2008 Team News:
10/18/2008: ESW Results: Craig Mitchell finished the 100 lapper in 12th, while John Lieto came in 14th.
10/17/2008: ESW Update: On the first day of qualifying, both Craig Mitchell and John Lieto have locked themselves into Saturdays main event. Hollywood timed in 12th and won his heat, while John timed in 25th and finished 4th in his heat. 64 cars participated in the 358 qualifying.
10/12/2008: Congratulations to Frank Cozze in winning the Rite Aid 200 at Syracuse.
10/3/2008: Hollywood's #33x is ready to go for Eastern States. The second car is almost ready as well. We have decided on the driver for the second car. With several outstanding drivers available and willing, it was a hard decision.... The 2nd place points finishing Sportsman driver John Lieto will be behind the wheel of the #33 for this year's Eastern States 358 race.
9/5/2008: Next up for Hermance Motorsports will be the Eastern States weekend on Oct. 17th-18th. Hollywood will be back in action in the #33x 358 modified. Plus we're looking to enter the second car - driver to be announced. Stay tuned for more info.
8/31/2008: Hollywood's 7th place finish in the final race of the season puts him into 4th place in points. Ken's one start lands him 33rd in the final standings.
8/23/2008: Hollywood finished 8th.
8/16/2008: A broken driveshaft caused the first DNF of the year for Hollywood and the 33x.
8/9/2008: First lap contact badly damaged the front axle, but Hollywood was able to manhandle the 33x to a 10th place finish.
8/2/2008: Ken attempted to take out the backup #33 with the big blocks, but rain thwarted his effort. Hollywood will be back in action the next 4 weeks to close out the points season. Stay tuned as he's in the thick of the points chase.
7/19/2008: HOLLYWOOD WINS THE 358 RACE WITH THE RGP POWERED 33x BLACK MAGIC SHOCKED PMC!!!
7/5/2008: 10th again. View new video clips.
6/28/2008: Hollywood finished 10th.
6/19/2008: The 358's are off this weekend. With the extra time we hope to have the backup 33 ready for Ken for next weekend. Current point standings: 33x Craig Mitchell 3rd; 33 Ken Hermance 28th; 33 Steve Birchwale 32nd
6/14/2008: The rain won again.
6/7/2008: Hollywood finished 5th while Ken sat the night out.
5/31/2008: The races were rained out during the running of the 358 heats.
5/24/2008: Hollywood had a great run going with the 33x PMC leading the 358 feature until he lost the brakes. He hung on for a season best 4th place finish. Ken finally took out the backup 33, and finished a respectable 14th (26 started) in his first 358 race ever.
5/18/2008: Canceled due to rain. We'd like to thank Frank Cozze for agreeing to drive the second car tonight, but unfortunately it was a one time shot as he normally races Saturday nights at New Egypt Speedway. Maybe another opportunity will come up in the future.
5/16/2008: Ok, so we didn't bring the backup car out with the big blocks on 5/3. This weekend the 358's will be racing Sunday with the WoO sprints. Hollywood will be in action in the primary 33x car, and we've called on Frank Cozze to come up and take out the second car.
4/29/2008: With the 358's off until 5/18, Ken plans to bring out the #33 Bicknell with the Big Blocks this weekend.
4/19/2008: A left front flat cost Hollywood a better opening night finish, he was able to hang on to 11th. A last minute change put Steve Birchwale in the second car, he kept it out of trouble and brought it home safe in 23rd.
4/16/2008: Practice went will with Hollywood in the new car. We're anxious to get the season started this weekend. We're still trying to finish the backup car for Ken, it still may be ready for this weekend as well.
3/31/2008: The primary car is all ready for the April 12th practice for Hollywood. The second car won't be together for the 12th, but will hopefully be ready for opening night on the 19th.
3/11/2008: We're looking good for having the new car ready for this weekend's Middletown Motorsports show. Baring unforeseen circumstances, please come out and see us.
2/8/2008: A new live streaming-video GarageCam has been installed. The first time you use it, you will need to install an Active-X control (you may need to wait a minute for the download to start).
2/2/2008: We're still on track for getting the new 2008 PMC chassis for Hollywood as the primary 358 car. As you can see, we have a new paint scheme designed for the new car. If all goes well, we'll debut it at the Middletown Motorsports show on March 14th - 16th. The tentative 2008 schedule has now been posted. We hope to have both 358 cars together in time for the April 12th practice.