BECHTELSVILLE, Pa. — Logan Watt, the newly crowned two-time track champion in the T.P. Truck Equipment Sportsman division, scored the win in the division’s most prominent race, the 11th annual Freedom 38, Friday night at Grandview Speedway.
Watt entered the evening’s event as the only guaranteed starter by virtue of being the 2024 Track Champion, and was afforded the opportunity to by-pass qualifying action, but joined heat race qualifiers in the feature redraw which saw him select the pole starting position for the 38-lap championship feature race.
Watt led the race from start to finish, but had to survive some serious pressure following a lap-10restart from Mike Schneck Jr., which saw the two drivers circle the track nearly side-by-side for two laps before Watt was able to pull away to a safe advantage.
Watt also had to work through some serious lapped traffic during a 21 lap stretch of green flag racing between laps 10 and 31 when he had some trouble working through traffic at times, and other times was able to pick his way by the very heavy field of cars ahead of him to continue to lead, with Schneck Jr. able to close in at times but never close enough to mount a serious challenge.
Watt held the lead while some great racing action was going on behind him for top five positions among Adrianna Delliponti, Nate Horn and Jordan Henn.
At the checkered it was Watt in for his third win of the season, and first win in the Freedom 38 championship race, followed by Kevin Hirthler for his best finish of the season. Delliponti was third for her best run of the year. Toth, Cox and Horn followed.