In case anyone missed the change, no racing today. Parking only, from 5pm-9pm, today’s purse moved to Sunday. Entries still available for the 64 car shootout.

Preentry for the Summit Sportsman Spectacular at KRP May 18-20 ends Monday, May 7. $150 for a $10k Saturday and $5k Sunday, really good deal!

ALL PURSES GUARANTEED - NO MINIMUM CAR COUNT REQUIRED!

Junior Dragster:
• Saturday & Sunday Purse: $700 win, $200 Runner-Up, $100 Semi’s, $50 qtr
• $50 entry fee per day
• PRE-ENTRY PROMOTION – All pre-entries get a FREE Sunday entry with the purchase of a Saturday entry
• $30 Re-entry 1st round only

Big car combo:
SATURDAY ENTRY $150
RE-ENTRY $80 1ST ROUND ONLY
WIN - $10,000
R/U - $2,000
SEMI - $1,000
$100 PER ROUND STARTING AT ROUND 3 WINNER
ROUND MONEY NOT PAID TO SEMI-FINALS & FINALS

SUNDAY ENTRY $100
RE-ENTRY $60 1ST ROUND ONLY
WIN......
WIN - $5,000
R/U - $1,000
SEMI - $500
$100 PER ROUND STARTING AT ROUND 3 WINNER
ROUND MONEY NOT PAID TO SEMI-FINALS & FINALS

NO BOX RACERS RUN SEPARATE UNTIL ONE LEFT
• Final No Box racer earns a $1,000 bonus Saturday & $500 Sunday
• Additional $500 Bonus each day to final No Box racer if they are a current Summit Super Series Member
• Final No Box racer joins Box cars in current Box round for shot at $10k or $5k payout or round money.
• $100 per round starting at round 3 winner


EVENT FORMAT:
• Box, No Box and Juniors welcome
• 1/8th mile; no ET breaks; no throttle stops
• No Box vehicles must have delay box removed. Transbrakes and Automated shifters permitted
• Box Roadsters run with open bodied vehicles
• No: down track stutter of any kind, wheel or driveshaft counters, traction control or slew rate control, device that transmits or relays track position data to driver or crew prohibited
• Deep staging prohibited in all classes including juniors
• Cross talk will be on at all times during Box eliminations
• IHRA rulebook will be used on anything not expressly listed in this flyer

RACE ENTRIES:
• All on site entries must purchase both Saturday and Sunday entries upon arrival
• No double entries. One driver can enter 2 different cars. Two different drivers may not enter the same car
• IHRA Gold cards accepted towards main event entry
• All Re-entries will run each other with the winners advancing to the next round.
• No refunds after 9 am of each day
• No refund of pre-entry fee after 5:00pm (EST) the Monday before the event
• Race Lottery Tickets will be sold until the end of round 3. Two tickets will be drawn during round 4 and will come to the back and run each other with the Lottery Race winner inserted into round 5
• All valid IHRA and NHRA licenses and chassis certifications accepted

RACE PROCEDURES:
• The race will be run separated into No Box, Box Door Cars and Box Open Bodied vehicles. No Box cars will be called first, followed by Door Cars, then Open Bodied vehicles. The Junior class will run vehicles 11.90 and slower separate from other vehicles until one 11.90 vehicle remains.
1. No Box cars will run each other until there is one No Box car remaining. That remaining No Box Car will advance into the next round of Box and be mixed in at that point. It is possible for there to be a No Box bye run and a Box bye run in the same round.
2. Box Door Cars and Box Open Bodied will run separately for the first 4 rounds. During any round if there is one remaining Box Door car left they will run a Box Open Bodied car in that round.
3. Junior 11.90 and slower vehicles will have their own bye run per round until one 11.90 Junior remains and is mixed in with the rest of the vehicles still left in competition. 11.90 and slower entries must dial 11.90 or slower throughout the race.
• First round bye determined by random draw of tech cards. Remaining bye runs will be determined by best reaction time of the previous round. In the event of a tie, the tie breaker will be closest to dial (excluding breakouts). If even number of cars the bye run has lane choice.
• Unused bye runs do not carry over to the next round but may be earned again.
• No competitor will be allowed to have multiple bye runs unless all remaining competitors have already had one.
• Racers will run the lane they select when pulling into the lanes. When only 1 lane of vehicles remain a card pull will determine lanes for the remaining pairs and high card gets choice.
• If weather shortens a race, payout will be split among the winners of the last completed round.

