Jason Covert got around Rine for second before the first lap was complete, with third-starting DJ Myers and sixth-starting Booper Bare running fourth and fifth respectively by the end of the opening lap.

Eckert opened up a slim .72-second lead as he was about to enter lapped traffic on the seventh lap when the caution waved for Steve Francis who stopped on the frontstretch.

Eckert continued to lead Covert and Rine through a series of cautions on lap nine for a slowing Scotty Haus and on lap 15 for a stopped DJ Myers, who was running fourth at the time.

Eckert entered lapped traffic on lap 23 as he continued to lead Covert by 1.79-seconds, with Rine still in third. Seventh-starting Josh Richards began pressuring Rine for third on the 20^th-lap and on the 23^rd lap "Kid Rocket" made the pass to enter the top-three.

The race’s final caution with 15 laps to go for a stopped Jason Miller allowed Covert and Richards one last chance to catch Eckert.

But Eckert got a good restart and gradually began to pull away as the laps wound down. He took the checkered 1.32-seconds ahead of Covert for the $7,000 win, $2,000 of which was added by the Grinestaff family.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/8/09 - "That guy’s an animal."

So said car owner Jerry Parrish as his driver Brian Montieth pulled into victory lane after claiming his sixth Lincoln win of the year in the Sixth Annual Weldon Sterner Memorial for "410" sprint cars Saturday night.

Lincoln’s defending champ reclaimed the points lead after winning a dual with Alan Krimes over the final laps of a thrilling 30-lap feature event.

An inversion of eight following time trials put Montieth in seventh for the start. He advanced to fifth by the end of the first lap and got by fourth-starting Aaron Ott for third on lap four. He was still running there when Aaron Ott struck the outside wall, spun, and collected Doug Esh in turn two of lap nine.

At the time, polesitter Jim Siegel had led every lap and Krimes was running second after spotting the runner-up spot to Ott for the first lap and then reclaiming second on lap two.

Siegel, Krimes, and Montieth ran first through third until lap 16, when Siegel dove low as the leaders were racing through lapped traffic in turns one and two and struck the 11C of Cory Haas, resulting in a Haas flip and a Siegel spin. Also collected in the crash were Mark Smith and Shawn Weaver, who were running fourth and fifth.

"I had a good start," said Montieth in victory lane, "Unfortunately, traffic bit Jimmy this time. I don’t know if Alan was running conservative because of where we are in points, but I learned from Cris (Eash) last year that you just go. I had nothing to lose at that point."

Krimes assumed the lead for the restart, with Montieth on his rear bumper and fast time timer and eighth-starting Brian Leppo third. Though Montieth challenged the leader several times, those three were scored first through third for the next nine laps.

The driver known as "The Edge" stayed on the cushion through the middle of turns three and four, and dove low off turn four to grab the race lead from Krimes as the leaders exited turn four to complete lap 25. Krimes came back to drive alongside the Premier Auto Works/Auto Locator/EZ Go/Bricker’s Fries #21 as the two completed lap 26, and the two passed each other several times in lapped traffic over the next two laps before Montieth finally took charge with two laps to go.

Leppo caught Krimes for second coming off the final turn to the finish, with Krimes settling for third, Cris Eash coming from 16^th to finish fourth, and Josh Wells fifth.

Danny Dietrich won the Brian Brenneman Painting and Wallpapering $200 hard charger award, coming from 21^st starting spot to cross sixth. Mark Smith came from the back to finish seventh, with Doug Dodson, Johnny Mackison, Jr., and Niki Young completing the top ten.

Montieth’s 15^th career Lincoln win was worth $4,000, part of which came from numerous sponsors who worked with Pat Sterner and Don Althoff to organize the Sterner Memorial event.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/1/09 - Just when it looked like Lincoln Speedway was going to get its 10^th different winner in 10 "358" sprint events in 2009, the leaders collided coming off turn four to the checkered.

That opened the door for Lewisberry’s Kyle Moody to move from third to first for the one-lap dash to the checkered. And Moody didn’t pass the opportunity up as he held of John Barnett and Adrian Shaffer over the final lap to become the first repeat winner in 2009 in the 20-lap 358 sprint feature.

"I was running the car real hard and I felt like I was right there with them," said Moody in victory lane,"Those guys were getting real racey and I didn’t want to bust up the equipment again...we’ve been having bad luck the last two weeks...so I figured I’ll settle for third and be happy."

"Then on the last lap," continued Moody, "I thought, ‘They’re going to hit each other.’ They got into each other...and I’ll take ‘em any way I can have ‘em. Man, it was fun!"

