8/17/2015
Sprint Source
Williams Grove Speedway Cancels Friday Racing After Fatal Crash
Williams Grove Speedway cancelled its racing program midway through practice laps on Friday night August 14th after a racing accident claimed the life of sprint car driver Jim Campbell Jr. The accident took place in the third corner of the speedway during warm ups. The Speedway Motors/Champion Racing Oil Central PA Sprint Cars extend sincere sympathy to the Campbell family.
The series ran two shows Saturday night August 15th with both bringing new winners for 2015. At Lincoln Speedway Chase Dietz took his first ever 410 sprint car win, while at Port Royal Speedway Blane Heimbach won his first feature of the 2015 season.
The Speedway Motors/Champion Racing Oil Central PA Sprint Cars are back at Williams Grove Speedway Friday August 21st. Port Royal Speedway and Lincoln Speedway both have shows on Saturday August 22nd. On Sunday the 23rd Susquehanna Speedway Park hosts their one series show for the month of August.
Four of the top five in the Speedway Motors/Champion Racing Oil Central PA Sprint Cars series points made it in to the A main for the Knoxville Nationals Saturday night August 15th in Knoxville IA. Lucas Wolfe finished 9th, Greg Hodnett finished 10th, Danny Dietrich finished 15th, and Brent Marks 17th. Greg Hodnett was hard charger coming from 9th to 4th in the B Main and 23rd to 10th in the A Main. Stevie Smith was 10th in the B Main and Logan Wagner finished 18th in the B Main missing Rookie of the Nationals by just one position.
Greg Hodnett leads the series points over Danny Dietrich with Brian Montieth 3rd.
SPEEDWAY MOTORS/CHAMPION RACING OIL CENTRAL PA SPRINT CARS
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listing; position, car number, driver, points, series wins
AS OF; August 15, 2015
27 Greg Hodnett 1368 11
48 Danny Dietrich 1254 12
21 Brian Montieth 1003 8
4 1/5W Lucas Wolfe 952 319M Brent Marks 697
51 Stevie Smith 619 8
87 Alan Krimes 589 2
25 Aaron Ott 585 1
14 Lance Dewease 580 1
17B Steve Buckwalter 492 3
11c Cory Haas 374
52 Austin Hogue 297
59 Jim Siegel 236 1
39 Tim Glatfelter 228
07 Doug Esh 204 1
55 Mike Wagner 195
51 Freddie Rahmer 194
55K Robbie Kendall 184
3z Brock Zearfoss 183
7w Logan Wagner 181 1
20 Ryan Taylor 180
15 Adam Wilt 177
99M Kyle Moody 177
69K Donnie Kreitz Jr 163 1
94 Ryan Smith 163
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Williams Grove Speedway August 21st
Port Royal Speedway August 22nd
Lincoln Speedway August 22nd
Susquehanna Speedway Park August 23rd
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