Results 2024

South Mountain 15 September

WOW what a great day of racing.
MANDRA had 24 cars signed up.
Bob ENGLISH hurt his transmission in the first round of time shots and Mark Longacre had an issue. Mark later found it was a bad ground on the fuel pump but he did not make eliminations.
With an even field, RANDY CAMPBELL did not get a bye with a .0029 light in time shots.
Round 1 points leader MIKE VOLPE gets taken out when he turns on the red light giving JIM SHEARER the win with a .1241 light.
JARED WALLACE, BRIAN YARRISON, DAN WANGER, BILL WERT, ANTHONY PICONE, RANDY CAMPBELL TIM HANSBERRY GARY BREEBACK MATT WALKER BOB MAULICK were the 1st round winners.
In round 2 we see DAN WANGER OVER JARED WALLACE, TIM HANSBERRY OVER BILL WERT, RANDY CAMPBELL beats MATT WALKER, JIM SHEARER over GARY BREEBACK, BRIAN YARRISON puts BOB MAULICK on the trailer. ANTHONY PICONE had a bye with a RT of .0221 in first round.
Round 3 TIM HANSBERRY goes 7.66 on a 7.64 to stop JIM SHEARER, BRIAN YARRISON runs a 7.95 on a 7.95 to best ANTHONY PICONE, RANDY CAMPBELL goes 6.54 on a 6.55 to stop DAN WANGER.
Round 4 RANDY CAMPBELL gets a bye in to finals with a .0598 light, Tim HANSBERRY runs a 7.67 on a 7.65 to beat BRIAN YARRISON whan he goes 8.05 on a 7.94.
Finals TIM HANSBERRY with a RT of .0905 runs7.68 on a 7.65 RANDY CAMPBELL RT of .0361 runs a 6.61 on a 6.54 giving RANDY the win.
It's not official till we get points back, however RANDY CAMPBELL will be the 2024 MANDRA points champion.
Thanks to Sunday's race sponsors SUSQUEHANNA valley insulators and R&A racing.

Winner - Randy Campbell

Runner-Up - Tim Hansberry

Semi's - Brian Yarrison

Results 2024

Island Dragway September 8

Sunday at Island dragway.
MANDRA had 20 cars signed in, 19 made first round.
Geoff SOTAK had a bye with a .002 RT, MARK SANTEE was in next pairing also with .002 light, bye goes to the first driver in event of a tie.
1st round Irving Johnson with a .062 RT runs a 10.74 on a 10.76 to beat points leader Randy Campbell who ran a 10.39 on a 10.42, Bob Maulick, Pat Brewer, Mark Santee, Mike Volpe, Chris Righetti, Ralph Ferraro, Bob English, Anthony all won.
Round 2 BOB ENGLISH over Ralph Ferraro, Chris Righetti, over Anthony Picone, Mike Volpe over Pat brewer, BOB Maulick over Mark santee.
Round 3 Bob Maulick with a .043 light and Chris had a .134 RT giving Bob the win. Bob English stops Geoff Sotak from advancing when he runs a 9.05 on a 9.05. Mike Volpe had a bye.
Round 4 Mike Volpe goes 11.33 on 11.32 to beat Bob English who left a little early. Bob Maulick had a bye.
FINAL round Bob with a RT of .047 and Mike had a .123 RT. Bob runs a 9.25 on a 9.19 and Mike goes 11.33 on a 11.30 he could not make up for bad light giving Bob Maulick his second win in a row.
A very strong showing from BARE BONES RACING CONGRATS.
See you at South Mountain next Sunday THANKS to ANTHONY AND KIM PICONE for sponsoring the race.
Be safe and have fun.

