BECHTELSVILLE, PA. – It was another classic night of racing at Grandview Speedway on Saturday night, in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Racing Series program, as Craig Von Dohren authored another drive from 18th starting spot to the victory in the 30-lap T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modified feature race.
Von Dohren was able to use a couple of well-timed caution flags to regroup the field, and some key moves following restarts, to drive to his eighth point race win of 2022 and his 12th overall win of this season.
Von Dohren took the lead from Dylan Swinehart on lap 16 moving through turn one, and never surrendered the top spot the remaining laps to score his 122nd career NASCAR Modified Saturday night win at Grandview Speedway.
The T.P. Trailer Modified feature saw Ryan Beltz take the lead at the drop of the green flag, and set the pace for the first eleven laps of the main event.Â
A caution on lap eleven reset the field, and by this time Von Dohren had climbed to position eleven.
The next couple of laps were key, as there were a couple of mixups, and cautions, as well as some intense racing, which saw Von Dohren move from 11th to third by the time the caution waved again on lap 15 for point title contender Brett Kressley who slowed with a flat tire.
Included in this sequence was a turn one move which saw Von Dohren go around Beltz entering turn one, then slide under Brad Arnold almost at the same time securing two positions in one corner.
Steve Swinehart was able to take the lead away from Beltz following a lap 11 restart, and stay out front until Dylan Swinehart was able to take the lead following a lap 15 restart. Swinehart’s lead lasted only one lap until Von Dohren motored by entering turn one on lap 16, to take a lead he would never surrender.
Von Dohren would pull out to a huge lead during a long run of green flag racing which would last to the end of the feature.
Von Dohren would reach lapped traffic with five laps to go, but it never slowed him down, and he was able to race unchallenged the final laps to his eighth point race victory of the season.
At the wave of the checkered flag several drivers were able to score their best feature finish of the season. Following Von Dohren across the finish line were Dylan Swinehart, Steve Swinehart, Umbenhauer who grabbed fourth off the final corner, and Beltz.
Kyle Smith had been close on several occasions this season to the top spot but was not able to put everything all together until this week. Smith grabbed the lead from race long leader Michael Burrows entering turn one on lap 20 and ran the final five laps to his first win of the season and third career win in the T.P. Trailer NASCAR Modified feature.
The Wingless Super Sportsman made a visit to Grandview on Saturday night and Brett Perigo was able to take the lead from Steve Wilbur on lap three, then survive a late race challenge from Wilbur in lapped traffic in the closing laps to score the victory.