6/22/2019
BAPS Motor Speedway
Scott Dellinger Scores 1st Super Sportsman Win of the Year at BAPS Motor Speedway
YORK HAVEN, Pa.: It’s been difficult for Scott Dellinger to live up to his 2018 championship performance at BAPS Motor Speedway.
Of course, trying to duplicate winning nine races and finishing in the top three on a weekly basis to dominate the competitive Super Sportsman division is no easy task. Especially when the rest of the field has upped their game.
Dellinger has been shut out so far in 2019. That changed Saturday night, when the defending champion stormed to the front and captured the 25-lap Super Sportsman main event for his first win of the season.
“I never expected to have a year like I did in 2018,” Dellinger said. “I told the guys over the winter that it’s going to be difficult to get close to that again.
“There are a lot of guys to have the finishes we do this year. The track surface has changed with the new clay, and we’re not used to it. Frankie Herr and other guys are better, so we’ve had to start fresh.
“We’ve tucked our notes away from last year, for now. But, that’s part of being a racer. You have to adjust and adapt to what’s there.”
Dellinger and his crew have been making gains. That was evident over the race distance in this one.
Rich Eichelberger led the first four circuits from his third-place starting spot. Bruce Buckwalter Jr., who started fifth on the grid, took over on Lap 5 and was setting a pretty good pace at the front.
That all changed when Dellinger ripped through the top five from his ninth-place starting spot. He took advantage of a caution to close on the tail of Buckwalter and take the lead on Lap 14.
“Bruce ran a pretty good race,” Dellinger said. “All the young guys here have talent and are capable of winning.
“You have to capitalize when someone makes a mistake, and we were able to do that. We lost the temperature in the motor, so we might have ruined it. I thought we weren’t going to make it to the end, but we did, and that’s all that matters.”
The competition, nor the motor, could stop Dellinger from reaching Victory Lane. It’s been too long.
Timmie Barrick flipped on Lap 22 to bring out the red flag and give the field a shot. Kenny Edkin started 11th and got to second but couldn’t unseat Dellinger, who drove away for the win.
Edkin settled for second, with Paul Miller coming from 18th to third. Buckwalter fell to fourth, and Justin Foster completed the top five. Miller won the Artwerks Cool Move of the Race award.
Chase Billet won an entertaining and caution-filled Limited Late Model feature that saw three different leaders over the 20-lap distance.
Despite four cautions before the completion of Lap 2, Bobbi Beard jumped out front from his pole starting spot and led the first 13 circuits, before Joey Hoffer took over on Lap 14.
Billet, who started fifth, made his way to the front and started challenging for the top spot on Lap 15. One lap later, he completed the pass on Hoffer and went on to take another win at the speedway.
Charles Potts took second away from Hoffer in the closing laps. Alan Sagi, and Beard completed the top five. Billet was also awarded Artwerks Cool Move of the Race honors.
Zach Newlin topped the 20-car 305 Sprint Car field, leading all 20 laps in the main the event. He started second on the grid.
Jake Frye, Domenic Melair, Cale Reigle, and Landon Price completed the top five. Devin Adams was hard charger, advancing from 11th to seventh.
Sam Rial and Donnie Broderick claimed a pair of 15-lap Extreme Stock main events to close out the program.
In the first feature, Rial took the lead from Patrick McClane on Lap 3 and never looked back. He beat McClane, Alex Updegraff, Travis Horan, and Kyle Emig to the stripe.
Broderick had to work a little harder for his main event win, as he chased down Travis Horan with two to go. He was the fifth leader in the main event.
Scott Arnold led the first two laps, before Horan took over. Updegraff passed Horan on Lap 9 but was hit for rough riding with three laps to go. Horan was back in front, but he couldn’t hold off Broderick at the finish.
Andrew Hogue came up to second, with Jeff Gill placing third. Horan and Kyle Emig completed the top five.