Winner - Bob Maulick

Runner-Up - Mike Volpe

Semi's - Bob English

Beaver Springs 31 August - 1 September

Saturday at Beaver we had our annual founders day picnic.
A big thanks to Kim Picone for organizing the event. A special thanks to everyone who helped out and brought food and drinks here.
Mike Fishel has earned the title of permanent chef again thanks to you all it was a great time.
As far as racing goes we got 2 time shots in, went to staging lanes and got rained out.
No racing but we did get picnic in so i am calling that a successful day
Sunday at beaver we had 29 car signed in.
Gary breeback had to leave and Matt Walker hurt his engine which left us with 27 cars.
BOB ENGLISH a bye run in first round with a .0000 light in first round of time shots.
Winners in 1st round were Mark Santee, John Wise. Paul Costley, Ralph Ferraro, Frank Giallonardo. Randy Campbell, Brian Yarrison, Irvin Johnson, Bill Wert, Jared Wallace, Bob Maulick, Gary Yoder, Geoff Sotak, and Bob English.
Round 2 saw Geoff Sotak over Frank Giallonardo, John Wise over Brian Yarrison, Bob English over Gary Yoder, Randy Campbell over Mark Santee, Bob Maulick over Irvin Johnson, and Ralph Ferraro over Paul Costley.
Round 3 saw Bob English run a 5.88 on a 5.84 to best Geoff Sotak, Randy Campbell runs a 6.70 on a 6.67 to beat John Wise, Bob Maulick goes 5.73 on a 5.73 to stop Jarred Wallace, and Ralph does 6.18 on a 6.20 in a bye run.
Round 4 saw Randy with a better light .013 stops Ralph with his .1820 light? Bob does a 5.73 on a 5.73 for the second time to put Bob English on the trailer.
Finals Bob Maulick .0068 RT goes 5.75 on a 5.73 Randy Campbell RT of .0264 runs a 6.63 on a 6.61 giving Bob the win.
It was great racing all night congratulations to all our winners!

Winner - Bob Maulick

Runner-Up - Randy Campbell

Semi's - Bob English

Semi's - Ralph Ferraro

Consolation Winner - Brian Wallace

Numidia August 10

We had 16 cars.
Round 1 CHRIS RIGEHTTI over RAY BLOOM, MERRITT SNYDER over JOHN WISE, RANDY CAMPBELL over JACK STUMP, BRIAN YARRISON over GEOFF SOTAK, BOB ENGLISH over BOB CALIMER, MIKE VOLPE over BOB MAULICK, ANTHONY PICONE over BILL WERT, and TIM MILLIRON over LARRY WITTIG.
Round 2 RANDY CAMPBELL takes out MERRITT SNYDER who turned on the red light, TIM MILLIRON runs a 11.06 on a 11.04 to put CHRIS RIGHETTI on trailer, BOB ENGLISH goes 9.21 on a 9.24 giving BRIAN YARRISON the win, ANTHONY PICONE with a ,004 light against MIKE VOLPE red light.
Round 3 BRIAN YARRISON runs a 12.62 on a 12.63, RANDY CAMPBEL 10.65 on a 10.69 giving BRIAN the win.
ANTHONY PICONE goes 11.85 on a 11.86, TIM MILLIRON, does a 11.03 on a 11.06, ANTHONY with better light moves on.
FINAL ROUND ANTHONY PICONE runs a 11.87 on a 11.86 with a .090 light, BRIAN YARRISON goes 12.65 on a 12.62 with a .110 light giving ANTHONY PICONE the win.
A big thanks to are race sponsor BLUE OVAL RACING

