Anthony Macri and Rick Eckert Pick Up Opening Day Victory
PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Spring weather can always prove to be tricky in Pennsylvania when it comes to running a dirt race. A 45 minute weather delay didn't stop Anthony Macri and Rick Eckert from finding their way to victory land at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday March 22nd.
In the Weikert's Livestock A-main event, Brock Zearfoss and Kelby Watt led the field to green in the 25 lap race.
Zearfoss would lead the opening two laps before Danny Dietrich would slow to a stop on the front stretch to bring out the race's first caution.
On the ensuing restart, Kelby Watt attempted a sliding pass for the lead on Zearfoss, cutting right in front of the Eichelberger number 8 machine, but Zearfoss was able to steer his ride back to the inside and regain the lead.
With 16 laps to go, Zearfoss faced a brief scare when Austin Bishop spun around in turns 3 and 4 in front of Zearfoss with the leader squeaking by in a near miss.
Following the restart Anthony Macri, after starting in the 7th spot, would pass by Watt and Steve Buckwalter to get to the runner-up spot and start to track down Zearfoss.
An accident in turn 1 involving Doug Hammaker, Mike Wagner and Austin Bishop would bring out the race's only red flag of the night and allowed teams to make minor adjustments to their ride under open red flag conditions.
When the race returned to green with 9 laps remaining, Macri would duck to the inside of Zearfoss and slide in front to take the lead away.
The race's final caution flag came out with 2 laps remaining as Kelby Watt slowed to a stop on the backstretch ending his night and setting up for a green-white-checkered finish.
Zearfoss would pull to the inside of Macri in turn 1 in an attempt for the lead, but Macri stayed glued to the top side of the racetrack to get back by and would hold on for the $6,000 payday.
Zearfoss would hold on for 2nd and Chase Dietz would round out the top 3.
In Penske Racing Shocks super late model competition, Rick Eckert would start on the pole and lead all 25 laps to pick up the opening day win.
He would face challenges from Gregg Satterlee in the midway portion of the race, but a caution flag would reset the field, allowing clean air to Eckert and aided him to a $4,000 victory.
Port Royal Speedway will be back in action on Saturday March 29th with Weikert's Livestock 410 sprint cars, Penske Racing Shocks super late models, and Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late models.
For more information, go to portroyalspeedway.com or follow along on social media on Facebook at Port Royal Speedway Trackside Media or on X/Twitter @PortRoyalSpdway.
Full Results:
410 A Feature 25 Laps | 00:29:29.269
39M-Anthony Macri[7]; 2. 8-Brock Zearfoss[1]; 3. 23-Chase Dietz[10]; 4. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[4]; 5. 67-Justin Whittall[11]; 6. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[6]; 7. 45-Jeff Halligan[12]; 8. 12D-Lance Dewease[22]; 9. 2-Gerard McIntyre Jr[3]; 10. 77-Michael Walter[5]; 11. 12-Blane Heimbach[17]; 12. 55-Logan Wagner[15]; 13. 11-TJ Stutts[23]; 14. 47K-Kody Lehman[13]; 15. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[16]; 16. 75-Cameron Smith[18]; 17. 98-Ricky Peterson[9]; 18. 1K-Kelby Watt[2]; 19. 22-Doug Hammaker[14]; 20. 55W-Mike Wagner[21]; 21. 35-Austin Bishop[19]; 22. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[24]; 23. 48-Danny Dietrich[8]; 24. 51-Freddie Rahmer[20]
SLM A Feature 25 Laps | 00:19:26.899
24E-Rick Eckert[2]; 2. 22-Gregg Satterlee[6]; 3. 24-Dylan Yoder[3]; 4. 2J-Justin Weaver[4]; 5. 1Z-Logan Zarin[11]; 6. 1-Gene Knaub[5]; 7. 20-Trever Feathers[13]; 8. 4-Gary Stuhler[12]; 9. 48-Colton Flinner[24]; 10. D19-Dillan Stake[7]; 11. 9-Hayes Mattern[10]; 12. 39-Tim Smith Jr[9]; 13. 21-Chad Myers[15]; 14. 11-Jason Schmidt[18]; 15. 15-Scott Flickinger[14]; 16. 06-Mike Lupfer[20]; 17. 19-Drew Weisser[19]; 18. 23-Lane Snook[8]; 19. C33-Chris Casner[17]; 20. 4S-Danny Snyder[21]; 21. 11H-JT Spence[1]; 22. 32J-Shaun Jones[16]; 23. 25K-Kody Lyter[22]; 24. 0Y-Andrew Yoder[23]
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