Photo Credit: Jeremy Zarfos

Port Royal, PA — A restart with just nine laps remaining would see the winning move made by the race track’s second most winningest driver, Lance Dewease, on Anthony Macri to take the win in the 7th annual Greg Hodnett Classic at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday July 5th.

Lance Dewease would start on the pole of the 30 lap A-main event on Saturday night alongside Austin Bishop.

Dewease would take the early lead before a red flag would come out with 23 laps remaining for multiple stopped cars on the front straightaway.

At this point in the feature event, Anthony Macri, who started inside of the second row, had worked his way up to the second spot. He had been following Dewease closely around the racetrack but was unable to make the pass up to that point.

On the restart, Macri would again follow Dewease around the racetrack over the next 7 laps and would track him down with 17 laps remaining.

The two top drivers would trade position throughout the corners with Macri officially taking the lead on the backstretch with 16 laps remaining.

For a driver like Macri, it would be easy to think that he would run away with the rest of the race, but a restart with 9 laps remaining allowed Lance Dewease to stick right with the driver of the 39M to make a move for the win.

With 9 laps to go, Mark Smith would slow to a stop drawing the caution flag and setting up the exciting move for the win.

Lance Dewease would stay right with Anthony Macri as they came to the green flag on the front stretch and he would perform a sliding pass on Macri to take the lead away through turns 1 and 2.

Macri would not go away without a fight though, and would driver around Dewease on the backstretch to retake the lead.

He did not however, get far enough away from Dewease, as Dewease would slide up in front of Macri yet again through turns 3 and 4 to retake the lead moments before another caution would come out for Alex Attard who slowed to a stop on the front stretch.

Dewease would hold Macri off on the restart with 8 laps remaining and go on to win the main event worth $20,000 thanks to the increased winner’s share courtesy of Greencastle Livestock Market.

“I was better on the short runs than on the long runs,” said Dewease in victory lane. “I was going to make him earn it. I got a really good start at him. He left it open enough for me to slide him, and it actually stuck really good for 3 or 4 laps.”

“It’s hard to beat Lance with the experience that he has,” said Macri during his podium interview. “He did a really good job of taking my air away and keeping his speed up. There’s a reason he has so many wins here. I wish I could be that good some day.”

Ryan Smith would round out the top 3 finishers. Justin Whittall would claim the Ramsey’s Car Wash hard charger honors by going +11 and Preston Lattomus would win the J&S Classics Warrior Award after the 24 pill was drawn in victory lane.

For the Penske Racing Shocks super late models, Andrew Yoder would lead all 25 laps to claim his second super late model win of the season at Port Royal Speedway.

Gary Stuhler and Andrew Yoder made up the front row of the 25 lap A-main event with Yoder taking the early advantage.

Stuhler would hang with Yoder for a large portion of the main event, looking inside of the leader on multiple occasions through the corners of the race track, but just couldn’t make the pass to take the lead away.

Stuhler would go on to finish in the runner up spot and Gene Knaub would round out the top 3.

Port Royal Speedway will be back in action on Saturday July 12th with Weikert’s Livestock 410 sprint cars, Penns Valley Meat Market 305 sprint cars, and Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late models.

Saturday will also be the track’s Kid’s Night featuring plenty of giveaways for the kids as well as the yearly bicycle and power wheel races. Helmets are required to participate in all divisions.

For more information, visit portroyalspeedway.com or follow along on social media at Port Royal Speedway Trackside Media on Facebook or @PortRoyalSpdway on X/Twitter.

FULL RESULTS:

410 A Feature 30 Laps | 00:30:36.053

1. 12D-Lance Dewease[1]; 2. 39M-Anthony Macri[3]; 3. 69K-Ryan Smith[6]; 4. 67-Justin Whittall[12]; 5. 48-Danny Dietrich[4]; 6. 20-Brady Bacon[5]; 7. 23-Chase Dietz[15]; 8. 55W-Mike Wagner[14]; 9. 51-Freddie Rahmer[10]; 10. 8E-Brock Zearfoss[7]; 11. 55-Logan Wagner[17]; 12. 77-Michael Walter[19]; 13. 22-Doug Hammaker[20]; 14. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[22]; 15. 95-Garrett Bard[8]; 16. 45-Jeff Halligan[24]; 17. 35-Austin Bishop[2]; 18. 53-Mark Smith[16]; 19. 53A-Alex Attard[18]; 20. 19-Brent Marks[21]; 21. 55M-Domenic Melair[23]; 22. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[11]; 23. 12-Blane Heimbach[13]; 24. 91-Preston Lattomus[9]

410 B Feature 12 Laps | 00:03:52.771

1. 19-Brent Marks[3]; 2. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[1]; 3. 55M-Domenic Melair[2]; 4. 45-Jeff Halligan[13]; 5. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[5]; 6. 75-Cameron Smith[6]; 7. 5K-Jake Karklin[7]; 8. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[9]; 9. 11-TJ Stutts[14]; 10. 22E-Nash Ely[8]; 11. 99-Devin Adams[21]; 12. 67J-JJ Loss[12]; 13. 95H-Kody Hartlaub[11]; 14. 2-AJ Flick[18]; 15. 12J-Derek Hauck[17]; 16. 47K-Kody Lehman[22]; 17. 24B-Dustin Baney[16]; 18. 10-Jake Waters[19]; 19. 66-Ryan Newton[10]; 20. 11T-Mike Thompson[15]; 21. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[4]; 22. 19R-Tyler Walker[20]

SLM A Feature 25 Laps | 00:19:27.359

1. 0-Andrew Yoder[2]; 2. 4-Gary Stuhler[1]; 3. 1-Gene Knaub[12]; 4. 27-Trever Feathers[8]; 5. 9-Hayes Mattern[7]; 6. D19-Dillan Stake[5]; 7. 24E-Rick Eckert[9]; 8. 2J-Justin Weaver[20]; 9. 66-Justin Kann[18]; 10. 24-Dylan Yoder[16]; 11. 4S-Danny Snyder[3]; 12. 211-Jason Schmidt[14]; 13. 44-Shawn Shoemaker[13]; 14. 21-Chad Myers[10]; 15. 05-Roy Deese Jr[11]; 16. 32J-Shaun Jones[15]; 17. 86-Austin Berry[4]; 18. 15-Scott Flickinger[17]; 19. 25K-Kody Lyter[19]; 20. 2T-Kyle Lee[21]; 21. 48-Colton Flinner[6]