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We have now posted the auction for the Keith Kauffman/Todd Shaffer Back Drop on Ebay. PA OPEN WHEEL Keith Kauffman/Todd Shaffer Banner at Ebay

If your looking for that one of a kind gift for your PA Posse fan that has everything! Here are 6 things that they likely don’t have: PA Open Wheel Television Set backdrops. We used these great looking back drops on the set of PA Open Wheel, the popular Central PA Open Wheel racing show seen from 2005-2007 by over 1,000,000 homes every week on WGCB Channel 49. These high quality backdrops are photos of Central PA Open Wheel stars along with a checkered border printed on banner material which is made to last a life time.Measuring 8′ by nearly 50″ wide this will definately be a stand out for any race fans collection.

All back drops have one or more signatures of the drivers shown in the photos. All 6 back drops will be auctioned off individually on EBay. With the second one featuring Keith Kauffman doing a tv interview with John Krall at Port Royal Speedway and Todd Shaffer in his breif stink behind the wheel of the Allebach 5W at Lincoln Speedway.. 

We will have more back drops featuring, Keith Kauffman, Donnie Kreitz Jr, Niki Young, Scott Lutz, the late Billy Kimmel, Keith Prutzman, Cory Haas, Mark Smith, Mike Erdley, Frankie Herr and more.  With many signatures from these drivers. Hope you grab these one of a kind gifts before it’s too late.

Click this Link to access the first of 6 auctions for the PA Open Wheel show banners: PA OPEN WHEEL Jim Siegel/Joe Trone Banner at Ebay! This auction will end soon. The Second auction can be found here: PA OPEN WHEEL Keith Kauffman/Todd Shaffer Banner at Ebay Proceeds will go back into supporting the PAPosseracing.com website.

When the dust settled, the 2003 Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year had racked up 17 Top-10 finishes, with three of those being Top-Five performances and he was 13th in the series championship standings. He raced his way into the Crane Cams Dash 16 times in 2008 to earn Top-10 starting spots in A-Feature events. He did this all mainly with one crew member, doing much of the work on his race car himself, as well as driving the truck and trailer from race to race.

“I guess it is a lot of determination and we just enjoy racing,” Sides said earlier this season when asked about what it takes to be successful and stay motivated on the road with the World of Outlaws, with the countless miles spent driving from track to track and the endless hours of work on the race car.

The World of Outlaws and the entire racing community mourn the loss of the Hall of Fame driver, who passed away on Tuesday, November 18 at the age of 68 in his home state of Illinois, after suffering a massive heart attack while driving.

Amati will always be remember as “The One Armed Bandit,”  a nickname he earned on a night, when he sustained an injury to his right arm and devised a harness to hold the arm in place in his lap, driving using his left arm. The arm would eventually heal, though the nickname stuck with him for the rest of his career and contributed to him being one of the most colorful drivers to ever climb into a sprint car.

Just in time for the Holidays. If your looking for that one of a kind gift for your PA Posse fan that has everything! Here are 6 things that they likely don’t have: PA Open Wheel Television Set backdrops. We used these great looking back drops on the set of PA Open Wheel, the popular Central PA Open Wheel racing show seen from 2005-2007 by over 1,000,000 homes every week on WGCB Channel 49. These high quality backdrops are photos of Central PA Open Wheel stars along with a checkered border printed on banner material which is made to last a life time.Measuring 8′ by nearly 50″ wide this will definately be a stand out for any race fans collection.

All back drops have one or more signatures of the drivers shown in the photos. All 6 back drops will be auctioned off individually on EBay. With the first one featuring Jim Siegel on the front stretch at Lincoln Speedway and Joe Trone Jr in turn one at Trail-Way Speedway. 

We will have more back drops featuring, Keith Kauffman, Donnie Kreitz Jr, Niki Young, Todd Shaffer, Scott Lutz, the late Billy Kimmel, Keith Prutzman, Cory Haas, Mark Smith, Mike Erdley, Frankie Herr and more.  With many signatures from these drivers. Hope you grab these one ofa kind gifts before it’s too late.

