AFFORDABLE RACING TECHNOLOGY

Myerstown PA, November 7th, 2011:  The New Egypt Speedway track crew prepped a daytime surface that could best be described as highly raceable. With the sun shining and a steady breeze blowing the starts and cars of the Slingshot and SpeedSTR classes were running their last events of the respective National point seasons.

 

A Pit Stop Challenge 20 was first on the slate as a dual heat format would set the starting field as Matt Carman would lead the way in the Bill Hocker 54R.The first 10 laps saw numerous position changes as Carman held on to the top spot giving him the closest spot to the pit stop checkpoint. The required pit stop would see the Slingshot jacked up and a right rear tire completely replaced, with the restart lineup relined by their appearance and legality at the checkpoint. Mike Thompson put the Justin Thompson # 7 off first after running 5th at the break.

 

The remaining 10 laps found Thompson in another area code as the battle behind him was just heating up. Travis Bieber was summoned to emergency duty aboard the Buccafusca # 43 and he passed brother Brett and Kyle Hieber for second in a lap 14 outside move that had only Thompson as his next conquest. The yellow would never fly and the Slinger Warehouse prepared # 7 would find victory lane with Thompson getting the win. Travis Bieber held on for second with Kyle Hieber third. Fourth went to Oley's, PA's Brett Bieber who would clinch the 2011 All Star National Championship with his fine run. Rounding out the top 5 was 2011 Hamlin Super Division champion, Henry Anderson, Jr. in his gold # 99.

 

The 2011 All Star Slingshot by Tobias National Champion

 Brett Bieber congratulated by Rich Tobias.

 

With a half field invert the Daylight Savings 12 would be the show of shows for the Slingshots and taking the win in the Kevin Gruber prepared 76 was Kyle Gruber. The Lebanon, PA hot shoe just got to the line ahead of Carl Labonte in the RevStar # 1 and 2011 All Star champion Brett Bieber. With a total run of 44 laps for the Slingshots, there wasn't one single caution flag flown for these racers. The Slingshots were making laps in excess of 80 MPH, a testament to the abilities of these racers.

 

The SpeedSTR were next on the event schedule and the lineup was formed by use of timed masses.The Langhorne Motorsports # 6 with Kyle Hieber would set fast time with Canada winner Brittany Wixon sharing the front row. Hieber took the green and the race was on as Gary Huber mounted a challenge with Paul Lotier,Jr and Gary Hieber trailing closely behind. As lap 12 was being put into the books Huber got out of shape in turn 2 and Lotier closed in on Hieber for one last run. With the pack closely bunched Matt Harrell passed Scott Munroe and Brittany Wixon with an against the wall pass coming out of turn 4 and was now the fastest car on the speedway, but the checker waved above the Kyle Hieber driven orange Bucks County International SpeedSTR. Lotier would claim second with Gary Hieber third. SpeedSTR National point contender Yannick Poirier would get 4th with Matt Harrell grabbing 5th from his 15th place starting spot.

 

Winner of the 1st SpeedSTR 15 was Kyle Hieber

 with his girlfriend. Feltenberger Photo

 

The Run What You Brung heats were won by Tad Cox in the 59 and John Willman in the Ron and Ann Wilson # 89 "Plexiglas Special". Round 2 of the Trifecta 15's for the SpeedSTR's would have a 10 car invert, done by the fan draw, giving Freddie Rahmer the pole position and Gary Huber the outside pole. It didn't take long for third starter Carl Labonte to take the lead as he put the RevStar # 14 to the low side of turn and had the lead heading out of turn 2.One of the few cautions of the day gave the field another shot at Labonte on lap 6 and taking advantage of this yellow was Paul Lotier,Jr. who went from his 9th starting spot to 3rd and was running side by side with Gary Huber for 7 laps before finally getting past the H&V Racing # 11 and having 3 laps to get by Labonte for the win.

 

A lap 13 spin put the field in single file mode for the remaining 2 laps and Lotier had a slight advantage over Labonte heading out of turn 2 but Labonte's low line gave him the needed traction off of turn 4 for the win. Lotier notched his second runner-up spot of the day with Gary Huber third, Yannick Poirier forth and Freddie Rahmer 5th.Rahmer was set back for aggressive driving giving 5th to the Bulldog Art # 5 of Bobby Dmuchowski.

 

Hoisting the 2011 SpeedSTR National

Championship check is Canada's Yannick Poirier.

 

The Jersey Jam 25 was next up with 14 of the 16 entered cars taking the green. The early race battle between Stan Frankenfield and Tommy Carberry was quickly joined by John Willman who was putting the Wilson Motorsports # 89 anywhere on the speedway. Tad Cox had his altered 59 on the move and the speed show was on. Willman grabbed the lead and Cox put a fast time lap of over 100MPH on the slate on lap 6 getting up to the rear bumper of Willman. Lapped cars were now becoming involved in the outcome and Willman's patience heading through traffic was the deciding factor. The 25 lap Run What You Brung main was over in under 8 minutes as Willman's run netted him $2000 with Cox's run putting $1000 in his pay envelope. Dave Hunt grabbed 3rd in his 27 with Tommy Carberry and Sammy Piazza taking 4th and 5th.

