GILBERTSVILLE - Three champions were honored during the Grandview Speedway 50th anniversary awards banquet on Saturday night. For the fifth time in his impressive career Duane Howard took home the top honors in the NASCAR Whelen All American Series 358 Modified championship battle while Chuck Schutz was tops in the Late Model division for the first time and Jared Umbenhauer took the honors in the new Sportsman division.

More than 500 people filled the Gilbertsville, PA Fire Co. Social Hall to see the top 20 drivers and top ten owners in each of the three divisions receive there awards and there was a variety of special awards presented during the evening that was MC’d by track announcer Ernie Saxton.

Thousands of dollars in point fund money was paid out to top performers with Duane Howard and his car owner going home with more than $10,000 for their championship winning efforts with the 358 Modifieds. Howard (Oley) tallied 5514 points and nine feature wins on the way to the title. Doug Manmiller (Shoemakersville) finished second with 4890 counters and two wins while Craig VonDohren earned third with 4573 points despite not being able to get a feature win.