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.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 4/12/08 - With blackened skies and lightning in the backdrop, Lincoln Speedway officials made a gallant effort to beat the impending storms which swept through the Central Pennsylvania area Saturday night.

But just after all qualifying was completed, which included record-breaking performances in the 410 Sprint heats, the skies opened up in a deluge of rain, hail and lightening just as the sprinters were being called to the track for there feature.

Once the weather front moved into the Pigeon Hills area it was quickly apparent that it would not leave anytime soon, forcing officials to postpone the three features to later dates.

No definitive make-up dates were immediately set.

Initial tentative make-up dates discussed would have the Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 410 sprints makeup feature on May 10^th and the Pennsylvania 305 sprints would make-up there feature when they return on August 30^th. No date was yet speculated for the thundercars whom will start all 26 cars in competition.

Heats for the 23 "410" sprint cars were won by Doug Dodson, Alan Krimes and John Westbrook. Dodson set a brand new 10-lap track record with a time of 2:13.72 seconds, eclipsing the old record of 2:14.85 set on October 20, 2007 by Cody Darrah. Krimes’ heat race time also beat the old record held by Darrah.

Heat races for the 21 Pennsylvania 305 sprint cars were won by Mark Watkins and Jim Kennedy.

Heats for the 26 thundercars were won by Duane Watson, Ronnie Thomas and Brad Shank.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 4/12/08 - Alan Krimes had an old car and an old motor but was still the fastest car on the track Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway.

Krimes took the lead early then survived a marathon of caution flags to put together his first win of the year in the 25-lap Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 410 Sprint car feature Saturday night.

With track conditions to his liking, the Denver driver was able to get around Brian Leppo for the top spot with just six laps complete and drove off from the field for his fifth career feature win at the track. He started in the ninth spot.

"This car has a lot of races on it and we ran it all last year and the motor has a lot of laps on it but it still runs strong," said the second generation racer. "We need to run good to keep this car going so tonight will help out an awful lot."

Jeff Busby turned over before a lap could be completed to bring out a red flag. Four consecutive yellow flags over the next four laps kept the field slow as Jim Siegel, John Rudisill, Pat Cooper and a Cody Darrah/Niki Young tangle were the drivers involved in the first four yellow flags.

Krimes was already up to third as Leppo set the pace from the second lap.

Krimes drove under Leppo in turn four on lap six but then had to withstand numerous cautions during the next 10 laps.

"I hate caution flags when you are leading the race," he stated. "I thought we ran like six or seven laps and it was actually only three. I just wanted to get the race over because I hate when you get to the front early because you are just waiting for someone to pass you."

Krimes didn’t have to worry about that.

The action behind Krimes was intense as Leppo, Doug Esh, Stevie Smith and Fred Rahmer, who moved into contention on lap 15.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 4/12/08 - "I just want to win every race I tow to. I know that’s not going to happen, but that’s the attitude you’ve got to take going to the track. There is no substitute for experience and good equipment and I’ve got both."

So said defending champ Fred Rahmer after storming to his third win of the year in the 25-lap "410" sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night.

Rahmer started in his traditional handicapped 12^th-starting spot, with 2006 track champ Doug Esh to his left side. Both drivers wasted no time getting to the front.

While polesitter Cory Haas was leading the first nine laps, Esh advanced to third by the end of lap six. Rahmer followed the Pancho’s Racing Products #30 through the early stages of the race, entering the top five after getting around Josh Wells just before a caution came out for a spinning Jeff Busby on lap seven.

On the restart, second-place Jim Siegel battled wheel-to-wheel with Haas for three laps before claiming the lead exiting turn two of lap 10. But one lap earlier, Rahmer made a key pass by sliding under Esh exiting turn four for third.

"It was a little dramatic getting into turn three there with Doug when I did a flyer on him, but if he would have gotten the lead first he’d be standing here," said Rahmer, "I couldn’t allow that to happen...I bellied up to the bar and did the best I could."

The ten-time track champ followed Siegel around Haas for second on lap ten. The race-winning pass came as the two raced down the backstretch on lap 13.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 4/5/08 - Two of the best sprint car drivers in the history of Central Pennsylvania racing locked horns over the last lap, and it was one for the ages in the "410" sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night.

With a packed house on its feet, all-time Lincoln winner Fred Rahmer pulled a slider on leader Stevie Smith exiting turn four of the final lap. A less-talented driver would probably have finished second, but Smith calmly let the defending champ slide by, then drove to the inside off turn four and edged Rahmer at the line for his 21^st career win in the Pigeon Hills. The final margin of victory was .099 seconds.

"I was going to run my groove and my pace," said the 1986 champ in victory lane, "But Fred got in front of me and I just had to turn and I knew he was going across, so I tried to keep straight and just get back under him."

"We’re really happy to win because we obviously were not the fastest car," continued Smith, "Fred and Chad (Layton) are really running good. We definitely have room for improvement, but we’re not going to give up yet. It’s still the beginning of the year and I just want to say the reason we’re sitting here is our Goodyear tires, DMI rears, and our Gaerte engines. But we gotta get faster."

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 3/29/08 - "Church over."

