ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. — Danny Dietrich banked $3,500 for winning Saturday night’s winged 410 sprint car feature at Lincoln Speedway.
Brian Montieth shared the front row with Alan Krimes. With Chad Trout lining up on the inside of row two, the top three in points starting in the top three starting spots.
Krimes got the advantage coming out of turn 2 running the high side to lead the first lap.
The yellow flag flew on lap one for Robbie Kendall and Adam Wilt who were both facing the wrong way in turns one and two. Both drivers rejoined the field as Krimes led Montieth, Brandon Rahmer, Trout and Ryan Smith to the cone for the early race restart.
Krimes held the lead on the restart with Smith getting past Trout for fourth.
The caution came out again on lap 3 for Brett Michalski who was off the pace in turns one and two Michalski rejoined the field.
Krimes held the lead again on the restart. Freddie Rahmer was on the move, running sixth by lap four.
The leaders were all running the top line around the track except Trout who found something on the bottom.
Smith followed and moved to the bottom in turns 1 and 2 to try and catch Brandon Rahmer for third.
As Krimes caught the tail end of the field on lap 12 Montieth closed the gap between the two.
Krimes and Montieth raced wheel to wheel to the flag stand on lap 14 with Montieth taking the lead.
Smith got around Brandon Rahmer for third on lap 15.
Dietrich made the pass for fifth on lap 16 and started to work his way to the front of the field.
As Montieth and Krimes struggled to get through lapped traffic the battle behind them intensified.
Dietrich moved into second with 10 laps to go and challenged Montieth for the lead.
On lap 21 Dietrich got under Montieth going into turn one for the lead.
As Dietrich took the lead the Rahmer brothers battled for seventh.
Krimes ran wheel to wheel again with Montieth on lap 24 and took second.
Freddie fell back to ninth with Kyle Moody up to sixth.
Krimes gave it everything to try and get back to the front of the field but it wasn’t enough to get by Dietrich.
Dietrich beat Krimes to the checkered flag by .669 seconds. Montieth crossed the line third. Smith finished fourth and Trout completed the top five.
Chad Criswell won the 358 sprint car feature, while Billy Brian Jr. and Tony Jackson won super sportsman features.