This week I’ll continue my look at the area’s all-time winners.

The 358 sprint cars and the super sportsmen will be my focus this week.

The 358 sprint class was introduced in this area in 1989. Originally the KARS organization sanctioned 358 sprint racing, but now each track sanctions its own racing for these cars. While most of the rest of the country hosts limited sprint-car racing with 360 cubic-inch engines, the 358 cubic-inch class is unique to this area. And, yes, there are many more differences than those two cubic inches of engine displacement.

The 2010 Port Royal Speedway 410 sprint champion, Chad Layton, still leads all drivers in 358 sprint wins. It’s been quite a few years now since Layton raced regularly with the 358 sprints, but he still holds the lead in all-time wins with 55.

Etters’ Pat Cannon made a major charge toward displacing Layton this season, however. Cannon’s 18 wins with the 358 sprints in 2010 moved him up one spot on the all-time list. They also closed the gap with Layton to just one win. Cannon now owns 54 358 sprint wins.

Mike Lehman slipped to third on the career win list. Lehman has won 51 358 sprint features.

Blane Heimbach won three races in 2010 and stayed in the fourth spot for career wins at 37.

Brad McClelland only raced one night a week with the 358 sprints in 2010 and plans to concentrate on the 410s in 2011. Still, his six 2010 358 sprint wins gave him a six-spot jump on the career win list. He has 31 wins, good for a tie for fifth. Bob Beidleman, the original big winner in this class, is the driver who is tied with McClelland. Beidleman still competes on a semi-regular basis at Selinsgrove, but it’s been a few years since his last victory.

There’s also a tie for seventh. Cory Haas, who competed one night a week with the 358s and one night a week with the 410s in 2010, is tied with Jeff Rohrbaugh at 28 wins. Both Yorkers will race in 2011, with Haas concentrating on the 410s, while Rohrbaugh will return to the 358s with a new deal of his own.

Three drivers are tied for the ninth spot on the list at 27. Dale Hammaker and Billy Dietrich are both still active, while Greg Leiby is working on his son’s micro-sprint career.

In the super sportsmen ranks, there weren’t many changes in the top 10. In fact, only one position changed, and that driver moved into a tie.

The super-sportsman class has evolved from the Class A sportsmen at Silver Spring, and have been around since the mid-1950s. Over the years, the sportsmen have raced at many area speedways, but Silver Spring Speedway was their home base as long as it existed.

The super sportsmen are now the top class on the Saturday schedule at Williams Grove, but they also have tour dates at many other local tracks.

In all that time, no one has won more races in those cars than Brogue’s Gary Wolford. I have found 145 career wins in this class for “The Pride of Brogueville.”

Johnny Murphy with 83 and Larry Jackson with 82 rank second and third. Both drivers are now retired. Veteran Rich Eichelberger added three wins to his total in 2010. The Dillsburg driver now has 77 wins in fourth spot.

Retired drivers Russ Smith and Dwight Leib are next in line. Smith holds down fifth with 69 career wins, while Leib has 68 wins in sixth spot.

The 2010 champion, Frankie Herr, won eight times this year, and that actually did move him into a tie for seventh on the all-time list at 59. That equals the win total of Fred Putney Sr.

Howie Locke and Hellam’s Bobby Weaver are locked in a tie for the ninth. Both drivers have won 48 times.

That covers the top-10 drivers in both of this area’s limited sprint-car classes. It’s interesting to note that nine of the 11 drivers listed in the 358 sprint ranks are still active drivers, although a few are moving toward, or have already become, a part of the 410 sprint class.

In the super-sportsman ranks, only two of the top-10 drivers are still active. And both have passed their 50th birthday.

A third driver on the list, Bobby Weaver, almost managed to sit out the whole 2010 season, but near the end of the season, Weaver drove a limited-late model a few times. Those rides extended Weaver’s racing career to 44 consecutive years — and counting.

Bryan Householder writes about dirt-track racing for The York Dis patch. He can be reached at sports@yorkdispatch.com.