Summit SuperSeries member benefits:
• All Summit SuperSeries Members are eligible for Contingency Bonus each day
• The SSS member that goes the furthest in eliminations in Box, No Box and Junior during Saturday’s main event wins a 2018 IHRA Membership renewal and $100 cash
• If a SSS member wins the Saturday Main Event they get a $500 bonus (Juniors receive a $250 bonus)

SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY
GATES OPEN 10AM -10PM
TEST & TUNE ($30) - 3PM - 8PM

SATURDAY
GATES OPEN - 8AM-10PM
TIME RUN 1 - 9AM
ELIMINATIONS FOLLOW TIME RUN


SUNDAY
GATES OPEN - 8AM
ELIMINATIONS - 9AM

SPECTATOR/CREW (WEEKEND)
ADULTS - $30
SUNDAY ONLY - $15
KIDS (6-12) - $10
SUNDAY ONLY - $10

Pre-entry for the Sportsman Spectacular ends tomorrow, Monday, May 7, at 8pm. You can pay at the gate, but the pre-entry save big cars/bikes $100, and juniors $50.

KRP Sportsman Spectacular pre entry

The IHRA Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Spectacular comes to Keystone Raceway Park May 18-20! Pre-entry has reopened, courtesy of Scrubber Blade! Save $50 off the weekend gate entry if you purchase by Tuesday at 11pm! Please click the link below to pre-enter:

$50 off preentry, courtesy of Scrubber Blade!
https://tickets.thefoat.com/IH...tickets/event-34506/

Racers (you do not need to be an IHRA member) can pay at the gate if you miss the pre-entry deadline, $150 for Saturday's $10K to win race, and $100 for Sunday's $5K to win race, open to box, no box, and bikes (combo race)! Juniors race for $700 on Saturday and Sunday, $50 entry each day! Get all the details on the link below:

http://www.ihra.com/sportsman-...an-spectacular-event

Thx chuck for posting. I was a procrastinator last time and only remembered 2 hours after last deadline. After thinking of it fifty times and kept putting it off. LOL

Got on this one right away. Thanks

Weather forces the move of this weekend’s Summit Sportsman Spectacular to June 22-24. Preentry open until June 11, save $100. Story on tip of KRP’s page:
http://www.keystoneracewaypark.com

Deep staging WILL be allowed at the Sportsman Spectacular this month! Pre-entry ends a week from today, on June 11. $150 gets you the Saturday $10k and Sunday $5k!

June 22-24

Preentry ends tomorrow night for the Sportsman Spectacular. All purses guaranteed, deep staging allowed, no box kept separate down to 1 car then combined, bonus money for last no box car, bonus for Summit Super Series member, round prizes, good deal for junior dragsters too!

Summit Sportsman Spectacular preentry

If you wanted to get in this weekend's race, but missed preentry last week, you can save $50, courtesy of QA1. The first 50 racers, big cars or juniors, by Wednesday, save $50 on this weekend's entry. Click the link:

Save $50 on this weekend's race

MotorManiaTV is here for the Funny Car Nationals, and the bracket program is included!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOdRIyj51us

From Bret Kepner

Well, another incredible Good Vibrations Funny Car Nationals, (the eleventh annual), is in the books. Bakersfield took back the title for 2018 by two cars, (for the first time since 2011), but twenty-seven Funny Cars appeared at Keystone Raceway Park in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, for the biggest Funny Car meet on the planet OUTSIDE of California. The East-versus-West team challenge wasn’t decided until the twenty-fifth pair of Funny Cars (!) and the crowd saw fifty-two Funny Car runs in three hours prior to the final rounds for the individual championships for fifty-six total passes. I seldom state an opinion online but, to me, this race is the closest representation of a Funny Car event from the 1973-1979 era anywhere on Earth. This program does not present “modern nostalgia” cars. The machines in this race are, in most cases, the ACTUAL Funny Cars which ran more than forty years ago. They look, sound and perform exactly as Funny Cars did in that era and that’s what makes this event different than any other in the sport.

