Although Clinton Hersh dominated the first half of the event, Bryan Bernheisel rallied late and scored a dominating win in Late Model action at Bedford Friday night.
In other action, Chad Thomas scored his first ever Bedford win in the wingless Super Sportsman event, Chubby Childers scored a last lap win in the Pure Stock Charlie Walter special, Mike Altobelli took yet another EMod win and Wayne Brenize won the 4 Cylinder closer. Read more »
Bedford ran a rare Wednesday event for the Independence Day holiday and it produced three happy winners, one a delighted first timer. Khi Swanger, on a roll lately, scored a wild last lap win in Semi Late action, Devin Hart took the Limited event and Kasey Weaver completed the evening with his first ever 305 feature win.
After a wild crashfest in the prior event, the Semi Late event went the first 14 laps caution free. Pole sitter Kyle Deneen took off at the start and built up a commanding lead over a wild six car battle for second. Khi Swanger got himself involved in that mob, running the bottom groove as others ran the outside. Read more »
On a historic night at the Bedford Speedway as the facility presented the 900th racing event in its 86th year in action, Kyle Lee thrilled the crowd with a dramatic last turn pass to claim the Late Model headliner, Rick Potter also rallied late to claim the wild Semi Late event as did Derrick Hinish in Pure Stock action and Josh Corbin in the 4 Cylinder closer. In the visiting Super Sportsman event, Trent Yoder came from dead last in the slim field to score his first ever win.
2024 hard luck racer Matt Sponaugle took off from the front row in the 25 lap late model event. He pulled away from Brian Bernheisel in the early laps in the all green flag event. But Bernheisel found himself under attack from Jakob Piper as Tim Smith, Jeff Rine and Kyle Lee waged their own battle behind that pair. Read more »
Only a few weeks after scoring his first career Bedford Limited win, Clinton Hersh scored again Friday night, this one a dominating performance. In other action on the annual kids night at the track, Khi Swanger eeked out a Semi Late win, George Dixon prevailed in maybe the best ever EMod event at the track, Kyle Beckett took the Pure Stock win and recently unretired Tom Brady won the 4 Cylinder closer.
Matt Murphy took the Limited lead at the start ahead of Tim Snare and Ryan Sager. But on only lap two, Snare and Sager bumped together with Snare bouncing off the front stretch wall and heading pitside. Read more »
Long time Super Sportsman veteran Russ Mitten added another notch on his career as he grabbed his first ever Bedford Speedway win in Friday night action at the track.
Only a few months removed from his first ever Limited win, Shawn Shoemaker took his second win before Spike Moore also took his second career EMod win. Charlie Clise came from deep in the field to win the Pure Stock event and defending champion Josh Corbin closed the program with a 4 Cylinder win. Read more »
Occasional visitor Andrew Yoder drifted into Bedford Speedway and made off with the big win in the annual Turk Burket Memorial Friday night. The win in the potent Larry Baer owned 0 car was his first ever Bedford Late Model win and was worth $4000 for the team.
In other action. Johnny Smith made a dominating run in the 305 sprints, and Devin Weyant took the Semi Late win before Dalton Weyant took the Pure Stock closer.
The 35 lap late Model event got off to a rocky start as much of the back half of the field balled up on the first lap eliminating several from the event. Read more »
With rain all around the area, including a short rain delay at the track, Bedford completed another program Friday. Among the happiest racers were Clinton Hersh and Darian Ritchey who each took their first ever Bedford wins in Limited and Pure Stock events.
. In other action, Brian Weyant Jr scored the Semi Late win, Mike Altobelli took the EMod win and Javid Fairall grabbed the 4 Cylinder finale.
Clinton Hersh, who has spent time in both Limited and Late Model action at the track brought his Limited for the show and aced the field. He grabbed the lead at the start and ran off from the field over the first few laps. Although slowed by a few early cautions he zoomed away from the field on each restart. Read more »
The wingless USAC sprint cars invaded the Bedford Speedway Friday night and headlined the exciting racing program. Briggs Danner took the wingless event while Kyle Lee took the Super Late Model headliner. In other action, Greg Hainsey, Chubby Childers and Shawn Smith won the Semi Late, Pure Stock and 4 Cylinder events.
Danner started fifth in the USAC event and started his march forward from the start as Carmen Perigo led early. Perigo could not shake the crowd early as Bruce Buckwalter, Bobby Butler gave chase, Read more »
Finally, the weather broke into a pretty spring day and the Bedford Speedway got in the opening event of the 2024 season Sunday. Five happy winners greeted the opener, with four of them taking their first ever Bedford wins.
Jakob Piper ran the Bedford race of his career, becoming the 157th Late Model winner at the historic track, before former Limited driver Spike Moore scored his first ever EMod win, Chubby Childers took his first ever Pure Stock win and Devon Iser won his first ever Bedford event in the 4 Cylinder closer. Semi Late winner Rick Potter was the only repeat winner in the program. Read more »
The 2023 season finally ended Sunday night with the rain delayed portion of the 6th annual Keystone Cup festivities. Four happy feature winners emerged in the program, including one first time winner in the event which had originally been scheduled as part of the Friday action.
Shawn Shoemaker rallied late to take the Limited event, while Semi Late rookie Kyle Deneen scored his first ever win in that class. Other winners were Kyle Beckett in the Pure Stock event before Shawn Smith completed the season with the 4 Cylinder conquest. Read more »
