Dirt Racing
Buckwalter, Shultz, and Duke Have Open Wheel Madness at Port Royal Speedway
PORT ROYAL, PA (April 24, 2021): Steve Buckwalter had every intention of competing at Lincoln Speedway, but due to schedule changes at both tracks designed to avoid evening rains, he opted for Port Royal Speedway instead. The Royersford Rocket was rewarded with his sixth career victory at the Speed Palace in a non-stop affair.
Joining Buckwalter in celebrations were Jason Shultz in the United Racing Club 360 Sprint Cars and Ken Duke in the PASS/IMCA 305 Sprint Cars.
“It’s been tough up here, it’s been pretty slick,” Buckwalter noted. “There are a few guys who can get grip down the straights and the rest of us are running for sixth.”
Tyler Reeser and Kody Lehman locked up the front row for the start of the 25 lap 410 Sprint Car A Main. Tyler Bear and Justin Whittal were in the second row, followed by A.J. Flick and Buckwalter. Row four belonged to Blaine Heimbach and Dylan Cisney. Last week’s All Star victor, Logan Wagner, and Gerard McIntyre were in the fifth row. Danny Dietrich was paired up with Lucas Wolfe in row six. Anthony Macri, Justin Peck, Mike Wagner, Brent Marks, and Jeff Halligan were scattered through the second half of the starting grid. Marks was back in his family’s car after parting company with Chad and Jen Clemmons earlier in the week.
Reeser raced into the first turn ahead of Lehman, Whittal, Buckwalter, Bear, and Heimbach. Reeser held control through the first nine laps while Buckwalter quietly moved forward. Buckwalter saw an opportunity to move to the inside of Reeser entering turn one and he came off the second corner with a lead that he would never relinquish.
Reeser continued along in second for a few more laps, but Whittal was pressing him. With a dozen laps in the books, Whittal swept by Reeser on the cushion in turns one and two. Whittal began to pull away, but he could not catch Buckwalter.
In the second half of the contest, Cisney began to move forward. He was fifth at lap ten, third at lap 15, and second at lap 23. Another driver making some headway was Dietrich, who cracked the top five by lap 20 after spending most of the race hovering around the top ten.
Buckwalter took the win, much to the satisfaction of the crowd. Cisney was closing in the final laps, but ran out of time. Whittal was third, with Bear and Dietrich completing the top five. Macri, Heimbach, Logan Wagner, McIntyre, and Lehman crossed next.
Heat victories went to Whittal, Heimbach, and Bear . Halliagn took the B Main.
In the United Racing Club A Main, Ryan Smith and Anthony Macri led the way to the green flag. Andy Best and Ken Carberry were in the second row, with Kyle Smith and Justin Shultz in row three.
Smith led the field into turn one, but Macri had the momentum on the high side. He swept into the lead coming off turn two and then he ducked down to the inside entering turn three. Macri remained in the rubber and opened a lead over Ryan Smith, Carberry, Best, and Shultz. Smith was using the same line as Macri and he started to close in on the Concrete Kid.
Just before the halfway mark, Smith made his bid for the lead in turns one and two. He squeezed between Macri and the inside wall and he emerged from turn two with the lead.
Smith and Macri raced along out front, but Shultz came to life midway through the race. He began to pick off cars after a lap 14 restart and soon thereafter he was in second.
Smith was into lapped traffic and Shultz closed in rapidly. Smith moved up a half a groove to set up a pass of a lapped car. Shultz got his nose under Smith entering turn one. The car stuck and he was able to pass the leader as well as the lapped car. Smith was now trapped behind the slower car and that gave Shultz the chance to pull away.
Smith got one last chance when the final caution flew with three laps remaining. Because of track conditions, however, URC officials chose to have a single file restart instead of the customary double file arrangement.
Schultz sailed into turn one unmolested and led the rest of the way without any serious challenge from Smith. Macri, Carberry, and Mike Walter Jr. rounded out the top five. Robbie Kendall, Best, Kyle Smith, Paulie Cologiovanni, and Jordan Thomas were the next five finishers.
Heat wins went to Macri, Kendall, Ryan Smith, and Cologiovanni. Connor Leoffler came from South Carolina to capture the B Main.
In the PASS/IMCA 305 Sprints, Ken Duke took advantage of his second starting spot to grab the initial lead. Duke ran into difficulty when lapping cars midway through the race. That allowed Kassidy Kreitz to chase him down. Kreitz, who started fourteenth, made a bold move on the inside of turn one to take the lead when Duke slid high. She pulled away down the backstretch. But, by the time that she hit turn three, the red flag was out. A blown motor and subsequent oil fire necessitated the stoppage.
Duke was returned to the point for the restart and he easily pulled away from Kreitz. She got a second chance several laps later, but Duke again prevailed.
