2017 Race Season Overview

END OF 2017
Saturday Nov 18th Pro-Stick Cancelled due to Impending Weather Forecast.
Saturday — Nov. 4th

This was our 23rd annual Stock / Super Stock race presented by Mike and Wendy Carr of the Tri-State Stock / Super Stock Association. First the weather was great for day one, temps in the low 50’s, corrected altitude barely at sea level made everybody real fast. There 30 Stock / Super Stockers in round one and in the finals Carroll Morris in his Mustang won out over Danny Henderson in his max wedge 63 Dodge. Greg Orris took third in his pure stock GTO. We also ran a Footbrake race with Jeremey Manford taking the win over Mike Rodgers, Scott Vaughn was third. Super was contested also with Cliff Peddicord over Mark Gray in the final, Darlene Staub took third spot. We also had test and tune cars with us making numerous passes. The Stock / Super Stock racers put on a show, many towering, long wheel stands were the order of the day. Despite a gloomy weather forecast we still had a decent turnout for day one.

Sunday — Nov. 5th

Now the weather turned on us. Rain moved in overnite and fog and drizzle persisted all morning / afternoon long forcing us to cancel the days racing. This is the 19th rain out for this year, it is getting very old now. We appreciate all that raced with on Saturday, the weather forecasts early in the week had everything from a total wash out to decent weather for us, no doubt this hurt the turn out.

Two weeks to go, Sat. Nov 11th The List cars run, Big Tire and Small Tire, Pro Stick cars, plus the 16 car field $1,000.00 to win Super, Bike, Footbrake and Jr. Dragster contested, Sun. Nov. 12th Member Track Madness. Both days are 1/8 mile drag racing. The last weekend, Sat. Nov. 18th and Sun. Nov. 19th the annual Game Hen / Turkey races. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!
Saturday — Oct. 28th

This was a Test & Tune event plus Maryland True Street Challenge. Did we ever have a good turn out, 141 cars, bikes and diesel trucks made many passes from noon to 5 PM. Everybody was pretty fast too, cars got faster all day with many making their best passes on the last runs of the day. Temps were in the mid 60’s with a strong crosswind all day long. A lot of race fans hung out with us also, just a real good Test & Tune day overall.

Sunday — Oct. 29th

The Diesel Truck event sadly was rained out, predicted high winds and lot of rain coming caused a cancellation to be made early in the am.

Sat. And Sun. Nov. 4th and 5th we have the annual Mike Carr’s Tri-State Stock / Super Stock Association race PLUS a Footbrake and Super class both days. Start time each day is 11:30 am. We are down to the final three weekends of the 2017 race season, make sure to race or be a race fan on these final events. There is still spots open for the 16 car fields on Sat. Nov 11th in Jr. Dragster, Footbrake, Super and Bike classes, $100.00 entry fee for a chance to win $1,000.00. Member Track Madness on Sun. Nov. 12th all classes contested and the final weekend, Sat. Nov. 18th and Sun. Nov. 19th is the annual Cornish game hen / Turkey races, all classes contested.
See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — Oct. 21st

The last Street Nite of the 2017 race season was a good one. First off the weather was great, temps to the mid 70’s as we started racing at 2:30 PM. We had a great turnout too, 160 cars racing. Md. Performance Center Real Street had 13 entries and many were real fast. Five cars were in 5.0 range with Steve Kent and Daylan Palmer at a super quick 5.03 to lead the field. Kent and Palmer really stepped it up in the semis, both ran 4.98 and did square off in the final. Steve Kent lit the tires and Daylan Palmer was long gone with low ET of year and fastest MPH too with 4.96 @141.16 mph to take the win. Semi racers were John Staats and Justin Bowmaker. A big thanks to Larry Miller of BNL Inc for putting additional money, $1,500.00 to the Real Street racers, also Md. Performance Center has done a great job all year of bringing great heads up racing on our Street Nite events. Now the Quick 16, another record low ET bump spot, this time it took a 5.28 to make the field, 11 cars were quicker than 5.10, 8 were in the 4’s, hard to make this field now. John Moton and Ken Colton, team members, made the finals, John Moton for the win, semi racers were Mitch Willingham and Cory Carper. Our 6.50 Index class is growing, a record 16 car field made round one. William Woodward took the win over Tom Bard. This is fun side by side racing, hope it keeps gaining racers. In Pro it was Chester Shoemaker over Bill Smith in a real close final. Limited Street was won by Tammy Gray over Darius Wenger. Drive In Street was won by Larry Price over Scott Sease. The Bike final had Brian Moore over George Stanley. We did have one on track incident as Darryl Merryman crossed the centerline and hit wall in his Mustang Real Street entry, Darryl was unhurt but the car did have r/f damage. The car held up well and our staff got down to the car immediately to assist Darryl. We had a nice turnout of racers and race fins for this race, we finished up at 9:15 PM.

Sunday — Oct. 22nd

This was a Summit ET points race, all contested in the 1/8 mile and a King of the Track event too. The Outlaw Pontiac Drag Racing Series were here today with 28 entries. It was their last points race of the year with three drivers shooting for their points championship. Doug Chell won over Dennis Kincaid in the final. Chuck Hutzler ended up the points champ over a real close Jason Rogers. We always say this but as always it is a pleasure to work with all those involved in the Outlaw Pontiac Drag Series, their staff and racers. Super Pro had 50 cars, Ronnie Horwath over George Hoff. Pro had Janet Baden over Jaime Talbert. Street was won by Brady Warner, his first win this year, over Dave Toms. Bike had George Stanley over Dale Hamilton. Jr. Street had Travis Hill over Jo Jo Mallow. Trophy class was won by Harli Bergeau winning out over Nathan Jacobson. The King of the Track final had Janet Baden and Ronnie Horwath squaring off for the Wally, both had great lights, Janet had car problems halfway down and Ronnie took the big win. Thirteen year old Casey Jenkins driving in Tammy Gray’s car made all the necessary runs for her Junior Street license. The passes were in high 9’s @78 mph, well done! The weather was over the top for this race too, mostly sunny and temps again the mid 70’s, Over 160 cars and bikes raced with us today. We finished up about 6:45 PM.

Four more weekends of racing, all good ones, hard to believe we are close to the end of the season already! On Saturday, Test & Tune and Md. True Street Challenge, on Sunday our annual Diesel truck race starting at 11:30 am! See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Wednesday — Oct. 11th — Day 1

This was to be day one of the 2017 SBRA Bracket Finals but a persistent all day rain never let us get underway.

Thursday — Oct. 12th — Day 2

Today we started at noon for our Gamblers Race with nearly 250 entries. Everyone got one time shot and then we went to eliminations. In Junior Dragsters Ryan McFadden won over Sammie Miller in the finals. Bike had Billy Bair taking the win over Paul James Sr. Footbrake, the biggest class had Ben Garnett taking the win over Mark Harbaugh. The Super class was won by Mark Gray driving Brad Doss’ Dodge Dart over Chuck Wishard. Good racing all day, no real incidents, minimal breakage and great track conditions all day made for a fun first day of racing.

Friday — Oct. 13th — Day 3

Now we had a crowd! Over 370 cars were on hand for the $5,000.00 to winner take all Hi-Roller races for Super and Footbrake and our second big Gamblers Race. The two Hi-Roller 64 car fields were filled in minutes as everyone wanted to get in on the action. In Foot Brake Troy Gerhart took the win over Mark Harbaugh. Super had Phil Truitt over Ben Parks. The Gamblers races were loaded with entries, over 150 Foot brake cars and 130 Super cars. In Junior Dragster Gavin Shoemaker won over Jaiman Dietz. Bike had Dylan Wood over Kevin Hamilton. Foot Brake had Steve Lenig over Darryl Beauchamp. Lastly in Super it was W R Ketterman over Wayne Patton. Terrific nearly non stop action from 10 am til 11:45 PM. We were lucky too, just as we finished, light mist /dew moved in.

Saturday — Oct 14th — Day 4

This was our Race of Champions race and another Gamblers Race. We started at 10 am, got the time runs in for our Race of Champions and then got round one underway at 10:45 am. In Junior dragster, Sammie Miller won over Cobi Toliver. Bike had Kevin Hamilton winning over Taylor Dunham. In Foot Brake Kodi Mariner won over Mark Harbaugh. Super was won by Joey Harrison in his wife Brittany’s great race car over Phil Truitt. Now for the Gamblers race, the field was huge, nearly 400 cars. Just into round five at about 11 PM we had a big finish line oil down, it was going take a long cleanup and at that point it was prudent to call it a day and split money to those still in the race and make round money payouts also, full payout was made as advertised.

Sunday — Oct 15th — Day 5 and final day

We finally got some sunshine, this was the main event, no entry fee, open only to those that qualified for their home tracks. We started right on time with the Junior Dragsters at 9 am. Thirty two cars entered. In the final we had Joshua Sisk against Morgan Larkin, Josh took the win. That’s right, these two were in the final last year where Morgan was the winner, now they are one and one, is there are re-match in 2018? At 11:30 am the big cars and and bikes took the track for round one. Bike had 39 entries Ted Bosserman won over Billy Bair. Foot Brake with 134 entries had Nick Bowman winning over Bob Klock. And in Super 106 cars entered, in a door car final it was Scottie Keys winning over Phil Truitt. Even with 313 entries and nearly 100% buybacks in round one, we still finished up at 6:15 PM. What a great race!

