YORK, PA, 11/20/10 - Lincoln Speedway track champions and special year-end awards were handed out at the Holiday Inn in York Saturday night, November 20th. Close to 400 people were in attendance to watch the crowning of the 410 sprint, 358 sprint, thundercar, and 358 late model champions for 2010. The top finishers in the season -long point series for all four divisions were honored as well as special awards.

It was another banner year for Phoenxville’s Brian Montieth, whose four wins included the Lincoln Spring Championship, Lincoln’s 58th Anniversary show, and a win in one of the two All-Star shows en route to his third straight Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprint Track Championship.

The driver known as "the Edge" dominated with 107 feature laps led during the season. And his four wins bumped him up to 15th on the all-time Lincoln career win list with legends Bud Folkenroth and Bobby Hersh at 20.

In 25 events, Montieth amassed 20 top-10 and 16 top-five finishes to go along with his four wins.

Montieth’s third title also placed him alongside Bobby Allen, Bobby Abel, and Kenny Weld as former three-time track champs. Only Fred Rahmer (10) and Steve Smith (9) have more track championships.

It was also car owner Jerry Parrish’s third track championship as well as sponsors Premiere Auto Works and Auto Locator. Montieth’s title also secured chief wrench Scott Zellers his third Mechanic of the Year award, too.

The Most improved driver of 2010, Myerstown’s Brent Marks, not only picked up his first career win, but two wins on the season to finish second in season points. He finished in the top ten 16 times and the top five seven times on the year.

Denver’s Alan Krimes actually had more top fives (17) and top tens (21) than any other driver at Lincoln during 2010. He scored two season wins and finished third in the final championship point standings, just 20 points behind Marks.

It was his third straight top three finish in season points. Krimes was in the hunt for the coveted track title all year long and earned his second straight Sportsmanship Award winner for his on-and-off track efforts.

10-time track champion Fred Rahmer of Salfordville made some noise too in 2010 as he won two back-to-back races early in the season (including the first All-Star race) to up his all-time win leader total to 166 wins. In all, Rahmer recorded 15 top-10 finishes along with eight top-fives en route to his fourth place finish in the final point standings.

For a second straight year, New Oxford’s Brian Leppo finished fifth in points on the heels of five top-fives and 13 top-10 finishes. Leppo’s lone win came on the second race of the year March 27th.

Though he didn’t score a win in 2010, York’s Johnny Mackison completed a solid year by scoring two top five and 12 top ten finishes en route to a sixth-place finish in the point standings.

Completing the top ten in season points were Danny Dietrich (1win), rookie-of-the year Brad McClelland, Jimmy Siegel, and Cory Haas (1 win).

Other Lincoln wins in 2010 were recorded by former track champ Lance Dewease (with four wins on a limited appearance schedule and a new 20-lap track record on August 28th), Mark Smith (with two wins, including first career Lincoln win in the Icebreaker 30 to open the season and opening night of PA Speedweek), Doug Esh, Greg Hodnett (season finale), and first-time career winners Aaron Ott, Daryn Pittman, John Rudisill, and Adam Wilt.

All told, there were 15 different winners in 25 races at Lincoln in 2010.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 10/16/10 - Greg Hodnett wasn’t coming off the top of the speedway in Saturday night’s season finale for 410 Sprint cars at Lincoln Speedway.

And if someone drove by him, Hodnett said they deserved the win.

No one got around Hodnett during the 25-lap feature as he grabbed the lead on lap one and held back three-time defending track champion Brian Montieth for his first win of the season at the track.

"Brian was running real good and was pressuring us pretty good," said Hodnett, who earned $3,000 for the Jim and Sandy Kline owned team. "I was just gonna run up top and if somebody drove by then good for them. It’s pretty much been the top all year when I’ve been here and I know when Lance (Dewease) won Speedweek he said he wasn’t getting off the top for nothing and I pretty much thought the same thing. We started towards the front in the heat and feature and we held on tonight."

Front row starters Tim Glatfelter and Brent Marks tangled on the start of the feature collecting Dewease, Gerard McIntyre and Johnny Mackison.

Hodnett, who originally started third, moved to the front row and grabbed the lead over Montieth and kept Montieth at bay during several yellow flags and two red flags during the first eight laps of the feature.

The first red flag was for Mackison, who rolled his sprinter on lap five and the second red flag displayed on lap eight when Brad McClelland and Josh Wells flipped on the backstretch. Neither driver were injured.

Montieth tried to slide Hodnett on the lap eight restart but Hodnett pulled away as Daryn Pittman, Fred Rahmer and 18th starting Brian Leppo made up the top five.

