Results, Recaps & Photos
NOTES about TKO:
This is a newly formed club of organized racers. Their hometrack is an incredible facility at TKO Raceways from owner/operator Todd Kaufman. Todd also builds slot car tracks. For the most part the racers are not new. I have paid them a visit to an event and it is a huge facility. The tracks are challenging on their own. But, toss in the local runner competitors and it gets fast and furious. No matter how you do you come away with a good feeling. As with any racing the cars always call for help. TKO is a one stop shop with anything you need or I'm pretty certain they will find it for you. Need help? Plenty of seasoned builder/racers who will be more than happy to rescue your situation. I found that out with local racer Derek who helped me along with a car that was tempermental. And if he's busy Travis might be available along with others as well.
They are just starting out racing at TKO and have come on board with HOCOC's Late Model Sportsman Series(The NSCS). They run support classes and from time to time an NSCS event. Their names are listed below for reference. If you're curious about this hobby stop by during their hours of operation and ask any questions you might have. Then you might also attend an event to see what that is like. Keep in mind the saying, you have to crawl before you can walk, as the locals will already be ahead on the walking part if not running. But the effort you make and need to put in is part of the hobby, satisfaction and enjoyment.
Posted 02/27/2012 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
LMS POS Driver St. Car# 1. Chuck Sheaffer PA 93 2. Derek Sheaffer PA 09 3. Kyle Batman PA 88 4. Nick Moyer PA 19 5. Tyler D'Alesandro PA 29 6. Rob D'Alesandro PA 24 |
Posted 02/13/2012 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA
02/05/2012
Gordon W/A Double & Phillips Takes the SS
Derek Scheaffer W/A Triple Deuce!
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Posted 01/31/2012 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA
01/29/2012
Not Another Scheaffer Show!!
The Chuck & Derek Boys Do It, Again
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Posted 12/23/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA
12/18/2011
Not Another Scheaffer Show!!
The Chuck & Derek Boys Do It, Again
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Posted 12/02/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
ELIZABETHVILLE PA
11/25/11 - 11/27/11
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Posted 11/02/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Oct 28/29/30, 2011
1st Anniversary event
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Holy Pair Of Checkered Flags Batman!!! Pair Of Podiums For Scheaffer |  |
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Posted 10/18/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA.
October 01, 2011
SS T-Jet 1) Chad Phillips pa 2) Pat Moyer pa 3) Kyle Batman pa 4) Nick Moyer pa 5) Todd Kaufman pa 6) Steve Smith Sr pa 7) Michelle Katzman pa 8) Larry Oxendine pa 9) Jenny Smith pa 10) Marty Sechler pa 11) Ethan Kaufman pa |
LMS 1) Chad Phillps pa #3 2) Pat Moyer pa #0 3) Nick Moyer pa #48 4) Kyle Batman pa #7 5) Todd Kaufman pa #24 6) Steve Smith Sr pa #88 7) Jenny Smith pa #40 8) Larry Oxendine pa #18 9) Michelle Katzman pa #17 10) Ethan pa 11) Marty Sechler pa #6 |
Posted 10/10/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA.
October 01-08, 2011
Grand Nationals 1.Todd Kaufman #72 pa 2.Pat Moyer #3 pa 3.Chad Phillips #21 pa 4.Kyle Batman #43 pa 5.Chuck Sheaffer #31 pa 6.Tavis Gladitsch #27 pa 7.Jenny Smith #99 pa 8.Steve Smith Sr. #28 pa |
Jalopies 1.Chuck Sheaffer pa 2.Todd Kaufman pa 3.Pat Moyer pa 4.Chad Phillips pa 5.Kyle Batman pa 6.Nick Moyer pa 7.Steve Smith Sr. pa 8.Jenny Smith pa 9.Michelle Katzman pa 10.Larry Oxendine pa 11.Travis Gladitsch pa 12.Casey Geiman pa 13.Tyler D'Alesandro pa 14.Donna Sheaffer pa |
Posted 10/04/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Elizabethville PA.
