Mackeyville, PA – Even though the calendar doesn’t say it, there was a full moon out over the Clinton County Raceway. The Shore Auto Parts Sprints have done a great job all year with getting the show run through without major incident until this week. A fast slick racetrack made the 1/3-mile racetrack extra tricky for the high-powered machines. Before the show raceway promoter Vern Wasson added his new feature to the event. Wasson announced a few weeks ago that once the track gets twenty-five or more sprints the crowd was going to decide the twenty-first starter. Wasson announced the drivers that didn’t qualify one by one and the driver with the biggest ovation would get the nod. This week the fan vote went to Clay Dow who traveled nine hours from New Hampshire to try his luck at Pennsylvania Sprint Car racing. Dow narrowly beat out Duff Aurand for the vote, as this already has become a popular addition. In the feature things started off rough as a major pileup took place before lap one could be complete. The wreck saw Matt Heimbach end up on his lid, with Matt Horst, George Suprick, Scott Lutz, and John Smith involved. Everyone was ok, but half were done for the night, but others were able to continue with only cosmetic damage. Jeremy Ohl, who is a Late Model veteran, has made the switch to sprints look easy as he led the early going. A multiple amount of cautions would plague the field throughout the event. Daryl Stimeling eventually worked his way up from the third starting spot to wrestle the lead away from Ohl. Eighth place starter Blaine Heimbach worked his way up through the field and glued himself to the back of Stimeling. Near the half way point the red flag would wave once again for a violent wreck in turn two. Jack Helget and Chuck Roan would get hooked together and Jim Gearhart swerved to avoid them. He caught the left rear of Clay Down, which sent Gearhart tumbling. Gearhart escaped injury but was obviously done for the night. On the restart a great battle ensued between Stimeling and Heimbach. The two raced neck and neck for several laps until Heimbach would take the lead for good. That made the race for second heat up as Bob Howard came all the way from his fifteenth starting spot to battle for second. Heimbach would survive a handful of late race restarts and a lot of lightning off of turn four to bring home the win. Bob Howard would once again finish second, Stimeling took third, Neil Petock fourth, and Matt Miller fifth. John Smith came across the line sixth, Jeremy Ohl seventh, Chuck Roan eighth, Jeff Weaver ninth, and Jeff Taylor rounded out the top ten.

The Macintyre Chevrolet Crate Sportsman made their only showing of the year at Clinton County as fifteen equally prepared machines took the green. It didn’t take long for Woodhull Raceway point leader Donnie Lawson to jump out into the lead. Lawson would stretch out his lead until past half way when seventh place starter Larry Keegan would begin to real him in. Keegan closed the gap from a straight away to only a few car lengths but just couldn’t quite pull off the pass. Lawson would go on for the win, Keegan second, Ray Smith third, Kenny Peoples Jr fourth, and Joe Dgien fifth. Don Knowles led the next group of five across, with Dave Yehl coming across seventh, Tony Hooker eighth, Wes Campbell ninth, and Greg Crooker finishing tenth.
The A & A Auto Parts Pro Stocks saw a healthy car count as more and more guys have got their cars back together from the nasty wreck a few weeks ago. Rich Fye took advantage of his front row starting spot and never looked back. Fye hit the setup perfect as he held off a hard charging Ay Schilling and Denny Fourney. Schilling would take second, with Fourney third, Arliss Rhinehart fourth, Keith Tebbs fifth, Cliff Berry sixth, Brent Gordner seventh, Jim Berry eighth, Eric Barto ninth, and Terry Shedden completing the top ten.

Randy’s Auto Repair saw Josh Fetters pick up his first win of the season. Fetters jumped out at the drop of the green and drove a nice smooth race. Sterling Kepner kept chase but could only get to within a few feet of Fetters. The race of the night was between Brad Myers, Doug Darby, and Eric Palski. The three switched spots every lap with Myers finally taking third when the checkers came out. Darby ended up fourth with Palski finishing out his best run of the year. Todd English nabbed sixth, Brian Shook seventh, Jason Rafter eighth, James Frye ninth, and Chris Snyder tenth.

Racing resumes once again next Friday night June 27th with the return of the high powered Justice Brothers Super Late Models. Grandstand admission is only $10 with gates opening at 5pm with racing to start at 7:30. Clinton County Raceway is located on Route 220 just off from the Interstate 80 interchange. For more information check out the website at www.clintoncountyraceway.com.