BAPS SUPER SPORTSMAN
Feature (25 Laps) – 1. 30-Scott Dellinger, [9]; 2. 75-Kenny Edkin, [11]; 3. 58-Paul Miller, [18]; 4. 83-Bruce Buckwalter Jr., [5]; 5. 23-Justin Foster, [7]; 6. 318-Steve Fannasy, [15]; 7. 360-Jay Fannasy, [12]; 8. 77W-Tom Wyckoff, [19]; 9. 14-Nate Young, [4]; 10. (DNF) 35-John Edkin, [17]; 11. (DNF) 8-Rich Eichelberger, [3]; 12. (DNF) 7-Timmie Barrick, [13]; 13. (DNF) 22-Daniel John, [16]; 14. (DNF) 29-Adam Wray, [1]; 15. (DNF) 1A-Chase Gutshall, [8]; 16. (DNF) 5D-Luke Deatrick, [14]; 17. (DNF) 70D-Frankie Herr, [10]; 18. (DNF) 2M-Matt Ondek, [20]; 19. (DNF) 77-Russ Mitten, [6]; 20. (DNF) 71K-Tyler Wolford, [2]; (DNS) 3B-Mike Enders, ; (DNS) 10H-Dave Hollar. No time.
Lap Leaders – Rich Eichelberger (1-4), Bruce Buckwalter Jr. (5-13), Scott Dellinger (14-25)
Super Sportsman Heat 1 Finish (10 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 30-Scott Dellinger, [7]; 2. 23-Justin Foster, [5]; 3. 360-Jay Fannasy, [1]; 4. 14-Nate Young, [3]; 5. 7-Timmie Barrick, [6]; 6. 22-Daniel John, [8]; 7. (DNF) 10H-Dave Hollar, [2]; 8. (DNF) 2M-Matt Ondek, [4]. No time.
Super Sportsman Heat 2 Finish (10 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 71K-Tyler Wolford, [2]; 2. 83-Bruce Buckwalter Jr., [4]; 3. 70D-Frankie Herr, [7]; 4. 29-Adam Wray, [1]; 5. 5D-Luke Deatrick, [3]; 6. 35-John Edkin, [6]; 7. (DNF) 3B-Mike Enders, [5]. No time.
Super Sportsman Heat 3 Finish (10 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 8-Rich Eichelberger, [2]; 2. 1A-Chase Gutshall, [6]; 3. 77-Russ Mitten, [4]; 4. 75-Kenny Edkin, [7]; 5. 318-Steve Fannasy, [3]; 6. 58-Paul Miller, [5]; 7. 77W-Tom Wyckoff, [1]. Time – 2:55.694
PA SPRINT SERIES – 305 SPRINTS
Feature (20 Laps) – 1. 22-Chase Billet, [5]; 2. 5-Charles Potts, [4]; 3. 21-Joey Hoffer, [2]; 4. NINE-Alan Sagi, [11]; 5. 60-Bobby Beard, [1]; 6. 116-Travis Mease, [8]; 7. 13X-Ben Whitaker, [3]; 8. 118-Sean Merkel, [6]; 9. 72-Wayne Pfeil, [10]; 10. 88C-Chuck Cox III, [9]; 11. 32-Brad Bingaman, [7]; 12. 19-Dan Hoffman, [15]; 13. X4-Lou Egrie, [12]; 14. 9-Matt Adams, [16]; 15. NINEX-Ross Leinbach, [18]; 16. 6-Corry Gingerich, [17]; 17. (DNF) 711-Jennifer Hartz, [19]; 18. (DNF) 29-Steve Billet, [14]; 19. (DNF) 0-Deshawn Gingerich, [20]; 20. (DNF) 37B-Brandon Eveler, [13]. Time – 6:13.257
Lap Leaders – Zach Newlin (1-20)
305 Sprint Heat 1 Finish (8 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 31-Donnie Hendershot, [1]; 2. 69-Landon Price, [2]; 3. 0-Kyle Ganoe, [4]; 4. 99R-Cale Reigle, [3]; 5. 11Z-Zachary Newlin, [8]; 6. 99A-Devin Adams, [9]; 7. 20-Doug Dodson, [5]; 8. 69K-Kassidy Kreitz, [6]; 9. 2-Erin Statler, [10]; (DNS) 83-Billy Ney. Time – 2:19.892
305 Sprint Heat 2 Finish (8 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 36-Jaremi Hanson, [2]; 2. 55-Domenic Melair, [1]; 3. 56-Jake Frye, [3]; 4. 8-Nick Sweigart, [6]; 5. 28-Keith Prutzman, [9]; 6. 3D-David Grube II, [8]; 7. 44K-Kirsten Hess, [4]; 8. 5-John Walp, [5]; 9. 17K-Kyle Keen, [7]; 10. 55B-Rick Romig, [10]. No time.
