Collett to start from pole today at Hagerstown
Sunday, October 28, 2007
From staff reports HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Youth takes center stage for this afternoon's 50-lap sprint car feature at Hagerstown Speedway.
Justin Collett, a 21-year-old from Townsend, Del., won the first heat race Saturday afternoon and, as a result, will start the main event from the pole position. Collett is joined by Berwick's Alan Cole, who claimed the second heat race.
The two Hagerstown non-winners must be quick off the start line.
Salfordville's Fred Rahmer, 49, is scheduled to start third after he claimed the third heat race. Rahmer, a seven-time feature winner this year in 84 starts, is looking for his second career Octoberfest sprint car win. He claimed the $10,000 prize in 2004.
Harrisburg's Chad Layton, who won the 2002 Octoberfest race, is slotted next to Rahmer on the feature grid. Layton finished second to Collett in the first heat race.
Don Kreitz Jr. of Sinking Spring and Butler's Brian Ellenberger fill the third row, followed by Thomasville's Greg Hodnett and Joe Biasi Jr., a one-time winner at Selinsgrove Speedway this year.
Kreitz and Hodnett are looking to match Octoberfest history. Both drivers have three career victories, and one more would tie them with Lance Dewease, a four-time Octoberfest winner (1994, 1997, 2000 and 2001).
Kreitz, who passed seven cars in his heat to finish second, won Octoberfest races in 1991, 1992 and 1996. Hodnett won in 2003 and swept the past two events.
Dewease is scheduled to start 23rd in the feature. He had wing problems and finished eighth in the second heat. Dewease was guaranteed a spot in the feature because he won the Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speed Week race in the summer.
Only 26 cars took part in qualifying.
J.T. Spence, Jamie Lathraum, Alan Sagi and Brian Ruhlman won heat races for the late model class.
The 358 Modifieds are scheduled first at noon today with a 100-lap feature. Late models, sprint cars and big block modified follow.
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Heat 1
1) 69c Justin Collett 1ST
2) 26 Pat Cooper 9TH
3) 22 Greg Hodnett 3RD
4) 49 Bobby Howard 6TH
5) 25 Chad Layton 2ND
6) 89 Cody Darrah 4TH
7) 10m Todd Hester 7TH
8) 64 Kyle Purkes 8TH
9) 19 Stevie Smith Jr 5TH
Finish 69c 25 22 89 19 49 10m 64 26
Heat 2
1) 35 Alan Cole 1ST
2) 3B Joey Biasi 3RD
3) 56 Robbie Stillwagon 7TH
4) 44 Joey Hershey 4TH
5) 30c Lance Dewease 8TH
6) 461 Tommy Beaver 6TH
7) 69k Donnie Kreitz Jr 2ND
8) 5x Gail Ruth Jr 5TH
Finish 35 69k 3B 44 5x 461 56 30c
Heat 3
1) 33 Scott Lutz 5TH
2) 74 J R Berry 6TH
3) 22z Michael Carber 3RD
4) 51 Fred Rahmer 1ST
5) 29 Chris Weiss 7TH
6) 03 Clark Simonton Jr 8TH
7) 18 Darryl Stimeling 4TH
8) 20 Brian Ellenberger 2ND
Finish 51 20 22z 18 33 74 29 03
Octoberfest 350 live audio webcast
Live flag-to-flag coverage on Saturday and Sunday
October 26, 2007
The Dirt Track Channel, www.thedirttrackchannel.com is providing a free, live flag-to-flag audio webcast of the Octoberfest 350 from Hagerstown Speedway (Md.) this weekend.
However, fans will need to take a moment and download a free codec to listen to the broadcast. This is a one-time download and the codec link can be found on The Dirt Track Channel’s home page.
The weekend’s broadcast will start at 12:25 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.
Qualifying and consolation events for the big block modifieds, small block modifieds, late models and sprint cars is held on Saturday. While 100-lap features for the big block and small block modifieds and late models along with a 50-lap feature for the sprint cars are held on Sunday.
This year’s race marks the 20th anniversary of the event which began in 1988. Billy Pauch (big block modifieds), Steve Smith (sprints) and Gary Stuhler (late models) were the inaugural winners.
Pauch has gone on to record eight victories in the Octoberfest 350, the most by any driver. He has four wins in the big block modifieds, three in the sprint cars and one in the small block modifieds divisions.
This is the third straight year that The Dirt Track Channel is providing a free, live audio webcast of the event.
News regarding the broadcast line-up for the 2008 season will be posted on the website in the coming weeks.
The Dirt Track Channel website will bring fans in the US off-season video highlight action of sprint cars, midgets and Northeast-style modifieds from Australia and New Zealand.
The 2008 season will mark the sixth season that The Dirt Track Channel is broadcasting live audio webcast free of charge to a world wide audience.
They don't even know how to spell sprint car
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com
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