Thoughts on this 2017 SBRA Bracket Finals event……..The weather did get us on day one but we were very lucky to get the other days in, everything on the east side of the mountain was misty / drizzly right up to Sunday. No racing would have happened had we had that weather! All the racing we did was timely, we started dead on time each and every day. Minimal on track incidents, cars overall stayed together save for the oil down on Saturday. The track plainly was excellent, great track prep / maintenance all four days. Cars were deadly consistent run after run. We made approx. 7,000 passes down the track in the four days. Huge fields of cars and bikes ran the Gamblers races with nearly 100% buy backs each race. We had great cooperation from all the racers and team members from all the tracks. Kelli Fleming worked the computer on Thursday and Friday for the afternoon portion of the day til Shannon and Maria arrived, she did a great job too. It was good to see the many track owners with us watching their racers battle it out for the combined purse of over $68,000.00. How about some great performances from the racers. Phil Truitt won Hi-Rollers Super and two runnerup finishes. Mark Harbuagh had three runnerups. Ben Parks had two runnerups. Kevin Hamilton had a win and runner up. How about Mark Gray recording two .000 lights in a row then a .001 on the Thursday Gamblers race, he won it also. A big congrats to team US 13 winning the points battle, Mason Dixon took second followed by Eastside, Beaver Springs, Keystone and Colonial Beach. The 2017 SBRA Bracket Finals is in the books, what a great race, and yes, it’ll even be better in 2018!
I’d like to personally thank Courtney Suders for her announcing help especially covering the Saturday afternoon / night portion of the event and her work on other days as well, she always does a terrific job too.

This coming weekend, Street Nite on Saturday and a points race and Outlaw Pontiacs on Sunday, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — Sept. 30th

Where do we start? All right, Md. Performance Center Real Street had 12 cars entered with John Staats as the low qualifier with a 5.12 @ 139 mph. It got better as Jon Staats lined it up in the final with Mike Berry who ran his best run, a quick 5.05 to take the win. Russ Martin was the third place racer. These three were the fastest cars out there, John Staats ran low ET with a 5.03, Mike Berry ran a 5.05 in the final and Russ Martin ran 5.07 all at nearly 140 mph. Real Street comes back again on Street Nite on Oct. 21st. Quick 16 had the fastest bump ever by nearly 2 tenths of a second. 33 cars ran, Darlene Staub was on the bump with a 5.37! Eight cars ran in the fours, what a show. In the semis, three of the cars were in the fours and Bill Stevens was the “slow” car at a 5.06. Jeremy Curry took the win in his S-10 Chevy truck over Bill Stevens, Jason Staub and Tom Morgan were the semi racers. Low qualifier was George Forster at a real fast 4.70 ET. The 6.50 Index class is doing well, 11 cars racing, Les Tobery won over John Burkhardt and Sonny Nichols was third. Street Bike had Jeff Huber over Kermit Garnett III and George Stanley took third place. Pro Had Justin Crider getting the win over Joe Harrison in his brothers Chevelle. Limited Street had Devin Belluomini over Heather Boyd. In Drive-in Street car 433 won over Devin Belluomini. We had a great turn out of 140 competitors and many race fans on a windy, cloudy and cool day, temps in the low 60’s. We finished up about 8:30 PM. Great job by all, great track prep / maintenance, the staff kept the show moving quickly, great food at our foodstand, lots of hot chocolate and coffee served and a bunch of fall wearing apparel sold at Cheryl’s Shirt Shack. Bub and Becky Casto did their usual great track photography also. Just another excellent race by all that participated.

Oct. 7th and Oct. 8th are both Test & Tune days, noon to 5 PM both days. SBRA Bracket Finals Oct. 11 thru 15. Se you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Sunday — Sept. 24th

After a weekend off from the Bracket Finals we were back on Sunday with a very well attended Test & Tune day. The weather was no issue today, sunny and hot, topped out at 90 degrees later in the day. We had 140 cars and bikes making many runs for the five hour time run session. A. J. Heiner licensed in his Junior Dragster making all the needed runs, he drove very well and the car also worked like it should, all the full runs were nearly the same ET. Great job A. J.! Meagan Bodmer licensed in husband Scotty’ dragster running a 7.50 and a 7.49 @ 177 mph on the last two runs, great passes, Megan previously was licensed but family obligations kept her away from racing awhile but now she is ready to go again, well done. Good to see Russell Barefoot out making several near 10 flat passes and the Fords, Bob and Dianne out making low 11 second runs in their Camaro. Several Real Street cars ran today also, Daylin Palmer ran quick but as a No Time car. Overall a real good day, we finished up at 5 PM.

This weekend is a one day race deal. On Sat. Sept. 30th it is another Street Nite race. Md Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index, Pro, Limited Street and Drive-In Street all being contested, first qualifier shot at 2:30 PM. Don’t miss this one! On Sunday Oct. 1st we are closed. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway on Saturday for Street Nite!

Saturday — Sept 9

The Fall Brawl / Street Outlaw event was a huge success. The weather was perfect, 70 degrees and mostly sunny skies greeted our racers and race fans. We started at 4:30 PM sharp with test hits for our Big Tire and Small Tire cars. Just about everyone went fast in the first session, Kayla Morton in her Mustang and “Boosted GT” Chris Hamilton in his yellow Mustang laid down real fast passes right off the trailer. These two were real pros from their performance on the track to how they interacted with our race fans that visited with them throughout the entire event. Kayla matched up with Lin Bowie first and made another rocket fast pass to win as Lin’s car pulled to the right at the launch. Later she ran Gary Walker’s hemi powered Nova. Kayla won it by .07, a close side by side run. “Boosted GT” was matched up with Steve Kent in his Mustang. At the hit Boosted car left a bit flat and Steve was long gone to take the win. Second match up was to be with Cary Daniels but he lost an engine after a real strong pass earlier and Russ Martin filled in to run Boosted. This time “Boosted GT” made another very strong pass to take the win. We ran a bunch of other classes also to make a big non stop racing show. In the Quick 16 $1,000.00 to win class John Richmond won over Joey Harrison. Marty Flegal took the win over Chris Crawford in the $2,500.00 to win Footbrake class. The Bikes had a $2,500.00 to win class also with Roland Powell won over James Farmer. Junior Dragster heads up no time 330 ft race was won by Thomas Oates over Landon Palmer. We also had Duane Morris and Dave McMeans’ MASO cars with us. Extreme class had Same Freels over Lee John Honey. In DOT class Richie Stine won over Willie Fair. 5.90 Index was won by Frank Peacock over Sonny Nichols. The 6.40 Index group had Shane Stymest over Matt Bowie. Pro Nostalgia was won by Jerry Shaffer over Scott Klinger. This was a really good event, cooperation from racers and race fans from start to finish. Dynamite track prep / maintenance had everyone flying. The MASO group did a fine job of keeping their group performing well, a big thanks to Dave McMeans for doing his usual excellent announcing too. We should also mention the “Feedbag Catering” group and our foodstand staff for doing a great job with providing excellent food and drinks to everyone. Again a real good event, we finished up about 11:20 PM.

Sunday — Sept 10th

This was an SBRA event with another nice day, temps in the high 60’s and a light breeze. We started with the Junior Dragsters at 9:30 am with 21 entries. Dylan Moore had great lights all day and won over Ryan McFadden in the final, Logan Simpkins was third. In Super Pro Mike Daymude won over Mike Shoop, Shawn Barrett and Joe Harrison were the semi racers. In Footbrake Troy Gerhart won over Garrett Suders and Dave Toms was the third place driver. Bike had Mike Schultz over Paul James Sr. Brian Canoles was third. In Trophy Chase Campbell won over Chad Ely. Another good day, we finished about 5:30 PM.

Best of luck to our Summit ET series team as they race this week at the Bracket Finals at Numidia Dragway. We are off this weekend but come back on Sunday Sept 24th for a Test & Tune day. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway real soon!

Friday — Sept 1st

The “R” word……again. Light rain showers arrived just as we were to open forced a cancellation of the Test & Tune event.

Saturday — Sept 2nd

Once again it rained almost all day long, sadly no racing for the second day in a row.

Sunday — Sept 3rd

Now we’re good. It started out cloudy with a track that was wet and pushed the start time back an hour. The Junior Dragsters took the track first with 24 entries with points leader Sammie Miller getting the win over Eric Bowles, Logan Simpkins took third spot. The featured “show” part of the weekend was Eric Kitchen’s Pro Stick class, 55 cars entered and in the final Charles Shaffer in his 66 Plymouth Fury beat Dave Slusher in his Camaro with Cody Clites and Tim Riggleman as the semi racers. Great show! Outlaw Pontiacs were with us today with 23 entries. Lester Holtzapple took the win in the six round race over Carl Hazenstab. Lester was deadly on the tree in every round in my 68 Firebird, great driving. This is his third win of the year, the other two are in Pro. Super had 82 cars with Tristan Simpkins over Al Crawford, this class paid $2,000.00 to win. Great racing in this 8 round race. Footbrake had 90 entries and in the end Mark Harbaugh won again, this time over Brian Lind. Mark had a win and a runner up last weekend and he is way out in front in total track points, nice work Mark. Bike had 32 entries Brian Canoles over Dave Clinedinst in the final to win the first place $1,000.00 money. We were to have the Tall in the Saddle band perform at the end of the race day but because of the late finish time we had them play at 9:00 PM til 10:30 PM down in the tech area, they did a great job as always. What a great race, we had 310 competitors racing today.

