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SPONAUGLE STARTS OFF BEDFORD WEEKEND WITH WIN

September 30th, 2012
 [singlepic id=74 w=320 h=240 float=right]Matt Sponaugle,   who before August was winless at the Bedford Speedway, grabbed win number two Friday night. Sponaugle’s win came   in the 25 lap Late Model headline event on the first night of the two day Fall Finale at the track.  Tyler Beckett  scored his first career 4 Cylinder win  in the only other feature of the evening.  The Semi Lates, Limiteds and Pure Stocks  all ran their qualifying races for the two day event.
 
Matt Sponaugle, who had won his first career  Late Model race at the track only two races ago, made a statement with a resounding win.  He was the recipient of a  invert six redraw and began the race from the pole.  He shot into the lead at the start and wired the field.  Steve Campbell maneuvered into second place early and chased Sponaugle for the duration.   But all eyes were on Jack Pencil and Dylan Yoder as they picked their way forward. Read more »

COVERT BREAKS RIDE BUT BAGS BEDFORD BIGGIE

September 1st, 2012
Jason Covert,  who has made a habit of rolling into town and grabbing big money shows, did it again  as he wired the field to take the Bedford Labor day 55 Friday night.   It is the longest and richest event on the annual Bedford schedule,  55 laps with $5055 going into Covert’s pocket for the run. He became the tenth different winner in the 2012 season at the track.  In other action,  Chris Chamberlain came from deep in the field to snag the Semi Late event,  and Bill Replogle won the Pure Stock race .  Mike Lauffer closed out the evening  as the leading 2012 winner at Bedford with his seventh 4 Cylinder win.
 
    By running second in the dash, Jason Covert started on the outside front row for the 55 lapper.  He jumped into the lead at the start and, although threatened,  was never headed.  Three cautions for minor incidents dotted the first three laps,  and three more followed during the early laps, but Covert zipped away from Scott Haus on every restart. Read more »

SPONAUGLE GETS MILESTONE WIN AT BEDFORD.

August 25th, 2012
 [singlepic id=73 w=320 h=240 float=right]Matt Sponaugle  added his name to  the list of Late Model feature winners Friday night  Bedford Speedway.        With the win Sponaugle became the 125th  different Late Model winner in the long history at the track.  In a Limited event which featured a big crash for the second week in a row, Craig Perigo romped to his first win of the season .  
Bob Jay, who last won on opening day, took the Semi Late win while Terry Norris took his first  of 2012 in the Pure Stock 25 lapper.  Randy Doty scored in the All American event  as that group visited Bedford , before Dave Lambert survived a wild last lap to win the 4 Cylinder finale.
 
       Matt Sponaugle has been so close so many times but finally sealed the deal with a dominating Late Model performance.  Lincoln Ritchey was the pole sitter and broke off to the initial lead, but Sponaugle busted out from fourth to lead the first lap. DJ Troutman got by Ritchey on lap three and the event’s only caution, for a Chris Harr spin on lap 7, closed him on Sponaugles bumper.   Read more »

HODNETT SNAGS BEDFORD SUNDAY SHOW

August 20th, 2012
 [singlepic id=71 w=320 h=240 float=right]Greg Hodnett rallied late to snag the big Morrall Memorial Sprint car show Sunday night at the Bedford Speedway. The show, a make up event after an early season rainout, was the only sprint car show at Bedford this  year.  In other action,  Rance Garlock enjoyed Christmas in August with the Limited victory and Mike Lauffer took the 4 Cylinder night cap.
 
