2018 Race Season Results - Mason Dixon Dragway

Saturday — Nov 10th 2018 End of 2018 Season

Temps in the 30’s and high winds caused this day to be cancelled.

Sunday — Veterans Day — Nov 11th

Yes it was cold when arrived early in the morning, high 20’s but with bright sunshine and nearly no wind it warmed up to a high of 43 deg. later in the day. What a turn out, 160+ cars, bikes, trucks and junior dragsters in the house. Many made their fastest passes ever in below sea level air, -1300 ft. at noon. Bill Smith’s Pinto ran a quick 9.63 @ 136mph fastest ever for that car, many others ran fast like Bill. J. C’ Beattie made his first ever passes and his license runs in his “ATI Performance Products” Junior Dragster, well done. We were to run til 4 PM but an oil down caused us to run long, last cars down the track were at 4:30 PM. Thanks goes out to the big turn out of race fans who enjoyed the day and went through lots of hot chocolate and chili too. Real good day.

Last weekend coming up, all classes contested ALL 1/8 MILE both days, Junior dragsters start at 9:30 both days, big cars11 am Sat. ,11:30 am on Sunday. Congrats to Faith Warner for efforts in Pomona this past week end representing Mason Dixon and Div. One at the World Finals. Hope the weather will give a great two days! See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend.
Sat and Sun — Oct. 27th and 28th

Steady all day rain on Sat. and very wet grounds and then more light rain on Sun. again killed racing for the weekend.

Fri. — Nov. 2nd

Late day rain took out our Test & Tune racing, but better weather was coming for Sat. And Sun.

Sat. — Nov. 3rd

This was our race day for the Tri-State Stock / Super Stock racers and a Test & Tune day. We got underway a half hour late at 11:30 am due to damp track conditions that we had worked on since sunrise. Weather was windy and mostly cloudy with temps that hit 50 deg. late in the day. The Stock / Super Stocks made two qualifiers and then went racing. Forty four entries and right a 5:00 PM Mike Farrell took the win in his F/SA Duster over Dan Fahey’s F/PS Impala. We had a nice turnout of Test & Tune racers, everybody was fast, most of the day the corrected altitude was just above sea level, the hook was there too. An overall good day.

Sun. — Nov. 4th

Day two for the Stock / Super Stockers and this was a Summit ET series race, a King of the Track Wally up for grabs too. This was a much nicer day, real sunny, less wind and slightly warmer also, temps hit mid 50’s late in the day. Stock / Super Stock had 46 entries, they made two qualifier runs, everybody even faster than Sat., huge wheel stands by many, great racing, start to finish for this group. In the end it was Jeff Jewell in his SS/CA 67 Vette
over Ryan Horensky in his Shelby 68 Mustang B/SA car. Ron Moehead took third in his GT Camaro. Great racing again by these racers, we love having them with us every year! Now for our Summit racers. In Super it was Tom Reyer over Mike Reginella. Pro was won by Dave Raser over Chris Crawford. Kevin Barron took Street over Dave Toms. Bike was won by Brian Moore over George Stanley, these two have had a great 2018 season. Junior Street was won by Travis Hill over Dylan Moore. King of theTtrack run off had Tom Reyer getting the win and “Wally” over Brian Moore. We finished up at 5:45 PM, starting to get cold too, no daylights saving time, getting dark early now. Thanks goes out to Mike Carr and his mom Wendy for another excellent Tri-State Stock / Super Stock race, they do a great job, thanks for the support of our Stock / Super Stock racers and their family / crew members, Toni and Bill Smith, Bill did the invocation and Toni sang the national anthem, great job there, our track staff, a fine, fast paced show, great track prep too and finally thanks to our race fans for coming out to this race. We ran 167 cars today.

Getting close to the end now, Sat. And Sun. are both Test & Tune days. 11:30 am til 4:00 PM. The grand finale is Sat. Nov. 17th all Summit classes including Junior Dragster, game hen day and Sun. Nov. 18th is the same deal with class winners getting a turkey, this is also the NHRA all-access race too. Everything is EIGHTH MILE racing these two days. See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!
We started at 3 PM with a qualifier run and then right to round one. Super winner was Tom Scott over Richard Landry. Foot Brake had Scott Drayer getting the win over Ryan Groton. Bike was won by Doug Thomas over James Farmer. The Junior Dragster class was won by Steve Dustin with Chase Huber the runner up. We finished up about 10:15 PM. No weather issues, temps in the 50’s. 150 cars and bikes raced on day one.

Thursday — Oct 18th

We started at noon with a lot more racers today, 282 competitors in the house. We ran one time run and went racing. We got into round one and light rain rolled in causing us to stop racing for the day.

Friday — Oct 19th

Weather was fine today. We started at 10:00 am with a Gamblers race and then a Hi-Roller $5,000.00 to win for Super and Foot Brake cars. We are now up to 360 competitors and it took a long time get the Gamblers race done. In Super it was Randy Krause over W R Ketterman. Foot Brake Ben Garnett over Russ Archer. Bike winner was Don Butler over Dave Poage. Junior Dragster had Dylan Moore over Kyle Penn. It was now 10:00 PM and we were going to try to run the Hi-Roller races, we got one round in then it got real cold and we stopped a bit after 11:00 PM.

Saturday — Oct 20th

Today’s goal was to run the Race of Champions race finish the Hi-Rollers and run the Gamblers race, weather messed with this one. A wet track in the am with no sun or wind to dry it we started three hours late at noon. Now we could do no time runs, we got the race of champions in with Super won by Paul Burruss over Mike Daymude, Foot Brake had Kevin Yates getting the win, Dale Hamilton won Bike and Cole Foskey winning Junior Dragster. We got all of round one of all the classes and nearly all of round two of Foot Brake when the temp dropped and a cold, steady rain moved in about 8:15 PM, we’re done for the day now, money was split for all classes. 370 entries today.

Sunday — Oct 21st

We started on time at 9 am, but it’s cold and a gusty wind caused us to make a decision to race the day to the 330′ mark [ a 1/16 of a mile]. Junior Dragster had Dylan Moore winning his second race over Corrine Campbell. Super was won by Phil Truitt over Mike Daymude. Foot Brake had Cris Crawford over Dave Keyton. Bike was won by Ken Kaufman Sr. Over James Farmer. We ran just over 300 racers today, we finished the event at 6:45 PM.

Thoughts on this race….A huge thanks to Chris Lil who put up $600.00 to our Junior Dragster racers, this money was given to best losing packages in several rounds, perfect light money and winner and runner up money. He feels that the Junior dragster racers are our future and likes to support them at different events through out the year, thanks again Chris! We had 40 perfect .000 lights in the five days of racing. Mike Daymude and James Farmer had two runner ups, great work to those two but how about Dylan Moore, two wins, one on Friday and one on Sunday! Great track prep / maintenance all week, there were three different dragsters that ran under 1.00 second 60 ft. times, one as quick as .989. Big wheel stands from many racers, most were very fast, good air / great track makes them fast. Thanks to Gary Gore and Hain Dominick for helping run the event. New helpers Ken at the starting line and Vicky in the foodstand. Plus all of our regular staff did great work, they put in the long hours to make the event work well. On a personal note….thanks Darlene Bernie Staub for the excellent lunches, thanks Courtney Suders for announcing especially on Saturday and to Steve Dickey and Crissy Bainbridge for giving me breaks announcing also, they are all real good too. We had 1462 racers this week making about 7,000 passes. Congrats to team Baevers Springs getting 95 points to win the championship, Mason Dixon got 75, Eastside and US 13 61, Keystone 23 and Colonial Beach 16. I’m sure I missed something here but a big thanks to all that participated in the event, racers, their crew and family members and the the track staff. We had to be flexible with this event, mainly caused by mother nature issues. Again thanks to all that were with us for the 2018 SBRA Bracket Finals!
Wednesday — Oct 17th

Thoughts on this race….A huge thanks to Chris Lil who put up $600.00 to our Junior Dragster racers, this money was given to best losing packages in several rounds, perfect light money and winner and runner up money. He feels that the Junior dragster racers are our future and likes to support them at different events through out the year, thanks again Chris! We had 40 perfect .000 lights in the five days of racing. Mike Daymude and James Farmer had two runner ups, great work to those two but how about Dylan Moore, two wins, one on Friday and one on Sunday! Great track prep / maintenance all week, there were three different dragsters that ran under 1.00 second 60 ft. times, one as quick as .989. Big wheel stands from many racers, most were very fast, good air / great track makes them fast. Thanks to Gary Gore and Hain Dominick for helping run the event. New helpers Ken at the starting line and Vicky in the foodstand. Plus all of our regular staff did great work, they put in the long hours to make the event work well. On a personal note….thanks Darlene Bernie Staub for the excellent lunches, thanks Courtney Suders for announcing especially on Saturday and to Steve Dickey and Crissy Bainbridge for giving me breaks announcing also, they are all real good too. We had 1462 racers this week making about 7,000 passes. Congrats to team Beaver Springs getting 95 points to win the championship, Mason Dixon got 75, Eastside and US 13 61, Keystone 23 and Colonial Beach 16. I’m sure I missed something here but a big thanks to all that participated in the event, racers, their crew and family members and the the track staff. We had to be flexible with this event, mainly caused by mother nature issues. Again thanks to all that were with us for the 2018 SBRA Bracket Finals!

On Sat. Oct 27th, the Diesel Drags and on Sunday Oct 28th, Md Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index classes and Test & Tune. See you at mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — Oct. 13th

Another Street Nite event in the books. Weather 35 degrees cooler than last weekend, temps barely hit 50 degrees and this made everyone real fast. We started at 1 PM with all classes getting a shake down run and about 2 PM we got qualifying underway. In Md Performance Real Street Russ Martin took the pole with a personal best of the year 5.03 @ 140 mph. Steve Kent, Mike Berry and John Snyder were really fast too. Steve ran the best 60 ft. time with a rocket quick 1.14 launch. Wheel stand of the night, Jack Williamson’s Nova went sky high to the 330′ mark and stayed with it the whole way down, what a ride! When we got to the final, John Snyder and Mike Berry were to square off but opted to finish on Sunday, they were a bit wary of the colder track temps. Jack Williamson was third. Good show by all the Real Street racers. Quick 16 had 22 entries, a 6.01 was the bump. In the finals it was Jerry Williams taking the win over Mitch Willingham, semi racers were Lance Kreiger and Michael Shoop. The 6.50 Index class has seen steady growth with 12 entries, Pat Hahn won out over Matt Bowie. Pro was won by Justin Crider over Greg Garland. Drive in Street had Brian Canoles over Larry Price in the finals. A big thanks to Corey Thompson of BNL Inc. A disabled service employee owned company supplying technical support to numerous US Government agencies, for putting up money for the Real Street racers and $150.00 to the Drive in Street racers. Best packages in each of the first three rounds of Drive in Street got $50.00, Brian Canoles, Larry Price and Donnie Myers got the cash, thanks Corey and BNL Inc. We finished up just before 8 PM. It was getting cold then, mid 40’s, Fall’s here now.