Monday Labor Day — Sept 4th

Great weather today, sunny, low 80’s greeted another big field of racers. The Junior Dragsters kicked off the day at 9:30 am with 32 cars entered. The girls made it two straight with Jo Jo Mallow over Kaylee Henry in the final, Jordan Mason and Maddie Stephens were the semi racers. In High School Charlotte Mallow won over Harli Bergeau with Austin Hughes taking third spot. Super was loaded with 81 cars and taking the $5,000.00 first place money was the deadly consistent Mike Daymude over Mike Shoop Jr. Mark Gray was third. Footbrake had 87 entries with Troy Gerhart winning the 2,000.00 first place money over Brian Shaffer, both drivers in Ford Mustangs. Jim Peddicord, also in a Ford Falcon took third. Of note, Troy’s Mustang has now won 50 races over the years! Troy and that ‘Stang are a tough pair to beat. Again Bike had 32 entries, $1,000.00 first place with the Dunham family in the final. Taylor won over Tom. Brian Canoles took third. In Trophy Seth Birks won over Devin Belluomini and Sammie Miller was third. We had 250 entries today and finished up at 7:15 PM. Great racing both days from start to finish.

On a personal note, thanks to Lester and Pat Holtzapple for bringing down my Firebird and winning the OPDS class on Sunday. It was fun seeing the “Bird go down the track. Saturday we have Boosted GT and Kayla Morton and loads of other stuff starting at 4:30 PM. Check the flyer for the classes contested. Sunday an SBRA race. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

 

 

 

Saturday — Aug. 26th

This was a Summit ET series race with zero weather issues. We started with the Junior Dragsters at 2 PM with Jo Jo Mallow getting the win over Noah Lind in the final, Logan Simpkins took third place. Twenty one drivers competed in this class today. At 4 PM the big cars took the track. The Outlaw Pontiac gang was with us today bringing 20 cars to battle it out with Rodney Eichelberger winning over Steve Dress, points leader Jeff Raff took third place. Dan Roberts was on his game in Street as he won over Rick Wenger in the final. Pro had points leader Mark Harbaugh over Cliff Peddicord in the final, Troy Gerhart and Gene Harley were the semi drivers. Bike had Dale Hamilton over Troy Hauser in the final. And lastly in the $2,000.00 to win Super Pro class it was Michael Shoop over Mike Daymude in the final, Brad Doss took third. Of note, in round two, Mark Decker in his dragster had a major engine failure when front of the crankshaft let go at about the 330 ft. mark. He quickly pulled over before the 1/8 mile finish line and minimized what could have been a very long track clean up / down time situation. We always hate to see anyone lose and engine but great sportsmanship / driving skill was shown by Mark for sure. Hope he and Jennifer can get their dragster back on the track very soon. We did have 168 cars entered today. We finished up at 11:10 PM.

Sunday — Aug. 27th

We started the “Megan Daymude Fueling Her Dream” $5,000.00 to win Super Pro race at 11:30 am with 70 cars entered. In an eight round race it was John Dustin in his Ford powered dragster winning over Allen Chamberlin in his low 5 second Camaro. The semi racers were Alan Glatt and Jody Sneckenberger. We allowed buy backs in first or second round, but not both, for our racers and most took advantage it. A lot of close racing with several races decided by less than 2 inches, Ronnie Horwath also registered a perfect run in round three, a dead on 5.650 and a perfect.000 light. Great driving everyone. Foot brake had a good turn out of 56 cars in the final Bob Bair won over Mark Harbaugh who won on Saturday. A big win for Bob and nearly a “double” for Mark. There was a “double” in Bike as Dale Hamilton beat brother Kevin Hamilton in the final. Trophy had Austin Hughes getting the win. Great racing all day, win finished up at 6:20 PM.

Labor day weekend is coming fast, Friday nite, Test & Tune with Pro Prep, 6 PM to 10 PM. Saturday, SBRA classes, Pro-Stick and Outlaw Pontiacs, Sunday, SBRA classes, Pro-Stick again and at the conclusion of the racing. from Pennsylvania, live music from “Tall in the Saddle” band. They will set up as racing is ending and do two sets of great classic and newer country music, country rock and rock and roll oldies too. We will have some guest singers performing
also. I will personally guarantee you’ll enjoy their music / show! On Monday another SBRA race. Check the schedule page for start times and all other info on this Labor Day weekend. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — Aug. 18th

This was a Test & Tune event on very harm and exceptionally humid evening. Forty cars and bikes made their numerous passes and amazingly no rain!

Saturday — Aug. 19th

This was another Street Nite race featuring Md. Performance Center Real Street and our Quick 16 cars. We got underway at 4:30 PM. There were 12 Real Street entries, Harold Horton and Richie Stine were in the mid 5 teens. Quick 16 had 22 entries, the bump was a 5.68 with Jerry Williams in the top spot at 4.77 @ 146 mph. Jerry Williams’ “slower car” had Chuck Wishard behind the wheel running high 4.90 passes. The 6.50 Index class had the biggest field ever, 13 cars, Pro, Limited Street and Drive-in Street all had good car counts with a lot of race fans with us too. We got round one in the books and then, you guessed right again, the heavy rains and a lot of lightening moved in about 7:45 PM. It lasted about an hour, no way to dry things out like last week and we had to stop for the night. All round one winners got rain checks for another day. This column sounds more like a Weather Channel report than a race result story!

Sunday — Aug. 20th

This was the 20th Mid Atlantic Ford meet. This was well a attended event, lots of show cars, many vendors, 120 race cars and a very good turn out of race fans. Weather, not any issue for this race, low 80’s and less humidity than of late, a nice day for once. Seven classes were contested, we got the racing underway way at 11:30 am as scheduled. Some notes on the racing, how about Kathy Gerhart winning Trophy, in a five round race she drove real well and in the final she was to face John Blankenship in his 64 Ford Thunderbolt tribute car but he had starting issues and couldn’t make the final. This is Kathy’s first win, she has had two recent runner up finishes of late, great job. How about John Blankenship, he never does more than Test & Tune and finally went class racing and getting the second place trophy, well done. Travis Hill beat Chris Kelican in the Pro final. Good racing all day long with seven different classes contested. We finished up at 5:00 PM.

This weekend coming is an Summit ET race on Saturday along with the Outlaw Pontiac gang with us. On Sunday the Megan Daymude “Fueling Her Dream” $5,000.00 to win Super Pro race but also the other SBRA classes are being contested too. Check the schedule for classes contested and start times. See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway! was up to the task and beat Mike in a close one, Brandon Lowe took third. Foot Brake had over 50 cars with Scott Vaughn over Rodney Eichelberger with Mark Harbaugh third place driver. Bike had Jacob Hamilton over his dad Kevin Hamilton, Kermit Garnett III was third. In Trophy Harli Bergeau over Devin Belluomini. A nice turn out today, good weather for once, around 80 deg and low humidity, we finished up at 5:40 PM.

Friday nite, Test & Tune 6 PM to 10 PM, Saturday Street Nite with Quick 16, Md. Performance Center Real Street, 6.50 Index, Pro ,Limited Street, Drive-in Street and on Sunday, Mid Atlantic Ford meet, show cars, 7 classes of drag racing with vendors etc. Also on Sunday Aug 27th the Megan Daymude “Fueling Her Dream” $5,000.00 to win Super ET race. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — Aug 11th

Same old story, light rain moved in an hour before the gates were to open and persisted til about 7:00 PM. Once again we had to cancel out for the evening.

Saturday — Aug 12th

We got started at 4 PM with the threat of storms that might arrive in the early evening. The car count was down no doubt due mostly to such a dreary weather forecast. This was a Summit ET series event with no Junior Dragsters, many were still at the Division One Junior Dragster ET finals. We got everyone their two time runs and then round one began. The radar showed a big line of heavy rain moving at us a bit quicker than predicted and we went ahead and got round one underway. We got Trophy, Street and Pro down the track and then heavy rain rolled in, a couple of inches fell in a half our and light rain continued for another half houror so. Though everything was soaked and water everywhere the decision was made to try dry the the track and race. The drying process was maybe halfway complete and it rained again and once more we were determined to race and by 8 PM we went drag racing! We shortened up everything to 1/8 mile racing and we were underway. In Trophy, Wayne Donoho took the win over Kathy Gerhart, she’s getting closer to a win all the time now. Street had Rick Wenger wiinning over Kelli Fleming, Lukas Birks was third. Pro had Lester Holtzapple getting his second win this year over the very tough Mark Harbaugh, Greg Ecker and Dicky Bodmer were the semi racers. Super had Mike Daymude in his dragster over Shawn Barrett in the final with 4.731 on a 4.73 dial to take the win, Chuck Wishard took third place. Mike was really in the zone, great lights and the car is deadly, in seven runs, the 60 ft. times were from 1.069 to 1.072, hard man and car to beat. Bike had Gene Belt winning over Dave Clinedinst with Kevin Hamilton and Brain Canoles the semi racers. Of note, on this race we fought the weather and Mason Dixon took the win this time, what a fight though, the entire staff spent about two hours doing track drying and re-prepping the track, the last hour or so we fought fog down in the shut down area that at times crept all the way to the scoreboards, we had Scott on top end making sure the track was clear after each pair of cars went down the track. We finished up at 10:15 PM.

