After 30 races without a win, Dale Jarrett was able to win the Pocono 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. Now that he has driven to a victory the rumors about him actually driving the "Big Brown Truck" are proving false. As most know Jarrett is sponsored by UPS and there are a series of commercials that seem to want him to drive the Big Brown Truck.  Jarrett won but the race looked like it belonged to his teammate Ricky Rudd. Last week at Dover International Speedway Rudd looked  like a winner until he had to make an extra pit stop for a loose lug nut late in the race.
    On Sunday Rudd was leading with about 30 laps to go. He had a comfortable lead. It looked like it would be Rudd and Jarrett finishing one-two for the Robert Yates team. Rudd's Texaco sponsored Ford developed a tire problem, a slow leak, in the final laps and he ended up crashed in the wall. He was credited with a 17th place finish. In fact after the accident he was still able to keep the car going, after a pit stop for a new tire, and by doing that Rudd was able to gain one position in the finish when Todd Bodine blew an engine and was unable to finish. Every position gained, every point earned, is important when there is so much point fund money at stake at the end of the season.
    NASCAR Winston Cup cars are headed to Michigan International Speedway this weekend. They will be back at Pocono on July 28th for the Pennsylvania 500. Good tickets are available. It looked like there was a full house, or close, at the Sunday Pocono 500 so ordering your tickets right now would be a good idea.  Telephone 570.646.2300.
    CLINTON COUNTY SPEEDWAY in Lock Haven, PA, the sprint cars returned to action on Friday night. It was the first time for sprint car racing in two years at the fairgrounds dirt one-third-mile oval. And two years ago when the sprints last ran there, Chuck Roan Jr. won the feature. And when the sprints returned this past Friday, Chuck Roan Jr. was the winner again. "This car has been parked in the trailer since we won the last race here two years ago," Roan in victory lane. "The crew began working on the car during Memorial Day weekend and we're just glad to be racing sprint cars here at Clinton County."
    A.Y. Shilling won the Super Stock feature, Gus Chapman was tops in Four Cylinder racing and John Hefferon was on the Daredevil feature. This Friday, June 14, 7:30 p.m. the Sprints, Super Stock, Four Cylinder and Daredevil racers will be back in action. Admission is just $8.00 for adults. Information is available at www.clintoncountyracing.com.
    AT BIG DIAMOND RACEWAY in Minersville, PA Kyle Weiss won his second NASCAR Modified feature race on Friday night. Tom Brennan was the winner in a close battle in the Sportsman 20-lap feature. And Dave Miller crossed the finish line first in the Roadrunner event but was found to be illegal in the post race inspection. The win went to Dave Winslow. There will be two races on the same weekend at Big Diamond Raceway. On Friday, June 14th, 8 p.m. the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series presented by Dodge tripleheader show, sponsored by Amsoil, will include the Modifieds, Sportsman and Roadrunners. And on the same weekend, Sunday, June 16th (Father's Day), the Doorways Unlimited KARS 358-Sprint Series will be part of a tripleheader show starting at 6:30 p.m. Also included will be racing for the Sportsman and Roadrunners.
    SATURATED GROUNDS forced East Windsor, NJ Speedway officials to cancel their Friday night show. This Friday night, June 14, the Modifieds will be back to try again in a 25-lap feature race while the Sportsman go in a 20-lapper and there will be a 15-lap main event for the Street Stocks. The new East Windsor Outlaw Limited Sprints will also be in action. Racing starts at 7:30 p.m.
    ROCK-IT PIZZA AND BUMPER BOB'S WELCOME NIGHT at Susquehanna Speedway in Newberrytown, PA saw Les Hare win the 30-lap Super Late Model feature race. And it was Jamie Mills traveling from Delaware to win the 30-lapper for the Modified stock cars. Ron Buck was tops in the 4-Cylinder stock car feature when original winner Brian Lesley was disqualified when he would not allow officials to take a closer look at his engine. The Enduro feature was not run due to curfew. This Friday, June 14th, there will be two features for the Enduro racers plus racing for the Modifieds, Super Late Models and Super Late Models along with 4-Cylinder Stocks plus a special appearance of PennMar Vintage Club. It all starts at 7:45 p.m. The first 1000 patrons will receive a free American Flag.
    WILLIAMS GROVE SPEEDWAY has Len Thompson showing the way to the sprint car stars and getting his first win of the season. Andy Anderson won the 25-lap feature for late model stock cars.
This Friday (June 14), 8 p.m., the United Racing Club sprint cars will be there along with 410 sprint car racing. Fred Rahmer and Lance Dewease are both scheduled to run in both divisions of competition.

