It was a big night for cars numbered 151 Saturday at Hagerstown Speedway.
DJ Troutman raced to a career first super late model win in the 13th
annual Richard “Boney” Bonebrake Tribute in the Chet Laye No. 151 while Kyle
Lear raced to his second weekend win in his No. 151 late model sportsman
machine.
Troutman battled Nathan Durboraw for the top spot, taking the lead late in
the event for the big win over Marvin Winters, Durboraw, Jim Yoder and
Frankie Plessinger. Shermansdale’s Mike Lupfer finished 13th.
Lear led the final five laps of the sportsman race for the win over Ashley
Barrett, Scott Palmer, Richard Walls and Michael Collins with Shaun Jones
16th in a second Jerry Bard owned car with Shippensburg’s Bard 22nd.
The track was also in action on Friday night as part of the special
exhibition charity race night with all donations going to the Speedway
Children’s Charity.
Double late model sportsman features were on the card, one a makeup from
May 3 that saw Lear taking the win over James Myers, Shaun Jones, Brian
Lessley and Pete Weaver. Bard finished eighth.
In the regular 25-lap event, Derek Byler also visited victory lane for the
first time at the track with a win over Ashley Barrett, Bard, Andy Fries and
Tyler Armstrong. Jones was 18th.
SNYDER GETS SELINSGROVE FIRST
Nate Snyder used a late race restart to grab the lead and went onto his
first 25-lap 358 Sprint car win of the season Saturday night at Selinsgrove
Speedway.
Aboard his family owned Pro Lawn Care sponsored sprinter, the Halifax
driver drove around race-long leader Chuck Paige on a lap 22 restart and
became the fifth different winner in six races this season at the Snyder
County oval.
It marked the 14th career win for Snyder at the track.
He started sixth in the field and raced his way into second place by lap 10
before taking advantage of the restart 11 laps later.
Larry Kelleher finished second ahead of points leader Pat Cannon in the
Highlands Tire Service sprinter ahead of his brother Steve Cannon and Chuck
Paige fifth.
Donnie Schick raced to his first 25-lap late model win of the season after
taking the lead on lap eight and driving to the win over Jeff Smith, Coleby
Frye, Chris Shuey and Steve Campbell.
AJ Stroup won his second pro stock feature over Troy Miller and Brad Mitch
while Ricky Bender topped roadrunner action over Bill Benner, Jr. and Kyle
Miller.
MICHAEL TOPS URC
Ocean View, Delaware driver Curt Michael raced to his second win of the
season in Saturday night URC Sprint action at Bridgeport Speedway.
Michael, the defending and five time series champion started on the front
row but lost the lead to Chris Coyle on lap eight.
Michael stayed within striking distance of Coyle and retook the top spot
for good on lap 17 and then drove to his 37th career URC win ahead of Coyle,
Justin Collett, Randy West and JJ Grasso.
SHEPARD TOPS GRANDVIEW
Grandview Speedway kicked off the Keystone Cup Sprint Series last Wednesday
night and it was Jeff Shepard scoring the win, his fourth overall on the
year.
Shepard set a new one lap track record in time trials and led all 35 laps
of the feature for the $5,000 paycheck.
World of Outlaws regulars Daryn Pittman and Lucas Wolfe, of Mechanicsburg
finished second and third followed by Fred Rahmer and Stevie Smith.
Andy Martin was declared the ARDC Midget winner after Steve Buckwalter was
disqualified by ARDC officials after a last lap incident with Billy Pauch,
Jr.
HAUS TOPS AT PORT
Scott Haus won for the third time in Port Royal Speedway late model action
Saturday night.
Haus took the win over Newport’s Steve Stitt, Mitch Hack, Tim Wilson and
Eric Zembower.
Dillsburg’s Rich Eichelberger raced to his first win of the season in the
Super Sportsman Tour event over Bobby Hockenberry, Aaron Eichelberger, Stan
Wanner and Leroy Martin. Summerdale’s JR Fry was eighth, Carlisle’s Frankie
Herr ninth, Mechanicsburg’s Derek Locke 12th, Newville’s Russ Mitten 22nd
and Summerdale’s Jason Fry 23rd.
Cowboy Jim Kennedy took top honors in the PA 305 Sprint car feature over
Brent Comp, Michael Wagner, Nathan Gramely and Boiling Springs’ Craig
Laudermilch.
Tim Krape won his fourth pro stock feature over Terry Naugle and Dan Berry.
POTTS AGAIN AT SUSKY
For the second win in a row, Gary Potts raced to the 358 late model win at
Susquehanna Speedway Park.
Potts defeated Craig Wagaman, Steve Weikel, Jake Jones and Sam Leonard, Jr.
with Carlisle’s Carl Billet sixth.
Chad Smith won the street stock feature over Eric Walker, Craig Morgan,
Gregory Diehl and Wes Alleman while it was Donnie Broderick and Ray
Broderick splitting the two Xtreme Stock car features.
DEWEASE WINS AT LOWES
Lance Dewease got some good TV exposure Friday night as the Fayetteville
driver led all 30 laps of the Rite Aid Showdown World of Outlaws sanctioned
event at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
The race was shown live on the SPEED channel.
Dewease kept the Donny and Lisa Owens, Drees Homes sponsored sprinter out
front in front during the entire race in front of a of a sell-out Charlotte
crowd
Jason Meyers finished second over Shane Stewart, Jac Haudenschild and Craig
Dollansky.
Mechanicsburg’s Lucas Wolfe was running second in the event before a fuel
line problem sent him pitside.
Meyers came back for his fifth WoO win of the season in Saturday’s first
ever appearance by the Outlaws at Virginia Motor Speedway.
Meyers led all but one lap of the 30 lap feature in his win over Daryn
Pittman, Sam Hafertepe, Jr., Haudenschild and Joey Saldana. Wolfe finished
eighth.
OTHER WEEKEND ACTION
Dustin Sheffield topped Saturday night 600 Micro Sprint action at
Shippensburg Speedway winning over Brandon Yarlett, Jim Dawson, Bo Gordon
and Brian Sherill. Cody Kershner took the mini stock win over Eddie Kirby
and Roman Bard while Lyle Barnes was the thundercar winner.
Greg Wilson won for the first time this season in O’Reilly All Star Circuit
of Champions action at Ohio’s Fremont Speedway on Saturday. Wilson defeated
Brock Mayes, Dean Jacobs, David Harrison and Randy Hannagan with Dewease
finishing ninth.