School Buses and Twin 20's at SSP on Thursday Night
SSP Features School Buses & Twin 20’s on Thursday Night
NEWBERRYTOWN, PA (May 23, 2005) – This Thursday night, May 26, the
Susquehanna Speedway Park will feature the second round of The Great American School
Bus Race and Twin 20’s for the Sprint Cars presented by SABKO Enterprises.
The Xtreme Stock Cars will also be in action.
Greg Hodnett continues to lead the SSP Sprint Car point championship over
Lance Dewease and Fred Rahmer. This week’s event will be a non-points event
for the Sprint Cars only. The first 20-lap feature will be for drivers who
have never won a sprint car feature event at SSP. This feature will pay $1,000
to the winner. The second 20 lap feature will feature drivers who have won
a sprint car feature and the remainder of the twenty car field will be
filled out with the top finishers of the first 20 lapper. This feature will pay
$2,000. A driver has the opportunity to make $3,000 by winning both events.
The lineups for the heats of the non-winners feature will be through a blind
draw.
Mike Goodwin of Wellsville won the rain shortened Xtreme Stock Car feature
last week. The Xtreme Stock Car drivers eligible for the double purse money
bonus are Goodwin, Bryon Sipe, Larry Hughes Jr., Adam Smith and Ronnie
Thomas. These drivers will automatically start at the rear of the feature event,
and if any or all of these drivers make it into the top five finishing spots,
then that driver will receive double purse money for that position. These
drivers will also compete in the 4-lap Pepsi Challenge Dash paying $50.00 to
the winner.
Gates open in the pit area and grandstands at 5:00 p.m. Warmups begin at
7:00 p.m. with racing beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m. Grandstand ticket
prices are Adults (18 & older) $12.00; Teens (13-17) $8.00; Children (6-12) $4.00;
and Children (5 & under) are free. Pit pass prices are $20.00. There is no
raindate for this event.
SSP continues its Repeat Fan Discount in which there will be a $2.00
discount for each person with a ticket stub from the May 19 event only. For
example, $2.00 off an Adult ticket for May 26 with and Adult ticket stub from the
May 19 event. Returning fans are encouraged to write their name, address and
phone number on the back of the stub to be entered into special drawings to be
held during the season for great prizes. Last season, the grand prize was
two tickets to the NASCAR race in October at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Susquehanna Speedway Park is located off I-83 to exit 32, then 1.4
miles NW on SR382 to York Road, then 1.3 miles south. For more information,
contact the speedway offices at (717) 292-1696 or visit online at
ww.sspracing.net. On raceday, fans are encouraged to call (717) 938-9170 for current
weather conditions.
SSP News and Notes:
- The Trail Motors Super Sportsman Series will begin on Sunday, May 29
paying $1,000 to the winner (Sportsman Tour Purse for the remainder of the
field). Each feature will qualify 24 starters for the regular 20-lap events. This
is the first of eight races for the Super Sportsman at SSP that culminates
with the Inaugural 75-lap Trail Motors Championship on Sunday, September 4,
paying $2,500 to the winner. For the championship race, there will be 12
automatic qualifiers for the event determined by the winners of the following
events: 1) Silver Spring (Sat., May 28); 2) SSP (Sun., May 29); 3) SSP (Sun., June
5); 4) Port Royal (Sat., June 15); 5) SSP (Sun., June 19); 6) Williams Grove
(Fri., June 24); 7) Silver Spring (Sat., July 2); 8) SSP (Sun., July 3); 9)
Lincoln (Wed., July 20); 10) SSP (Sun., July 24); 11) SSP (Sun., Aug. 7); 12)
SSP (Sun., Aug. 21). The remainder of the field for the championship will
qualify through heats and a last chance race. All Trail Motors Super
Sportsman Series events at SSP will require the use of Hoosier Tires on all four
corners with a Hoosier 105/18-15 plated (HTMA or THE) spec tire and only D-12
or D-15 compounds are permitted. Gates open in the pit area and grandstands
at 5:00 p.m. Warmups begin at 7:00 p.m. with racing beginning promptly at
7:30 p.m. Grandstand ticket prices are Adults (18 & older) $12.00; Teens
(13-17) $8.00; Children (6-12) $4.00; and Children (5 & under) are free. Pit pass
prices are $20.00.
- Thursday, June 2 will be “Big 33 Football Classic Night at the Races�?? and
the York County Racing Club Night featuring the Sprint Cars, Xtreme Stocks
and Classic Cars along with a Smashmasters sanctioned Demolition Derby.
Advance tickets are available by calling Big 33 at (717) 774-3303 with a portion of
the proceeds going to the Big 33 Scholarship Foundation.