Sunday — Aug13th

This was a make up SBRA points race. We started with the Junior Dragsters at 9 am with Emma Henry getting the big win over Logan Simpkins, Brett Holston from Delaware took third place. Next was something special, we did our time runs and then we got ready for round one. First it was Bill Smith with the invocation and then Devin Belluomini who is in the Air Force stationed in Washington D.C. went out to the starting line with all our racers surrounding him as he made a presentation to starting line staff member Walt Sewell. Devin had done some research on Walt as he had served in the Air Force from 1974 to 1978 and was due a distinguished service medal that was not awarded to him back in the ’70s. Well he finally got it, this caught Walt off guard big time, very emotional for all. What a way to start a race, congratulations Walt!! Forty seven Super cars racing, in the final Mike Daymude tried to make it two in a row but Steve Morgret

Friday — Aug. 4th

This was a well attended Test & Tune event plus the qualifier race for the “Fall Brawl Shoot Out” race on Sept. 9th featuring Street Outlaw racers Kayla Morton and Boosted GT Chris Hamilton. In the big tire class it was Gary Walker and Lin Bowie who qualified to race Kayla Morton and in the small tire class Harold Horton and Cary Daniels qualified to run against “Boosted GT” Chris Hamilton. I wish could tell you how fast these cars ran but we can tell you that these four ran hard and straight as did everyone else making passes. We were going run them four times each but just as before the last passes were to go, you guessed it….it rained again. We knew the rain was coming, loads of lightning in the air but we did get almost the whole program in despite the weather turning nasty on us. Once again the track was dynamite, all the cars launched hard and stayed hooked up all the way down track, great job of track prep / maintenance as always. We finished up a 9:30 PM.

Saturday — Aug 5th

This was the 3Rd annual VW race / show. The show cars rolled in early, over 30 cars entered and a 11:30 am we started the drag racing got underway, over 70 VW’s this year. We ran five classes, three were heads up, two were full tree bracket classes. The fastest car ran 5.55 @ 135 mph, a record for the class. A big thanks to Scott Pocaro for putting on this event, this one is certainly growing. We also ran a Footbrake $2,000.00 to win race that Terry Erickson won out over Ed Talbert in the final, semi racers were Joe Delp and Roy Vincent Sr. How about Md. Performance Center Real Street. In the semis Steve Kent beat Mike Berry in close one, Mike had a way better light and ran a 5.14 to a late but way fast 5.03 @ 140 mph to just nip Mike in the lights by just three feet. In the final Steve had to run Harold Horton. In the final, Steve Kent sadly had trouble at the line as his car left way early giving the win to Harold Horton who went 5.10. Don’t miss the next Real Street race on Aug 19th, this is terrific side by side close and fast racing each time we run this class at Mason Dixon! Great show from all our racers in all the classes, we finished up at 10:00 PM.

Sunday — Aug 6th

This was a Test & Tune event with a Gamblers race thrown in with Brandon Lowe winning over Kalvin Kline with Paul James Sr. And Tim Humm the semi racers. We had a nice mix of cars and bikes running with us today, Jim and Sherry Scott’s 32 Ford ran a best 8.33 @ 165 mph on the last pass of the day. We a pretty good turn out, we finished up right at 5>00 PM.

This coming weekend, a Summit ET series race on Saturday and a make up SBRA race on Sunday. Of note, No Junior Dragster Saturday but we will run them on Sunday. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — July 28th

This should have been our qualifying race for the big “Fall Brawl” event on Sept. 9th with Street Outlaw stars Kayla Morton and Boosted GT Chris Hamilton. Heavy rains were predicted all day and they moved in during the afternoon and caused this show to be cancelled but will be held on Fri. Nite, August 4th.

Sat. — July 29th

Once again the remnants of Fri. Nites heavy rains lingered with light showers remaining into the early evening again forcing a cancellation of the SBRA race. This rain stuff is REALLY getting old now.

Sun. — July 30th

Finally great weather, clear skies and temps in the upper 70’s greeted our racers and race fans for this Test & Tune event and Mid Atlantic Street Outlaw event. We started at 12 noon sharp with the Extreme Outlaw big tire cars, Sam Freels took the win in the nine car field with a 5.02 in the final over Mike Fortney who went 5.17. DOT Street had the 4.90’s Nova wagon of Frank Safferino over Doug Mershon in his Camaro, a 4.93 to a 5.06 both cars ran 144 mph. 5.90 Outlaw Street had Frank Peacock over Ronnie Silcott in a close final, both cars ran low 5.90s all day long. 6.40 Pro Street was won by car X127 over Les Tobery, In the pro Nostalgia class Paul Burruss won over Joe Delp in a good one, Paul ran a 5.35 on 5.34 dial, Joe was 7.47 on a 7.45 dial. There were 39 entries in the MASO group and a huge turn out of really nice Test and Tune racers. We also had an excellent turn out of race fans enjoying the excellent racing. A big thanks to Duane Morris, Dave McMeans and daughter Kelli for keeping the MASO show moving along. Again we had a great track all day long thanks to team Mason Dixon staff for great track prep / maintenance all day long, Bub and Jake and crew are really good at this! We finished up at 5:15 PM. This Friday, Aug 4th we will again try to run our qualifier race for the “Fall Brawl” event the Big Tire / Small Tire cars taking the track at 6 PM. Sharp. Sat. Aug 5th is our 3rd annual VW race along with a $2,000.00 to win Foot Brake race AND Md. Performance Center Real Street Race. Sunday Aug 6th is a Test & Tune event. How about our Junior Dragster team WINNING the Eastern Regional Junior Dragster championship at Bristol Tn. Last weekend, our ten racers scored 31 round wins, There were 588 entries from approx. 60 tracks trying win this event but our team brought home the Wallys. Dylan Moore and Harli Ely were runner ups in their class, Noah Lind was a semifinalist and Charlotte Mallow was a quarter finalist. All these classes were loaded with entrants. These racers are the best, everyone is proud of our entire Junior Dragster team. Great job!! See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — July 21st

This was a Test & Tune event running from 6 PM to 10 PM. Lots of runs made by all, a fair turn out of cars and bikes.

Saturday — July 22nd

This was to be a Summit Et / Member Madness race with overall winner getting two passes to a NHRA National event race, also the Outlaw Pontiacs were to be with us. Sure enough, light rain showers were in the area and they were persistent and we were once again forced cancel the racing.

Sunday — July 23rd

This was a Test & Tune event. Steven Dickey handled the announcing as I attended a 1st anniversary party for Super Pro racer Jim Scott and his wife Sherry. Thanks Steve!

Friday — July 14th

Hard rains rolled in just as we were getting ready to open for a Test & Tune event, had to cancel it before we ever got underway.

Saturday — July 15th

Another Street Nite race with great weather, mid 80’s with less humidity greeted over 107 racers, crew members and race fans. Md. Performance Center had 12 cars entered. The class of the field was Harold Horton running three straight 5.10 @ 138 mph. Harold ran “Shiftin’ Shane” Stymiest in the final with Harold taking the win with a 5.10, 138 mph to a 5.13 @ 133 mph. Close, well run race. Derryl Merriman took third. This group will be back on August 19th, don’t miss them. Our Quick 16 is hard to get into anymore, the bump this time was a 5.60, last month was a record tying 5.58. Derek Clark took the win over Mitch Willingham with Frank Howell and Lance Kreeger taking the semi spots. 30 tried to get in the program, to illustrate how quick this class has become Jason Rudy just missed the field and when dropped back to Pro he ran two 8.82’s @ 153 mph in the quarter mile. That’s a fast car that didn’t make the field….by the way John Moton and Mike Daymude driving George Forster’s car ran high 4.70s. Now our 6.50 Index class is now growing, 11 cars in the field, Howard Lawson took the win over Nathan Englar in a great, close final, Les Tobery was third. Pro had Kalvin Kline over Jason Rudy. Limited Street had Kelli Fleming winning her first Street Nite event over Rick Goad, well done! Drive In Street was won by Glenn Estelle over first time in the finals, Kathy Gerhart. Both these drivers were sharp all nite. Nice job Glen and Kathy! Bike had Kermit Garnett III over Jeff Huber. As always, we had a great track, the racing moved along well, we finished up just before 10 PM.

Sunday – July 16th

This was a Test & Tune event starting at noon and it was hotter / more humid than yesterday. We had just over 50 cars racing. In Junior Street Tyler Gontz made 13 passes in a F-150 Ford truck. Summer Milburn licensed in Jr. Street in aunt Tammy Gray’s Malibu and did very well too. We had a nice mix of cars, truck and bikes racing, several people making license runs. Mark Gray and Dave Slusher Jr. ran the “Double Vision ” Malibus as 10.90 Super Street cars and they were right at the index on most of the runs. A good day with no real issues, we finished up just before 5 PM.

Next weekend, Fri. Nite, Test & Tune, Sat a Summit ET Series race and Outlaw Pontiacs. big cars at 4 PM. Sunday another Test & Tune, noon to 5 PM. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — July 7th

This was a Test & Tune event running from 6 PM to 10 PM that had 45 cars and bikes making many passes. We did have a 5 minute rain / sprinkle delay but otherwise the weather cooperated with us for once.

Saturday — July 8th

This was a Summit ET series race. We started with the Junior Dragsters at 2 PM. Nineteen entries with Kaylee Henry winning out over Logan Simpkins in the final with Jo Jo Mallow taking third. All three of these racers are having great seasons to this point! Now the big cars, we started right at 4 PM with everyone making their two time runs. Round one got underway about 6 PM but we could see a line of rain showers were on the way in on radar and we tried hard to get a race in but after round one of Trophy, Jr. Street and Street were completed it rained, this lasted over a 1/2 hour, the next hour was spent brushing, drying and dragging the track but by 8 PM we could see it wouldn’t be our day and we cancelled the racing for the night. Does this sound familiar? We decided to start over on Sunday and run the Summit ET race and the Test & Tune event, start time 11:30 am.