The field included racers hailing from the U.S. and Canada, from New York to California and from Michigan to Florida. The Easterners won the East-versus-West team title bonuses by two round wins...out of twenty-eight rounds! Congratulations to Chris Masserella who won his second straight Funny Car Nationals title at the wheel of his “Total Insanity” ‘77 Monza in the supercharged category by murdering Low Qualifier Bill Wall’s “NitroFlier” ‘79 Dodge Omni with a huge holeshot, 7.03 to a losing 6.87 to win by a mere fifteen thousandths of a second. Frank Bernard’s ‘77 “Poison Arrow” won its fourth Injected Funny Car individual championship in a great 7.97 to 8.03 battle over perennial favorite Willie Johnson in his “No Money, No Funny” ‘69 Nova. Good Vibrations Racing Reaction Time cash award went to Bob Daly, Jr., in his family's "War Horse" '74 Mustang II, (injected divison), and to Joey Haas (supercharged eliminator), who hit a stunning 0.002 RT in his “Nimrod” ‘71 Mustang Mach I. The Round One Injected Funny Car Burnout Challenge Money from Summit Racing went to Bob Daly, Jr., and the Supercharged Funny Car Burnout Challenge Money from Summit Racing went to Chris Massarella with a 700-footer, (under power). the Round Two Burnout Challenge from Lightning Motor Oil was earned by Willie Johnson in the injected category and went to Kevin Johnson’s “Quarter Pounder” ‘79 Trans Am., (with a 600-footer), in the blown division. The event was capped by another amazing twenty-five minute fireworks display courtesy of Keystone Raceway Park.

Speaking of which, track promoter Greg Miller once again provided a fantastic facility and crew as the site of the event for the second year. Greg takes great pride in the track, (and his fireworks show!), and makes the massive crowds feel welcome at every race. Without his fantastic crew, including fifty-year announcing veteran Jim Senkewicz and tower statistician Deanna DeRienzo, the event would never be able to meet the brutal schedule under which it is run. Of course, the Funny Car Nationals would never happen if not for its creator, Dennis Salzwimmer of the Great Lakes Nostalgia Funny Car Circuit, who again turned a year’s worth of preparation into a simply amazing show. This event draws a truly amazing array of photographer talent including the dean of Pittsburgh-area drag racing imagery, Bill Truby, who is always considered a guest of honor. Likewise this race serves as the annual gathering of the fans of DragList.com froma round the country and it is always a huge treat for me to work with one of the greatest people I’ve yet met, my friend Bill Pratt of DragList. I announced this event completely from the starting line much as I do other races and Bill was out there with me for the duration. The entire event was streamed globally by Mark Walter’s Motor Mania TV and can be viewed in archive form. I’ll list the address and the round times in a separate post.

Credit is due all the event sponsors including Peak AntiFreeze, Summit Racing Equipment. Lightning Racing Oil and S&W Race Cars. Classic Carts, LLC, posted cash for Best Appearing Car in the Injected ranks, (Bob Daly Sr. and Junior with there "War Horse" '74 Mustang II), and the blown category, (The Stambaugh family's fabulous Chuck B-painted "Generation X" '78 Corvette). However, we owe the most to the title sponsor for the umpteenth year, Jim Maher and Good Vibrations Motorsports/Dragparts.com.

I offer my thanks to everybody involved from the dozens of Funny Car teams to the great compliment of sportsman racers to the crew to each and every fan who supported the 11th annual Good Vibrations Funny Car Nationals! Hope to see you all next year!

