Selinsgrove Speedway Mourns Loss Of Maynard Boop & Tommy Spriggle

Story By: SHAWN BROUSE / SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY – SELINSGROVE, PA – Selinsgrove Speedway is mourning the loss this week of a pair of sprint car champions at the historic oval, sprint car owner Maynard Boop of Mifflinburg and sprint car driver Tommy Spriggle of Harrisburg.

Boop, age 99, was the owner of the famed Boop’s Aluminum Special No. 1 sprint car that broke records and stunned the sprint car ranks at Selinsgrove and across the nation from 1976 through 1982.

Overall his mounts scored 111 sprint car feature wins along with numerous track and series titles.

The Boop’s car was the Central Pennsylvania KARS owner champion mount in 1977, 1979 and in 1980 while it also scored the KARS driver titles in 1979 and 1980.

At Selinsgrove Speedway alone, the Boop’s No. 1 took the 1982 track title with Dillsburg’s Lynn Paxton at the wheel while taking 10 wins on the season.

Paxton/Boop also won the Selinsgrove Jack Gunn Memorial in 1981, scored a Labor Day win in 1982 and also beat the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Series at the oval in 1982.

The last of Boops 111 overall career owner wins also came at Selinsgrove Speedway, with Randy Wolfe at the wheel in October, 1982.

Spriggle, age 75, was the 1977 Selinsgrove Speedway sprint car track champion.

Spriggle and his No. 42 super sprint campaigned for decades at Selinsgrove Speedway and around the region before competing regularly later in his career in the 358 sprint car ranks.

His son Alan is also a former regular 358 sprint campaigner at the Snyder County oval.

The staff and management of Selinsgrove Speedway extend its sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of both late sprint car legends at this time of loss.

Full obituaries and funeral service information for both men can be found via links at the speedway’s official website