April 5, 2026 | By Port Royal Speedway

Jake Karklin gets first career victory in rain-shortened event at Port Royal

PORT ROYAL, Pa.—Parking in Kish Bank victory was a battle of attrition Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway. When the dust settled and the rain ultimately came, it was Jake Karklin who would come out on top as the winner on Saturday night.

Karklin would start alongside Derek Hauck for the 25 lap A-main event in Weikert Livestock 410 sprint car competition. Trouble would start right out of the gate as Karklin would get a bit out of control on the start of the race which stacked up multiple cars behind him and would bring out the red flag.

A field that originally started with 24 cars would be whittled down to just 14 remaining once the field retook its shape.

Though Karklin was at the start of the accident, he was able to keep his car going and would maintain his pole position.

As the field fired back off, it was Derek Hauck who would jump out to the race lead.

As Karklin began to reel Hauck in and a battle for the lead began to take shape, Hauck's sprint car would lose power and slow to a stop on the front straightaway, brining out the caution flag and giving Karklin the lead.

With 22 laps remaining, Karklin would lead the field to green with Ryan Smith and AJ Flick tight on his tail to battle for the top position.

Karklin was able to keep Smith at bay over the next 10 laps, and as he caught lapped traffic, Smith's machine would also slow and see him exit the track giving Karklin a much more comfortable advantage over the now third running Doug Hammaker.

Though the breaks kept coming Karklin's way seemingly, the driver of the 5K would once again slip up in turns three and four. Though he was able to keep the car straight ultimately and not bring out a caution flag, his multi-second advantage over Hammaker was now erased to under 0.8 seconds.

Karklin would get back hard on the throttle in an attempt to keep Hammaker out of arms' reach as Hammaker continued to close the gap in the closing laps.

The final break would fall Karklin's way for the night though, as rain would fall quickly onto the racing surface making the track unraceable and ultimately the night unsalvageable for the teams and the fans.

As there were only 3 laps remaining in the A-main, the race was deemed official and Karklin was ruled the night's winner.

The win is Karklin's first win in a 410 sprint car at Port Royal Speedway that sees him taking the winner's share of $5,000.

Hammaker would take a career best finish of 2nd and AJ Flick would round out the top 3.

Buddy Schweibinz was the night's hard charging driver for going +15 from his 23rd starting spot.

Unfortunately the River Rock Campground limited late models and Penns Valley Meat Market 305 sprint car A-main events were not able to be completed and will be made up when both series return on April 18th.

Port Royal Speedway will be back in competition on April 11th with the PA Posse 410 Sprint Car Series racing for $6,000 to win and the Penske Racing Shocks super late models.

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410 WINGEDSPRINT CAR RESULTS (25 entries)

410 A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 5K-Jake Karklin[1]; 2. 22-Doug Hammaker[4]; 3. 77-AJ Flick[10]; 4. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[11]; 5. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[3]; 6. 88J-Joey Amantea[15]; 7. 11-TJ Stutts[8]; 8. 35B-Buddy Schweibinz[23]; 9. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[16]; 10. 29-Logan McCandless[17]; 11. 2C-Cory Thornton[22]; 12. 69K-Ryan Smith[6]; 13. 69X-Kassidy Kreitz[19]; 14. 12J-Derek Hauck[2]; 15. 55-Logan Wagner[5]; 16. 23-Chase Dietz[7]; 17. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[9]; 18. 11T-Mike Thompson[12]; 19. 18J-JT Ferry[13]; 20. 11A-Austin Bishop[14]; 21. 47K-Kody Lehman[18]; 22. 35-Jason Shultz[24]; 23. 8-Lance Dewease[21]; 24. (DNS) 95-Garrett Bard; 25. (DNS) 22E-Nash Ely

410 Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 55-Logan Wagner[1]; 2. 23-Chase Dietz[3]; 3. 22-Doug Hammaker[4]; 4. 77-AJ Flick[6]; 5. 18J-JT Ferry[5]; 6. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[2]; 7. 69X-Kassidy Kreitz[7]; 8. 2C-Cory Thornton[8]; 9. 22E-Nash Ely[9]

410 Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[2]; 2. 11-TJ Stutts[1]; 3. 69K-Ryan Smith[4]; 4. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[5]; 5. 11A-Austin Bishop[6]; 6. 29-Logan McCandless[3]; 7. (DNS) 95-Garrett Bard; 8. (DNS) 35B-Buddy Schweibinz

410 Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5K-Jake Karklin[4]; 2. 12J-Derek Hauck[3]; 3. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[2]; 4. 11T-Mike Thompson[7]; 5. 88J-Joey Amantea[8]; 6. 47K-Kody Lehman[5]; 7. 8-Lance Dewease[1]; 8. 35-Jason Shultz[6]

