Rick Shive - Rick Shive started attending races at Flemington with his Mom at 2 years old with friends, while his Dad was in the NAVY. He was instantly hooked, and hasn’t looked back since. Being a native of Upper Black Eddy, Pa from a big racing family Hoop Schaible was his racing hero. In fact one of Rick’s later racecars was painted and lettered like Hoop’s 95, complete with Hoop’s sponsors. He just knew that someday he would race, and at the age of 19 he hit the track at Flemington and Nazareth in his number 62 sportsman. For various reasons he ended up not racing anymore after 1980, but soon returned as a car owner with his brother Randy driving. This lasted until 1984, then from 1985-1987 he fielded a sprint car with URC, with Rod Hanna, Mike Auer and briefly Randy driving. Marriage and children put a halt to racing until 2013 when he came into possession of a go kart. Returning to to the driver’s seat, Rick competed at Snydersville, Shellhammers, West End Fairgrounds, and New Reading Fairgrounds from 2013-2018. Won several features and two track championships at Snydersville. His driving career ended for good in 2018 due to an injury following a crash at Snydersville. He continued as an owner one more season with Matthew Rodenbach winning a bunch of races and another championship at Snydersville. Rick early in life gained a reputation for remembering things nobody else did. Racing was the primary subject, but other aspects of life were easily recalled. Quite often someone would say “Ask Shive, he probably remembers”. With the advent of racing message boards and social media he quickly became a “go to guy” when somebody had a question nobody could answer: “Who is this, what chassis is that, who drove the Statewide 3 before Horton”? He tends to be long winded in his answers, figuring that if somebody asks a question he may as well give all the information ha has available. He’s been told many times “You know everybody”, and if he doesn’t, he knows somebody who does. Not by any means a statistician, instead just a vast memory bank of information. Rick is a well known lettering artist, lettering hundreds of racecars since 1976. He lives in Bethlehem, Pa with his wife Judy, they have two grown daughters.

Andy Hickok - My racing journey began with my Dad and Mom taking myself and my siblings to Albany Saratoga Speedway and Fonda Speedway fairly frequently in the early 70’s . In 1977 Albany Saratoga was converted to a clay oval and I started attending every event they held and started writing down the race results. In 1978 my best friend and neighbor Kim Duell started racing at the track which started my 40 plus years of working on a pit crew , first with Kim and later with his son Scott . In the early 90’s I approached track promoter Bruce Richards about additional history of the track as I’ve always been a “stats” guy , he told me track PR man Tom Boggie had a lot of the track history but he didn’t freely share it . It became my mission to get the most complete history of the Speedway by scrolling through hundreds of micro films at all the local libraries. Since those days now friend Tom Boggie and I have compared notes and agree on all the tracks wins lists . I moved to Florida in 2021 but continue to keep track records and provide info to track announcer Dan Martin and anyone else who is interested in the track records . 

Brian Bedell - My Mom and Dad took me to the races when I was an infant and I have been involved in the sport for well over 57 years.  My whole life I have been involved in the sport.  My Brother Boomer owned race cars for 20 years and then owned a family speed shop for 36 years – Boomers Performance.

   Along the way I formed a close friendship with Kenny Tremont Jr. and travelled all over with his race team and kept all of his racing statistics since his career started.  I have kept records on most all dirt tracks but Lebanon Valley has been my home track.  I have kept all of the history for Lebanon by keeping statistical information as well I help the tracks announcers – John Stanley and Dan Martin each week with prepared notes on all the drivers and up to date history about the valley of Speed.

   Besides all of this – I have been part of the New York State Stock Car Association for many years.  (NYSSCA) has also been a big part of my life.  I served on the Hall of Fame committee since 1995 through to the present…..helping the organization with information on the nominees and inductees.   I served as the Club President for 3 years from 2006 -  2008 and was honored to do so.

   Overall, I have lots of information on the sport of auto racing, but Northeast Dirt Track Racing has been my passion.