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[Miley Motor Sports]

South Park PA's Jared Miley wins the Red Miley Rumble 53, in the Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic DIRTcar Super Late Models. Lynn Geisler grabbed the lead at the start, but the race was yellowed after a hard wreck in turn three by Jason Dupont. This yellow was key in Miley's victory, as he had tagged the first /second turn wall on the start and developed a flat and the yellow allowed him time to change it. On the restart, it was Geisler back out front with Gregg Satterlee and Steve Baker right behind. The race ran this way for the next 16 laps, until Keith Barbara moved into third ahead of Baker on lap 17. Geisler held a solid lead for most of those laps, but heavy traffic allowed the top four to bunch closer together. A lap 22 caution for Derek Stefanick's blown engine, allowed Barbara to grab second from Satterlee, while Miley worked his way into the top 5. On lap 25 Geisler's fine run ended, when he blew an engine, his second in the last two weeks bringing out the caution. Barbara took over first on the restart over Satterlee, Miley, Baker and Mike Johnson. Barbara and Satterlee dueled for first side by side, while Miley and Baker battled for third for the next 13 laps. Satterlee forged ahead on lap 36 only to have Barbara back ahead on lap 37. It all came to an end on lap 38, when Satterlee spun in turn 4 and brought out the yellow and went to the tail. Barbara was back out front with Miley and Baker behind. Miley raced Barbara side by side and made his winning move on lap 46 and led the remaining laps to pick up his thrilling win. Barbara was second followed by Keith Berner, who made his first start in several seasons, by coming on strong in the late laps to finish third followed by Baker, and Mike Johnson as the top five were within a straightaway of each other. Rounding out the top ten were Alex Ferree, John Garvin, Boom Briggs, Matt Lux (who picked up the Awesome Hard Charger Award) and Satterlee. John Garvin was the K&N Performer of the race. The heats were won by Gregg Satterlee, Jared Miley, Lynn Geisler, and Mike Johnson for the 31 cars on hand. Ben Miley was a DNS in the feature, after a wreck in his heat. Jason Dupont, Keith Berner and Jim Rasey made their first starts of the season.



Apollo PA's Ed Lynch Jr. won his first feature anywhere this season in the Black Jack 21 Super Sprint Car special picking up his 16th career PPMS win. Lynch Jr. took the lead from Brandon Spithaler on lap 5 and led the remaining laps unchallenged. Jack Sodeman Jr. was second followed by Spithaler, Daryl Stimeling, Rod George, Eric Williams, Adam Kekich, Pete Miller III, Brent Matus and Russ Sansosti. The heats were won by Rod George, Jack Sodeman, and Pete Miller III.



In the Brougher's Machine Shop Fastrak Crate Late Models, Rochester Mills PA's Andrew Satterlee won his third feature of the season. Satterlee grabbed the lead at the start, weathered a red flag and several restarts and dominated the 20 lap event in picking up his third win in 5 starts. Mike Reft was running a strong second, until the last lap when he tagged the wall and ended up 13th. Kyle Lukon was second followed by Colton Flinner, Beau Glemba, Scott Schempp, Justin Lamb, Dennis Niederriter (also the K&N Performer of the race), Jeff Broniszewski, Chuck Medved, and Laura Lukon. Dusty Curry, Mike Reft and Colton Flinner grabbed the heats.



Pat Weldon, Monongahela PA, won his 5th Sunoco Race Fuels DIRTcar Sportsman Cadets feature in exciting fashion. Craig Koteles grabbed the lead at the start, and led the first 4 laps before he spun bringing out the races only caution. Jake Simmons took over at this point and led lap 5. Weldon led lap 6, with Simmons back in front on lap 7. For the next 6 laps the pair put on a wild battle for the top spot, with Weldon taking the lead for good coming to take the white flag. The finish was Weldon, Simmons, Brian Huchko, A.J. Poljak, Nick Kocuba, Wayne Carbo, Mitch Wattelet, Craig Koteles, and Carl Weidenhofer (in the Jenn Barker #33). Wattelet was dubbed the K&N Performer of the race. Jake Simmons won the heat.



