PORT ROYAL, Pa. –Â Gregg Satterlee continued his recent domination of Port Royal Speedway Sunday by winning Zimmer’s Service Center ULMS Racing Series late model feature, worth $4,000.
The win made for a clean sweep of the weekend for Satterlee and was his 11th career triumph at the Speed Palace.
“A lot of things fell our way and we were able to cruise to the front,” said Satterlee. “The feature today was a little different then last night. It was pretty much one lane, but we were able to take advantage of a few restarts and just cruise.”
Michael Norris and Max Blair led the field the green flag and Norris got the jump to lead lap one. Meanwhile Satterlee was on the move as he went from sixth to fourth on the opening circuit. One lap later he used the bottom to take third.
Two laps later Satterlee and Rick Eckert made contact on the backstretch, sending Eckert spinning to the inside guardrail to bring out the first caution of the race.
“We made contact and I was trying to get back to the rubber and I certainly didn’t mean to crash him. You cant see left out of these cars,” said Satterlee. “I was going left and he was going right and we just made contact. I’m sure I’ll talk to him later and apologize, but it just sort of happened.”
With the series utilizing Delaware restarts, Satterlee moved into the runner up spot on the restart form the top of the track. He was then able to pull alongside the leader entering turn three and used the momentum to take the point and lead lap five. Norris drove up the race track trying to battle back and opened the door for Jeff Rine to move into the runner-up spot.
Despite a scare when a lapped cars spun out right in front of Satterlee in turn one, Satterlee was able to go untouched for the rest of the feature. He took the checkered flag by a margin of 3.947 seconds over Rine, Norris, Dylan Yoder and Donnie Lingo.
“I just needed to manage my tires as well as I could and just kind of ride it out,” said Satterlee. “It looked like it got kind of one lane and took rubber and was bottom dominant during the modified race. But for starting in the day, the track gave us great racing and kudos to Port Royal for giving us a great surface.”
For Rine, he was happy with his run and content with being on the podium.
“The race track was kind of one lane there around the bottom, but I think we did pretty good out there,” said Rine. “The bottom was ripped up so good that I was able to get alongside Gregg once, but he’s just so good here and we were probably a second place car honestly.”
The finish:
Gregg Satterlee, Jeff Rine, Michael Norris, Dylan Yoder, Donald Lingo Jr., Gary Stuhler, Max Blair, Ross Robinson, Andy Haus, Nick Dickson, Jim Yoder, Jason Covert, Alex Ferree, Amanda Robinson, Andrew Yoder, Dillan Stake, Mike Lupfer, Bryan Bernheisel, Jared Miley, Tyler Bare, Ryan Scott, Kyle Lee, Deshawn Gingerich, Colton Flinner, Mason Zeigler, Trevor Feathers, Rick Eckert.