HIESTER'S H.O. RACEWAY

Thursday December 18, 2025, was the Fifth Race of the 2025-2026 Hiester's H.O. Raceway season for the Sprint Car Division here at Hiester's H.O. Raceway, and we had 19 Drivers on hand for the event sponsored by GMI First Mechanical and it was also our Annual Wingless Sprint Race of the season.  Picking up the victory was Sheldon Hiester, winnig 5 of his 6 races on the night.  Finishing on the Second step of the poidium was Shane Hiester, winning 4 races on the night.  Coming home on the bottom step of the podium in Third was Brian Saylor, winning 2 races on the night.  Rounding out the Top 5 in Fourth was Jim LeVan (1 win), and Fifth was Mike Feltenberger (3 wins).  The racing was close as usual here at the Shillington Oval, but the Fall-Offs were more plentiful as they usually are when we take the wings off the Sprint Cars and run wingless.  Miles DeCoster was back again making his 1st Sprint Car start of the season after joining us the week before for a Modifed Race as a new comer to the Raceway never racing with us before, and finished 19th but did show some improvement from his 1st start here at the track.  Dakota Barlet was in attendance again and drove to another Top 10 finish coming home 6th.  Jim Petersheim turned in a good run coming home 7th in a different ride for the night and drove the car as it was fit more for his driving style rather then the one he was running earlier in the season.  Mike Sheidy made his 1st Sprint start of the season and came home 13th on the night, as well as Jeff Paulson (14th) & Dave Comley (15th) also making their 1st Sprint starts of the season.  After the main event was over we ran a Cash Dash sponsored byHeroes of Kutztown presented by Craig Ray of the Reading Fairgrounds Racing Historical Society, and picking up the victory was Brian Zerbe, followed by Shane Hiester in 2nd, Jim Petersheim in 3rd, and 4th went to Dave Comley.  We had 4 participants this night as Craig put up some extra money as well as gave awa a nice magnet to each participating driver of a Raeding Fairgrounds driver and car on the famed Reading Fairgrounds Track. Sorry for the delay of posting these Race Results and Stories, but just have been busy the past few weeks with working and the Holidays coming up, with stuff we had to do for them.  We will be back in action on Thursday Night January 8, 2026 for the 6th Modified Race of the Season and the Night will be sponsored by Super Tires.  Warm-Ups will begin at 6PM and the 1st Race to start around 7PM.

 

1-Sheidon Hiester 119.37 (5 wins)

2-Shane Hiester 119.27 (4 wins)

3-Brian Saylor 118.02 (2 wins)

4-Jim LeVan 117.33 (1 win)

5-Mike Feltenberger (3 wins)

6-Dakota Barlet 117.19 (3 wins)

7-Jim Petersheim 116.17 (1 win)

8-Brian Zerbe 115.10

9-Bob Windle 112.31

10-Gilbert Zerbe 110.39

11-Tom Hiester 108.03

12-Michael Hutt 107.14

13-Mike Sheidy 104.04

14-Jeff Paulson 101.37

15-Dave Comley 99.37

16-Lyle Spiegel 98.28

17-Trent Wahl 96.19

18-Michael Windle 93.22

19-Miles DeCoster 92.11

 

Thursday December 11, 2025 was our Fifth Race of the 2025-2026 Hiester's H.O. Raceway season for the Modifieds sponsored by Chris Gambler Motorsports White Body Night.  We had 20 Racers in attendance for the event, and taking the victory was Shane Hiester.  Shane won 5 segments on the night.  Second went to Brian Sponagle.  "Big Spon" won 4 segments on the night in his best run of the season to date.  Third went to Sheldon Hiester.  Sheldon won 4 segments on the night.  Fourth went to Dakota Barlet.  Dakota won 2 segments on the night.  Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was Mike Feltenberger.  Bear went the first night in a long time without a segment win during his run.  Trent Wahl showed improvement in only his third ever start with a Top 15 finish and breaking the 80 lap total for the first time.  We had a new comer Miles DeCoster make his first start at Hiester's H.O. Raceway.  Miles came home 20th, but did not crash out of any of his 6 races.  Jim LeVan, Tommy Hiester, and Randy Haydt were all on the same lap in positions 6 through 8 as well as the 5th place finisher Mike Feltenberger.  A tie for 9th between the brothers' Windle Bob and Steve so the racing was pretty tight all night.  Once again Jim Petersheim struggled with the Modified finishing 17th so hopefully in the new year he gets his Modified program back up to par.  we ran a Cash Dash sponsored by Chris Gambler as well and finished this way: 1-Dakota Barlet, 2-Brian Saylor, and 3-Steve Smith Sr.

