ABBOTTSTOWN
 
 Alan Krimes is probably one of the most consistent sprint car drivers in Central Pennsylvania.

 The Denver driver runs on a low budget but continuously runs up front and beats many of the top drivers on a weekly basis.

 Saturday night, the young driver blasted from his eighth starting spot to the front in just six laps and drove off for his first win of the season in the 25-lap 410 Sprint car main at Lincoln Speedway.

 While it was the first of the year for Krimes at Lincoln, it was his second overall. He recently won a Speedweek event at Hagerstown Speedway and led the Speedweek points until the next to last night when mechanical failure cost him the lead and possibly the championship.

 “We were fast all night but it’s been awhile since we were here that I almost forgot where to go,” said Krimes, who owns seven Lincoln feature wins and became the 12th winner in 15 races at the track this season. “They finally didn’t water the top tonight and I think that helped us. I was able to get a real good start and moved up quick and was fortunate to stay there.”

 Ed Aiken led the first five laps before yielding to Krimes on the sixth circuit.

 Aiken held the runner-up spot until lap 10 when Brian Leppo moved  by for the spot as Krimes became to race his way through heavy lapped traffic.

 Aiken’s good run came to an end on lap 14 when Derek Sell blew a tire on the backstretch and Aiken hit him and rolled over. He was not injured.

 Krimes was up to the challenge on the restart as he pulled out to a straightaway lead as Leppo, who started seventh was unable to track down the second generation driver over the final 10 laps as Krimes scored the $3,000 payday.

 “It’s a tough field of cars here every week and it’s usually whoever can get to the front first,” said the winner. “We were the first car to get there tonight  and I wasn’t coming off of the bottom until I heard someone behind me and I never did.”

 Leppo, of New Oxford finished second over Fayetteville’s Lance Dewease, who started 10th, Phoenixville’s Brian Montieth up from 11th and Mark Smith, of Tower City who started ninth.

 Completing the top 10 were consolation winner Doug Esh, Brent Marks, Friday night Williams Grove winner Danny Dietrich, Fred Rahmer and Adam Wilt.

 Ed Aiken, Josh Wells and Alan Krimes won heats for the 28 410 Sprints with Doug Esh winning the consolation.

 Hanover’s Logan Schuchart raced to his first career 358 sprint car win in the 20-lap feature.

 The grandson of former sprint legend Bobby Allen came from the 10th starting spot to claim the very popular win over Glenndon Forsythe, Doug Hammaker, Dale Hammaker and Adrian Shaffer. 

Jan Luckenbaugh, Rick Horn, Denny Gross and Doug Hammaker were 358 Sprint heat winners with Adrian Shaffer winning the consolation. There were 36 cars pitside.

 Lincoln Speedway returns to action next Saturday night with the 410 Sprints joined by the URC Sprint series. Race time will be 7:30pm.