Nazareth Speedway will host NASCAR racing with the NASCAR Busch Series taking center stage on Sunday, May 19, 2002 in the Stacker 2 "200" as the highlight of the weekend's activities. Fans will have a chance to watch such standouts as Kenny Wallace, Jack Sprague, Kerry Earnhardt (in a car owned in part by Terry Bradshaw), Randy LaJoie and a host of others.
    The NASCAR Busch North Series will compete in Saturday's Burnham Boilers 100 and following Sunday's Busch Series race, the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series competes in the Service Electric 100. For information on tickets telephone 1-888.629.RACE.
    WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? Gary Densham is driving the hottest Funny Car on the NHRA circuit. People may talk about John Force, Del Worsham or White Bazemore, but they should be talking about Densham. Including the latter part of the 2001 season, Densham has dominated the Funny Car category. The former high school shop teacher has logged three wins and one runner-up finishes in the previous 12 races. Not bad for a guy who went winless for more than 30 years. Densham earned his first career victory at Memphis last season and has been on a hot streak ever since.
    Densham is hoping to sneak back into the winner's circle at the 33rd annual NHRA Matco Tools SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, May 16-19. Kenny Bernstein, Tony Pedregon, Richie Stevens and Matt Hines are the defending winners in their respective categories for the $2 million race, the eighth of 23 events in the $50 million NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.
    "Obviously, this has been a lot of fun," Densham, 55, said. "There is no doubt about it, the guys are doing a great job with the car. I had 30 years of bad breaks and right now, I seem to be getting a few good breaks here and there. Before, it seemed like when someone else's car had problems, we couldn't take advantage of that because my car had problems too. But not this year."
    Densham is second in the Funny Car point standings to his team owner and fellow competitor, John Force. Densham made his debut with John Force Racing behind the wheel of the Automobile Club of Southern California Ford Mustang at Gainesville last season. It was then that Densham began to see why Force has earned 11 Funny Car championships.
    "One of the reasons he is so successful is because of the group of people he has working for him," Densham said. "It sounds like a cliché, but this team runs like a well-oiled machine. Jimmy Prock (Densham's crew chief) has always been a great tuner, but now he has the right equipment and a team that has gelled well with each other."  Densham will join a long list of top drag racing talents competing at Old Bridge Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ this weekend. Pro qualifying will take place on Friday and Saturday with final eliminations on Sunday.
You can catch two hours of qualifying highlights on ESPN at 5 p.m. on May 18. And there will be three hours of eliminations show on ESPN2 starting at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
    For ticket information to see a world class drag racing event, telephone 732.446.7800.
    LANCE DEWEASE IS THE HOTTEST TALENT in local sprint car racing these days. On Friday night he won another sprint car feature at Williams Grove Speedway and that sets him up as a favorite to run off with a win when the Pennzoil World of Outlaw sprint cars invade this week. Dewease took the lead on the 9th circuit of the half mile clay oval in the 25-lap Cindy Rowe Auto Glass sprint car feature. Once in front Dewease made it look easy. The win was his 52nd at Williams Grove. Second went to Todd Shaffer coming from 10th and third went to Sean Michael.
    In the ARDC midget feature Marc Dailey came in from Indianapolis to win his first ARDC feature. Club champion Ray Bull finished second followed by Ed Stimely.
    The Pennzoil World of Outlaws are in town for those who grab a copy of this publication on Fridays. The Outlaws are at Williams Grove Speedway tonight at 8 p.m. A chance to see some of  the very best sprint car racers in the nation going up against the local talents of Lance Dewease, Fred Rahmer, Sean Michael, Billy Pauch and others.
    KENNY BRIGHTBILL won his first Modified feature race of the season at the East Windsor,NJ Speedway on Friday night. It was a three car battle to the finish with Brightbill the winner, Billy Pauch getting second and Jimmy Horton grabbing third. Three of the major names in dirt track modified stock car racing in a single shootout for bragging rights. John Romano won the Sportsman feature and Al Cheney won the Street Stock feature. Dwayne Lawlor was tops in the Windsor Outlaw Sprint Cars.
    This Friday night, 7:30 p.m., action returns to the East Windsor, NJ Speedway with modifieds, sportsman, street stocks and Outlaw Limited Sprint cars.

