The 35th edition of Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek kicks off

tonight at Williams Grove Speedway.

The series is scheduled for 10 straight nights of racing with at least

$10,000 going to each feature winner. If all 10 races are completed,

the Speedweek champion earns $6,000. The total championship purse is

$35,000. Many other contingency awards will be handed out nightly and

at the conclusion.

The series heads to Lincoln Speedway tomorrow night for the Kevin

Gobrecht Memorial paying $15,000 to win. Opening weekend of Speedweek

concludes Sunday at BAPS Motor Speedway with $12,000 going to the

winner. Brent Marks, Anthony Macri and Danny Dietrich are the last

three BAPS winners.

The series goes back to Lincoln Monday night with $10,000 on the line.

It’s a trip to Eastern PA on Tuesday night as the sprinters head to

Grandview Speedway, Bechtelsville for the Greg Hodnett Cup and $10,000

to win.

Christopher Bell, who won Grandview’s Speedweek race in 2019, will

drive the Kreitz Racing 69K at Lincoln’s Monday race and again at

Grandview. Bell won with Kreitz back at Volusia in February. Ryan

Smith will be in the car at the Grove, Lincoln and Port Royal.

Port Royal Speedway’s first Speedweek race is Wednesday, July 2. It

pays $10,000 to win.

The series dips south of the border to Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway on

Thursday, July 3. The Grove hosts the Mitch Smith Memorial paying

$20,000 to win on July 4. Port Royal hosts the Greg Hodnett Classic on

July 5 paying $15,000 to win.

The series concludes Sunday night, July 6, at Path Valley Speedway

with the feature winner earning $10,000. It’s the first Speedweek race

at the track since 2018 when Cole Duncan won. Kyle Larson won in 2017,

Greg Hodnett in 2016, Stevie Smith in 2015 and Brady Bacon in 2014.

Bacon will run the entire series this season.

Dillsburg’s Anthony Macri has won the last two Speedweek titles. Brent

Marks won Speedweek in 2022.Macri has won three of the last five

Speedweek races at Lincoln with Marks and Freddie Rahmer winning the

others.

Danny Dietrich is coming off his first Ohio Speedweek title. Nobody

has ever won both Speedweeks in the same season. Dietrich joined Keith

Kauffman and Stevie Smith as the only drivers to win both PA and Ohio

Speedweek. His last PASW title came in 2021 and his first was 2016.

Macri, Marks and Dietrich are also recent Grove Speedweek winners.

Before Kyle Larson became a NASCAR champion in 2021, he was a

Speedweek champion in 2020. Larson has been doing a lot of sprint car

racing in 2025, but nothing official has been released as far as him

running any Speedweek races.

Fred Rahmer owns the most titles with 13. Greg Hodnett won five titles

and Lucas Wolfe has four. Lance Dewease is a three-time series

champion. He’ll run the Grove, Port Royal and Hagerstown races. Steve

Smith won the first Speedweek in 1991.

Dewease leads the Speedweek win list with 31 followed by Rahmer at 30

and Hodnett at 26. Dietrich has 15, Stevie Smith and Brent Marks 11,

and Kyle Larson 10.

A total of 249 Speedweek races have been run at 12 different tracks

with 49 different winners.

One of the biggest stories prior to Speedweek is the return of

Californian Tyler Walker, who will drive the 19 sprinter owned by Ron

Rutherford, of York. Walker recently returned to racing out West and

struck a deal to run Speedweek. He owns four career Speedweek wins,

including one at Big Diamond in 2000, two at Grandview, 2010, 2011 and

Port Royal, 2012. He also won the King’s Royal driving for the late

Jesse Keen, of Carlisle, in 2011.

While Port Royal doesn’t host Speedweek this weekend, the track will

be in action Saturday night with the annual Blue Collar Classic for

the 305 sprint cars, and the rescheduled Ron Zimmerman Memorial for

the limited late models.