Sunday — Oct. 14th

It seemed ok early but about 11 am light showers that turned to a steady cold rain caused a cancellation of our racing again. We will move this event to a open spot, Sunday Oct. 28th, start time 11:30 am. We’ll get that Real Street final in also.

The SBRA racers roll in on Wed for the 5 Day SBRA Bracket Finals, $68,000 up for grabs this coming week. Oh, and congrats to Ronnie and Karen Proctor as he won his second “Wally” of the year in Top Sportsman at Charlotte on Sunday, way to go! See you Wed. And all week at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — April 6th

Weather again no problem, partly cloudy skies and temps in the mid 60’s for Test & Tune day. About 75 cars, bikes and junior dragsters made passes from noon til 4 PM. Again a lot of full on race cars and bikes were on hand getting ready for the upcoming Summit and SBRA points races. Track was again great and everyone was fast too. A fun day to be at the track for sure. Two friends of mine, Katrina and Zack were visiting from from Stillwater Oklahoma, they were impressed by the fast cars and they liked our foodstand too! They’ll be back.

Sunday — April 7th

Weather just about like Sunday. Just a bit warmer. Today more racers, 93 were with us and lots of race fans. Several Md. Performance Center Real Street cars were in the house making several passes each. Ronnie Boyd made several passes in his A / Econo Dragster, a 4.45 @ 155 mph in the 1/8 mile. Everyone made several runs each. Oh, how about Kathy Gerhart in her T-Bird sporting a 347 stroker small block Ford engine going straight into the 11’s with a 11.75 @ 113 mph pass, she’ll be tough in Sportsman this year. Another real good day, we finished right a 4 PM.

We would like to thank Al Crawford of Al’s Body Shop, Martinsburg, WV for now sponsoring our Trophy class at each of the SBRA points races, the winner and runner-up will receive a “Xmas Tree Trophy”, these are are real nice, made from a composite material and are heavy….very desirable for our racers. Thanks Al and Chris, remember these folks when needing a any body work / collision repair! We are back this weekend, Saturday the tie-breaker race, Junior Dragsters at 9;00 am, big cars go at 11:30 am. On Sunday the first Summit ET Series race, Junior Dragsters at 9:00 am, big cars at 11:30 am. Almost forgot, Trish our front gate gal was released from the hospital on Sunday after a week stay, is home resting….yeah right! I won’t be present this weekend, surgery on Friday, hope to make the following weekend, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — March 30th

We had some light rain showers at about 9 am, they moved out quickly and with a breeze and temps that got to 70 degrees we were ready to go and on time with our Test & Tune event. What a crowd….154 racers and an excellent turn out of race fans tsaw some great running drag cars, street cars, Junior Dragsters, 12 of them and bikes made about 5 runs each. The track worked great as always and our new Accutime timing system works as it is supposed to. We had several of the NMRA Coyote Stock Mustangs making low ten second passes, this is a new class that will contested five times this year on our Street Nite races, first one will be on May 11th. This is a heads up class, close racing and big wheel stands too. Because we had so many cars we ran an extra hour finishing up about 5 PM. A really good race day, a big thanks to all that participated.

Sunday — March 31st

This race day was way colder, temps got to the high 40’s and real windy but at least mostly sunny. The car count was way smaller but those that raced got a great track to run on and made many passes down the track. We did run a Gamblers race with no entry fee, $50.00 to the winner, this gave us a chance to work with our new timing system under race day circumstances. Mark Harbaugh dialed 10.00 to against Brian Stephan’s 11.15, Mark with the better light but Brian was dead on the dial, Mark squeezed by for the win, a .0026 margin of victory….dead close! Oh, the match race of the day, Elmer Wachter in Cathy’s GMC 6.2 LS powered wagon squared off against son in law and track manager Jake Landes in his Toyota Tundra V-8 truck. Elmer had a better light and it was close to the 60 ft mark and then it was all Elmer to the finish line, 14.22 @ 100 mph and Jake with a game 15.40 @ 90 mph. Wasn’t close gang but fun, chalk one up General Motors! I’m sure by now everyone knows of the passing of Wayne Donoho last week, what a great guy, he loved to drag racing but liked hanging out with his fellow racers even more, he will be missed for sure. We finished up the day at 4 PM. Now next weekend both Saturday and Sunday are Test & Tune Days noon to 4 PM both days. See you all next weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Sunday — March 24th

How about it….we finally got underway, after the first three weekends of March with either freezing temps, high winds, snow cover or really wet grounds the weather straightened up for the first racing of the 2019 racing season on Sunday with temps that hit 60 degrees later in the day. We started a few minutes late but everything else for our first race day went well. 93 competitors in a mix of full on race cars, street cars, bikes and trucks made their first passes of the year. Our race fans showed up in very good numbers as well. New for this year is a new state of the art Accutime timing system and it worked well too. Angela handled the computer chores and did a real good job as always. The new timing tower at the burnout area is now up and fully functional, car numbers and dial-ins will be easier to read than before, remember though, we still need bold, clear and legible car numbers and dial-ins from all our racers even though we are closer to the cars than before. The new burnout boxes are a big improvement for all. We had NHRA chassis certifications on Fri, Sat and Sun, 97 cars went through the process. A big thanks to Steven Dickey and Elmer for handling the announcing duties, I spent three days in the hospital last week and thought it would be best to sit Sunday out, thanks guys! I’ll be back this weekend and hope of you will also. Sat. March 30th and Sunday March 31st are both Test & Tune days, noon to 4 PM both days. Oh, we wrapped things up a 4:30 PM. See you this coming weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — Nov 10th 2018 End of 2018 Season

Temps in the 30’s and high winds caused this day to be cancelled.

Sunday — Veterans Day — Nov 11th

Steady all day rain on Sat. and very wet grounds and then more light rain on Sun. again killed racing for the weekend.

Fri. — Nov. 2nd

Late day rain took out our Test & Tune racing, but better weather was coming for Sat. And Sun.

Sat. — Nov. 3rd

Sun. — Nov. 4th

Thursday — Oct 18th

Friday — Oct 19th

Saturday — Oct 20th

Sunday — Oct 21st

Thoughts on this race….A huge thanks to Chris Lil who put up $600.00 to our Junior Dragster racers, this money was given to best losing packages in several rounds, perfect light money and winner and runner up money. He feels that the Junior dragster racers are our future and likes to support them at different events through out the year, thanks again Chris! We had 40 perfect .000 lights in the five days of racing. Mike Daymude and James Farmer had two runner ups, great work to those two but how about Dylan Moore, two wins, one on Friday and one on Sunday! Great track prep / maintenance all week, there were three different dragsters that ran under 1.00 second 60 ft. times, one as quick as .989. Big wheel stands from many racers, most were very fast, good air / great track makes them fast. Thanks to Gary Gore and Hain Dominick for helping run the event. New helpers Ken at the starting line and Vicky in the foodstand. Plus all of our regular staff did great work, they put in the long hours to make the event work well. On a personal note….thanks Darlene Bernie Staub for the excellent lunches, thanks Courtney Suders for announcing especially on Saturday and to Steve Dickey and Crissy Bainbridge for giving me breaks announcing also, they are all real good too. We had 1462 racers this week making about 7,000 passes. Congrats to team Beaver Springs getting 95 points to win the championship, Mason Dixon got 75, Eastside and US 13 61, Keystone 23 and Colonial Beach 16. I’m sure I missed something here but a big thanks to all that participated in the event, racers, their crew and family members and the the track staff. We had to be flexible with this event, mainly caused by mother nature issues. Again thanks to all that were with us for the 2018 SBRA Bracket Finals!

On Sat. Oct 27th, the Diesel Drags and on Sunday Oct 28th, Md Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index classes and Test & Tune. See you at mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — Oct. 13th

Sunday — Oct. 14th

Saturday — Oct. 6th

This was a Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout event along with a gamblers race and the Slant Six cars race. Weather was great, partly cloudy and temps in the low 70’s. In the Small Tire group Richie Stine took the win over Justin Brumley in the eight car field. With the Big Tire cars it was Eric Champ over Scott Kline in the six car field. Most everyone was fast and hooked up well though Gary Walker did have converter trouble and couldn’t make his semi final matchup. We also ran Gamblers races for Footbrake, Troy Gerhart won over Rick Wenger and a Super car class with Jim Day winning over Brandon Lowe. The Slant Six Mopar gang was here for their second time this year, they had eight cars running today. Jack Everhardt Jr. won over Greg Ondreko. This bunch always have fun racing with us, their group has been a race series now for 20 years. They fed me lunch today, thanks Patty and the Slant Six gang! We also ran a Test & Tune session as well today. We finished up the evening at 6:45 PM.

Sunday — Oct 7th

This was a Test and Tune event plus a double header race for the Slant Six racers. Today it got hot, August like weather, very humid with the temp hitting 87 degrees late in the day. We had 136 cars and bikes making many passes. The Slant Six group ran two races, in the 1/4 mile event Rick Covalt won over Bob Simmons and in the 1/8 mile race it was Brian Mimkins over Jack Everhardt III. We finished up at 4:15 PM. A big thanks to all that raced or were race fans this weekend!

Street Nite is back again on Sat. Oct 13th, Md. Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index class and Pro, Limited, Drive-In Street and Street Bike classes all contested, remember, if we have enough Quick 16 cars we will field a second Quick 16 field. On Sunday we will run Real Street, Quick 16 and 6.50 Index and Test & Tune also. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend. Yes the SBRA five day event is almost here, Oct. 17 thru Oct. 21, be here with us!
Saturday — Sept. 29th

This was a double header event. We started out with our annual AMC car show / race event. Car show entrants and AMC fans came in early and checked out the excellent show cars with a good number of them being the very cool AMX cars. Racing started at 11:00 am with one class of bracket cars plus a great match race of a pair of AMX Super Stockers, SS/B stick cars. A H Adkins and Barry Allen squared of in a best two out of three match race. Barry Allen took the first one as A H went red. In the second match up A H uncorked a rocket fast 8.79 @ 150 mph to game 8.95 @ 149 mph. In the third and deciding run A H ran a quick 8.84 @ 150 mph to Barry’s 8.97. Great show from these two racer / engine builders. In the bracket class their were 15 entrants, Dan Willever won over David Pearce in the final. We wrapped up this part of the day by 2 PM.

