Dirt Racing
Dietrich Dominates Speedweek Opener at BAPS; Fannasy Fantastic in Sportsman Go
NEWBERRYTOWN, PA (June 29, 2025): Despite the cancellation of the first two rounds of Pennsylvania Speedweek, Danny Dietrich carried across the border all the momentum that he generated from his Ohio Sprint Speedweek championship. He romped to the win at BAPS Motor Speedway, establishing himself as the presumptive favorite to sweep both titles in the same year. If he does, he will be the first racer in history to accomplish the feat.
Also reaching victory lane was Jay “Rock and Roll” Fannasy, who went wire-to-wire in the nightcap for the Super Sportsmen.
Dietrich Does It
“I wasn’t sure I was going to hold them guys off,” Danny Dietrich said. He was referring to Chase Dietz, who finished second, and Ryan Smith, who was a distant third.
Dietrich explained that he had to make a compromise concerning the wing setting on his car. “I had the wing forward for traffic. I needed it forward for (turns) three and four. I didn’t want it front for (turns one and two.” He was concerned that any other adjustment would make his car too tight.
It was also important to him to lead the event. “I wanted to get the lead early. I didn’t want to pace with anybody. I needed to get by Lucas (Wolfe),” who led the first four laps from the pole, with Dietrich in hot pursuit.
Second place finisher, Chase Dietz, had a similar strategy. “I kinda put myself in a bad spot at the start,” Dietz noted. He fell back to third on the opening lap and he trailed Wolfe and Dietrich for the first four laps. Like Dietrich, he was able to navigate around Wolfe by the conclusion of lap five.
Dietz did get close enough to Dietrich to make a couple of attempts to pass for the lead, but he was unable to succeed. The first two came following a lap eight restart when Dietz tried the top of turns one and two and the inside of turn three. But his best opportunity came on lap twenty, when he tried a slider in turn three. “I got a run off two, he (Dietrich) bobbled, I should have gone under him, I think I would have had him.”
Sunday was a busy day for the third place runner, Ryan Smith. Earlier in the day, his wife delivered their second child, and he spent the afternoon and evening at the track. “I need to get to the hospital and make sure that mom is OK,” he said.
Smith commented that he was making wing adjustments during the race to deal with the heavy lapped traffic. Unlike Dietrich, who had his wing forward, Smith went the opposite direction by pulling his wing back. He had second thoughts whether he made the right adjustment, though. “I think I got too greedy with it.” Nonetheless, he was pleased with his run given the lack of track time at BAPS with the Kreitz car. “First time here this year and we made the podium. We’ll take it.”
The Speedweek format had six racers eligible for the redraw. They were the four heat winners and the fastest qualifiers from Groups A and B. The second fastest racers in each group lost their eligibility to participate in the redraw by failing to transfer from their respective heat races.
So, Dietz pulled the pole with Wolfe landing the other front row starting spot. Freddie Rahmer, Jr. and Danny Dietrich were in the second row, with Smith and Troy Wagaman, Jr. selecting row three. Then came Tyler Ross and Brock Zearfoss. Behind them were Cameron Smith and Brady Bacon. Anthony Macri and Gerard McIntyre, Jr. were in row six for the start of the thirty lapper.
Three cars headed into turn one together on the opening lap. Wolfe emerged with the lead. Dietrich was looking to his inside, but he could not overtake Wolfe in the first two corners. Dietz sent it in on the high side, but he could not get enough bite coming through turn two to challenge for the top spot. Rahmer, Ryan Smith, Wagaman, Ross, Zearfoss, Cameron Smith, and Macri fell into line. Before any of them could make any offensive moves, the caution was out, with one lap complete, for Robbie Kendall’s spin in turn two.
Following the restart, the running order remained the same for a couple of laps. Wolfe remained out front through lap four, but he lost two positions to Dietrich and Dietz by the time lap five was completed. Wolfe began to slide back as the laps accrued.
A caution for Justin Whittall’s spin between turns three and four on lap eight gave Dietz his first shots at the leader. However, Dietrich maintained his advantage at both ends of the speedway.
