FRANKLIN, PA (May 22, 2026):  The Florida Man, Danny Sams, III, dropped in to Tri-City Raceway Park and emerged victorious in one of the few races completed on the rainy holiday weekend. Sams was supposed to compete at the Port Royal Speedway for the lucrative three-race Bob Weikert Memorial with the High Limit Sprint Car Series. However, that entire event was postponed on Thursday due to the persistent rainfall. While the payoff was quite a bit different than the touring series standards, Sams took advantage of the opportunity to cash a first-place check and to gain some needed confidence before rejoining the tour.

Joining Sams in victory celebrations were Gale Ruth, Jr. (RUSH Sprint Cars), Bobby Whitling (Penn Ohio Pro Stocks), and William Baker (RUSH Stocks).

“I think I like (this place). It’s pretty dang cool,” Sams said emphatically. “I like what the new owners are doing. This was the only 410 race in the country tonight, and I’m glad to be here.”

Michael Bauer and Brandon Spithaler brought the seventeen car field to the green flag for the start of the twenty-five lapper. Last week’s winner, sixty-five year old Bob Felmlee, and Sams were in row two, followed by Brandon Matus and Dusty Larson in the final preferred starting spots. Then came Logan McCandless and Andy Cavanaugh in row four, defending track champion Jeremy Weaver and Jeremy Kornbaugh in row five, and John Jerich and Michael Lutz, Jr. in row six.

Bauer, known as the professor, fought off Spithaler to lead lap one, with Sams, Felmlee, Larson, Brandon Matus, McCandless, Kornbaugh, Weaver, and Peterson in tow. Nathen McDowell brought out a caution on the second lap by stopping at the top of turn two, before the race really got rolling.

Bauer resumed his lead on the restart. However, Spithaler and Sams were fighting for the second position. After trading the spot a couple of times, Sams took control of second. Spithaler continued in third, followed by Felmlee and Larson.

Jazlyn Boyles fell off the pace on lap seven for the second caution, which eliminated Bauer’s slight advantage over Sams.

On the ensuing restart, Sams dove to the inside of Bauer entering turn one. He grabbed the lead racing through the second turn. However, Bauer came charging back at the other end of the speedway. He rolled through the middle of the track to regain the lead coming through turn four.

Sams repeated his strong inside maneuver in turns one and two to take the lead for good on lap nine. Spithaler soon moved into second leaving Bauer to battle with Felmlee and Brandon Matus for the third position.

At the halfway mark, Sams was pulling away from Spithaler. Bauer, Felmlee, and Brandon Matus remained in the top five. McCandless raced into sixth, followed by Larson, Kornbaugh, Peterson, and Jerich.

McDowell spun in turn four on lap seventeen for the final caution of the event.

Sams darted away from Spithaler on the restart, as Spithaler was struggling to retain second despite losing power. As Spithaler’s motor sounded progressively worse, Bauer moved back into the second position. Soon thereafter, Spithaler retired from the race.

With Sams building upon his lead in the closing laps, second was being hotly contested. Bauer held the spot until the final lap, when a hard charge by McCandless paid dividends. Bauer crossed in third, followed by Felmlee and Brandon Matus. Peterson, Kornbaugh, Jerich, Larson, and Weaver rounded out the top ten.

The pair of heat wins went to Spithaler and Sams. No B Main was necessary on this night,

The twenty-lap RUSH Sprint Car feature belonged to veteran Gale Ruth, Jr. It was his first win since sustaining serious injuries that sidelined him for more than a year.

“Things don’t get much better than this,” Ruth said. “The good Lord’s been good to me, he’s brought me back from a lot,” he added. “It’s special to win this one for Kyle (Busch),” he summed.

Ruth took full advantage of his pole starting position, as he took command of the race at the drop of the green. It did not take very long for Blaze Myers to reach second. Ricky Tucker, III held third in the early going, followed by Zach Morrow and Curt Emings.

Morrow moved into third by lap ten.

Myers closed in on Ruth as the leaders raced through traffic. However, he could not get close enough to challenge for the lead during the remainder of the race.

Morrow, Tucker, and Emings followed Ruth and Myers across the scoring loop for the final lap. Joe Buccola, Grayson Bayle, Brayden Blackshear, Cooper Macormac, and Wyatt Long completed the top ten.

