ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. – Freddie Rahmer scored his fourth win of the season on Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway, extending his point lead in the race for the track championship.
“We just positioned ourselves there. Chase (Dietz) was setting a pretty good pace, it was early on and he just got a little too high off of four and we were in a good spot,” Rahmer said.
Rahmer inherited the lead from Dietz on lap 13 after Dietz went to the pits to change a right rear flat tire.
After taking over the lead, Rahmer was not challenged for the top spot.
“I don’t how good we were there really there at the end but it worked out,” Rahmer said.
With some big races looming ahead on the schedule Rahmer has his eye on finishing out the season strong,
“Glad to get the win for everybody. There’s a lot of racing and we got to keep focused,” Rahmer said.
Dietz shared the front row for the start of the 30-lap feature with his uncle, Cory Haas.
Dietz led the field into turn one with Freddie taking a look under Haas for second. Haas held the second spot with Freddie on his bumper. Freddie slid Haas for second in turns one and two on the second lap. Brandon Rahmer moved up to fourth on lap 2 before the caution came out for Jim Siegel. Siegel was off the pace on the back stretch while running fifth.
Dietz led Freddie, Haas, Brandon and Robbie Kendall to the cone for the single file restart. Dietz got a good jump and used the high line in turn 1 with Freddie opting to look low.
The caution flag flew again on lap three when Trey Hivner and Brie Hershey got together in turn four. Aaron Bollinger also came to a stop on the front stretch.
Dietz had another good restart and again the caution flew. The lap four caution came out for J.J. Grasso who got spun around in turn two.
Freddie got his nose under Dietz in 1 and 2 on the restart but Dietz held on to the top spot. Kendall was challenging Brandon for fourth and finally had the spot by half a car length at the line on lap 9.
Kendall went to work on reeling in Haas for third as Freddie was closing in on the leader, Dietz.
As lapped traffic loomed ahead Dietz brought out the caution on lap 13 as he was leading the race. Dietz hit the wall coming out of turn four and his right rear tire went flat.
Freddie inherited the lead and Dietz did rejoin the field after changing a tire.
The top five for the restart were Freddie, Haas, Kendall, Brandon and Troy Wagaman.
Freddie had a good restart while Haas and Kendall battled for second behind him.
Moddy got by Wagaman for fifth on lap 14 but Troy wasn’t going anywhere. The two driver continued to battle for the fifth spot with Troy taking it back on lap 17.
The yellow flag waved again on lap 19 when Chad Trout nearly landed on his side on the front stretch. Trout had a rear axle brake coming out of turn four ending his night.
Track officials called for a fuel stop taking the yellow flag to a red to allow teams on the track.
Haas stayed with Freddie on the restart and Mood and Wagaman continued their battle for fifth.
Freddie got to the checkered flag 1.172 seconds ahead of Haas. Kendall crossed the line third and Brandon was fourth. Moody held of Wagaman to complete the top five.
The finish:
1. 51-Freddie Rahmer ($5,000); 2. 38-Cory Haas; 3. 55K-Robbie Kendall; 4. 88-Brandon Rahmer; 5. 99M-Kyle Moody; 6. 19-Troy Wagaman; 7. 75-Tyler Ross; 8. 8-Billy Dietrich; 9. 21-Matt Campbell; 10. M1-Mark Smith; 11. 5E-Tim Wagaman; 12. 44-Dylan Norris; 13. 37-JJ Grasso; 14. 2w-Glenndon Forsythe; 15. 21T-Scott Fisher; 16. 90-Jordan Givler; 17. 69-Tim Glatfelter; 18. 97-Brie Hershey; 19. 7-Trey Hivner (DNF); 20. 1X-Chad Trout (DNF); 21. 39-Chase Dietz (DNF); 22. 87-Alan Krimes (DNF); 23. 16A-Aaron Bollinger (DNF); 24. 59-Jim Siegel (DNF)