After dealing with frustrating weather all throughout the month of May, Mother Nature couldn’t have given a more picturesque day for racing Saturday at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. The blue skies provided the backdrop to an exciting duo of makeup features, and the on-track action only continued to increase as the sun went down and the regular card of racing commenced.

After a battle for victory fit for a $10,000 payday, only one driver could stand alone as winner of the inaugural KKM Challenge event at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. When the dust settled and the roar of 24 Non-Wing Outlaw Micro Sprints quieted, Rising Sun, MD’s Steven Snyder, Jr. rose above the rest and put another prestigious feather in his cap, with this one coming on his home turf.

If racing is like riding a bike in the sense that once you learn, you never forget, then Collegeville, PA’s Alex Bright put that on full display during the second night of the POWRi-sanctioned KKM Challenge at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway.

Despite limited races in a micro over the past couple of years, Bright proved that readapting to his old stomping grounds would be no challenge whatsoever, as he kept Christian Bruno at bay and led all 25 laps of Friday night’s A-Main event.

After suffering an apparent mechanical issue on lap 2 of Thursday night’s preliminary night of the KKM Challenge, it appeared as if Steven Snyder, Jr. had lost his opportunity at an opening night victory, and severely hindered his chances at Saturday’s $10,000 prize.

But the native of Rising Sun, MD accepted the challenge, returning to the track from the work area as a man on a mission. In the span of 12 laps, Snyder, Jr. carved through the pack from a restart position of 21st up to the top spot, turning in one of the most scintillating drives in recent memory to pick up an improbable – bordering on impossible – victory.

Often considered the greatest day in motorsports every year, Memorial Day Sunday wasn’t originally supposed to include racing at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. But after a frustrating month with weather and another rainout on Saturday, track officials made the decision to run a non-points Sunday afternoon show. Gunnar Pio, Michael Hoffmaster, Richie Hartman, Patrick Kirn, and Billy Logeman conquered the hot and slick conditions to pick up victories on a day that also featured Junior Sprint and quarter midget exhibitions for the sport’s future stars.

A valiant effort from the track crew at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway allowed a solid chunk of racing to be completed on Saturday night despite a very tough battle with Mother Nature. Even though warmups started nearly three hours late due to the weather, all heat races and consolation events were eventually able to be completed, with two features finishing as well before the rain returned and ruined the party for good. In the two races that were completed, Billy Logeman picked up his first EVO Fuel Injection Winged 600 win, while Brandon Heist made it back-to-back victories in the Skeet Craft Collision Sportsman class.

A Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway that was moistened by mother nature saw fast and furious action throughout the course of Saturday night’s racing events. On a “hammer-down” type of racetrack, Alex Swift, Dan Lane, Jr., Chris Gerhart, Brandon Heist, and Steven Snyder, Jr. were the drivers who out-ran the competition in order to park their rides in Brubacher Victory Lane.

Saturday night’s racing at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway saw excitement in several different forms across the five divisions of racing. A champion returned to the winner’s circle not once, but twice. Two more drivers took wins in races that came down to the final corner. And the other feature saw a third-year driver finally make their first trip to Brubacher Victory Lane.

The memory of former driver, official, and lifetime Lanco Micro Midget Club member Jeff Widders was honored and remembered on Saturday night at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. With several cash prizes being given out courtesy of Jeff’s family and close friends, there was an extra special meaning and incentive to the opening points night of the 2024 season.

For the first time in 203 days, the thunderous noise of race cars brought life to the eighth-mile Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, as the 67th season of Lanco Micro Midget Club racing kicked off with the seventh edition of the No Wing Spring Fling for the Hyper Racing Wingless 600s, Border Magic Wingless 270s, and Offroad Motorsports Wingless 125/4 Strokes.

To win a championship at Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, a driver and team have to be on their game for all six months of the season. Flashes of dominance, remarkable consistency, and sometimes a good amount of luck are all crucial toward holding the championship trophy at season’s end. This season’s four different track champions had all triumphed in Lanco points chases before, and executed that same winning formula to perfection once again throughout the 2023 season.

It’s one thing for a driver to attempt to repeat in one of the biggest and most prestigious races of the season at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. Against a loaded field of competitors, it’s a completely different thing to actually do it. But all three previous winners of the Wingless Labor Day Shootout who showed up for competition on Sunday successfully defended their crowns, as Steven Snyder, Jr. made it a three-peat in the Hyper Racing Wingless 600s, while Chris Dolan and Jason Swavely went back-to-back in their respective divisions as well.

The greatest racing weekend of the year never fails to provide some of the best racing you’ll see all year – anywhere – in the northeast. The festivities kicked off with Germania Band Club Winged Night of the Labor Day Shootout. A couple of down-to-the-wire finishes highlighted the night’s A-Main events. And when all was said and done, Jason Swavely – who doubled up on wins – along with Pat Bealer and Michael Hoffmaster found themselves in the winner’s circle in one of Lanco’s crown jewels.

The month of August at the Clyde came to a close with another busy racing program, as the final two makeup features were contested prior to a full show of regular racing. There were plenty of fresh faces who found their way into the winner’s circle by night’s end. Some drivers even claimed their very first wins in any division at the speedway. And as points battles continued throughout some of the classes, one driver put not one, but two championships to rest as he accumulated enough points to wrap both of them up before Labor Day Weekend.

If you were a fan of racing – and a lot of it – Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway was the place to be on Saturday night. With mother nature washing out the racing from the weekend prior, three makeup features were on the slate in addition to the regularly-scheduled program of racing to make for a night that included a whopping eight A-Main events. But the racing action delivered in terms of both quantity and quality, as several drivers found victory lane while a few others took big steps toward a championship.

Unfortunately, mother nature put an early end to Back to School Night at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. The rains came with just five laps completed in the night’s first feature for the Hyper Racing Winged 600s.

For the first time in two years, national midget racing returned to Pennsylvania and the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway, as a special Tuesday night of racing served as the kickoff for the inaugural Appalachian Midget Week for the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota. The ground-pounding midgets put on a spectacular show in their return voyage to the 1/8th-mile in Newmanstown, and it was Springfield, IL’s Chase McDermand who took advantage of early misfortune for Jade Avedisian and then held off Zach Daum to score the win.

The Clyde Martin Memorial once again provided the annual opportunity to remember all former members of the Lanco Micro Midget Club who are no longer with us. With 35-lap, double points-paying features and the big trophies to the winners, it once again served as the most prestigious race of the season. And as drivers competed with all of those factors in the back of their minds, the race known as “the granddaddy of them all” once again put on some spectacular on-track action.

Electric. Exhilarating. Unbelievable. Unimaginable. All of the previous words and many more could have been used to describe Saturday night’s Dirt2Media Finale of Hyper Racing 600 Speedweek presented by Performance Electronics. The Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway was the setting for wild thrills, crazy spills (which, thankfully, everyone walked away from), and simply put, insane racing. At the end of Saturday night’s 50-lap A-Main, it was one of Lanco’s biggest and brightest young stars who bested a field of 96 entrants for a $10,000 payday, while the son of an “Icon” continued to make a name all for himself, wheeling a car with much Lanco success in its history to a Speedweek championship.

With East Coast Transponders putting up an extra $2,000 spread across all five divisions – as well as random prize giveaways to drivers in each class – there was a little extra “oomph” to the final regular points show in four weeks at the speedway. Another hot and humid night saw fast and frenetic action throughout the evening. And five drivers found their way to the winner’s circle in the last tune-ups before Hyper Racing 600 Speedweek and the Clyde Martin Memorial.