Winner - Tony Picone

Runner-Up - Brian Yarrison

Semi's - Tim Milliron

Numidia August 11

We had 19 cars on Sunday.
Round 1: Matt Walker over Ray Bloom, Geoff Sotak over Merritt Snyder, Larry Wittig over Tim Milliron, Bob English over Irvin Johnson, Brian Yarrison over John Wise, Jim Shearer over Randy Campbell, Chris Righetti over Bill Wert, Anthony Picone over Bob Maulick, Frank Giallonardo over Bob Calimer, Mike Volpe had bye with a .006 RT in time shots
Round 2: Frank turned on red light giving win to Geoff, Mike did a 12.30 on a 11.49 to give Chris the win, Anthony with a .010 RT runs a 11.81 on a 11.81 ending Matts day, Brian runs a 12.59 on a 12.54 to best Bob, Larry goes 9.61 on a 9.60 to stop Jim.
Round 3: Chris with a 10.54 on a 10.48 to beat Brian, Larry runs a 9.60 on a 9.60 to put Geoff on the trailer, Anthony had bye with a RT of .010 from round 2.
Round 4: Anthony with 11.82 on a 11.79 wins over Chris, Larry had bye with a RT of .074.
Final: Larry with RT of .043 goes 9.65 on a 9.60 , Anthony lays down an amazing run running 11.81 on a 11.81 with a RT of .011.

A big THANKS to Sundays sponsor GEOFF SOTAK

Winner - Tony Picone

Runner-Up - Larry Wittig

Semi's - Chris Righetti

Maple Grove July 20

MANDRA had 27 cars on Saturday.
Tim Milliron unloaded his car and discovered a blown head gasket he was done before he got started.
After taking 1 time shot Merritt Snyder found out that he hurt his transmission at last race ending his day
Round 1 found Tim Grace with a bye after getting a .003 in time shots.
Round 2 Larry Wittig goes 9.59 on a 9.59 with a .034 RT to stop Tim Grace from advancing.
Bob Calimer runs 13.00 on a 13.00 to put Brian Yarrison on trailer, Randy Campbell goes 10.71 on a 10.68 to win over Jack Stump who had a red light.
Mark Santee .045 RT and a 13.00 on a 13.00 over Tim Hansberry, Matt Walker runs a 10.50 on a 10.47 with a RT of .046 to beat Bob Maulick who ran a 9.08 on a 9.04 RT of .099.
David Drissel with win over Mike Volpe mike had a red light,
Steve Dickey with a RT of .042 goes 9.96 on a 9.93 to beat John Wise, John goes 11.19 on a 11.13 RT of .064.
Round 3 we see Randy Campbell win over Larry Wittig, Larry had transmission problems, Matt Walker stops David Drissel.
In a 13.00 heads up race we see Mark Santee in pokey go up against Bob Calimer and his vallant this was a cool race both drivers not fooling around Mark runs a 13.06 on a 13.00 with a RT of .018 Bob does a 12.96 on a 13.00 RT of .009.
Steve Dickey had bye with a .042 in round 2.
Round 4 semi finals Steve Dickey runs a 9.92 on a 9.91, Randy goes 10.62 on a 10.63, Matt Walker over Mark Santee, Mark goes red.
I don't have details on final, Steve Dickey wins over Matt Walker.
It was good to see new faces in the finals.
Congratulations to Steve and Matt!
Way to go guys!
THANKS to TIM HANSBERRY for sponsoring saturday's race.

Winner - Steve Dickey

Runner-Up - Matt Walker

Semi's - Randy Campbell

Semi's - Mark Santee

Maple Grove Sunday July 21

Sunday MANDRA had 23 cars signed and 22 made it to elimination.
A shout out to Tim Milliron and Larry Wittig.
Tim unloaded his car Saturday morning to discover a blown head gasket went home, changed engines and was back up and running Sunday morning.
Larry hurt his transmission on Saturday went home got converter and front pump on tranny replaced and was back in action Sunday.
No bye runs in the 1st round.
In the 2nd round we saw Bob English with a RT of .002 take out Tim Milliron, Randy Campell stopping Saturday's winner Steve Dickey, Mike Volpe wins over Jarred Wallace who had a red light, Brian yarrison beats Bob Calimer, Chris Reighetti tops Brian Wallance.
Bob Maulick with bye with a RT of .001 in 1st round.
3rd round Mike Volpe goes 11.54 on a 11.56 over Randy Campbell who ran 10.62 on a 10.64.
Mike had a RT of .036 to Randy's .060 giving win to Mike.
Brian Yarrison 12.61 on a 12.59 to beat Chris Reghetti who had turned on the red light.
Bob Maulick runs a 9.09 on a 9.05 to put Bob English on trailer.
Bob also turns red on.
Round 4 Mike Volpe gets bye with a .036 RT in 3rd round.
Bob Maulick takes out Brian Yarrison. Bob goes 9.13 on a 9.09 with RT of .038, Brian does a 12.62 on a 12.63 with RT of .072 giving Bob win.
FINAL Mike Volpe with a RT of .009 runs 11.57 on a 11.56, Bob goes red giving Mike the win.
Mike is the current points leader.
A big thanks to Sunday's sponsor CYCLONE RACING. Stay tuned.
Next week BLIND SQUIRREL RACING will have a special announcement.

