Lucas Wolfe Gets First Of
Year In Williams Grove Sprints, Mark Smith Wins URC
6/2/17
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Mechanicsburg
– Lucas Wolfe of Mechanicsburg scored his
first win of the season at Williams Grove Speedway in the 410-sprint car feature
on Friday night, taking home $3,800 for his victory.
In the 25-lap URC Sprint main, Mark Smith scored the victory
worth $2,000, his second of the year on the URC circuit.
Wolfe would drive to his 16th
career win at Williams Grove from the fifth starting spot in the 25-lap sprint
car main.
He was fourth behind leader Rodney Westhafer on the first lap
with Brandon Rahmer and TJ Stutts also ahead of him filling the top spots.
Wolfe waged a spirited battle with Stutts
for second, exchanging the spot a few times during the early going before
settling in, regrouping and swooping by for the position with 10 laps recorded.
Once around Stutts, Wolfe made quick work
of Rahmer to take second a lap later before tracking down Westhafer.
Another swoop netted Wolfe the lead in
the third and fourth corners as he raced to the completion of lap 15.
Last week’s winner, Danny Dietrich of
Gettysburg came alive with 12 laps to go and as Wolfe was taking control,
Dietrich raced into third.
Moments later, Dietrich took second from
Westhafer to begin a pursuit of Wolfe for his second win in a row.
Wolfe saw a 1.010 second lead over Dietrich erased with three
laps to go when the yellow flag unfurled for debris on the track.
Dietrich kept Wolfe close on the restart but Wolfe was able to
sneak away just far enough to prevent a last lap effort by Dietrich to steal the
win, taking the checkers by 684 seconds.
Dietrich settled for second followed by
10th starter Freddie Rahmer, Stutts and 11th starter Lance
Dewease.
Sixth through 10th went to
Brian Montieth, Westhafer, Greg Hodnett, Anthony Macri and Mark Smith.
Heats went to Freddie Rahmer, Dewease and Macri.
Davie Franek started on the pole of the URC Sprint main with
Curt Michael to his outside and Franek took the lead when action began.
Mark Smith started third in the field and got around Michael
for second the first time on the eighth tour but Michael proved hard to shake
and again took the spot back moments later.
Smith was finally able to dust off Michael with 11 laps away
as the front runners all worked traffic and in fact, leader Franek was close
enough to Smith after he got to second that it took only another lap for him to
catch and pass him for control.
Once at the helm Smith got away from the field only to see his
winning pace slowed with five to go when the caution flag appeared.
A lap later, a slow roll over by Davey Sammons in the second
turn brought out the red flag.
Greg Hodnett got around Chad Layton for third on the restart
but another restart a lap later with three to go proved to change nothing at the
front with Smith taking the win by 2.214 seconds over Franek and Hodnett.
Layton was fourth followed by Michael.
Sixth through 10th went to
Lucas Wolfe, Chuck Hebing, Derek Locke, Jason Shultz and Josh Weller.
Heats went to Eric Tomecek, Ed Aiken,
Curt Michael and Greg Hodnett with Kevin Nagy taking the consolation.
June 3, 2017
Feature Finishes
410 sprints, 25 laps: 1.
Lucas Wolfe, 2. Danny Dietrich, 3. Freddie Rahmer, 4. TJ Stutts, 5. Lance
Dewease, 6. Brian Montieth, 7. Rodney Westhafer, 8. Greg Hodnett, 9. Anthony
Macri, 10. Mark Smith, 11. Alan Krimes, 12. Cory Haas, 13. Brock Zearfoss, 14.
Ryan Taylor, 15. Nicole Bower, 16. Kyle Pruitt, 17. Jim Shuster, 18. Troy Fraker,
19. Brandon Rahmer, 20. Steve Buckwalter, 21. Rick Lafferty, 22. JJ Grasso, 23.
George Streaker Sr.
DNS:
Doug Esh
DNQ:
Scott Fisher, George Streaker Jr.
URC Sprints (25 laps):
1. Mark Smith, 2. Davie Franek, 3. Greg Hodnett, 4. Chad Layton, 5. Curt
Michael, 6. Lucas Wolfe, 7. Chuck Hebing, 8. Derek Locke, 9. Jason Shultz, 10.
Josh Weller, 11. Eric Tomecek, 12. JJ Grasso, 13. Justin Whittall, 14. Ed Aiken,
15. Steve Drevicki, 16. Bryn Gohn, 17. David Quackenbush, 18. Mike Walter II.,
19. Robbie Stillwaggon, 20. Kevin Nagy, 21. Davey Sammons, 22. Keith Prutzman,
23. Mallie Shuster, 24. Christopher Allen
DNS:
Chris Coyle, Mark Sasso, Doug Dodson, Chris Arnold, Kris Lillick, Nyle Berkes,
Cody Jordan