PASS ready to start season at Path Valley 

By Frank Buhrman PORT ROYAL, Pa. (April 20, 2024) – Two weeks ago, Nick Sweigart committed to the high side of Port Royal Speedway’s racing surface, and while his racing line thrilled the crowd, he needed some late attrition among other front-runners for it to result in a fourth-place finish in the River Valley Builders Pennsylvania Sprint Series makeup of the 2023 Keystone RaceSaver Challenge. This Saturday night was very different. Hanging high, and hitting the wall once, the Myerstown veteran shot from his sixth starting position into second on the opening lap, then got past early leader Ken Duke at the beginning of lap three. From that point on, Sweigart was atop the Speed Palace leaderboard and despite his critical appraisal of his driving over the last half of the race, he held his lead in traffic and scored a 2.159-second victory over defending PASS champion Logan Spahr, who took the runner-up spot from Duke on the final circuit of the 20-lap feature. The feature ran non-stop and was completed in less than seven minutes. Only [Read More]

By Frank Buhrman PORT ROYAL, PA. (Aug. 7) – Garrett Bard won his fifth Pennsylvania Sprint Series race in his last sixth starts Saturday night, taking advantage of his second straight front-row starting position draw and fighting off stout challenges from Kenny Heffner and Tyler Snook to top the 20-lap feature at Port Royal Speedway.  The defending national champion Bard received his final and most serious challenge on a late restart with six laps to go. Rookie Snook dove to the inside and briefly claimed the lead, but Bard’s outside power was enough to return him to the top spot and the win.  Kenny Heffner also challenged earlier in the race and re-took second place from Snook in the waning laps. Ken Duke and Dom Melair rounded out the top five. Forty-six IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars contended. Kassidy Kreitz earned the night’s hard charger award, coming from the 21st starting position to 12th after winning her “B” main. This week PASS has two scheduled races. On Friday the Sprinters are part of the Night of Power [Read More]

By Frank Buhrman SELINSGROVE, Pa. – River Valley Builders, the Susquehanna Valley’s most trusted homebuilder, will be the series sponsor for the Pennsylvania Sprint Series in 2022. The news was teased at the annual PASS banquet last month, and the contract with PASS and IMCA was finalized last week. Central Pennsylvania’s premier modular home builder’s service area overlaps with the tracks hosting most of PASS’s 2022 IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car races, making the sponsorship a natural fit.  “We’re thankful to Ken Duke Sr. for referring River Valley Builders as our series sponsor,” stated Rod Ort, regional director for PASS. ”It’s great when racers get involved to help bring sponsors over that benefit the series. Our goal will be to spread the word about RVB at the tracks we visit.”  “I’m personally excited about this because their area of service is right in our back yard and as an owner of a modular home, I’m a huge advocate of the process,” he continued. “It’s really great to have a company that wants to support our teams, [Read More]