    Mike Wagner was the pole sitter and early leader in the sprint car 30 lapper.  He ran off and basically hid  from the field through the first 12 green flag laps.    Greg Hodnett  ran to second  ahead of  Darryn Pittman but that pair never closed on the fleet Wagner.    Read more »

RINE DOMINATES BEDFORD FAIR EVENT

July 28th, 2012
[singlepic id=70 w=320 h=240 float=right] Racing was  the Friday night main attraction  at the 139th Bedford Fair.  Every  Bedford racer puts forth extra effort to do well at the fair in front of the largest crowd of the year and the Fair atmosphere.  Jeff Rine brought his A game as he guided Bob Elbins to a dominating win in the Late Model event.  It was Rine’s second Bedford win of the season.  In other action,  Robby Black was almost as dominant in winning the Limited event,  and  Chris Chamberlain  emerged from wild three car racing to take the Semi Late win.  Bill Replogle and Mike Lauffer ended the evening  by scoring second consecutive  wins in Pure Stock and 4 Cylinder wins
 
    Jeff Rine started fourth in the Late Model event but left no doubt as to who was incharge as he was in the lead at the completion of lap one.  Rine continued to lead and ran off from the field after each of several early lap caution events.  Once the field settled down and ran 13 consecutive green flag laps after lap 7,  Rine opened up a commanding lead of over a half lap over Cory Weaver.   Read more »

PENCIL BEATS THE STORM AND THE UFOS

July 5th, 2012
 [singlepic id=68 w=320 h=240 float=right] On an evening when a passing storm delayed the show ,  track regular Jack Pencil turned back the field, including the UFO regulars, to snag the July 4 celebration at Bedford.  It was point leader Pencil’s third Bedford win of the season, the only repeater so far in that category at the track.   In other action, Zane Weicht snagged the  Semi Late event and Bill Replogle won the Pure Stock race  both joining Pencil as three time winners, before Mike Lauffer broke the mold with his  fourths 4 Cylinder win of the season.  Even after the hour plus rain delay to start the show, the entire holiday event was over at 11:15.
 
     It took three tries to get the Late Model event underway.  On the third and final try pole sitter Chuck Clise roared away to a healthy lead over the first ten green flag laps  with Scott Haus in tow.  Pencil marched forward  and took the spot from Haus on lap three.  He closed in on Clise but did not make a serious threat for the lead.   Read more »

TROUTMAN RETURNS FOR WIN AT BEDFORD

June 23rd, 2012
[singlepic id=67 w=320 h=240 float=right]DJ Troutman, only a week removed from having let one slip away, returned with a vengeance  by dominating  the Late Model event Friday at  the Bedford Speedway.  It was Troutman’s first Late Model win at the track in 2012 although he had scored a Limited win earlier While Troutman  left no doubt in the Late Model event,  each of the other races featured late race drama and in two cases a surprise winner.  Josh Berrier went from 4th to first on the chaotic last lap of limited action,  Travis Group slid into the Pure Stock win on the white flag and Cale Martin scored his first ever 4 Cylinder win.
 
     Only a week ago DJ Troutman had a big lead wiped out when he tangled with a lapped car late in the race.  That misfortune  lowered his point average and rewarded him with an up front start this week.    The Late Model race got off to a rocky start as  pole sitter Chris Harr spun in front of the field in turn one.   After the chaos was cleared, Troutman found himself on the pole.  He jumped into the initial lead and ran off from the field.
 
    Jeff Rine, driving his own #2 for the event arrived in second spot but failed to mount a serious challenge to Troutman, even though three cautions slowed the event.    At the finish it was Troutman by a wide margin over  Rine, followed by Chuck Clise, Greg Fetters and Jack Pencil.   Lincoln Ritchey, Wayne Johnson, Eric Zembower Cory Weaver and Harr trailed.  Point leader Matt Parks, who was in and out of the pits during the  feature and Clise won the heats. Read more »

FIRST TIME WINNERS RULE BEDFORD SPEEDWAY

June 16th, 2012
 [singlepic id=66 w=320 h=240 float=right]Three first time winners graced victory lane Friday night at the Bedford Speedway, two of them the sons of  former big winners at the track.   Andy Haus,  The son of the all time leading Late Model winner at Bedford became the 124th different  Late Model with a thrilling come from behind win in that 25 lapper.  Mike Altobelli Jr, Whose father was a Semi Late legend, scored his first Limited event win.  Tim Brown completed the new winners list with a Pure Stock win.   In between,   Zane Weicht added to his Semi Late total and Dave Lambert took the 4 cylinder event.
 