Hodnett was able to work through lapped traffic on lap 17 but on the final lap, he caught a pack of cars battling for position and nearly had one of the cars spin directly in front of him in turn one.

"I had to run hard because Brian was right there and we got up to the 48 (Danny Dietrich) and he was trying to race a guy and almost got crossed up and turned sideways in front of us," stated Hodnett after his 23rd career Lincoln feature win. "Luckily we got off the gas and we weren’t too tight and rolled around there. But I was figuring Brian would give us a good shot in turn three and four but I never saw him so I guess we were able to get down the backstretch pretty good."

Hodnett, of Thomasville, also the 2010 Williams Grove Speedway track champion scored the win over Montieth, of Phoenixvlle, Owasso, Oklahoma’s Pittman, Salfordville’s Pittman and New Oxford’s Leppo with Mark Smith, Justin Henderson, Cory Haas, Chad Layton and Alan Krimes.

Heats for the 28 "410" Sprints were won by Fred Rahmer, Jim Siegel and Doug Dodson with Danny Dietrich winning the consolation.

Four different leaders ran out front of the season finale for the thundercars as Sam Gallagher came from 12th starting spot to take control on lap 16 and scored his fifth win of the season.

While Gallagher was leading, Gino Comi and Mike Slaybaugh were battling for the track championship both one lap down to the leaders after some early race problems.

Comi finished 11th and claimed his first career Lincoln title.

Hurricane Menges led the first two laps as Kyle Martin led the next three laps before yielding to Duane Watson.

Watson led until lap 16 then Gallagher took the lead and drove to the win over Watson, Travis Beaver, Allan Cullum and Tom Walls.

Danny Beard and Duane Watson were heat race winners for the 20 thundercars.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 10/9/10 - Never give up!

Denver’s Alan Krimes thought he lost the race when he got jammed up behind a lapped car on lap nine and watched polesitter Brian Montieth fly by into the lead. But Krimes fought back, and swapped the lead several more times with the three-time track champ before taking control for good on lap 22, and raced to his second Lincoln win of 2010 in a thrilling 25-lap 22^nd Annual Hank Gentzler Memorial/Manufacturers Night feature.

"I thought we were done," said Krimes upon exiting his Conestoga Valley Garage/Krimes Racing Engines/Mike’s Powerwash No.87 in victory lane, "I kind of diamonded the corner (turn 4) and got behind the 19H car and he slowed down an awful lot, and then his hands hanging outside the car (signaling he was going to the infield) and I thought, ‘Oh no’, and Montieth drove away."

Krimes, who started outside Montieth on the front row, grabbed the lead following two failed attempts to start the event with Montieth hot on his heels. Following a caution restart on the third lap for a stopped Steve Buckwalter, Krimes, Montieth, third-starting Lance Dewease, fourth-starting Fred Rahmer and sixth-starting Gerard McIntyre, Jr. set a torrid pace and approached lapped traffic on lap nine.

Krimes suddenly found himself behind a slower car, made contact, with Montieth taking advantage of the situation and drove by on the frontstretch.

"I thought that might have been the race there," said Krimes. "But luckily, the lapped cars held him up just enough so I could get close enough to him.

But just when everyone thought Montieth would check out from that point, Krimes got back on the gas and started to close the gap quickly. On the 18^th lap ,Krimes slid under Montieth exiting the fourth turn to beat him to the line to complete the lap, just as Brad McClelland stopped in turn two to bring out the caution. At that point, both Greg Hodnett and Brian Leppo pulled into the pits.

On the restart, Rahmer got a run on Dewease and got by to move into third. At that point Montieth made another charge on Krimes to retake the lead on the 19^th lap.

But Krimes was not done.

Krimes passed Montieth on the backstretch of the 19^th lap and took the high-line away from Montieth entering turn three. That was just what Krimes needed as he powered off the fourth turn with the lead and held firm the remaining laps to take the checkered 1.10-seconds ahead of Montieth for his eighth career Lincoln win.

"Finally we got the better end of a caution there and I just had him at the line when that yellow came out," Krimes said, "That put me back in front of him, and what can you say after that. "I don’t know that there’s anyone more fun to race with that Brian, to tell you the truth," added Krimes, "He gave me plenty of room and I gave him plenty of room...and it was who came out with the fastest car and luckily, I held him off. After that last restart, it was just an all-out battle there."

Rahmer held on to third, with Dewease fourth, and McIntyre fifth.

Completing the top-10 were Chad Layton, Justin Henderson, 21^st-starting Adam Wilt, 22^nd-starting Danny Dietrich, and Mark Smith.