Van May's "1 of 1" #69
6/30/22
Hagerstown Speedway
Hagerstown, MD
PA Speedweek Night #6
36 cars
Ryan Smith (9th car out to time) set quick time on the half-mile at 15.824 seconds on a quickly drying track. Justin Peck (8th car out) was second quick, followed by Brent Marks (10th), Dylan Cisney (4th), Kyle Reinhardt (2nd), TJ Stutts (5th), Danny Dietrich (14th), Devon Borden (3rd), Freddie Rahmer (20th) and Kyle Larson (6th).
Heat one (started): 1. Tanner Thorson 19T (6) 2. Rahmer 51 (2) 3. R. Smith 6 (4) 4. Anthony Macri 39m (3) 5. Reinhardt 1w (1) / 6. Dylan Norris 44 (8) 7. Dave Blaney 10 (7) 8. Ryan Timms 5T (5) 9. Anthony Fiore 91 (9)
8-lap heats took the top five to the feature. The heat winners and the fastest qualifier in each heat who finished in the top five made the feature redraw. Rahmer led Reinhardt, Smith, Thorson and Macri on lap one, but things got scrambled from there in a great heat. Smith went from third to first on the second lap. Rahmer got by Smith for the lead on lap three. Thorson passed Smith for second on lap four as he started making the low side work. He caught Rahmer and passed him for the lead in turn two on the white flag lap.
Heat two (started): 1. Larson 57 (2) 2. Stutts 11 (1) 3. Peck 13 (4) 4. Lucas Wolfe 5w (5) 5. Tyler Reeser 35 (3) / 6. Tim Glatfelter 69 (8) 7. Cody Fletcher 66a (9) 8. Eddie Lumbar 36A (7) 9. Billy Dietrich 8 (6)
Larson led Stutts for the distance. Peck passed Reeser for third on lap two and Wolfe followed him a lap later for fourth.
Heat three (started): 1. Rico Abreu 24 (3) 2. Dietrich 48 (1) 3. Marks 19 (4) 4. Chase Dietz 39 (2) 5. Robbie Kendall 55K (7) / 6. Mike Wagner 55 (5) 7. Trey Hivner 7 (9) 8. Kyle Moody 99m (6) 9. Tyler Ross 75 (8)
Dietrich led Dietz, Abreu, Marks and Kendall early. The caution came out after a lap for a 360 spin by Hivner. Abreu took second from Dietz on the restart, and he got the top of three and four really working. On lap five, he passed Dietrich on the high side of turn four to win the heat.
Heat four (started): 1. Borden 27 (1) 2. Sye Lynch 42 (2) 3. Cisney 5 (4) 4. Mike Walter II 33w (6) 5. Alan Krimes 27s (5) / 6. Justin Whittal 67 (3) 7. Chad Trout 1x (8) 8. Brad Howard 49H (7) 9. Austin Burke 54 (9)
Borden led Lynch the distance. Whittal claimed third from Walter on lap four. Howard spun at the halfway point. Walter and Cisney roared by Whittal for third and fourth after the restart, and Cisney kept his momentum by passing Walter for third in the last corner.
B main (started): 1. Timms (2) 2. Norris (3) 3. Blaney (6) 4. Wagner (5) / 5. Glatfelter (4) 6. Fletcher (7) 7. Trout (9) 8. Fiore (13) 9. Moody (11) 10. Hivner (8) 11. Howard (12) 12. Burke (14) 13. Lumbar (10) 14. Whittal (1) DNS – B. Dietrich, Ross
The 12-lapper took the top four to the A. Contact from Timms sent Whittal high into the turn four wall. He retired. Norris led lap one over Timms, Glatfelter, Blaney and Wagner. Timms went low in four to take the lead on lap two. Blaney worked the high side to get by Glatfelter for third on lap three. Wagner secured the final transfer low in four as he got by Glatfelter. Blaney reeled in Norris, passing him for second on lap eight, but Norris got back by in a good battle with two laps to go.
A main (started): 1. Marks (3) 2. Larson (2) 3. Macri (13) 4. Dietrich (11) 5. Smith (7) 6. Abreu (4) 7. Borden (5) 8. Wolfe (14) 9. Dietz (15) 10. Rahmer (9) 11. Cisney (8) 12. Lynch (12) 13. Kendall (19) 14. Timms (21) 15. Walter II (16) 16. Peck (6) 17. Stutts (10) 18. Reinhardt (17) 19. Thorson (1) 20. Krimes (20) 21. Wagner (24) 22. Norris (22) 23. Blaney (23) 24. Reeser (18)
Larson led Marks, Smith, Thorson and Abreu early in the 30-lapper. He was into lapped traffic by the sixth circuit, and he and Marks just left the rest of the field behind. When Abreu passed Thorson for fourth on lap ten, and then Peck for third on lap eleven, the pair had a half a lap lead on him. Macri was also on the move from his starting spot in row seven. He would pass Peck for fourth and then shot by Abreu for third. On lap 22, Larson was attempting to lap the tenth place car of Rahmer and came up short. Marks had the momentum to slide him in one and two and take the lead on lap 23. Marks looked to be on his way to a sure win before Reinhardt stopped on the front stretch with just two to go. By that time, the lead pair had lapped up to seventh place. Marks pulled away to the win, followed by Larson, Macri and a late charging Dietrich. The win paid Marks $8,000 and padded his PA Speedweek point lead. Macri was the hard-charger.