 

The final SpeedSTR event of the 2011 season used an 8 car fan pick invert and it put the Langhorne Motorsports team cars of Gary and Kyle Hieber on the front row. The brothers swapped the lead for the first 10 laps with Carl Labonte getting into the mix from his 8th starting spot. The 11th lap now had the Hieber's, Labonte, Lotier and Dmuchowski all under a blanket and heading 3 wide into turn 3 Labonte snuck his RevStar racer under Kyle and Gary to take the lead. Following him through was Lotier and a yellow on the 12th lap had a double file restart with the $650 win on the line. The front pair headed under the white flag dead even, but Lotier bobbled heading into turn one giving Labonte the needed room for the remaining 2 turns and the win.

 

2011 Big Kahuna Series Great American Enduro champions

 Mark Naftzinger (R, big car) and John Crosby (L, small car)

 

Getting under the 4X of Lotier was Gary Hieber who would run of out laps to challenge Labonte. The Quebec, Canada driver would record a SpeedSTR double with Gary Hieber and Lotier taking the remaining podium spots. Kyle Hieber took 4th and Bobby Dmuchowski also recorded his 2nd top five of the afternoon. A last lap battle between Scott Munroe, Yannick Poirier, Yannick Mathieu ,Brittany Wixon and Brandon Rahmer came down to the transponder scoring as these 5 were that close.

 

The Great American Enduro 100 was a real crowd pleaser as early race leader Richie Cass, Jr. would plant his # 1 four cylinder right up against the turn 4 and turn 1 wall to take a 3 lap lead before lap 30 was completed. Cass tangled in a turn 1 spin setting off his car's airbags and with the deployed airbag in his lap he soldiered on until finally having a flat tire and eventually no tire forcing him to the sidelines on lap 68.Randy Nelson inherited the lead he had lost to Cass, but the Saturn # 15 of Steve Wilson had other plans as he passed Nelson on lap 74 and would not be denied the win. Nelson would be the big car class winner in the 54.The Great American Enduro Series would name Mark Naftzinger who finished 2nd in the big car class, as the 2011 Big Car point champion. John Crosby who put his 49 in for a 5th place Small Car run would be named the 2011 Small Car Champion.

Champions Day at New Egypt would see Yannick Poirier named the 2011 SpeedSTR National Champion and Brett Bieber would be crowned the 2011 All Star Slingshot by Tobias National Champion.

 

 

Pit Stop Challenge 20 (Slingshots)

1.Justin Thompson 2.Travis Bieber 3.Kyle Hieber 4. Brett Bieber 5. Henry Anderson, Jr. 6. Carl Labonte 7. Bobby Snyder, Jr. 8. Dave McCullough 9. Joe Bodenschatz 10. CR Hill 11. Pierre Desilets 12.Bill Larue 13. Kyle Gruber 14.Matt Carman 15. Gary Hieber

 

Daylight Savings 12

1.Kyle Gruber 2. Carl Labonte 3. Brett Bieber 4. Bobby Snyder 5. CR Hill 6. Joe Bodenschatz 7. Dave McCullough 8. Pierre Desilets 9. Bill Larue 10. Henry Anderson, Jr. 11. Justin Thompson 12. Travis Bieber 13. Kyle Hieber 14. Matt Carman 15. Gary Hieber

 

SpeedSTR 1st 15:

1. Kyle Hieber 2. Paul Lotier,Jr. 3. Gary Hieber 4. Yannick Poirier 5. Matt Harrell 6. Scott Munroe 7. Brittany Wixon 8. Carl Labonte 9. Gary Huber 10. Freddie Rahmer 11. Brandon Rahmer 12. Howie Bedell 13. Yannick Mathieu 14. Matt Carman 15. Walt Stearley 16. Bobby Dmuchowski

 

SpeedSTR 2nd 15:

1. Carl Labonte 2. Paul Lotier,Jr. 3. Gary Huber 4. Yannick Poirier 5. Bobby Dmuchowski 6. Scott Munroe 7. Gary Hieber 8. Kyle Hieber 9. Freddie Rahmer 10. Yannick Mathieu 11. Brittany Wixon 12. Brandon Rahmer 13. Matt Carman 14. Howie Bedell 15. Matt Harrell

 

SpeedSTR 3rd 15:

1. Carl Labonte 2. Gary Hieber 3. Paul Lotier,Jr. 4. Kyle Hieber 5. Bobby Dmuchowski 6. Scott Munroe 7. Yannick Poirier 8. Yannick Mathieu 9. Brittany Wixon 10. Brandon Rahmer 11. Matt Harrell 12.Matt Carman 13. Gary Huber 14. Freddie Rahmer 15. Howie Bedell

 

Jersey Jam 25 :

1. John Willman 2. Tad Cox 3. Dave Hunt 4. Tommy Carberry 5. Sammy Piazza 6. Mike Franz 7. Al Cheney 8. Stan Frankenfield 9. Rick Holsten 10. Steve Davis 11. Corey Anderson 12. Ryan Simmons 13. Pat Wall 14. Joe Dill 15. Richie Pratt (DNS) 16. Darren McCaughey (DNS)

 

Great American Enduro:

1. Steve Wilson 2. Randy Nelson 3. Justin Dunn 4. Mark Naftzinger 5. Clay McAdams 6. Scott Dunn 7. John Crosby 8. Jamie Naftzinger 9. Paul Hartwig 10. Bill Stockert 11. Jimmy Avery 12. Dave Bentley 13. Jim Watkins 14. Richie Cass, Jr. 15. Pat Hires