PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Dylan Cisney entered the 2025 season without a full-time 410 sprint car ride.
He picked up the job with the Stewart Smith racing on Aug. 16 and in just two races behind the wheel, Cisney was able to pick up a win. Cisney led the final 11 laps on Saturday night to pick up his 10th career victory at Port Royal Speedway.
Dylan Cisney and T.J. Stutts would start on the front row of the 25 lap A-main event, and Cisney would jump out to the early lead.
Though Cisney would jump out to the early advantage, he didn’t run away from the field with both Stutts and Blane Heimbach staying within striking distance of the leader.
With just 4 laps completed, Heimbach, who was now in the second spot, would attempt a pass on the bottom lane of turns one and two on Cisney.
Heimbach, who was unable to complete the pass, would stick with Cisney over the next three laps, before completing the pass for the lead with 17 laps remaining.
Cisney, after losing the lead, would keep Heimbach in his sights over the next 6 laps. While continuing to use the top lane of the corners, Cisney would mount a charge back by Heimbach for the lead with 11 laps remaining.
All the while Heimbach and Cisney battled for the lead, Ryan Newton would be charging from his 16th starting position to be in the third spot and quickly running down the top two cars.
Just as Cisney took the lead back, Newton would slide underneath Heimbach in turn one to take the runner up spot away and starting charging down Cisney for the top spot.
After already facing challenges from Heimbach early in the race, Cisney would play great defense on Newton’s challenges to his inside in the first and second corner, while also taking his preferred line away on the top side of turns three and four.
While Cisney and Newton began to start waging war for the winner’s spot, T.J. Stutts looked to get back in the mix after falling outside the podium positions.
Stutts would get by Heimbach and pull alongside Newton with 7 laps remaining and be within a tenth of a second from Cisney as the three cars tussled for the win.
The three leaders looked like they might go three wide battling for the lead with 6 laps to go when the caution lights would come on around the race track for a stopped Derek Hauck in turn three.
Once the accident was cleared, Cisney would stick his car close to the wall in turns one and two to keep Newton at bay.
Newton would look to go up to the top lane as well but his wheels would catch the outside wall, slowing his momentum, and allowing both Stutts and Heimbach to pass him for position.
In this late race situation, Heimbach’s car seemed to surge back to life. After getting by Newton, Heimbach would charge passed Stutts for the runner up spot and look to go back to work on Cisney like he did on the opening laps.
Heimbach would be all over Cisney for the lead, looking to his inside multiple times over the last 4 laps, but just couldn’t get enough speed and grip to make the pass.
Cisney would hold on for the $5,000 win, marking his 10th at The Speed Palace in his career.
Heimbach would finish in the runner up spot and Newton would fight his way back to round out the top three.
For the Penske Racing Shocks super late model edition of the Butch Renninger Memorial Race, Gregg Satterlee would etch his name in the race’s record books for a leading 6th time on Saturday night.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 27S-Dylan Cisney[1]; 2. 12-Blane Heimbach[4]; 3. 66-Ryan Newton[16]; 4. 8-Brock Zearfoss[11]; 5. 11-TJ Stutts[2]; 6. 55-Logan Wagner[10]; 7. 77-Michael Walter[8]; 8. 71-Parker Price Miller[14]; 9. 67-Justin Whittall[17]; 10. 2-Gerard McIntyre Jr[6]; 11. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[9]; 12. 6-Ryan Smith[19]; 13. 22E-Nash Ely[7]; 14. 55W-Mike Wagner[22]; 15. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[12]; 16. 18J-JT Ferry[21]; 17. 95-Garrett Bard[5]; 18. 45-Jeff Halligan[18]; 19. 47K-Kody Lehman[15]; 20. 35-Austin Bishop[20]; 21. 69X-Kassidy Kreitz[23]; 22. 12J-Derek Hauck[3]; 23. 5K-Jake Karklin[24]; 24. 22-Doug Hammaker[13]