Two $5k for just $150!

Saturday, September 15 - Sniper Series, 1/8th mile bracket racing. $5000 to win, $1500 runner up, $500 semis, $40 round money starts with 3rd round win. One day entry $100. Reentry $60. Double entries, all forms, allowed. Car and driver cannot go down the track more than twice per round. One class, run order is no box (if odd, last no box car runs first box door car), box door cars (if odd, last box door car runs first box open body), box open body. Motorcycles welcome, will run in no box (unless using a delay box).
Junior dragsters - $30 entry, $200 to win, $100 runner up, $50 semis. All run (one class). $20 reentry.
2 time trials, starting at 10am

Sunday, September 16 - big cars only. Same entry/payout as above. 1 time trial at 10am.


IHRA Division 3 bracket finals are the following weekend. Racers who are on teams and racing in the Sniper Series are welcome to leave their trailers in our designated parking area (not the pits).

KRP site has been updated nicely, and the schedule is up. Check it out!

http://keystoneracewaypark.com/

Posted on FB yesterday too:

Hello racers and fans, on behalf of all of us here at Keystone Raceway Park, we hope that you had a wonderful holiday season, filled with family, friends, good food, and good times. It was fitting that 2018 ended: with enough rain to officially make it the wettest year on record. No one needed to tell us, or any race track on the east coast this. We all felt the pain of Mother Nature’s bad moods. It was hard for everyone – us as a business, racers as competitors, fans enjoying the action on the track – to get into a good consistent pattern.

For 2019, we are leaving that all behind, and looking forward to a fresh start. Some have already noticed part of that, and it’s our newly revamped website, at www.keystoneracewaypark.com. We’re hoping you find it more streamlined and user friendly. Here are some of the highlights about the new site:

Right near the top, you’ll see a link for “Join Our Mailing List”. Please take a minute (really, that’s all it takes!) to sign up. None of this information leaves our control: your information is not sold or used by anyone but us at KRP. We are bringing back the weekly email newsletter with results, upcoming schedule and events, etc. You can provide just a name and email address, and that will get that information sent right to your inbox. You can also sign up (same list) via our Facebook page, where you see “Sign Up” or “Join My List”.

Our 2019 schedule is posted on the website, largely underneath the mailing list link, “View Our Race Schedule”. The bracket racing points days are set in stone; they won’t change or have additions. Test and tunes, open to all street and drag vehicles, move to Wednesday nights every week, and select Friday nights. King of Street Saturdays are an updated spin off of Saturday Night Street Drags. Those events will be all about the street vehicles, as the only action on the track, not sharing the day with other events. Our flyers are in the process of being updated, and will be directly linked in the schedule page itself, like how the car show (the first event in the schedule) is. We may add to these events listed, so please check often!

For the bracket racers, there are a number of changes: we will have 5 double race weekends, 4 of them Friday and Saturday, with ALL classes starting at 11am on the Saturday, and the IHRA Summit Sportsman Spectacular will be points days on Saturday and Sunday, June 8th and 9th. The remaining 4 points days on Saturdays will follow the traditional schedule of juniors starting at noon, big car time trials at 3pm. All points days are 1/8th mile, with the exception of the Funny Car and Night of Fire events, which will be 1000’ racing in all classes, including Top!

Racers, check out the Racers Info tab, to see the updated 2019 payout information on the Classes/Entry/Payouts link. In Top and Modified, we’ve taken a little off the top, from the winner’s purse, and DOUBLED round money! The Street class has been renamed Sportsman, in line with IHRA’s Summit Super Series for the Sportsman class. We have additional sections we will be bringing online once the information has been completed, and we are excited about blending the history of KRP with the present day world.

Please support the sponsors, because the value of their contributions cannot be stated enough. We couldn’t do this without them. Whether you are a racer with your own sponsor or not, a fan in the stands of our weekly or show events, the sponsors make all of our fun possible. Our Sponsors tab has been updated, and will be updated with our new sponsors coming on board for 2019. If you have a business that would like to partner with us here at Keystone Raceway Park, or if you have someone who may be interested coming onboard, please contact us at info@keystoneracewaypark.com.