Winner - Mike Volpe

Runner-Up - Bob Maulick

Semi's - Brian Yarrison

South Mountain 7/14/24

Another hot one on Sunday!

MANDRA had 21 drivers and their crews brave the heat Sunday.

1st round Tim Milliron got the bye with a RT of .002 in time shots.
Brian Yarrison copoints leader suffered a 1st round loss to Bob Maulick.
Brian Wallace takes out the younger Jarred Wallace, John Wise takes out Jim Shearer, Randy Campbell puts Frank Giallonardo on trailer, Dave Fenzel beats Ralph Ferraro, Bob English wins over Bill Johnson.

Mike Volpe copoints leader with a win over Irvin Johnson.
Geoff Sotak takes out Matt Walker, Dan Wagner over Marc Longacre.
Round 2 Winners, Bob English runs a 5.86 on a 5.86 with a RT of .017, Mike Volpe does a 7.50 on a 7.45 with a RT of .011, Larry Wittig goes 6.45 on a 6.50 with a RT of .039, Dan Wagner with a 7.8 dial in goes 7.11.

Brian Wallace had bye run and ran a 6.05 on a 6.04 with a RT of .043.

ROUND 3 Brian Wallace over Dan Wagner, Dan with a red light.
Larry Wittig over Bob English close race Larry goes 6.11 on a 6.07 with RT of .039, Bob goes 5.88 on a 5.85 RT of .078.

John Wise over Mike Volpe, John does a 7.10 on a 7.09 with a RT of .013, Mike had a 7.53 on a 7.44 RT of .040.

Semifinals, John Wise with every racer dream a bye into finals just about as cool as winning.
Larry runs a 6.11 on a 6.10 with RT of .087, Brian goes 6.08 on a 6.08 but had a bad light .231 due to equipment failure.

Larry over John who ran 7.11 on a 7.11 but got caught by a red light.

A big THANKS to sponsors Larry Wittig and Mike Fishel.

A shout out to Marc Longacre for getting his license runs in 130 MPH in the 1/8 mile! WOW that's hauling butt!
See everyone at Maple Grove next week.

Winner - Larry Wittig

Runner-Up - John Wise

Semi's - Brian Wallace

Beaver Springs July 6-7

Beaver Springs July 6

Good evening,
MANDRA Saturday was another hot one a big thanks to our sponsorfor Saturday Larry Wittig.
We had 25 cars on hand.
The day started with Geoff Sotak leading the points.
1st round winners Jarred Wallace, John Rose, Randy Campbell, Frank Giallonardo, Ralph Ferraro, Brian Wallace, Brian Yarrison, Bob English, Mike Volpe. Gary Yoder, Tim Milliron, and Irvin Johnson. Bob Maulick had the bye run.
Round 2 had a couple of upsets with Irvin Johnson putting Mike volpe on trailer, Gary Yoder taking out Bob English, Frank Giallonardo had a bye.
Round 3 Frank G over John Rose, Randy over Irvin, Brian over Bob M.
Semifinals Brian takes out Randy, Frank was unable to get his car started in lanes giving Gary a solo run into finals.
Gary runs a 10.80 on a 10.80 dial in, Brian goes 12.82 on a 12.76 giving GARY YODER his first MANDRA win!
Way to go GARY.
Brian Yarrison was leading points at end of day.

