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9/6/15
Port Royal Myerstowns Brent Marks
whizzed from third to the lead and was also the third leader during the final
lap, to pick up Mondays 64th annual Labor Day Classic for 410 sprint
cars at Port Royal Speedway worth $4,000.
Marks first overall win of
the year anywhere capped off an amazing daylight performance by the sprint cars
on the slick track that produced multiple grooves of racing and exciting side by
side battles from beginning to end.
In the 18-lap econo late
model main event, Eric Irvin picked up his fourth win of the season over Andrew
Yoder and in doing so narrowed Yoders scant 20-point lead over himself to just
five markers for the season title in a battle that concludes this coming
weekend.
To end the afternoon program
Travis McClelland prevailed in the 15-lap Central Pa Legends cars event, in a
first ever appearance by the cars at the big oval.
Yorks Chase Dietz started
third in the 25-lap Labor Day Classic for sprint cars and drove by Trenton
Schaeffer and polesitter Dylan Cisney for the lead on the first lap.
However Dietzs pace was
slowed before he could really get going on the second lap thanks to a caution
period.
Dietz was leading over
Schaeffer and Cisney on the seventh tour when another yellow appeared, this time
finding seventh starter Marks up to fifth.
Before the caution, all eyes
had turned to Logan Wagner who went into no-mans land on the extreme highest
line around the track, flirting with the rail but passing cars at will.
And once Wagner took that
approach, others followed suit including Aaron Ott, Greg Hodnett and Danny
Dietrich along with Cisney.
Marks motored into fourth on
the restart, getting around Dietrich who was the defending event champion.
And a lap later Marks took
over third behind Cisney with Dietrich following him through.
During all this action at
the front, 16th starter Hodnett was making good on his advance
efforts to be up to sixth behind Ott when a final yellow flag slowed the pace
with 12 laps to go when Logan Wagner saw his high wire act come to an end with a
blown left rear tire.
A major shuffling took place
on the restart when some went high and some went low with Dylan Cisney drilling
Dietz off of the bottom for the lead in the third and fourth turns as Marks,
Dietrich and Ott battled one another for position.
Dietrich rimrode around
Marks for third with 10 laps to go and then advanced to second a lap later as
Dietz began to fade from the front after a valiant effort.
Dietrich closed up on Cisney
for the lead after a few laps to track him down and with eight laps to go Ott
made a two car pass, getting around both Marks and Dietz to claim third as the
fans were pressed with which battle to watch at the front.
With five laps to go the
order was Cisney, Dietrich, Ott, Marks and Dietz and the battle would go down to
the wire.
Ott muscled around Dietrich
deep in the third corner after getting to his inside at the end of the backchute
with three laps to go and then he honed in on leader Cisney.
But at the same time, Cisney
ran up on a couple of backmarkers running both the bottom and middle of the
track and that set up the wild finish that wasnt decided until the exit of turn
four.
As Cisney pushed his car
into the first corner trying to get around the backmarker, Ott blasted the top
into the corner and took the lead but at the same time Marks surged as low as he
could go into the turns and got by Cisney as well.
And then as they split the
backmarker exiting the second turn, Marks drew even with Ott and then shot into
weak control on the backstretch with Ott following directly behind him through
the final turns to come up short by less than a second at the finish.
Cisney ended up third
followed by Dietrich and Hodnett.
Sixth through
10th went to Dietz, Lucas Wolfe, Dave Ely, Lance Dewease and Curt
Stroup.
Heats for the 24 cars went
to Cisney, Dietz and Ott.
Eric Irvin would lead all 18
laps of the econo late model main with Jared Fulkroad chasing in second until
lap five when Andrew Yoder took over from 12th starting spot.
But second was as far as
Yoder would go as Irvin had the race well in hand, now sitting just five points
back for the season title with a final race looming on September 12.
Tim Fedder rode home third
followed by Tim Gray and Todd Snook.
Twin heats went to Todd
Snook and Devin Hart.
Chad Earnst led the first
four laps of the legends feature before Joe Enrisman took over.
Travis McClelland then took
the lead on the seventh tour and the pair of McClelland and Enrisman would then
battle to the finish with McClelland taking the victory over Enrisman, Harlin
Leppo, Bill Diehl and Earnst.
Heats went to Randy
Fetterolf and Earnst.
A two-division demolition
derby ended the day with Eli Love and Chuck McCartle taking the twin $1,000
paydays.
There was 35 cars in action.
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Race
Results:
Feature
Finishes
9/7/15
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Brent
Marks, 2. Aaron Ott, 3. Dylan Cisney, 4. Danny Dietrich, 5. Greg Hodnett, 6.
Chase Dietz, 7. Lucas Wolfe, 8. Dave Ely, 9. Lance Dewease, 10. Curt Stroup, 11.
Mike Wagner, 12. Joey Hershey, 13. Logan Wagner, 14. Dan Shetler, 15. Wayne
Dadetto, 16. Trenton Schaeffer, 17. Vince Snyder, 18. Karl Baker, 19. Troy
Fraker, 20. Cory Thornton, 21. Blane Heimbach, 22. Justin Barger, 23. Mike
Wagner II. , 24. Colby Womer.
Econo late
models, 18 laps: 1. Eric Irvin, 2. Andrew Yoder, 3. Tim Fedder, 4. Tim Gray,
5. Todd Snook,. 6. Jared Fulkroad, 7. Dillan Stake, 8. Devin Hart, 9. Jason
Nace, 10. Harold Ranck, 11. Chase Bowsman, 12. Curt Dunn
Legends, 15
laps: 1. Travis McClelland, 2. Joe Enrisman, 3. Harlin Leppo, 4. Bill Diehl,
5. Chad Ernst, 6. Bob Stough, 7. Rick Hartwig, 8. John Lytor, 9. Jacob Feltch,
10. Brian Hayburger, 11. Tony Mrakovich, 12. Randy Fetterolf, 13. Scott Deaner
Sr., 14. Robert Shaw
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