Joe Podolinsky Oakdale PA won his 6th Miley BP Car Wash DIRTcar Hobby Stocks feature of the season. Podolinsky took the lead at the start and led the entire distance holding off Gary Smith, who has been red hot of late. At the checker, it was Podolinsky, Smith, Christian Schneider, Chase Evans, Hannah Ramsey, Steve Pyeritz, Don Black and Alec Broniszewski (in the Goldberg #714). Don Black picked up the K&N Performer of the race. Joe Podolinsky also won the heat.



Imperial Heights Garage DIRTcar Young Guns had Carnegie PA's Logan Crewl win his 4th feature of the season. Crewl defeated Dylan Bolind, David Ostrander, Todd Weldon (who was docked two spots for jumping on a restart), Roman O'Neil, Terrance Ryan and Courtney Chamberlain. The K&N Performer of the race was Courtney Chamberlain.



Upcoming at PPMS on Saturday August 25, NAPA Kids Night, AAA Kids Bike Races and a Free Petting Zoo & Kid's Pony Rides, and the Ed Laboon Memorial Sportsman Showdown Special, plus a complete regular show. On September 1, the 23rd Annual Jook George Memorial will be featured plus a complete regular show on Winners Circle night.

Saturday September 8, 2012 Guinness World monster truck jump record holder "Bad Habit" and a gang of his friends and enemies will be all out Monster Trucking at Dirt's Monster Half Mile! Backdraft, Eradacator, Rap Attack, Screamin Demon, & and the TNT Rat Rod, plus an eight seat fan ride truck! The six trucks will be racing all out in a 3 round Monster Truck Racing event to determine a winner! Then the fans decide who wins the FREESTYLE FINALE! Plus Semi, diesel & gas 4x4, & car drag racing available to those who enter in advance. Plus quad expo & a Figure 8 race! Build your F8 car and join the fun! Drag Racing and Figure 8 are open to the public! Rules for figure 8 are at www.ppms.com. Register your figure 8 car or street legal semi, 4x4, or car for drag racing on the dirt by emailing ppms@ppms.com, subject: figure 8 or drag racing. There is a $50 entry fee for drag racers and figure 8 which includes all access admission for one. Prize money purse will be posted prior to the event for drag racing and figure 8. Winners will receive trophies and prize money! Regular shows consist of Super Late Models, Fastrak Pro Late Models, Late Model Sportsman, Hobby Stocks, and Young Guns. Effective for the remainder of the season, in the event of any Saturday rainout the management will utilize a Sunday evening raindate. Times for the Sunday evening will start 1 hour earlier, with Gates opening at 4:00PM, Hot Laps at 5:00PM, and Racing at 6:00PM. For more info on PPMS Schedule see the website http://www.ppms.com/ .

SUMMARY - August 18, 2012

Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic DirtCar Super Late Models

Heats - 22 Gregg Satterlee, H1 Jared Miley, 1C Lynn Geisler and 2J Mike Johnson

Feature (53 Laps) - 1. H1 Jared Miley, 2. 17 Keith Barbara, 3. 18 Keith Berner, 4. 0 Steve Baker, 5. 2J Mike Johnson, 6. 10 Alex Ferree, 7. J4 John Garvin, 8. 99B Boom Briggs, 9. 21 Matt Lux, 10. 22 Gregg Satterlee, 11. 1 Kyle Lukon, 12. 17 Brandon Burgoon, 13. 21 Tony Musolino, 14. 12 Daryl Charlier, 15. 91 Tommy Beck, 16. 0K Kari Gasser, 17. 69 Jon Hodgkiss, 18. 38 Jim Stephans, 19. 6 Jim Lepro, 20. 32 Jim Rasey, 21. 76 Jason Rider, 22. 14 Scott Gunn, 23. 72 Michael Norris, 24. 1C Lynn Geisler, 25. 32 Billy Dickson, 26. 1J Davey Johnson, 27. 44 Derek Stefanick, 28. 4J John Mollick, 29. 119 Chad McClellen, 30. No 7 Jason Dupont, DNS - 99 Ben Miley

