PORT ROYAL, Pa. — The Living Legends Dream Race at Port Royal Speedway always brings a new storyline into the mix. This year, it saw Mike Wagner break a three-year winless streak and Robbie Kendall pick up his first 410 win at Port Royal Speedway.
Kendall started on the front row of the first 25-lap A-main event alongside Anthony Macri with the latter taking the early race lead.
Macri would lead the opening eight laps with Kendall in a further second when the caution lights would come on for debris on the back straightaway. The caution would be called because the hood off of the No. 39m blew off of his car and onto the racing surface.
This dilemma caused Macri to go to the pit area due to Port Royal Speedway rules not allowing for a driver to compete without the engine completely covered. This would give Kendall his first lead of the race.
Kendall would lead for a lap before Logan Wagner would overtake him on a restart with 16 laps remaining in the first corner of the race track.
Wagner, who was looking to pick up his fifth win of the season and his fourth in a row at Port Royal, would continue to lead for the next 13 laps. When coming down the front stretch at the three lap to go mark, Wagner would begin to lose power as he had run out of fuel.
Wagner would limp around the track until he drew the caution flag with two laps remaining which would bring out an open red flag for the field to refuel their sprint cars.
Kendall would inherit the lead once again, now with just two laps remaining and Justin Whittall right on his tail.
Whittall would pull alongside Kendall in both sets of corners over the final two laps, but couldn’t mount enough speed to make the pass and Kendall would hold on for his first win at Port Royal Speedway worth $12,500.
“We got a little lucky there with those two cars falling out,” said Kendall. “This is a place I always wanted to win at. I’m thankful I’m even racing.”
During the break between the features, Kendall drew a 6 pill to set the invert for the second 25-lap A-main meaning Devon Borden and Mike Wagner would make up the front row with Kendall starting sixth.
Wagner would get out to the lead off of the initial start and while fighting off restart challenges would lead all 25 laps in the second feature.
With two laps to go, he would start to run out of fuel to allow Justin Whittall to begin to close the nearly 2-second gap between the top two cars, but Wagner’s machine would hold enough power to get him back to victory lane for the first time in three years.
“I’m glad to win. I think we should be winning more often, but we’ve been getting faster here lately so hopefully it will continue,” said Wagner in victory lane following his $12,500 win.
In USAC East Coast wingless sprint car competition, Christian Bruno would start on the front row and lead all 20 laps to claim victory for the first time in his career.
The finishes:
First Feature: 1. 27S-Robbie Kendall[2]; 2. 67-Justin Whittall[6]; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich[7]; 4. 35-Austin Bishop[8]; 5. 55-Mike Wagner[5]; 6. 23-Devon Borden[18]; 7. 5R-Tyler Ross[14]; 8. 77-Michael Walter[10]; 9. 12D-Lance Dewease[21]; 10. 5-Dylan Cisney[19]; 11. 35K-Jake Karklin[11]; 12. 12-Blane Heimbach[24]; 13. 11-TJ Stutts[15]; 14. 69K-Logan Wagner[4]; 15. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[20]; 16. 45-Jeff Halligan[9]; 17. 55M-Domenic Melair[16]; 18. 47K-Kody Lehman[23]; 19. 95-Garrett Bard[13]; 20. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[12]; 21. 39M-Anthony Macri[1]; 22. 1-Chase Dietz[3]; 23. 6-Ryan Smith[17]; 24. 19R-Mark Smith[22]
Second Feature: 1. 55-Mike Wagner[2]; 2. 67-Justin Whittall[5]; 3. 23-Devon Borden[1]; 4. 69K-Logan Wagner[14]; 5. 35-Austin Bishop[3]; 6. 27S-Robbie Kendall[6]; 7. 77-Michael Walter[8]; 8. 5R-Tyler Ross[7]; 9. 12-Blane Heimbach[12]; 10. 5-Dylan Cisney[10]; 11. 11-TJ Stutts[13]; 12. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[15]; 13. 35K-Jake Karklin[11]; 14. 47K-Kody Lehman[18]; 15. 95-Garrett Bard[19]; 16. 45-Jeff Halligan[16]; 17. 55M-Domenic Melair[17]; 18. 39M-Anthony Macri[21]; 19. 12D-Lance Dewease[9]; 20. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[20]; 21. 22-Bryn Gohn[25]; 22. 19R-Mark Smith[24]; 23. 48-Danny Dietrich[4]; 24. 6-Ryan Smith[23]; 25. (DNS) 1-Chase Dietz
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