Sunday — July 9th

We started at 11:30 am sharp, the Juniors didn’t run as their race was completed yesterday. Trophy had Dennis Niceswarner winning over Harli Bergeau. Street was won by Dave Toms who threw a perfect .000 light at Garrett Suders in the final. The biggest field was Pro, Greg Ecker over Mark Harbaugh with Chris Crawford third. Super had an all dragster final with Mike Daymude winning over Joey Harrison in a close one. Brian Canoles won over Gene Belt in the Bike final, Dale Hamilton was third. We had 58 Test & Tune cars. Chad Ely had his 70 GTO Judge out for the first time this weekend, low tens @ 128 mph, great looking and well built race car. Sammie Miller had her 70 Mustang out also, Steve Dustin made several mid 10 second passes, later Sammie made a couple of easy runs at over 120 mph, stunning car! We finished up at 5 PM. Oh and the weather was perfect today, low humidity, sunny and about 80 degrees, can we have this weather for the rest of the summer?

This weekend, Friday nite, Test & Tune PLUS 6.50 1/8 mile Index class and a 11.50 1/4 mile Index class. Saturday, Street Nite that includes Md Pefromance Center Real Street, Quick 16, Pro , Limited Street, Drive-in Street and 6.50 Index class. Sunday is a Test & Tune event. See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — June 30th

This was a Test & Tune event on a warm and sticky night. 93 cars and bikes raced with us though we did have a brief rain delay the night went well. Lin Bowie and Ronnie Proctor were with us making test passes getting ready for our Street Outlaw Kye Kelley’s visit for the next day. Both drivers made nice runs. We finished up about 10 PM.

Saturday — July 1st

First off when I arrived at the track at 11:30 am we were already seeing many race fans arriving early for the racing not scheduled to begin til 4:30 PM. Luckily the rain showers predicted to hit us at around 2 PM arrived on time, though briefly heavy, they cleared out fast and between the track staff and mother nature the track was dry and race ready so we could start on time. Lin Bowie and Ronnie Proctor were at the track very early with Kye Kelley making the trip from his previous nights race at US 13 in Delaware at about 1:30 PM. All three had their race cars and rigs over in lane #7 of the staging lanes and were out greeting the many race fans and selling real nice shirts also. At 4:30 the 12 Maryland Performance Center Real Street cars took the track in front of a packed house for their qualifier runs and we were underway! Now about our match race cars, all three made test hits, all three went smooth and fast, hooking hard and going right down the middle of their lanes. At 6:30 Lin Bowie and Kye Kelley lined it up and it was a green light start with Kye Kelley taking the win. At 7:30 PM it was Ronnie Proctor’s turn and what a race. Both cars left hard and immediately Ronnie’s win light came on as Kye Kelley went red. Right at the end of the night Lin Bowie and Ronnie Proctor ran each other with Ronnie Proctor winning in a real close race. To tell you how well matched all three cars were, the fastest to slowest run by all three cars was .07 of a second. All the sixty foot times for each car was nearly the same on each pass. A testament to the drivers skill, the well prepped and properly tuned cars AND to the dynamite race track preparation from the Mason Dixon staff and especially to Jake Landes and Bub Casto who do the bulk of this work. Great show! How about our cars….to make the show an action packed event we had four other classes and some grudge racing too. Md. Performance Center Real Street, a heads up, no break out small tire with one power adder allowed class were a big part of the show. Twelve cars entered Richie Stine winning over Russ Martin in a close final, 5.15 to a 5.18. Mike Barry took third. Richie ran a pair of 5.15s in the warm humid air, fast for the conditions. Next up our Quick 16, handicap racing group had Corey Carper winning over Chuck Wishard, George Forster and Frank Howell the semi racers. The Hi-Roller $5,000.00 to win race with 16 racers had Joe Wetzel over Brandon Lowe, Joey Harrison and Mark Decker were the semifinalists. We also gave our Junior Dragsters a 7.90 pro tree index class with $1,000.00 to the winner. Jo Jo Mallow took the win over Landon Palmer who received $250.00. Lacy Dustin and Sammie Miller took the semi spots. We did some grudge racing with both ATI Performance Products cars on the track, JC Beattie and Vince Fourcade driving, Brian Weddle, Michelle Devilbiss, Jason Smith, Corey Evans and Joe Hagans, all were fast. We finished out a 9:30 PM.

Thoughts on this event. The three featured cars and their drivers worked like the pros they are, great job. Proud of all of you. The flow of the event was great, everything ran on time. Great racing, everybody fast. Our four classes had great racing action with real good money paid out to racers also. Our race fans stayed out of the restricted areas but were up close to see all the action, we thank all of you that were here as race fans or competitors. Thanks to Feedbag Catering group for helping with excellent food all day long. Great job to Mason Dixon staff for putting on and then running the entire event smoothly. This is two weeks in a row that we have run major events at Mason Dixon! Thanks everyone for being part of this event. Like this type of event? ….. Boosted GT and Kayla Morton Sept. 9th!

Sunday — July 2nd

This was an SBRA race starting at 9:30 am with a 28 car field of Junior Dragster drivers taking the track. Sammie Miller took the win over Logan Simpkins with Charlotte Mallow and Kaylee Henry the semi racers. The big cars took the track at 11:30 am. High School was won by Harli Bergeau winning over Charlotte Mallow. Foot Brake had 62 entries with Scott Vaughn winning the $1,500.00 over Mark Harbaugh, Lester Holtzapple and Tim Hawks were the semii drivers. Bike had Dale Hamilton over Gene Belt and Troy Sanders the third place rider., Super Pro with 57 racers had Samantha Dubs dad winning the $2,000.00 behind the wheel taking the win over Mark Decker in an all dragster final, George Huff was third. Great racing all day long, 180 cars competed, we finished up at 6:15 PM. What a day, yeah it was hot and humid too but great racing all three days. Coming up next, Friday night, Test & Tune, Saturday is a Summit ET points race and Sunday at Test & Tune, see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway and have a great and safe fourth of July!

Friday — June 23rd

This was another Test & Tune event running starting at 6 PM. 50 cars participated and about 9:40 PM the rains came and we were done for the night.

Saturday — June 24th

The third annual Rocking Chair Nationals was another popular and successful event. Though it rained overnite the weather was perfect with low humidity and temps in the low 80’s! The car show portion of the event started at 9 am with over 120 show cars, many were gasser type cars with a mix of all car brands well represented. At 10:30 am we did our interviews over the PA at the winners circle with our racers from the past. Gary Gore and myself did the honors with the S & S racers, Dave Hale, Fred Bear, Gene Altizer and company, Butch Mori, Sam Auxier Jr and many others talking about the earlier days of drag racing. The highlight though had to be the unveiling of the newly restored 31 Chevy B/Gasser owned by Johnny “Mr. Stitches” Gaither. Johnny and his wife, family and friends all gathered around as Johnny took a ride down the track with Dale Grimm who did the restoration of the car. This car had been badly damaged in a garage fire eight years ago, Dale and friends put this car back together over the last several years, it now sports a supercharger, it sounded awesome when fired up. What a great day for the Gaither family and friends. Now for the racing, 253 cars raced with first time runs starting at 11:30 am. The biggest class was the Nostalgia Eliminator with 74 cars, Jeff McMillen winning over Bruce Suders, Chris Kellican took third. Pro Stick had 50 hard charging wheel standing racers with the S-10 of Matt Bergenstock over several time race series champ Dan Hoyler. Footbrake had great racing, the $2,000.00 going to Mark Harbaugh over Clayton Garber with Dan Roberts taking the third. These three drivers had .000, .007 and .008 reaction times to make the semi final round, real close tough racing in this class as always. Outlaw Pontiacs were out in force with 26 entries and Mike Clay got the win in his 62 Catalina over Chris Kellican in his 8 second 62 Catalina, Jeff Raff took third. 11 409 Chevys ran with Bob Walker Jr. In his Loving Chevrolet 63 Impala getting the win over John Medaglia’s 62 Impala 409. Pro Sportsman had Frank Howell over Ken Colton, Tristan Simpkins and Mike Rollison were the semi racers. Great racing all day long, with the cooperation of everyone involved we got done at 8:30 PM.

Thoughts on the days event — this is a big event for us each year, great work by our track staff, the track was great as always, the race was run fast paced, we kept things moving all day long. Once again a big thanks to all of our racers, their crew members, the race fans, sponsors, Mt. Aetna Fire Co. for their foodstand, Gary Gore and Hayne Dominick, the track staff and the track owners for making this another excellent Rocking Chair National event. Lastly on high note we thank Dale Grimm, Steve Delauder, Andy Sewell and all others that helped putting the very special day together for Johnny Gaither and his family and friends. This made my day too!

Sunday — June 25th

Another beautiful day, temps in the high 70’s, lots of sun. We started at noon with our Junior dragsters running for 4 NHRA Wally trophies, in the 6 – 9 yr old bracket Harley Ely won over Dakota Henry. In the 10 – 14 yr old group it was Dylan Moore over Emma Henry, Joshua Sisk and Francis Vignola were the semi racers. The 15 – 18 yr old group had Sammie Miller over Logan Simpkins, Ryan Ely and Stephanie Morgan were the semifinalists. Later we ran the 7.90 pro tree index race that Ryan Ely won over Sammie Miller with Kaylee Henry taking third place. The AMC cars had Dan Walleigh winning two straight in a best of three with Calvin Kline. Nathan Jacobsen was the Camaro class winner. Lin Bowie made three “no time” runs getting ready for Street Outlaw star Kye Kelly next Saturday. All three were smooth and straight. 75 cars and bikes and Junior dragsters raced with us today, we finished up right at 5 PM.

