Xtreme Racing News

As if Glen Ridge can't get any worse now, after numerous rain-outs, low car counts and little attendance, the Glen Ridge Motorsports Park has cancelled yet again for tonight as they move onto a new era. Wednesday night a meeting was held and Pete Demetraszek has decided that he will leave the track, focus on Fonda and will leave his old job for car owner Mike Parillo. Parillo, who owns Tim Hartman Jr's Sportsman car for Friday nights at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway, will change racing from Friday nights to Sunday nights starting next weekend. Parillo also said the headline division will be the 602 Crate Modifieds, but there's one problem, what driver outside of Alissa Cody has a Crate? Parillo said anyone with a legal 602 Sportsman engine will be allowed to run Modifieds, meaning the Sportsmans may end up being the headliners since no Modified driver at the track has a Crate Modified engine, as everyone runs a Big Block or a Small Block and will have no intentions on  buying a Crate. Multiple drivers will have decisions now to go to Glen Ridge, but a majority will still head out to the Utica-Rome Speedway like Stewart Friesen, or Devils Bowl like David Schilling. Craig Hanson and Jeremy Wilder are running tracks too, Hanson for the STSS,  Wilder has some King of Dirt events with Andy Romano and the 97, which is ran by Peter Britten on Friday night's, along with Jeff Trombley if Modifieds are ran on the same night as the Patriot Sprint Tour, Empire Super Sprints, or CRSA 305 Sprints. A new era has begun, but the question is, if Parillo goes through with Crate Mods, will the track last?