NORRIS KICKS OFF SPEEDWEEK CAMPAIGN TOP 10 FINISH AT WILLIAMS GROVE; ADDS NEW TRACK TO RESUME
Hanover, PA (June 29, 2022) – The first half of Speedweek is in the books, and Dylan Norris and the Gobrecht Motorsports team kicked things off on Night #1 at Williams Grove with a sixth place finish. Norris timed 11th quick out of 29 cars on hand with a lap of 17.046 seconds. Dylan would go on to finish third in his heat, lining him up 11th for the start of the 30-lap feature. Norris currently sits second in the season point standings at Williams Grove. On Night #2 Speedweek moved to Lincoln Speedway where 47 cars signed in to compete in the Kevin Gobrecht Memorial. Norris timed 11th quick with a lap of 13.786 seconds in Flight #1 which included 24 cars. Dylan finished third in his heat, qualifying him for the feature. Norris lined up 12th for the 30-lap feature and crossed the line 13th. Night #3 of [...]
NORRIS LOOKS TO REBOUND AS SPEEDWEEK ARRIVES
Hanover, PA (June 20, 2022) – Dylan Norris started the weekend off at Williams Grove on Friday night with 21 cars on hand. Norris started sixth in his heat and finished fourth, lining him up 12th for the 25-lap feature. Dylan fought track conditions and motor issues and pulled in on lap 18 while running 17th. Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway Norris and the Gobrecht Motorsports team swapped out engines after hot laps. Due to the engine swap Norris missed time trials and would line up eighth for his heat. Dylan moved up to fifth, qualifying for the feature. Dylan started the feature 18th and spun out on the first lap. Norris would spin out again on lap 8. Dylan would pull in on lap 14 while running 20th. Dylan and the team are looking forward to their momentum taking a turn back towards the positive as Speedweek kicks off [...]
NORRIS CONTINUES TO SHOW SPEED AT WILLIAMS GROVE; WEEKEND OF HIGHS AND LOWS
Hanover, PA (June 13, 2022) – Dylan Norris started his weekend strong with a fifth place finish at Williams Grove on Friday night. Norris was the fastest car in his warm-up group, putting down a lap of 17.441 seconds. With the 0 invert pill pulled Dylan lined up on the pole of the third heat race. Norris won his heat and lined up sixth for the start of the feature. Dylan ran fourth for the first half of the feature before getting passed by Devon Borden on lap 13. Norris would cross the line fifth; his third top five of the season at the Grove. The Fallen Firefighters Memorial race at Lincoln had a field of 33-cars on Saturday night. Norris timed third quick with a lap of 13.251 seconds, lining him up fourth for his heat race. Dylan qualified for the feature through his heat with a fourth place [...]
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTED BY TOP 5 FINISH FOR NORRIS AT STEVE SMITH TRIBUTE RACE
Hanover, PA (June 6, 2022) – What was set to be a four-race weekend was shortened to three races with the Greg Hodnett Foundation Race slated for Thursday at BAPS Motor Speedway getting rained out. That meant Dylan started the weekend at Williams Grove on Friday night. Norris lined up fifth in his heat and finished fourth, lining him up 12th for the start of the 25-lap feature. Dylan would initially drop back to 13th at the start but worked his way back up to 12th on lap 5 and then got by Chase Dietz for 11th on lap 9. Norris crossed the line 11th, “Some people are pleased to run 11th in a 410 show but myself and this team hold ourselves to higher standards. Friday night every time we hit the track the tire we had on shrunk 2 inches causing the car to be ill handling.” Norris [...]
NORRIS REBOUNDS WITH STRONG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND; SCORES FIRST CAREER FEATURE WIN AT LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Hanover, PA (May 30, 2022) – Memorial Day weekend started early for Dylan Norris and the Gobrecht Motorsports team on Thursday at Selinsgrove Speedway. After timed hot laps for the 20 cars on hand, Norris lined up seventh for his heat race and he would finish seventh. Dylan would start the 25-lap feature 14th driving forward to finish 10th. “Selinsgrove was ok. It was good to end with a top 10 finish after struggling with a fast racetrack all night.” After the rough weekend before, the team had a bent car and a motor with a lot of races on it that they wanted to shake down, and everything worked well on Thursday night. The Bob Leiby Memorial at Lincoln on Saturday saw a field of 35 sprint cars. Norris started his heat race from sixth and finished second, putting himself in the handicap for the feature. Dylan started the [...]
NORRIS LOOKING TO REBOUND AFTER ROUGH WEEKEND
Hanover, PA (May 23, 2022) – Dylan Norris showed speed both Friday night at the Grove and Saturday at Lincoln but got caught up in incidents on the track both nights. Thankfully Norris is ok after the rough weekend, ”I’m doing perfectly fine, just frustrated with two good runs taken away by wrecks that were out of our control.” Friday night was the first night Williams Grove used time trials in hot laps to set the heat line-ups for their Yellow Breeches series. Norris timed second quick in his group, and with the zero being pulled for the invert, that meant he lined up second for his heat race. Norris finished second in his heat which lined him up sixth for the feature. Norris was running fourth on lap 4 when a car spun in front of him with nowhere for him to go. Despite the set back Norris rejoined [...]