Ruth and Myers took the checkers in the preliminaries. No B Main was needed for the fourteen cars on hand.

Bobby Whitling survived a pair of late race restarts to get the win in the Penn Ohio Pro Stocks. His son, Jake, had two opportunities to steal the win, but he could not pull it off despite getting an extra lap to try for the win.

A caution on the white flag lap involving several cars that were running in the top ten at the time shuffled up the running order. Several of them were able to race back into the top ten at the finish.

Kurt Bish, Pat Fielding, and William Swaney were third through fifth. Chase Lambert, Jacob Wheeler, Jason Black, Scott Malone, and Brandon Connor were the next five finishers.

Fielding and Wheeler split the heat races. No B Main was required for the fifteen cars that checked in.

The fifteen lap RUSH Stock Car finale belonged to Willam Baker, who wrestled the lead away from Raiden Wilson on lap four. Wilson fought back from a spin to take second, followed by Cole Laskey, Cameron Kramer, and Jim Buchanan. Wilson won the heat race. There was no B Main, as only five cars participated.

Tri-City Raceway Park will race again on Sunday. The BRP Modified Tour will be the headline act. Support will come from the RUSH Late Model Tour and the RUSH Sportsmen Modifieds. The following Sunday, May 31, Tri-City will close out Western PA Sprint Speedweek.

YORK HAVEN, PA (May 17, 2026): Chase Dietz celebrated his birthday in style, claiming his third consecutive win at BAPS Motor Speedway. The win was his second of the weekend, after a close second place finish to young Logan Rumsey on Friday night. Sandwiched in between was Dietz’ most lucrative victory.

To get this win, Dietz had to fight his way to the front after losing several positions on the initial start. When he took over second, he was more than half a second behind the leader, Brent Marks. Soon thereafter, a red eliminated that advantage. Following the restart on lap fourteen, Dietz tried a number of sliders, mostly in turn one, without success. However, he made a slider in turn four stick to grab the lead for good on lap twenty-three. Dietz went on to the win, with the margin of victory being 1.949 seconds.

“I was worried, I dropped back a couple of spots at the start, but I got them back and the car was getting better,” Dietz said. “Logan (Rumsey) showed me the inside,” he added. But after clawing his way to fourth on the inside, Dietz was back to the cushion in turns one and two when he powered past Rumsey and Rahmer, who were battling for second at that time.

During his furious struggle with Marks for the lead, Dietz got out over the cushion, which was razor thin. “I caught the wall in two a couple of times, once before the opening and once after.” Dietz explained that he was trying to keep up his wheel spin. He gave credit to his crew for building and maintaining a sturdy car that gave him confidence to make such risky maneuvers.

“This was an awesome way to finish off the weekend. Man, this was lots of fun.”

As if on que, the assembled crowd in victory lane spontaneously broke into a happy birthday serenade.

By the luck of the draw, Marks shared the front row with J.J. Loss, who was celebrating the return of his car owner, John Trone. Trone was recently released from Temple University Hospital where he underwent critical cardiac care. Dietz lined up inside of fow two, joined by Freddie Rahmer, Jr. The last of the preferred starting spots went to Rumsey and Cameron Smith, who was back in his familiar Lefever-owned mount.

Row four consisted of Dylan Norris and Kyle Moody. Then came Brock Zearfoss and Danny Dietrich. Row six belonged to Ryan Smith and Preston Lattomus.

Marks jumped out to the lead on lap one, followed by Rahmer, Loss, Rumsey, and Dietz. Before the racers could settle into a rhythm, a caution came out for Norris, who was off the pace in turn one.

Marks set sail on the restart and led the next thirteen laps. Rahmer gave chase in the early going, but Rumsey and Dietz closed in on him as they raced through traffic. When the top lane opened up for Dietz on lap fourteen, he was able to rocket past both Rahmer and Rumsey, who were hotly contesting the second position.

A red came out before the halfway mark. Johnny Edkin spun between turns three and four and began to back up the track. Zearfoss, who was running sixth at the time, tried to scoot between Edkin and the wall, but the opening closed, and Zearfoss took a tumble. He was not hurt in the incident, but his relatively new Glenn Styres machine was significantly damaged.

