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[raceover5]

Where do you begin. First off the schedule plastered all over racestud, facebook,ect was not even followed with the times. The scoreboard doesn't even work. The lights never came on so they decide to have a portable one that blinds everyone driving. The 2 pieces of ply wood get smashed on the wall and decide to cancel the rest of the night after making us all wait out to race the non qualifier race. The big blocks were also pissed after only racing heats. Like others said this place is on its last leg.

[1k sportsman]

What a awesome race for the stocks!! Just wish all the races would have gotten in. It's a shame the gas money wasted for the rush mods. Here is a pick of Ed Ferrere between races. Long night.

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[Benny K]

With the Laboon race rescheduled I just don't understand why they couldn't have just moved autographs to another night. Guys towing in from 3 hours away don't want to sit around for that and tj E local kids who want autographs have no clue who stick car drivers from Sharon, Hummingbird are. Just really poorly planned to try and waste 45 mins when there are t a lot of nights to pick from. The rush mod guys won't be back anytime soon.

[Hot Dog]

Heard the promoter said some pretty ignorant things to the Rush mod guys. Something to the effect of "you guys spend 3,000 on your engines, people around here spend that on golf." If true, that's just ridiculous. I don't attend the place often, but this would be enough to deter me from attending until it's made right with those guys.

[flash49]

There were 51 Sportsman cars, 14 Super Late Models, 22 Rush Late Models, and 14 Rush Modifieds.  

 

1.    Rusty Martz (16)

2.    Corey McPherson (C33)

3.    Wayne Carbo (54)   from about 25th

4.    Brian Rhed (69)

5.    Shaun Hooks (65)

6.    Curt Bish (29)

7.    Bob Schwartzmiller (28)

8.    Jeff Bronieszewski (08)

9.    Chris Schneider (55)

10.  Steve D'Apolito (84)

 

1.    Alex Ferree (10)

2.    John Flinner (48)

3.    Steve Baker (0)

4.    Brandon Burgoon (02)

5.    Ed Ferree (4)

6.    Colton Flinner (75)

7.    Ben Miley (99)

8.    John Mollick (4J)

9.    Jason Rider (47)

10.  Shane Hitt (5)

11.  Jon Hodgkiss (69)

12.  Kirk Baker (11)

13.  Butch Neubert (14)

14.  Derrick Stefanick (44)  DNS

 

1.    Kyle Lukon (84)                          order when race was red flagged on lap 17.

2.    Colton Flinner (Bentz 60)

3.    Josh Holtgraver (00)

4.    Mike Reft (9R)

5.    Daryl Charlier (12)

[TurnLeft22]

Completely agree that autograph night should have been moved to another night. Gald Vince got such a great turn out. That feature was brutal though. A lot of cautions with a lot of torn up equipment.

[flash49]

It wasn't the 45 minute autograph session that made the program so long, it was a ton of cautions all night and a great turnout of Sportsman cars. 

[jo73]

51 cars !!! Congrats Vince. Both Schneider s starting up front I'm sure some thought that's where the race was going to be. Wayne Carbo from 25th. Unfortunate to hear more of the same with the problems the management team at PPMS has. I'm sure more will be said. I hope other tracks have taken notice, Know to work on next year's event, bigger and better.

[michael myers]

wow, sounds like a fuster cluck on the track's part. What happened for them to cancel the program left to run?   Look's like ppms,and mercer can do something good together as they know how to piss people off.

[Benny K]

But if you don't have a 45 autograph session that started at 10 you have time to finish your program. There was a bad crate late flip that took out some of the upper fence they have on back straight. But from what I have read it really isn't the actual wall that was damaged but an outter/upper barrier. They just wanted to finish and used that along with a curfew as a reason to cancel.

[1k sportsman]

THANK YOU VINCE!!! You put together a great show. Your dad would be proud.

[raceover5]

Great job by Vince 51 cars is outstanding, can't wait till next yr!

[Racer17L]

Thanks guys! I know the Mileys are going to take some heat for forcing everything in one night but remember I'm the one who chose this make up date based off of the Penn Ohio series availability, and Mercer and Sharon not having stocks last night. Well Mercer until 3 pm last Monday but you know how that went down lol. Mileys had a large sponsor who wanted to also make last night their corporate night and sponsor the autograph session so it wasn't possible to change it since that date was chosen back in the spring.

