PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Pennsylvania Speedweek has been a tale of two drivers leading into Wednesday night at Port Royal Speedway.
Chase Dietz had claimed three of five events, while Anthony Macri had won the other two. The two drivers would battle it out during the 30 lap A-main event with Dietz coming out on top for his fourth win of the sprint car mini-series and extending his points lead as well.
James McFadden and Macri shared the front row with Dietz outside of the second row.
On the initial green flag, Macri jumped out to the early race lead with McFadden, who worked his way up to third in the PA Speedweek points during the night, positioned in the runner-up spot, and Dietz rounding out the top three.
The top three would remain unchanged over the opening 14 laps of the race as they set a torrid pace around The Speed Palace as the high humidity held moisture down into the racing surface as cars consistently turned laps at around a 16-second pace.
Dietz passed McFadden for the second position in turn two with 16 laps remaining and would benefit from a caution a lap later eliminating lapped cars between himself and the leader.
Macri, who has 30 career 410 sprint car wins at Port Royal Speedway, continued to be good in clean air, as the field retook the green flag, he opened his lead back out over 1.3 seconds.
But once back in lapped traffic, Dietz closed the gap.
Dietz followed Macri around the race track seemingly plotting his move for the race lead when the lapped car of Buddy Schweibinz would get sideways in front of Macri, slowing his pace, and allowing Dietz to capitalize for the race lead coming to the two-to-go signal.
Once straightened back out, Macri got back to his quick pace, but it wasn’t enough to reel in Dietz, and Macri settled for a runner-up finish.
Dietz’s win would mark his fourth triumph at the Juniata County Oval and his 15th win in the 2026 season only, leading all 410 sprint car drivers around the country.
Dietz would also stretch his lead in the PA Speedweek point standings to just over 100 total points over Anthony Macri with four events remaining.
James McFadden, who never fell to fair behind in the A-main, finished third.
In United Racing Club 360 sprint car competition, Jason Shultz won the 25-lap A-main.
The finish:
Feature (30 laps): 1. 23-Chase Dietz[4]; 2. 39M-Anthony Macri[2]; 3. 21-James McFadden[1]; 4. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[3]; 5. 71P-Parker Price Miller[6]; 6. 13-Tanner Holmes[8]; 7. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[9]; 8. 67-Justin Whittall[12]; 9. 55-Logan Wagner[5]; 10. 69K-Ryan Smith[7]; 11. 55K-Kerry Madsen[14]; 12. 71-Logan Rumsey[21]; 13. 35-Buddy Schweibinz[24]; 14. 17-Mark Smith[18]; 15. 66-Ryan Newton[16]; 16. 20T-Ryan Taylor[19]; 17. 22-Doug Hammaker[11]; 18. 8D-Billy Dietrich[10]; 19. 91-Preston Lattomus[20]; 20. 12-Brent Shearer[15]; 21. 8-Lance Dewease[23]; 22. 20-Brady Bacon[17]; 23. 47K-Kody Lehman[22]; 24. 51-Freddie Rahmer[13]