Dietz flew into turn one on the restart and tried a slider on Marks for the lead. He came up short, and lost valuable ground on that try. It took Dietz a couple of laps to get close enough for another try. This time, he cleared Marks, but he could not hold the position, as Marks turned back under him in turn two to regain the lead.

Dietz was persistent, but unsuccessful, for a couple more attempts to slide Marks for the lead in turn one.

However, things were better for him at the other end of the track. He was able to pull off the winning move in turn four to grab the lead on lap twenty-three.

Dietz completed the remaining seven laps without incident. Marks was second, followed by Rumsey, Rahmer, and Cameron Smith. Dietrich, Tyler Ross, Kyle Moody, Ryan Smith, and Justin Whittall completed the top ten.

Whittall was named the hard charger for advancing ten positions over the thirty-lap distance.

Dietz, Cameron Smith, and Rumsey scored the heat wins for the thirty-one car field. Mark Smith prevailed in the B Main. Marks was the evening’s fastest qualifier in timed hot laps with a lap of 14.714 seconds.

Derek Locke held off red hot Cody Fletcher to score the win in the 358 Sprint Car nightcap. “Cody’s real good on the slick,” Locke observed. “I saw it (the track) taking rubber in turns three and four in the 410s, so I tried to stay there. If he slid me, I figured I could get to the bottom in three and four.”

“It’s been a long time since we ran three races in the weekend,” Locke observed. He gave credit to his crew, who worked extremely hard to complete the three-race weekend. He explained that all of them have important jobs that often keep them fully occupied for sixty-plus hours during the week.

It took three tries to get the twenty-five lapper going. One of the attempts produced a multi-car incident in turn four, which included a tip-over by Brayden Mickley. None of those involved required medical attention.

On each of the attempts, Locke got stronger. When the race did get going, he rolled through the middle of turns one and two to establish a substantial lead.

It took Fletcher seven laps to work his way into second from ninth on the starting grid. One lap later, tere was a caution for Cole Young, who surrendered his sixth position by stopping on the front stretch. That eliminated Locke’s lead of over five seconds.

When the race resumed, Fletcher went to work on Locke. Fletcher did take the lead off turn two on one occasion, but he slid out too far in turn four to give Locke the advantage once again.

Fletcher regrouped and made another run at the leader on lap fifteen. He drew next to Locke racing down the backstretch. However, a caution thwarted that attempt.

Fletcher continued to stalk Locke through the remaining ten laps. However, he could not make another bid for the lead.

Locke took the win, with Fletcher, Brock Hammaker, Wyatt Hinkle, and Tyler Rutherford competing the top five. Logan Spahr, Chase Robinson, Brian Wolf, Jr., Kinser Lightner, and P.J. Reutimann were the next five finishers.

Reutimann, the grandson of former Modified star, Wayne Reutimann, was making his first start at BAPS Motor Speedway.

The three heat winners were Fletcher, Young, and Locke. No B Main was needed for the twenty-three car field.

The 358 Sprints will join the Winged Sportsmen, PASS 305 Sprints, and Extreme Stocks on May 23. The next show featuring 410 Sprints will be the $5 Keystone Nationals on Sunday, June 7. Extreme Stocks will also be on the card.

MECHANICSBURG, PA (May 15, 2026):  Just days after being cleared from the tire grinding scandal at the World of Outlaws race held at Lincoln Speedway, nineteen-year-old Logan Rumsey ran away and hid from the other 410 Sprint Car drivers for most of the race at Williams Grove Speedway. Chase Dietz, the driver with the most wins in the region, cut Rumsey’s lead from more than 5.7 seconds to under one second in the closing laps, but he ran out of time. Thus, Rumsey was never challenged as he scored his first career victory in the division.

Ironically, Rumsey, who has completed thousands of laps at Williams Grove in iRacing, never led a 410 feature race at the historic oval until this night. Moreover, he never even won a 358 Sprint Car race at the track as he was climbing through the ranks. “I felt like I should have done more in 358s. I never got a win here, but we’ll take this one.”

Rumsey has one career 358 Sprint Car win, that coming at the Lincoln Speedway.

The key to his victory was being able to run in clean air. Despite the long green flag run, he did not reach the lapped cars until late in the race.

