Dewease Does It Again At The Grove

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Lance Dewease ran his string of sprint car wins to three in a row at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, scoring the Hoosier Diamond Series World of Outlaws Tune Up race worth $6,000. 

The victory was his 109th at the oval and his sixth of the season there.  It also earned him the 2022 Hoosier Diamond Series title. 

In the 358 sprint main, Steve Owings notched his first oval win by jetting away off of the front row for the victory. 

Danny Dietrich started on the pole of the 25-lap 410 sprint main with Dewease to his outside. 

Dietrich beat Dewease off of the bottom to gain control when the race began before switching to the cushion on the third lap. 

The leader entered the rear of the field on the seventh lap, which allowed Dewease to close in for control and by lap 13 the pair of leaders was nose to tail. 

However, a strategic series of laps by Dietrich as circuits 15, 16 and 17 was scored preserved him the lead as he chose each move masterfully to keep Dewease at bay while working his way around the backmarkers. 

Going for his fourth win of the season at Williams Grove, Dietrich had broken free of Dewease and seemed headed to the win when his left rear tire disintegrated on lap 23.  

This gave control to Dewease as Dietrich rejoined the field in seventh, ahead of all the cars that he had put one lap down. 

Also gunning for the 2022 track title, Dietrich hit the hammer when green reappeared and went low on point leader Freddie Rahmer to pass him by in turn one before going three-wide with Dylan Norris and Justin Whittall in the second corner. 

Dietrich emerged on the back chute with fourth spot but Norris made contact with Whittall sending Whittall’s No. 67 hard into the outside wall, forcing a red flag. 

The new green found Dietrich again on a roll, blasting by Rahmer and T.J. Stutts to gain third before running down Lucas Wolfe for second at the finish before falling just short of the spot. 

Dewease took the win by 1.544 seconds over Wolfe. 

Stutts was fourth and Rahmer finished fifth. 

The finish:

Feature (30 laps): 1. Lance Dewease, 2. Lucas Wolfe, 3. Danny Dietrich, 4. TJ Stutts, 5. Freddie Rahmer, 6. Dylan Norris, 7. Brent Shearer, 8. Bryn Gohn, 9. Rick Lafferty, 10. Robbie Kendall, 11. Riley Emig, 12. Chad Trout, 13. Tim Buckwalter, 14. Niki Young, 15. Justin Whittall, 16. Gordon Senft III., 17. Troy Fraker, 18. Chase Dietz