Regional Notes - Aug. 13, 2008
Blane Heimbach tied Chad Layton as the leader in career 358 sprint-car victories at Selinsgrove (Pa.) Speedway Aug. 2, notching his 25th-career victory at the track, which was also his fourth of the season… Sprint-car driver Danny Smith won for the 15th time this season Aug. 1, including nine victories at Skyline Speedway in Stewart, Ohio…On Aug. 2, Gary Lewis became the first back-to-back winner of the Idaho 200 at State Line Speedway since John Gamble accomplished the feat in 2001-02… Keith Lilley won the final race at USA Int’l Speedway Aug. 2, taking the Advance Auto Parts Truck 50. The Lakeland, Fla., speedway was sold and is due to be demolished… Modified driver Tim Brown, a regular at North Carolina’s Bowman Gray Stadium, and his crew are mourning the loss of crew member Jerry Boger, who died of pancreatic cancer shortly after Brown’s July 19 victory. Brown went back to victory lane Aug. 1, dedicating the victory and the pole award to Boger… After 16 runner-up finishes at Chemung (N.Y.) Speedrome over the past two years, John Wilber finally notched his first modified victory Aug. 2… The current operators of Marysville (Calif.) Raceway Park, Paul and Kathy Hawes, paid tribute Aug. 2 to former MRP promoter Cy Francis, who was the track’s first promoter beginning in 1968, with the Cy Francis Memorial Race and a special ceremony during intermission… Hot Rod Snellenberger ran his winning streak to four-straight races Aug. 2 and has now won six stock-car features on the season at Shawano (Wis.) Speedway… Lou Wannyn finished third on the track during the hobby-stock special at Hesson (Pa.) Speedway Aug. 2, but was declared the winner after the two cars ahead of him were both disqualified after post-race inspections… Kevin Claborn was the winner in both the late-model and thunder-car features Aug. 2 at Mt. Lawn (Ind.) Speedway… Rookie late-model driver Shawn Mahder earned his first-career victory in the division Aug. 2 at Rice Lake (Wis.) Speedway, outrunning his father, Duane, by six car-lengths to do it… Keith Frantsen, Jerry Frantsen and Joe Wieskus were among five inducted into the Jackson (Minn.) Speedway Hall of Fame Aug. 2. Jim Miller and Ivan Tokle were inducted posthumously.