Next Saturday will soon be here, gates open at 2 PM. Racing about 4:30 PM. Kye Kelly will run Lin Bowie first and then Ronnie Proctor Sr. second. Maryland Performance Center Real Street cars will be in the house with great heads up racing, a Quick 16 race, a $5,000.00 to win 16 car Super Pro race and a 16 car 7.90 Index race for our Junior Dragsters and some grudge racing. Don’t miss this event! Test & Tune racing on Friday night and SBRA racing on Sunday.See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — June 16th

This was to be a Test & Tune event plus the first Maryland Performance Center Real Street race. Real Street was to kick off the racing with their first of their two qualifier passes right at 6 PM. We sent two pairs down the track and then the sprinkles began, very light at first and then a bit more steady. Finally the light rain stopped, track drying was completed and cars were called back to the lanes only to have more light showers then a steadier rain move in. We had to call it a night at about 7:30 PM. We will run this Real Street group on Sat. July 1st on the Street Outlaw Nite. Don’t miss it!

Saturday — June 17th

This was a SBRA race featuring the 3rd annual Mutt & Jeff Super Pro race presented by Paul Burruss and Dylan Griffey with a $3,000.00 to win purse with many door prizes, both cash and product to be given away through out the course of the day. We started with Junior Dragsters at 1 PM. We had 23 entries with Sammie Miller winning over Miles Raffa in the final. Landon Palmer was third. How about Miles Raffa, this is only his fifth week in a Junior dragster and nearly got the big win, well done. Now for the big cars. It took eight rounds to settle the 74 Super Pro car field. Joey Harrison winning over Alan Glatt in the final, Joe Martz had a strong third place finish. Al Crawford had a perfect run in round four, these runs are really rare. Seventeen cars in this group ran in the 4’s, low Et for dragsters Tony Hill, 4.62 and fastest door car was Doug Ferance with a 4.70. The final three were all door cars. Footbrake was won by Troy Gerhart over Clayton Garber, Darhl Clark and Nicole Talbert were the semi racers. Brian Canoles won Bike with Kermit Garnett III as the runner up. What a great and well attended race, great race track and fast paced program too. We finished up at 9:50 PM. A big thanks to the many sponsors that put up a lot of cash, product and gift cards for this event.

Sunday — June 18th

This was a Summit ET series race and it was a first for the new “Tru-Start” program in the Compulink timing system and for our Super Pro cars switching over to 1/8 mile racing for the remainder of the year. We had 24 Junior Dragsters starting the day at 9 am. Logan Simpkins won over Ryan Ely with Dylan Moore getting third spot. Another good turn out for the Juniors with excellent driving by these young racers. At just before noon the Junior Street racers kicked off the racing with Dylan Moore over Travis Hill. Russell Jenkins won Trophy. Street Eliminator was won by Kalvin Kline over Garrett Suders. Kristen Suders and Carlos Dejesus took semi spots. Pro was won by Robbie Hudlow in his NHRA stocker, a 68 Shelby 428 Mustang B/SA car over Ed Talbert in his Nova. Greg Ecker took third. Super Pro had 47 cars with Brent Martin over Tom Reyer in the final with Bob Jansen and Tony Hill taking the semi finals. Bike had Dale Hamilton over Gene Belt with Gina Hamilton and Brian Canoles the semifinalists. Another day of great racing. Temps were way up to 92 degrees near the end of the day but no rain. Oh yeah, nearly forgot, we had a match race, Jake Landes, track manager match raced Josh our head of staging lanes specialist and EMT just before the big cars took the track, The first round was heads up. Jakes 99 Trans Am laid down a 13.98 @ 102 to Josh’s 14.43 @ 95. Next round we dialed them in on the ETs from the heads up run, it was over at the start, Jake fouled it away, -.005 red light start, there was no third run, they were happy with one win each. We finished up about 5 PM.

Rocking Chair Nationals next Saturday, Junior Dragster Challenge on Sunday, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway this coming weekend!

Friday — June 9th

This was a well attended Test & Tune event running from 6 PM to 10 PM, 120 cars and bikes racing, very good turn out from our race fans too. Real Street racer Russ martin ran a 5.13 @ 137 mph his best test pass, stout run in the summer like heat. Another good day, no weather issues, just warm.

Saturday — June 10th

Another Street Nite race that started at 4 PM with round one kicking off about 6 PM. First the Quick 16….29 cars entered to qualify for the 16 spots. A record tying 5.58 bump to make the field. George Forster’s Monte Carlo ripped a 4.77 @ 147 mph to lead the pack, Sam Freels III was close with a number two spot run of 4.86 @ 147 mph. Bill Nunemaker was on the bump with a 5.58. In the final, Mitch Willingham and John Richmond squared, both ran the dial with John Richmond getting the close win. Bill Stevens and Frank Howell were the semi racers. We had our best turn out of 6.50 Index racers with 9 cars competing. Les Tobery won as Howard Lawson broke out in the final, Tom Bard took third spot. Pro had Britt Olson getting the win. Limited Street was won by car #4184 with Rick Wenger the runner up driver and Drive In Street had Greg Orrris over Texan Devin Belluomini in the final, Bike was won by Jeff Huber. Over 100 cars competed on warm day that was really nice once the sun set behind the trees, great racing weather finally coming our way. We finished up about 9:30 PM.

Sunday — June 11th

This was a Test & Tune day…..now it’s getting hot with temp hitting 92 deg but there was a light breeze blowing all day. We did have 60 cars and bikes racing. Chris Cepelka had the dragster making passes, 7.44 @ 182 mph was the best, Amanda Mathenia had her dragster with us for license runs, 7.42 @ 183 mph on the last pass, well done. Butch Merson’s stunning 67 Camaro ran 1/8 mile hits, mid 5 teens @ 142 mph each run. We had several Junior Dragsters with us, Mles Raffa made the most runs, Steve and Stephanie Morgan and Emma and Dakota Henry also made numerous passes, good day for everyone, we finished at 4:45 PM.

Thoughts on the weekend, great turn out Friday nite, Street Nite with a record tying bump of 5.58, a couple of regulars didn’t make the race, the field could have been in the 5.40s! Great track prep / maintenance as always, this takes extra effort and expense but it is worth it, what ever kind of race cars shows up, they can get down the track….fast! We now have excellent french fries in the foodstand, they are really good too. Busy weekend coming at us, Friday nite another Test & Tune and Md. Performance Center Real Street race with their first qualifier run at 6 PM sharp, they are gonna fly this year! Look for a great show from this bunch! On sat. Mutt & Jeff race in Super and all other SBRA classes contested and on Sunday a Summit ET series race. We should be busy, come on out a be with us this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — June 2nd

This was a Test & Tune event running from 6 PM to 10 PM. Not as big a turn out as last Friday but no rain!

Saturday — June 3rd

Great weather for once, no RAIN, temps in the high 70’s, perfect. We started the Junior Dragsters at 4 PM. 20 cars competing Noah Lind over Dylan Moore in the final Christopher Burch took third. Junior Street had Travis Hill winning over Stevie Dustin. The Outlaw Pontiac gang was with us today bringing a field of 27 cars with close racing all day. Street had a large number of entries Tristan Quinn getting the win over Kristen Suders, Lukas Birks was third. Pro had the black Chevy nova car 1157 over Mark Harbaugh. Super Was won by Joey Harrison driving his wife Brittany’s Mustang over Dave Slusher Jr. Shawn Barrett was the third place racer. Bike had Gene Belt over Brian Canoles with Donnie Siebert taking third spot. Third generation and new racer, Cameron Boyd who is 5 yrs. old made his licensing passes in his Junior Dragster. He drove very well and made many passes both days this weekend, nice work Cameron. We had a over 175 racers competing today, we finished up at 10:30 PM. A real good day.

Sunday — June 4th

Mostly sunny and warm for this race, temps in the low 80’s, again nice and dry. We had 19 Junior Dragsters, they ran two races, first the bracket race. Dylan Moore was the big winner here over Steve Morgan, Emma Henry had a good day and was third. In the 7.90 Index Pro Tree race it was Michelle Dicebeck in Landon Palmer’s car cutting great lights in the 5 round race to win over Logan Simpkins. The combined purse for both races $1,000.00, a very nice payout for our Junior Dragster racers and their family members who support us with all the various Junior Dragster events run through out the year! Now for the Dragster Shootout, We didn’t get the turnout we hoped for. Bob Nicholson, Lance Kreiger and Eric Swiger were the competitors. Elmer Wachter decided to put up $500.00 for these racers anyway to show appreciation for their support today. Eric Swiger won the race on his 21st birthday, Bob Nicholson was runnerup. We also ran a Test & Tune event. John Blankenship made several passes in his 64 Ford Fairlane while his wife Debbie was in a attendance all the way from St. Petersburg Florida, they enjoyed the day. We finished up at 4:45 PM.

This Friday is a Test & Tune nite, cars start racing at 6 PM and go to 10 PM. Saturday is the Street Nite Race, Quick 16 with $1,000.00 to win for a $35 entry, 6.50 Index, Pro, Limited Street, Drive in Street and Street Bike all compete. Sunday is a Test & Tune, noon to 5 PM. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — May 26th

We had a great turnout for our Test & Tune event Friday evening with over 150 cars and bikes making passes til 10 PM. The weather was good also, no rain. Lin Bowie had his blower Camaro out to make make some test no time passes, car ran hard and straight, overall a good night.

