Dirt Racing
Dietz Dominates Duel Finale; Carberry Captures Summer Series
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 (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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