(Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
9/5/24
Port Royal Speedway
Tuscarora 50 Night #1
High Limit Series
PASS Series
51 410’s
26 305’s
High Limit
Lance Dewease, Brent Marks and Aaron Reutzel all had to undergo engine changes after hot laps. Only Marks would get it changed in time to qualify. The field was split into two groups. Logan Wagner (18th car out to time) set quick time in the first group at 15.500 seconds. Jacob Allen (2nd car out) was second quick, followed by Lucas Wolfe (14th), Brian Brown (15th) and Tyler Courtney (11th). Anthony Macri (20th car out) was quickest in the second group at 15.809 seconds. Justin Peck (6th car out) was second quick, followed by Rico Abreu (25th), Brad Sweet (11th) and Sye Lynch (1st), who sported the #88 to garner owner points for Tanner Thorson, who is on the west coast, welcoming a new addition to the family.
Heat one (started): 1. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[2]; 2. 69K-Logan Wagner[4]; 3. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[1]; 4. 67-Justin Whittall[3]; 5. 83-James McFadden[6] / 6. 35-Austin Bishop[5]; 7. 95-Garrett Bard[8]; 8. 19-Brent Marks[10]; 9. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[7]; 10. 23-Devon Borden[12]; 11. 77-Mike Walter II[11]; 12. 27H-Ryan Timms[9]; 13. 2C-Vince Snyder[13]
8-lap heats took the winner and quickest qualifier finishing in the top five to the Dash. The top five finishers made the feature. Courtney led the distance. L. Wagner took second from Wolfe early on.
Heat two (started): 1. 21-Brian Brown[1]; 2. 5-Spencer Bayston[6]; 3. 9-Kasey Kahne[3]; 4. 39-Kody Hartlaub[2]; 5. 1A-Jacob Allen[4] / 6. 48-Danny Dietrich[7]; 7. 1-Brenham Crouch[5]; 8. 11-TJ Stutts[9]; 9. 5C-Dylan Cisney[10]; 10. 99A-Devin Adams[11]; 11. 12W-Troy Fraker[13]; 12. 8-Cory Eliason[12]; 13. 35K-Jake Karklin[8]
Brown led wire to wire and won going away. Karklin came to a stop on the first lap and exited. Bayston moved up well from sixth, and took second on the restart for Karklin. Kahne also passed Hartlaub for third.
Heat three (started): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[1]; 2. 88-Sye Lynch[2]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri[4]; 4. 14-Corey Day[3]; 5. 1Z-Chase Dietz[7] / 6. 6-Ryan Smith[6]; 7. 55W-Mike Wagner[5]; 8. 87-Aaron Reutzel[13]; 9. 51-Freddie Rahmer[9]; 10. 47K-Kody Lehman[10]; 11. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[11]; 12. 10-Jake Waters[12]; 13. 2KS-Hunter Schuerenberg[8]
Rico was the class of the field after taking the point from Lynch on lap two. Dietz captured the final transfer from Smith on lap three after starting in row four. Schuerenberg exited early. Reutzel moved up five spots to improve his starting spot in the B, after not registering a time.
Heat four (started): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 9P-Parker Price Miller[2]; 3. 13-Justin Peck[4]; 4. 12H-Blane Heimbach[3]; 5. 55-Chris Windom[5] / 6. 22-Jonathan Preston[6]; 7. 99-Skylar Gee[8]; 8. 26-Zeb Wise[7]; 9. 45-Jeff Halligan[11]; 10. 12-Lance Dewease[12]; 11. 27S-Robbie Kendall[9]; 12. 55S-Dallas Schott[10]
Sweet led the distance.
C main (started): 1. 23-Devon Borden[1]; 2. 12-Lance Dewease[4] / 3. 47K-Kody Lehman[2]; 4. 99A-Devin Adams[3]; 5. 27H-Ryan Timms[7]; 6. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[5]; 7. 8-Cory Eliason[9]; 8. 55S-Dallas Schott[10]; 9. 10-Jake Waters[8]; 10. 2C-Vince Snyder[11]; 11. 12W-Troy Fraker[6]; DNS - 77-Mike Walter II, 27S-Robbie Kendall; 2KS-Hunter Schuerenberg; 35K-Jake Karklin
The 10-lapper transferred the top two to the B. While Borden led from the pole, the battle was on for the second and final transfer. Dewease nailed it down by putting an slider on Lehman in turn two on lap three.
