Plenty of racing action happened over the weekend
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As the racing season has had lots of challenges this year it was a good Saturday night for Cameron Smith when he charged from his eighth starting position to claim the Kevin Gobrecht Classic. Troy Wagaman Jr. came home second, while Chase Dietz rounded out the podium with a third-place finish, just missing the Gobrecht Challenge continued from Friday night.
The Super Sportsman competition saw Matt Ondek battle Jordan Givler before taking over the top spot and driving to his fifth career Super Sportsman victory at BAPS Motor Speedway. Givler finished a strong second with Scott Dellinger crossing the line in third.
The always-exciting crown vics made their debut at the speedway and provided plenty of action. Brady Chabol picked up his first career victory, while Jimmy Swank charged through the field from the 14th starting position to finish second.
On Friday, Chase Dietz won the 410 sprint car feature collecting $6,000 in the Kevin Gobrecht Classic Challenge and possibly setting up a $3,000 bonus if he wins on Saturday at BAPS Speedway.
The Dirty Deeds 25 for the 358 sprints at Williams Grove went to Andy Best.
The Speedway will host the 410 sprint cars in the National Open Tune Up coming up this Friday night at 7:30 p.m. The tune up show for the sprint cars will pay $6,000 to win and will be the finale of the Hoosier Diamond Series for 2026, thus crowning the series champion.
Heading into the final Diamond Series event there is now a tie at the top of the Diamond Series standings. With his second win of the year on Friday night, Chase Dietz tied himself with Troy Wagaman Jr. for the series title. This will also be another event in the overall 2026 Pa. Posse 410 sprint series.
It will also be the season finale for the 358 sprints.
Coming up at the track on Oct. 2 and 3 will be the 64th annual National Open for World of Outlaws and Pa. Posse sprint cars.
At Hidden Valley Speedway, Dave Shagla picked up the econo modified special while Greg Kiehl of Fairmont City claimed the four cylinder main.
Twenty cars (11 four cylinders, nine e-mods) made the rescheduled event, originally scheduled for July 4. Greg Kiehl won the King of the Hill for the four cylinders over Allen Robison.
The 2026 season is winding down, only two more events remain on the schedule, the next is Oct. 10, the small car nationals which will include: small block modifieds, 358 semi laates, Penn Ohio pro stocks, pure stocks, four cylinders, crown vics, legend cars and 600 micro sprints.
Coming on Oct. 24 with be the final event of the season with Halloween Madness featuring the super late models in only their second visit of the season.
It was the end of an era Saturday night at Hummingbird Speedway as the track held its final event with the running of the Dave Srock Memorial. Srock was a longtime racer in the region whose name and legacy are still remembered within the local racing community. The late models took center stage with a $4,000 to win, $600 to start special.
Semi late models were permitted to run with the super lates with the top 5 finishing semi lates splitting a $1,000 bonus. There was a $250 Fast Time Award that was given to the fastest driver in time trials which was the No. 13X of Kenny Schaffer. There was a $500 to win King of the Hill run for the late models with the No. 5L of Jon Lee coming out on top.
Alongside the late model special were three other specials including $1,215 to win pure stocks, $1,000 to win four cylinders and $800 to win pro stocks. The No. 88 of Josh Fields made it a perfect 6 for 6 as he took the checkers in the pure stock special, capping off a dominant season in which he won all six races run at the Bird.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature arrived during the first couple laps of the late model special which forced the cancellation of the three remaining specials.
This was not just the final event of the 2026 season, but the track will not reopen in 2027. The track is for sale and more information on that will be forthcoming.
In other racing action Cole Dewease had a 12th-place starting spot in the P.A.S.S. 305 sprint feature event lineup Saturday night at Path Valley, yet his racer appeared in the top five runners by the conclusion of lap five.
Dewease attained the lead through all the racing action, then he claimed the checkered flag ahead of Tyler Schell, Doug Dodson, Mikell McGee and Chris Meleason. Meleason had the best lap, racing at 77.042 miles per hour in 11.682 seconds. Dewease, had a best time of 11.785 seconds. Jeff Weaver, Jaxon Radabaugh, Mike Alleman and Mikell McGee were the winners of the heat events
The late models had a full roster of 24 drivers ready for racing action to claim the $1,200. Treyton Lee claimed the $1,200 and ran his best lap in 12.634 seconds. Devin Frey received the Hard Charger Award.
The 600 sprints had the racer of Dylan Anderson pull to the first lap lead, with Jason Sechrist, Jim Young, Heath Walton and Vincent Gaudiosi in the top five, where they held their positions for the entire race until two laps remained. That's when a caution for Kevin Connor and Ben Irvin was shown with both racers calling it a night. Anderson led the racers on the restart, taking a green to checkered win.
The 270 micro sprints feature event began with prelap cautions before Cory Myers claimed the win.
Path Valley Returns to racing on Saturday at which time they will be hosting the 600 sprints, four cylinder thunder cars, Wingless Super Sportsman, 270 Sprints and strictly stocks.