     DJ Troutman was the early leader in the Late Model event after he  got by Eric Zembower on lap one.  With only a couple early cautions, Troutman was able to stretch out a decent early lead over first Zembower, then Matt Sponaugle who took over on lap 6.  Andy Haus finally emerged in second on lap 12 and began his charge
Haus closed on Troutman a bit each lap but Jeff Rine was fast closing on both of them after he shook the pack.
 
    Each lap Haus closed the distance  but that closing rate became unimportant on lap 19 as Troutman impacted the spinning lapped car of Ron Coleman.    The crash was such that it brought out the red flag  with Haus as the leader.    During the red flag delay,  Rine,  the new second place man who had been closing on Haus  retired to the pits,  but Haus had  other problems as the oil light on his panel was aglow.   Read more »

DJ MYERS MAKES FIRST VISIT A GOOD ONE AT BEDFORD

June 9th, 2012
 [singlepic id=64 w=320 h=240 float=right]DJ Myers made his first visit to Bedford in 2012 a good one as he raced to the Late Model win Friday night.  Myers came from mid pack to score the thrilling win, snatching it in the closing laps from a disappointed Chris Harr.  Robbie Black dominated the Limited event, going pole to pole for his win in their 20 lapper.  Bill Henney finally ended a run of bad luck by snaring the Semi Late race, Travis Group won the Pure Stock event and Mike Lauffer prevailed in the most exciting race of the night, the 4 Cylinder closer.
 
    Chris Harr was the Late Model pole sitter and early leader.  Chuck Clise was his earliest chaser but appeared to be no threat  as Harr moved out to the early lead.   While Harr increasingly looked like he was turning around his miserable 2012 luck, DJ  Myers was sliding through the field from his 7th starting spot. By the time of the first caution period on lap 17, Myers was up to third behind Clise and Harr, and had brought tenth starting Andy Haus with him.
 
     The caution wiped out Harr’s decent lead and placed Myers firmly in the mix.  He got by Clise on lap 19, then zipped Harr  two laps later.  Harr then added to the drama by spinning and collecting third place runner Haus on lap 22.  That set up a  three lap shootout between Myers and Jack Pencil, but Myers prevailed for the win.  Pencil took second.  Clise, Matt Parks, Cory Weaver, Wayne Johnson, Harr, Mitch Hack, Haus and Matt Sponaugle  completed the top 10.  Myers and Clise won the heats. Read more »

PARKS SCORED BIG AT BEDFORD HOLIDAY RACE

May 29th, 2012
[singlepic id=62 w=320 h=240 float=right]Matt Parks was up to the challenge as he scored the Memorial Day win Monday at the Bedford Speedway.
Parks won $3000 for his effort in the Three State Fliers event after holding off a furious late race charge from Greg Satterlee to secure the win.  In other action, Zane Weicht rallied late to snag the Semi Late event,  Bill Replogle hed off Chad Gambol in Pure Stock action and Mike Lauffer won the 4 cylinder finale.
 
    Mass mayhem dotted the beginning of the Late Model 35 lapper  beginning on the first lap when front row starter Jack Pencil got into the wall on the backstretch.  Two more cautions slowed the event before two laps were completed  including a grinding frontstretch crash involving Eric Zembower and Walker Arthur..
 
    When the field settled down for real racing, Parks was the leader with Jeff Rine in hot pursuit. Rine slipped by to lead lap three but Parks  fought right back  to the front.  Rine followed every move  the leader made with Dylan Yoder in hot pursuit.  But the man on the move was Greg Satterlee.  He started 18th in the field and, after finding the outside groove to his liking,  charged to the front.  Satterlee  emerged from the pack to take fourth on lap 12 and kept coming.  He disposed of Yoder  on lap 16 and almost instantly reeled in the front two. Read more »
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