Winner - Gary Yoder

Runner-up - Brian Yarrison

Semi's - Frank Giallonardo

Semi's - Randy Campbell

Beaver Springs July 7

HELLO again.

Sunday at Beaver MANDRA had 21 cars a big thanks to MOE'S auto repair for sponsoring Sunday's race.
Chirs Righetti had a .001 RT in 2nd round of time shots giving him a bye run in the 1st round.

The 1st round saw Jarred Wallace, .Jim shearer, Randy Campbell, Bruce Thomas, Bob English, Bob Maulick, Merritt Snyder, Tim Milliron, Mike Volpe, Brian Wallace, and Chris Righetti advanced to the 2nd round.

2nd round Jim Shearer had the bye, Chirs, Bruce, Mike, Bob E, Bob M, go to the 3rd round.

Chirs runs a 10.62 on a 10.60 to beat Jim shearer, Mike Volpe runs a 11.78 on a 11.68 with a .024 RT to end Bruces day, Bob Maulick runs a 9.12 on a 9.07 with a RT .028 to win against Bob English.

Semifinals, Bob M runs a 9.07 on a 9.08 with a RT .022. Chris runs a 10.54 on a 10.62 dial, Mike Volpe had a bye in the finals.

Bob Maulick dials in a 9.07, Mike Volpe a 11.67, Bob with a .040 RT and Mike with a .062 red light giving Bob Maulick the win.

Congrats to bare bones racing!

At the end of the day Mike Volpe and Brian Yarrison are tied for top spot in points.

Winner - Bob Maulick

Runner-Up - Mike Volpe

Semi's - Chris Righetti

Mason-Dixon 22 June 2024

WOW was it hot on Saturday!

Thanks to everyone that braved the heat Saturday.
MANDRA had 16 cars including JOHN GOSE and his amazing rear engine dragster.

GREG MAUCHAMER said this was 1st time in MANDRA history 2 rear engine dragsters went down track side by side (see video below)
ANTHONY PICONE had a .0052 RT in 1st round of time shots but with an even field no bye run.
First round DAVE FENZEL's car would not start giving BRAIN YARRISON a single into 2nd round.
DAN WAGNER takes out GEOFF SOTAK for the CSW bounty hunter bonus.
Round 3 semi finals LARRY WITTIG beating MERRITT SNYDER, ANTHONY PICONE taking out DAN WAGNER.
In the FINAL LARRY runs a 9.6818 on a 9.68 dial in and a .078 RT beats ANTHONY who ran a 11.8670 on a 11.81 dial in and a .0238 RT

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Ray Bloom

Winner - Larry Wittig

Runner-up - Anthony Picone

Semi's - Merritt Snyder

Semi's - Dan Wagner

Maple Grove 15 June 2024

Maple Grove recap

It was great racing weather Saturday at the grove! MANDRA had 25 cars for the race for the house. There was some good racing in 1st round with Jim shearer taking out points leader GEOFF SOTACK and getting bounty hunter bonus and GARY CONTE takes out 2nd place RANDY CAMPBELL .BRIAN YARRISON had BYE with a .003 light in 1st round of time shots round 2 finds BRICE THOMAS with BYE after getting a .000 in 1st round . 3rd place in points BRIAN Yarrison losing to MARK SANTEE .Round 3 GARY CONTE with BYE with a .010 light PETE BOYER takes out MARK SANTEE BRUCE takes out JOHN ROSE MIKE VOLPE takes out BOB ENGLISH .Round 4 Pete, unable to make a run gives MIKE a single into finals .and GARY takes out BRUCE to advance .Final race MIKE goes .008 red GARY with .036 takes win . Thanks to everyone who came out to support RACE for the house, it's a great event and a great cause .