Saturday — May 27th

We were nearly three hours late getting started due to light rain showers and track drying efforts. Finally we got the Junior Dragsters underway. Twenty five entries and we got through the time runs but then the light rains arrived. Five different times the track staff drug out the sweepers, blowers and dragging equipment to fight the damp / wet track but each time some headway was being made it would again lay down more light rains showers. By 4:30 PM it became apparent we wouldn’t be able to race anymore and we called it a day.

Sunday — May 28th

Again we got a late start due to a still drying track, racing for the Juniors got underway about noon. Twenty nine entries and we got to the finals with Kaylee Henry to meet Logan Simpkins. We also started with the big cars, they were going to get one time run and go. Everyone got the one time run and we started with round one, we completed Trophy and just finished round one of the 91 car Footbrake class when, you guessed, light rain moved in. Again great effort taken by the Mason Dixon staff to dry the track but no luck as more showers moved in, finally at 5:30 we had to call it a day.

Monday, Memorial Day — May 29th

Finally about 8:30 am the sun broke through and we finally got a good dry and warm day to race! We had an hour delay to get the track dry and the Junior Dragsters raced first, 30 cars competed. We finished Sundays final first Kaylee Henry won over Logan Simpkins, Sammie Miller was third. Christopher Burch won out over Noah Lind with Josh Sisk and Charlotte Mallow the semi racers. Now the big cars. Footbrake had a big turnout, over 70 cars Steve Dustion won over Brad Doss, Ed Talbert and Jamie Talbert were the semi racers. Super had dragster killer Brandon Lowe over redlighting Mark Decker, Chuck Wishard was third. By the way we had a perfect run in round three, Ronnie Horwath, 5.670 with a .000 perfect light, these are rare, seems that we see one about every two years! Bike had Dave Clinedinst over Logan Mathias and Kevin Hamilton was third. Kermit Garnett’s turbo ‘Busa ran as quick as 4.96 @ 138 mph. Junior Street was won by Dylan Moore over Travis Hill. Seth Birks won over Jeff Hielman in Trophy. Great racing all day, terrific packages and razor thin margins of victory on many matchups in all the classes. Over 200 entries today. We finished at 7:30 PM. Thoughts on the weekend. Chris Lil added $100.00 to the purse on Sunday for the Junior drasters, thanks Chris! The weather really messed with us on Sat. And Sun. The Mason Dixon staff did everything possible to try to race those two days with a lot of hardwork and effort expended to get the track race ready, there is no QUIT in this bunch! A lot of patience shown by our racers also for sitting tight while made efforts to race. This bad stretch of weather will hopefully end soon!

Next week, Summit ET series on Sat. Open body cars and Junior Dragsters and Test & Tune on Sunday, check our schedule for times and other details, see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — May 19th

This was day one of our two day American Motorcycle Racing Association drag racing event. We started off at noon with a two hour open time run session for all the competitors, most made several laps and at 2 pm we started the first of two qualifying runs. There were 14 different classes contested and about 5 pm the bikes finished up their racing for the day. We did run a Test & Tune event afterwards til about 8 pm. As usual we had a great track, everyone was fast today. 125 Bikes ran today.

Saturday — May 20th

We had a one hour open time run session at 9 am, then we made our third qualifier runs and a fourth for those just arriving today, now we had 155 Bikes racing for the main event. Great racing all day, we finished up at 6 pm. A very big turn out of race fans witnessed a great show. The results will soon be posted on the AMRA website. In the evening we had a Test & Tune event with several Maryland Performance Center Real Street cars running real well on several passes, Good to see Russ Martin out again this year, 5.24 @ 137 mph, Daryl Merryman was rocket fast, three 5.16’s in a row @ 137 mph, Rob Falcon in the 5.20’s also, we ran til about 9:30 PM, 60 Vehicles racing tonite. Once again we had a great track for the Bikes and for our cars that ran in the evening, dynamite traction is the norm here at Mason Dixon!

Sunday — May 21st

The 34th Mid Atlantic Mopar Meet was again a great event, no rain this year. The show car field had many entries, lots of race fans and over 120 drag race cars participated. We started the drag race action at 11:30 am, eliminations got underway at about 2 PM. Trophy was was won by Kevin Grasson over Gary Rudisill. Street was on by Bob Calimer. Pro, the biggest class was won by Dan Shindlebower over Mike Reed. Super Pro Bill Stevens in a big win over Colby Imes. Bill ran 7.90’s @ 170 mph run after run, well done. Slant Six racers ran two races, Ron Hamby won on Saturday over Greg Ondrayko and Ron won again on Sunday over Ryan Covalt. Ron was on it this weekend running 11.90’s with great lights. A really good event, luckily the weather left us alone this weekend, hot, sunny and 90 degrees on Fri. But Sat. And Sun. It was low 60’s cloudy but NO RAIN! We’ll take it! We finished up about 5:15 PM.

Memorial Day weekend coming, see the flyer posted, Test & Tune Fri. Nite, SBRA racing starting with Junior Dragsters in the morning Sat., Sun. and Mon. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this coming weekend!

Saturday — May 6th Sunday — May 7th

Both these days were to be Summit ET Series points races along with an Outlaw Pontiac Drag Racing Series race but light rain that was persistent throughout the entire weekend caused us to cancel out both days. We’re off to a dreary weekend weather pattern of late for sure.

Saturday — May 13th

Again damp drizzly light rain and temps in the low 50’s caused us again to cancel out our Street Nite / Md Performance Center Real Street race. Whew, this getting old!

Sunday — May 14th — Mothers Day

Finally, no rain, temps in the low 70’s greeted a huge crowd for the Cruise for the Cure Cancer benefit race / car show. Many show cars, trucks and bikes on the property, a great turnout of race / show car fans and about 90 cars made test & tune passes and about 30 cars entered the one bracket race class. We started with open time runs at 11:30 am with everyone making many laps down the well prepped track. Dave Sheppard licensed his new Plymouth Arrow to mid 8 second passes @ 154 mph, nice runs, great car. Tim Riggleman made some 7.80 passes @ 174 mph, 1.13 60 ft. Launches. Jeff Heilman’s nostalgia coupe ran mid 9’s and worked well. All right, the bracket race was a good one, Charlotte Mallow in the Nicholson / Mallow entry small block chevy dragster won over third place Mike Rodgers in his Monza in the semis, Charlotte dead on 7.84 with a .036 light to Mikes close .046 light. In the final Bobby Smith left with .002 light, Charlotte right behind with an .013. Charlotte dead on 7.83, margin of victory 6 inches, close! Bobby and Charlotte each receiving big trophies and Charlotte donated her entire winnings to the Cruise for the Cure group! We will give the total money raised once it is known, hopefully midweek. Hat’s off to the entire Stablemates Car club gang for the hard work it took to put on this event, special thanks to Sara Mulkey who puts so much effort to overseeing the event. We finished up about 4:30 PM.

This coming weekend will be busy, Friday and Saturday is the American Motorcycle Racing Association event, 14 classes contested, if you like Harley’s be here. On Sunday it is the 34th annual Mid Atlantic Mopar Meet, it is a great car show and drag race, always well attended, great show cars and drag racing! See you Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — April 29th

This was the first Street Nite race of the 2017 season. The weather was great, sunny temps in the low 80’s, we kicked off the racing at noon. The Quick 16 $1,000 to win was the featured class with 24 entries trying to make the 16 car field. It took a 5.85 to make the field. Ronnie Horwath took the win with a .006 light over runner up Joe Wetzel. The semi racers were Chuck Wishard and Chris Kelican. In Pro Street it was Brian Lind over Gary Kelican. Limited Street was won by Rick Wenger over Randall MacNamee. Jeremy Manford won Drive In Street. The East Coast Impala Racing Series cars were with us today, 12 cars from all over the east ran two races in one day. Race one had Stu Drozd over Dan Fahey and in race two, same deal, Stu winning over Dan again. We had a lot of Test & Tune cars and bikes with us also. Next Street Nite race will be on May 13th with Md. Performance Center Real Street cars in competition. Overall a good race with a good turn out of race fans also.

Sunday — April 30th

This was a SBRA race with another day of good weather, temps in the low 80’s a bit humid though. We started at 9am with 23 Junior Dragsters plus 2 more making their license runs. Stephanie Morgan won over Joshua Sisk in the semi round and then beat Charlotte Mallow in the final. We had Kahlia and Lavar Lewis, Kenneth Turner Jr. Connor Shields and Valerie Logan all running with us for the first time this year, all drove very well. Two newly licensed racers are now part of our Junior Dragster family, both Miles Raffa and second generation racer Rayleen Sanchez both made the needed runs, both handled the cars very well and ran straight and consistent, Miles in the mid 11’s @ 57 mph and Rayleen, low 12’s @ 50 mph. We interviewed them over the mike, they were a happy pair, welcome aboard! At noon the big cars took the track, 62 cars entered Footbrake, Dahryl Clark won a close one over Dicky Bodmer, Greg Ecker was third. In Super 40 cars ran with Mark Decker winning over Steve Heffner, Andy Dolan and Joe Wetzel were the semi racers. Bike had Brian Canoles over Kevin Hamilton. This was Kevin’s first time out this year, he is already in mid season form. The Bikes are always a great group with great racing, Kermit Garnett III ran mid 4.90’s @ 138 mph every run. Harley Bergeau won Trophy. Again many Test & Tune racers were with us, a total of 175 cars and bikes ran with us today. We finished up at 5:30 PM. We really had to keep the action moving along as thunderstorms were all around us from about round three til we finished up, thanks to everyone for keeping the program moving.

