Reynoldsville- After nearly a month’s delay, it was finally time to embark on the 2026 season at Hummingbird Speedway on Saturday night. It was an emotional evening as Opening Night marked the first event at the track since track owner Louie Caltagarone’s passing last October. Each of the six features that took to the track ran a pace lap in “missing man” formation to honor Louie. It was also the first race for new Program Director, Brian Nestor, who was named to the position back in March. Trophies on the night were sponsored by Race-1 Motor Speedway in DuBois.
A piece of Hummingbird Speedway history was made Saturday night as there were seven women competing across all of our six divisions. That is the largest turnout of women drivers on a single night of racing in the tracks’ 62 year history. Those seven women were: the #47 of Shawnee Sturgeon in the Pro Stocks, the #9G of Arianna Samuelson, #9JR of Emily Stoyer, and #41 of Anastasia Vassen in the Economods, the #50 of Ashley Kilhoffer and #56K of Renae Meyer in the Pure Stocks, and the #21.5 of Bryanna Anderson in the Four-Cylinders.
Feature winners on Opening Night included: the #55 of Denny Fenton in the Srock Contracting Super Late Models, the #96R of Tyler Rougeux in the Semi Late Models, the #28 of Fuzzy Fields in the Pro Stocks, the #50 of Bob McMillen in the Economods, the #88 of Josh Fields in the Pure Stocks, and the #3H of Shawn Hadden in the Four-Cylinders. The win for Rougeux was the first of his career.
Speedway Notes: 55 cars were on hand for Opening Night 2026. That breaks down to: 6 Super Late Models, 5 Semi Late Models, 10 Pro Stocks, 11 Economods, 11 Pure Stocks, and 13 Four-Cylinders. We will be back in action this coming Saturday, June 6th, with a regular 6-Division Program on the card. It will be a non-points event for the Pure Stock class due to a special at Marion Center Speedway. The Ken Schaffer Excavating Kids Club gets underway every Saturday night at 6pm by the pit gate entrance. It is a great place to take your kids to do some fun kids club activities prior to racing getting started. For more information regarding the June 6th racing action and future events, keep it tuned to the track Facebook page @ Hummingbird Speedway and website @ www.hummingbirdspeedway.com for the latest updates.
Results:
Srock Contracting Super Late Models
1st) #55 Denny Fenton
2nd) #36 Paul Kot
3rd) #14R Clay Ruffo
4th) #13X Kenny Schaffer
5th) #56 Dylan Fenton
6th) #66N Orvis Newcome lll
Semi Late Models
1st) #96R Tyler Rougeux
2nd) #2 Gary Little
3rd) #11 Kyle Shannon
4th) #3xAA Doug Surra
5th) #18 Rich Runyan Jr.
Pro Stocks
1st) #28 Fuzzy Fields
2nd) #10R Raven Fuller
3rd) #37A Jim Bloom
4th) #3 Rich Howell
5th) #104 Allen Lamb
6th) #47S Shawnee Sturgeon
7th) #150 Kyle Corah
8th) #24C Dennis Curry Jr.
9th) #77 Nathan Brady
10th) #54S Mitch Stiles
Economods
1st) #50 Bob McMillen
2nd) #818 Bob Connor
3rd) #47S Gary Sullivan
4th) #9G Arianna Samuelson
5th) #1 Dalton Gustafson
6th) #9JR Emily Stoyer
7th) #777 Justin Lapcevich
8th) #13M Virgil Meyer
9th) #41 Anastasia Vassen
10th) #24R Derrick Randolph
11th) #923 Shane Wilson
Pure Stocks
1st) #88 Josh Fields
2nd) #46 Dustin Challingsworth
3rd) #55X Andy Frey
4th) #50 Ashley Kilhoffer
5th) #01D Dominic Marchiori
6th) #79 Devon Trayer
7th) #56K Renae Meyer
8th) #23M Bo Murray
9th) #88P Cory Price
10th) #37B Noah Bloom
11th) #49 George Bailey
Four-Cylinders
1st) #3H Shawn Hadden
2nd) #45 Andrew Thompson
3rd) #44B Bruce Long
4th) #THE99 Scott Robison
5th) #4T1 Allen Robison
6th) #29L Josh Lindenmuth
7th) #6 Adam Pluebell
8th) #8F Sam Fye
9th) #5 Andy Thompson
10th) #778 Duane Hinderliter
11th) #87M Matthew Mitchell
12th) #64E Isaac Exley
13th) #21.5 Bryanna Anderson