Click this Link to access the first of 6 auctions for the PA Open Wheel show banners: PA OPEN WHEEL Jim Siegel/Joe Trone Banner at Ebay! Proceeds will go back into supporting the PAPosseracing.com website.

One of the most popular pre-season auto racing events, the NAPA Auto
Parts Reading Racing Reunion & Car Show will return to the Fairgrounds
Square Mall in Reading, PA for their twenty-fourth presentation of this
huge event.  The show will open on Sunday, February 22 and run through
Saturday, February 28th, 2009.  The Fairgrounds Square Mall, located on
the 5th Highway in Reading holds a very special meaning to the world of
dirt track racing as this property was once home to the Reading
Fairgrounds Speedway.  Year-after-year, large crowds attend this event
to celebrate the great memories of the Reading Fairgrounds Speedway and
to kickoff the coming short track racing season.  In 2008, one-hundred
and twenty-six race cars filled the Mall and the 2009 event should meet
or exceed that number.

2009 Season Opening Events Announced

HERSHEY, Pa. – Selinsgrove Speedway & Raceway Park concluded the 2008 season with the Eighth Annual Awards Banquet Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey Hotel. More than $30,000 in point fund monies, trophies, and jackets were awarded to the year’s top performing teams in the track’s go kart, micro sprint car, roadrunner, pro stock, late model, and 358 sprint car divisions.

Track champions Pat Cannon, of Etters (358 sprint cars), Jeff Rine, of Danville (late models), Troy Miller, of Tower City (pro stocks), Keith Bissinger, of Orangeville (roadrunners), and Ken Duke, of Selinsgrove (micro sprint cars), were also the recipients of custom championship rings from Foss Jewelers, of Selinsgrove.

Cannon, driving the Highlands’ Tire Service No. 3, won his first Cindy Rowe Auto Glass 358 sprint car track title at Selinsgrove Speedway this year by finishing in the top ten in all 20 events.

  RETURNS TO THE PHILLIPSBURG
MALL SATURDAY, MARCH 9 TO SUNDAY, MARCH 15
The 2nd Annual IRCO Dirt Track Heroes Car Show will return to the
Phillipsburg Mall in Phillipsburg, NJ and the 2009 event dates are set
for Saturday, March 9 to Sunday, March 15.  Greatly impressed with their
involvement in the 2008 show, the IRCO Community Federal Credit Union
will return for their second year as the event sponsor. 

The Phillipsburg Mall saw record breaking attendance numbers each day of the
2008 event and their doors will swing wide open to welcome the return of
race fans and cars as well.  Event Organizers Bob and Donna Miller are
busy planning this years event and all expectations are that this years
show will exceed what was presented last year.  “We learned a lot in our
first year of the Dirt Track Heroes Car Show and the support from the
Mall, IRCO and the racing community was just over-whelming”, commented
Bob Miller.

Take a look at the Bruce Buckwalter Jr. driven BDB Graphics no. 83 owned by Bruce Buckwalter, Sr. as it passes by and we dare you not to stand at attention and put your hand over your heart. The Star Spangled, Red White and Blue liveried graphics look that patriotic and that good. Good enough to be voted by the fans as 2008 ARDC PPG Best Appearing Car. This year’s PPG Best Appearing Car Award was decided by a vote of the fans with ballot boxes installed at Susquehanna Speedway Park and Grandview Speedway.

Buckwalter Jr. did the Graphics on the sharp looking no. 83 and also has his business BDB Graphics available to racers to keep their cars looking sharp. “It keeps me busy in the off season, and I try to help the racers out by offering reasonable prices,” Buckwalter explained. Buckwalter is able to turn a car around in three to four days. This past year he turned out 39 cars, including his own PPG Award winning machine, the Steve Buckwalter no. 0, Brett Arndt’s no.46 and Andy Martin’s back up car no. 71. There was another ARDC car that was most noteworthy on Buckwalter’s resume. “I did the Two Dogs Racing no. 27 that Randy Monroe took to the Chili Bowl and that one won “Best Appearing Car” out of 285 entries.”

