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Font ResizeHagerstown threw in the towel early with a mid-week postponement. Lincoln gave it a good shot. At mid-week last week Lincoln announced that it would postpone Saturday's show, but would try to use the Sunday rain date.
By noon on Saturday, the racing surface was in fine shape, but it was apparent that the track parking lot would never be able to handle the expected crowd. It was just too wet. So, racing was postponed for another week.
That brings us to this weekend's proposed racing schedule. Lincoln and Hagerstown are both set to try again on Saturday afternoon. Both have previously announced Sunday rain dates. At Lincoln, the sprint cars and 358 sprint cars are on the schedule. Hagerstown has the late models and modifieds on their schedule.
Also on this weekend's lineup is a Sunday afternoon sprint-car only show at Port Royal. Word is that the Port didn't have as
much snow as we did here, and they don't expect any parking problems as long as the weather isn't too wet this week.
A look at the history books shows that this weekend could be considered more promising. I have found 41 scheduled racing events on the dates of this weekend in the past. Of those 41 events, 21 have been completed, while 20 have been lost to the weather conditions.
PIT STOPS
CALIFORNIA RACERS: The World of Outlaws did race last weekend at the Tulare Speedbowl in California.
With the local
Fred Rahmer fared the best by far. Rahmer had some extra help at Tulare. Many years ago during the winter Slick 50 television races in Arizona, Rahmer and California King Brent Kaeding struck up a lasting friendship. Kaeding was in Rahmer's pit at Tulare.
In Friday's show, Rahmer won his heat race and the Dash, but his car bicycled on the first turn of the feature. He lost a number of positions, but continued on to a sixth-place finish. On Saturday, Rahmer started 14th in the feature and charged through the pack for a third-place finish.
Lucas Wolfe had good runs going both nights, and was solidly in the top five when mechanical problems sidelined his efforts. Daryn Pittman came home with finishes of 12th on Friday and 10th on Saturday.
Friday's top five were Jason Meyers, Joey Saldana, Jac Haudenschild, Donny Schatz and Steve Kinser. On Saturday, Saldana was the winner over Meyers, Rahmer, Kraig Kinser and Jason Sides.
TRIBUTE: I saw last week that Bryn Gohn will be changing the appearance of his race car for this season.
Gohn, is Red Lion native, who grew up in Florida after his father, Daryl Gohn,was fatally injured in a Williams Grove sprint-car crash. Gohn returned to the area last year to race with URC.
His plans for 2010 include again racing with URC, plus some local 410 sprint-car racing. He has secured one 410 engine and hopes to make several races with that powerplant. Perhaps the most important is the annual Gohn Family Memorial Race, which will be held at Lincoln on June 19.
Now for those changes. Daryl Gohn was fatally injured at Williams Grove early in the 1988 racing season, just about a month after his father, Glenn Gohn Sr., a noted car owner, had died. That explains the annual running of the Gohn Family Memorial Race. It's been 22 years now, and Daryl Gohn always used the No. 22 on his own race cars. Bryn Gohn has decided to paint his racer in his father's familiar yellow colors, and use the No. 22 this season.
SAD NOTE:I had a call from Wanda Dietrich Friday evening to learn the sad news that former car owner George Schmidler had died. Schmidler fielded the No. 28 car that Dan Dietrich and others drove in this area in the 1980s.
Bryan Householder writes about dirt-track racing for The York Dispatch. He can be reached at sports@yorkdis patch.com.
