Rappin’ on Racin’

Rappin on Racin August 15, 2023

Today’s guests include Tyler Harris, Brandon Lockwich, Lernerville Champion Brian Swartzlander, Mason Zeigler the winners of the 10 thousand Autism Awareness Race at Lernerville Speedway, Carl Bowser, Barry Awtey Jennerstown Champion and winner of the first Motor Mountain Masters, NASCAR Driver Garrett Smithley and Ethan Myers, Randy LaJoie, former NASCAR Champion and one of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers. Plus, Evan Shotko the winner of the Motor Mountain master’s at Jennerstown Speedway.

Rappin on Racin August 7, 2023

2008 at Lernerville Speedway I had a show called Trackside. One of my Special Guests was Hall of Fame driver Dick Swartzlander. His entire interview will air commercial free on today’s program. I hope you enjoy his story.

Tyler Harris Has all the latest news from Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway and Bill Korch has a full report on the Jook George Memorial

Eric Westendorf has a nice Victory Lane interview with Super Late Model driver Alex Ferree

Howie Balis was bust at Jennerstown Speedway with interviews of Modified Driver Jason Busch & Pro Stock Driver Samantha Osborne

We have a new reporter Rick Miller and his report on Hall of Fame Asphalt Late Model Driver Mark Cottone.

Lenny Batycki from PRN at the Track did a great interview with Sharon Speedway 410 Sprint Car Winner Michael Bauer.

Victory Lane interviews Eric Westendorf with Chris Schneider and Tyler Dietz.

Victory Lane interviews Howie Balis with Dan Campbell and Late Model Driver Teddy Gibala.

 

 

 

Rappin on Racin July 31, 2023.

Guests include Tyler Harris the voice of Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, Six-time Lernerville Speedway Sprint Car Champion A.J. Flick, Latrobe Speedway ULMS Feature Winner and Marion Center Winner Logan Zarin, Jook George and retired driver Bill Yakin, Jennerstown Speedway Modified Champion Tom Golick and his teammate Joe Ballough. Victory Lane interview with Chad Wolbert

Rappin on Racin July 24, 2023

Guests include Kyle Larson, Ed Lynch Jr, Tyler Harris, Brian Huchko, Joe Maruca, John Fama, Brett Bickerstaff, Skyler Berkey

Victory Lane interviews Lernerville, Eric Westendorf Michael Norris, Brian Spade Jeremy Wonderling and Blaze Myers.

Howie Balis Jennerstown Josh Dunmyer, Scott Mitchel, Nick Nemiec.

Tyler Harris, Pittsburgh Stephen Shelpman, Brandon Burgoon, Abby Gindlesberger.

 

Rappin on Racin July 18, 2023

Lernerville Speedway Colton Flinner won the Late Model Feature. Brandon Matus the Sprint Car Feature. Big Block Modifieds Garrett Krummert, Pro Stock action, Brian Daugherty was the feature winner.

Tyler Harris has a weekly report on Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway,

Eric Westendorf victory lane interviews with, Colton Flinner, Garrett Krummert, Brandon Matus and Brian Daugherty

Darin Gallagher tells his story about his sprint car racing and his recent 410 win.

Howie Balis has a great interview with asphalt drivers Kelly Shaulis & Chris Brink

Lenny Batycki from the Performance Racing Network has a friendly conversation with recent Late Model Feature Winner Michael Norris

Jim Zufall’s topic of the women in racing highlights his discussion with Karlee Kovacs

Logan Schuchart won the Eldora Million and Howie Balis has a nice Victory Lane interviews Jennerstown winner Kenny Burkholder

Rappin on Racin July 11, 2023

Today’s program features Tyler Harris with a report om Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. Guests include RUSH Modified driver Chelsie Kriegisch and Howie Balis interview with Jennerstown Speedway Late Model Feature winner Gary Wiltrout.

Lenny Batycki spoke with Matt Aland about the Bill Stivason Memorial at Blanket Hill Speedway, Victory Lane interviews AJ Flick, Mike Norris, Skyler Berkey, Josh Dunmyer, Ken Burkholder, Brent Bickerstaff, Anthony Aiello and Tyler Dietz

 

Herb Scott Tribute

The Herb Scott Memorial is coming to Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway on July 15th. The younger fans need to learn about who Herb Scott was. The older fans will be able to remember the Good Old Days.

Rappin on Racin July 4, 2023.

I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy 4^th of July. The Fourth of July celebrates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

Tyler Harris has a wonderful report from Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway that includes Victory Lane comments from Carmen Perrigo and Brandon Burgoon. In a separate segment Tyler did a great interview with RUSH Late Model driver Kassidy Kamicker.

I had a chance to talk with Jason Busch about his recent Modified Feature win at Jennerstown. Lucas Oil Late Model Brock Pinkerous spoke with Dave Oliveire at the Firecracker.

Adam Kostelnick One of the most successful asphalt race car drivers in the area did a great interview with Howie Balis. I appreciate the kind words Adam mentioned about my efforts with local racing.

Ken and Kyle Burkholder had a great time talking to Howie Balis. Lenny Batycki dd a great interview with Micro Sprint winner Natalie Branon.

We have some Victory Lane interviews Modified feature winner Garrett Krummert, John Mollick in the Sprints, Cole Holden RUSH Modifieds and Ricky Lewis in the BOSS Sprint Cars.

 

Jean Lynch a Hall of Fame Racing Lady

Jean Lynch got started in racing back in 1957. Her husband, Ed, had a friend who was in the jalopy division at a track close to where she lived, called Hyde Park. Jean attended one of the races with Ed when he went to work the pits.

In those days, women and children were not allowed in the pits, so Jean sat in the stands with her young son. From that day, Jean and Ed became fans of the sport of racing. They began making the trip to Langhorne to see the big race.

After about a year, Jack Freeman, who was a part of the Langhorne Track crowd, approached Jean at home one day and expressed his interest in ob­taining the track at Latrobe, and asked if she would be interested in helping with the operation.

She agreed to the proposal and went ahead and sold tickets to the specta­tors, then signed all the cars in, lined up all the cars, scored all the cars, then she paid off and went home, wrote the stories, did the points and composed the release for the next week. She became a "women of many hats".

The tribute program of Jean Lynch tells the whole story.

Rappin on Racin June 27, 2023

Guests include NASCAR driver Josh Berry, July 2021 Bill Hribar, Lenny Batycki and Don Gamble met at Heinz History Center Sports Museum in Pittsburgh to cover the CARS Super Late Model Race coming to Jennerstown Speedway.

Josh was here for the race. Lenny Batyki served as the moderator for the TV Stations in attendance and the three of us went to Lunch at the Olive Garden after the festivities concluded.

Bill Korch has a report on the Firecracker at Lernerville Speedway.

Dave Olivieri has interviews with Ricky Thorton Jr. pre-race and Ricky Thorton Jr. in Victory Lane. Max picked up his first Lucas Oil Super Late Model feature win on Friday.

Jeremy Shaffer, Ethan Myers & Zane Ferrell did interviews with Howie Balis at Jennerstown.

Tyler Harris has a report on all the activities at PPMS.

Brian Spade has a wonderful interview with Max Blair the winner of the Bill Emig Memorial.