PORT ROYAL, PA (September 1, 2025):  Brock Zearfoss, of Jonestown, surprised Indiana invader Parker Price Miller with a last lap pass in turn two to win the Seventy-fourth Annual Labor Day Classic at the Port Royal Speedway. The race was also a tribute to the late, great Lynn Paxton, the only racer to win five consecutive Classics in his illustrious career. Zearfoss, a former track champion, had never won the LDC before, and this triumph was also his first tally of the season aboard Rich Eichelberger’s machine. Indeed, it was his first victory since taking over the ride during the off-season.

Zearfoss, who also splits time with his own team, noted that it has been difficult maintaining two separate operations. Although the same crew attends to all of the cars, the chassis and motor packages are different. Adding to the complexity, Zearfoss recently debuted a new car for Eichelberger–a white car–and it has taken some time for all to get adjusted to it.

“It’s about time (to win),” Zearfoss said. “This car’s been good.” However, he noted, “lots of stupid stuff (happened) and (we’ve had) bad pill draws.”

Well, Zearfoss put some of that bad juju behind him on this day.

Zearfoss made up a lot of ground running the inside line on the slick, daytime surface. “I knew that the rubber was going to come in. It just was a question of when. I saw Chase (Dietz, who was running second at the time) getting his car better and my dad gave me a signal that it was time to go. Fortunately, Parker (Price Miller, the leader) did not go down and I was able to get there first.”

Zearfoss explained that the win, worth $7,400, plus a $500 last lap pass bonus, would give his team some much needed confidence heading into Port Royal’s biggest event of the season, the Tuscarora 50, which will start Thursday evening. “We’ve been working real hard, the car’s been getting better, and I feel good heading into (the next race).”

Price Miller, who spent the last two races at Port Royal in preparation for the Tusky 50, commented, “winning would have been better. Sometimes it sucks being the leader. I never saw anybody down there. I missed the bottom in (turn) four. If I hit it, I probably would have won, but I stuck with my bread and butter, and it let me down.”

Dietz held on for third. “Starting on the pole, it would have been better to finish up a place or two. I thought I had a tire going down. I was surprised that the top stayed as good as long as it did for Parker.”

The Speedweek format was used for the Classic. Dietz was the luckiest of the eligible drivers, consisting of the three heat winners and the fastest qualifiers from each heat. Price Miller may have gotten the pick of the litter, though, as he pulled the outside front row starting position. Danny Dietrich and Zearfoss drew into row two, with Brady Bacon and Mike Wagner getting the other two preferred starting spots. In row four, Logan Wagner and Ryan Smith lined up, followed by Saturday night’s winner and the Mayor of Port Royal Borough, Dylan Cisney, and Dominic Melair. Behind them were Austin Bishop and Mike Walter, Jr.

Dietz led lap one, but his time out front was limited. Price Miller slid him in turn three on lap four to take the lead away. Dietrich raced along in third, as he did from the start. Zearfoss, Mike Wagner, and Logan Wagner batted for fourth and fifth in the early going.

A caution for Bishop in turn three slowed the pace on lap four, but it did not change the complexion of the race.

The same cannot be said for the second caution, on lap ten. Dietrich did a 360, and this time track officials made the penalty stick. Per track rules, Dietrich was sent to the rear despite keeping his car moving. He vacated the third position due to that miscue.

Price Miller maintained his advantage over Dietz, Zearfoss, Mike and Logan Wagner, and Cisney on that restart as well as on the one that took place on lap nineteen for debris on the speedway.

A caution on lap twenty-one for Mike Walter, Sr. allowed Zearfoss to slip ahead of Dietz on the ensuing restart. A final caution one lap later bunched the field up again for a three-lap dash to the checkers.

Price Miller still held the point for the last restart, with Zearfoss sitting in second, followed by Dietz, Mike Wagner, Cisney, and Logan Wagner. Price Miller stayed topside, and in the lead until the final lap.

On the last tour of the big half mile, Zearfoss ducked inside of Price Miller entering turn one. He was next to him moving through turn two and he had good bite coming off the inside of turn two to grab the lead.

