MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Invader Justin Peck upended Ryan Smith with a late race pass and went on to win the 25-lap feature for Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprint cars at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night.
The victory was the third of Peck’s career at the track and was worth $5,000.
In the 25-lap Dirty Deeds 25 main for HJ Towing & Recovery 358 sprints, Mechanicsburg’s Derek Locke took the lead from Cole Young for the victory.
Polesitter Buddy Schweibinz zoomed into the lead at the start of the 410 sprint feature with second starter Ryan Smith giving chase.
Third starter Peck of Monrovia, Indiana, was trailing in third when Cameron Smith slowed to a stop on the fourth lap.
Schweibinz got away from the field when action resumed and entered the backmarkers on the ninth tour.
But with 10 laps to go Smith had caught the leader and on lap 18 he drove into the lead with an outside turn two move only to see the pass negated when an untimely caution slowed the pace and placed Schweibinz back on the point.
Aboard his mount owned by Don Kreitz Jr., Smith made good on his chances when action resumed and took control by driving across the bottom in the first and second turns.
Peck soon followed Smith and took second spot.
Smith appeared to be home free, headed for his first win at the track since 2016 when Doug Hammaker rolled his car in the fourth turn with three laps to go, bringing out the red flag.
Peck and his team used the open red flag period to make changes on his Rudeen Racing No. 26 and on the restart a blast around the top in the first turn nearly netted him control and gave notice of his new corner speed.
And then the next time around Peck made it stick by again rolling the top groove while picking up speed from the middle of the corner to the exit.
Smith didn’t give up however and just past the white flag he drove his blue racer fully in front of Peck with a low side dive into the first corner.
And with that Smith tried to drive up in front of Peck and take his line away but Peck used his mid-corner speed to rally back and prevent him from completing the move.
Peck then went on to the victory by .811 seconds.
Lance Dewease was third followed by Schweibinz and Brent Marks.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. Justin Peck, 2. Ryan Smith, 3. Lance Dewease, 4. Buddy Schweibinz, 5. Brent Marks, 6. Troy Wagaman Jr., 7. Dylan Norris, 8. Freddie Rahmer, 9. Chase Randall, 10. Aaron Bollinger, 11. Tanner Holmes, 12. Brady Bacon, 13. Brent Shearer, 14. TJ Stutts, 15. JJ Loss, 16. James Roselli, 17. Chris Frank, 18. Dave Grube, 19. Doug Hammaker, 20. Brock Zearfoss, 21. Cole Knopp, 22. Tim Glatfelter, 23. Troy Fraker, 24. Cameron Smith, 25. Samuel Miller.
