Port Royal Speedway (Highlight Video from SpeedShiftTV.com)
9/6/19
Port Royal Speedway
Night Before the Tuscarora 50
All Stars
58 cars
A beautiful night greeted the first night of Tuscarora 50 events with the Juniata County Fair in full swing.
Aaron Reutzel (11th car out to time) set quick time on the ½-mile at 15.957 seconds. Kerry Madsen (1st car out) was second quick, followed by Dale Blaney (56th), Trey Starks (2nd), Brian Brown (34th), Josh Baughman (51st), Gio Scelzi (3rd), Ryan Smith (18th), Dave Blaney (15th) and Anthony Macri (53rd). Lucas Wolfe, back for his second night of racing after breaking vertebrae in his back, had a left rear wheel give out heading into turn one and flipped hard. Fortunately, Lucas got out under his own power.
Heat one (started): 1. Scelzi (1) 2. Starks (2) 3. Reutzel (4) 4. Madsen (3) / 5. Brian Montieth 21 (6) 6. Dan Shetler 29P (7) 7. Robbie Kendall 55K (8) 8. Tyler Walton 14T (12) 9. Chad Kemenah K4 (5) 10. Ryan Taylor 20 (10) 11. Tyler Bear 10 (9) 12. Carl Bowser 11B (11)
8-lap heats took the top two to the Dash, the top four to the A. This heat was a stout one and stayed single file. Bear stopped on lap five, bringing a caution.
Heat two (started): 1. James McFadden 9 (1) 2. AJ Flick 2 (2) 3. Jared Esh 33 (5) 4. Smith 72 (4) / 5. Blane Heimbaugh 12 (7) 6. Lance Dewease 69K (6) 7. Paul McMahan 13 (12) 8. Dave Blaney 98H (3) 9. John Garvin J4 (9) 10. Logan Wagner 1 (8) 11. Kyle Smith 17M (10) 12. Jeff Miller 57J (11)
Flick led early over McFadde, Blaney, Smith and Esh. Esh worked by Smith four fourth on lap three, and then slid under Blaney to take third on lap five. Miller slowed to bring a caution five laps in. Flick led McFadden, Esh, Blaney and Smith back to green. McFadden shot to the lead on the restart K. Smith stopped to bring a caution with three to go. That negated passes that saw Flick and Esh move by McFadden for first and second. Blaney suffered a flat right rear while running seventh to bring out a final caution. McFadden would hold them off the final three laps, while Flick and Esh put on an epic duel for the second and final Dash spot. L. Wagner suffered a flat late as well.
Heat three (started): 1. Brown 21B (4) 2. Freddie Rahmer 51 (1) 3. Cory Eliason 26 (2) 4. Danny Dietrich 48 (3) / 5. Dylan Cisney 5 (5) 6. Sye Lynch 42 (6) 7. Tim Shaffer 3J (9) 8. Gerard McIntyre Jr. 07 (7) 9. Alan Krimes 87K (8) 10. Rick Lafferty 0 (12) 11. Skylar Gee 99 (10) 12. Jason Shultz 29 (11)
Rahmer led early over Brown and Eliason. Dietrich took third on the second l,p, but Eliason worked back by him the next time around. Brown was true to the cushion and was able to ride around Rahmer for the lead on lap five.
Heat four (started): 1. Tony Stewart 14 (1) 2. TJ Stutts 11s (3) 3. Brock Zearfoss 70 (4) 4. Lynton Jeffrey 83 (2) / 5. Cory Haas 39 (5) 6. Tyler Reeser 35 (7) 7. Chase Dietz 75 (6) 8. Brett Michalski 73B (8) 9. Dustin Baney 24B (10) 10. Nicole Bower 75B (9) DNS – Troy Fraker 12w
Stewart led the distance. Zearfoss passed Jeffrey for third on lap four, but Jeffrey was not done. The two exchanged the position twice with Zearfoss nailing down the spot with two to go.
Heat five (started): 1. Macri 39m (1) 2. Dale Blaney 11 (3) 3. Kyle Reinhardt 91 (4) 4. Justin Peck 70x (10) / 5. Greg Wilson w20 (5) 6. Mike Wagner 55 (6) 7. Landon Myers 19m (7) 8. George Hobaugh Jr. 40 (8) 9. Baughman 17 (2) 10. Justin Whittall 67w (7) DNS – Lucas Wolfe 24
Peck spun before lining up, so he surrendered his pole position starting spot. Hobaugh and Myers made contact before a lap could be completed, but both restarted. Baughman slowed with a flat right rear. Whittall couldn’t avoid him, clipping him and flipping wildly down the front straight. He climbed out under his own power. Macri led the distance over Blaney and Reinhardt. Peck snagged the final transfer after starting on the tail.
