PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Over the past 5 years, it seemed that a win at Port Royal Speedway wouldn’t come Rico Abreu’s way.
But on Saturday night, Abreu took that burden off of his shoulders with a $58,500 triumph in the Tuscarora 50.
The opening lap of the race saw Lance Dewease and T.J. Stutts side by side on the front row with Dewease leading the way before Corey Day got upside down between turns three and four.
A complete restart followed with Stutts and Dewease again on the front row. Dewease led the opening lap with Abreu second and Freddie Rahmer third.
Over the next 13 laps, Abreu followedDewease closely around the Speed Palace, just biding his time before deciding to make a pass, while Stutts would get around Rahmer to get back into the podium.
With 36 laps remaining in the race, Abreu worked around the outside of Dewease in turns three and four to take the race lead and would continue to lead until the scheduled break at the halfway point of the race with 25 laps remaining.
Abreu led the entire second half of the event, managing his tires well, and picking up his first win at Port Royal Speedway during the historic Tuscarora 50.
The race paid $58,500 to Abreu as he was the Durst Dice Roll driver of the night after the fan of the night rolled a three in victory lane before the A-main event.
“I knew it was a little aggressive on tires,” explained Aberu in victory lane describing the race. “I was just really trying to be disciplined with lapped traffic and my foot on the throttle pedal and just not overdriving the entry of the corners and letting that tire slip at all.”
Stutts and Macri rounded out the top three in the A-main event.
The finish:
Feature (50 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 2. 11-TJ Stutts[2]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri[10]; 4. 69K-Logan Wagner[6]; 5. 67-Justin Whittall[8]; 6. 51-Freddie Rahmer[4]; 7. 9P-Parker Price Miller[15]; 8. 13-Justin Peck[14]; 9. 1Z-Chase Dietz[5]; 10. 87-Aaron Reutzel[20]; 11. 5C-Dylan Cisney[12]; 12. 55W-Mike Wagner[13]; 13. 49-Brad Sweet[19]; 14. 77-Michael Walter[26]; 15. 19-Brent Marks[27]; 16. 83-James McFadden[25]; 17. 8-Cory Eliason[22]; 18. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[21]; 19. 48-Danny Dietrich[18]; 20. 12H-Blane Heimbach[17]; 21. 26-Zeb Wise[16]; 22. 12-Lance Dewease[1]; 23. 88-Sye Lynch[9]; 24. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[7]; 25. 21-Brian Brown[23]; 26. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[24]; 27. 1A-Jacob Allen[28]; 28. 14-Corey Day[11]