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7/11/15
Port Royal Lucas Wolfe made a thrilling
last lap, last corner pass to pick up the 410 sprint car victory at Port Royal
Speedway on Saturday Night, becoming the third and final leader in the exciting
and suspenseful race to record his second win of the year at the
track.
Danvilles Jeff Rine
annihilated the super late model championship field in the 25-lap affair,
winning by nearly 12 seconds for his 12th career victory at the oval.
And in the 18-lap econo late
model main, local driver Devin Hart led flag to flag to record his first ever
Port Royal win in the division.
Logan Wagner had the pole
for the 25-lap sprint car main and fought off Brock Zearfoss in the opening laps
to begin streaking away from the field on the extreme high side of the
speedway.
But fourth starter and three
time winner Steve Buckwalter had his own designs on the lead and he blistered by
Zearfoss for second on the third lap only to see Zearfoss fight back on lap
four.
Wagner entered the
backmarkers on the fifth tour with Buckwalter in tow but Wagner did fine with
his high wire act in the lead until he came upon the backmarker of Curt Stroup
who was directly ahead with 10 laps to go.
Wagner struggled to put
Stroup a lap down and that gave Buckwalter the chances he needed to make stabs
at the lead with shots to the inside before he made a move work with nine laps
to go.
Wagner tried to fight back
but Buckwalter was stronger and appeared as if he was headed to his fourth oval
win of the year but third starter Lucas Wolfe, who faded early, was on the move.
Wolfe got by Wagner with
just two laps to go using the inside of the second corner for drives that cut
into Buckwalters lead.
And on the final circuit, he
used the groove to pull up on Buckwalters rear bumper as the pair traversed the
backchute, headed for the third corner.
And with a textbook move,
Wolfe jabbed the Zemco No. 1 machine deep into the third corner before sliding
up in front of Buckwalter to steal the victory as the pair raced back to the
checkered flag.
Wolfes margin was just .282
seconds over Buckwalter with Wagner third followed by Brent Marks and Zearfoss.
Sixth through
10th went to Dylan Cisney, Mike Wagner, Dave Ely, Rick Lafferty and
Mike Erdley.
Heats went to Buckwalter,
Zearfoss and Marks.
Trent Brenneman took the
lead at the start of the super late model championship race after an initial
start frontstretch melee.
Some 12 cars were involved
in the crash started when the rear of the field checked up as two cars at the
front made contact.
With the field rearranged
for another start, Brenneman took control over Tim Smith Jr. with both Dan Stone
and Jeff Rine starting eighth and ninth, respectively.
Stone made his presence
known during the first several laps with Rine following him through to the
front.
Stone drove around Andy Haus
for third on the sixth tour but a yellow flag a lap later slowed the pace.
Rine lined up fourth for the
restart and when green reappeared instead of Stone pressuring for second, Rine
bolted to his inside as the pair raced into the first corner to take over third.
After getting the third
spot, Rine motored by Tim Smith Jr. for second before another yellow with nine
laps down placed Rine directly on Brennemans rear deck.
The restart was all she
wrote for Brenneman as Rines advances were simply unequalled.
Once at the helm, Rine just
poured on the speed to drive to an 11.717 second win over Stone, who took second
with two laps to go.
At the finish, Rines
advantage found him in the middle of the first and second corners while the
second place car of Stone was entering the third corner.
Brenneman rode home third
followed by Smith and Andy Haus.
Sixth through
10th went to Mike Lupfer, Brett Schadel, Patrick Bryner, Nick Dickson
and Hayes Mattern.
Heats went to Lupfer, Rine
and Smith.
Devin Hart led all 18 laps
of the econo late model feature to take the win over Troy Miller.
Miller took over second when
Dillan Stake dropped out of the spot on the seventh tour.
Harts margin of victory was
3.272 seconds.
Andrew Yoder was third
followed by Eric Irvin and Tim Fedder.
Heats went to Miller and
Yoder.
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Race Results:
Feature
Finishes
7/11/15
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Lucas
Wolfe, 2. Steve Buckwalter, 3. Logan Wagner, 4. Brent Marks, 5. Brock Zearfoss,
6. Dylan Cisney, 7. Mike Wagner, 8. Dave Ely, 9. Rick Lafferty, 10. Mike Erdley,
11. Nate Snyder, 12. Curt Stroup, 13. Joey Hershey, 14. Kyle Pruitt, 15. Trenton
Schaeffer, 16. Daryl Stimeling, 17. Wayne Dadetto, 18. Dave Hahn, 19. Jim
Shuster, 20. Jack Thornton
DNS: Vince Shuster, Mallie
Shuster
Late models, 25 laps:
1. Jeff
Rine, 2. Dan Stone, 3. Trent Brenneman, 4. Tim Smith Jr., 5. Andy Haus, 6. Mike
Lupfer, 7. Brett Schadel, 8. Patrick Bryner, 9. Nick Dickson, 10. Hayes Mattern,
11. Jason Schmidt, 12. Eric Zembower, 13. Danny Snyder, 14. Scott Flickinger,
15. Dave Stamm, 16. Dave Brouse Sr., 17. Jeff Miller, 18. Matt Parks, 19. Jim
Yoder, 20. Meade Hahn, 21. Tim Wilson, 22. Bryan Bernheisel, 23. Steve Bailor,
24. Mike Mort, 25. Mitch Hack
DNQ: Tim
Murphy
355 econo late
models, 18 laps: 1. Devin Hart, 2. Troy Miller, 3. Andrew Yoder, 4. Eric
Irvin, 5. Tim Fedder, 6. Jared Fulkroad, 7. Harold Ranck, 8. Corey Kepner, 9.
Garrett Gray, 10. Jason Nace, 11. Dillan Stake, 12. Curt Dunn, 13. Jason
Davis
DNS: Chase
Bowsman, Rod Stroup, Todd Snook
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