Now for Street Nite. That kicked off at 2 PM great weather, temps in the low 70’s and a huge turn put of racers and race fans, 186 cars competed with a big group of Quick 16 cars, 35 in all. First off Md. Performance Center Real Street had 11 cars, five ran in the 5 teens or better. No. 1 qualifier John Snyder faced Tommy Bauerlein in the semis with Tommy winning on a slight holeshot. Ditto in finals as Tommy took out Mike Berry with a 5.17 over the quicker 5.10. All these cars ran hard, great show, Real Street! Now the Quick 16. We have offered to field a second Quick 16 if enough cars entered and 35 did just that. The first field smashed the fastest ever bump spot by a full tenth, it took a 5.18 to get the show, number one was 4.52. Tom Morgan took the win over Jerry Williams, Jason Staub and Mitch Willingham took the semi spots. The second field was still fast, a 5.97 bump to get in this field! John Richmond won ever Check Wishard, Bobby Dunn and Ken Colton were semi finalists. The 6.50 Index had 15 entries, Wade Farner got the win over Ron Gusack, Pat Hahn was third. Pro had Clayton Garber over Denny Wagaman, Limited was won by Roger Bard over Jason Deavers, Drive In Street had Glen Estelle over Brian Canoles. Outlaw Pontiac Drag Series had Doug Chell over Greg Orris, Jeff Raff and Chuck Hutzler were the semi racers, Doug’ Chell’s strong finish today wrapped up the points championship for the OPDS cars for the 2018 season. Congrats Doug! With a lot of racers competing and a couple of oil downs it took us to 10:30 PM. To finish. Great racing, lots of cars and race fans, an excellent Street Nite event.

Sunday — Sept 30th

A good Test and Tune day, 68 cars and bikes made numerous runs, weather again was good, partly cloudy, temps in the mid 70’s, we are on a roll! Several drivers made their license runs, all did so successfully.
We finished up right a 4 PM. An overall good day.

This Sat. Oct. 6th, Big Tire / Small Tire shoot out, a Gamblers race and Test & Tune then on Sunday Oct. 7th a Test and Tune event. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — Aug. 31st

This was a well attended Test & Tune event with 93 cars and bikes racing. The weather was a non issue, mostly sunny and temps in the low 80″s. We finished up about 10 PM.

Saturday — Sept. 1st

We started promptly at 11:30 am with our Junior Dragsters, 21 entries racing. In the finals it was Eric Bowles lining up against Mason Bean. This was Eric’s eighth final round appearance with the first seven tries where he came up short, but not today. Eric finally broke through for his first big win. He requested that all his fellow competitors come to the winners circle to be in his class winner photo. What a day for Eric and the Bowles family. By the way, Travis Hill took the third spot. At 1:30 PM the big cars took the track. We got two rounds of time runs in then the skies turned black, rain was moving in slowly. We kept going and got one round of Outlaw Pontiacs and Footbrake cars down the track. Just as Super got underway the light rain arrived, it eventually got heavier and by 7:45 PM or so we had to call it a day. First round Footbrake winning racers got $87.00 each. The Pro Stick gang was with us for day one of their racing, there were 49 cars in Pro Stick, the grand total car count was 207.

Sunday — Sept. 2nd

We started off with the Junior Dragster group at 9:30 am. Emma Henry got a win for the girls beating Logan Simpkins in the final. Sammie Miller took third. We had 24 Juniors today. At 11:30 am we started with big cars, one time run and go. Super had a big, tough field of racers and in the eighth and final round Darlene Staub beat Ronnie Horwath to take the big win. Todd Welzel was third. Darlene ran a great race today, congrats! Super had 70 cars today. Footbrake had 101 cars with Kenny Dick getting the win over Marty Flegal Jr. Jason Deavers took third place. Bike was won by Brian Moore over Dale Hamilton. Trophy was won by Chase Campbell over Rick Goad, Larry Price was third. Pro Stick had 46 cars entered with Matt Bergenstock over Eric Kitchen while Bill Smith was third. We ran 265 cars and bikes today and we finished up at 8:30 PM. We did go with just one time run, no doubt that helped a bunch. No weather issues, got warmer, sunny and mid 80’s temps.

Monday, Labor Day — Sept 3rd

We again started at 9:30 am with the Junior Dragsters, 22 entries today. It went back to the boys, Thomas Oates over Jo Jo Mallow with Landon Palmer taking third place. At 11;30 am it was already getting hot, we ran just one time run, a good move there. It ended up hitting 94 degrees by late afternoon. Super paid $5,000.00 to win and it was Randy Krause in his excellent S & W dragster over Bobby Spence in his low 4.40 supercharged dragster. Derek Clark and Clayton Garber were semifinalists. Super had 65 cars racing for the big money. Footbrake had Mark Harbaugh over Steve Long, semi racers were Bob Bair and Darius Wenger. Bike had Kevin Hamilton over Kermit Garnett III. Trophy had a repeat winner, Chase Campbell over Jason Barrier. Lastly High School had 7 entries with Jo Jo Mallow over Stevie Dustin. First time ever racer Caleb Kline took third. We finished up at just before 5:30 PM. Overall a good weekend, would have liked to have been rain free on Saturday though! Total racers for the weekend hit just over 750 entries.

Saturday, Sept 8th, Pro Test & Tune at 11:30 am til 3 PM and then the Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout, Quick 16, 7.90 Pro Tree Junior Dragster race, 6.50 Index cars and our 16 Footbrake and 16 Super classes. This part of the show starts at 4pm. See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — Aug 24th

This was a very well attended Test & Tune event plus Md Performance Center Real Street make up race. The weather was perfect, dry and clear, temps in the 70’s. First out was the real Street cars, 14 entries, low qualifier was Steve Kent at a strong 5.10. In the final, Terry Holler and Mike Berry left together and it was close to the 330′ and from there Mke pulled away a bit to win. Jack Williamson and Steve Kent were the semi racers. Low Et was Steve Kent in round two at a 5.09 and the top MPH was Russ Martin at 139.83. All the races were well run, cars launched hard, four cars ran under 1.20 in 60′ ft. Steve Kent had a pair of 1.15 60’s, real quick. We had a lot of very fast full on race cars and fast street cars too. Scotty Morgan licensed in the family’s Mustang, he made several mid 9 second passes, great job. We had 122 cars racing, we finished up at 11:00 PM.

Saturday — Aug 25th

This was the first of the two Summit ET races for the weekend with again nearly perfect clear and dry weather, temps just over 80 deg. First out was the Junior Dragster group at 1pm with 21 entries. Ryan McFadden won the class over Sammie Miller while Mason Bean took third. Ryan was really on it for this race, great driving all day. At 3 PM the big cars took the track. In Super Ken Colton took the win over Kenny Dick. Ken was killer from start to finish running dead on 5.25 in the final with a .004 light. Pro final had Steve Long winning over Dahryl Clark, Donald Jones and Troy Gerhart were semi racers. Jeff Hielman won Street over Dave Toms, Jim Berry and Carlos Dejesus were the semi drivers. Bike was a small class today, Bike #7580 winning over Brian Moore. The Outlaw Pontiacs were with us and Chad Ely won with his great running GTO Judge with low 10.20 passes over defending 2017 series champ Chuck Hutzler. Junior Street was won by Dylan Moore, Josh Sisk was runner up, Tyler Gontz was third. Jo Jo Mallow made several mid 9 second license passes in Bob Nicholson’s El Camino. Not only did she handle the car well but cut several .00 lights also, she would also run in Super the next day. We finished up at 10:00 PM, 152 cars and bikes ran in this event.

Sunday — Aug. 26th

Another sunny day but now we got the humidity and the temps got to the high 80’s but the good part, no rain on any of the three days! Junior Dragsters started at 9:30 am. With girls winning today, Jo Jo Mallow won over Logan Simpkins, how about Jo Jo with a .014 light and Logan with a .015, the race was dead close, the Juniors are just great drivers. There were 17 cars in the Junior Dragster class today. The big cars took over at 11:30 am. In Super Ed Talbert driving daughter Nicole’s car won over Andy Dolan, Shawn Barrett and Brian Canoles were the semi drivers. In Pro Troy Gerhart was .005 in the final over Brian Lind. Nick Lindeman was third. Nick has been racing with us all year, a fast Monte Carlo and gets tougher each week, good effort today. Rocky Moore won Street over Kristen Suders, Bruce Suders and Steve Mculley took the semi spots. Kermit Garnett won Bike over Kevin Hamilton. Josh Sisk took the win over Dylan Moore while Haylee Bowels took third in Junior Street. Trophy had Greg Orris over Chase Campbell. Jordan Siguin licensed in grandad Alan Hess’ dragster running a rocket fast 7.78 ET at a lifting 162 mph, he handled the car great today. We finished up just before 5:00 PM.

Thoughts on the weekend…..three races and no rain, finally. Three of our Junior Dragster racers licensed in big cars, two have aged out, Jordan Siguin and Scotty Morgan and still racing the Juniors, Jo Jo Mallow. They were sharp and will be competitive quickly. Vince Fourcade had his Pro Mod car out on Fri. Nite, two hits made one was a pedaling 4.78, lots more in that car. Paul Burruss ran as quick as 4.51 @ 152 on Sat, 1.02 60 ft. time, he’s flying. Dale Grimm had the “Mr. Stitches” 31 Chevy blown gasser out with a new tranny / converter, now runs like it should, a 10.40 at a lifting 108 mph, it left hard, wheels up and loud, Johnny Gaither would be proud of how this car looks and runs. I got a ride around the pits in this car earlier in the day, its loud and cramped in there too, not much room for my long legs. This has been a real labor of love for Dale and his helpers with an emphasis on labor, an eight year build to get where it is now. Now what? I know….probably 9 second ETs. Steve Long had a big day Saturday winning Pro. The car has been on the track nearly 40 years, approx. 10,000 passes made, think of it, a 1/4 mile at a time, 2,500 miles of flat to floor driving. How about the great track all weekend long, everyone was fast and hooking hard. All the races started on time with a minimal amount of down time from clean ups. Overall a good weekend. We are fortunate to have this special place, Mason Dixon Dragway to come out and race and hang out together for nine months a year, It takes a lot of work from the owners and staff and help from our sponsors to keep it going and we appreciate support from our racers and our race fans also. Here it comes…Labor Day weekend, check out the flyer, Friday Nite Test & Tune, SBRA racing Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Pro Stick on Sat. and Sun. and Outlaw Pontiacs on Sat. By the way just one time run and race on Monday to get us done a bit earlier on the holiday. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this coming weekend!

Friday — August 17th

This was to be our qualifying runs for our Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout but weather, as in rain, took center stage. The rains hit before we got underway, a track drying effort got underway but more rain moved in we had to call it a night.

Saturday — August 18th

We decided to make this one a Test & Tune event for all the classes running from noon to 4 PM, then take a break and run the rest of the qualifying and racing from 6 PM til completion. We had a pretty good turn out of racers considering more storms were forecast for later in the day. Big Tire racers, Lin Bowie, Scott Kline, Eric Champ, Gary Walker and Will Fair all made two passes each, all straight and fast too. Several small tire cars ran, Cary Daniels looked good, Quick 16 cars, 6.50 Index cars, Hi Roller Super and Footbrake and 7.90 Index Junior Dragsters made good passes also. Right as we finished up around 4 PM a huge bank of low black clouds rolled in and it just dumped heavy rain on us, nearly 2″ inches of rain fell in about 45 minutes. For a time you couldn’t see the scoreboards from the tower, we now had lakefront property in the lower pits and at the front gate. No drying was going to do any good tonite. At about 9 PM it rained hard again. No breaks from Mother Nature again.