C main (started): 1. Krimes (2) 2. Kemenah (3) / 3. Gee (7) 4. Walton (1) 5. Lafferty (6) 6. Bower (5) 7. K. Smith (8) 8. Baney (4) DNS – Garvin, Bear, Wolfe, Bowser, Miller, Whittall, Shultz
The 10-lap C transferred the top two to the B. Krimes dominated the distance. Gee moved up and grabbed third on the last lap, but was one spot short of the transfer.
Dash one (started): 1. Reutzel (2) 2. Stewart (1) 3. Dale Blaney (4) 4. Brown (3) 5. Macri (6) 6. Scelzi (5)
4-lap Dashes set the inside and outside rows of the feature. Reutzel left the rest behind. Great racing for fourth between Macri and Brown saw the latter garner the spot at the line by .038 of a second.
Dash two (started): 1. Starks (1) 2. McFadden (4) 3. Madsen (2) 4. Rahmer (3) 5. Flick (6) 6. Stutts (5)
Starks led the distance and was gone. Stutts saw a fourth place run disappear with a last lap spin.
B main (started): 1. Dewease (8) 2. Baughman (1) 3. Cisney (3) 4. Heimbach (4) / 5. Wilson (6) 6. Reeser (12) 7. Taylor (13) 8. Shetler (11) 9. Shaffer (14) 10. McMahan (17) 11. McIntyre (18) 12. Dietz (15) 13. Michalski (21) 14. Lynch (9) 15. Kemenah (22) 16. Dave Blaney (2) 17. Montieth (7) 18. Haas (5) 19. Myers (16) 20. M. Wagner (10) 21. Kendall (19) DNS – L. Wagner
The 12-lap B took the top four to the A. M. Wagner spun, collecting Kendall before a lap could be completed. Baughman would take the early lead ahead of Cisney, Dave Blaney and Heimbach. Dewease was charging from eighth and took the fourth and final transfer from Heimbach on lap two. He claimed third on lap three before Montieth slowed five laps in to bring the yellow. Baughman led Cisney, Dewease and Dave Blaney back to green. Heimbach would get by Blaney to claim the last transfer again on the restart. Dewease passed Cisney for the runner-up spot on lap eight and took the lead from Baughman two laps later. Lynch came to a stop with two to go, bur the top four remained the same.
A main (started): 1 Starks (2) 2. McFadden (4) 3. Brown (7) 4. Scelzi (11) 5. Macri (9) 6. Zearfoss (13) 7. R. Smith (17) 8. Rahmer (8) 9. Reutzel (1) 10. Eliason (12) 11. Dietrich (18) 12. Stewart (3) 13. Cisney (23) 14. Esh (15) 15. Dale Blaney (5) 16. Heimbach (24) 17. Flick (10) 18. Jeffrey (19) 19. Peck (20) 20. Madsen (6) 21. Stutts (14) 22. McMahan (25, prov.) 23. Baughman (22) 24. Reinhardt (16) 25. Dewease (21) 26. Reeser (26, prov.)
The 30-lap feature started with a pileup in turn three involving Stutts, Esh, Dietrich and Cisney, who restarted, and Dewease, Reeser and Reinhardt, who were done. Reutzel pulled away to the early advantage over Starks and Stewart. On lap three, McFadden gained third from Stewart. The leaders hit lapped traffic on lap eight, but a caution for debris a lap later, cleared the track in front of Reutzel, Starks, McFadden, Stewart and Brown. On lap 11, McFadden claimed second from Starks. Disaster struck for Reutzel on lap 12 when a flat left rear surfaced. McFadden assumed the lead, ahead of Starks and Brown. Starks would slide in front of the leader to take the point. Macri passed Brown for third on lap 15 before Baughman came to a stop on lap 18. Brown used the restart to get back by Macri for the show position before Stutts spun, collecting McMahan. Scelzi was coming late, and secured fourth from Macri with ten to go. Starks got into lapped traffic with three to go, but held off a closing McFadden for the win. R. Smith was the hard-charger.