At the checkers, it was Duke over Kreitz, Dave Grube, Garrett Bard, and Austin Reed. Doug Dodson, Rowdy Heffner, Mikell McGee, Nick Sweigart, and Jeff Weaver took positions six through ten.
Dodson, Sweigart, Justin Mills, and Reed scored in the preliminaries. Mike Alleman took the B Main.
Port Royal Speedway will be back next Saturday with 410 and 305 Sprint Cars, along with Super Late Models. Post time should be 7 p.m., but check social media for any schedule changes. May 8 will have the 410 Sprints, ULMS Late Models, and Limited Late Models. There will be no racing on May 15. The World of Outlaws Late Model Series will invade the Speed Palace for a two-day program May 21-22.
MECHANICSBURG, PA (October 3, 2025) – Chase Dietz, of York, PA, led a Posse sweep of four of the top five positions on night number one of the National Open Weekend at Williams Grove Speedway. Joining Dietz on the front stretch were second place finisher, Lance Dewease, and the third place runner, Danny Dietrich. Justin Whittall was fifth in the race. The only card carrying Outlaw was Carson Macedo, who led the first twenty-one laps before fading to fourth at the finish.
“I just want to soak it in,” Dietz said as he tried to catch his beath following the exhilarating victory, his first ever against the travelling band. Although Dietz noted that he had speed all year at the Grove, his team assembled a new car this week and, in doing so, they made a lot of changes. “The car was very maneuverable.”
Although Dietz ran most of the race in the top groove, he admitted, “I knew that the bottom was going to come in. I knew that I had to get down there before Lance (Dewease) did. I saw his nose.” As it turned out, Dietz barely got to the bottom ahead of Dewease, forcing the cagy veteran to move to the middle in the closing laps.
“We’re just extremely grateful to be here, this sport can be very humbling,” Dietz added. Even last year, when he was running his own cars, Dietz explained that they fought hard to be competitive with the Outlaws. Although they were winless, they showed good speed and had a podium finish against the Outlaws in the 2024 National Open. “I looked back at the nights when we didn’t win, and I tried to figure out what we needed to do to bet better.”
Dewease, who followed Dietz into second on lap twenty-two and wh briefly challenged him for the lead, commented, “the last three or four laps I wasn’t very good. The lapped cars made it interesting.”
Dietrich, who completed the podium for the Posse, felt that he may have had the fastest car in the final laps but, he added, “things didn’t go my way.” He explained that, when he did pass Dewease, he did not get enough of a gap on him, and that let him (Dewease) get back in.”
Macedo drew the pole for the Dash and his win in that event placed him on the pole for the twenty-five lap preliminary, which paid $12,000 to the winner. Dietrich lined up on his right, Dewease and Dietz made up row two, followed by David Gravel and Buddy Kofoid. Diason Pursley and Justin Whittall stacked our row four. Then came Daryn Pittman and Bill Balog. Row six paired Kody Hartlaub with Justin Peck.
The back of the field was almost as impressive as the first six rows. Back there were racers such as Kerry Madsen (fourteenth), Giovanni Scelzi (sixteenth), Brock Zearfoss (seventeenth), Brent Marks (eighteenth), Ryan Timms (nineteenth), Freddie Rahmer, Jr. (twentieth), Sheldon Haudenschild (twenty-first), Logan Schuchart (twenty-first), and Troy Wagaman (twenty-sixth).
Macedo held off Dietrich in turn one to assume control of the race. Dietz ran in third on the opening lap, but he drove under Dietrich in turn four to take over second one lap later. Dewease ran along in fourth, followed by Kofoid, Gravel, Whittall, Pittman, Pursley, and Balog in the early going.
The running order was pretty static through the first five or six laps. The top ten had a major shake-up on lap seven, though. Something broke on Pittman’s car in turn three, and he spun wildly toward the outside wall. In the process, he collected Pursley, Balog, and Hartlaub. Pittman and Pursely retired from the race due to the damage incurred, but Balog and Hartlaub were able to rejoin the field for the restart after pitting for repairs.
That fracas was the only caution of the race.
Macedo and Dietz resumed the battle for the lead on the restart. However, one lap later, Dewease moved into third, ahead of Dietrich, Kofoid, and Gravel. Whittall, Peck, Scelzi, and Rahmer made up the balance of the top ten. At that juncture, Wagaman was about six positions behind Rahmer in their race within the race for the point championship.
Through the middle stage of the race, Dietz began to close in on Macedo. Dewease continued in third, several car lengths behind the leaders. Dietrich was about the same distance back in fourth.
Dietz caught up to Macedo with about five or six laps remaining in the contest. He managed to pass Macedo on the inside of turn three on lap twenty-one, but Macedo countered in turn four to regain the lead.