Sunday — August 19th

Now for our Mid Md Ford Meet, we caught a break from the rain. Partly cloudy skies and temps in the mid 70’s greeted the racers and race fans for this show and race. We had a nice turn out of show cars, 108 displayed all kinds of Fords on the Rt. 40 side of the track. At 11:30 am we got underway. Everyone got two time runs then we got eliminations underway. In Super we had Brittany Harrison in her Mustang run a string of low 9.50 passes @ 140 mph to win over Mark Decker in his dragster that ran high 7.90’s. Brittany had a .005 light in the final to to take the win, great driving in a deadly consistent car! Pro had Dan Roberts get the win over Joe Slifko, both these drivers were on it all day in the biggest Ford class that had 34 entries. Cody Roberts won the big Mustang class today, congrats to the Roberts family, great day for them. All around excellent racing from start to finish, we ended the day about 4:45 PM. We ran 110 Ford cars today and a real good race fan turnout too. By the way, as I left the track about one mile down Rt. 66 it started to rain, we lucked out on this one! A very fun and well attended event.

This coming weekend, Fri. Nite, Test & Tune PLUS the Md Perfromance Center Real Street cars will race, we had 15 of these cars last week, there should be even more this time. Sat. And Sun are both Summit ET Series races, see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — August 10th

This was a Friday nite Test & Tune event with a good turnout of 108 cars and bikes racing from 6 PM to 10 PM., lots of race fans too. No weather issues either for once. Scott Kline made some real good passes in his Chevy Nova getting ready for next weekends Big Tire / Small Tire shootout. A very good evening for sure.

Saturday — August 11th

Where do we start here. This was a “double feature” event, the 4th annual VW Nationals and later in the day / evening our Street Nite race. The weather played into this a bit, the forecast earlier in the week was for rain / storms all weekend, it didn’t happen, it was sunny and warm throughout the VW race and only a couple sprinkles held us up for just a few minutes two times during the evening Street Nite race. It did rain all around us though at different times, we finally got a break with this event. The VW Nationals….a great turnout of racers, 74 cars competed in six classes, three were heads up, three were bracket classes that started at 11 am. We also had various vendors, 49 show cars and a great turnout of VW race fans too. Great racing, minimal breakage and an overall fast paced show from start to finish. We wound things up about 3:45 PM for this part of the day. A big thanks to Scott Pacaro for putting some much effort into the event and to Steve from the VW Heritage group for his hard work too. We’ll do this one again next year!

Now for the Street Nite race. We got underway at 5 PM with the first qualifying shots. The Md. Performance Center Real Street class ran first, 15 cars in the class, Dalyn Palmer ran a stout 5.06 @ 136 mph but on that pass hurt the car and was able to make the show. Mike Berry took the win over Mike Fortney in the final. Mike Berry’s Chevelle ran a string of 5.20 passes and was consistent all night long. The semi racers were John Turner and Steve Kent. In Quick 16 it was Michael Shoop over Calvin Kline driving Mike Howell’s Falcon. Mitch Willingham and Mike Rollison were the semi finalists. Now to the 6.50 Index class. After many runner up efforts Matt Bowie finally broke through and took the win over redlighting Nathan Englar. Matt was way overdue to win one of these 6.50 Index races, the winners circle was a happy and emotional place tonite with Matt’s win, great job. Oh, more wins are coming from the Bowie team. Pro had Joe Magetti winning over Randall McNamee. Limited was won by Rocky Moore over Roger Bard. Street had Annie Waters over Randy Allen. Street Bike was won by Brian Moore over Paul James Sr. Great racing by our Street Nite competitors and we had a nice turn out of race fans and many of our VW fans stuck around for the night racing too. And as always, outstanding track prep / maintenance throughout the weekend by our staff, Bub and Jake have track prep covered! We finished up at 10:15 PM.

We are here for the qualifying runs for the Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout on Friday night and the main event follows on Saturday evening. Don’t miss either day! Also for our Ford fans on Sunday we run our annual Ford Race, racing starts at 11:30 am. Show cars, vendors, great food and racing on the Ford event, see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — Aug. 3rd

Another Test & Tune night rained out again. Heavy rains rolled through for the entire evening……..same old same old

Saturday — Aug. 4th

This was a SBRA event with a real good turn out. Lot’s of sun with temps getting to the high 80’s. Kind of humid though. We started with Junior dragsters at 1:30 PM. Fifteen cars made the call, Dylan Moore was the big winner over Brooke Keyton, Josh Sisk and Charlotte Mallow were the semi racers. By the way Charlotte Mallow will be heading off to college and this was her last Junior dragster race, she ranks way up at the top of Junior Dragster racing, period! We’ll see more of her in big cars in the future for sure. At 4 PM the big cars took the track. In Super 61 cars battled it out and Mike Daymude took the win over the barely red Charlotte Mallow driving Bob Nicholson’s El Camino. The younger Michael Shoop took third. In Foot brake we had 71 entries, Dahryl Clark took the win over Kristin Suders, Dave Heaton and Brad Keyton were the semi racers. Kermit Garnett III won over Mike Schultz in the bike class. Chuck Hutzler won Trophy. We did have one bad transmission failure to clean up that took one hour, right after that another 20 minute clean up was performed from a hurt engine. Number one, great paitence was shown by our racers and race fans while the clean was done and number two, our track staff did an excellent job of making the track top shelf for the rest of the race. 166 cars competed but we did run a bit late as we finished up a 11:40 PM. Of note….as wet as some of lower pit area were, no one drug mud / water onto the lanes or starting line, that was a big help today.

Sunday — Aug. 5th

The third time is the charm, we finally got the 35th annual Mopar Meet race in the books. No car show today, that part was done in previous tries but now we went racing. Real hot today, sunny temps hit low 90’s. Super Pro had the final three cars that were all dragsters, in the semis Mike Daymude got by Brian Canoles in his newly acquired 500 c.I. Dodge powered dragster. In the finals Mike Daymude won out over Michael Bauman. By the way Brian Canoles had never driven a dragster til the night before when he made just two passes, the car works well, he’ll be very tough as the season goes forward. In Pro it was Bob Wahl won over Robert Schatz in his altered wheel base 65 Ply hemi car. Street was won by Bob Caliman over Randy Allen. Trophy had Mark Kalisz over Darrell Goodman. A lot of nice classic Mopars and late model stuff racing and on the grounds today, lot’s of vendors too. We finished up at 4 PM, a nice day of racing.

We’ll try a Test & Tune Friday nite and on Saturday….a Double Header, our 4th annual VW meet with car show early in the am, racing at 11am. At 4pm the gates open for our Street Nite race, Md Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index class, Pro, Limited Street and Drive Street are contested. For our race fans, see both events, just $10.00 covers BOTH events! See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — July 27th

This was to be a Test & Tune event but rain moved in about 5 PM causing us to cancel out, we did move the event over to Sunday.

Saturday — July 28th

This was a Summit ET series race with Wallys going to the winners of the Junior Dragster class which was divided into two classes, a 10 yr. old and younger and 11 yr. old and up bracket. We started at 1 PM. In the younger group it was Parker Fields getting the big win over Chase Huber. In the older group it was Stephanie Morgan over Dylan Moore in the final, third place went to Jo Jo Mallow. Stephanie was great on the tree right from the start, her first light in time runs was a .006 and the rest of day she was mostly cutting teen lights, no stopping her this day, nice work. Twenty five cars competed in our Junior Dragster class today. The big cars took the track next at 3pm. In Street it was Rick Wenger over Dan Roberts. Pro was won by Dahryl Clark over Ed Talbert, Tony Bonnano and Mark Harbaugh were the semi racers. Super had a 34 car field with Danny Brown over Cliff Peddicord, Ken Colton and Shawn Barrett were the semifinalists. Outlaw Pontiac group had 19 entries with Doug Chell over Steve Dress. The Oldsmobiles and Buicks were allowed as special guests, three Buicks were in the mix, no Olds though. Junior Street had Josh Sisk over Lacy Dustin, Travis Hill and Dylan Moore were the semi racers. Great, close racing all day long from all classes racing, excellent track prep / maintenance as always. 153 racers competed in this event, we finished up a 9:20 PM and the weather was great, light breeze, temps in the low 80’s very nice for once.

Sunday — July 29th

This was a Test & Tune event, we went from 11:30 am til 4 PM. Elias and Ehian Bryant ran their Junior Dragsters and each made a number of passes. We were a bit light on cars, everyone got to make plenty of passes, a real good day for all, and yes a dry and clear day like Saturday.

This coming weekend, a three day deal, Fri. Is a Test & Tune, 6 PM to 10 PM. Sat. a SBRA event starting with Junior Dragsters at 1:30 PM. big cars at 4 PM. Sun. is a third try for the Mopar event, we race at 11:30 am.
Of Note……Check out the stories of the Junior Street and Junior Dragster racers in the latest National Dragster magazine. Great photos and stories of our racers, Jo Jo Mallow and Charlotte Mallow, Ryan Ely and Harley Ely, Dylan Moore, Travis Hill and Haylee Hoyler are all in the articles. Bub Casto did the super photo work too! See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — July 20th

Another well attended Test & Tune event with 87 cars and bikes plus a nice turn out of race fans too. Several Md. Performance Center Real Street cars made test runs, Justin Bowmaker was quick with a 5.07 et. The weather was good too. Not good on Sat. as we again got rained out, our Street Nite will be made up on Nov. 3rd. A couple of corrections….Dicky Bodmer was the winner on July 14th over Courtney Suders, I had it reversed, oops! Also on Sat. July 7th the Junior Street winner was Hailey Bowles, nice job Hailey! Our defending 2017 championship Eastern Conference Junior Dragster team representing Mason Dixon didn’t win but still gave an excellent showing.
In the 13 yr old age group Mason Bean was the big winner, Eric Bowles made it the quarter finals in the 12 year old class and Ryan McFadden got to the quarters in the huge 16 – 17 year old bracket, great job to all.