The partisan crowd gave Zearfoss a standing ovation as he took the checkers almost eight tenths of a second ahead of Price Miller. Dietz, Mike Wagner, and Logan Wagner completed the top five. Cisney, Melair, point leader Justin Whittall, Mike Walter, Jr., and Smith were the next five finishers.

Whittall was named the hard charger, good for a $500 bonus.

Mike Wagner, Dietz, and Dietrich each earned $630 for their heat wins. The B Main belonged to Nash Ely. Bacon was the overall fastest qualifier with a time of 15.999 seconds.

A.J. Hoffner, of East Berlin, captured the twenty lapper for the Four Cylinders. Chris Anderson, Matt Duvall, Javid Fairall, and Eric Boozel rounded out the top five. Robbie Carroll, Kent Leonard, Jimmy Moyer, Justin Williamson, and Greg Kiehl finished sixth through tenth. Ricky Weaver, Hoffner, Hunter Flook, and Moyer won the preliminaries. There was no B Main, as all cars capable of taking the green were allowed to start the feature.

Port Royal Speedway will host the High Limit Racing Series for the Tuscarora 50. Preliminary features will be held Thursday and Friday nights. The big show will be on Saturday. Meanwhile, the 171st Annual Juniata County Fair will continue through the week and will conclude on Saturday.

ABBOTSTOWN, PA (August 31, 2025):  Chase Dietz romped to the win on the second night of the Labor Day Duel at the Fabulous Lincoln Speedway. It was his second success of the year at the track, and seventh overall this season for the driver from York, PA. He led the entire thirty-five laps to pick up the $10,000 check.

Adam Carberry also graced Victory Lane after taking his first career 358 Sprint Car win in the Pigeon Hills.

“Track position was helpful,” said Dietz who was fortunate to draw the number one pill for the feature event. There was significant track preparation done before the 410 Sprint Cars took to the racing surface for the final time, and that allowed for some multi-groove racing early in the contest. But, as Dietz acknowledged, “I knew that it was going to rubber up. I lost a race like this early in the year when I didn’t get down  to the rubber soon enough.” Dietz drew upon that experience to ensure that this win would not get away from him.

“We’re having a great year and, hopefully, we can get back here” for some of the big shows remaining on the Lincoln Speedway schedule.

The Speedweek format was used for the second night in a row with one modification. Saturday’s winner, Aaron Bollinger, was locked in for this race, so he was included in the redraw for the first seven positions. The other eligible drivers were the three heat winners and the fastest car to qualify from each heat.

Joining Dietz on the front row was Freddie Rahmer, Jr. The second row consisted of Bollinger and Ashton Torgerson. Ryan “Fig” Newton and Danny Dietrich were in row three. Anthony Macri drew the “unlucky” seven pill. Ryan Smith accompanied him in row four. Chad Trout and Cameron Smith came next, followed by Brandon Strickler and Mike Bittinger.

Dietz reached turn one first and laid claim to the outside line. Rahmer Jr. fell into line behind him, with Torgerson the first driver to use the low groove early on. Newton, Dietrich, Ryan Smith, Bollinger, Macri, and Cameron Smith made up the top ten in the early going.

The first significant move came on lap two, when Torgerson slipped under Rahmer for the second position. Otherwise, the first six or seven cars remained in place through the early laps. However, the other members of the top ten were changing, with Brady Bacon joining the party.

Dietz caught the rear of the field on lap seven. He was able to move around a bit to put some of the slower cars down a lap. But doing so slowed his pace somewhat, and Torgerson did cut into his lead. As Dietz continued to work his way through traffic, Torgerson did show his nose to the leader a couple of times, but, on each occasion, Dietz was able to maintain his advantage.

The only caution of the event came on lap eleven. Initially, the call was made that Dietrich did a 360 and kept moving, and it was announced that he would be sent to the rear per track rules. Dietrich resisted the penalty and tried to blend in around the seventh position, where he was running after the yellow came out. An extra lap or two under the caution allowed track officials to reverse their decision. It was then announced that there was no confirmation that Dietrich looped it, so he was restored to his fifth position, where he was running on the last lap completed before the now inadvertent caution.