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Ray Bloom

Winner - Gary Conte

Runner Up - Mike Volpe

Semi's - Bruce Thomas

Numidia Dragway 8 June 2024

It was a great day for racing Saturday! The weather was beautiful. MANDRA had 19 cars.

Good racing in the first round. Chris Righetti with no time shots takes out Bob English. Randy Campbell ran 10.59 on a 10.58 dial in to beat last week's winner Anthony Picone.

Round 2 Randy Campbell and Jim Shearer with identical reaction times; Randy running a 10.59 on a 10.59 dial in and Jim running a 10.73 on a 10.70 dial in. Chris Righetti ran a 10.58 on 10.54 dial in to beat Merritt Synder. Jeff Sotak and Dave Fenzel with identical reaction time; Jeff running a 10.66 on a 10.68 dial in.

Round 3 with Tim Milliron with a .006 light taking out Chris Righetti. Jeff Sotak taking out Frankie G. and Randy Campbell with a bye run!

Round 4 Jeff Sotak had the bye run and Randy Campbell took out Tim Milliron!

Final Round Randy with a .049 light and Jeff with .082 light; Randy running on a 10.61 on a 10.61 and Jeff running 10.67 on a 10.68. Giving Randy a well-earned win!

Congratulations to all!

President's Pick Racer of the Day goes to Tim Milliron! Who in the time shots had an .009 light and .003 light. In eliminations had .057, .054, .006, and .005.

Thanks to everyone for showing up! See you all at Maple Grove, on Saturday, June 15th!

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Ray Bloom

Winner - Randy Campbell

Runner Up - Geoff Sotac

Semi's - Tim Milliron

Final at the finish line

Beaver Springs Dragway 25-26 May 2024

Saturday 25 May

HELLO MANDRA kind of a slow start to are 2024 season we got rain out at south mountain and only one round on Saturday-On-Saturday MANDRA had 27 drivers signed in it started out looking like good weather we got 2 rounds of time shots in with Paul (moe) costly earing bye run with a .0029 RT before we could get in 1st round we got a lengthy rain Dely when we got word to make are way to staging lanes. a few drivers had gone home or choose to stay in trailer . giving 3 drivers a bye run not long after 1st round rain came back hard and race was called .

Sunday 26 May

WOW we finally got a to complete a race.

Sunday was a great day for racing MANDRA had 25 cars signed in, weather was great, pits were a little soggy in the morning but dried fast.

GREG MAUCHAMER had low rt in first round of time shots with a .0069 looking good for a possible bye run in first round.

In the 2nd round of time shots, BILL WERT said hold my beer and laid down a .0001 rt.

Unfortunately MARK SANTEE broke giving us an even field with no BYE for Bill.

I think everyone was a little rusty with 9 red lights in 1st round.

RANDY CAMPBELL saved our reputation with a .0048 rt.

ROUND 2 brought more red than green lights.

Paul costly came through with a .0221 light.

ROUND 3 everyone settled down,
ANTHONY PICONE laid down a .0021 to take out PAUL COSTLY.

In the semi-finals ANTHONY PICONE had a bye run into finals and BRIAN YARRISON taking out GEOFF SOTAC to move into the finals.

This was a really cool pairing for the final.

ANTHONY had a .0512 light to BRIAN`s .1168 light. ANTHONY ran a 11.88 on a 11.87 dial in and BRIAN running a 12.78 on a 12.72 giving ANTHONY the win.

CONGRAULATIONS to ANTHONY PICONE, BRIAN YARRISON and GEOFF SOTAC.

Just a little side note, if you are not racing one day go to staging lanes and watch MANDRA roll in.
I think we have the best cars of any club. We have gassers, alters, dragsters, muscle cars, super stockers, 8 second cars, 13 second cars and everything in between.

Winner - Tony Picone

Runner Up - Brian Yarrison

Semi's - Geoff Sotak