A six-month gauntlet of racing at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway came to a thrilling conclusion on Saturday evening. With Championship Night providing the opportunity for the track’s newest title-holders to be crowned, Bradley Brown, Ryan Groff, Nick Skias, Brandon Heist, and Chris Dolan engraved their names into the history books as Lanco’s 2024 track champions.

Opportunity came knocking for a few of the drivers in the championship fights on Saturday night at the Clyde. With next weekend’s season finale looming, some of the points contenders ran into troubles that dashed their hopes for a title, while others either kept their chances alive or strengthened their grip on a championship trophy with much-needed victories or strong runs. One driver even wrapped up a championship a week early, with four classes still set to determine their title-holder next Saturday night.

With just three races remaining in the 2024 season entering Saturday night, drivers across all five weekly divisions at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway were hungry to earn at least one more trip to Brubacher Victory Lane, with several of those drivers also in the hunt for at least one of the season-long championships. Dominic Schmidt, Michael Hoffmaster, Brandon Heist, Masen Stapleton, and Holden Eckman all grabbed victories on the first Saturday of September, while some of those aforementioned points battles got turned upside down.

It was a late start and an even later finish to the first on-track event of the annual Labor Day Shootout at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway – the Winged Night presented by Germania Band Club of Manheim. But despite mother nature’s best efforts, the track crew’s persistence was rewarded as the show was able to be completed. When the checkered flags flew at the end of a long night, Jason Swavely and Bradley Brown picked up the two $1,000 paydays that were on offer, while Brent Shearer and Chris Dolan also put themselves into Labor Day Shootout victory lane.

Back to School Night at Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway was more like "School's Out", as the Clyde's pupils (drivers) created a wild night of non-stop excitement on Saturday.

With the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series unable to make the trek to Pennsylvania due to Hurricane Debby, the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway called an audible in order to still give fans an exciting and worthwhile card of racing on what turned out to be a beautiful Saturday night. For the first time in the track’s history, all four classes ran wingless events on the same night, and the result was jaw-dropping action and entertainment. Toby Blumenshine swept the Border Magic Wingless 270 and Skeet Craft Collision Wingless Sportsman races, Christian Bruno picked up the $1,000 payday for winning in the Hyper Racing Wingless 600s, and John Maurer turned in one of the most dominant performances in a long time to claim victory in the Offroad Motorsports Wingless 125/4 Strokes.

To win the Clyde Martin Memorial race one time is an honor that most drivers who race at the track on a weekly basis spend a career chasing. To win the race three times in one division – an accomplishment that is rewarded by getting to keep the race winner’s trophy permanently – is an achievement that immortalizes a driver in history among the best to ever wheel a race car around the high-banked Newmanstown bullring.

On Saturday night, three drivers put themselves in rarified air, as Chris Dolan, Jason Swavely, and Toby Blumenshine all claimed victory in their respective divisions for the third time in the Clyde Martin Memorial. Meanwhile, Mike Boyer and Dominic Schmidt also added their names onto the trophies as well, scoring their first Lanco wins in the biggest race of them all.

After winning the Hyper Racing 600 Speedweek event Thursday night at the Linda’s Speedway, Alex Ruppert described his 2024 season to date as “straight motivation.” A good chunk of that motivation came from a near-miss in the Speedweek Finale two years ago, a lost Speedweek championship in 2023, and a jump-start that took him out of the lead of the $7,500-to-win East Coast Transponders Race just seven days prior to this year’s Speedweek Finale.

But on Saturday night at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, after another thrilling Speedweek Finale, the close calls and agonizing defeats were finally avenged. Ruppert rocketed up from the eighth-starting spot in the feature, passed eventual Speedweek champion Christian Bruno for the lead with 15 laps to go, and ripped the lip all the way to the checkered flag throughout a remarkable 42-lap green-flag run to the finish.

On the eve of Hyper Racing 600 Speedweek, many of the best drivers of the Wingless 600 division descended upon the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway in pursuit of another high-profile and high-paying event. East Coast Transponders sponsored a lucrative $7,500 prize to go the winner of Saturday night’s Wingless 600 A-Main. After picking up a $10,000 check earlier in the year at the KKM Challenge, Steven Snyder, Jr. once again showed up at his best with the big money on the line. Meanwhile, Mike Skias claimed victory in the Mason Dixon 270 Racing Series’ Backroads Brawl, doing so in a car owned by his brother, Nick. And John Maurer, Brandon Heist, and Bradley Brown all found victory lane as well on the final points night before the Clyde Martin Memorial Race.

