(Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
9/11/26
Port Royal Speedway
Port Royal, PA
Night Before the Tuscarora 50
High Limit Sprint Cars
57 cars
The 57-car field was split into two groups for qualifying. Aaron Reutzel (9th car out to time) set quick time in the first group at 15.570 seconds on the half-mile. Ryan Smith (19th car out) was second quick, followed by Chase Dietz (14th), Tanner Thorson (23rd) and Chase Randall (2nd). Devin Adams had motor issues in hot laps and scratched for the night. Gio Scelzi (10th car out) led the second group with a lap of 16.067 seconds. Kasey Jedrzejek (13th car out) was second quick, followed by Rico Abreu (8th), Daison Pursley (25th) and Ryan Timms (6th).
Heat one (starteds): 1. 23-Chase Dietz[1]; 2. 13-Tanner Holmes[6]; 3. 9R-Chase Randall[2]; 4. 87-Aaron Reutzel[4]; 5. 4-Kasey Kahne[3] / 6. 26-Justin Peck[7]; 7. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[10]; 8. 35-Buddy Schweibinz[8]; 9. 12-Brent Shearer[5]; 10. 88W-Austin McCarl[9]; 11. 27S-Dylan Cisney[14]; 12. 18J-JT Ferry[11]; 13. 11T-Michael Walter[13]; 14. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[12]; DNS - 99-Devin Adams
8-lap heats took the top five to the feature. The heat winners and the fastest qualifiers (starting fourth) who made the top five, qualified for the Dash. Dietz led early over Randall, Reutzel, Kahne and Holmes. Holmes moved into fourth on lap two. Buckwalter flipped four laps in, bringing out the red. He was o.k. Holmes shot from fourth to second on the restart, completing a great run.
Heat two (started): 1. 88-Tanner Thorson[1]; 2. 71R-Logan Rumsey[2]; 3. 67-Justin Whittall[3]; 4. 21-Brian Brown[6]; 5. 69K-Ryan Smith[4] / 6. 48-Danny Dietrich[7]; 7. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[8]; 8. 66-Ryan Newton[9]; 9. 22-Doug Hammaker[5]; 10. 19M-Brett Strickler[10]; 11. 10C-Matt Campbell[11]; 12. 20T-Ryan Taylor[12]; 13. 10W-Jake Waters[13]; DNS - X-Robbie Kendall
Thorson led the distance over Rumsey and Whittall. Brown took fourth from R. Smith on lap two. Dietrich was all over Smith for the final transfer late, but fell just short.
Heat three (started): 1. 10-Ryan Timms[2]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[1]; 3. 1A-Cameron Smith[3]; 4. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 5. 55-Kerry Madsen[6] / 6. 42-Sye Lynch[5]; 7. 22E-Nash Ely[7]; 8. 51-Freddie Rahmer[11]; 9. 39-Lucas Wolfe[10]; 10. 20-Brady Bacon[8]; 11. 11A-Austin Bishop[9]; 12. 1K-Kelby Watt[13]; 13. 38-Jordan Strickler[12]; 14. 67X-JJ Loss[14]
Timms dominated this one going away. Madsen got around Lynch right away to secure the last transfer.
Heat four (started): 1. 39M-James McFadden[2]; 2. 9-Daison Pursley[1]; 3. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 4. 19-Brent Marks[8]; 5. 71-Parker Price Miller[6] / 6. 24D-Danny Sams III[3]; 7. 55W-Logan Wagner[9]; 8. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[4]; 9. 8-Lance Dewease[7]; 10. 98-Ricky Peterson[12]; 11. 55M-Domenic Melair[13]; 12. 11-TJ Stutts[10]; 13. 47K-Kody Lehman[11]; 14. 11Z-Zach Newlin[14]
McFadden led early over Pursley, Sams, Wagaman and Jefrzejek. Marks got by Jedrzejek to gain the final transfer spot on lap two. Wagaman passed Sams for third on lap five, and Marks followed him into fourth a lap later. Price-Miller reeled in Sams and shot by him in the last corner to take the final transfer spot. Jedrzejek missing the transfer gave Pursley a Dash spot.
