MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Lance Dewease turned back 11th starter Danny Dietrich to win the All Stars Circuit of Champions Sprints Lynn Paxton EMMR Legends Classic at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night.
The 30-lap, $8,000 win was the 116th of Dewease’s illustrious career at the oval and his 11th at the speedplant over the traveling All Stars series.
In twin 20-lap wingless super sportsman mains, Tony Jackson proved victorious to sweep both events.
Dewease earned the pole for the All Stars Paxton Classic by winning the dash and he was flanked by Ryan Smith for the start.
Aboard the Kreitz No. 69k, Smith drove into the lead when action began with Dewease second and Justin Whittall racing third.
Dewease stalked the leader during the early going and when Smith entered the backmarkers on the 13th tour, he was there to challenge.
It was clear that Smith was struggling to maintain the lead as the race wore on and with 14 laps to go, Dewease used a smooth bottom lane run to take control away.
At the same time, 11th starter Danny Dietrich was blistering through the pack and on lap 18 he took the second spot away from Smith before setting his sights on leader Dewease who at that point held a 1.5-second advantage.
Dietrich continually whittled away at that advantage and with three laps left it was down to about a half-second.
And a lap later is when Dietrich took his shot for control with a low swoop into the first turn.
Dietrich pushed the nose of his No. 48 past Dewease’s No. 12 momentarily before Dewease rode his high line momentum back into control on the backchute.
A bobble on the cushion by Dietrich as the pair came to the white flag then allowed Dewease to snare the win by .875 seconds.
Smith rode home third followed by Chase Dietz and Freddie Rahmer.
The finish:
Feature (30 laps): 1. Lance Dewease, 2. Danny Dietrich, 3. Ryan Smith, 4. Chase Dietz, 5. Freddie Rahmer, 6. Brock Zearfoss, 7. Troy Wagaman Jr., 8. Justin Whittall, 9. Chad Trout, 10. Kody Hartlaub,11. Kalib Henry, 12. Cameron Smith, 13. Zane DeVault, 14. TJ Stutts, 15. Devon Borden, 16. Lucas Wolfe, 17. Darin Naida, 18. Cale Thomas, 19. Ryan Taylor, 20. Ashton Torgerson, 21. Preston Lattomus, 22. Trey Jacobs, 23. Aaron Bollinger, 24. Austin Bishop, 25. Doug Hammaker, 26. Dylan Norris
