Ryan Smith Gets Back to Victory Lane at Port Royal
PORT ROYAL, Pa. — It had been 11 years since Ryan Smith had parked in victory lane at Port Royal Speedway for his first career win. On Saturday afternoon, he was able to get back there for the 2nd time in his career behind the Kreitz racing 69K and did so in comfortable fashion for the $5,000 payday.
Ricky Peterson Jr. would start alongside Lucas Wolfe to take the opening green flag of the 25 lap A-main event with Peterson getting out in front early. Within the opening lap, Smith would charge from his 6th place starting spot and take the 3rd spot away from Jeff Halligan while also challenging Wolfe for 2nd.
Smith would catch Peterson over the next 4 laps and with a good drive into the low side of turn 1, Smith would get by Ricky Peterson Jr for the lead and wouldn't look back.
The A-main would remain green for the remainder of the race and Smith would finish with a margin of victory over 4 seconds.
"To be honest with you I didn't know how to get here," joked Smith in victory lane referencing how long it's been since he had won at Port Royal Speedway.
Chase Deitz would be the Ramsey's Car Wash hard charging coming from the 10th starting spot to finish 2nd and Justin Whittall would round out the podium in 3rd.
In Penske Racing Shocks super late model competition, Rick Eckert was able to get back to victory lane in back to back weeks at Port Royal Speedway.
Drake Troutman would take the early race lead but after a pair of cautions over the opening 3 laps of the race, Eckert was able to utilize an outside starting lane on restart to get by both Colton Flinner and Troutman to take the race lead and not look back.
Troutman would run in 2nd for the majority of the race with Flinner close in tow, when contact with a lapped car nearly took the Hyndman, PA driver out of contention. The driver of the 22* was able to reel the car back under his control and maintain speed and would hold on to finish in 3rd with Flinner able to capitalize and finish in 2nd.
For the Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late models, Kyle Hardy would lead from wire to wire and pick up the opening race win of the season for the division.
Lane Snook and Ryan Zook would round out the top 3.
Port Royal Speedway will be back in action on Saturday April 5th with Weikert's Livestock 410 sprint cars, Penns Valley Meat Market 305 sprint cars and Zimmerman Truck Repair limited late models. Racing is scheduled to start at 6PM.
For more information, visit portroyalspeedway.com or follow along on social media on Facebook at Port Royal Speedway Trackside Media or on X/Twitter @PortRoyalSpdway.
FEATURE RESULTS:
410 A Feature 25 Laps | 00:08:21.392
1. 69K-Ryan Smith[6]; 2. 23-Chase Dietz[10]; 3. 67-Justin Whittall[8]; 4. 48-Danny Dietrich[9]; 5. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[1]; 6. 55-Logan Wagner[11]; 7. 45-Jeff Halligan[4]; 8. 71-Dylan Cisney[5]; 9. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[7]; 10. 2-Gerard McIntyre Jr[17]; 11. 98-Ricky Peterson[2]; 12. 12-Blane Heimbach[20]; 13. 8-Brock Zearfoss[16]; 14. 39M-Anthony Macri[15]; 15. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[3]; 16. 77-Michael Walter[19]; 17. 47K-Kody Lehman[14]; 18. 99-Devin Adams[12]; 19. 1A-Jacob Allen[22]; 20. 35-Austin Bishop[13]; 21. 22-Doug Hammaker[24]; 22. 12D-Lance Dewease[21]; 23. 32B-Brandon Spithaler[23]; 24. 18J-JT Ferry[18]
SLM A Feature 25 Laps | 00:15:05.177
1 .24E-Rick Eckert[4]; 2. 48-Colton Flinner[1]; 3. 22*-Drake Troutman[2]; 4. 11-Kyle Hardy[3]; 5. 0Y-Andrew Yoder[8]; 6. 22-Gregg Satterlee[12]; 7. 27-Trever Feathers[9]; 8. 24-Dylan Yoder[6]; 9. 2J-Justin Weaver[13]; 10. 9-Hayes Mattern[14]; 11. D19-Dillan Stake[7]; 12. 4-Gary Stuhler[19]; 13. 32J-Shaun Jones[11]; 14. 39-Tim Smith Jr[20]; 15. 06-Mike Lupfer[5]; 16. 66C-Matt Cosner[23]; 17. 21-Chad Myers[18]; 18. 11H-JT Spence[22]; 19. 111-Demetrios Drellos[24]; 20. 32-Travis Stickley[15]; 21. C33-Chris Casner[16]; 22. 05-Roy Deese Jr[17]; 23. 1-Gene Knaub[21]; 24. 4S-Danny Snyder[10]
LLM A Feature 20 Laps | 00:11:34.185
1. 99-Kyle Hardy[1]; 2. 23-Lane Snook[2]; 3. 28Z-Ryan Zook[3]; 4. 22-Casey Steinhoff[4]; 5. 2-Dan Zechman[5]; 6. 462-Keith Walls[13]; 7. 13-Brad McGinnis[11]; 8. 58M-Maddox Smith[6]; 9. 40-Tommy Slanker[9]; 10. 32K-Trenton Beasom[14]; 11. 12-Doug Legum[12]; 12. 22T-Skylar Taschek[8]; 13. 19-Danny Atherton[10]; 14. 99S-Chad Smith[16]; 15. (DNS) 11-Jaxton Garman; 16. (DNS) 21M-Matt Murphy
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