Article Credit: Brad Strawser

Port Royal, PA — After an exciting night of racing for the Keith Kauffman Classic on Saturday night, The Speed Palace returned to action on Sunday with a full late model card of competition featuring the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. Ricky Thornton Jr. won The Battle in The Borough in Port Royal in 2024 and would do so again on Sunday night.

The 40 lap A-main event for the super late models saw Jonathan Davenport and Garrett Alberson make up the front row with Davenport taking ahold of the early lead.

Over the opening 9 laps, the top 3 would consist of Davenport, Alberson and Ricky Thornton Jr with Davenport leading the way.

After a restart for a quick caution, Thornton was able to get by Alberson off of turn number 4 to get to the runner up’s spot and trying to reel in the 49 car of Jonathan Davenport.

Another caution with just 14 laps recorded would bring Thornton to the tail of Davenport and allowed him to challenge for the lead.

Going into turns 3 and 4, Thornton was able to slide underneath Davenport for the lead and would hold onto it over the remaining 25 laps earning him the $10,000 win and his 2nd straight Battle in the Borough title.

“Those yellows helped me time,” said Thornton Jr. in victory lane. “When you are working in the one percent of this deal, a little fine tuning can be your make or break and lucky for us tonight it was good for us.”

Jonathan Davenport would finish in 2nd and Devin Moran would round out the top 3.

In Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late model competition, Andrew Yoder would lead all 25-laps of the $2,000 to win feature event but would face a late challenge for the win.

Yoder would start on the pole and would have a lead as large as 3.5 seconds at points in the A-main, but a restart with 2 laps to go gave Taylor Farlling the opportunity to try and steal the win.

Farlling, who started in the 14th starting spot, had worked his way up to 4th before the final restart and would be the only car working the top side of the speedway to pick off 2 of the cars in front of him and challenge Yoder on the final lap for the win.

Over the final circuit, Farlling would challenge to the outside of Yoder but wasn’t able to mount enough speed to complete the final pass, allowing Yoder to take home the $2,000 winner’s share.

Ryan Zook would finish in the 3rd spot to finish of the podium.

Port Royal Speedway will be back in competition on Saturday with Weikert’s Livestock 410 sprint cars, PennsValley Meat Market PA Sprint Series 305 sprint cars, and Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late models all presented by Bobby Rahal Toyota of Lewistown. It will also be Ladies Night meaning $10 general admission for all ladies who look to attend the event on Saturday night.

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

LOLMDS A-Main 40 Laps | 00:30:34.392

1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[3]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 3. 99-Devin Moran[4]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]; 5. 22G-Gregg Satterlee[5]; 6. 93-Carson Ferguson[10]; 7. 1T-Tyler Erb[8]; 8. 72-Michael Norris[6]; 9. 71-Hudson O’Neal[23]; 10. 24-Rick Eckert[13]; 11. 76-Brandon Overton[18]; 12. 4-Gary Stuhler[22]; 13. 2J-Justin Weaver[16]; 14. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[19]; 15. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[9]; 16. 1C-Alex Ferree[15]; 17. 79-Donald McIntosh[7]; 18. 18D-Daulton Wilson[17]; 19. 19M-Spencer Hughes[24]; 20. 6-Clay Harris[27]; 21. 48-Colton Flinner[21]; 22. 60-Dan Ebert[26]; 23. 21-Chad Myers[20]; 24. 66C-Matt Cosner[28]; 25. 22*-Drake Troutman[11]; 26. 7-Ross Robinson[25]; 27. D19-Dillan Stake[14]; 28. 1-Brandon Sheppard[12]

LLM A Feature 25 Laps | 00:16:04.912

1. 2-Andrew Yoder[1]; 2. 8-Taylor Farlling[14]; 3. 28Z-Ryan Zook[4]; 4. 11-Jaxton Garman[7]; 5. 44-Shawn Shoemaker[2]; 6. 23-Lane Snook[6]; 7. 70J-DJ Myers[9]; 8. 13-Brad McGinnis[10]; 9. 56R-George Dixon[20]; 10. 22-Casey Steinhoff[8]; 11. 8P-Jeremy Pilkerton[16]; 12. 40-Tommy Slanker[18]; 13. 21M-Matt Murphy[17]; 14. 462-Keith Walls[15]; 15. 94-Brandon Bard[23]; 16. 72-Wayne Pfeil[19]; 17. K32-Trenton Beasom[22]; 18. 711-Jennifer Lesher[25]; 19. 79-Chase Bowsman[5]; 20. 121-Tristin Neiderer[21]; 21. 88-Devin Weyandt[11]; 22. 14-Lucas Adams[13]; 23. (DNS) 85-Gunner Walls; 24. (DNS) 87-Eric Irvin; 25. (DNS) 12K-Jared Fulkroad