HIESTER'S H.O. RACEWAY

Tonight Thursday October 17, 2024, was the First Race of the 2024-2025 Hiester's H.O. Raceway season for the "Mighty Modifieds".  There were 25 Racers in the pits for the Season Opener at the Famed Oval in Reading, PA sponsored by GMI First Mechanical Solutions.  Taking the win was Shane Hiester.  Shane won all 6 of his segments on the night.  Second went to Sheldon Hiester.  Sheldon won 5 segments on the night, but was a little anxious on Lane 3 and Randy Haydt snuck by him on one of his falloffs for the win.  Third went to Mike Feltenberger.  Bear won 5 segments on the night.  Fourth went to Randy Haydt Randy won 1 segment on the night, and it just happened to be the one that took Sheldon out of a perfect.  Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was Andrew Cremer.  Andrew won 3 segments on the night.  The rest of the field finished up as follows: 6-Tyler Oswalt, 7-Elmer Santiago (2 wins), 8-Brian Sponagle, 9-Jim LeVan, 10-Scottie Heilman (2 wins), 11-Tom Hiester, 12-Little T, 13-Bill Brenner, 14-Jim Petersheim, 15-John Kosmoski, 16-Brian Zerbe, 17-Steve Smith Sr., 18-Jazmin Santiago, 19- Brian Saylor (1 win), 20-Dave Figora, 21-Dave Comley, 22-Mike Sheidy, 23- Michael Hutt, 24-Lyle Spiegel, and 25-Thomas Hoover.  Glad to see everyone back at the track, and get to talk with some people we haven't seen in a few months.  It was a great turnout to kickoff the season.  Shane won all 6 of his races, but it was not an easy night as he had 4 other Top 10 cars in his races narrowly beating Randy at the finish line in 3 of them.  Sheldon and Bear wanted redues on Lane 3 so there night could've turned out better.  Shane only beat Sheldon by 9 sections of track for the win.  Third to fifth was separated by only 12 track sections pretty close racing.  Track owner Tommy Hiester just missed out on a Top 10 finish by a lap.  It was cool to see all of the different style Modified bodies on the track tonight as it ranged from 70's era cars like Falcons, Vegas, Mustangs, Coupes, Coaches, Gremlins, Pinto, Chevette, Corvair, and newer style such as an Asphalt Modified, and a IMCA Modified.  We even had an Anglia with fenders on it, and Dave Comley used them fenders a few times to move crash victims out of the way.  Brian Saylor started the night out rough crashing out on Lane 3, but ended the night on a high note winning on Lane 8.  We had 3 new racers give it a try with all of them enjoying their experience.  They were Dave Figora, Lyle Spiegel, and Thomas Hoover.  Thanks to Greg Sarangoulis of GMI First for sponsoring the event.  The Cash Dash was sponsored by Craig Ray and the Reading Fairgrounds Legends.  Taking the win was Mike Feltenberger, 2-John Kosmoski, and 3-Brian Zerbe.  We are back next week October 24, 2024 with the Sprint Car Opener sponsored by Dave Comley of Comley's Customs.  Dave builds H.O. Drag Cars that are cool looking as he is a drag racer at heart.  Other races coming up in the area this week: Saturday October 19, 2024 Little T's Speedway (Sprints) and 2nd Floor Dragway (Bracket), Tuesday October 22, Randy's Raceway (NASCAR). 

1-Shane Hiester 90.00

2-Sheldon Hiester 89.31

3-Mike Feltenberger 88.36

4-Randy Haydt 88.35

5-Andrew Cremer 88.24

6-Tyler Oswald 87.38

7-Elmer Santiago 87.25 

8-Brian Sponagle 87.13

9-Jim LeVan 85.35

10-Scottie Heilman 85.24

11-Tommy Hiester 84.23

12-Little T 84.08

13-Bill Brenner 82.34

14-Jim Petersheim 80.08

15-John Kosmoski 79.30

16-Brian Zerbe 79.02

17-Steve Smith Sr. 78.05

18-Jazmin Santiago 78.03

19-Brian Saylor 74.23

20-Dave Figora 71.32

21-Dave Comley 71.03

22-Mike Sheidy 70.17

23-Michael Hutt 70.01

24-Lyle Spiegel 54.16

25-Thomas Hoover 53.29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next week- Thursday, October 24, 2024 Sprints- Comley's Customs Night Cash Dash by Pete Fox