Dietz led the parade back to the green, with Torgerson, Newton, Rahmer Jr., and Dietrich in tow.

As the race moved through the middle stage, Newton began to fall back in the running order. Rahmer, Dietrich, and Ryan Smith benefitted from that. In the final stage of the race, Bollinger also displaced Newton.

Dietz took the checkers slightly more than three seconds ahead of Torgerson. Rahmer Jr., Dietrich, and Ryan Smith made up the rest of the top five. Bollinger, Newton, Macri, Bacon, and Cameron Smith rounded out the top ten.

By landing on the podium, Rahmer Jr. once again assumed the point lead by fifteen markers over Troy Wagaman, Jr. Wagaman finished fifteenth and was never a factor in this event.

Dietz, Torgerson, and Dietrich chalked up the heat wins. Tyler Ross took the honors in the B Main. Rahmer Jr. set the fastest time of the night in qualifications, 15.061 seconds.

Adam Carberry grabbed the lead in turn one of the opening lap and he led the rest of the way to get his win in the Summer Series event for the 358 Sprints. The race was shortened to twenty laps due to adverse track conditions.

On lap thirteen, Carberry got a bit of a scare when he was tapped from behind by a lapped car. That allowed the second place runner, Jayden Wolf, to shoot under both of them as they raced down the backstretch. Carberry recovered by the time that trio reached turn three, and he was able to pull ahead of Wolf once again.

Soon thereafter, Wyatt Hinkle moved into second, a position that he held for the remainder of the race. Wolf crossed in third, followed by Brayden Mickley and Cody Fletcher. Kyle Spence, Chase Gutshall, Cameron Merriman, Ayden Hare, and Ashley Cappetta were sixth through tenth in the nonstop affair.

Wolf regained the point lead in the 358 Sprint division. He is now sixty points ahead of Dylan Norris, who did not race his 358 Sprint Car this weekend.

“It got a little challenging, you couldn’t get off the bottom,” Carberry said. “I started experimenting, moving the wing around, trying to get something comfortable. I’m not sure how successful that was,” he added with a laugh.

Mickley, Merriman, and Fletcher won their respective heat races. Seth Schnoke prevailed in the B Main.

Lincoln Speedway will not present any Sprint Car races next week in honor of the Tuscarora 50 at Port Royal Speedway. Instead, racing will be held on September 6 for Legends cars, Micros, and two classes of Stock Cars. The 410 and 358 Sprints will return on September 13 for the Weldon Sterner Memorial.

MECHANICSBURG, PA (August 29, 2025): Anthony Macri, of nearby Dilsburg, continued his hot streak by winning the John and Pee Wee Zemaitis Tribute race at Williams Grove Speedway. It was his fourth triumph of the year at the venerable speedway and twelfth of the season overall.

Also getting into Victory Lane was Steven Drevicki, the current point leader and defending champion of the USAC East Coast series. It was his third Sprint Car win at the track when racing without a wing. He has also had success when racing with the ARDC Midgets.

“It was a matter of getting a clear run off the corners,” Macri noted. “It was just the way the cars came off the corner. I got out there, and they could see me.” He added, “we got a clean run and Chase (Dietz) took care of Danny (Dietrich).”
Once out front, Macri came down from the top shelf, setting up a scenario that no other driver dared to try. He explained his strategy thusly. “I got down to the rubber and somebody else would need to do what I did.”

The Speedweek format was used to set the line-up for the twenty-five lapper. The original draw for the top six cars included the fastest qualifier of the night, Cameron Smith, but he had a mechanical failure while the cars were pushing off, so he forfeited his fourth starting spot.

So the way that the cars went to the post had red hot Parker Price Miller, the winner of the last three consecutive All Stars races, on the pole. Danny Dietrich was on his flank. The revised second row paired point leader Troy Wagaman, Jr. with Chase Dietz. Macri moved to the inside of row three, with Brock Zearfoss as his partner. Lance Dewease and Austin Bishop were next. They were followed by Ashton Torgerson and Ryan “Fig” Newton. Logan Rumsey and Freddie Rahmer, Jr. made for an even dozen.

