PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Logan Wagner charged from the outside of row three to the front at Port Royal Speedway to claim his third straight Weikert’s Livestock 410 sprint car win and his fourth win this season.
Gerard McIntyre and Blane Heimbach would make up the front row of the A-main event, and it would be Heimbach who would lead the opening circuit of the race.
McIntyre would overtake the driver out of Selinsgrove on the second lap though and would momentarily pull away over the next 10 laps but would have plenty of battles going on behind him.
Wagner would work his way up through the top five over the next 10 laps and would put a slider on McIntyre going into turn one with 14 laps remaining to take over the lead.
Wagner once in front would take on some wing damage to right-hand side of the top wing, bending it back just a touch, but it wouldn’t effect him from getting back to victory lane.
“It didn’t help me,” said Wagner in victory lane. “I thought we were a little bit too loose especially on exit and didn’t really know what happened and it makes sense now. It’s just a testament to the Krietz crew to how good the car is.”
A restart with three laps to go following a caution for Austin Bishop would give McIntyre one last shot at the lead. He would try to make a move on the bottom side of the speedway in turns one and two but left enough room for the five-time track champion to get back by on the top side and hold on for the win.
McIntyre would finish in the second spot and Blane Heimbach would round out the podium.
In Penns Valley Meat Market RaceSaver Sprint car competition, Nick Sweigart would start on the front row of the 25-lap A-main and would lead all 25 circuits for the $950 win in the Keystone RaceSaver Challenge and would tally his second win of this event in his career.
“Starting position made everything there,” said Sweigart in victory lane. “If we would’ve started deeper, I don’t think that would’ve happened. Most importantly, I don’t know that I’m doing this next year so this means that much more to me.”
The wingless sportsman A-main was dominated by Trent Yoder after he took the lead with 14 laps remaining.
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
1. 69K-Logan Wagner[6]; 2. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[2]; 3. 12-Blane Heimbach[1]; 4. 55-Mike Wagner[5]; 5. 77-Michael Walter[4]; 6. 5-Dylan Cisney[7]; 7. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[8]; 8. 45-Jeff Halligan[9]; 9. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[3]; 10. 47K-Kody Lehman[11]; 11. 8-Billy Dietrich[16]; 12. 95-Garrett Bard[10]; 13. 11P-Aaron Ott[20]; 14. 29-Dan Shetler[18]; 15. 22-Bryn Gohn[13]; 16. 2C-Vince Snyder[12]; 17. 8S-Trenton Sheaffer[17]; 18. 14-Todd Allen[22]; 19. 10-Jake Waters[19]; 20. 55S-Chris Smith[23]; 21. 35-Austin Bishop[15]; 22. 11Z-Zach Newlin[21]; 23. 6-Ryan Smith[14]