This Friday is another Test & Tune event, 6 PM to 10 PM. Saturday is a Summit ET series race. Junior Dragsters start at 1 PM, big cars take the track at 3pm. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — July 13th

No weather issues with this one…and what a show, this was our Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout and the Quick 16 and 6.50 Index class event. We started at 5 PM with both Small Tire and Big Tire cars getting a test hit. Some of the Small Tire cars struggled a bit but all the Big Tire racers made good passes. The 6.50 Index cars, 19 strong, biggest turn out of that class ever, made their two qualifier runs with Tom Bard making a perfect 6.500 blast on his first run. Quick 16 was a 21 car field. We had a couple of qualifiers break and the number 17 and 18 cars now were in the field. Jerry Williams in his GTO was low qualifier at a 4.80 ET. First off let’s give recognition to our entrants in the Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout. Small Tire racers were Cary Daniels, Justin Reggio, Erick Hendriksen, Steve Kent, Justin Brumley, Mike Fortney, Chris Strausbaugh, Sean Johnson and Tommy Bauerlline. Big Tire racers were Scott Kline, Ronnie Proctor Sr., Erik Champ, Lin Bowie, Gary Walker, Jason Smith and Dan Shaffer. I can’t tell how fast they ran but I will say many got some real good timeslips…..they just plainly put on a great show! In Small Tire Steve Kent beat redlighting Cary Daniels and in the Big Tire class Ronnie Proctor got a single when runnerup Erik Champ hurt his motor in the semi run. In the 6.50 Index class Ron Gusack took the win over the 55 Chev. Belair, Nathan Englar was third. Quick 16 had Ronnie Horwath over Jerry Williams. Tom Morgan and Darlene Staub were the semi drivers. We wrapped up the event a bit after 11 PM. A HUGE thanks to everyone that had anything to do with this event, a big race fan turnout….Great show by our Big / Small Tire drivers and their family and crew members, same goes for the Quick 16 group and we are really pleased the big turnout of 6.50 Index racers 19 cars strong, our staff, many that work full time and had already put in a full day for doing a great job at all the track positions, great track prep / maintenance all evening long, just another outstanding event at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — July 14th

This was an SBRA race starting at 4 PM. It was warmer today, temps getting to the low 90’s. The Outlaw Pontiacs were with us today, Jeff Raff took the win over Doug Chell, Cliff Mayes and Jason Rogers were the semi racers. In Footbrake a field of 59 cars made round one but in the final it was Courtney Suders winning out of Dicky Bodmer. Super Pro was a 32 car field and Mark Coover took the win over Paul Burruss. Bike was won by Kermit Garnett III. The racing finished up about 10:30 PM.

Sunday — July 15th

A Test & Tune event running from 11:30 AM til 3:30 PM scheduled today. Again another hot humid day hitting low 90’s like Saturday. A bit light on cars and bikes but many runs were made by everyone. The Harley group from the Pittsburg area tested with us, Stacey Borst had her Harley in the low 8.40s @ 161 mph, Dave Dennick’s Harley Dresser run a best 9.75 @ 138 mph, impressive. Elmer put up $25.00 cash for the best light in one of the test sessions, Elias Bryant in a Jr. Dragster had for awhile with .017 but then Brandon Bakner took the money with .002 light. We finished up about 3:20 PM.

This weekend, Fri. Nite, Test & Tune from 6 PM to 10 PM. Sat. Is a Street Nite Race….Md Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index class, Pro, Limited and Drive In Street all contested, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — July 7th

This was a Summit ET Series race, wow, perfect weather, sunny, low humidity and temps in the high 70’s, remarkable for July. We started with the Junior Dragsters, a bit smaller turn out as many racers were getting ready to head to Bristol Tn. to defend their 2017 Eastern Regional Championship title. 15 cars raced and this time the girls won it, Jo Jo Mallow over Miles Raffa. Josh Sisk and Charlotte Mallow were the semifinalists. The big cars took the track at 3 PM and we had a bit of a match race with our Big Tire N/T cars. Dan Shaffer ran but had major carb problems and didn’t make a full pass. Gary Walker pitched a blower belt at the 330′ mark and was finished for the day. Now Scott Kline and Lin Bowie made straight, hard passes on their qualifying shots. They squared off in the final and it was Scott Kline going hard and fast a great A to B pass, Lin’s car moved a bit and he had to pedal a bit giving the win to Scott. Good show! Now, Junior Street had Haylee Hoyler over Travis Hill in the final, Dylan Moore was third. Tom McCulley took Trophy. Street had 29 entries and in the end it was Kristen Suders over Rocky Moore. Andy Stief took third place. In Pro Brian Lind won over Bill Stotler in his Chevy truck, Clayton Garber was third. Nice to See Bill get to a final, his truck flies, 9.60’s @ 137 mph. Super had Mike Daymude winning over Shawn Barrett while Joe Martz was third. Mike having another outstanding year in his deadly consistent dragster. Bike was won by Dale Hamilton over Kermit Garnett III. We had one Junior Dragster licensing today, Tori Matiko of St. Thomas Pa. made good straight runs. Her dad Dave and friend Kimmie were crewing for her, nice job! Another good race, great track prep / maintenance, close racing too. We finished up under the lights at 9:30 PM

Sunday — July 8th

This was another day like Sat. just a bit warmer. We had 105 entries and a great turn out of race fans. We had several Small Tire cars testing, mostly our Md. Performance Center Real Street cars. Mike Berry’s Chevelle ran the best of the group with a 5.09 @ 136 mph. We also had a great mix of fast street cars and bikes, full on drag cars and Junior Dragsters. Larry Price brought the Malibu wagon with new motor and ran 11.29 @ 117 mph. His wife Kim drove the Pontiac Lemans wagon and ran a 12.66 @ 106 mph. Jim and Sherry Scott had the 32 Ford running a best 8.55 @ 165 mph, its a great nostalgia car, real Ford powered too! Daryl and Sharon were with us to see Jim run also. Scott Klovensky made back this weekend doing tech, slowly recovering from recent surgery. All in all a real good day, we wrapped it up about 4:10 PM.

On Friday, we’ll start at 5 PM. The List shootout for Big Tire N/T cars and Small Tire N/T cars will be contested and also we have a Quick 16 door car class and a 6.50 Index race. Don’t miss this racing action on Friday. Saturday is an SBRA race and Outlaw Pontiacs are with us too. Junior dragsters start a 1:30 PM and big cars after the Juniors. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Friday — June 29th

This was again an excellent Test and Tune event going from 6 PM to 10 PM, 100 cars competed on a well prepped track. It was warm, but not bad and no rain!

Saturday — June 30th

Yes it was hot, temps hit low 90’s and that played into a smaller than hoped for turn out. We started out a 11:30 am. Rick Wenger was the big winner in the combo class, 25 cars in this group. Thomas John, a first time racer had a great day as he runner upped in Trophy, nice job there. In 1/8 mile Footbrake it was again Chris Crawford over Lukas Birks in the final, a close one too. Super had Jason Rudy and Steve Morgret in the final. Jason had the much better light but broke out to give Steve the win. Andy Dolan and Roger Lewis were the semi racers. Oh by the way, though Footbrake and Super had lower car counts than hoped for, the full advertised payouts were made. A special visitor showed up later in the day, Mike Natoli the owner of South Mountain Raceway in Boiling Springs Pa. along with two of his staff members. Mike even jumped in and did announcing in the final rounds. Bet he didn’t know I was going to put him to work! Something else that was fun, Joe Delp Sr. and his son, Joey Harrison had a match race, dad went red. They had fun lining up against each other. We wrapped things up at about 4:45 PM.

Sunday — July 1st

This was our Firecracker Classic race but with excessive heat warnings issued for the day it really affected our turn out. And yes it did get hot real quick hitting 94 hot and humid degrees later in the afternoon. We started at 9:30 sharp with our Junior Dragsters, a 22 car field and the girls were the story for this race. Steph Morgan beat redlighting Charlotte Mallow in the final, Travis Hill having a good day took third place. We had to new racers from Hedgesville WV. Ehian and Elias Bryant, both drove well today, they’ll be back with us soon. Joe Roberts won Trophy in son Cody”s Mustang. In High School, Jo Jo Mallow won over Jacob Fogle. Footbrake was the biggest class, 46 entries with again Chris Crawford winning over Jamie Talbert, Brian Cool and Brad Keyton were the semi racers. Super had Cliff Peddicord winning over Joey Harrison, Marcus Henry was third. Bike was won by Brian Canoles over Dale Hamilton and Logan Mathias was third place rider. Jack and son Andrew Armstrong from Newville Pa. had their Nostalgia Funny Car, a 66 Chevy Nova which is powered by an alcohol fueled supercharged big block Chevy making test runs.. The first run was a soft 8.97 @ 149 mph then a second and last run a more stout 8.49 @ 165 mph. The “Smokey Bones” funny car once sorted out will be an entertaining old school hotrod. We finished up about 4:50 PM.
Scott Klovensky one half of our tech crew was off this weekend, still recovering from recent surgery, hopefully he’ll be back this coming weekend.

Friday July 6th………Kayla Morton, big tire car, Chris Hamilton small tire car will be with us Fri. Nite, gates open at 2 PM, racing kicks off at 5 PM, We have a bunch of big tire / small tire entries to challenge Kayla and Chris, plus a Quick 16 or if enough entries a 32 car field, 6.50 Index class and a 7.90 Pro Tree Junior Dragster shootout. Come early, get a good seat! Saturday……Summit ET Series race, Junior Dragsters at 1 PM, big cars 2:30 PM.
See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend! Be safe…Happy July 4th!
Friday — June 22nd

Another rained out Test & Tune event.

Saturday — June 23rd

This was to be our “Rocking Chair Nationals” race but rain in the morning with heavy rains that hit in the afternoon and evening caused the event to be moved to the next day.

Sunday — June 24th

The pits were a bit wet but the sun was shining and we were off and running our “Rocking Chair Nationals”. People and show and race cars rolled in early. Car show entrants were getting set up at 9 am and also Mt. Aetna Fire Co. were serving up breakfast sandwiches. At 10 am we started with interviews of many racers and crew members behind the starting line, Gary Gore and myself handling the “mikes”. I’ll miss some here but we talked to Dale Grim, owner and restorer of the Johnny Gaither “Mr. Stitches” 31 Chevy Gasser, Bob Walker Jr. Bob Badger, Sam Auxier Jr., all the S & S gasser team, Rick and Terri Osborn, the 409 racers and Outlaw Pontiac racers. Plaques were given to many participants of the event. This was a great start of the day. With a possibility of big storms late in the day we went drag racing with just one time run for all getting underway right a 11:30 am sharp. We ran several classes, all with good car counts. We ran Pro Stick, Nostagia Eliminator, a $2000.00 to win Footbrake class, Top Sportsman, $1200.00 to win there, a 409 Chevy class and the Outlaw Pontiacs. Round one got underway about 1:30 PM and already storms were firing up south of us, we completed three rounds for everyone except Pro Stick. As we were into round three it got darker and cooler and just about 5 PM it just dumped heavy rain lasting nearly a half hour and that was it. Money was split to those still in competition and we had to call it a day. We had a great turn out of race fans, just under 400 entries were on the grounds today. A big thanks to all that were with us, show car people, race fans, racers and their crew members, Mt. Aetna Fire Co. and all the Mason Dixon Dragway crew. Aside from the rain cutting the racing short, it was a great fun day. Also a special thanks to Steve Dickey for helping me announce the event, he is really sharp on all the different drag cars, especially nostalgia stuff. Also thanks to Gary Gore and Hayne Dominick for their help supporting / promoting the event. Oh yes, check out or “pictures” part of our front page of this website, Bub Casto and his wife Becky, B & B Track Photography have over 2000 photos of this race already posted, great work Bub and Becky!