As the annual kickoff to what has become dubbed as “the month of money” at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, the 4th of July Spectacular never fails to provide some of the most jaw-dropping racing of the entire season at the Newmanstown bullring. While all three winners had a different journey to Brubacher Victory Lane, the constant that remained was high doses of drama and excitement, which forced the drivers who triumphed to fight all the way to the finish line in order to take the checkered flag.

To say that the weather wasn’t exactly friendly on Saturday night at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway would be an understatement. Despite that, competitors and fans alike braved the excessive heat and stuck it out through an hour-long rain delay to take part in another exciting show of competition. Masen Stapleton, Gunnar Pio, Toby Blumenshine, Mike Coen, and Jason Swavely beat the heat – and their competitors – to pick up Saturday’s feature victories.

Another loaded night of racing action awaited both competitors and race fans Saturday night at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. A doubleheader for the Border Magic 270s along with a regular show for the other four weekly divisions saw six different drivers make the trip to Brubacher Victory Lane on the eve of Father’s Day.

After dealing with frustrating weather all throughout the month of May, Mother Nature couldn’t have given a more picturesque day for racing Saturday at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. The blue skies provided the backdrop to an exciting duo of makeup features, and the on-track action only continued to increase as the sun went down and the regular card of racing commenced.

After a battle for victory fit for a $10,000 payday, only one driver could stand alone as winner of the inaugural KKM Challenge event at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. When the dust settled and the roar of 24 Non-Wing Outlaw Micro Sprints quieted, Rising Sun, MD’s Steven Snyder, Jr. rose above the rest and put another prestigious feather in his cap, with this one coming on his home turf.

If racing is like riding a bike in the sense that once you learn, you never forget, then Collegeville, PA’s Alex Bright put that on full display during the second night of the POWRi-sanctioned KKM Challenge at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway.

Despite limited races in a micro over the past couple of years, Bright proved that readapting to his old stomping grounds would be no challenge whatsoever, as he kept Christian Bruno at bay and led all 25 laps of Friday night’s A-Main event.

After suffering an apparent mechanical issue on lap 2 of Thursday night’s preliminary night of the KKM Challenge, it appeared as if Steven Snyder, Jr. had lost his opportunity at an opening night victory, and severely hindered his chances at Saturday’s $10,000 prize.

But the native of Rising Sun, MD accepted the challenge, returning to the track from the work area as a man on a mission. In the span of 12 laps, Snyder, Jr. carved through the pack from a restart position of 21st up to the top spot, turning in one of the most scintillating drives in recent memory to pick up an improbable – bordering on impossible – victory.

Often considered the greatest day in motorsports every year, Memorial Day Sunday wasn’t originally supposed to include racing at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. But after a frustrating month with weather and another rainout on Saturday, track officials made the decision to run a non-points Sunday afternoon show. Gunnar Pio, Michael Hoffmaster, Richie Hartman, Patrick Kirn, and Billy Logeman conquered the hot and slick conditions to pick up victories on a day that also featured Junior Sprint and quarter midget exhibitions for the sport’s future stars.

A valiant effort from the track crew at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway allowed a solid chunk of racing to be completed on Saturday night despite a very tough battle with Mother Nature. Even though warmups started nearly three hours late due to the weather, all heat races and consolation events were eventually able to be completed, with two features finishing as well before the rain returned and ruined the party for good. In the two races that were completed, Billy Logeman picked up his first EVO Fuel Injection Winged 600 win, while Brandon Heist made it back-to-back victories in the Skeet Craft Collision Sportsman class.

A Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway that was moistened by mother nature saw fast and furious action throughout the course of Saturday night’s racing events. On a “hammer-down” type of racetrack, Alex Swift, Dan Lane, Jr., Chris Gerhart, Brandon Heist, and Steven Snyder, Jr. were the drivers who out-ran the competition in order to park their rides in Brubacher Victory Lane.

Saturday night’s racing at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway saw excitement in several different forms across the five divisions of racing. A champion returned to the winner’s circle not once, but twice. Two more drivers took wins in races that came down to the final corner. And the other feature saw a third-year driver finally make their first trip to Brubacher Victory Lane.