Kutztown, PA - A long period of heavy afternoon rain forced
cancellation of the 2016 season finale at the JeffreyHogueRealtor.com Action
Track USA on Sunday, August 21.
Ten events, and a total of 11 feature races were held for
the USAC All Pro SpeedSTRs at the Berks County oval this season. Billy Pauch
Sr., the veteran from Frenchtown, NJ, notched four victories and his first
SpeedSTR point title at Action Track USA. With his four triumphs, Pauch is now
the all-time leader in feature wins (in the SpeedSTR division) with ten.
Pauch ended the year with a 68-point bulge over Tim
Buckwalter, while Mike Bednar finished third in the point chase. Bednar was
just ten points ahead of Steve Nederostek, and Nederostek nipped Matt Janisch
for fourth in the standings by two points.
The same number of events and features were held for the
Hyper Racing 600 Sprints Powered by Hyper Fuel Injection Technology as were
contested by the SpeedSTRs. In the tightest point battle of all three weekly
divisions, two-time feature winner Eddie Strada, from Lake Ariel, PA, captured
the title by a mere five points over Billy Pauch Jr. The two drivers were tied
for the championship lead heading into last Wednesday's AEI Equipment 600 Fair
Nationals, where Strada came from the rear (after spinning early in the 60-lap
race) and managed a sixth-place finish. Pauch Jr. wound seventh, and that one
position made the difference for Strada, as he recorded his first track
championship at the speedway located on the Kutztown Fairgrounds.
Last year's champ, Tim Buckwalter, had four wins and wound
up third in points. Two-time track champion Jay Hartman was fourth in the final
standings and Brandon Azzalina finished fifth.
What a year it was for Dylan Hoch, as the Mertztown, PA
racer won four times in NAPA Auto Parts All Star Slingshot competition and
registered his first point championship at Action Track USA. Hoch won four
times, and his victories included one of the Ronnie Tobias Memorial Twin 17's,
a Mid-Atlantic Silver Tour race, and the $4,000-to-win Slinger Warehouse Super
Slingshot Fair National on August 16.
Hoch had clinched the point title even before Sunday's
finale was washed out. He held a 148-point lead over Seth Spayd of Shillington,
PA, after the Slingshot Fair National event. Travis Bieber, Anthony Raisner,
and Austin Stufflet completed the top five in the championship standings.
The 2016 point champions, along with the top ten in the
standings, will be honored at the annual Awards Banquet (site, date, and time
to be announced in the near future) during the off-season.
The JeffreyHogueRealtor.com Action Track USA will begin its
fifth season of competition in May of 2017. News and information will be posted
on the speedway's website, www.actiontrackusa.com,
and on its Facebook page, as it is released.
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