This Sat. June 30th, an all GM race, check the flyer for details, show cars and drag racing On Sun. July 1st the SBRA Firecracker race, Jr. Dragsters start at 9:30 am, big cars 11:30 am. Both should be great events, see you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — June 15th

Day one of the two day Mutt & Jeff Promotions big dollar races. First off, great weather throughout the evening, temps in the low eighties til much later. We kicked things off with a qualifier run and 6 PM then we went to round one.

We kept the footbrake cars separate from the electronics cars til we had a winner. In footbrake Cris Crawford took the win, getting $500.00 for his efforts, his fourth straight win by the way over Britt Olson. There were some drivers who double entered and the semis both of Andy Dolan’s entries were “still in”, he lined up against third place racer Joe Martz and took the win
double entered and as it turns out Andy Dolan’s entries made it to the final after he won the semi round against Joe Martz. Andy received winner and runner up money totaling $5,000.00….great win for Andy! We ran 137 cars and finished just after 11:30 PM. Great racing, loads of perfect lights, two were side by side in qualifying, three different win packages were three thousandths and some margin of victories were less than one inch at the stripe, close and tough racing all evening long!

Saturday — June 16th

We started at 11 am with one qualifier and go. In footbrake Brian Cool got the win over Greg Ecker. In a dragster final it was Scott Tate driving his wife Amy’s car over the tough Brett Martin. Again close races all day long we finished up at about 5:15 PM.

Thoughts on this event….Thanks Paul Burruss and Dylan Griffey / Mutt & Jeff Promotions for putting this event together, we thank all the sponsors and vendors that participated. We had a nice spectator count both days, especially Friday nite. Great track prep as always. Racers followed directions which enabled the race to be run rapid fire, nearly no delays and and there was little down time from breakdowns or oil downs. This was just a fun event and yes, all the payouts were as advertised.

Sunday — June 17th

This was a Maryland State Championship Summit ET race with the ‘Wally” plaques going to the seven class winners. In Junior Dragster it was Mason Bean over Jo Jo Mallow Logan Simpkins took third and the quarter finalists were Harli Ely and Sammie Miller. Due to extra money put up by Chris Lil, $1500, Walt Sewell and Eler, $25 each, 5 racers won money. In Super it Brett Martin over Mike Daymude and Terell Thompson the third place racer. Terell had the fastest car on the property all weekend with low 4.40 passes at 155 mph. Pro was won by Dicky Bodmer over John Groff’s Jr. Farm Truck, dead close race too. Street was won by Dave Toms over Kristen Suders, Devin Belloumini was third place racer. Bike had George Stanley over Dale Hamilton. Junior Street was won by Travis Hill over miss Mendenhall, sorry I missed her first name, I’ll coreect this later. Outlaw Pontics had Jason Rogers over Andy Nutt.. Lastly Trophy was won by Kathy Gerhart. This was also a good race, fast paced and minimal down down time.
Sammie Miller and Harli Ely. Chris Lil, Walt Sewell and Elmer added a total of $200 to the purse, five racers won cash today! Super had Brett Martin over Mike Daymude, Terrell Thompson in his low 4.40s @ 155 mph dragster took third place. Pro was won by Dicky Bodmer over the “Jr Farm Truck” driven by John Groff, a real close final too. Street had Dave toms winning with Kristen Suders the runner up, Devin Belluomini too third. In Bike it was George Stanley over Dale Hamilton. Junior Street was won by Travis Hill over miss Mendenahall, we’ll get her first named added later. Trophy was won by Kathy Gerhart. Outlaw Pontiac had Jason Rogers over Andy Nutt. We finished up about 5:15 PM. Another good fast paced race with great driving all day long.

The Rocking Chair Nationals are Sat. July 23rd, rain date the next day if needed. Test & Tune on Fri. Nite and Sun. See you this weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Friday — June 8th

This was a well attended Test & Tune event, 107 cars and bikes made passes on a well prepped race track. Of note, four big tire cars made clean runs with Gary Walker making the fastest pass ever by a door car on the Mason Dixon 1/8 mile. Great job Gary and crew. Also Eric Champ, Scott Kline and Lin Bowie made stout passes. These are “No Time” cars and ETs can’t be divulged as per the racers. They are loaded and ready for the big July 6th Big Tire / Small Tire shootout with Kayla Morton and Chris Hamilton from Street Outlaw fame. Again, super track prep and maintenance had all cars hooking hard and running good numbers in the humid air. flying

Saturday — June 9th

This was our first Street Nite event for 2018, the originally scheduled event was rained out in May. Weather turned out ok as we had but one brief sprinkle episode that only slowed us down for about 15 minutes. First off the Md. Performance Center Real Street cars took the track with 11 entries, right away the low qualifier was Dalyn Palmer with a 5.06. In the final Dalyn Palmer lined up against Tommy Bauerlien. At the hit Dalyns car made a move and that’s all Tommy needed to take the big win. Steve Kent was third, Dalyn did have low Et in the semis, a 4.96 @ 140 mph. Great job goes out to Justin Reggio of Md. Performance Center and all the Real Street drivers and crew members. How about our Quick 16 racers, the bump for this one was a 5.86 Et, 20 cars entered. It was Jerry Williams getting the win over Jay Unkart. Paul Burruss and Ronnie Horwath were the semi racers. Jay and Jerry have outstanding race cars, they look good and both rain in the 4.80 zone. The 6.50 Index class had Darrell law winning over Les Tobery, both fine racers and have doing the 6.50 Index type racing for a long time, they are good at it too. Pro was won by Randall McNamee over Chris Shives. Limited Street had Rick Wenger over Harli Bergeau, Jeff Huber on his bike was third. We also had a match race with our Big Tires from last night, Eric Champ took the win over Gary Walker in a close run, both got slightly out of shape on the pass. Even though the weatherman had us having an 80 percent chance of rain we got through racing and were done right at 10 PM, a big thanks to all that came out and supported this event, racers, crew members and race fans!

Sunday — June 10th

Weather trouble…..again. We were ok early, show cars made it in, race cars were teched in and ready and then it just dumped heavy rain on us at about 11 am for about 30 minutes or so. We tried to dry the track and got close but more rain was closing in and we cancelled the event but will try the Mopar race again, Sunday August 5th. We called it a day about 2 PM.

This coming weekend, Fri. Night is the first day of the Mutt & Jeff Super Pro race, start time is at 6 PM. On Sat. We run the main event 10,000 to win race. Footbrake racers welcome, we separate them and fold the remaining Footbrake car in with the delay box cars. On Sunday it is the rescheduled Md. State Championship Summit ET Series race. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this coming weekend!

Friday — May 25th

Great turn out for our Test & Tune nite, 154 cars and bikes ran til past 10 PM. Gary Walker had his Nova with us, the Big Tire car made two straight and fast No Time Passes getting ready for our Big Tire / Small Tire Shootout on July 6th. A good start to the weekend for sure.

Saturday — May 26th

We started right a 9 am with our Junior Dragsters, we had 24 entries and it was Landon Palmer winning over Thomas Oates while Sammie Miller took third. We had a great field of Footbrake cars, 77 in round one, Chris Crawford took the win over Dave Heaton, Bobby Smith and Joe Wetzel were the semi racers. In Super it was Mark Decker getting the win over Paul Burrus with Randy Krause taking third, there were 49 cars in this class. Bike was won by Brian Canoles over Dale Hamilton, George Stanley was third. Trophy was won by Austin Hughes over Joe Maggetti, 18 Trophy cars competed, good showing by our Trophy racers. Jr. Street was won by Travis Hill over Dylan Moore. Though it rained / stormed all around us we had two very slight rain delays at the semi finals and finals and we wrapped up the racing at 6:35 PM……then it rained. We ran just over 200 cars bikes and Jr. Dragsters today.

Sunday — May 27th

The weather played into this one. We started the Junior Dragsters at 9 am with 25 cars racing. Jordan Mason was nearly flawless as he went through the six rounds of racing as he beat Gage Farrell in the final, Damian Waters and Landon Palmer were the semi racers. The big cars then took the track and as we got into eliminations we had several rain showers roll in that caused down time, finally we called it a day after more rain was closing in on us. We did get two rounds of Footbrake and one round of Super and Bikes, all those still in competition split the purse money. The Outlaw Pontiacs were with us also and they split money to the remaining racers still in. We were a bit down on racers as the weather forest was so gloomy, still a bit over 170 racers were in the house.

Memorial Day Monday — May 28th

Today was a one time run and go day. This was the best day yet. The Junior Dragsters were 25 strong, Stepnanie Morgan won over yesterday’s winner Jordan Mason. Damian Waters and Eric Bowles were the semi racers. In Footbrake we had 65 entries with Mark Harbaugh over Chris Crawford with Troy Gerhart and Dave Saunders the semi drivers. In Super there were 65 cars also with Mike Daymude winning over Bob Keweon in the final, John Myers and David Wastler were the semi racers. Bike had Brian Canoles over Dave Clinedinst with Kevin Hamilton in the third spot. Trophy was won by Sammie Miller. Junior Street was won by Dylan Moore, Travis Hill was runner up. The High Scholl class had 9 entries, Steve Dustin won over Austin Hughes, Logan Simpkins was third. Lin Bowie and his Big Tire Camaro made several test runs, the last on looked good, we’ll see him on July 6th for certain. We finished up about 5:30 PM.

Thoughts on the weekend……A great turnout of racers and race fans were on hand all four days even though the weather forecasts were for rain for all of the weekend. We had approx. 750 cars, bikes and Junior Dragsters racing over the four day event. Each and everyday we were right on time as advertised, thanks to our staff and our racers making that happen. Toni Smith, wife of our RFC chaplin Bill Smith sang the national anthem on Monday just before round one, she was outstanding! Bill Smith, Newman Sisk, Joe Martz, Jo Jo Mallow and Josh Sisk all helped with our invocations each day. Cris Lil put up $100.00 to our Junior Dragster semi racers on Monday. Great track prep as always though changing weather made cars tough to dial, a lot of break out runs recorded. We had racers from Md. W.Va. Va. Pa. NY. and NJ. Many of these racers represent tracks from all over the Northeast and Southeast. Glad you picked us to race with this weekend. When we had a scoreboard malfunction on Monday morning Elmer fixed it right away, his skill and Daktronics Scoreboard Co. were there with phone support. How about Cris Craword, a win and a runnerup in Footbrake, Jordan Mason in Junior Dragster also had a win and runnerup. Travis Hill won two Junior Street finals. Brian Canoles won the Sat. And Mon. Race. Many close races recorded with less than a 1 inch margin of victory happened several times. Overall a real good SBRA event, nice job everyone!