We will be posting banquet ticket information soon, to celebrate our 2018 KRP class champions and points finishers, and to induct a new class into the Keystone Hall Of Fame. It will be held on Saturday, March 16, at Colton Hall in Claridge, where it has been for the previous 2 years.

Pit parking renewal contracts have been mailed out to those who rented spots in 2018. Reminder, you have until February 28 to renew your spots. Please contact us if you have not received your renewal.

Chassis certifications will be on Saturday, April 27, by appointment only. Please contact Don Ickes at 412-417-3533 to schedule.

Come see us at our booth at the 58th Annual World of Wheels car show, February 8-10 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Our apologies for any confusion on the dates, as our hardcopy calendar was printed last January, and the show changed dates well after that.

Please stay tuned to the Facebook page (the top story of which you can see on the main page of the new website) as well as the new site, as we make announcements. We wish you all a very happy, healthy, and, at least on race days, DRY 2019! Thank you all for your continued support, and we hope to see you soon.

2018 KRP season banquet and Hall of Fame ceremony is Feb 23, 3 weeks from today. Ticket deadline is Feb 15.

The Keystone Raceway Park 2018 season banquet and Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Saturday, February 23, at the Washington Township Fire Hall, 4078 Route 66, Apollo, PA 15613. Check in is at 3pm, dinner is at 5pm. Adult tickets are $25, children 12 and under are $18 (includes dinner, soft drinks, and dessert). You can mail a check (payable to G&S Racing Services) to PO Box 225, Avonmore PA 15618, or contact us at info@keystoneracewaypark.com.

Menu:
Roast beef
Parmesan crusted chicken
Parsley Potatoes
Penne (red sauce)
Penne (alfredo sauce)
Meatballs
Strawberry spinach salad
Vegetable medley
Dinner rolls
Cubed meat and cheese
Swedish meatballs
There will not be any alcohol provided by the hall, so everyone is welcome to BYOB.

Looking forward to a great weekend!

For those that may not have heard, Rich Paton Jr passed away yesterday. Here are the arrangements:

Richard H. Paton Jr.

Jul 20, 1945 - May 26, 2021

Richard H. Paton Jr., 75, of Irwin, died Wednesday May 26, 2021. He was born July 20, 1945 in Wilkinsburg, a son of the late Richard H. Sr. and Margaret (Martin) Paton and was also preceded in death by two brothers David and Robert Paton. Rich was an Air force veteran of the Vietnam Conflict where he served as an aircraft mechanic. He worked at US Steel, Duquesne Works, where he completed the Instrumentation Apprenticeship Program and then started his own business, Reliable Instruments, performing repair and calibration. He was an avid drag racer and car enthusiast and built many street cars. He was a member of the International Hot Rod Association. He is survived by his wife Carol Ann (Beisgen) Paton; his sons Richard H. (Carrie) Paton III and Thomas M. Paton (Laura Nagy) both of Harrison City; his step children Debbie (Greg) Liebling of Irwin and Timothy (LeeAnn) McDowell of North Hills; grandchildren Amber (Casey) Holshue, Courtney Paton, Joseph Liebling, Sam McDowell, Christian Pfrogner, and Cooper Pfrogner; his great granddaughter Jane Liebling; a sister Nancy Miracle; also nieces and nephews. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the William Snyder Funeral Home, 521 Main Street, Irwin, 724-863-1200, where a funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday with Rev. Bruce Judy, officiating. Interment with military honors will follow in Union Cemetery. In lieu of flowers a contribution can be made to Thinking of Nikki Foundation, 303 Sawmill Rd. Greensburg, PA 15601, www.thinkingofnikki.com. For online condolences please visit www.snyderfuneralservices.com.

This weekend!