Awesome Hard Charger - 21 Matt Lux

K&N Performer - J4 John Garvin

Hard Luck Award: Lynn Geisler

Sprints

Heats - CIII Rod George, 23JR Jack Sodeman and 3 Pete Miller III

Feature (21 Laps) - 1. 2L Ed Lynch, 2. 23JR Jack Sodeman, 3. 22B Brandon Spithaler, 4. 30 Daryl Stimeling, 5. CIII Rod George, 6. 7 Eric Williams, 7. 5K Adam Kekich, 8. 3 Pete Miller III, 9. 33 Brent Matus, 10. 23S Russ Sansosti, 11. 5 Bob McMillen, 12. 24M Adam Miller, 13. 17 Justin Whetsell, 14. 6 Sheila Rankin, 15. 5M Jim McMillen, 16. B6 Bobbi Rankin, 17. 5B Adam Anderson, 18. 69X Mike Flynn, 19. 13 Brandon Matus, 20. 66 Chris Dunn, DNS - 57 Gary Edwards

Hard Luck Award: Gary Edwards

Brougher's Machine Shop ProLate Models

Heats - 8 Dusty Curry, 9R Mike Reft and 75 Colton Flinner

Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 2 Andrew Satterlee, 2. 1 Kyle Lukon, 3. 75 Colton Flinner, 4. 99G Beau Glemba, 5. 75 Scott Schempp, 6. 93X Justin Lamb, 7. 09 Dennis Niederriter, 8. 08 Jeff Broniszewski, 9. 2M Chuck Medved, 10. 84 Laura Lukon, 11. 01 Ron Hall, 12. 12 Brian Goebel, 13. 9R Mike Reft, 14. 15 Mark Moats, 15. 18 Chris Lander, 16. 3 Paul Jablonski, 17. 99* Rick Singleton, 18. 8 Dusty Curry, 19. B4 Steve Beatty, 20. 2J Josh Valenti, 21. 72 Mike Anderson

K&N Performer - 09 Dennis Neiderriter

Sunoco Race Fuels DirtCar Sportsman

Heat - 68X Jake Simmons

Feature (15 Laps) - 1. 45 Pat Weldon, 2. 68X Jake Simmons, 3. 60 Brian Huchko, 4. 36 A. J. Poljak, 5. 10 Nick Kocuba, 6. 54 Wayne Carbo, 7. 20 Mitch Wattelet, 8. 64K Craig Koteles, 9. 33 Carl Weidenhofer, DNS - 25 Mark Lee and W1 Jarrod Westover

K&N Performer - 20 Mitch Wattelet

Miley BP Car Wash DirtCar Hobby Stocks Factory Stocks

Heat - 56 Joe Podolinsky

Feature (12 Laps) - 1. 56 Joe Podolinsky, 2. 1 Gary Smith, 3. M5 Christian Schneider, 4. 7 Chase Evans, 5. 14 Hannah Ramsey, 6. 56J Steve Pyeritz, 7. 21D Don Black, 8. 714 Alex Broniszewski

K&N Performer - 21D Don Black

Imperial Heights Garage DirtCar Young Guns Sport Compacts

Feature (6 Laps) - 1. 0 Logan Crewl, 2. B4 Dylan Bolind, 3. D15 David Ostrander, 4. 45 Todd Weldon, 5. 47 Roman O'Neill, 6. 89 Terrence Ryan, 7. 13C Courtney Chamberlain

K&N Performer - 13C Courtney Chamberlain

[mmiley]

UFo Points after the RMR at PPMS.

The top 5 get a $100 show up bonus at each event they attend.

Point money sponsors American Racer & Hoosier will pay a year end point fund based on number of events held.