   MIKE RUTHERFORD won the 250cc Two Stroke and Sportsman Micro Sprint features while Mike Miller ( Ray's Yamaha in Reading is the sponsor) won the 125 cc feature and Amanda Schlegel won the 250cc Four-Stroke feature. There were 140 micro sprints on hand for the Saturday night show at Lanco's Clyde Martin Speedway in Brickerville, PA. This Saturday, June 15th, it will be Hoober Feeds of Gordonville, PA Night with four divisions of Micro Sprint racing being featured. Racing starts at 6 p.m.
    TODD SHAFFER won his second 25-lap Aumiller's Insurance sprint car feature race of the season at Port Royal, PA Speedway on Saturday. Unfortunately on the same night, on the seventh lap, 16 year old Kyle Ganoe of Mifflintown, PA was seriously injured when his sprint car suffered a flat left rear tire that caused him to flip. His car became entangled in the catch fence, that protects spectators, and erupted in fire. Fire crews had a difficult time trying to extinguish the fire because the fuel tank cap had come off spewing fuel in the area. Ganoe was able to escape under his own power. He had burns to his hands, arms, legs and feet. He was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA. We are told that an operation was to be performed this past Tuesday. Ganoe is expected to be in the hospital for AT LEAST three weeks. Ganoe turns 17 on June 21.
    Todd Shaffer was one of the first out of his race car and running to the accident to help Ganoe. Shaffer was seriously injured in a similar accident in Florida a couple years back.
    David Kepner won the 20-lap Late Model feature while Ken Stitt Jr. was the winner in the Stong's Auto Parts Pro Stock feature. It was Stitt's first career win at Port Royal. On Saturday night, June 15, 7 p.m., sprints, pro stocks and enduro stocks will be featured.
    BILL BRIAN JR drove his Big Johnson T-Shirt sponsored sprint car to victory in the United Racing Club sprint car feature race at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, PA on Saturday night. The second event of the Jesse Baro Hauling sponsored night was the 30-lap NASCAR Weekly Racing Series presented by Dodge Modified feature race. It was on by Jeff Strunk who also became the new point leader in the modified class as Kerry Kratz finished dead last, mechanical problems early, to lose the lead.
    The Chuck Sennott Memorial 30-lap feature for Late Models will top the show this Saturday, June 15, as part of Craftsman Tools Night. The NASCAR Modifieds will also be part of the action. And there will be a prize or two for fathers in the audience.
    AT BRIDGEPORT, NJ SPEEDWAY Jimmy Horton won his 100th Bridgeport Speedway big-block modified feature race driving the Bill Hewlett Racing No. 901. In order to win Horton had to qualify for the feature through the consolation race and then come from 19th starting spot in the 25 lap feature to win. It was also his 389th feature win during his long career. Horton has won at least one feature every year for the past 29 years. The Modifieds, Sportsman and Limited Sprints are in action at Bridgeport, NJ Speedway on Saturday, June 15th, at 6 p.m.
    IT WAS A NIGHT OF FIRSTS at Hagerstown, MD Speedway when Doug Burkholder won his first ITSI late model feature. Hans Stamburg won his first Ernie's Salvage Yard pure stock feature and Bobby Moore won his first ever 30-lap Enduro event. Terry Lescalleet won the 20-lap Hoosier Tires Mid-Atlantic Late Model feature.
The Shorty Bowers/Bull Durham Memorial Late Model race is the attraction this Saturday, June 15th at 7 p.m. Also featured will be the Late Model Sportsman and Pure Stocks.
    AT SELINGSGROVE SPEEDWAY Joe Whitcomb earned $1900 for his sprint car win, $900 of it was the bounty for beating 5-feature winner Chad Layton. Jeff Smith won his 25th career late model feature and it was Gerald Kratzer winning the Pro Stock feature. Billy McNeal was tops in the Roadrunner main event. It will be camera and autograph night at Selinsgrove, PA Speedway. Racing starts at 7 p.m. for the Penn Lyon Homes Night. Featured will be the sprints, late models, pro stocks and roadrunners.
    CHAD JUMPER earned his first career feature victory with the Super Sportsman on Saturday night at Silver Spring Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA.  Steve Wilbur with the Auto Locator sponsored sportsman finished 12th. Jason Covert won the Late Model feature and Gregg Foster was tops in the 20-lap feature for the Street Stocks.
We received no information on what is running at Silver Spring Speedway this Saturday so we will just say the 7 p.m. show will include at least the Super Sportsman.
    FRED RAHMER won the Manheim Auto Auction Night sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway on Saturday night, his third win out of the last five features run. Manheim Auto Auction is a sponsor on the Lance Dewease driven car that finished ninth. URC sprints and  410 sprints will be there this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Thundercars will also be part of the show.
Ernie Saxton can be reached at Esaxton144@aol.com.