Lafferty And Satterlee Open Williams Grove Speedway Season With Wins
3/18/16
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg –
Rick Lafferty of Pennington, NJ., scored the opening day sprint car feature
at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, scoring $3,800 for the payday
after being pressured for the lead by Freddie Rahmer and having been passed
for the win by Greg Hodnett.
In the super late model main, Gregg
Satterlee of Rochester Mills etched his name in the Williams Grove record
books for the first time as a winner in the division.
Lafferty started on the pole of the
25-lap 410 sprint car main and was followed by Rahmer for the first 16 laps
before seventh starter Greg Hodnett took the second spot away.
The first 17 circuits of the event went non-stop before
Lucas Wolfe, who had run third up until that point, rolled to a stop
bringing out the races first caution flag period.
Brian Montieth had charged from 11th
up to fifth for the restart and was in the middle of a hard battle with
Danny Dietrich when he came up with a right rear flat on the 19th
lap, slowing the pace again.
Hodnett then made good on his second
restart chances by driving underneath Lafferty for the top spot in the first
and second turns to take control with five laps to go.
But then seemingly as quickly as he
took the lead, Hodnett suddenly slowed on the 21st lap and pulled
pitside, turning the race back over to Lafferty.
By that time, Lafferty had just four laps to go to hold on
to the win with Rahmer still chasing in second however Rahmer came up .899
seconds short of his first-ever Williams Grove win at the line.
Dietrich rode home third followed by Aaron Ott and Steve
Buckwalter.
Sixth through 10th went to
Cory Haas, Doug Esh, Brent Marks, Robbie Stillwaggon and Austin Hogue.
Heats went to Montieth, Buckwalter and Stillwaggon with
Brock Zearfoss scoring the consolation race.
Huntingdon’s Rick Singleton took the
lead at the start of the 25-lap super late model main over fourth starter
Satterlee.
The pace was slowed with six laps down for a stopped Kyle
Hardy and Satterlee applied pressure for control on the restart however
Singleton proved hard to overtake.
It wasn’t until the ten-to-go point that Satterlee was
finally able to find enough muscle to get by Singleton.
He went inside the veteran leader for control while racing
through the third and fourth turns to get command but then found his pace
slowed with four laps to go.
And Singleton stunned on the restart
by pulling alongside Satterlee for the win as the pair crossed the line with
three laps to go.
But Satterlee hung tough as the pair pulled into the first
corner and drove back out in front for the victory worth $2,000.
Singleton settled for second followed by Gene Knaub.
Dylan Yoder started 18th
in the field and motored to the front, getting by the cars of Matt Cosner
and Bryan Bernheisel on the final restart to finish fourth with Cosner
ending up fifth.
Sixth through 10th went to
Bryan Bernheisel, Gary Stuhler, Coleby Frye, Jim Bernheisel and Trent
Brenneman.
Heats went to Gene Knaub and Bryan Bernheisel.
March 18, 2016 Feature
Finishes:
410 sprints, 25 laps: 1. Rick Lafferty, 2. Freddie Rahmer, 3. Danny Dietrich, 4. Aaron Ott, 5. Steve Buckwalter, 6. Cory Haas, 7. Doug Esh, 8. Brent Marks, 9. Robbie Stillwaggon, 10. Austin Hogue, 11. Mark Smith, 12. Pat Cannon, 13. Brian Montieth, 14. Ryan Smith, 15. Alan Krimes, 16. Rodney Westhafer, 17. Matt Campbell, 18. Brock Zearfoss, 19. Nicole Bower, 20. Troy Fraker, 21. Brad Franks, 22. Greg Hodnett, 23. Lucas Wolfe, 24. Davey Jones
Late models, 25 laps: 1. Gregg Satterlee, 2. Rick Singleton, 3. Gene Knaub, 4. Dylan Yoder, 5. Matt Cosner, 6. Bryan Bernheisel, 7. Gary Stuhler, 8. Coleby Frye, 9. Jim Bernheisel, 10. Trent Brenneman, 11. Billy Wampler. 12. Mike Lupfer, 13. Danny Snyder, 14. Pancho Lawler, 15. Ryan Walls, 16. Ross Robinson, 17. Larry Baer, 18. Kyle Hardy
DNS:
Chad Hollenbeck, Chris Casner