[tryan#57]

there were some damn nice races goin on last night! but i would like to say that me ( Terrence Ryan) wasnt driving last night, its was Mike Jackson, my partner.

[mayorand1stladyofturn4]

Great Show last night Matt , your nephew is a hell of a driver, hope he makes the treck to Eldora for the World 100 he sure has the equipment and talent to give it a shot! I would like to take time to thank you and the PPMS family for letting me park behind the grandstands while I deal with this terrible knee problem I have , again it was a great night of racing!

[flash49]

Great Show last night Matt , your nephew is a hell of a driver, hope he makes the treck to Eldora for the World 100 he sure has the equipment and talent to give it a shot! I would like to take time to thank you and the PPMS family for letting me park behind the grandstands while I deal with this terrible knee problem I have , again it was a great night of racing!

AMEN!!

[JSTLateModelFan]

Awesome night! It was our first time there this year. The track was great, the racing was superb. Just a really nice night at PPMS.

[Miley Motor Sports]

Glad you all enjoyed the RMR. The track has been in great condition all year thanks to Brian and his father. And the competition has been great as well. We hope you will stop by again as we appreciate your support. Remeber the Ed Laboon Sportsman 17 Showdown is this Saturday and the 23rd Annual Jook George Memorial Classic is just two weeks away!!

[It'sTrue]

Glad you all enjoyed the RMR. The track has been in great condition all year thanks to Brian and his father. And the competition has been great as well. We hope you will stop by again as we appreciate your support. Remeber the Ed Laboon Sportsman 17 Showdown is this Saturday and the 23rd Annual Jook George Memorial Classic is just two weeks away!!

The soaking down of the bottom of the track prior to the crate late race wasn't a great idea. It caused multiple wrecks and quite a few torn up racecars. If you want to keep the sprints out off the bottom to keep the dust down, try cones or uke tires. Leaving standing water not such a great idea.........

[W.O.T 3 WIDE]

The track was awesome sat. You could run top to bottom.. hats off to Brian and his dad..

[dirt's4racin']

The soaking down of the bottom of the track prior to the crate late race wasn't a great idea. It caused multiple wrecks and quite a few torn up racecars. If you want to keep the sprints out off the bottom to keep the dust down, try cones or uke tires. Leaving standing water not such a great idea.........

There was only one car that kept driving down there, and that was the black 8 car. He almost wrecked on the start of the race, and probably flung mud all over the track to cause that first lap wreck. Then he ended up hitting the wall a few laps later because of it, so I guess he didn't learn the first few times he drove down there. I wouldn't blame the track crew. If the drivers see water down there, they shouldn't drive down there. It's not like the drivers didn't know it was wet, they had them all running the bottom in before the race started.

[realgearhead5y]

Great Show last night Matt , your nephew is a hell of a driver, hope he makes the treck to Eldora for the World 100 he sure has the equipment and talent to give it a shot! I would like to take time to thank you and the PPMS family for letting me park behind the grandstands while I deal with this terrible knee problem I have , again it was a great night of racing!

Matt,

Made it out to the first race this year and thought the racing was great in all divisions but especially in the late models....the drivers put on a great feature and the track held up well.....from what I hear the track has been good most of the year from what I understand. As with most things with the good also comes opportunities for improvement. A few things come to mind....I sit down in turn one about 3/4 of the way down the straight away. I am not sure but I dont think there are speakers that work down there because even during the intermission and during victory lane interviews and during cautions no one down there could here any announcments...including the 4 guests I brought to the track, bummer becasue that can really add value to a night at the races....Second is the bleecher conditions down in that section are SCARY......I mean I thought there was a few times we were going through.....all I can say is close those sections down or fix em because they come off as making your maintenance team and facility as being poorly maintained. I will say that there looked to be some effort done there because I saw a few boards that were repaired but there was some cheap engineering going to there because the good board was place right on top of the bad board.....unless these HIGHRISE seats were for shorter people...LOL....If your going to fix it your team should fix it right....The last opportunity for improvement was related to why no one on your track team added any dirt to the oil stripe (when derek stefanic blew his motor) on the track before they asked the drivers to run through that spot to try to clean it up. The drivers ran at least 10 caution laps, even a few drivers (Scotty Gunn) weren't convinced this was the right idea. Really no dirt at a dirt track......Hmmm...

