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By:Steve Pados, GA Motorsports Media
A fantastic crowd turned out on Tuesday evening as the third day of the 3rd Annual IRCO Community Federal Credit Union sponsored Dirt Track Heroes event continued to hit stride with it's week long celebration of the past, present and future of auto racing. The CARQUEST Gasoline Alley Team conducted more than 50 interview with racers ranging in ages from five to seventy in their salute to the small car divisions of racing. Borgers Speedway, Hamlin Speedway, Accord Speedway, Old Dominion and Trailways Speedway drivers were well represented as were drivers from the Phoenixville, Blue Mountain, Lehigh Valley and West End Quarter Midget clubs. The stars of tomorrow were well represented and some quite animated with their interviews as many were giving their first ever interviews to the large racing crowd on hand for the festivities.
The show, which began on Sunday, is a week long celebration of the past, present and future stars of racing and will continue throughout the week with an outstanding array of driving talent and more than 120 race cars that have lined the Phillipsburg Mall walkways along with the many vendors who share a look at their vast collections of racing memorabilia that date back to the golden era of racing. The Mall will play host to a week long celebration that will run until March 13th at the Phillipsburg Mall, located on Route 22 East in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
IRCO Community Federal Credit Union Vice President Greg Collins opened the show last night thanking everyone for their support of the show and thanking the drivers for their dedication and loyalty with their racing efforts. Bill Hanna from the newly formed Flemington Speedway Historical Society highlighted the early success of the fledgling organization and thanked everyone for their support as they continue to sign-up new members throughout the week. Hanna was quick to point out the Flemington day on Saturday has more than 40 drivers already signed on their salute to the Late Model division that competed at the famous "Square". Host Steve Pados thanked Orange County and Accord Announcer Joel Murns for taking time out of his work schedule to lend a hand with the nightly stage shows as the evening was Murn's final night at the event.
Headlining the show last evening were racing stars many with names the same as many of the great driving stars who thrilled us in the past as the generations of racing racing stars re-surface throughout the small car divisions. Lou Horvath Jr, Jesse and Jimy Leiby, Ryan Raidline, Chris, Amber and Paiten Oraschin, Carl, Olivia and Spencer Mease, Mike Eckhart Jr, Steve Heckman, Angela Caruso, Glenn Borger, Dave Dornblaser, Rhett Long, Steve Metzger, JJ Uliana, TJ Lilly, Anthony Schlosser White, Gavin Santee, George and Michael Wambold, Jessica Coon, John Coon, Tiffany Wambold, Tex Snyder, JR Fulper, Kadie Pursell, Rich Pursell, Alex Reinsmith, Jack Butler, Morgan and Josh Frantz, Brian Zyck, Kevin Holt Jr, Josh Schaeffer, Katie Vreeland, Tyler Dorfeld, Alyssa Riker, Glen Macomber, Mathew and Bob Hopkins, Tony Miller, Scott Miller, Logan Crout, Kurt Bettler, Ryan Polenz and David Polenz, were among the tremendous group of driving stars interviewed during the quickly paced show. A special thanks from the management goes out to the Hopkins Family from the West End Quarter Midget Club, J & L Speed Supplies from Hellertown and Hamlin Speedway for the giveaways at last night's show.
The popular vintage racing groups, Harmony, Reading, the newly formed Flemington Speedway Historical Society, Dorney Park and the Nazareth Groups continue to display their vast collections of racing memorabilia and the America on Wheels Museum is on hand handing out literature about their great transportation exhibit located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The IRCO Dirt Track Heroes Show is offering a souvenir T-Shirt and program book that is filled with stories and history of the local racing action. To find out more about IRCO and their services, visit the company's website at: www.ircocu.com or contact Greg Collins at: gcollins@ircocu.com The coloring book contest is continuing to receive entries by the day and the winners will be selected on the final day of the show.
Join the Pados Brothers, Ed and Steve, and Bobby Stull as the Phillipsburg Mall becomes abuzz each night with racing excitement once again as the 3rd Annual IRCO sponsored Dirt Track Heroes show rolls into the fourth day of the week long event that ends it's run on March 13th. Wednesday night the driving stars of the New Egypt Speedway come out to the Mall for an exciting night of driver interviews and there will be a special salute to the racing stars who competed at the East Windsor Speedway to be showcased in the stage area beginning at 6 PM.
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