PORT ROYAL – After convincing wins at Port Royal Speedway Saturday

night, Chase Dietz and Gregg Satterlee are ready for the upcoming big

races in their respective divisions.

With lucrative payouts on the line, the sprint cars and late models

will have large, competitive fields over the final three weeks of the

season.

Satterlee, of Indiana, Pa., picked up his third late model win of the

season and hopes he has enough speed for this weekend’s “Rumble by the

River”, sanctioned by the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. The

Saturday night finale pays $50,000 to win and Friday pays $10,000.

“They’re a good group of cars to race with and they’re really fast,”

Satterlee said. “We need all the speed we can get. I think we’re

pretty close. We’ll see how it plays out. Hopefully, we can put

together a good weekend.”

While Dietz and the sprint car teams will have the upcoming weekend

off, they return Aug. 30 for the Juniata County Fair opener and the

first of five sprint car races in eight days concluding with the

$58,000 to win Tuscarora 50 on Sept. 6.

“It has been a fun year, I feel like here in the middle of the year,

we’ve been struggling a little but also searching to get better,”

Dietz said. “Going out to Eldora and Knoxville certainly helped us.

We have our notes and we’re putting in our time. It has helped us

coming back home. I’m lucky to be involved with this team, very

fortunate to be here, this is the biggest win of my career. I feel

like if we continue like this the rest of the year, we’ll be tough to

beat.”

PORT ROYAL NOTES

York’s Rick Eckert is the late model point leader by 120 over Justin

Weaver and 185 over Colton Flinner. Eckert is a two-time winner this

season. Weaver and Flinner have three top five finishes in eight

races, but haven’t visited victory lane yet.

The UMP modifieds join the late models for both nights of the “Rumble

by the River” and the limited late models race Friday only.

Mifflintown’s Lane Snook has dominated limited late model racing this

season, including three Port Royal wins. He raced with the super late

model last weekend charging from the 18th starting spot to finish

eighth.

The sprint cars, late models and limited late models come back

together for the 171st Annual Juniata County Fair opener on Saturday,

August 30, for the Butch Renninger Memorial.