ABBOTTSTOWN
Jeff Busby has been dreaming about winning a 410 Sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway for a long time.

And his dream finally came through Saturday night as he captured his first ever win at the track in the 25-lap Daryl Gohn/Glenn Gohn Sr Memorial race.

Busby makes the long tow every weekend from his Bridgeville, Delaware to the Pigeon Hills and came out on top of a thrilling feature event in front of another big Saturday night crowd.

“We finally made it,” said Busby after collecting $3,000 for the win. “I’ve been thinking about this a lot but most of the time I just clam up and don’t know what to say. I just want to thank everyone.”

Busby started fourth but it was Mechanicsburg’s Doug Dodson grabbing the lead at the start and led until the third lap when Josh Wells spun in turn one.

Dodson led lap four but gave way to Busby on the fifth circuit.

Dodson went back out front on the next lap but it was Busby taking the lead on lap seven and never looking back.

The final caution of the event came out on lap eight when Joe Ilg spun in turn one.

Alan Krimes moved into second spot on lap 10 and held that spot as Fred Rahmer moved into the third spot on lap 11 and appeared ready to challenge for the lead.

Busby worked through lapped traffic like a veteran and had a close call with the lapped car of Don Slack in turn one during the 16th lap.

Krimes nearly snuck under Busby for the top spot after that close call but Busby managed to keep his JOB Construction No. 47J ahead and was able to maintain his lead to win by 1.14 seconds at the checkered flag.

“If it wasn’t for my brother and Shawn Norris, we wouldn’t be here tonight,” Busby said of Norris, who has been crew chief on the car since last season. “It seems we always have some sort of bad luck here but tonight things worked out our way.”
Niki Young, of East Berlin made a last race charge to finish in the runner-up spot in a brand new Denny Neiderer owned entry.

Krimes, of Denver settled for the third spot with Lancaster’s Doug Esh getting around Rahmer, of Salfordville for the fourth spot on the final lap.

Completing the top 10 were Chad Layton, Cris Eash, Jim Siegel, Greg Hodnett and Brian Leppo.

Young, Krimes and Dodson won heats for the 27-car field with Brian Montieth winning the consolation.

After several cautions and a red on the first lap, Jimmy Bewley led the first two laps of the 20-lap 358 sprint car feature before disaster struck on the third lap.

Brad McClelland made contact with Bewley at the flagstand sending Bewley into a violent series of flips into turn one.  

McClelland went onto score the win,  his first of the year at the track as he became the seventh  different winner in seven events .
Cory Haas, Steve Owings, Jeff Rohrbaugh and Dale Hammaker were the top five.

Nat Tuckey scored another win in thundercar action over Mike Zeigler, Jr. and Neil Smith.

Heats for the 46 358 Sprints were won by Dale Hammaker, Mike Ressler, Aaron Ott and Paul Hively III. The double consolations went to Chad Jumper and Jeff Rohrbaugh.