That popular Rahmer quote was the first message placed by a fan on Lincoln Speedway’s "Pit Shack" message board immediately after the "410" sprint feature Saturday night.

There are those who didn’t think it was possible, but Fast Freddie Rahmer was even faster Saturday. The ten-time track champ padded his early-season points lead with a convincing win, then credited the victory to a new Winters Performance rear end he tested earlier in the week on the Lincoln surface.

"We got something brand new from Winters that there’s not another team has yet," said the happy winner in victory lane, "I’ve run a lot of laps here, but I don’t know that I’ve ever felt better."

Rahmer came from ninth starting spot to grab the lead from Alan Krimes with a bold outside move through turn three as the leaders were coming up on lapped traffic on lap 11. From there, he drove away to a 1.29-second win with a 25-lap non-stop time of 6 minutes, 24.850 seconds, his second Lincoln win of the year and 156^th of his career in the Pigeon Hills.

Third-starting Pat Cooper led the first six laps before Krimes drove around him into the race lead on turns three and four of lap seven. Krimes looked strong in the early going, but couldn’t hold off the charging C&S Lawn & Landscape/Miller Brothers Automotive #51.

Though Rahmer controlled the rest of the event, Krimes held on for second, with Doug Esh, 13^th-starting Chad Layton, and 16^th-starting Lance Dewease completing the top five. Sixth through tenth were T.J. Stutts, Brian Montieth, Lucas Wolfe, Cody Darrah, and 18-starting Tim Shaffer.

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 3/21/08 - It was Lincoln career win number 22 for #22 on 3/22.

Former World of Outlaw driver Greg Hodnett, who now calls Thomasville home, came from sixth starting spot to win his first feature event of the year over a field that included several World of Outlaw invaders that he used to race with every night.

Among those who qualified for the feature were Outlaws point leader Craig Dollansky, Joey Saldana, Chad Kemenah, and Lucas Wolfe. Among those who didn’t was NASCAR Sprint Cup star Kasey Kahne, who fought his ill-handling sprinter in both his qualifier and the consolation event and declined an offer to enter the feature as a provisional starter.

Hodnett advanced from his outside third row starting spot to move around Ryan Taylor for the runner-up spot from Ryan Taylor on the third lap, then drove around race-long leader Pat Cooper for the lead in the first and second turns of a lap seven restart. From there, Hodnett drove away to a 2.58-second victory over Mark Smith, with Taylor holding on for third. Dollansky came from 12^th-starting spot to cross fourth at the finish, with defending Lincoln champ Fred Rahmer coming from 18^th-starting spot to finish fifth.

"We’ve had a few problems the past few weeks, but we capitalized on a decent starting position tonight, made it through a heat...all of the heats here are really, really tough...and that put us into position for the feature," said Hodnett upon exiting the Jim and Sandy Kline J&S Fabrication #22, "I was pretty good in the open when I didn’t have to slow down. But when I started slowing down for lapped cars, I got a little fouled up. I didn’t want to crash and everyone was going pretty hard, so I just tried to stay out of trouble and stay out front."

"03.20.08 - Sprint Car Race : Kasey has decided to use his weekend off from the NASCAR schedule to go race his Kasey Kahne Racing Budweiser/Open Joist sprint car in Pennsylvania. After a great start to the Sprint Cup season Kasey can enjoy returning to his roots for some dirt track action. Friday night he will be racing at Williams Grove www.williamsgrove.com in Mechanicsburg PA and Saturday night he will be racing at Lincoln Speedway www.lincolnspeedway.com in Abbottstown PA."

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA, 3/15/08 -"We’re fortunate, it’s day racing and this don’t mean nothing...but if you’re here you might as well win them."

Defending 10-time track champion Fred Rahmer showed that you could still pass on a daytime track Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Speedway. Among his victims were early race leader Jim Siegel, World of Outlaw racer Daryn Pitman, and ultimately Chad Layton, who looked to be the car to beat.

Rahmer made his race-winning pass with a slingshot slide through turns one and two on a 15^th-lap restart. From there, he raced away to his all-time win leading 155^th career win in the 25-lap 410 sprint feature in the Pigeon Hills.

"Everything went our way...starting sixth ended up being an advantage because Chad (Layton) was running a really good pace around the top and I stayed on the bottom and found the rubber which came in," said Rahmer, "Getting the lead first isn’t always the hot set-up...(Layton) had to stay up there because he was going so good, but when the rubber came in it was ‘Church Over’."

"I knew when I found the rubber down there and if he stayed up there he was in trouble." "I knew it was going to be tough to pinch Chad off in (turn) two and he kept getting a run on me and nothing good was going to happen," said Rahmer on his move for the lead. "I said it was time to try something different."

Rahmer’s final margin of victory was 1.17 seconds, with Layton settling for second, Siegel getting by Pittman on the same lap nine restart to finish third. Pittman and T.J. Stutts completed the top five. Rounding out the top ten were Mike Bittinger, 15^th-starting Brian Montieth, Michael Carber, Tim Shaffer (driving the Wainwright No.61), and Paul McMahan (piloting the Tom Buch No.13).