MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Freddie Rahmer made it back-to-back wins in 410 sprint competition at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, taking $4,080 for his third oval win of the season.
Rahmer had to recover from a wheelie on a lap-10 restart that cost him two spots in order to get the 25-lap victory.
Brady Bacon took the 100-lap USAC Silver Crown main after what was a late-race bout of drama that saw one leader taken out of the event by his challenger from behind.
Kody Lehman started on the pole of the 410 sprint car main and held sway over Rodney Westhafer when action began.
Fourth-starter Anthony Macri moved into second on the fifth lap and began making his bid(s) for the win.
Macri was quickly followed by Rahmer on his way to the front.
Lehman was doing his best to keep control of the race with 10 laps completed despite Macri’s repeated attempts at snaring the lead when the first caution flag of the race unfurled.
Macri was continually working the outside on Lehman to get the lead and in fact, just moments before the yellow, he had taken the point in the race only to see the move negated by the yellow.
Rahmer seemed poised to pounce on the restart but instead lifted the front end high up off of the ground as the car crossed the stripe and instead of moving forward, he fell backward two spots as he tried to muscle the car back under his control while slipping from side to side.
Meanwhile, Macri was again working Lehman for control as Lucas Wolfe worked from the third spot after getting by Rahmer during his wheel-stand.
A second caution flag appeared with five laps to go and again Macri saw a move for the lead called back after this time having gotten around Lehman in the first and second turns while Wolfe slipped by on the bottom.
Macri then slowed to a stop on the track while under caution.
Rahmer drove through the middle of the track on the restart in the first and second turns to motor by Wolfe and then quickly used the same lane in turns three and four to move from third to the lead in one lap before driving off for the victory.
Lehman then fought to hold on to second, which he lost to Wolfe with three laps to go.
Lehman would finish a career-best third followed by Brian Montieth and Danny Dietrich.
Rahmer talked about his wheelie, “I wheelied like terrible. That was ugly,” he said.
“I didn’t have any drive in it ‘til about five laps after that.”
The finish:
- Freddie Rahmer, 2. Lucsa Wolfe, 3. Kody Lehman, 4. Brian Montieth, 5. Danny Dietrich, 6. Kyle Moody, 7. Dylan Cisney, 8. Kyle Reinhardt, 9. Cory Haas, 10. Steve Buckwalter, 11. Ryan Smith, 12. Chad Trout, 13. Glenndon Forsythe, 14. Bradley Howard, 15. Chris Arnold, 16. Dylan Norris, 17. Adrian Shaffer, 18. Jessie Attart, 19. Jordan Givler, 20. Troy Fraker, 21. Greg Plank, 22. Anthony Macri, 23. Rodney Westhafer, 24. TJ Stutts