Torgerson got bounced around in turn one on the initial start and he spun. He was fortunate that no other cars collided with him. After a quick check of his car in the pits, he was able to rejoin the tail of the field for the second attempt at a good start.

The second try was clean and the racers would not see another caution for the rest of the event.

Dietrich seized the early lead, followed by Dietz, Price Miller, Wagaman, Zearfoss, Macri, Bishop, Dewease, Rumsey, and Newton. In the early laps, the front three achieved some separation from each other and from the rest of the field by running the inside line or the middle groove. That left the top open for Macri and he took advantage of the clear lane. He got into the top five by lap five. He moved up a notch by lap eight, and he replaced Price Miller in the top three two rounds later.

Wagaman followed Macri into fourth just before the half way mark.

Dietz got rolling midway through the race, and he was pressing Dietrich for the lead. Dietrich missed the rubber in turn one, which proved to be a costly mistake, Dietz drove by on the inside to take the lead.

Soon thereafter, on lap nineteen, Macri rode the rim in turns one and two to pass Dietrich for second. He closed in on Dietz, bringing Dietrich along for good measure.

The pivotal moment in the race came on lap twenty-three, as there twas a three-wide battle for the lead. That lap alone was well worth the price of admission.

Dietz entered turn one in the middle of the track as the leader. Dietrich was poking his nose to the inside, and Macri was running the top groove where angels feared to tread. Dietz pinched down between turns one and two to thwart Dietrich’s challenge, and Macri went by them both coming off turn two. Once Macri cleared Dietz and Dietrich, he dropped down to take their lines away. Meanwhile, Dietrich fought his way back into second.

Macri took the checkers 0.369 seconds ahead of Dietrich. Dietz was another second behind, in third. Wagaman took fourth, with Price Miller completing the top five. Zearfoss, Bishop, Rahmer, Rumsey, and Newton were the next five finishers.

Price Miller, Dietz, and Wagaman prevailed in the heat races. Kody Hartlaub captured the B Main. Smith’s fast time was 17.278 seconds.

In the USAC East Coast nightcap, Chris Allen started on the pole with ageless Steve Wilbur beside him. Hunter Fulton and Bruce Buckwalter were in the second row, with Christian Bruno and Steve Drevicki behind them. Row four belonged to Ed Aiken and Bobby Butler. Then came Joey Amantea and Joe Kata. Olivia Thayer and Kyle Spence made up row six.

Allen dashed out to the early lead, with Wilbur closely following. Buckwalter, Drevicki, and Bruno rode in the top five.
With just one lap completed, the first of two cautions came out when Troy Fraker fell off the pace.

When the race resumed. Allen continued to lead Wilbur. Bruno was up to third, with Drevicki and Buckwalter following.

Drevicki found some speed, and moved back into thirdon lap eight. Two circuits later, he was second. As Drevicki began stalking Allen, Bruno climbed into third. Just after the crossed flags were shown to the field, Drevicki and Bruno got by Allen.

The final caution came on lap fourteen for Aiken.

That bunched the field again, but none of the competitors could keep pace with Drevicki and Bruno. They went off by themselves to contest the final eleven laps.

Although it was a nip and tuck battle between Drevicki and Bruno for the remainder of the race, the lead never changed.

Allen held onto third. Spence marched up to fourth and Wilbur was fifth. Amantea, Buckwalter, Butler, Ronald Helmick, and Thayer completed the top ten.

“It was about patience and tire management,” Drevicki said. “I was trying to pace the race and not miss the rubber,” he added.

Amantea, Bruno, and Aiken topped the heat races, and Helmick clinched the B Main.

There will be no racing at Williams Grove next week in conjunction with the Tuscarora 50 weekend at Port Royal Speedway. Instead, vintage cars will get track time on September 6. The 410 Sprints will return on September 12 for the Billy Kimmel Memorial. Support will be provided by the 358 Sprint Cars.