Fri. Nite is another Test & Tune, on Sat. A summit ET Series race / Md. State Championship race. Juniors at 1 PM. Big cars at 3 PM, rain date would be moved to Sun. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — May 12th

This was a Summit ET Series race plus the Outlaw Pontiac gang and the East Coast Impala group raced with us also. Again we mention the weather, a gloomy forecast all week for this race but the rains held off til the end of day luckily. Cars were fast earlier in the day and then the temps shot up to the high 80’s and lots of humidity slowed them down, it was a real challenge to dial in the cars and bikes for sure. First the Junior Dragsters took the track at 9:30 am Sammie Miller getting the win over Charlotte Mallow, Shelby Nick took third in this 19 car field. Parker Fields from Frederick Md. licensed in his Junior dragster and drove real well, mid 11 second passes and he got better on the tree each run, nice job! At noon the big cars took to the 1/4 mile, in the Outlaw Pontiac group it was Jason Rodgers over Doug Chell, Randy Peer took third place, there were 22 cars in the class today. ECIR class had 15 cars entered with Stu Drozd over Navil Guffey in the final. Super had Mark Decker in his dragster winning over Al Hite in his Vega, George Hoff took third place. Pro was the biggest class with Chris Crawford winning over Dicky Bodmer, Bob Hamilton was third. Randy Allen won in Street over Darius Wenger and Andy Stief took third spot. Jr. Street was won by Travis Hill over Dylan Moore, Tyler Gontz was third place racer. Bike was won by Dale Hamilton over Kermit Garnett III, George Stanley and Boyd Mathias were the semi riders. Trophy was won by Doug Chell. In the All Access NHRA Challenge the class winners squared off to win two passes to any National Event race, it was Dale Hamilton the winner over Mark Decker, the rain was moving in at that point and it started to rain fairly hard right after their run, just made it! The weather I’m sure kept some away yet we still had 172 cars racing today, a pretty good turn out, We finished up about 6:45 PM.

Sunday — May 13th

This was the 6th annual Cruise for the Cure race, car show and cruise-in event hosted by Sara Mulkey and the Stablemates Car Club. The weather forecast was terrible, rain called for off and on during the day yet a fair number of show cars and trucks, a good group of vendors and we had a good turn out of race fans too. It took til 12:30 PM to get the track dry and then we did race, with the Dan Roberts family winning the first and runnerup spot in the one class Gamblers Race. This event has been a big event in the past but mother nature did play well today kept many people away, despite all that it still made money, we’ll get a total and report it at another time. We thank all that participated today!

Saturday May 19th…the first Street Nite race, Md. Performance Center Real Street, Quick 16, 6.50 Index, Pro Street, Limited Street and Drive In Street are all contested. On Sunday May 20th the Big Mopar event, all things Mopar! See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — May 5th

This was to be our 10k Super Pro and 10k Footbrake race plus Big Tire and Small tire no time shootout event. Once again the weather ends up being a big part of the story. Early in the week leading up to this event rain was called for both Sat. And Sun. With rain being forecast at nearly 100 percent for the afternoon we decided to cancel out but still attempt to do a Test & Tune for those that were already at the track. The morning was mostly cloudy and we did get underway at 11:30 am. There were several Big Tire racers, Lin Bowie, Erich Champ, Scott Kline, Jason Smith all made runs before noon. Small Tire racers were Russ Martin, Mike Fortney and Cary Daniels and they also ran around noon. We had several other Test & Tune racers that made several passes. About 1:00 PM we had the first sprinkles and light rain causing a delay in the racing. we waited it out a bit and just as we resumed racing the rain picked up and by 2:00 PM we had to call it a day. Too much of this already this year. By the way, if any of these racers with us today win the No Time race Elmer will add $200.00 to the winning purse in appreciation of their support of this race.

Sunday — May 6th

This was to be a Test & Tune race that was cancelled early and rain did roll in before noon, a good call on this one. Jake, Bubby and Elmer were in ditch digging mode to run the necessary conduit to the new computer operator building. One step closer to have a great position to be able to seee the dial-ins and car numbers by the Burn-out area. Keep in mind you can order permenant numbers from Cheryl or Bubby, your choice of colors and sizes. Makes your car stand out .

Next week….Sat. May 12th is a Summit ET race with Outlaw Pontiacs, Junior dragsters start time at 9:30 am and big cars at noon, also this is a NHRA All Access race, two passes to any NHRA national event to the overall winner of the day. Sun. Mothers Day May 13th is our annual Cruise for the Cure event, includes a cruise in, car show, many venders and drag racing, proceeds benefit Really for Life. A big thanks again to Sara Mulkey and the Stablemates Car Club gang for putting in the hard work to make this event happen. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — April 28th

This was a SBRA event plus the first of ten Outlaw Pontiac Drag Series events scheduled for 2018. Weather ok to start, mid 40’s when our Junior Dragsters took the track dead on time at 9:30 am. It ended up a Mallow final with Charlotte winning over Jo Jo in a close one, Daylin Hoyler was third, 18 cars ran in round one. At noon the SBRA cars and Outlaw Pontiacs took the track. Both time runs were ok and then the clouds moved in. During round two of eliminations it rained very light or sprinkled, we stopped and started four times, each time we got the track back to A-1 race shape but finally at about 6:30 PM it rained hard and got cooler, we couldn’t continue and we called it a day. All classes completed round three and remaining racers all split the pursed evenly. Good racing all day, Footbrake was the big class with 64 entries, Outlaw Pontiacs had their usual turn out of 23 cars. We tried!

Sunday — April 30th

Cold and windy early but mostly sunny and it finally did hit 50 degrees later in the day. Another excellent turn out for our Test & Tune event, 108 cars, bikes, Junior Dragsters, license run cars and No Time cars made many passes from 11:30 am til about 4:10 PM. Everybody was fast. How about Ryan Ely on his 17th birthday driving dad’s 70 GTO Judge to several runs, first two easy passes then a 10.08 and a 10.06 and on the last pass as we were ending the day Ryan laid down an outstanding 9.98 @ 131 mph, that’s as good a birthday present as you could get. Nice job Ryan. And yes we had Lin Bowie in his big tire Hemi powered Camaro make two test hits, they were no time passes, both straight and the second one faster, car looks good and sounds awesome. You will want to be here Sat. May 5th for our Big Tire / Small Tire shoot out and for the 10k Footbrake and 10k Super Pro race. It’s gonna be a great show.

Keep checking this website for all the upcoming events, May is going to be busy, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend!

Saturday — April 21st
This was our first Summit ET Series race. The weather was very good, cool in the AM but warmed to 60 deg. by late afternoon. We started with the Junior Dragsters at 9:30 am. Landon Palmer was the big winner today over Jo Jo Mallow in the final, Shelby Nick took third place. We had two new racers today, Macy and Mallory Stewart from Fairmont WV. Both good drivers with nice cars, they made it to round two, we hope they will run with us in the future. We had 19 Junior Dragsters racing today. At noon the big cars took the track. Junior street had four entries, Dylan Moore took first place with Travis Hill the runnerup honors, Tyler Gontz and Casey Jenkins took the semi spots. A big thanks to Travis Hill, Rocky Moore and Walt Sewell for putting up $125.00 for the Junior Street racers, Dylan’s cut was $75.00 and Travis Hill received $50.00. Asa Birks drove brother Lucas’s camaro to low 13 second passes to win Trophy. Street had Jim Berry over Steve McCulley while Jeff Hielman and Rick Wenger were the semi drivers. Pro was dominated today by Troy Gerhart, great lights in every round as he beat Garrett Suders in the final, Britt Olson was third. Super Pro was won by Roger Lewis over Mike Shoop and Andy Dolan, first time out this year took third. Brian Moore won Bike today over Kermit Garnett III, Dale Hamilton and George Stanley were the semi riders. We were a bit light on cars today, 120 competitors raced and with little down time we finished up about 5:00 PM.

Sunday — April 22nd

This was a Test & Tune day with 132 cars, bikes, junior dragsters and numerous license run cars that all were making many passes on a real good track. Maybe an almost to good of track, Robert Brooks’ stunning Real Street Nova did a giant sky high wheelstand and upon coming down hard damaged some front end stuff, headers, oil pan etc. Hope he will make the repairs and be back racing with us soon. Steve Whitman had his dragster out, ran mid 8’s @155 mph, Brittany Clark ran a 4.50 @ 149 mph [1/8 mile ] Tammy Gray licensed in Double Vision III running 9.70s, Brittany Harrison ran 9.50’s @ 142 mph on several passes. Some the Outlaw Pontiac gang were testing today. This was a really good turn out of racers and race fans, a lot of people on the property got to see fast cars and bikes and junior dragsters with sunny skies and temps climbed to 70 deg. Later in the day, we finished up at about 4:15 PM.

Next Saturday, a SBRA race and the Outlaw Pontiac Drag Racing group will be with us. This is their 20th season, they’ll run 12 races this year, 10 with us. This is a great group to work with, we love having them at Mason Dixon. On Sunday it is a Test & Tune event 11:30 am to 4:00 PM. See you Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend…….Oh don’t forget to sign up for the big 10k to win Super and Footbrake race on Sat. May 5th. See Karen with your $250.00 entry fee, limited to 64 cars each class.

Saturday — April 14th

This was our first SBRA points race with all classes contested and our spring Tri-State Stock / Super Stock Association race. The weather….finally perfect, bright and sunny, 60’s at 9 am and reached a high of 85 degrees in the late afternoon. We kicked off the racing at 9:30 am with the Junior Dragsters. Chalk one up for the girls this time, Charlotte Mallow took the win over Ryan McFadden while Jo Jo Mallow and Josh Sisk were the semi racers. Of note, Ryan McFadden was without his dad or sister Alyssa today, Jim Stephens and his daughter Maddie stepped up and became his crew for the day, hats off to the Stephens gang for their help. At noon we got underway with the big cars, first out were the Stock / Super Stocks with Danny Henderson a two time runnerup taking his first win in his max wedge B/SA 63 Dodge over the hard charging A. H. Adkins in his rocket fast 69 AMC AMX SS/B stick car, the lights were close, a well run race. Footbrake was the big class, 60 entries had Ed Talbert in his newly completed, you guessed it, an S-10 Chevy truck winning over Scott Vaughn in his Chevelle. Mike Rodgers had a good day taking third spot. Super also had a good field of cars 38 strong and in the finals Pennsylvania driver Brock Moshier in his strong Vega wagon won over Colby Imes in his Dodge Demon, another close one. Shawn Barrett and Darlene Staub took home semi money. The Bike field had 11 entrants with Logan Mathias riding on loan Gina Hamilton’s pink bike over Dave Clinedinst, Brian Canoles was third. We a number of Test & Tune and license run cars making passes. Danny Hutton was real fast in his Chevy Nova as was Tom Morgan in his Dodge. Thoughts on this race. Everyone seems in mid season form, great driving, close racing and very good performing race cars and bikes, almost no down time, we try hard to run a safe, fair and rapid fire race every race day. Angie completed her first points race day on the computer and was outstanding. We are also really glad to have Trish back after her surgery, I think she was worn out by the end of the day but she got through it, welcome back Trish! A big thanks to Mike and Wendy Carr of the Tri-State Stock / Super Stock Assoc. Thanks for coming out this weekend. We had 155 racers competing today and an excellent turn out of race fans, thanks for supporting Mason Dixon Dragway today. We finished up at 6:45 PM.