Moody’s unexpected win came after race long leader Derek Sell was trying to hold off Nicole Bower for the win as they raced through the final turns to the checkered. Bower dove low under Sell entering the turns and slid up and crashed into the side of Sell, sending him tumbling as the checkered was quickly replaced by the red flag.

Sell raced into the lead from his outside front row starting spot at the drop of the green with fourth-starting Bower following. After a third lap red flag for a Mike Ressler roll-over in turn 3, sixth-starting Jason Clauss got around polesitter Brie Hershey to move into third place, with fifth-starting Moody following Clauss to move into fourth.

Following a Matt Boland spin on lap 10, Bower began to pressure Sell for the top spot as Moody went to work on Clauss for third. Moody finally worked his way past Class for third on the 14^th lap.

As the leaders entered the final turns to the checkered, Bower drove hard into turn three and tried to pull a slider on Sell for the win. But Bower’s sprinter never cleared Sell and collided, sending them both up into the fourth turn wall with Sell rolling over.

Moody led the final lap, with Barnett and Shaffer second and third. Dale Hammaker padded his Lincoln points lead with a fourth-place finish, followed by 11^th-starting Jeff Rohrbaugh. Sixth through tenth were Glenndon Forsythe, Clauss, 18^th-starting Brad McClelland, 20^th-starting Tim Berkheimer, and Hershey.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 7/25/09 - Matt Boland took advantage of a spin by the leader to assume the race lead and drive away to his first career Lincoln win in the "358" sprint car feature Saturday night.

Boland’s race-winning move may have come on the first lap, when he drove around third-starting Nicole Bower and second-starting Keith Prutzman to move into second. He was in a solid runner-up spot when leader Derek Sell spun while battling lapped cars in turn two of lap nine.

That put the Dover driver in the lead for the restart, and Boland drove a flawless race the rest of the way to cross 1.82 seconds ahead of 11^th-starting Jeff Rohrbaugh. Rohrbaugh was nearly three seconds behind Boland when he drove under Doug Hammaker for second on lap 14. Though he closed on Boland, the defending Lincoln champ was unable to mount a challenge.

"I figured out after a while here at Lincoln that you don’t win until the checkered falls, and I don’t get excited until now!" said a happy Boland upon exiting his Trail Motors/ABC 27 sprinter in victory lane, "This is last year’s car, but we just put it together for this week. This is the first time out with it."

Doug Hammaker completed his best-ever Lincoln run in third, with Prutzman and ninth-starting Kevin Nagy completing the top five. Sixth through tenth were Glenndon Forsythe, 13^th-starting Adrian Shaffer, Bower, points leader Dale Hammaker (who won one of the consolation events and started 18^th), and Eric Tomecek.

Heats for the 37 "358" Sprints were won by Doug Hammaker, Kyle Moody, Boland, and Prutzman, with Jay Galloway and Dale Hammaker winning twin consolations.

Bobby Beard scored his first Lincoln win of the year in the 20-lap "358" late model feature. Like Boland in the sprints, Beard started fourth and moved into the runner-up spot on the first lap. He then drove under polesitter Roy Miller for the lead on lap two and led the rest of the way.

With the win, Beard got a leg up on his fellow competitors in the three-night Lincoln/Williams Grove/ Trail-Way "Shootout" paying a $500 bonus to the race team that has the best combined finishes from all three tracks. The "Shootout" series, sponsored by Staub Brothers, Frankie’s Used Auto Parts, Chaz’s Used Auto Parts, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, and Insinger Performance, will continue next Saturday (8/1) at Williams Grove and conclude at Trail-Way Speedway on Friday, August 14^th.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 7/18/09 - After crashing early and finishing last the previous week, Jimmy Siegel simmered all week thinking about the lost chance in a really fast car. Saturday night, the third generation driver from New Oxford made up for it in grand fashion.

Siegel charged from his ninth starting spot to pass veteran racer Bobby Weaver on a fifth-lap restart for the lead and went unchallenged the rest of the way to earn his first win of the year in the 25 lap 410 sprint feature at Lincoln Speedway.

The third generation driver then held the potential fourth generation Siegel in victory lane - his son Jude.

"This is my son Jude," said Siegel as he introduced his baby son after exiting his N-Line/Orndorf Construction/CH Folf & Sons Feeds #59 in victory lane, "I’ve been wanting to get here to get photos of his first victory lane. He’s here every week, and I guess there’ll be another problem here in a few years!"

"I was bound and determined this week," added Siegel, "I had a really good car last week and I kinda’ put myself in a little bit of a predicament on the start and got banged up. I just had a lot of drive this week. I wanted to come back and win. We had a good chance last week and I let it slip through my fingers."