Macedo dove to the inside heading into turn one, but he scrubbed off spme speed. Dietz was able to get some momentum coming through turn two and that propelled hin down the backstretch. He slid Macedo for the lead coming through turns three and four, and Dewease followed in his tire tracks to take over second coming off turn four.
Dietz missed the bottom entering turn one, and Dewease poked his nose under him going through the turn, Dietz recovered, and he got a good run off turn two to preserve his lead. Dietz then committed to the low line for the final laps, requiring Dewease to move more toward the middle of the track.
Dietrich dispatched Macedo and he got a run on Dewease near the end of the race. However, Dewease was able to reclaim second soon thereafter.
At the finish, it was Dietz by a tad under eight tenths of a second over Dewease. Dietrich was third, followed by Macedo and Whittall. Kofoid, Gravel, Scelzi,Peck, and Marks completed the top ten.
Rahmer was eleventh, and Wagaman sixteenth. Although Wagaman was the hard charger at plus ten, he lost valuable points to Rahmer. The two racers will be separated by 125 points, unofficially, heading into Saturday’s season finale.
Heat wins were scored by Gravel, Kofoid, Dewease, and Pursley. Ryan Newton won the non-qualifiers race. Kyle Spence recovered from a tipover in his heat race to capture the C Main. The B Main went to Haudenschild. Gravel was the evening’s fastest qualifier, with a lap of 16.409 seconds topping Group A. Dewease timed the best in Group B, with a lap of 16.760 seconds. Fifty-six cars participated in the event.
HARTFORD, OH (September 27, 2025) – Dale Blaney had the hometown crowd on their feet and screaming after winning the World of Outlaws feature Saturday Night at Sharon Speedway, the track owned for years by the Blaney family.
Blaney started fifth and passed Cole Macedo on lap 11 for the lead then held off a furious last lap charge by Buddy Kofoid to win by just 0.136 seconds for the $12,000 payday!
The victory was Blaney’s first World of Outlaws victory in 10-years, becoming the oldest winner in Series history at 61 years 7 months and 28 days. Blaney broke the previous record set by his older brother Dave when he won at 58 years of age in 2021 at Sharon.
“There’re so many good young race car drivers out here, but to win a race at 61 (years old) is awesome,” said Blaney. ““I had the feeling that I was never going to win an Outlaw race ever again. I don’t race much. This is our sixth race this year. I haven’t run in seven weeks. The car was awesome. We just got it back together this week. I don’t know what to say. It’s great and cool to win this at Sharon Speedway- it’s the only place I’ve run this year. This is a special freaking night. I know that.”
“I wanted traffic,” said Kofoid. “My car is usually amazing in traffic. He slipped up, and then I kind of got in his air and got me slipped up. And then I hit the wall coming to the checkered, and it shot me down the track. I tried to send it and was close. I’m just happy for Dale and Dave.”
Sheldon Haudenschild finished third follow by WoO points leader David Gravel in fourth. Logan Schuchart rounded out the Top 5.
The night however belonged to the Blaney family, who fittingly closed out the the first year of the new ownership group of Dave Blaney, Ryan Blaney, and Will Thomas III in Victory Lane.
ABBOTTSTOWN, PA (September 27, 2025): A persistent, localized drizzle forced a stoppage of the Fallen Heroes Memorial at the Lincoln Speedway. The event, which was originally dubbed the Fallen Firefighters Memorial, was expanded to give tribute to the three York County police officers recently slain while serving a subpoena.
Brett and Jordan Strickler, policemen in the area, honored the fallen officers on the wings of their 410 Sprint Cars.
The 410 Sprint Cars were ready to take to the track for their feature event when the rain set in for the second time of the night. A brief shower interrupted the heat races for the 358 Sprint Cars. However, after the rain stopped, the track crew and push truck operators quickly prepared the surface so that all qualifications could be completed.
The line-ups for both feature races are set, and the events will be completed on October 18, along with the full program for both divisions in the Final 50. So, fans will be treated to four features that evening.
The point races in both divisions will conclude on October 18.
Dallas Schott, Kyle Moody, and Billy Dietrich won the heat races for the 410 Sprinters. Ryan “Fig” Newton prevailed in the B Main. Troy Wagaman, Jr. was the fastest qualifier of the twenty-nine cars on hand. His time was an astonishing 12.855 seconds. He was one of four racers to turn sub-thirteen second laps.
In the 358 Sprint Car preliminaries, the checkers waved for Cameron Merriman, Logan Spahr, and Cody Fletcher. There were twenty-one 358 Sprints checked in for the contest.
On October 4, Lincoln Speedway will present AMA Flat Track Motorcycles and Quads. There will be no auto races in consideration of the National Open to be held at Williams Grove Speedway. The World of Outlaws will take on the Pennsylvania Posse on October 11. The Lincoln season will conclude with the blockbuster event, the Final 50 plus the held over features.
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