Sunday — April 15th

The temps dropped 40 degrees from yesterday, cold damp air had us sitting on the fence about opening or canceling. We are always thinking positive and we opened for a Test & Tune day. We ran til just about 2:00 PM before the light rain moved in halting the racing for the day, we tried! We thank those that showed up and they were issued rain checks for another day.

Next weekend is the first Summit Points race, all classes contested, Junior Dragsters go at 9:30 am, big cars at noon. Test & Tune is on Sunday. By the way, Sunday would be the Summit Points race if Saturday would be rained out. Don’t forget to sign up for the May 5th 10k to win Super and 10k to win Footbrake classes, see Karen in the office over the foodstand this coming weekend, have your $250.00 entry fee at time of sign up, only a limited 64 car field in each class….don’t wait. Have a great week….see you at Mason Dixon Dragway!
Saturday — April 7th

Once again very cold temps with cloudy and windy conditions caused us to once again cancel Saturdays racing.

Sunday — April 8th

Well, the weather was better, it topped out in the mid 40’s later in the day and much more sun and less wind than Sat. This was our first $2,000.00 to win Footbrake race of the year and in the final it was Bob Bowers getting the win in his 6.20 et 68 Camaro over last weeks Super winner Tim Humm driving the Chevy fired Mazda. The semis had Nick Bowman and Ed Talbert as the semifinalists. How about our new racing friends, John Adkins and his two sons Andrew and Robert bringing two cars and entering the Footbrake race all the way from Athens Ohio. What a hike, Google Maps says it was a 293 mile trip one way. They wanted to race somewhere and no one was apparently open in their area, they typically race at National trail Raceway in Hebron Ohio. They were good guys and had fun racing with us, hope they will make it back soon! We also had a Test & Tune event, some really strong performances turned in by many. Joe Martz in his 71 Camaro had been knocking on the door of the eight second zone last year but a slightly bigger cubic inch short block pushed the car to an 8.65 et @ 156 mph on his second and best pass. By the way Joe handled are invocation today as Bill Smith did the morning service but had to leave early. Thanks Joe! Carrie Witman had her big block Chevy dragster making several passes, all were smooth and increasingly quicker, best one a 7.83 et @ 170 mph. Carrie and her brother A. J. were former Junior Dragster stand outs. Dad Steve and mom Jayne all race as well, hope to see them in action a lot this year. Greg Orris had the Dodge Demon out again, all 9.90 runs, best a 9.93 @ 138 mph. Miles Raffa in his Junior Dragster made many runs now going faster, 8.50s @ 76 mph. Once again the track was outstanding, everyone was fast and hooked hard today, great track prep / maintenance as always. Once again more improvements at the track, this week a nearly new New Holland tractor to drag the track was purchased and also a track vacuum that will help cleanup and track prep added to our inventory of track vehicles. Also new LED win lights on top of the scoreboards are in place and are easier to see for sure. A pretty good day but still very cold for April, Spring will get here soon??? We finished up the day just a bit past 4:30 PM.

This coming weekend on Saturday April 14th is the first points race. This is a SBRA 1/8 mile race, Junior Dragsters go at 9:30 am, big cars at noon. Also the Tri-State Stock and Super Stockers have a gambler race. On Sunday April 15th is a Test & Tune and the main event for the Tri-State Stock / Super Stock cars. And it is supposed to be MUCH warmer this coming weekend. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway

Saturday — March 31st

Finally good weather, mostly sunny with temps reaching the high 50’s later in the day greeted our racers and race fans. This was tie-breaker race, run with Summit ET classes and a Test & Tune event. We started at 9:30 am with the Junior Dragsters. Shelby Nick won out over Charlotte Mallow in the final with Daylin Hoyler and Sammy Miller as the semi racers. Three of the four semi racers were our excellent girl drivers but Shelby took the win, chalk one up for the boys today. At 11:30 am the big cars took the track. In Street Dave Toms was the winner over Devin Belluomini in the final. By the way Devin, from Santa Fe Texas will be stationed in Washington D.C. til next year and should be able to run with us this season. Pro was the biggest class and Greg Ecker won out over Jamie Talbert, Bob Bair was third. Super Pro had Tim Humm in his small block Chevy powered Mazda winning over Roger Lewis in his 66 Chevelle. Colby Imes was the third place racer. Over in Bike Kermit Garnett III won over the 2017 Bike champ Brian Canoles. George Stanley was third. We had a big group of Test & Tune cars with the usual mix of street cars, full on drag cars and license run racers also. Gregg Orris had his Dodge Hellcat Demon out again making runs right at the 10 flat range, a best of the day 9.99 pass. Another Demon was on the property making runs in the 10.20’s, this driver had never raced before, nice job. Jason Smith had the supercharged Corvette out making two clean No Time passes, both quick and straight. We ran til about 5:10 PM, 120 cars, bikes and junior dragsters participated today. Good day overall.

Next weekend on Sat. April 7th is the $2,000.00 to win, $50.00 entry Footbrake 1/8 mile race and the Tri State Stock / Super Stock gambler race and on Sun. April 8th is the main event for the Stock / Super Stockers, Test & Tune both days on a well prepped track. Sat. April 14th is the first SBRA points race and on Sun. April 15th is a Test & Tune event. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway this weekend! On a personal note, as I write this at 8:00 am on Monday it’s again Snowing, two inches on the ground…….this is getting old now!

Saturday and Sunday — March 24th and 25th

Both of these Test & Tune events were cancelled due to snow covered track and pit areas. How about this coming weekend…..this will be our first “race” which we will be running all classes, Junior Dragsters start at 9:30 am with the big cars taking the track at 11:30 am. This will have all the “Summit ET” classes contested. All classes run 1/4 mile but the Super cars run 1/8 mile. This race is our tie breaker should there be a tie for any of the classes in our points program at the end of the season. Easter Sunday, April 1st we are closed. Up next on Saturday April 7th we have a 1/8 mile Footbrake $2,000.00 to win $50.00 entry class. Also to help make up for last years Stock / Super Stock rained out event we will have the Tri-State Stock / Super Stock racers with us running a warm up race Saturday and we’ll have them back for their main event race on Sunday. Both days Test & Tune is offered on a well prepped race track. Should the weather mess with us on Saturday, the Footbrake race goes off on Sunday. A big thanks to Mike Carr and his mom Wendy for bringing back the Stock / Super Stockers…If you like towering wheelstands be here to watch this great show. See you this coming weekend at Mason Dixon Dragway!

Saturday — March 16th

Very cold temps, wind and a few snow flurries caused a cancellation of our Test & Tune event. Sunday was a different story.

Sunday — March 17th

A much nicer day, cool to start but bight sunshine very little wind and temps that got to the mid 50’s in the late afternoon gave us a great day for our Test & Tune entrants and for our race fans. Where do we start….105 racers were in attendance and everyone made many runs. Mason Bean and family had the Junior Dragster out and Mason completed his license runs by the end of the day. Well done. Patrick Myers had his newly purchased dragster completing all his license run with no problems, great car and formally owned by Lance and Karen Kreiger. He will compete in Super Pro and Super Comp this year. Several racers ran personal best ETs on our well prepped track and in the great air, most of the day with below sea level corrected altitude. Randy Allen, Rick Wenger, Darius Wenger, Garrett Suders, Brian Lind, Michael Boyd, Rodney Eichelberger, Kelli Fleming and others were just plain fast. Kelli Fleming made her last pass of the day with a new engine combo the best one….. her first ever in the twelves run, a 12.99 @ 104 mph. Kermit Garnett ran a 7.79 @ 170 mph on Suzuki Hyabusa, three of his eighth mile passes were 4.95 at a bit over 140 mph. We had several Junior Dragster make many runs, Mason Bean, Charlotte and Jo Jo Mallow, Maddie Stephens and Emma Henry drove well. Now about Greg Oriss’ new Hellcat Demon first ever passes. Greg drove the car to the track and about 12 noon pulled to the starting line. The car launched hard, about 2 inches of daylight under the front tires, a 1.42 60 ft. 6.39 @ 110 mph to eighth and a 9.94 @ 137.40 mph quarter mile. Greg made several more runs, mostly 10.0s and the last one a stout 9.98 @ 138.40 mph after it had gotten warmer and the air wasn’t quite as good as when we started racing earlier in the day. This car is everything as it has been advertised to be. Most cars don’t run near the numbers claimed, I’ve seen most new cars run much slower than advertised for for decades. Great job Dodge! Great job by everyone today, no oil downs, minimal breakage, great track prep as always, just an overall real good day. On a sadder note, Larue Johnson, a great racer from the past, mostly at 75 – 80 but with also us also passed away last week. Larue was 78 yrs. old, a good friend to all and a great racer, he’ll be missed. A Congrats goes out to Ronnie Proctor with 5 Final appearances this one was a charm as he took first place in Top Sportsman at the 49th Running of the Gator Nationals.

This coming weekend Sat. And Sun. March 24th and 25th we’ll run Test & Tune both days with an 1/8th Mile Gamblers race Sunday. Also Fri. Sat. and Sun. Chassis Certification by the NHRA will be going on at the track ( Start Time 9 AM ), check out how those checks are done while your here with us this weekend. See you at Mason Dixon Dragway!

BRAND NEW THE START OF 2018 ARE YOU PART OF MASON DIXON DRAGWAYS STORY? YOU COULD BE!!!!!
Saturday — March 10th

We lost last weekend to very cold and windy conditions but today’s weather was clear, sunny and temps reached the mid 40’s, good enough get in our Test & Tune day. We started at 11:30 am with a nice mix of race cars, street cars bikes and one Junior Dragster. As usual the track worked well, several cars were in the low 10’s and high 9’s. Good racing all day long, we did have fairly big cleanups that were handled fast, a top end oil down and starting line transmission failure. We finished up just before 4:30 PM. We had 49 cars and bikes racing today. Oh, the new stuff…….. the new staring line building is set in place and some the wiring upgrades are done, this will be the new home for our computer staff. The building is right next the track at the burnout boxes, a great view of the cars and their dial-ins as they get ready to pull forward to the starting line. We also have new lighting for the shut down area, will be brighter down there now. The new scales are here and will be set in place at tech very soon. Also plans for the win lights on the top of the scoreboards will be replaced with colored LED lights for easier visibility for our race fans. Welcome aboard to Angela as she is learning the computer operator position, Hunter doing the teaching today.

Sunday — March 11th

Today just a couple of degrees cooler but nearly no wind and again sunny skies. Pretty much like yesterday but with no big oil downs or down time. Everybody made many runs. The track held up real well all day, cars and bikes were fast. Brian Canoles on Dave Clinedinsts turbo bike ripped a 7.94 St @ 165 mph late in the day. 47 cars and bikes raced today, we finished up at 4:30 PM. Overall a good weekend, a bit light on racers but both morning temps were in the low 20’s, that certainly kept some people home this weekend I’d bet.

Next weekend, same deal, Sat. and Sun. are both Test & Tune days, racing kicks off a 11:30 am both days, see you at Mason Dixon Dragway this coming weekend!