“I made some mistakes in traffic,” the pilot from Manchester, PA admitted. He explained that he followed one car (James Rosselli) for a considerable period, so he assumed that the lapper must have been making a good pace. After putting Rosselli a lap down, Rumsey was able to pick off one other slower car on the final lap to preserve his shrinking margin of victory.

“I figured somebody would be coming, but nobody passed me,” he said with a grin.

The race was run under the handicapping system employed at Williams Grove. Heat races were fully inverted based upon point averages, and the feature was lined up based entirely on the heat race finishes.

The first three starters were the heat race winners. Chad Trout and Rumsey  in row one, and Jude Siegel on the inside of row two. His partner was Preston Lattomus. Then came J.J. Loss and Brock Zearfoss. Chase Dietz and Freddie Rahmer, Jr. were in row four, followed by Danny Dietrich, and T.J. Stutts, in row five, and Cameron Smith and Dylan Norris, in row six.

Further back in the field were Justin Whittall (thirteenth), Lance Dewease (fourteenth), and the point leader Troy Wagaman, Jr. (sixteenth).

Buddy Schweibinz, who was supposed to start in ninth, lost his spot because he stopped on the track during the pace laps.

Trout led the field into turn one on the opening lap, but Rumsey stayed close. He dove under Trout in turn two and powered ahead coming off the corner to grab the lead which he never relinquished. “That’s kinda the same move I made on J.J. (Loss) in the heat,” Rumsey explained.

Lattomus tucked into third on the opening lap, followed by Zearfoss, Loss, Dietz, Siegel, Dietrich, Smith, and Norris.

A skirmish between turns three and four with one lap completed eliminated several cars that were racing just outside the top ten at that time. Only one of the involved drivers, Whittall, was able to continue in the event.

Rumsey had the point for the single file restart, and he was able to get some separation immediately from Trout when the race resumed. Rumsey then proceeded to build his lead over the next fifteen laps or so.

Rahmer was one of the few drivers making forward progress in the first few laps completed under the renewed green. He reached the top five by lap five.

Dietz, who jumped the cushion on the restart, lost a couple of positions, and it took a few laps for him to get going again. He made it back into the top five by lap ten, dropping Rahmer to sixth. Dietz then got into a dogfight with Zearfoss, Trout, and Lattomus for a couple of laps. He dispatched them by the midpoint in the contest.

With fifteen laps completed, Rumsey was ahead of Dietz by more than five and a half seconds. Over the next eight laps, Dietz whittled away at the lead. He trailed Rumsey by just under a second with two to go.

Rumsey took the checkers just 0.3 seconds ahead of Dietz. Zearfoss and Rahmer were fourth and fifth. Wagaman, who was strong in the second half of the race, was fifth. Smith, Dietrich, Trout, Norris, and Dewease rounded out the top ten.

Whittall recovered from his miscue to finish eleventh.

Wagaman was the hard charger, at plus eleven.

Brent Shearer won the B Main.

Cody Fletcher continued his hot streak in the 358 Sprint Cars. Although this win was his first of the year at Williams Grove, it was his sixth overall. The victory moved him into a tie for the points lead with Derek Locke.

“I never expected this,” Fletcher said. “We’ve been lucky. We’ll take the luck as long as it comes.”

Fletcher, who started eighth in the feature event, raced into fourth on the opening lap. He was third by lap five, second on lap six, and the leader on lap fifteen.

Second went to Adam Carberry. Justin Foster, who led the first fourteen laps of the race, held on for third. Austin Reed and Matt Findley completed the top five. Positions six through ten belonged to Derek Locke, Cole Young, Chase Gutshall, Hunter Fulton, and Steve Owings.

The eleventh place finisher, Brayden Mickley, was the hard charger, at plus eight.

Heat wins went to Foster, Chance Hendershot, and Carberry. The twenty-three car field did not require a B Main.

Williams Grove will not race any Sprint Cars next week in consideration of the Weikert Memorial weekend at Port Royal Speedway.  However, the AMA Flat Track Motorcycles will perform on Saturday, May 23. The 410 Sprints will be joined by the PASS 305 Sprints on May 29. The All Stars Circuit of Champions will return with the Wingless Sportsmen for the Lynn Paxton EMMR Legends Classic on June 5.