C main (started): 1. 88W-Austin McCarl[1]; 2. 20-Brady Bacon[2] / 3. 19M-Brett Strickler[3]; 4. 27S-Dylan Cisney[5]; 5. 98-Ricky Peterson[4]; 6. 11A-Austin Bishop[6]; 7. 20T-Ryan Taylor[9]; 8. 1K-Kelby Watt[8]; 9. 47K-Kody Lehman[14]; 10. 18J-JT Ferry[7]; 11. 11-TJ Stutts[10]; 12. 11T-Michael Walter[11]; 13. 11Z-Zach Newlin[20]; 14. 38-Jordan Strickler[12]; 15. 10W-Jake Waters[13]; DNS - 10C-Matt Campbell; 55M-Domenic Melair; 17B-Steve Buckwalter; 67X-JJ Loss; X-Robbie Kendall; 99-Devin Adams[21]
The 8-lapper took the top two to the B. Bacon got the early jump, but it was called back when J. Strickler spun before a lap could be completed. McCarl jumped out to the lead on the second try, and Bacon followed him into the B. Dylan Cisney won the $1,000 Warrior funds from Sandy Kline.
Dash (started): 1. 9-Daison Pursley[1]; 2. 69K-Ryan Smith[4]; 3. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 4. 23-Chase Dietz[3]; 5. 87-Aaron Reutzel[8]; 6. 88-Tanner Thorson[5]; 7. 10-Ryan Timms[6]; 8. 39M-James McFadden[7]
Disaster struck when the green fell. Dietz got up into Timms left front tire, breaking his front end, spinning him. That collected McFadden, who destroyed his second Macri car in as many nights. Reutzel was also collected, but restarted. Pursley led the distance over R. Smith and Scelzi.
B main (started): 1. 26-Justin Peck[3]; 2. 12-Brent Shearer[1]; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich[5]; 4. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[2] / 5. 55W-Logan Wagner[10]; 6. 42-Sye Lynch[4]; 7. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[9]; 8. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[7]; 9. 66-Ryan Newton[12]; 10. 8-Lance Dewease[15]; 11. 22-Doug Hammaker[14]; 12. 39-Lucas Wolfe[13]; 13. 20-Brady Bacon[17]; 14. 24D-Danny Sams III[6]; 15. 22E-Nash Ely[8]; 16. 88W-Austin McCarl[16]; 17. 35-Buddy Schweibinz[11]; DNS - 51-Freddie Rahmer
The 12-lapper took the top four to the feature. Shearer led early over Peck, Jedrzejek and Lynch. Dietrich pressured Lynch and passed him for the final transfer on lap five. Peck slid by Shearer to take the lead with four to go. Dietrich slid by Jedrzejek in the last corner to take third. Buddy Schweibinz won the $1,000 Warrior money from Sandy Kline.
A main (started): 1. 23-Chase Dietz[4]; 2. 69K-Ryan Smith[2]; 3. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[3]; 4. 9-Daison Pursley[1]; 5. 67-Justin Whittall[14]; 6. 24-Rico Abreu[9]; 7. 13-Tanner Holmes[8]; 8. 1A-Cameron Smith[11]; 9. 9R-Chase Randall[10]; 10. 10-Ryan Timms[7]; 11. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[13]; 12. 71-Parker Price Miller[19]; 13. 88-Tanner Thorson[6]; 14. 87-Aaron Reutzel[5]; 15. 48-Danny Dietrich[22]; 16. 71R-Logan Rumsey[10]; 17. 12-Brent Shearer[21]; 18. 26-Justin Peck[20]; 19. 19-Brent Marks[15]; 20. 55-Kerry Madsen[17]; 21. 4-Kasey Kahne[18; 22. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[23]; 23. 21-Brian Brown[16]; 24. 55W-Logan Wagner[24, prov.]; 25. 47K-Kody Lehman[25, prov.]; DNS - 39M-James McFadden
The 25-lapper saw R. Smith leading Pursley, Dietz, Scelzi and Reutzel early. On lap two, Dietz snuck by Pursley for second, and then used a slider in turn one to pass R. Smith for the lead on lap four. Lehman and Jedrzejek got together eight laps in, with Dietz narrowly missing getting collected. Dietz took the outside line on the restart, ahead of Smith, Pursley, Scelzi, Reutzel and Timms, who had a pass for fifth negated by the caution. Smith shot by Dietz to lead when the green fell, while Scelzi took third and Timms fifth. On lap ten, Dietz got back by Smith for the point. Abreu got by Timms for fifth on the same lap. Dietrich spun to bring another caution 11 laps in. This time, Dietz took the inside line over Smith, Scelzi, Pursley and Abreu. Pursley moved into third, while C. Smith entered the top five. On lap 13, Rico got back around C. Smith for fifth. Dietz was into lapped traffic with four to go. On lap 23, Brown’s car snapped around and collected Wagner in a hard crash. Both exited their cars under their own power. Dietz led R. Smith, Pursley, Scelzi and Abreu back to green. While Dietz went unchallenged for his first ever High Limit win and 20th overall on the season, Scelzi snagged third, and Whittall completed a hard-charger run by finishing fifth. Logan Wagner got the $1,000 Warrior Award money from Sandy Kline.