MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Anthony Macri scored his fourth Williams Grove Speedway sprint car win of the season on Friday night in the 42nd annual Jack Gunn Memorial, worth $8,000.
Macri took the lead from T.J. Stutts on a lap 16 restart to get the win.
In the 20-lap winged super sportsman main it was Russ Mitten scoring the checkers while the wingless sportsman feature went to Tony Jackson.
Stutts started on the pole of the 30-lap Gunn Memorial and was trailed by Chase Dietz and Macri from the start.
Stutts had a lead of more than one second when the first caution flag of the race unfurled on the fourth lap.
Lap five saw the red flag appear for a hard frontstretch flip by Devon Borden who escaped injury.
Macri muscled around Dietz for second on the restart but was still over a second behind Stutts when the leader entered traffic on the 13th tour.
Traffic allowed Macri to close in on Stutts by lap 15 and make his first bid for the lead and win.
He got under Stutts and briefly took control in the third and fourth turns but Stutts turned the car off of the cushion to reclaim command at the line.
The pace was slowed again on lap 16 for a slowing Kyle Moody.
Macri promptly pounced when green replaced the yellow by diving to Suttts’ inside in the first corner to blast up off of the corners with the point.
And from there the field was left to race for second as Macri pulled away.
A final caution flag with four laps to go negated a near five second lead built by Macri who went uncontested on the restart and took the victory by 1.756 seconds.
It was the 10th overall win of his career at the oval.
Dietz followed Macri around Stutts to finish second as the early leader began to slip backward.
Freddie Rahmer was third followed by Cameron Smith and 14th starter Danny Dietrich who was the hard charger.
The finish:
Feature (30 laps): 1. Anthony Macri, 2. Chase Dietz, 3. Freddie Rahmer, 4. Camerson Smith, 5. Danny Dietrich, 6. TJ Stutts, 7. Troy Wagaman Jr.., 8. Justin Whittall, 9. Kyle Reinhardt, 10. Kody Hartlaub, 11. Lance Dewease, 12. Lucas Wolfe, 13. Ricky Peterson Jr., 14. Chad Trout, 15. Rick Lafferty, 16. Derek Hauck, 17. Derek Locke, 18. Devin Adams, 19. Steve Buckwalter, 20. Kyle Moody, 21. Mike Walter II., 22. Matt Miller, 23. Devon Borden, 24. Ryan Taylor