This weekend we will see the the crowning of the 1st ever all round point champion for the 358 sprint car division. The point championship is still up for grabs as well as positions all throughout the standings. With 2 races left, many spots could be changed after Saturday (or Sunday) nights race at Lincoln Speedway.
Jeff Rohrbaugh hold a 73 point lead over 2nd place Brad McClelland. Brad who has 540 points holds a 10 point lead over 3rd place Dale Hammaker. Blane Heimbach is just 35 back form McClelland and 108 points out of the lead. Billy Dietrich rounds out the top 5 with 496 points.
With Blane being the only driver who is able to be handicaped at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, he has the chance of making the feature a lot easier then the others in the top 5 as they have not raced there enough to have a points average. Jeff's point lead will be safe from Blane as he could only pick up 100 points if he won both races this weekend. He is 108 points back for the leader. He could though (if he chooses to run at Lincoln) very well finish 2nd.
The point leader will have to be on his game though as McClelland will be at both tracks this weekend trying to score as many points as he can in hopes of catching Rohrbaugh for the championship. Brad will have to start in the back of his heat race, as will Jeff, and that will make it hard for him to make the feature, let alone score any points in the race.
The point leader, will be at the Grove and Lincoln trying to put some distance on the rest of the top 5. Jeff will run into the same problem as Brad in that he will have to start at the rear of his heat race. If you remember, Jeff did that the last time the 358's where at Williams Grove and he was a victom of a wreck at the start of his heat race, ending hs night before he even made it to the flag stand.
4 of the top 5 cars call Lincoln their Saturday night home, so they will all be up front gunning for the win.Rohrbaugh,Dietrich, and Hammaker are all point champions at Lincoln, and Brad is a 2 time winner at the track this season, so watch those cars closly on Saturday as every spot will mean something on the track.
The remaining point standings are as follows.....
6. Pat Cannon - 454 pts (7 wins)
7. Nate Snyder - 405 pts
8. Kyle Moody - 360 pts (3 wins)
9. TJ Stutts - 340 pts (1 win)
10.Mike Bittinger - 336 pts (4 wins)
11.Scott Geesey - 331 pts (1 win)
12.Tim Wagaman - 329 pts
13.Phil Walter - 288 pts (2 wins)
14.Glenndon Forsythe - 287 pts (3 wins)
15.Cory Haas - 269 pts (2 wins)
16.Logan Schuhart - 220 pts (1 win)
17.Kevin Nouse - 219 pts (2 wins)
18.Eric Tomecek - 203 pts (1 win)
19.Nicole Bower - 198 pts (1 win)
20.Scott Flammer - 194 pts (2 wins)
21.Matt Boland - 194 pts (1 win)
22.Joe Trone Jr - 187 pts (1 win)
23.Colby Womer - 186 pts
24.Adrian Shaffer - 184 pts (2 wins)
25.Matt Heimbach - 180 pts
26.Davie Franek - 169 pts
27.Austin Reed - 168 pts
28.Mike Walter - 163 pts
29.Frankie Herr - 162 pts (1 win)
30.Jason Clauss - 156 pts
31.Jeff Furlong - 142 pts
32.Tim Berkheimer - 140 pts
33.Keith Prutzman - 136 pts
34.John Barnett - 131 pts
35.Chad Criswell - 128 pts (1 win)
36.Billy Johns - 120 pts
37.Doug Hammaker - 118 pts
38.Jason Shultz - 114 pts (1 win)
39.Gerard McIntyre Jr -111 pts (1 win)
40.Matt Horst - 101 pts
41.Aaron Ott - 100 pts
42.Nyle Burkes - 96 pts
43.Jessie Morrison - 95 pts
44.Randy Davis - 90 pts
45.Danny Dietrich - 87 pts
46.Mark Freeland - 86 pts
47.Derek Locke - 81 pts
48.Nate Hammaker - 81 pts
49.Jordan Frontz - 80 pts (1 win)
50.Ryan Kissinger - 79 pts
51.Shane Smith - 76 pts
52.Jay Galloway - 74 pts
53.Joey Borich - 72 pts (1 win)
54.Rich Eichelberger- 72 pts (1 win)
55.Kevin Nagy - 68 pts
56.Derek Sell - 65 pts
57.Steve Fannasy - 63 pts
58.Randy Whisler - 56 pts
59.Danny Massey - 52 pts
60.Ricky Stonebraker- 52 pts
61.Amy Ott - 48 pts
62.Elvin Diller - 48 pts
63.Brie Hershey - 44 pts
64.Brian Bruckner - 40 pts
65.Chris Borich - 36 pts
66.Chuck Paige - 36 pts
67.Dave Calaman - 35 pts
68.Mark Coldren - 35 pts
69.Jason Cherry - 32 pts
70.Zach Shive Euculano-32 pts
71.Chris Shuttlesworth-32 pts
72.Jessica Anderson - 30 pts
73.Tony Smolenyak - 30 pts
74.Josh Beard - 30 pts
75.Mike Ressler - 28 pts
76.Mark Manier Jr. - 28 pts
77.Todd Reed - 26 pts
78.Cliff Brian - 25 pts
79.Jack Thornton - 24 pts
80.Nathan Burwager - 24 pts
81.Nick Palmerino - 20 pts
82.Duane Mausteller - 18 pts
83.Todd Rittenhouse Jr-16 pts
84.Brian Garland - 16 pts
85.Tom Wise - 16 pts
86.Joel VanBuskirk - 14 pts
87.Craig Laudermilch -12 pts
88.Kyle Pruitt - 12 pts
89.Brian Nornhold - 12 pts
90.George Streaker Jr.-12 pts
91.Rick Horn - 12 pts
92.Jay Reichard - 10 pts
93.Matt Horst - 10 pts
Good luck to all the teams this weekend, and I hope it will be a sfae weekend for all.
Congratulations to the 2009 Central PA 358 Point Champion Jeff Rohrbaugh. With only one race left in the 2009 racing season Jeff has a 73 point lead going into the last race at Lincoln Speedway. Jeff who is a 3 time track champion at Trail Way Speedway as well as the 2008 track champion at Lincoln Speedway can now add the Central PA 358 Point Series Championship to his resume. Jeff who never fell out of the top 10 all season, was 124 points behind the leader Blane Heimbach on May 11th was able to make his way back up the standings and take the lead on July 25th and lead the rest of the way. Even with his home track loosing 8 races throughout the season to rain, Jeff was still able to finish in the top 5 most of the races. For this Jeff will be crowned the first ever Central PA 358 Point Series Champion.
