Williams Grove (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com)
7/21/23
Williams Grove Speedway
Mechanicsburg, PA
WoO
37 cars
Carson Macedo (6th car out to time) set quick time on the ½-mile oval at 17.056 seconds. Rico Abreu (10th car out) was second quick, followed by Gio Scelzi (11th), Cory Eliason (9th), Brad Sweet (27th), Logan Schuchart (35th), Brent Marks (17th), Brock Zearfoss (19th), Troy Wagaman Jr. 27 (37th) and Freddie Rahmer (15th).
Heat one (started): 1. Macedo 41 (1) 2. Sweet 49 (2) 3. Devon Borden 23 (4) 4. Donny Schatz 15 (5) 5. Wagaman Jr. 27 (3) / 6. Kasey Kahne 9 (7) 7. Aaron Bollinger 16A (8) 8. Lucas Wolfe 5w (9) 9. Robbie Price 7s (10) 10. Bill Rose 6 (6)
8-lap heats took the top two to the Dash and the top five to the feature. There was little passing in the first three.
Heat two (started): 1. Schuchart 1s (2) 2. Abreu 24 (1) 3. David Gravel 2 (4) 4. F. Rahmer 8 (3) 5. James McFadden 83 (6) / 6. Spencer Bayston 5 (5) 7. Chase Dietz 2D (7) 8. TJ Stutts 11T (8) 9. Cameron Smith 39T (9)
Heat three (started): 1. Scelzi 18 (1) 2. Marks 19 (2) 3. Dylan Norris 44 (4) 4. Danny Dietrich 48 (3) 5. Jacob Allen 1a (6) / 6. Justin Whittall 67 (7) 7. Brandon Rahmer 5E (9) 8. Billy Dietrich 12 (5) 9. Austin Bishop 35 (8)
Heat four (started): 1. Eliason 11 (1) 2. Sheldon Haudenschild 17 (4) 3. Justin Peck 13 (3) 4. Zearfoss 3z (2) 5. Lance Dewease 69K (6) / 6. Steve Buckwalter 17B (5) 7. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (7) 8. Noah Gass 20G (8) 9. Kyle Moody 99m (9)
Eliason led Zearfoss, Haudenschild, Peck and Buckwalter early. Haudenschild slid by Zearfoss for second on lap two, and Peck followed him using the low side of two into third on lap five. Dewease stayed close to Buckwalter for the final transfer before passing him on the last lap.
Dash (started): 1. Sweet (2) 2. Schuchart (1) 3. Macedo (4) 4. Abreu (6) 5. Eliason (3) 6. Marks (8) 7. Haudenschild (5) 8. Scelzi (7)
The 6-lapper set up the first four rows of the feature. Spots up front were settled on the first lap.
B main (started): 1. Bayston (1) 2. B. Dietrich (2) 3. Whittall (4) 4. Kahne (3) / 5. Buckwalter (5) 6. Dietz (7) 7. Stutts (11) 8. Bollinger (6) 9. Hafertepe Jr. (9) 10. B. Rahmer (8) 11. Price (13) 12. Wolfe (10) 13. Gass (12) 14. Moody (14) 15. Bishop (15) 16. Rose (16) DNS – C. Smith
The 12-lapper took the top four to the feature. The lead four stayed the same from the green until the last lap. Bayston passed B. Dietrich for the lead, and the snakebit Buckwalter lost the last transfer on the last lap to Kahne, in a repeat of his heat.
A main (started): 1. Schuchart (2) 2. Sweet (1) 3. Abreu (4) 4. Haudenschild (7) 5. Macedo (3) 6. Marks (6) 7. D. Dietrich (15) 8. Eliason (5) 9. Scelzi (8) 10. F. Rahmer (14) 11. Gravel (10) 12. Wagaman Jr. (17) 13. Dewease (20) 14. Borden (9) 15. Schatz (13) 16. Bayston (21) 17. Zearfoss (16) 18. Norris (11) 19. McFadden (18) 20. Whittall (23) 21. Peck (12) 22. Stutts (25, prov.) 23. Kahne (24) 24. Allen (19) 25. Moody (26, prov.) 26. B. Dietrich (22)
The 25-lapper paid $15,000 to the winner. It was all Sweet early over Schuchart, Abreu, Macedo and Marks. Peck had moved up nicely from 12th to sixth by lap five. Sweet was into lappers on the eighth circuit. Peck pass Marks for fifth on lap 12, but Marks passed him back a lap later in a good battle. Up front, Sweet got by some lappers, but Schuchart was having trouble getting by Stutts, a provisional. Haudenschild was another car moving forward, passing Peck for sixth on lap 18. He moved by Marks for fifth with two to go. Up front, Sweet appeared to be cruising, but Schuchart started gaining with two to go. In three and four on the last lap, Schuchart rode the far high side while Sweet used the bottom groove. Schuchart came down from the top of turn four to a drag race to the finish, making the winning pass by .078 seconds!