October 2, 2011
S.S. T-Jets 1.Todd Kaufman 101 laps pa 2.Chad Phillips 101 laps pa 3.Pat Moyer 100 laps pa 4.Kyle Batman 96 laps pa 5.Michelle Katzman 95 laps pa 6.Steve Smith Sr 95 laps pa 7.Nick Moyer 94 laps pa 8.Travis Gladitsch 94 laps pa 9.Nick D'Alesandro 91 laps pa 10.Jenny Smith 84 laps pa 11.Marty Sechler 73 laps pa |
LMS 1.Chad Phillips 100 laps pa #3 2.Kyle Batman 96 laps pa #7 3.Todd Kaufman 96 laps pa #24 4.Pat Moyer 95 laps pa #0 5.Nick Moyer 95 laps pa #48 6.Travis Gladitsch 95 laps pa #88 7.Michelle Katzman 89 laps pa #17 8.Jenny Smith 88 laps pa #40 9.Steve Smith Sr. 87 laps pa #88 10.Nick D'Alesandro 76 laps pa #18 11.Marty Sechler 69 laps pa #6 |
Dont forget the upcomming 2nd annual TKO Turkey Shoot we are looking forward to seeing everyone and having some fun....
Posted 09/25/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
TKO RACEWAY
Elizabethville, PA.
It Was the Scheaffer Show
Todd Kaufman Takes A Pair Of Podiums
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Grand Nationals 1.Chuck Sheaffer pa #31 2.Todd Kaufman pa #72 3.Travis Gladitsch pa #27 4.Chad Phillips pa #21 5.Jenny Smith pa #99 6.Steve Smith Sr. pa #28 |
Jalopy 1.Chuck Sheaffer pa 2.Pat Moyer pa 3.Todd Kaufman pa 4.Chad Phillips pa 5.Kyle Batman pa 6.Steve Smith Sr. pa 7.Jenny Smith pa 8.Travis Gladitsch pa 9.Michelle Katzman pa 10.Casey Geiman pa 11.Tyler D'Alesandro pa 12.Donna Sheaffer pa |
Posted 09/21/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
TKO Raceway
Elizabethville PA.
Travis Gladitsch Takes Podiums
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LMS 1. Chuck Sheaffer pa 24 2. Derek Sheaffer pa 6 3. Travis Gladitsch pa 88 4. Steve Smith Sr pa 88 5. Michelle Katzman pa 17 6. Todd Kaufman pa 43 7. Jenny Smith pa 87 8. Casey Geiman pa 18 9. Patty Knott pa 88 |
SS T-Jet 1.Derek Sheafer pa 2.Chuck Sheaffer pa 3.Travis Gladitsch pa 4.Nick Moyer pa 5.Todd Kaufman pa 6.Kyle Batman pa 7.Michelle Katzman pa 8.Steve Smith Sr pa 9.Pat Moyer pa 10.Jenny Smith pa 11.Casey Geiman pa 12.Patty Knott pa |
Posted 09/13/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
TKO Raceway Elizabethville PA.
September 11, 2011
Gladitsch Grabs A Nice Podium Finish!
1. Chad Phillips PA
2. Todd Kaufman PA
3. Kyle Batman PA
4. Chuck Sheaffer PA
5. Travis Gladitsch PA
6. Steve(Poppa Rat)Smith PA
Grand Nationals
1. Chad Phillips PA
2. Travis Gladitsch PA
3. Todd Kaufman PA
4. Chuck Sheaffer PA
5. Jenny Smith PA
6. Steve(Poppa Rat)Smith PA
Join us next week for our house JL Muscle Car, LMS and Super Stock T-Jets.
Posted 09/07/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of Travis Gladitsch
Kaufman In Hot Pursuit
September 4, 2011
Super Stock T-Jet 1. Chad Phillips PA 2. Todd Kaufman PA 3. Nick PA 4. Kyle PA 5. Travis Gladitsch PA 6. Steve Smith Sr PA 7. Michelle Katzman PA 8. Ross Massa PA Late Model Sportsman 1. Chad Phillips PA #3 2. Todd Kaufman PA #29 3. Travis Gladitsch PA #88 4. Kyle PA #5 5. Nick PA #93 6. Michelle Katzman PA #17 7. Steve Smith Sr PA #88 8. Ross Massa PA #24
Posted 08/16/2011 –
Elizabethville, PA.
from the desk of the Roooster
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Dave Simms Captures the Super Stocks
I'll describe the weekend from my own experience with some nonconnected comments on the events of the race card.