1-Shane Hiester 89.35 (5 wins)

2-Brian Sponagle 89.29 (4 wins)

3-Sheldon Hiester 89.11 (4 wins)

4-Dakota Barlet 88.26 (2 wins)

5-Mike Feltenberger 87.33

6-Jim LeVan 87.28 (3 wins)

7-Tommy Hiester 87.11 (2 wins)

8-Randy Haydt 87.02 (1 win)

9-Bob Windle 85.28 (1 win) [TIE]

9-Steve Windle 85.28 (1 win) [TIE] 

11-Brian Saylor 84.02

12-Gil Zerbe 82.02

13-Brian Zerbe 81.04

14-John Kosmoski 80.23

15-Trent Wahl 80.14

16-Michael Windle 79.32

17-Jim Petersheim 78.14

18-Steve Smith Sr. 77.06

19-Lyle Spiegel 76.20

20-Miles DeCoster 71.32

 

Thursday December 4, was the Fourth Sprint Car Race of the season and it was sponsored by Specialty Rigging Co., and we had 20 Racers in attendance for the event.  Winning his 1st Sprint Car Race of the season was Mike Feltenberger, winning 4 races on the night.  Second place went to Shane Hiester, with 2 wins on the night.  Third spot went to Sheldon Hiester, winning 4 races on the night.  Finishing fourth was Dakota Barlet, winning 5 races on the night.  Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was Tom Hiester, winning 2 on the night.  The racing on this night was very close as the Top 3 were separated by only 8 sections of track from 1st to 3rd.  Andrew Cremer drove to an 8th place finish in his 2nd Night in a Sheldon Hiester prepared Sprint Car, which is very rare as Andrew likes to run a car prepared by himself, as he takes pride in his builds, but in Warm-Ups the last couple of races you could see his own car was under power and agreed to run a Hiester build due to it being faster.  I'm sure Andrew will get his own cars back to being fast runners in the near future as they usually are.  Steve and Bob Windle both turned in Top 10 runs finishing 9th and 10th respectively.  The Keeseys Joe Sr. and Joe Jr. were in attendance for the Sprint Race this week as it was Slo Joe Jr's 1st Sprint start of the season and he drove to a 19th place finish, due to having some handling issues and not racing Sprints that much this season to date.  After the Race was over we ran a Cash Dash sponsored by Dave Comley (Comley's Customs), which does some awesome custom builds on all kinds of H.O. Cars, and picking up the win in that was Bob Windle, followed by Trent Wahl in 2nds, and Linda Lauver in 3rd.  On the night 14 0f the 20 racers ended with 80 laps or higher which are very good scores and shows hw close the racing is throughout the full field.  We would like to Thank Specialty Rigging for their continued sponsoprship here at Hiester's H.O. Raceway in which on this night as part of their sponsorship they gave away 4 trucker hats and 2 T-Shirts.  We would also like to Thank Dakota Barlet and Barlet Racing for payiong all of the drivers entry fees for the night of racing.  Here is the full field rundown for this weeks action:

1-Mike Feltenberger 89.32 (4 wins)

2-Shane Hiester 89.31 (2 wins)

3-Sheldon Hiester 89.24 (4 wins)

4-Dakota Barlet 88.39 (5 wins)

5-Tom Hiester 88.04 (2 wins)

6-Brian Zerbe 87.39 (1 win)

7-Jim LeVan 86.22 (3 wins)

8-Andrew Cremer 85.34

9-Steve Windle 85.04 (1 win)

10-Bob Windle 84.22

11-Jim Petersheim 83.30

12-Dave Lauver 82.28

13-Michael Hutt 81.16

14-Brian Saylor 80.29

15-Steve Smith Sr. 79.25

16-Joe Keesey Sr. 79.03

17-Michael Windle 78.01

18-Trent Wahl 75.35

19-Slo Joe Keesey Jr. 57.03

20-Linda Lauver 53.09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Race- Thursday January 8, 2026 Modifieds sponsored by Super Tires Night