The lead duo began to separate themselves from the rest of the field in the middle stage of the race. During this stretch, Ryan Smith ran in third. Rahmer moved up to fourth, with Wagaman taking frith from Wolfe. Macri was up to seventh, followed by Cameron Smith, Zearfoss, and Ross. The top five remained intact, but Wolfe’s continued descent did change things up in positions six through ten.
Dietz made his final bid for the lead at the start of the third leg of the race. After Dietz’ slider in turn three failed, Danny Dietrich completed the remaining laps without any opposition.
Dietrich swept under the checkers almost seven tenths of a second ahead of Dietz. Ryan Smith was third, followed by Rahmer and Macri. Cameron Smith, Wagaman, Zearfoss. McIntyre, and Ryan Newton completed the top ten.
Lance Dewease was twelfth. His nine passes were good enough to capture the hard charger award. Wolfe fell to fifteenth at the finish.
The heat race winners were Danny Dietrich, Freddie Rahmer, Jr., Dietz, and Wagaman. Dominic Melair won the C Main, with Dewease capturing the B. Wolfe was the evening’s fastest qualifier, topping Group A with a lap of 14.909 seconds. Ryan Smith was the best in Group B with at time of 15.026 seconds.
The Speedweek points heading into Monday’s contest at Lincoln Speedway finds Dietrich out front with 175 markers. Ryan Smith holds second with 149. Dietz was one point back in third. Rahmer and Macri complete the top five.
Fannasy Flies
After returning from a Florida vacation, Fannasy spent seven hours in his shop to get ready for the Sunday event.
Fannasy, who runs an unconventional motor prepared by his father, said that the victory “felt like a million bucks. It was fantastic.” Naysayers thought that Fannasy’s machine was no more than a tenth place car. But, he proved them all wrong. He explained that his powerplant is equipped with a flat tappet cam. “They said you can’t run a flat tappet cam, well, they can stick it up their a$$.” He added that, in the last two winged Sportsman races held at BAPS, he has passed more cars than any other racer.
The luck of the draw placed Tyler Wolford and Fannasy on the front row for the twenty-five lap nightcap. John Edkin and Justin Foster made up row two, followed by Chris Meleason and Kenny Edkin in the third row. Mike Enders and Brock Hammaker occupied row four. Matt Ondek and Scott Dellinger nailed down row five. Troy Rhome and Troy Hockenberry were next in line.
It took two tries to get the race started. The first attempt was called back due to a spin by Kendall Barkley in turn one. On the second, Fannasy bolted out to a lead that he would never relinquish.
Wolford settled into second, followed by Kenny Edkin, Foster, John Edkin, Hammaker, Enders, Meleason, Dellinger, and Hockenberry.
Kenny Edkin worked into the second spot with six laps in the books. His work was cut out for him, though, because Fannasy had already built up a straightaway lead by that time. Kenny Edkin tried to chip away at that advantage, but he had little success. John Edkin took over third six laps later.
The Edkins caught a break on lap sixteen, when the caution was displayed for the falt tire sustained by Ryan Rutz. The final caution came out on the restart for a spin by Barry Thomas, Jr. Those incidents eliminated the lead that Fannasy built up.
The final nine laps were completed without any additional complications. During that run, Kenny Edkin stayed close to the leader. John Edkin raced in third for several more laps before retiring from the contest.
Dellinger followed Fannasy and Kenny Edkin to the checkers. Timmie Barrick was fourth, with Wolford holding on for fifth. Hammaker, Enders, Meleason, Rhome, and Hockenberry rounded out the top ten.
The pair of heats went to Fannasy and Dellinger. There was no B Main, as all nineteen entries started the feature event.
Coming Events
The next 410 Sprint Car event at BAPS will be on Wednesday, July 23, when the World of Outlaws convene at the York County oval.
The next Super Sportsman race at BAPS will be the Firecracker 40 on July 5. The 602 Crate Sportsmen and Extreme Stocks will also be on the card.
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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