ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/10/08 - Everybody knew it was only a matter of time before 18-year-old Red Lion High School senior Cody Darrah would find victory lane. Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway, Darrah did that and more.

For starters, Darrah grabbed the lead from Dallastown’s Cory Haas on the 20^th lap of the April 26^th make-up feature and drove away to his first career 410 sprint win.

But the night was young, and Darrah didn’t stop there.

With the confidence of his first win under his belt, Darrah made two daring moves from his seventh-starting position of the regularly-scheduled 25-lap 410 sprint feature to grab the lead from Haas again on the fifth lap. Later in the race, he drove like a veteran over the final 11 laps with all-time win leader Fred Rahmer chasing him. And thus, he drove away to an unprecedented second career win on the very same night.

"It just doesn’t get old getting here...this is awesome," said Darrah about his second career visit to victory lane in the same night, "I thought I could get another win sometime after my first one, but to get it in the same night is unbelievable!"

"A monkey could be sitting in this (car), a monkey IS sitting in this...this thing is flying around this place," said Darrah on how good his J&K Salvage/Rudisill’s Auto Body/Eckert Trucking/Eichelberger’s U-Pull-It No.89 sprinter was this night, "My hat’s off to Lee Stauffer my crew chief, I didn’t think the car could get any better after the first race...I am absolutely shell-shocked."

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 5/3/08 - A bizarre twist of fate during a mid-race red flag gave Jeff Shepard the break he needed in the 5^th Annual Weldon Sterner Memorial for "410" sprint cars at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night.

And the Upperco, MD, sprint star took advantage, to claim his first win in three years in the Pigeon Hills.

Shepard started fifth and was running second when a flipping Jeff Busby stopped green flag action for the first time in the event.

During the red, Cody Darrah, who took the lead from race-long leader T.J. Stutts on the seventh lap, was forced into the pits to change a flat right rear. The leader change also put two lapped cars back onto the lead lap, and put the Zemco Headers/Zemco Tool & Die #1 on the point for the restart.

Shepard, who ran his first sprint car race at Lincoln 21 years ago, drove away from the rest of the field to score a 3.59-second win and claim the $5,000 top prize in the 30 lap contest.

Defending champ Fred Rahmer came from 20^th starting spot to pass Stutts for second on the 21^st lap, but could not close on Shepard. In fact, Shepard double his lead over the final nine laps.