Polesitter Bobby Weaver held off outside front row starter Shawn "Big Block" Weaver at the drop of the green to hold the top spot until lap three, when Danny Dietrich and Fred Rahmer made contact in turns three and four, resulting in a Dietrich spin. During the caution, 10-time track champion Fred Rahmer’s sprinter was accidently struck by a push truck as Rahmer was entering the pits with a flat right front tire. Rahmer was given time to make repairs and rejoined the field.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 7/4/09 - "You never give up!"

That was what Aspers’ Glenndon Forsythe proclaimed in victory lane after picking up his first win of 2009 in the 25-lap "358" sprint feature at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night.

Forsythe, who led from the outset, lost the lead to a charging Jeff Rohrbaugh on lap 21. It looked like he would have to settle for second place. But Rohrbaugh began losing control in the turns over the final two laps, opening the door for Forsythe. Forsythe jumped to the inside, drove into the lead, and raced away to his third career Lincoln victory in the $1,200-to-win event.

With the win, Forsythe became the seventh different winner in seven 358 sprint events in 2009 at the Pigeon Hills oval.

Third-starting Forsythe grabbed the lead over polesitter Dale Hammaker and outside frontrow starter Billy Dietrich. Dietrich got by Hammaker on lap two to move into second. But a near spin on lap five allowed Hammaker to move back into the runner-up spot.

Meanwhile Rohrbaugh, who started sixth, was working his way to the front and drove past Dietrich on lap eight to move into third. As Forsythe entered lapped traffic on the 13^th lap Rohrbaugh began to close the gap.

Then with five laps to go, Rohrbaugh dove low under Forsythe to take the lead in turns one and two.

With the two-laps to go flags in hand coming off the fourth turn Rohrbaugh’s sprinter began to come around on him exiting the turn. And Forsythe was there immediately diving under the flailing Rohrbaugh and drove by into the lead. Forsythe never looked back over the final two laps and took the checkered 1.26-seconds ahead of the Roy Vincent Racing #7v for the popular win.

Points leader Hammaker finished third, with fourth-starting Brad McClelland fourth and Dietrich settling for fifth. Completing the top-10 were Chad Criswell, Scott Geesey, Matt Boland, Jay Galloway, and Tim Berkheimer.

Heats for the 39 "358" sprinters were won by Forsythe, Criswell, Dale Hammaker, and Rohrbaugh, with Kevin Nagy and Adrian Shaffer winning twin consolation events.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 6/28/09 - A wild night of racing that included a flip by one Murphy brother while leading and a disqualification the other Murphy brother when he was light at the scales saw Arkansas driver Travis Senter declared the winner of night number two of PA 600cc Micro-Sprint Speedweek at Lincoln Speedway Sunday night.

Penske Racing employee Ben Murphy came home from Concord, NC and came from 21st starting spot to take the lead from Senter on lap 15 and cross under the checkered flag first in the 25-lap "A" main. But he was light at the scales after the race, and the win was awarded to Senter.

Senter was also one of the cars Ben’s brother Jake passed for the lead coming off turn two of lap 14, but the pass involved contact, and Jake flipped down the backstretch just after taking the lead from his fourth starting spot.

Seventh-starting Heath Hehnly crossed third at the finish, but was awarded second after the Murphy disqualification. Third through fifth were Shane Lewis, Ryan Greth, and hard charger Tyler Walton (who started 20th). Sixth through tenth were Brett Schoenly, Ryan Smith, opening night Speedweek winner Mike Dicely, Jimmy Brookens, and Mike Rutherford.

Ninety-six (96) micros turned out for the Lincoln Speedweek show, with cars qualifying through for the "A" main through a series of 20 qualifying events (two for each of the cars), a "C" main, and a "B" main.

The "A" main was lined up heads-up by points gathered in the heats, with Tyson Hall gathering the most points and starting the pole. Hall failed to finish the feature and was credited with 18th finishing position.

It was heartbreak in the Pigeon Hills for one driver and a first-ever win for another driver in the 20-lap All-American Outlaw feature.

Gettysburg’s Dylan Keim took the lead when polesitter and race-long leader Joe Alder suffered a flat tire coming off turn two of the final lap to score his first career win. Keim, who started 11th, worked his way to the runner-up spot when he got by Al Daniels on lap 15. He could never get close enough to challenge the Alder #44, but he was there to take advantage as Alder fought to regain control of his ill-handling car.

Bill Brown, Jr. came from 21st starting spot to finish third, with Alder limping home fourth and Fred Cullum crossing fifth.

Heats for the 24 All-American Outlaws were won by Alder, Al Daniels, and Kevin Palmer.