May 26, 2005 (Thursday) – Event Time Schedule
(Subject to Change – No Rain Date for this event)
5:00 p.m. Pit Gates Open: Pit Passes: Members - $18.00; Non members
- $20.00
Grandstands Gates Open: General admission: Adults - $12.00; Teens (13-17) –
$8.00;
Children (6-12) - $4.00; Children (5 & under) – Free
6:30 p.m. Sprint Cars Driver’s Meeting (Mandatory) - A random role
call may be taken. Failure
to report to the driver’s meeting may result in disqualification for that
night.
* Sprint Cars Heat in Engines following the Driver’s Meeting
6:40 p.m. Xtreme Stock Cars & School Bus Driver’s Meeting -
(Mandatory) –
A random role call may be taken. Failure to report to the driver’s meeting
may result in
disqualification for that night.
6:55 p.m. - 7:20 p.m. Practice Begins (all divisions in the following
order) - THIS IS NOT A RACE!
Rotation: Sprint Cars
Xtreme Stock Cars
School Buses
7:20 p.m. Welcome, Invocation and National Anthem
7:30 p.m. Xtreme Stock Car Pepsi Challenge (4 laps) Top 5 from
previous week feature.
Qualifying Events
Sprint Cars Heat Races (10 laps)
Xtreme Stock Cars Heat Races (6 laps)
Sprint Cars Consolation Race (10 laps) – if necessary.
Sprint Car Winners Hot Lap Session
Feature Events — Victory Lane @ Finish Line for Top 3 in each division.
$200 fine for any of the top 3 not stopping at victory lane!
1st Twin 20 Sprint Car Feature (20 laps)
The Great American School Bus Race (12 laps)
Draw for Starting Positions (1-12) for 2nd Twin 20 – frontstretch
Xtreme Stock Cars Feature (20 laps)
2nd Twin 20 Sprint Car Feature (20 laps)
2005 Susquehanna Speedway Park Point Championships
(as of May 21, 2005)
Sprint Cars:
Rank Car # Driver Name Hometown, State
Points
1 77 Greg Hodnett (2) Memphis, TN
569
2 25 Lance Dewease Fayetteville, PA
548
3 88 Fred Rahmer (1) Salfordsville, PA 545
4 12 Jeff Shepard Upperco, MD
542
5 22 Jason Johnson (1) Eunice, LA
529
6 12 Blane Heimbach Selinsgrove, PA
500
7 71 Brian Leppo (1) Spring Grove, PA
458
8 4 Eric Stambaugh East Berlin, PA
437
9 65 Johnny Mackison Jr. York, PA
417
10 29k Brent Kluge Fallston, MD
390
11 87 Alan Krimes Denver, PA
385
12 11c Cory Haas York, PA
358
13 22z Jimmy Callahan Jr. Hampstead, MD
340
14 42 Steve Poplaski Dillsburg, PA
328
15 28J Chad Jumper Marysville, PA
320
16 6w Josh Wells York, PA
310
17 93 Glendon Forsythe Aspers, PA
298
18 30 Doug Esh Lancaster, PA
258
19 1z Mark Smith (1) Tower City, PA 243
20 83 Scott Lutz Fredericksburg, PA
232
Xtreme Stock Cars:
Rank Car # Driver Name Hometown, State
Points
1 40 David Wilhelm (1) Havre de Grace, MD
551
2 17G Mike Goodwin (2) Wellsville, PA
529
3 10 Charlie Pensinger Shippensburg, PA
511
4 XR7 Jerry Blauch (1) Grantville, PA
509
5 42 Adam Smith Lewisberry, PA
498
6 33 Bryon Sipe Hamburg, PA
485
7 36T Karl Windish Harrisburg, PA
484
8 9m Mike Mixell Plainfield, PA
476
9 38 Brian Sanders Mechanicsburg, PA
468
10 12 Daryl Beakler Jonestown, PA
461
11 54 Eric Snoke Fleetwood, PA
450
36T Trevor Stark Lancaster, PA
450
13 2 Jason Failor Newville, PA
437
14 66 Wayne Eurich Franklintown, PA
428
15 54s Tommy Slanker York, PA
427
16 11 Sam Rial Windsor, PA
425
00 Nathan Heindel Mt. Wolf, PA
425
18 52 Charles Schomann Thomasville, PA
411
19 17 Tom Johns (1) Columbia, PA
375
25 Allan Miller Carlisle, PA
375
35 Rodney Christine York, PA
375
22 00 John Hiden Jr. Dover, PA
375
* Feature Wins denoted in parenthesis ( ).
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