Aaron Ott Wires For Williams Grove Sprints Win, Campbell claims 358s
8/26/16
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Mechanicsburg – Aaron Ott wired the field from the pole for the 410 sprint car feature win at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, holding off Danny Dietrich for the victory in a fast paced 25-lap main event.
In the 358 sprint main it was Matt Campbell claiming his first feature win of the season and third overall of his career at the oval.
The 410 sprint main took four tries at a start before the first lap could be recorded but once it was the following 24 clicked off non-stop.
One of the initial start stoppages was for a turn over by Doug Esh who had connected with Lucas Wolfe.
Brent Marks started second in the race but got passed by Cory Haas when the first lap was completed while Marks maintained the third spot.
Leader Ott hit lapped traffic on the 12th tour with Brock Zearfoss and Danny Dietrich in the top five.
A hectic pace on a quickening cushion really shook up the front runners during the final 10 laps as the race waged through heavy traffic.
Eleventh starter Brian Montieth had worked his way up to sixth with 10 laps to go and went for a big slide job on Danny Dietrich and Brock Zearfoss that backfired with him loosing spots instead while Dietrich capitalized on the skirmish to bolt into third from fifth.
With Montieth left to regroup, Dietrich set his sights on the rest of the front runners and overtook Haas for second with six laps to go.
With four to go Dietrich was clearly poised to take a stab at the win and the pair crossed the stripe on lap 22 nose to tail.
At first upon entering the first corner, Dietrich faked to the outside then quickly swerved left and under Aott for the lead, which he grabbed momentarily until his car caught the cushion and bicycled, allowing Ott to zoom back by just underneath.
The bicycle by Dietrich gave Ott enough breathing room afterward to run to the win, although only taking the checkers by .554 seconds.
Marks was third with a recovering Montieth fourth and Haas in fifth.
Sixth through 10th went to Greg Hodnett, Zearfoss, Freddie Rahmer, Alan Krimes and Steve Buckwalter.
Heats went to Lucas Wolfe, Hodnett and Marks.
Cody Keller led from the start of the 20-lap 358 sprint main with Brent Shearer in tow and saw the pace slowed for the first time with 12 laps to go.
The caution flag erased a nice advantage built by Keller over the field and placed Matt Campbell, who had just taken second on the eighth tour, in a challenging position for the resart.
Keller held Campbell off for two more laps before another yellow flag bunched the field and Keller again held sway for four more laps before succumbing from pressure from Cambpell.
And once Campbell was able to slip by Keller for the lead, he drove away for the checkered flag.
Kevin Nouse got around Keller for second in the final turns with Keller holding on for third followed by Doug Hammaker and Adrian Shaffer.
Shaffer was the Wee Bee Audio And Video Hard Charger, driving from 18th to fifth at the finish.
Heats went to Brie Hershey, Nouse and Kyle Denmyer with Tyler Esh taking the consolation race.
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Feature Finishes:
410 sprints, 25 laps:
1. Aaron Ott, 2. Danny Dietrich, 3. Brent Marks, 4. Brian Montieth, 5. Cory
Haas, 6. Greg Hodnett, 7. Brock Zearfoss, 8. Freddie Rahmer, 9. Alan Krimes,
10. Steve Buckwalter, 11. Austin Hogue, 12. Chad Trout, 13. Rodney Westhafer,
14. Tim Wagaman, 15. Nicole Bower, 16. Troy Fraker, 17. Rick Lafferty, 18.
Daryl Stimeling, 19. Ryan Smith, 20. George Streaker Jr., 21. Jay Galloway,
22. Doug Esh, 23. Lucas Wolfe, 24. Chase Dietz
DNQ:
Kody Lehman
358 Sprints, 20 laps: 1. Matt Campbell, 2. Kevin Nouse, 3. Cody Keller, 4. Doug Hammaker, 5. Adrian Shaffer, 6. Chandler Leiby, 7. Kyle Denmyer, 8. Chad Trout, 9. Brie Hershey, 10. Brett Shearer, 11. Chris Arnold, 12. Nyle Berkes, 13. Chris Frank, 14. Glenndon Forsythe, 15. Matt Findley, 16. Phil Walter, 17. Rich Eichelberger, 18. Jared Esh, 19. Aaron Eichelberger, 20. Steve Drevicki, 21. Jordan Givler, 22. Tyler Esh, 23. Eric Parker, 24. Troy Wagaman Jr.