Port Royal WoO and PASS Results and Stories

Port Royal (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com) 10/9/21

Port Royal Speedway
Port Royal, PA

WoO
PASS 305’s

38 WoO
24 PASS

Two flights of qualifying were run.  Spencer Bayston (3rd car out) set quick time in the first group with a lap of 15.370 seconds.  Kerry Madsen (9th car out) was second quick, followed by Logan Wagner (17th), Jacob Allen (11th) and Logan Schuchart (18th).  David Gravel (4th car out) set quick time in the second group and overall at 15.324 seconds. Brent Marks (18th) was second quick, followed by Kraig Kinser (15th), Brad Sweet (17th) and Anthony Macri (3rd).

Heat one (started): 1. Bayston 5 (1) 2. L. Wagner 1 (2) 3. Schuchart 1s (3) 4. Lance Dewease 69K (5) 5. Carson Macedo 41 (6) / 6. Lynton Jeffrey 0 (4) 7. Pat Cannon 23 (7) 8. Ryan Taylor 20 (8) 9. Trenton Sheaffer 8s (9) 10. Troy Fraker 12w (10)

8-lap heats took the top five to the feature, and the top two to the dash.  Bayston led L. Wagner and Schuchart for the distance.  Dewease took fourth from Jeffrey on lap two and Macedo took the final transfer from Jeffrey at the halfway point.

Heat two (started): 1. Madsen 14 (1) 2. Allen 1a (2) 3. Sheldon Haudenschild 17 (4) 4. Brock Zearfoss 3z (3) 5. James McFadden 9 (5) / 6. Dylan Cisney 2DC (6) 7. Lucas Wolfe 5w (7) 8. Freddie Rahmer 51 (9) 9. Curt Stroup 19s (8)

Madsen led flag to flag in a mostly single-fille affair.

Heat three (started): 1. Gravel 2 (1) 2. Kinser 11K (2) 3. Macri 39m (3) 4. Zach Newlin 29 (4) 5. Wayne Johnson 2c (5) / 6. Danny Dietrich 48 (7) 7. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (6) 8. Devon Borden 27 (9) 9. Zach Hampton 35 (8) 10. Austin Bishop 11A (10)

Another single-file race on a fast track.

Heat four (started): 1. Marks 19 (1) 2. Sweet 49 (2) 3. Donny Schatz 15 (3) 4. Justin Henderson 71 (4) 5. Justin Whittall 67 (5) / 6. Kasey Kahne 83 (6) 7. Mike Wagner 55 (8) 8. TJ Stutts 11 (7) 9. Jason Sides 7s (9)

Marks led Sweet flag to flag.  Schatz worked by Henderson for third early on.  The best race was for the final transfer.  Whittall worked by Kahne in a good battle for the final transfer.

Dash (started): 1. Bayston (1) 2. Allen (2) 3. Marks (3) 4. Kinser (4) 5. Sweet (6) 6. Madsen (5) 7. L. Wagner (8) 8. Gravel (7)

The 6-lap Dash set up the first four rows of the feature.  Not much movement in this one.

B main (started): 1. Jeffrey (1) 2. Hafertepe (2) 3. Cisney (3) 4. Dietrich (4) / 5. Wolfe (7) 6. Kahne (6) 7. Cannon (5) 8. Hampton (14) 9. Stutts (12) 10. Borden (10) 11. Rahmer (11) 12. Bishop (16) 13. Stroup (15) 14. Sheaffer (13) 15. Taylor (9) 16. M. Wagner (8) 17. Fraker (17) DNS – Sides

The 12-lapper took the top four to the back o the B.  Jeffrey led Cisney, Hafertepe and Dietrich early.  With two to go, Taylor slowed, bringing a caution.  Hafertepe worked by Cisney for the runner-up spot.  Wolfe was catching Dietrich for the final transfer before the caution, but was challenged by Kahne the last two laps.

