(Video Highlights from DirtVision.com)
10/9/2020
Port Royal Speedway
Port Royal, PA
WoO
48 cars
Donny Schatz (9th car out to time) set quick time at 15.190 seconds in the first of two groups. Schatz’s second lap saw a power outage in turns three and four, but he finished it out. Gio Scelzi (5th car out) was second quick, followed by David Gravel (15th), Anthony Macri (18th), Tony Stewart (13th), James McFadden (21st), Brian Brown (17th), Mike Wagner (3rd), Daryn Pittman (16th) and TJ Stutts (19th). The second group was paced by Sheldon Haudenschild’s (7th car out) lap of 15.349 seconds. Danny Dietrich (12th), Kyle Larson (10th), Brock Zearfoss (8th), Kerry Madsen (16th), Lance Dewease (4th), Jacob Allen (24th), Carson Macedo (5th), Logan Schuchart (18th) and Freddie Rahmer (14th) rounded out the top ten. Zach Hampton failed to get a time in.
Heat one (started): 1. Schatz 15 (1) 2. Gravel 41 (2) 3. Stewart 14s (3) 4. Brent Marks 5 (6) 5. Brown 21 (4) / 6. Pittman 72 (5) 7. Kraig Kinser 11K (7) 8. Landon Myers 19m (9) 9. Brent Shearer 12 (11) 10. Dylan Cisney 2x (10) 11. Kody Lehman 47K (12) 12. Lynton Jeffrey 83J (8)
8 lap heats took the top five to the feature, and top two to the dash. Schatz got the jump on Gravel, and held them all off to the checkers. Marks challenged Stewart for third for a while, and Pittman did the same, but couldn’t get by Brown for the final transfer.
Heat two (started): 1. Scelzi 18 (1) 2. Macri 39m (2) 3. McFadden 9 (3) 4. Brad Sweet 49 (6) 5. Stutts 11 (5) / 6. Wagner 55 (4) 7. Steve Buckwalter 17B (8) 8. Logan Wagner 1 (7) 9. Brett Michalski 73B (11) 10. Mason Daniel 33m (9) 11. Jeff Miller 57J (10) 12. Troy Fraker 12w (12)
Contact with Sweet sent Wagner into a spin at the end of the front straight to start things. He restarted at the tail. Scelzi got the jump on the start and won going away. Stutts passed Buckwalter for the final transfer on lap three. McFadden worked by Macri for the second at the halfway point, but the youngster fought back and used the cushion to grab the second dash spot on the last lap.
Heat three (started): 1. Larson 57 (2) 2. Haudenschild 17 (1) 3. Madsen 2m (3) 4. Ryan Smith 10x (6) 5. Allen 1a (4) / 6. Schuchart 1s (5) 7. Kyle Reinhardt 91 (9) 8. Spencer Bayston 83 (7) 9. Kyle Moody 99m (8) 10. Jason Sides 7s (10) 11. Bill Rose 6 (11) 12. Brie Hershey 97 (12)
Larson dominated from the green. The race was on between Smith, Allen and Schuchart for third and fourth, and they finished in that order.
Heat four (started): 1. Dietrich 48 (1) 2. Zearfoss 3z (2) 3. Dewease 69K (3) 4. Macedo 2 (4) 5. Rahmer 51 (5) / 6. Lucas Wolfe 24 (6) 7. Parker Price-Miller 14 (8) 8. Tony Fiore 91F (7) 9. Drew Ritchey 880 (10) 10. Wayne Johnson 2c (11) 11. Zach Newlin 54 (9) DNS – Zach Hampton 15B
Dietrich led wire to wire in a mostly single-file affair.
C main (started): 1. Cisney (1) 2. Johnson (4) / 3. Sides (2) 4. Daniel (3) 5. Newlin (8) 6. Jeffrey (9) 7. Rose (6) 8. Miller (7) 9. Hershey (10) 10. Fraker (11) 11. Lehman (5) DNS – Hampton
The 10-lapper transferred the top two to the back of the B. Cisney led throughout, and the battle for second was on. Sides held the spot until Johnson drove around him on the cushion with two to go after a good battle.
Dash (started): 1. Larson (1) 2. Dietrich (2) 3. Haudenschild (4) 4. Zearfoss (6) 5. Schatz (8) 6. Scelzi (7) 7. Gravel (3) 8. Macri (5)
Larson pulled away from the rest after drawing the pole. The finish set the starting spots in the first four rows of the feature.
B main (started): 1. Schuchart (1) 2. Pittman (2) 3. Wagner (3) 4. Reinhardt (6) / 5. Wolfe (4) 6. Buckwalter (7) 7. Kinser (5) 8. Myers (9) 9. Bayston (10) 10. Price-Miller (8) 11. Fiore (12) 12. Moody (13) 13. Cisney (17) 14. Johnson (18) 15. Michalski (14) 16. Shearer (15) 17. Ritchie (16) 18. Wagner (11)
The 12-lapper took the top four to the feature. Schuchart dominated, ahead of Pittman, who also had some distance between he and Wagner. Wolfe held down the fourth and final transfer, until Reinhardt got by on lap four.
A main (started): 1. Larson (1) 2. Dietrich (2) 3. Haudenschild (3) 4. Scelzi (6) 5. Zearfoss (4) 6. Macri (8) 7. Schatz (5) 8. Gravel (7) 9. Rahmer (20) 10. Madsen (10) 11. Sweet (15) 12. Schuchart (21) 13. Stewart (9) 14. McFadden (11) 15. Marks (13) 16. Stutts (19) 17. Smith (14) 18. Brown (17) 19. Pittman (22) 20. Allen (18) 21. Bayston (26, prov.) 22. Reinhardt (24) 23. Cisney (25, prov.) 24. Macedo (16) 25. Dewease (12) 26. Wagner (23)
The 25-lapper saw Larson take off from the field early. Dietrich chased him ahead of Zearfoss and Haudenschild. Scelzi shot by Schatz for the fifth spot on lap two. Larson entered lapped traffic on lap six and was a knife through hot butter. The only stoppage came for a five-car pileup 15 laps in involving Marks, tenth running McFadden, Sweet, Dewease and Macedo. Dewease and Macedo were done for the night. The single-file restart saw Larson leading Dietrich, Zearfoss, Haudenschild and Scelzi. Larson took off again, leaving no doubt who was going to win this one. Haudenschild slid under Zearfoss in turn four with five to go to claim third. Larson was back in lapped traffic with three to go. Scelzi passed Zearfoss with two to go for fourth. Rahmer was the hard-charger.