    BIG DIAMOND RACEWAY in Minersville, PA hosted their first Friday night show of auto racing this season with Duane Howard coming from the back of the feature field twice to win the 25-lap NASCAR Modified feature race. It was Howard's 42nd career victory at Big Diamond. Scott Singley of Milford, NJ earned the win with the Sportsman and it was Doug Hendricks getting his third win of the season in the Roadrunners.
    On Friday night, May 17, and each Friday, the racing action starts at 8 p.m. with Modifieds, Sportsman-Modifieds and Roadrunners being featured. And there is an open practice for everyone, all types of race cars, to participate in on May 21, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
    CLINTON COUNTY SPEEDWAY in Mackeyville, PA had Bobby Stokes winning the Late Model feature for the second week in a row. Levi Audrey won the Four-Cylinder feature while Dale Schweikart won the Super Stock main event and Tom Vieillo was tops in Daredevils. Clinton County Speedway plays host to another four division show, I imagine that is the same four divisions as last week (their information was not clear), this Friday, May 17th, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is just $8.00 for each of their Friday night regular shows.
    GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY PLAYED HOST to another Saturday night of NASCAR sanctioned stock car racing. Three features highlighted the program. Former track champion Ray Swinehart won a 30-lap Cargo Trailers Night Modified feature in his Jerry Dames Chevrolet sponsored entry. Kerry Kratz won a second 30-lapper in the Modifieds with the Hatfield Quality Meats sponsored entry. The Late Model feature, 20-laps, was won by Randy Stoudt.
Racing returns to Grandview Speedway on Saturday night, in fact every Saturday night throughout the season, with a 7:30 p.m. starting time. Included will be two 20-lap Late Model features and a 30-lap Modified feature race plus a full slate of qualifying events.
    HAGERSTOWN, MD SPEEDWAY has the Pennzoil World of Outlaw sprint cars making one of their two appearances this season, on Saturday, May 18th. The doubleheader show will feature the sprints along with the KARS Limited Sprints. Danny Lasoski, the current point leader, tops the show. Steve Kinser, a 15 time champion, is fresh off a couple wins and wants to get this first win at Hagerstown since May 29th, 1994. Mark Kinser has four wins at Hagerstown Speedway and will be in the field.
    We should point out that Lasoski drives a sprint car owned by NASCAR Winston Cup Series racer Tony Stewart and has been to victory lane a number of times already this season.
    Racing action at Hagerstown, MD Speedway will start at 7:30 p.m.
TODD HESTOR won the 25-lap sprint car feature at Port Royal, PA Speedway on Saturday night. Scotty Haus won the 20-lap feature for Late Models and Gary BeWard won the 12-lap Stong's Auto Parts Pro Stock feature. It was Neil Foust won the 30-lap Enduro Dash.
Another three division show takes place this Saturday, May 18th, with the green flag falling at 7 p.m. Included will be the sprints, pro stocks and Late Models. The Enduro cars are added to the show on May 25.
    CRIS EASH DROVE TO HIS FIRST SPRINT CAR WIN OF THE SEASON at Lincoln Speedway on Saturday night. "We've been kind of struggling. I think our best finish was fifth place here, " said Eash. "And we're not real used to that. We're hoping we can build on this (win)." Adrian Shaffer won the 358-sprint feature and the Thundercar main event went to Chet McCormick.
    With Lincoln running a 50th Anniversary show on Wednesday night, it is quite possible that there is no racing this Saturday at Lincoln Speedway. But to be sure give them a call at 717.624.2755.
    VETERAN RACER MIKE MILLER won two features at Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway in Brickersville, PA on Saturday night. Miller, who also operates Ray's Yamaha in Reading, PA, won two 250cc features for micro sprints. And it was Chris Snyder, Mike Rutherford, Tim Drybola and Chad Rhoads winning features in the four other micro sprint divisions. The regular four classes will be joined by the exciting 600cc class of Micros for the Open Show on May 25. This Saturday it will be a regular four division show of Micros starting at 6 p.m.
    DAVE NEUMAN INHERTED THE LEAD AT SILVER SPRING SPEEDWAY on Saturday night when leader Dave Berkheimer broke with just three laps to go and went on to win the Super Sportsman feature race.  Josh Kimmel won the ACDelco 20-lap Late Model feature for his first career victory.
    This Saturday, May 18, Silver Spring Speedway presents super sportsman and street stocks while the ARDC midgets, rained out a couple weeks back, will run just a feature event. Racing starts at 7 p.m.
You can reach Ernie Saxton at ESAXTON144@AOL.COM . We should point out that this is a new e-mail address.