2010 Top 10 410 Sprints

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Led Central PA with 11 feature wins in the Catoctin Motosports owned sprinter. He started 85 features, finishing in the top five on 39 occasions along with another 16 in the top 10. Matt Cramer came on board for 2010 and helped Dewease to a strong season. He was the leading winner at Williams Grove with five wins, giving him 75 career track wins. Dewease was won the World of Outlaws Summer Nationals preliminary night along with an All Star win at the Grove. Dewease’s big Lincoln wins came in a Speedweek show, the Weldon Sterner Memorial and the Kenny Weld Memorial.

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Won his third straight Lincoln Speedway track championship for the Jerry Parrish owned team. Montieth had nine feature wins on the year, including four wins apiece at the Grove and Lincoln. Montieth won his first career Port Royal Speedway feature win the Tuscarora 50 event and dominated most of the Jim Nace Dream Extreme at the Port before finishing second. He defeated the All Stars at Lincoln and won the 58th Anniversary show at Lincoln. He was a career best runner-up in Williams Grove points and won an Outlaw tuneup at the Grove from his 17th starting spot. He had 32 top five finished in 66 starts and another 11 top 10 finishes.

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Gave car owner Mike Heffner his best year in sprint car ownership with 10 410 Sprint wins and another two 360 sprint car feature wins. While wanting to be racing on the road with the Outlaws, Pittman made a decent living racing in Pennsylvania in 2010 as he won the Keystone Cup championship, along with KC races at Hagerstown, Lincoln and Selinsgrove. He also won two Pennsylvania Speedweek races-the Mitch Smith Memorial at Williams Grove and the finale at Selinsgrove. He was a Twin 20 winner at the Grove and won the Labor Day Classic at Port Royal. He started the season driving for Keen Motorsports but caught fire when he moved into the Heffner machine. He was also declared the winner of the Selinsgrove Open for 360/358 Sprints.

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First career Port Royal Speedway track title for the Harrisburg driver. Won three times at the Port including the Jim Nace Memorial Dream Extreme, which was his biggest paying win ever. Layton finished third in Williams Grove points, where he had big wins in the Tommy Classic and then his second career World of Outlaws feature win in the preliminary night event in May.  He had six total wins on the season, including the season finale at Susquehanna driving for his brother.

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Krimes was one of the most consistent racers on a weekly basis and does it with the lowest budget of anyone in the top 10 rankings for 2010. Krimes had three overall feature wins, two coming at Lincoln and his first career Pennsylvania Speedweek win coming in a thriller at Hagerstown Speedway. Krimes was in the hunt for the Speedweek championship before mechanical woes hurt his chances at Port Royal. Krimes finished fifth in Williams Grove points and was third in final Lincoln points.

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The California driver came to compete in Central PA for the season, starting the year with the Heffner team. Walker won for the team in April at Port Royal and announced he was leaving for the Keen Motorsports operation. Once with Keen, Walker won five times including the Keystone Cup and Pennsylvania Speedweek races at Grandview Speedway. He won his first career feature at Williams Grove in August. Walker injured his knee during his Speedweek flip at Grandview and missed the end of the season due to surgery.

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The all-time leading winner at Williams Grove Speedway started the year off hot with a win in the Grove opener and made a statement that he would win the 2010 track title. He backed that up with a World of Outlaws win at the Grove in May and didn’t win after that, finishing sixth in track points. Rahmer had five total wins for Chad Clemens including an All Star win at Lincoln. He was fourth in Lincoln’s final points.

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He won his first career Lincoln feature in March and backed that up with another Lincoln win in the PA Speedweek opener. Smith won an Outlaw Tuneup feature at Williams Grove and he also had one 360 sprint car win. He finished fourth in Williams Grove points.

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Had a great second season that included three overall wins, two at Lincoln and a career first at Williams Grove. Marks battled for the Lincoln point championship right up until the end of the year, finishing second.  He was named Most Improved Driver at both Williams Grove and Lincoln for the 2010 season.

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A tie with Marks for 10th as Dietrich also won three times, including his two feature wins at Williams Grove in his rookie season for the Gary Kauffman owned team. Dietrich also won once at Lincoln and was named the Rookie of the Year at Williams Grove, where he finished ninth in points.

Honorable Mention:

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Best career season with three wins at Port Royal and battled Layton up until the final night for the point championship.

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