Sentinel photo by MIKE GOSS
Feature leader and winner Anthony Macri (39) laps Ryan Taylor (20) late during the 410 Sprint car feature.

PORT ROYAL–After some early season bad luck, Anthony Macri turned in a dominating performance in the Sprint car feature Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway.

Macri, of Dillsburg, earned $4,000 for his first win of the season that came by an impressive 7.4-seconds in the non-stop 25-lap main event.

“I was getting worried in lapped traffic,” Macri said. “They were starting to not play as nice. The first five or six lapped cars just fell my way. They went the other way and I was able to stay on the top.”

Last year, he won six features at the track in the 410 Sprints and once in 360 Sprints.

“The car hasn’t felt like it did last year in the first couple of races,” Macri said. “We just kept working and working. I’d say tonight’s the first night where I felt we were as good as we were last year.”

Macri is primed for next week’s Keith Kauffman Classic paying $10,000 to win.

“It’s definitely a confidence boost going into next week,” Macri said. “When we first got here, I seen the track wasn’t dug up as much as it was the weeks before. I knew it would eventually come back to this, but I didn’t think it would be that close to the wall. It played into my favor. I like this kind of track. Anybody can go around here in 15 seconds. This is the Port Royal I like.”

Gerard McIntyre Jr. started on the pole and grabbed the lead as Blane Heimbach took second. Macri started sixth, but was up to third in no time.

He shot by Heimbach in turns three and four, but Heimbach returned the pass as they raced down the frontstretch. Macri had his right rear tire inches from the fence making the pass of Heimbach off turn two.

Macri caught the leader entering turn three and slid up in front of him as they raced off turn four taking the lead with 15 to go.

From there, Macri blasted away from the field increasing his lead even as he raced up against the fence by slower traffic.

Heimbach looked inside of McIntyre for the runner-up spot, but couldn’t make it work.

Three-time and defending track champion Logan Wagner had raced into the top five from the 18th starting spot.

It was Wagner making moves by Heimbach and then McIntyre for the runner-up spot with five to go. Jeff Halligan and 14th starter Danny

Dietrich also raced into the top five late in the race.

But up front, it was all Macri as he cruised to his eighth career Port Royal win by 7.4 seconds over Wagner and 9-seconds over McIntyre.

“I knew we were pretty good early,” Wagner said. “The guys worked really hard on this car. It was a disappointment in the heat race for me personally. We bounced back in the A-main. I was picking cars off. I didn’t know where I was or who I was racing or what I was going for. After the checkered, I thought I might have won it. Then I looked up and seen second.”

Dietrich and Halligan completed the top five. Dylan Cisney, Blane Heimbach, AJ Flick, Jason Shultz and Kerry Madsen rounded out the top 10.

Cisney, Macri, Madsen and Halligan won the heat races. TJ Stutts won the B Main.

Kenny Yoder and Donnie Farlling raced side-by-side for the lead on the opening lap of the Limited Late Model feature.

A quick yellow with one lap completed slowed the pace.

Port Royal’s Devin Hart was already up to fourth. He took third on the restart and nearly had second spot before another yellow flew.

Hart passed Farlling down the frontstretch for second following the restart. He trailed Yoder for a few laps before switching lanes off turn four making an inside pass for the lead with 13 laps to go.

He survived several restarts from there keeping Yoder behind him. Defending track champion Andrew Yoder was into third and Todd Snook moved into the top five during the final laps of the 20-lap main event.

Hart’s fourth career Port Royal win, and second straight, came by 1.4-seconds.

“You’ve got to ride it while it’s up because it can go down real quick, I found that out in 2019,” Hart said. “Last year, we struggled some. I felt like we were good, we just weren’t where we needed to be. That first race this year, we didn’t run as good as I thought we would. We went back to our normal last week, and been really good since, I want to keep it rolling as long as we can.”

K. Yoder, A. Yoder, Snook and Shaun Miller completed the top five. Troy Miller, Derick Garman, Donnie Farlling, Shawn Shoemaker and Matt Murphy rounded out the top 10.

Heats for the 32 Limited Late Models were won by Donnie Farlling, Devin Hart, Kenny Yoder and Andrew Yoder. JR Toner won the B Main.

Collegeville’s Alex Bright held off defending series champion Steve Drevicki scoring his second straight Port Royal win in the USAC East Coast wingless 360 Sprint car main event. Briggs Danner came out on top of a five-car race for third. Joey Biasi and Chris Allen Jr. completed the top five. Carmen Perigo Jr., Damon Paul, Tommy Kunsman, Ed Aiken and Mike Thompson rounded out the top 10.

410 Sprint Car Feature (25 Laps) 1. Anthony Macri 2. Logan Wagner 3. Gerard McIntyre 4. Danny Dietrich 5. Jeff Halligan 6. Dylan Cisney 7. Blane Heimbach 8. AJ Flick 9. Jason Shultz 10. Kerry Madsen 11. Mike Wagner 12. Ryan Smith 13. George Hobaugh 14. Brent Marks 15. Steve Buckwalter 16. Justin Whittal 17. Jared Esh 18. Lynton Jeffrey 19.Ryan Taylor 20. Lucas Wolfe 21. TJ Stutts 22. Tyler Bear 23. Michael Bauer 24. Pat Cannon

USAC EC 360 Sprint Feature (25 Laps) 1. Alex Bright 2. Steven Drevicki 3. Briggs Danner 4. Joey Biasi 5. Chris Allen Jr. 6. Carmen Perigo 7. Damon Paul 8. Tommy Kunsman 9. Ed Aiken 10. Mike Thompson 11. Nash Ely 12. Lee Kauffman 13. Jonathan Swanson 14. Brody Adamsky 15. Jason Cherry 16. Aiden Borden 17. John Stehman 18. Joey Amantea 19. Mike Myers 20. David Swanson 21. Colin White 22. Kenny Miller III 23. Bruce Buckwalter 24. Mark Smith

Limited Late Model Feature (20 laps) 1. Devin Hart 2. Kenny Yoder 3. Andrew Yoder 4. Todd Snook 5. Shaun Miller 6. Troy Miller 7. Derick Garman 8. Donnie Farlling 9. Shawn Shoemaker 10. Matt Murphy 11. Bobby Dunn 12. Travis Mease 13. Casey Steinhoff 14. Ryan Zook 15. Jared Fulkroad 16. Kyle Bachman 17. Shaun Lawton 18. Colin Knaub 19. Ethan Beasom 20. Steve Todorow 21. JR Toner 22. Daulton Bigler 23. Taylor Farlling 24. Jim McBee