Please dont take these as negative, the feedback is only meant as an opportunity for you to improve your product...

See you at the Pittsburgher - Hopefully we will hear ya...

Kirk

[Tommy]

There was only one car that kept driving down there, and that was the black 8 car. He almost wrecked on the start of the race, and probably flung mud all over the track to cause that first lap wreck. Then he ended up hitting the wall a few laps later because of it, so I guess he didn't learn the first few times he drove down there. I wouldn't blame the track crew. If the drivers see water down there, they shouldn't drive down there. It's not like the drivers didn't know it was wet, they had them all running the bottom in before the race started.

So, you're saying that leaving water on the racetrack where cars are going over 100 mph is safe racing as long as people drive around it. I'll answer you, it's not.

[dirt's4racin']

So, you're saying that leaving water on the racetrack where cars are going over 100 mph is safe racing as long as people drive around it. I'll answer you, it's not.

If it was all the way down on the bottom of the track, out of the racing groove, then yes. And as I understand it, they told all the drivers to stay out of there.

[mmiley]

Matt,

Made it out to the first race this year and thought the racing was great in all divisions but especially in the late models....the drivers put on a great feature and the track held up well.....from what I hear the track has been good most of the year from what I understand. As with most things with the good also comes opportunities for improvement. A few things come to mind....I sit down in turn one about 3/4 of the way down the straight away. I am not sure but I dont think there are speakers that work down there because even during the intermission and during victory lane interviews and during cautions no one down there could here any announcments...including the 4 guests I brought to the track, bummer becasue that can really add value to a night at the races....Second is the bleecher conditions down in that section are SCARY......I mean I thought there was a few times we were going through.....all I can say is close those sections down or fix em because they come off as making your maintenance team and facility as being poorly maintained. I will say that there looked to be some effort done there because I saw a few boards that were repaired but there was some cheap engineering going to there because the good board was place right on top of the bad board.....unless these HIGHRISE seats were for shorter people...LOL....If your going to fix it your team should fix it right....The last opportunity for improvement was related to why no one on your track team added any dirt to the oil stripe (when derek stefanic blew his motor) on the track before they asked the drivers to run through that spot to try to clean it up. The drivers ran at least 10 caution laps, even a few drivers (Scotty Gunn) weren't convinced this was the right idea. Really no dirt at a dirt track......Hmmm...

Please dont take these as negative, the feedback is only meant as an opportunity for you to improve your product...

See you at the Pittsburgher - Hopefully we will hear ya...

Kirk

Thank You for attending. There is always room for improvement. We will keep plugging away to make PPMS the best it can be.

Please notify security of any "SCARY" bleachers, one said boo to me last week, and they will caution tape the boards for replacement.

I'll check on the speakers again, the little ones do nothing, they are replaced by the real big square ones, supposedly state of the art! Every time I have them checked the darn things work. Also 92.5 on the radio will pick up Dow and with headphones you can hear while they are racing.

We have speedy dry in the back of the red push truck...my understanding is a bit of oil on the tires will help them fire on a restart??...maybe that's not true...who knows for sure?...it always seems better from a debris standpoint to just run the oil in if it's not to bad.

We are glad you enjoyed the racing and the track has been fantastic all season, great job of offseason preparation and in season maintainence. The surface and the drivers racing on it are providing the best racing I have ever seen at PPMS, any perhaps anywhere in 2012!

The battle between Greg and Keith for 1,2 and Jared and Steve for 3,4 at the same time left you not knowing what to watch...meanwhile Berner was looking like he was going to drive right to the front!