410 Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 22-Doug Hammaker[6]; 2. 55-Logan Wagner[9]; 3. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[4]; 4. 23-Chase Dietz[5]; 5. 18J-JT Ferry[3]; 6. 77-AJ Flick[7]; 7. 69X-Kassidy Kreitz[1]; 8. 2C-Cory Thornton[8]; 9. 22E-Nash Ely[2]

410 Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[3]; 2. 69K-Ryan Smith[7]; 3. 11-TJ Stutts[2]; 4. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[8]; 5. 29-Logan McCandless[1]; 6. 11A-Austin Bishop[6]; 7. 95-Garrett Bard[4]; 8. 35B-Buddy Schweibinz[5]

410 Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 5K-Jake Karklin[4]; 2. 8-Lance Dewease[1]; 3. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[5]; 4. 12J-Derek Hauck[8]; 5. 47K-Kody Lehman[3]; 6. 35-Jason Shultz[2]; 7. 11T-Mike Thompson[6]; 8. 88J-Joey Amantea[7]


Limited Late Models(14 entries)

LLM Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 23-Lane Snook[4]; 2. 22F-Arden Fedder[2]; 3. 58M-Maddox Smith[1]; 4. 2-Andrew Yoder[7]; 5. 21M-Matt Murphy[3]; 6. 28Z-Ryan Zook[6]; 7. 12M-Tyson Mowery[5]

LLM Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 87-Eric Irvin[2]; 2. 22-Casey Steinhoff[4]; 3. 11-Jaxton Garman[3]; 4. 12K-Jared Fulkroad[7]; 5. 7-Colton Friese[5]; 6. 11R-Sam Rial[6]; 7. (DNS) 70J-DJ Myers


305 Sprints - Winged (42 entries) 

305 B Feature (10 Laps): 1. 85-Tyler Schell[1]; 2. 01-Timmy Bittner[4]; 3. 0Z-Zach Rhodes[2]; 4. 7-Drew Young[9]; 5. 1J-Reece Raudabaugh[8]; 6. 53W-Jimmy White[3]; 7. 25G-Nolan Groves[11]; 8. 25-Dustin Young[7]; 9. 21-Andrew Boyer[14]; 10. 11E-Tyler Erdley[12]; 11. 28R-Jason Roush[17]; 12. 99-AJ Barton[18]; 13. 42-Jim Pattock[15]; 14. 46-Mike Alleman[21]; 15. 80-Dave Wickham[10]; 16. 6-Caleb Harris[22]; 17. J2-John Smith[13]; 18. 5W-Kolby Weaver[20]; 19. (DNS) 51-Shelby Kelly; 20. (DNS) J9-Jerald Harris; 21. (DNS) 69-Eric Mathiot; 22. (DNS) 19-Kruz Kepner

305 Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 75-Dylan Shatzer[6]; 2. 89-Nick Sweigart[2]; 3. 20-Doug Dodson[8]; 4. 461-Colton Hendershot[3]; 5. 35-Colby Womer[9]; 6. 85-Tyler Schell[10]; 7. 51-Shelby Kelly[1]; 8. 7-Drew Young[11]; 9. J2-John Smith[5]; 10. 28R-Jason Roush[4]; 11. 46-Mike Alleman[7]

305 Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 97-Kenny Heffner[4]; 2. 5V-Braeden Varner[3]; 3. 98-Croix Beasom[2]; 4. 25H-Chris Meleason[6]; 5. 36-Mike Melair[11]; 6. 0Z-Zach Rhodes[8]; 7. J9-Jerald Harris[5]; 8. 80-Dave Wickham[7]; 9. 21-Andrew Boyer[9]; 10. 99-AJ Barton[1]; 11. 6-Caleb Harris[10]

305 Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 52-Jeff Weaver Jr[1]; 2. 4J-Jacob Gomola[2]; 3. 61D-Cole Dewease[4]; 4. 71-Josh Spicer[10]; 5. 19B-Tyler Brehm[3]; 6. 53W-Jimmy White[6]; 7. 25-Dustin Young[5]; 8. 25G-Nolan Groves[7]; 9. 42-Jim Pattock[9]; 10. 19-Kruz Kepner[8]

305 Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 61-John Scarborough[6]; 2. 88-Fred Arnold[4]; 3. 21C-Jarrett Cavalet[1]; 4. 44-John Braim[10]; 5. 90-Ken Duke Jr[2]; 6. 01-Timmy Bittner[8]; 7. 1J-Reece Raudabaugh[7]; 8. 11E-Tyler Erdley[9]; 9. (DNS) 69-Eric Mathiot; 10. (DNS) 5W-Kolby Weaver