A main (started): 1. Bayston (1) 2. Gravel (8) 3. Schatz (12) 4. Madsen (6) 5. Allen (2) 6. Dewease (13) 7. Schuchart (9) 8. Marks (3) 9. L. Wagner (7) 10. Haudenschild (11) 11. Whittall (20) 12. Sweet (5) 13. Zearfoss (15) 14. Dietrich (24) 15. McFadden (19) 16. Macedo (17) 17. Macri (10) 18. Wolfe (27, prov.) 19. Hafertepe (22) 20. Kahne (25, prov.) 21. Henderson (16) 22. Jeffrey (21) 23. Kinser (4) 24. M. Wagner (26, prov.) 25. Johnson (18) 26. Cisney (23) 27. Newlin (14)


Bayston was the class of the field in the $15,000 to win 30-lapper.  He led Allen, Madsen, Kinser and Marks early.  Marks took fourth from Kinser on lap two.  Bayston was in lapped traffic by lap seven.  Gravel entered the top five a lap later, and on lap nine, Kinser’s top ten run came to a close with possible ignition issues.  The only caustion of the event saw Bayston choose the inside line on the double-file restart ahead of Allen, Marks, Madsen and Gravel.  The leaders were back in lapped traffic with 12 to go.  Madsen got by Marks for third with 10 to go, and Gravel followed him into fourth a lap later.  Gravel closed late, grabbing third from Madsen on lap 22 and second from Allen on lap 27.  Schatz followed him into third with two to go, and Madsen took fourth on the last lap.  Bayston was in a different zip code, however, and won his second WoO show of the year.  Dietrich was the hard-charger.

Kenny Heffner PASS 305’s

Heat one (started): 1. Kassidy Kreitz 69K (1) 2. Dustin Young 25 (2) 3. Dave Grube 3D (7) 4. Erin Statler 2 (3) 5. Mike Melair 54 (6) 6. Andrew Boyer 21 (4) 7. Domenic Melair 36 (5) DNS – Jimmy White 53w

8-lap heats saw the top four redraw for feature position.  Kreitz led the distance in this one with Young in tow.  D. Melair was running fourth on lap five when he came to a stop.  Grube used the restart to get around Statler for third.

Heat two (started): 1. Drew Young 7 (1) 2. Garrett Bard 95 (6) 3. Kenny Heffner 97 (5) 4. Doug Dodson 20 (2) 5. Fred Arnold 88 (4) 6. Devin Adams 99 (7) 7. Jake Waters 10 (8) 8. Will Brunson 8B (3)

Young led throughout.  Bard was a rocket on lap one, shooting from outside row three around the cushion in one and two to emerge in second.  Brunson came to a stop four lap in.  After the restart, Heffner got by Dodson for third with two to go.

Heat three (started): 1. Justin Mills MJ1 (2) 2. Austin Reed 34 (1) 3. Ken Duke Jr. 67 (5) 4. Nick Sweigart 8 (4) 5. Mike Alleman 46 (8) 6. Roger Irvine 12 (7) 7. Branston Shue 03 (3) 8. Rowdy Heffner 1 (6)

Reed led early over Sweigart, Mills and Duke.  Mills claimed second from Sweigart at the halfway point, and then took the lead on the low side of turn four with two to go.  Duke used the low side to work by Sweigart for third on the same lap.

A main (started): 1. K. Heffner (6) 2. Bard (3) 3. Mills (5) 4. Duke (1) 5. Grube (12) 6. Dodson (4) 7. Adams (17) 8. Statler (2) 9. M. Melair (13) 10. Irvine (18) 11. Reed (9) 12. Kreitz (7) 13. Sweigart (10) 14. Shue (19) 15. Alleman (15) 16. Arnold (14) 17. Du. Young (11) 18. Waters (20) 19. R. Heffner (21) 20. Boyer (16) 21. Dr. Young (8) 22. White (22) DNS – D. Melair, Brunson


Duke led Bard and Statler early in the 20-lapper.  A caution for debris slowed things three laps in.  Duke led Bard, Statler, K. Heffner and Mills back to green.  K. Heffner nared third on the restart, and Mills moved into fourth.  On lap eight, Bard worked the high side of turn four to grab the lead from the low riding Duke.  Mills got by Statler for fourth.  K. Heffner used the cushion to roar around Duke for second on lap 14.  The leaders entered lapped traffic with five to go.  K. Heffner reeled in Bard in heavy lapped traffic.  As Bard went high around a lapper, K. Heffner made it three-wide on the low side and took the point.  A caution on the white flag lap for Dr. Young set up a single file restart that saw K. Heffner pull away to win.  Mills claimed third on the last lap. Adams was the hard-charger.