With the third edition of the publication, you can commemorate career-first wins by Steve Cannon, Steve Owings, AJ Michael, John Westbrook, Len Krautheim, Joe Trone, Cody Darrah, Dylan Cisney and many more.

See ESS winner Justin Barger at Clinton County Speedway, Kasey Kahne Foundation winner Jason Johnson at Williams Grove and All Star winner Mark Smith at Central Pa Speedway. The 2008 pictorial features over 200 shots of so many of Central Pa’s finest, it’s impossible to name them all. 

McKENZIE, TN (Nov. 14) – The 2008 Sprint car racing season has come to a close throughout the Midwest, and J&J; Auto Racing had a very successful season thanks in part to relationships with a pair of Ohio businesses. Kistler Racing Products (KRP) and Linder’s Speed Equipment sold numerous J&J; sprint car frames this past season, and each saw several of their customers win races this season at tradition-rich places like Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway, Attica Raceway Park, and Fremont Speedway.

“Customer service is one of the key components to making our company successful and that extends to our dealers as well,” said Jack Elam, founder and president of J&J; Auto Racing. “The relationships we have with both Kistler Racing Products and Linder’s Speed Equipment are really important to us. Providing teams the best cars we can through craftsmanship, performance and dependability helps us build long-term relationships. Knowing that both Kistler and Linder are following through with our business philosophy is even more exci ting.”

The native of Burlington, Washington, who is the only driver in the history of Skagit Speedway to win a championship in all three sprint car divisions at the track, finished the season a very solid 15th in the championship point standings with the World of Outlaws on the strength of six Top-10 finishes, driving for Washington native Dave DeWitt.

“I can’t thank Dave (DeWitt) enough for giving us the opportunity to come out here for our second full year,” shared Hillier. “I know it was a big financial burden on everyone this year, especially with the weather. It was another great experience being out here.”

York Haven, PA…..Sunday’s sprint car portion of the Octoberfest at Hagerstown wrapped up the local sprint car season. The event also brought to a close the 2008 Speed Dawg Central PA Sprint Car Point Series.

For the third time in as many years, Fred Rahmer clinched the Speed Dawg Series Championship.  This year, however, Rahmer had the series crown wrapped up long before the season ended.  In fact Rahmer just may have scored by the biggest margin ever.

Rahmer won the Speed Dawg crown by 788 points.  In a series that awards 50 points for a first place finish, that means Rahmer had a 15.76 RACE lead at the end of the season.

The native of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania picked up nine Top-10 finishes during his rookie campaign, including a season-best runner-up performance late in the season in his first visit to North Central Speedway in Minnesota.

Ageless Jim Kennedy tops the list of drivers that will be recognized at the PA305Sprints meeting this weekend at the Family House Restaurant in Mifflintown. Kennedy attended every race on the schedule in 2008 and was the only competitor to do so.  He also picked up a win at Port Royal winning there for the first time in 23 years and was a highlight of the racing season in central PA.

The series which does not expect its teams to race every week started a “frequent contender” fund last year that helps reward the top teams that attend races.  It was the 10^th anniversary for the series which has had basically the same rules package since day one. Strict adherence to Racesaver rules have maintained close competition and kept costs in check throughout the history of the series. Racers like Kennedy who is 73 and as young as 16 can compete on an affordable budget.

HAGERSTOWN SPEEDWAY

Fred Rahmer closed the 2008 campaign by leading all 50 laps at Hagerstown Speedway on Sunday afternoon in the Chad and Jen Clemens No. 51 Miller Chevrolet sponsored J&J.; Rahmer took the lead on the opening lap and survived one close call in lapped traffic on lap 20. During the final 20 laps of the race, he was in complete command en route to his 18th win of 2008 and 398th career Sprint car victory.

Rahmer picked up $10,000 for the victory and was joined in the top-10 by fellow J&J; racer, Ed Lynch, Jr. (No. 2L J&J;), who came home 10th.  Bob Howard (No. 49 J&J;) finished 14th and Scott Flammer (No. 37 J&J;) finished 15th.