July 5, 2010

TOPLESS NIGHT AT WILLIAMS GROVE ON SATURDAY JULY 10

     MECHANICSBURG, PA -- The Saturday Night Series will return to Williams Grove Speedway on July 10 at 6:30 and it will be Topless Night.
     The super sportsman cars and 358-late models will be joined by the ARDC midgets and all three divisions will be racing topless.
     The super sportsman teams will remove the wings from their race cars and the late models will be racing sans roofs.
     The ARDC contingent will feel at home on Saturday night since they abandoned wings several years ago.
     This will be a special night for the midgets since they will be making up a feature event which was rained out on May 8.  The make up feature will be followed by a program of qualifying races and another feature for the midget cars.
     Before the rain came on May 8, ARDC brought a strong contingent of 32 cars and the top midget racers in the East.
     Steve Buckwalter, known to the Grove’s Friday night sprint car fans as the Royersford Rocket, is a highly regarded midget racer in addition to being a Grove sprint car regular and could be a favorite to sweep both ends of the midget program.
     On Friday night, April 30, in his only midget feature appearance of the season at Williams Grove, Buckwalter came from the tenth starting position to the lead in just four laps and rolled to a convincing victory.
     The last time the sportsman cars went topless was October 10, 20009, and Doug Hendricks led flag-to-flag to score a 4-car length win over Carmen Perigo, Joey Biasi, Scott Dellinger and Bobby Hockenberry.
     The late model competitors are hoping a topless race will slow down Gene Knaub, who has won three of the five features for this division at Williams Grove in 2010.
     Eshenaur’s Fuels will offer a $100 bonus to any driver who can make a last lap pass and win a Saturday Night Series feature,