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Feature (20 Laps) – 1. 22-Chase Billet, [5]; 2. 5-Charles Potts, [4]; 3. 21-Joey Hoffer, [2]; 4. NINE-Alan Sagi, [11]; 5. 60-Bobby Beard, [1]; 6. 116-Travis Mease, [8]; 7. 13X-Ben Whitaker, [3]; 8. 118-Sean Merkel, [6]; 9. 72-Wayne Pfeil, [10]; 10. 88C-Chuck Cox III, [9]; 11. 32-Brad Bingaman, [7]; 12. 19-Dan Hoffman, [15]; 13. X4-Lou Egrie, [12]; 14. 9-Matt Adams, [16]; 15. NINEX-Ross Leinbach, [18]; 16. 6-Corry Gingerich, [17]; 17. (DNF) 711-Jennifer Hartz, [19]; 18. (DNF) 29-Steve Billet, [14]; 19. (DNF) 0-Deshawn Gingerich, [20]; 20. (DNF) 37B-Brandon Eveler, [13]. No time.
Lap Leaders – Bobby Beard (1-13), Joey Hoffer (14-16), Chase Billet (17-20)
Late Model Heat 1 Finish (8 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 118-Sean Merkel, [2]; 2. 5-Charles Potts, [3]; 3. 21-Joey Hoffer, [6]; 4. 32-Brad Bingaman, [1]; 5. 88C-Chuck Cox III, [7]; 6. NINE-Alan Sagi, [9]; 7. 37B-Brandon Eveler, [4]; 8. 19-Dan Hoffman, [8]; 9. 6-Corry Gingerich, [5]; 10. 711-Jennifer Hartz, [10]. Time – 2:28.186
Late Model Heat 2 Finish (8 Laps/All Qualify) – 1. 22-Chase Billet, [4]; 2. 13X-Ben Whitaker, [6]; 3. 60-Bobby Beard, [1]; 4. 116-Travis Mease, [2]; 5. 72-Wayne Pfeil, [3]; 6. X4-Lou Egrie, [5]; 7. 29-Steve Billet, [7]; 8. 9-Matt Adams, [8]; 9. NINEX-Ross Leinbach, [9]; 10. 0-Deshawn Gingerich, [10]. Time – 2:29.867
SUPERIOR HOMES EXTREME STOCKS
Feature #1 (15 Laps) – 1. 55-Sam Rial, ; 2. 21A-Patrick McClane, ; 3. 1-Alex Updegraff (Rehbein’s Service Center Hard Charger), ; 4. 21H-Travis Horan, ; 5. 10-Kyle Emig, ; 6. 25-Andrew Hogue, ; 7. 91-Will Long, ; 8. 97-Donnie Broderick, ; 9. 1A-Scott Arnold, ; 10. 98-Richard Daughtrey, ; 11. 15-Jeff Gill, ; 12. LAZY8-John Wright, ; 13. 97X-Paul Sylvester, ; 14. (DNF) 33-Michael Goodwin, ; 15. (DNF) 8-Roger Rhodes, ; 16. (DNF) 18C-Tim Berkheimer. No time.
Lap Leaders – Patrick McClane (1-2), Sam Rial (3-15)
Feature #2 (15 Laps) – 1. 97-Donnie Broderick, [4]; 2. 25-Andrew Hogue (Rehbein’s Service Center Hard Charger), [6]; 3. 15-Jeff Gill, [1]; 4. 21H-Travis Horan, [8]; 5. 10-Kyle Emig, [7]; 6. 1A-Scott Arnold, [3]; 7. 98-Richard Daughtrey, [2]; 8. LAZY8-John Wright, [12]; 9. (DNF) 55-Sam Rial, [11]; 10. (DNF) 1-Alex Updegraff, [9]; 11. (DNF) 21A-Patrick McClane, [10]; 12. (DNF) 8-Roger Rhodes, [15]; 13. (DNF) 91-Will Long, [5]; 14. (DNF) 18C-Tim Berkheimer, [16]; 15. (DNF) 97X-Paul Sylvester, [13]; (DNS) 33-Michael Goodwin. No time.
Lap Leaders – Scott Arnold (1-2), Travis Horan (3-8), Donnie Broderick (14-15)
Article Credit: BAPS Motor Speedway
