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July 7 2012
WALKER WINS PORT ROYAL SPEEDWEEK WITH STEVIE SMITH PASS
Port Royal – Tyler Walker of Los Angeles, California took the lead from Stevie Smith to win the Port Royal Speedway leg of the 22nd annual PA Speedweek series on Saturday night, worth $5,000.
Mark Smith and Stevie Smith started the 30-lap speedweek feature on the front row and Stevie Smith took the lead at the start despite slide job attempts by Mark Smith.
Stevie was just getting into lapped traffic with six away when the races first caution flag fell for a stopped Logan Schuchart, who dropped out of third spot.
Stevie Smith was followed by Mark Smith and sixth starter Walker for the restart and the leaders again entered lapped traffic with 12 laps completed.
At times in traffic Mark Smith tried to narrow the advantage that Stevie Smith was building with the lead but he was never able to string enough solid laps together to substantially cut into the gap.
As the race hit the 10 to go point, both Walker and Mark Smith were slightly gaining on the leader with Walker getting to the front first by blasting underneath Mark Smith for second with seven laps left.
The race pace was slowed again with four laps to go when Danny Dietrich spun in the second corner and that’s when Walker made his move on the restart.
When green replaced the yellow, Walker burst under Stevie Smith for the lead deep in turn one and slid up to catch the cushion in the second corner and drive off of the rough as the leader with Stevie hot on his fuel cell.
The event was then red flagged for a six-car accident with a pair of laps to go when Mark Smith blew a tire in the third corner while running third and collected Fred Rahmer along with Doug Esh, Mike Erdley, Mike Wagner and Paul McMahan.
With no injuries reported from the accident, Walker took the new green running the middle to bottom of the track in an effort to thwart any anticipated attempt by Stevie Smith to reclaim the lead but the challenge never developed.
Instead, Walker took his fourth career Port Royal Speedway victory by 1.394 seconds over Smith, who was going for the 12th of his career at the track.
Stevie Smith settled for second followed by 19th starter Greg Hodnett, Daryn Pittman and 12th starter Blane Heimbach.
Sixth through 10th went to Chad Layton, Danny Holtgraver, Alan Krimes, 21st starter Lance Dewease and Rick Lafferty.
Heats for the 38-car field went to Layton, Wagner, Esh and Pittman with Dave Ely taking the B Main.
Fred Rahmer set fast time with a lap of 16.250 seconds.
410 sprints, 30 laps: 1. Tyler Walker, 2. Stevie Smith, 3. Greg Hodnett, 4. Daryn Pittman, 5. Blane Heimbach, 6. Chad Layton, 7. Danny Holtgraver, 8. Alan Krimes, 9. Lance Dewease, 10. Rick Lafferty, 11. Doug Esh, 12. Danny Dietrich, 13. Mike Wagner, 14. Dave Ely, 15. Jessica Zemken, 16. Keith Kauffman, 17. Adam Wilt, 18. Nicole Bower, 19. Mark Smith, 20. Fred Rahmer, 21. Danny Lasoski, 22. Paul McMahan, 23. Mike Erdley, 24. Logan Schuchart. DNQ: Jordan Frontz, Shane Stewart, Steve Buckwalter, TJ Stutts, Bob Bennett, Darren Mollenoyoux, Ryan Taylor, Joey Hershey, Nate Snyder, Luke Bowey, Brent Marks, Josh Dressler, Sheldon Haudenschild, Dave Hahn
2012 PA SPRINT CAR SPEEDWEEK POINT STANDINGS
1. 51 Fred Rahmer 829*
2. 87 Alan Krimes 751*
3. 27 Daryn Pittman 742*
4. 39 Greg Hodnett 719*
5. 48 Danny Dietrich 660*
6. 30c Lance Dewease 657*
7. 19 Stevie Smith 650
8. 21 Brian Montieth 591
9. 1 Danny Lasoski 533
10. 35 Tyler Walker 502
11. 7 Chad Layton 488*
12. 1s Logan Schuchart 486
13. 19m Brent Marks 479*
14. 13 Paul McMahon 428
15. 15 Adam Wilt 359
16. 1K Kyle Larson 344
17. 77 Aaron Ott 341
18. 55 Mike Wagner 308
19. 77AU Darren Mollenoyux 275*
20. 21 Shane Stewart 257
21. 89 Cody Darrah 221
22. 30 Doug Esh 218
23. 69K Donnie Kreitz Jr. 215
24. 8H Keith Kauffman 213
25. 18 Ryan Bohlke 212
26. 59 Jim Siegel 188
27. 14 Brian Leppo 174
28. 11 Mike Erdley 167
29. 16 Gerard McIntyre Jr 149
30. 11c Cory Haas 146
31. 0 Rick Lafferty 141
32. 12 Blane Heimbach 130
33. 17B Steve Buckwalter 131
34. 98 Danny Holtgraver 112
35. 20 Ryan Taylor 109
36. 747 Davey Sammons 105
37. 8 Billy Dietrich 99
38. 75 Nicole Bower 98
39. 84 Chad Criswell 91
40. 70 Sam Schlosberg 83
41. 55AU Luke Bowey 73
42. 2T T J Stutts 70
43. 44 Frank Cozze 69
44. 3w Sheldon Haudenschild 68
45. 55 Dave Ely 62
46. 69 Tim Glatfelter 61
47. 7K Dan Shetler 59
48. M1 Mark Smith 57
49. 1z Jessica Zemken 56
50. 6 Brad McClelland 52
51. 175 Billy Pauch Jr 51
52. 33 Scott Lutz 38
53. 66 Ryan Kissinger 27
54. 44 Joey Hershey 25
55. 55z Mark Zimmerman 24
55. 4 John Rudisill 24
57. 175 Tim Tanner Jr 20
58. 07 Billy Schoffstall 17
59. 8R Michael Ruttkamp 14
60. 20s Derek Sell 13
60.. 15R Jay Reichart 13
62. U2 Trevor Utt 12
63. 19 Jordan Frontz 9
63. 5T Glenndon Forsythe 9
63. 12w Troy Fraker 9
63. 69 Ryan Smith 9
67. 2H Dave Hahn 8
68. 95 Hunter Mackison 6
68. 56 Dave Wilson 6
70. 15 Mark Bitner 5
71. 21k Kyle Pruitt 5
72. 5G Curt Michael 4
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