Lake takes feature at Elkins Raceway

July 12, 2018

Threatening skies this past Friday night caused the crowd and car count to be down a little from last week at Elkins Raceway. For those who came on out, they were treated to some great racing. We were able to get the first autograph and picture night completed. There were 16 Jenkins Ford Super Late Models in the pits. The feature saw 14 cars take the green flag. Michael Lake pulled off the victory over Shane Hitt. Steve Wilmoth was sitting in third ready to take advantage if either driver made a mistake. He finished third. Cody Hardesty finished fourth. D.J. Miller brought the ...

Raceway crowns mid-season champions

July 5, 2018

It was a hot night at Elkins Raceway! There were fireworks in the air and on the track as the mid-season championship races took center stage. There was a standing room only crowd on the grand stand side and the pits were filled with some of the very best cars and drivers of this ...

Big night planned at Elkins Raceway

June 28, 2018

Apparently Mother Nature doesn’t want us to have Autograph Night at Elkins Raceway. Once again heavy storms moved through the area Friday and with more rain in the forecast for the evening track officials decided to postpone it to a later date to be announced. This Friday’s Thunder in the Mountains will be the mid-season double point races with extra purse money available in all the divisions — $2,000 to win Topless Super Late Models, $12,00 to win Topless FasTrack Crate Late Models, $700 to win in the AMRA Modifieds, $400 to win in the Street Stocks, and $300 to win in the ...

Groundhogs can be one destructive pest

June 23, 2018

Punxsutawney Phil, French Creek Freddy or Willie Woodchuck may look cute on Feb. 2 (National Groundhog Day), but for the remaining 364 or 365 days of the year, this critter is just one destructive pest. Groundhogs, whistle pigs, land beavers, rockchucks, woodchucks or whatever anyone chooses to call them, reside in just about all of the 48 adjacent states. Today we seldom see hunters going after these varmints like we did in the latter part of the 20th century. There may be sound reason for this. The coyotes that have wandered the Eastern United States may have thinned these rascals ...

Elkins Raceway attracts good crowd

June 21, 2018

Finally we had a great weekend of weather for racing! A good crowd was on hand and they were treated to some action-packed racing at Elkins Raceway. The Super Late Models kicked off the night’s feature events. Eleven cars took the green flag and Cody Hardesty won the event. Michael Lake worked his way up to second and was trying to run down Hardesty. Shane Hitt finished a solid third place. Chuck Harper and pole sitter Skip Hare rounded out the top five. The 15-car field of FasTrack Crate Late Models was up next and once again they had trouble settling down and racing. Kyle ...

A special memory of my Dad

June 16, 2018

Editor’s note: The following column relates to many father-son/daughter relationships. It was first published in the June 14, 2014, edition of The Inter-Mountain. Father’s Day in the past for me was a day to spend with my children, sleep in and basically relax the entire day. But I’m going to start a new tradition this year—I plan to play catch with my son. Coaching a wonderful group of minor league baseball players this spring led me to the path of this tradition. From the first day of practice, I suddenly turned into a 12-year old kid again, and memories of my father ...