Dirt Racing
Wagaman Perfect in 410 at Williams Grove; Norris Sweeps 358 Features
MECHANICSBURG, PA (July 18, 2025): Troy Wagaman, Jr. won everything but the 50/50 drawing at Williams Grove Speedway in the Outlaws Tune-up event. He set the evening’s fastest time in qualifications (16.426 seconds), won his heat race, won the dash, and the twenty-five lap feature event. The only challenge he faced all night was when he lost the lead briefly to Lance Dewease. However, Wagaman regained the lead in turns three and four when Dewease got hung up behind a lapped car.
Dylan Norris was almost as effective in his 358 Sprint Car. After dominating the make-up feature held over from an April program, he was second in his heat. He came back in the nightcap to get his second victory of the night. Norris had to battle his way to the front several times in the finale.
Wagaman was fortunate to start on the pole in the heat race, the dash, and the main event. “The car was good,” he said, “but, all night we drew ones.” After he was passed by Dewease in in turn one, he figured that he would have one shot to pass him back. It came at the opposite end of the speedway, when Wagaman went to the high side to pass both Dewease and the lapped car that interfered with Dewease.
Wagaman noted that he struggled several weeks ago, including one difficult race in which he started on the pole and went backwards.
That prompted his team to bring out a new car and, ever, since, he has been quite fast. He hopes that he can carry the speed into next week’s showdown with the World of Outlaws.
Wagaman shared the front row with T.J. Stutts. Kody Hartlaub and Dewease occupied the second row. In the third, it was Freddie Rahmer, Jr. and Chad Trout. Behind them were Justin Whittall and Lucas Wolfe. Cameron Smith and Dylan Norris made up row five, followed by Tyler Ross and Kyle Moody.
At the drop of the green, Wagaman established his superiority over the rest of the field. Dewease quickly moved into second spot, but the gap between them was growing continuously. Stutts held third initially before giving way to Hartlaub. Rahmer ran fifth in the early going, followed by Trout, Whittall, Moody, Wolfe, and Smith.
At the halfway mark, Wagaman was still the leader, but Dewease narrowed the margin after Wagaman encountered lapped cars.
Hartlaub was still third, followed by Rahmer and Stutts. Whittall, Trout, Moody, Wolfe, and Cameron Smith held sixth through tenth.
In the second half, Dewease started to close in as Wagaman’s pace slowed in heavier and faster traffic. Dewease ducked under Wagaman in turn one, but Wagaman came charging back to the lead with a rim-riding maneuver in turn three that carried him past Dewease and a lapped car.
Wagaman led the remaining laps to score the win over Dewease and Hartlaub. Rahmer was fourth and Whittall fifth. Stutts, Trout, Smith, Matt Campbell, and Ross completed the top ten.
Heat wins went to Wagaman, Stutts, and Hartlaub. There was no B Main, as all twenty-four cars on hand started the contest.
In the held over feature which started the night for the 358 Sprints, Norris bolted into the lead from the pole and was never headed.
Brett Wanner had second early, but he surrendered the position to Andy Best by the end of the first half of the twenty-five lapper. Scott Fisher ran fourth, while the fifth place changed hands among Wyatt Hinkle, Nash Ely, and Derek Locke.
A couple of minor cautions slowed the race on laps five and fifteen, but the final ten were clean and green.
Norris took the checkers ahead of Best, Wanner, Fisher, and Ely. Steve Owings, Cole Young, Austin Reed, Frankie Herr, and Chase Guttshall rounded out the top ten. Locke faded to eleventh after his right side of the top wing began to peel away.
In the nightcap, Wanner led through the first half. Norris worked his way forward from sixth on the grid to second. Locke maintained third, followed by Best. Once again, fifth was a position that was hotly contested.
Soon after the halfway mark was displayed, Norris went by Wanner on the backstretch. Norris made a mistake in traffic, and Wanner regained the lead before the caution came out on lap twelve.
Norris again passed Wanner on lap sixteen. Locke followed into second two laps later. In the closing laps, Best drove by Wanner for third.
At the checkers, it was Norris, Locke, Best, Wanner, and Guttshall. Ely, Adam Carberry, Owings, Jude Siegel, and Ayden Hare were the next five finishers.
Heats belonged to Wanner, Carberry, Chad Criswell, and Cole Young. Herr won the B Main.
Next week, the World of Outlaws will swing back through Central Pennsylvania for the second time of the season. They will race Wednesday at BAPS Motor Speedway before a two-day stop at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday and Saturday.
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. Â 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): Â 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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