Dash (started): 1. 39M-Anthony Macri[1]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[4]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[7]; 4. 21-Brian Brown[8]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 6. 13-Justin Peck[3]; 7. 1A-Jacob Allen[6]; 8. 69K-Logan Wagner[2]
Macri and L. Wagner banged wheels in a good battle early, resulting in the latter flattening a left rear tire and pulling off. Macri went on to the win. Courtney and Brown did well to move up from row four.
B main (started): 1. 48-Danny Dietrich[3]; 2. 35-Austin Bishop[1]; 3. 87-Aaron Reutzel[10]; 4. 55W-Mike Wagner[2]; 5. 26-Zeb Wise[12]; 6. 19-Brent Marks[9]; 7. 95-Garrett Bard[5]; 8. 51-Freddie Rahmer[14]; 9. 12-Lance Dewease[18]; 10. 99-Skylar Gee[8]; 11. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[13]; 12. 1-Brenham Crouch[7]; 13. 5C-Dylan Cisney[15]; 14. 11-TJ Stutts[11]; 15. 23-Devon Borden[17]; 16. 22-Jonathan Preston[6]; 17. 6-Ryan Smith[4]; 18. 45-Jeff Halligan[16]
Halligan flipped before a lap could get in. He was o.k. That negated a move from tenth to fifth by Reutzel. M. Wagner led Dietrich, Bishop, Bard and Preston early. Reutzel rode the wall in one and two and moved up to fifth by lap two. On the fourth lap, Dietrich shot by M. Wagner for the lead. Reutzel grabbed the final transfer from Bard a lap later. Bishop got by M. Wagner for second with four to go, and Reutzel passed him for third on the last lap.
A main (started): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri[1]; 4. 69K-Logan Wagner[8]; 5. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[3]; 6. 13-Justin Peck[6]; 7. 9P-Parker Price Miller[12]; 8. 88-Sye Lynch[10]; 9. 21-Brian Brown[4]; 10. 67-Justin Whittall[15]; 11. 5-Spencer Bayston[9]; 12. 19-Brent Marks[25, prov.]; 13. 12H-Blane Heimbach[16]; 14. 14-Corey Day[14]; 15. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[11]; 16. 48-Danny Dietrich[21]; 17. 1Z-Chase Dietz[18]; 18. 9-Kasey Kahne[13]; 19. 55W-Mike Wagner[24]; 20. 39-Kody Hartlaub[17]; 21. 87-Aaron Reutzel[23]; 22. 55-Chris Windom[20]; 23. 83-James McFadden[19]; 24. 26-Zeb Wise[27, prov.]; 25. 35-Austin Bishop[22]; 26. 23-Devon Borden[28, prov.]; 27. 47K-Kody Lehman[26, prov.]; 28. 1A-Jacob Allen[7]
The 25-lapper featured $10,000 to win and a guaranteed spot in Saturday’s $57,000 to win finale. Allen came to a stop with mag issues before a lap could get in, surrendering his starting spot in row four. Abreu led Macri, Brown, Courtney and Sweet on lap one. Sweet quickly took fourth, and then passed Brown for third on lap four. Courtney followed him into fourth on lap seven. Rico got to lapped traffic on lap nine, as Peck entered the top five. Sweet got by Macri for second on lap ten. Peck and Courtney then battled for fourth, with Courtney taking the spot for good on lap 16. L. Wagner got by Peck for fifth on lap 17. Sweet sized Abreu up and slid across his bow to lead lap 18. He never looked back from there. A lucky fan had him in the dice roll, which earned both another $2,500. L. Wagner gained fourth from Courtney on the last lap. Marks, another new father, was the hard-charger after taking a provisional on a hard night.