Sat. May 6th, Summit ET Series race and Outlaw Pontiacs are with us and on Sunday May May 7th another Summit ET Series race. See you Mason Dixon Dragway Next weekend!

Sunday — April 23rd

This was a Summit ET Series race that had good weather, mostly sunny and temps in the low 60’s. Over 165 cars entered the racing activities for the day. Junior Dragsters had 22 entries, in the final Landon Palmer won over Charlotte Mallow, Jo Jo Mallow was third. Street had Dan Roberts over Garrett Suders and Darius Wenger took third place. Pro had Lester Holtzapple over Brian Lind in the final. This win for Lester has been along time coming. He is a top shelf racer and good to see him a winner for this event, more are to come. Keith Warner took third spot. In the Bike class it was Brian Canoles over Tom Eaton with Dale Hamilton the third place rider. Super Pro was won by Colby Imes over newly licensed Tristan Simpkins, Mark Decker and Dave Slusher Jr. Were the semifinalists. Tristan had his Vega running low 9.20’s, it’s a great car and he is handling this fast car really well, look for wins from him soon. Junior Street had five entries, Dylan Moore won over Travis Hill and Steve Dustin took third place. Dave McMeans filled in for me doing the announcing while I was at Virginia Motorsports Park doing their LODRS race. Thanks Dave!

Saturday — April 22nd

This was a Test & Tune and Mid Atlantic Street Outlaw event but persistent rain all day caused a cancellation of the racing.

Saturday — April 15th

This was a well attended Test & Tune event, 88 cars ran many runs starting at 11:30 am and going til 4 PM. We also had a fine turn out of race fans. Another good Test & Tune day!

Sunday — April 16th

This was to be a SBRA points race. Sadly we had a well water pump failure that could not be replaced that day and the racing was cancelled. We just couldn’t run without water for food stand, rest rooms and starting line.

Saturday — April 8th

This was a well attended Test & Tune day with good weather to go with it, sunny all day, temps hit the low 60’s, great track and cars and bikes were fast. We had three new Jr. Street racers license, Dylan Moore and Travis Hill and Tyler Gontz all ran well and made numerous passes. An overall real good day, 85 cars ran, we wrapped up the day about 4 pm.

Sunday — April 9th

This was the first Summit ET series race for the 2017 season, like yesterday the weather was perfect, temps were in the low 70’s with lots of sun. We started at 9 am with our Junior Dragsters, 18 cars made round one and in the final, first time racer with us from Ridgeley Md. Zach Shirkey got the win over Christopher Burch ,Logan Simpkins took third place. Note, in the qualifying round five drivers had .00 lights. At noon the big cars took the dynamite racing surface for their first passes. Junior Street was won by Travis Hill over Dylan Moore. Street had Lukas Birks, last years defending Street champ win over Greg Orris, Dan Roberts was third. Pro had Ed Talbert over Mark Harbaugh in the final, Brian Lind was the third place racer. Super had Mark Decker getting the win over Jason Rudy and Mike Daymude took third spot. Bike had Dale Hamilton over Larry Knosp while Dave Clinedinst was third. Some notes here, Tristan Simpkins licensed in his Vega running 9.20’s @ 144 mph, he did a great job in the very fast car. Ed Talbert was on kill in every round driving the Chevy Nova once owned by the late Ron Martlock, the car and driver were deadly today, when Ed is “on” he is nearly impossible beat. Paul Burruss’ dragster ran low 7.20’s @ 184 mph on several passes. It seemed like many of our racers ran in mid season form, many exceptionally close runs through out eliminations, great driving by all. A big thanks to our race fans that came this weekend to be with us, they were there in good numbers BOTH days, thanks!!! Once again superb track prep and maintenance by all involved…..this happens every race at Mason Dixon! Several new staff members this year are all working well as a team, it’s coming together well. Next weekend, Saturday April 15th is a Test & Tune day, 11:30 am to 4 pm along with True Street Challenge. Sunday April 16th is a SBRA points race, Junior Dragsters at 9 am, big cars run at noon. Bill Smith from Racers For Christ will perform an Easter service at about 10:30 am on Sunday. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — April 1st

It rained heavily on Friday night and took a good while to dry and prep the track for this first Mid Atlantic Street outlaw event and Test & Tune session. The weather wasn’t kind to us either, it was damp and breezy with temps that barely made 50 degrees. We got a late start sending the first cars down the track at 12:30 pm. After a bit we ran our MASO time runs. This group has five classes, in Pro Nostalgia Outlaw Rick Wenger won over Jim Shank, Andy Crisp took third. Pro Street 6.40 Index had Sonny Nichols win over Michelle Plasterer with Kenny Morgan taking third spot. Outlaw Street 5.90 Index was won by Brian Plasterer over Chris Edwards and Blain Feeser was third. DOT Street was won by Butch Morgan with Mike Carter runner up. Now the top class Extreme Outlaw. Chris Rankin was low qualifier with a 5.06 @ 144 mph. In the final Chris faced Jason Staub, long time racer in his 65 big block Ford Mustang. Jason took the win with a 5.06 @ 139 to a close 5.10 @ 142. Great race, Bill Smith took third in the Sam Freels stick Camaro. Good show by all the MASO racers and a fine job by the MASO staff headed up by Duane Morris and Dave McMeans. Dave did the announcing while his group ran, always a pleasure to work with Dave. The MASO gang will be back on Sat. April 22nd with more cars competing for sure. Considering the weather we still had a fair amount of Test & Tune cars, we wrapped up the day at 5 pm.

Sunday — April 2nd

Way nicer day, temps in the low 60’s and lots of sunshine too. This was our first SBRA points race. Junior Dragsters took the track at 9:30 am. Chris Lil brought along $100 and gave fifty dollars to round one drivers best package which was won by Noah Lind. Each semi final racer got an extra $25.00 won by Joshua Sisk and Charlotte Mallow. Landon Palmer won the race over Harli Ely. The big cars took the track at noon. Trophy was won by Jim Berry with Greg Orris the runner up. Foot Brake had over 60 cars, Brad Doss squared off with Lance Kreiger in the final. Brad went green and Lance fouled at the start, run after run in this class there were many well run, close races. Kristen Suders took third and had great lights all day long. Super had 30 cars, Joe Krushinskie’s 4.80 dragster won over the slightly quicker dragster of Samantha Dubbs, Ronnie Horwath was third. Bike had Paul James Sr. getting the win over Tom Eaton with Brian Canoles third. We had many Test & Tune cars make runs also. Paul Burruss has the dragster now running as quick as 4.59 @ 150 mph. Jerry Williams’ new car runs well also mid 4.90s every pass. Overall a good day with 183 cars racing, we finished up at 6:30 pm. Next weekend, Test & Tune on Saturday and on Sunday our first Summit ET Series race, Junior Dragsters at 9 am with big cars at noon, See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — March 25th 2017

Finally we got open!…… after losing the first three weekends of racing due to very cold temps and snow cover on the ground last weekend the weatherman gave us a break. Temps soared to the mid 70’s and racers took advantage of the nice day with 168 cars racing. We had eight Junior Dragsters and Chris Lil / Nicholson Racing put up $100.00 cash so they could run a bracket race that had Ryan McFadden winning over Charlotte Mallow. Thanks Chris! We had the usual number of street cars making runs but many of our Summit and SBRA racing drivers brought out their cars and were out testing also. We extended the day an extra half hour because of the big turn out. This weekend we also had the NHRA folks here doing chassis certifications on fri., sat. and sun. 96 cars went through in the three days. Dylan Moore licensed for Junior Street today, he drove well, cut good lights too. Jim Stephens and his daughter Maddie with her Junior dragster were here, Jim still recovering from burns suffered in his garage fire from last fall. Glad he’s out with us at Mason Dixon this weekend. We have several new staff members this year and all did well this weekend, we ended the day at 4:30 pm.

Sunday — March 26th 2017

Weather changed dramatically, temps barely got to the mid forties, breezy and low clouds, nothing like Saturday for sure. We ran Super pro, Mike Daymude in the dragster winning over Joey Harrison who went .001 red, Mike .006 green. Footbrake had Britt Olsen over Rodney Eichelberger, Jamie Talbert was third. We also ran the True Street Challenge, not a big turnout but fun. Cars are street legal, no time slips, win light only, heads up, pro tree start for the racers. Julie Green and Richard Dugan were here today representing the Herald Mail newspaper from Hagerstown Md. and will have a story on the True Street class. Overall a good day. And as always, A-1 track prep / maintenance by Jake Landis and Bubby Casto for the very first racing of the 2017 season. We finished up at 4:00 pm. Just as I left the track it started to mist and then rained the whole way home to Pa.

Sat. April 1st, Test and Tune starting at 11:30 am and the Mid Atlantic Street Outlaws with their fast heads up cars, index classes and pro tree handicap class will be contested, On Sunday April 2nd the first points race of the year for the SBRA classes, Junior Dragster start at 9:00 am and big cars at noon. Check are schedule regularly for any updates, hope to see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Feb 9th, 2017

STREET OUTLAWS TV FAME coming to Mason Dixon Dragway, Mason Dixon is finalizing contract with Kye Kelley in the Shocker Camaro for a date in July and has spoken with Kayla Morton and Chris Hamilton with the Boosted GT to join us on September the 9th along with the Mid-Atlantic Outlaws.