It was about 105 miles from my home to Anthony Zampelli's home in Maspeth/Queens, NYC. Not being a city schooled driver I was challenged but with minor difficulty arrived in time to hook up with Anthony, Bruce & Yucha who travelled from Worcester MA.!! We still had the trip ahead out to Elizabethville, PA. where Todd Kaufman and his race group would host a 2 event venue the Late Model Stock and the Super Stock classes. With Anthony at the helm of his palace on wheels we rode in style and arrived late Friday but Todd was gracious enough to keep the track open for testing, tuning and tweaking which would also happen the next day, Saturday when more racers would arrive and they too would look for that special chassis and motor combination.
(1)Bruce Gordon, (2)Greg Burstein and (3)Anthony Zampelli
The LMS was run on the TKO HO scale king track design. Not being all that good at recollecting I will do my best. Eventually the call came for registration and turning in cars. Once this was done the race sequence was determined by a process not known to me. But it wasn't biased just not known how it was arrived at. Most everyone I saw had a car that handled so no one has any handling issues. But the track was not forgiving as there were a couple of subtlties. The track had a negativer camber in the 'finger'. On the corner at the top of the donut it has a slight dip. Both of these required a conscious effort to 'set' the car just before these corners. If not cars would deslot and with groupings of cars being close one false move and you might drop a place or more.If I recall Greg Burstein completed his heats and then Anthony Zampelli. These 2 were looking for the win with Greg nosing out Anthony by a lap. However there was still one driver yet in the hunt and with his final heat to go. I can't recall what lane he ran but he poured it on knowing it was for the win. And when the heat ended he had that one lap he needed to take the win. It was (1)Bruce Gordon, (2)Greg Burstein and (3)Anthony Zampelli within 2 laps of each other!! Bruce earned this win as he took fast lap time on every lane except red where Greg Burstein was the man on fire with fast time. Rounding out the top 5 with great runs were local guns Chad P.(4) and TKO himself Todd Kaufman(5). There were 13 laps separating spots 5 thru 17. After the top 4 the racing was tight!!! Congratulations Bruce Gordon on your LMS victory.
The finale' was the popular Fray style Super Stocks. Since this race would be run on both the King HO and the road course it was decided to split the field and run the fastest group on the King while the slower group would run the road course. When they finished they would swap and run the other course. This race would be set by a 3 lap time trial to place racers in an order of the fast group and the slow group. This being done the groups went to their respective tracks and with help at the computer the green flag would drop and they would pound out the laps.(1)Yucha, (2)Jeff Crosley and (3)Tyler D.
(1)Dave Simms, (2)Chuck Schaeffer and (3)Greg Burstein
In the top group the competition was incredible! Fast time was posted as drivers came in and heats were completed. Fast lap times dropped as drivers caught the rhythm of the track. When Dave Simms hit the blue lane he set the fast time with a blistering 6.249!! But there was no guarantee of victory as he also had fast lap on orange but surrendered fast lap time on the other 4 lanes!! Dave is a great road course driver and his car was prepared. When it was over he had his victory but it couldn't be any closer as the final screen here will show. Chuck Shaeffer and Greg Burstein were not about to make this a cheap give away win as they pushed themselves and cars to the limit coming up short by the smallest of margins. When the checkered flag came out, with the sweat pouring off and a breath of relief it was Dave Simms race.(1)Dave Simms, (2)Chuck Schaeffer and (3)Greg Burstein
Both the LMS and the Super Stock event laps were added and racers finished where their totals put them. For the entire weekend the finishing order put the 3 drivers above on the podium. Included here is a photo of the computer screem of where they finished.Gratitude and many thanks to Todd Kaufman for opening his facility to all who raced. Many thanks to each and every racer who participated and supported this event that will jump start the organized racing for the HOCOC LMS and support races that will create the Pennsylvania LMS Region of competition leading up to the HOCOC LMS championship weekend of racing. This facility has massive area and 3 HO tracks along with I believe 3 1/24th scale tracks. Plenty of pit space so crowding didn't happen.
Russ Upton, Bruce Gordon, Anthony Zampelli, Derek S, Travis, Tyler D. and others stepped up prior to this event to assist in getting TKO Raceways up and running. For the Race Russ Upton and a local whose name I can't recall as well as others I can picture but have no names ran races, manned the computers and contributed effort(s) to keep things running as smooth as possible.
I enjoyed myself throughout the weekend whether I was racing, marshalling or neither. The track is in a shopping place with ample parking. And although McDonald's was at the entrance to the shopping plaza Debbie and the cook whose name escapes me provided great food and drink the day long!!!