I feel bad the show went so late and honestly the effort to push the show along took away track prep time that could have made the track racier and probably less cautions. But you live and learn. Didn't think we'd have 51 cars and need all that time for 4 hot laps sessions, 10 qualifying sessions, 6 heats and 2 B mains. But that is a good thing right?

Next year will definitely will have less going on to make the night less rushed and get everything in on time. But you did get to see a TON of racing for your $15 last night. Hope everyone had fun and will support the race next year.

[old man d]

Vince, that was a Hell"va Sportsmans show. Every one who came with me some for the first time really enjoyed it. They want to come back next year. We all agreed we got more than our monies worth. As for the lights and other problems with the track what we say falls on dead ears. Again you made your Dad Proud.

[Chrome Horn]

Kudos to you Vince on another great race. Otherwise what a cluster of a night. As original poster mentioned, the show dragged on and on. After every caution they would parade around 5 mins single file before they got lined up. I thought they used electronic scoring so lining them up shouldn't be so difficult. Not the best decision by Ben to put the portable lights where he did and pointing them directly off of turn 4 right into the drivers face as they came off turn 4. Soon as the 6 car flipped, I had a feeling they were going to call it a night. If you want to call it a night due to the lateness fine, but don't say the damage to the wall as a reason. They have ran before with whole sections of the upper wall missing. Also they need to look at doing whatever they can to bring Dow back. The announcer they have now, either it is his first announcing gig or he just doesn't do what he needs to do. All night long, he never ONCE ran down the list of contributors for the Laboon race. Dow would go over the list multiple times in one evening. Another gaffe he made is he said there were 10 rush mods, but if he was paying attention during hotlaps he would have seen there were more. Announcing is a hard job but come on, take a little time and effort to make sure you do it right. Give the lineup, say a few of the drivers sponsors. Again things Dow would do multiple times in one night.

[Sparkler]

Vince Great show you put on. One thing, How come the sponsor list never got read once from the ppms announcer? that announcer has to go, he is just horrible all night long from not knowing who is in what car, to the number of heats, to not even reading sponsors on cars when their on the track,ect!

[blue by you]

congrat vince . gerat show but i suggest you FIND ANOTHER TRACK !!! enough said.

[Paul55]

Kudos to you Vince on another great race. Otherwise what a cluster of a night. As original poster mentioned, the show dragged on and on. After every caution they would parade around 5 mins single file before they got lined up. I thought they used electronic scoring so lining them up shouldn't be so difficult. Not the best decision by Ben to put the portable lights where he did and pointing them directly off of turn 4 right into the drivers face as they came off turn 4. Soon as the 6 car flipped, I had a feeling they were going to call it a night. If you want to call it a night due to the lateness fine, but don't say the damage to the wall as a reason. They have ran before with whole sections of the upper wall missing. Also they need to look at doing whatever they can to bring Dow back. The announcer they have now, either it is his first announcing gig or he just doesn't do what he needs to do. All night long, he never ONCE ran down the list of contributors for the Laboon race. Dow would go over the list multiple times in one evening. Another gaffe he made is he said there were 10 rush mods, but if he was paying attention during hotlaps he would have seen there were more. Announcing is a hard job but come on, take a little time and effort to make sure you do it right. Give the lineup, say a few of the drivers sponsors. Again things Dow would do multiple times in one night.

was gonna say the same thing they ran almost half a season with the plywood missing in between turn 1 and 2. What the Mileys said to the rush mod drivers is typical Mileys fashion.Congrats to Vince on doing a hell of a job on this race your dad would be dam proud!

Edited by Paul55, 12 July 2015 - 10:55 AM.

[LM RACING]

Great job to vince. Who would have thought we would have all those races. The kids were excited about getting autographs and they are tracks future fans. You people who think that a show should go non stop and problem free every week are crazy. Lets just do a cut off at 20 cars per class and drag cars off on their roofs under green. then make sure the driver is ok. That will make the show go faster. So the line ups were a little slow oh well. My 5 and 7 yr old daughters sat and watched it all night and didnt cry about it. I asked them after the super lates if they were ready to go and they said no we want to stay til its over. Looks like they will be real race fans not crybabies. And also, using work as an excuse for not being able to stay past 10:00 is ridiculous. Man up and pull an all nighter or go home early, but dont bitch about it on a message board. I cant count the amount of times my crew and I pulled in from tyler or central pa just to get in our cars and go to work.

[The Legend]

You should have heard the cadets being screamed at on the raceceiver about line ups lol . I don't know if some guys didn't have functional raceceivers but some dudes were told 10 times what to do and still didn't do it lol