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Two non regular classes produced two first time winners at the Bedford Speedway Friday night.  In the first 2023 visit of the 305 sprints, David Grobe scored his first ever Bedford victory, while  Dalton Bigler dominated the Limited event to score his first ever win.  In other action,  Mike Altobelli scored another EMod win while Kyle Weyant won the Semi Late race before Dalton Ritchey closed the evening with the Pure Stock win.

Daulton Bigler started on the Limited event pole by the luck of the draw and pretty much made a shambles of the field in that 20 lapper. The event got off to a rough start as Dustin Arnold managed to get the worst of a frontstretch melee and flip his 18A as the field completed lap 2.  Read more »

Proving persistence pays off,  Matt Cosner wrestled the lead late from Justin Weaver and scored the Late Model win at Bedford Friday night.  It was Cosner’s 18th career win at the track and he became the third different winner in the 3 week old 2023 season.

In other action,  Bob Jay, former champion of the class, won his first Semi Late event in over three years,  Drake Troutman was the EMod winner,  Charlie Clise took the Pure Stock main and  Javid Fairall closed the evening with the 4 Cylinder win. Read more »

Drake Troutman rallied late to take the Late Model win in the first 2023 Friday show on a cold night  in Bedford.  Devin Hart held off a late race challenge after dominating most of the event to score the Limited win.   In other action, John Miller took the Semi Late event, Cody Jarvie was the Pure Stock winner and Shawn Smith  closed the evening with a 4 Cylinder win.

By the luck of the draw on the pill draw event, track champion Jeff Rine was the pole sitter and early leader.   He blasted away from Bryan Bernheisel and Kyle Hardy early   Fourth place starter Drake Troutman moved in on Hardy and Bernheisel, taking third on lap two.   After a few laps of battling with Bernheisel, he slipped by for second on lap 5 and set off after Rine.    The gap remained constant for several laps, but eventually he began to close on Rine and challenged.    On lap 18, Troutman got by for the lead and held for the finish.   Rine held on for second ahead of Bernheisel, Hardy and Matt Cosner as the top 5 distanced themselves from the field in the all green flag event.   Rine and Troutman won the heats. Read more »

For the first time since 1988, Jim Bernheisel scored the big Late Model win in action at Bedford Sunday night. It was his second career Bedford win, coming 34 years after he was one of the gang of 13 non repeat winners 34 seasons ago.

At the other end of the spectrum,  Dalton Weyant made his first ever Semi Late start and scored his first ever Semi Late win  in that event.  Mitch Thomas scored his second ever track Emod win before Weyant jumped into his old Pure Stock car and took a second win for the night. Shawn Smith ended the evening with a rousing 4 Cylinder win.

Bernheisel started on the pole in the pill draw Late Model 25 lapper event and made the most of his luck by getting the jump on the start.  He opened up a sizeable lead over the first 22 all green laps but action was hot behind him. Read more »

Topping off a successful 2022 Bedford Speedway season, Jeff Rine dominated the biggest and richest race of the year, capturing the Keystone Cup Saturday night.   The win for the current track champion was his fourth of the season and was especially meaningful as  his 37th career Bedford win tied him with track legend Scott Haus as the all time win leader.   The win, coupled with his Friday win in a Semi Feature event, was worth over $24,000 for Rine and the Bob Elbin team.

By virtue of his finish in Friday’s dash.  Rine started on the front row alongside dash winner Matt Cosner.    The pair rushed into the first turn at the start of the 60 lapper but Rine emerged with the lead.  That was pretty much the last that anyone saw of him except for the lapped cars as he zoomed by.  Read more »

Bedford regulars Jeff Rine and Matt Cosner turned back the stiff challenges from the outsiders in Friday night  qualifications for the Keystone Cup  at Bedford.    In the twin 20 heat race format,  Rine held off Garrett Smith to win the first one and Cosner defeated Gregg Satterlee and Chris Ferguson in the second.  Those racers plus Rick Eckert all advanced to the dash to determine the first six starting positions in the Saturday night 60 lapper.

In other action,   Nick Bechtel came from deep in the field to snag the Semi Late win, Cody Jarvie took his first ever Pure Stock win and Chris Graybill survived a slam bang action filled 4 Cylinder event for the win. Read more »

It was open wheel night as Bedford headed into its October season Saturday night, and Briggs Danner and  Derek Hauck led the way.   Danner took honors in the USAC wingless sprint event delayed from  its original spring date by the tire issue. And Hauck took the 305 event, a makeup of the August rainout for that group.

On the stock car side, 2022 track champion Jeff Rine dominated the 30 lap Late Model special before Colin Welsh closed the evening with a 4 Cylinder win. Read more »

The 3 day 2022 Bedford fallfest ended Saturday night and produced two new first time Bedford feature winners.    Ethan Dotson made his long commute  worthwhile as he easily claimed the EMod event and Andrew Yoder took the Limited win as each added their names to the list of Bedford winners.   The wins were worth over $12000 for Dotson and $2000 for Yoder

Dotson made it look easy in the EMod 39 lapper.  He got by fellow front row starter  Drake Troutman at the drop of the green and pretty much never looked back, holding a 4 second lead by the time of the first caution on lap 30.

Troutman held on to second ahead of  Joel Watson   until he dropped out on lap 22.  Watson inherited that spot at that point but he had his hands full with 2022 track champion Mike Altobelli.  Altobelli  several times drew along side Watson but could not effect a pass. Read more »

Kyle Strickler made the long tow to Bedford worthwhile as he swept to the big EMod win  at Bedford Friday night.   It was a repeat performance for Strickler as he won  one of the annual Fallfest events at the track last year.    Strickler made it look easy as he led flag to flag in the 39 lap event  honoring DJ Troutman.

In the companion event,  Bill Replogle rallied late and emerged from a wild finish to take the dramatic Semi Late event. Read more »

The annual Bedford Fallfest, this year a 3 day event, opened Thursday night at the track.   After perhaps the best  Pure Stock race of the season, Kevin Weyandt held off Kyle Beckett for the exciting win.  Although  possibly the most experienced driver in the field, it was Weyandt’s first Bedford win in over ten years.  Unlike Weyandt, who survived a dog fight,  Kevin Van Horn rallied late to take the CrateMod win and Colin Welsh led late to win the 4 Cylinder finale.

Kevin Weyandt  started on the front row in the 20 lap pill draw Pure Stock event.   He wrestled the lead from pole sitter Denver Dishong at the start, but his battle was not over.      Kyle Beckett also got  by Dishong on lap one and instantly set upon Weyandt at the front.  For the first nine laps the pair ran pretty much side by side,  with Becketts  inching ahead in the turns but Weyant  shooting by on the straights.  Read more »