One of my favorite races of the year, Keystone Raceway Park’s Halloween themed race Ghosts, Goblins, and Gearheads got pushed back by bad weather from the beginning of the month to this weekend. Weather looks great, parking Friday night, $2k to win Saturday and Sunday in both box and no box, all forms of doubles allowed, junior dragsters, no box, box is the run order. Trick or treat 8pm Saturday night, just a really good time and racing for anyone close by that wants to stop in.

Fuel Factory 660 Top Bulb Nationals July 28-30!

No Box Rules:
Single entry only. Racers wanting to double must run in box for the second entry.
Worst red will be turned on.
Separate bye in No Box from Box, until the last No Box car is combined with Box. An entry cannot take 2 byes unless all other remaining entries have also taken a bye. This includes once the last No Box car has been combined with Box.
Deep staging will be honored in No Box, but not in Box. The exception will be if the last No Box is a deep stager. It will be allowed to go deep against a box car.
If the last No Box car is dialed quicker than the Box car it pairs with, Crosstalk will be turned off for that pair only.
$1000 bonus to the No Box winner, in addition to round money.
Box rules:
Double entries permitted. Double entries must use 2 numbers. No driver may have more than 2 entries, no car can go down the track more than twice per round.
All run, 1/8th mile, no deep staging.
CrossTalk will ALWAYS be on. It will not be turned off (with the exception noted in No Box rules).
Worst Red will be turned on.
First round bye will be previous event winner, or random draw. Subsequent bye runs given to best winning R/T of previous round (reentry round winner not eligible for round 2 bye). Ties broken by best package. In the event of an even pairing, the bye car gets lane choice. Unused byes do not carry over, but the driver remains eligible to earn the bye again. An entry cannot take 2 byes unless all other remaining entries have also taken a bye.
Reentry will run each other, with the winners advancing to round 2.
Lane choice: Once the lanes run, late arrivals must go to tail end of the single file lane. Single lane, lane choice determined by coin flip.
Entries will be paired on a pro ladder at 8 cars/quarterfinals, based on RT. New ladder each round.
150 car minimum. In the event of short field, R/U, semis, round money guaranteed. Only "WIN" is subject to prorating.
If weather shortens race, race will be completed after the next day's scheduled race, time and weather permitting. If the race cannot be finished, remaining payouts will be split to the winners of the last completed round.
Random inspection may be done at any time. Slew rate controls are expressly prohibited. Infractions may result in DQ, forfeit of entries, and/or money. No downtrack throttle stops.
No gold cards for entries, however, IHRA/NHRA gold or silver cards may be used for 1 free buyback in each race (not transferable).
Door cars called separately until 1 left, or total entries is 8. Last door car may run against first dragster (only 1 bye per round).

Gonna be hot Friday, possibly some liquid sunshine Saturday, but we’ll make it all work. No Box cars, come on out!!

This week’s schedule:

This weekend, it is the Fuel Factory 660 Top Bulb Nationals, presented by Gotus Trucking! $15k to win each day, 64 car shootout Friday (and possibly Saturday!), racer appreciation pizza party and Trainwreck plays Saturday night, and, new this season, a No Box side has been added (see rules in comments). We are watching the weather, and will adjust the schedule if needed, focusing on completing all three $15k races.

Thursday, July 27 - Parking ONLY from 6pm-10pm.

Friday, July 28 - Gates open at 9am, one time trial at 11am. Dial for dollars (time/weather permitting) afterward, followed by eliminations. 64 car shootout after the $15k is completed.

Saturday, July 29 – Gates open at 7am, one time trial at 9am. Dial for dollars (time/weather permitting) afterward, followed by eliminations. Racer appreciation pizza party at 7pm, Trainwreck plays Saturday after racing.

Sunday, July 30 – Gates open at 8:30am, new entry only time trial at 9am. Eliminations begin at 9:15am.

Please come to the lanes when called, and follow the instructions from the track staff at the rear and head of staging.
The run order for the weekend is:
No box
Double entered door cars
Double entered dragsters
Door car single entered/second entries
Dragster single entered/second entries