Thanks again for joining us at the 2012 RMR! Ed Laboon 17 this Sat, then the JOOK George, then the first ever Monster Truck Show as the racers get a week off at PPMS to prep for the 24th annual Tri Star Pittsburgher Sept 14 & 15!...and we keep going weekly this season to the Monster Mania grand finale Oct 6!

Support your local speedway! Join them for some great short track racing!

[TheLegend]

If it was all the way down on the bottom of the track, out of the racing groove, then yes. And as I understand it, they told all the drivers to stay out of there.

On a track by your self avoiding the water would be easy... except some people drive a race car like they play mario cart employing a windsheild wiper like maneuver where they violently swerve from wall to wall and on some extreme occasions avoiding said road hazards involves driving through the water. I have a broken thumb right now as a result of the combination of that water and the road hazards. With a track that wide I cant understand making part of it unuseable. To explain how this happened on the start I allowed one of the mario carts 50ft between me and the wall but they decided they needed 70 so they violently swerved left toward the inside which caused me to either check up or be part of a 10 car first turn pile up and checking up resulted in the car behind me driving under my rear end and then another car tryed to make it 4 wide going into 1 only he was in the water not on a race track so his car shot up into mine spinning the wheel around and breaking my thumb turn 1 lap 1 of a 53 lap race !! telling people to simply avoid that water ignores the fact some cars are lucky enough to stay between both walls let alone avoiding certin areas. Im not insulting the track or the preparation I am simply making an observation based on personal experiance that the first 15 ft of the track not being flooded makes for a safer experiance for the competitors

[silverspoon32]

Matt , please DON'T fix the loudspeakers in turn 1 . Been sittin down there for 20 years without them , don't need em . They fixed the one in turn one at lernerville bout 8 years ago & its too damn loud . JMO

[Kyle]

So, you're saying that leaving water on the racetrack where cars are going over 100 mph is safe racing as long as people drive around it. I'll answer you, it's not.

couldn't agree more. that water has caused more problems than it has ever helped. the water was not out of the racing groove. if the water were not there a lot of drivers would have been using that part of the track. like it was mentioned before move the tires out or something to keep drivers away from there but do not water the track. i almost had the same situation happen to me a couple laps before dusty hit the wall. i was racing with justin lamb and was trying to make sure we both had plenty of room. well i went low and did not just drive through the water but barely clipped a little bit and the car just took off. drivers hitting the water also affects the drivers behind them as the water is now spread the whole way across the track. thats just my opinion though. doesn't seem the safest to me

[mmiley]

Matt , please DON'T fix the loudspeakers in turn 1 . Been sittin down there for 20 years without them , don't need em . They fixed the one in turn one at lernerville bout 8 years ago & its too damn loud . JMO

[plymouth-man]

I also sat down at the end of the main grandstand in turn 1 and noticed some scary looking boards too. I tried not to step on any of them because they looked like they might break at any moment. That is the only complaint I have, the track was racy and it only took a short time to get the cars lined back up after a cation. It wouldn't hurt to put up 1 more big speaker at the end of the main grand stand in 1. Hope you take these suggestions as positive way to help improve a good facility.

Edited by plymouth-man, 21 August 2012 - 12:33 AM.

[realgearhead5y]

I also sat down at the end of the main grandstand in turn 1 and noticed some scary looking boards too. I tried not to step on any of them because they looked like they might break at any moment. That is the only complaint I have, the track was racy and it only took a short time to get the cars lined back up after a cation. It wouldn't hurt to put up 1 more big speaker at the end of the main grand stand in 1. Hope you take these suggestions as positive way to help improve a good facility.

I agree small but important suggestions for improvements.......especially if the effort seems to be minor (replacing boards doesnt seem to take a rocket scientist) but the payoff in PR and customer satisfaction is huge......Imagine the number of people on here that would give HUGE amounts of positive PR for the replacement of a few $20 boards.......Come on take the next step...we "like" a good facility but would "love" a great facility......The tradition and Miley name as it is associated with racing would only build to greater heights....