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Dewease happy to be home
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There’s no place like home. Just ask Lance Dewease.
BY TODD HEINTZELMAN
CORRESPONDENT
There’s no place like home. Just ask Lance Dewease.
The veteran sprint car driver spent this season racing on the road with the All Star Circuit of Champions and not in central Pennsylvania.
The All Star season has concluded with Dewease finishing second in points to Dale Blaney. Dewease is back home now and won both sprint car features this weekend.
The first came Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway where he extended his win streak to 17 straight seasons with at least one Grove win. It was his 68th career win there, which is second all-time to Fred Rahmer.
Dewease, 43, of Fayetteville, would go on to win the Kenny Weld Memorial on Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway. The win was worth $6,480 and was his second win in the event. His total winnings for the weekend were $9,480.
Dewease had two wins with the All Stars this season and an impressive win against the World of Outlaws at the Dirt Track in Charlotte, NC.
Dewease said his plans for next season are not final and the team is waiting for all schedules to be released. He did say the team would be home more and not miss the big races in the mid-state like they did this year. It was his first full season racing for Don and Lisa Owens.
Champions
Rahmer, 50, of Salfordville, clinched his record eighth track championship at the Grove on Friday night. It was his first with car owners Chad and Jen Clemens. His first four titles came in Al Hamilton’s famous No. 77 (1997-2000). Titles five and six came in the Joe Harz No. 88H in 2004 and 2005. A one-year stint in Jim and Sandy Kline’s No. 22 produced his seventh title in 2006. Rahmer proclaimed in victory lane that he is done chasing titles.
“I’m glad to get this out of the way,” Rahmer said. “It’s a long year running for points. I think this is the last year I ever try to win any point championships other than Speedweek. I’ve had enough of this.”
He had five wins and four runners-up finishes with a total of 19 top five finishes. He’ll get $15,000 from Cindy Rowe Auto Glass for winning the title.
Pat Cannon also wrapped up his second straight title in the 358 sprints as he won his sixth race of the season. Cannon also won the Selinsgrove title.
National Open
The Morgan Hughes National Open will be run this weekend at Williams Grove Speedway. The event was scheduled for Sept. 27 but was rained out. It will not be sanctioned by the World of Outlaws because they will be racing in New Mexico. Speaking of the Outlaws, rookie Lucas Wolfe, of Mechanicsburg, scored his best finish of the season with a runner-up effort in Minnesota on Friday night.
The National Open will now pay $12,000 to win instead of the originally posted $50,000 to win when it was scheduled as a World of Outlaws race. It’s not the first time this has happened. Billy Pauch won the National Open in the Zemco Speed Equipment sprinter in 1998 when the Outlaw-sanctioned event got rained out and the open was run at a later date without the Outlaws.
Former Selinsgrove Speedway sprint champion, now car owner, Jim Nace confirmed that World of Outlaws racer Danny Lasoski will drive his No.6 at the National Open this weekend.
The veteran sprint car driver spent this season racing on the road with the All Star Circuit of Champions and not in central Pennsylvania.
The All Star season has concluded with Dewease finishing second in points to Dale Blaney. Dewease is back home now and won both sprint car features this weekend.
The first came Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway where he extended his win streak to 17 straight seasons with at least one Grove win. It was his 68th career win there, which is second all-time to Fred Rahmer.
Dewease, 43, of Fayetteville, would go on to win the Kenny Weld Memorial on Saturday night at Lincoln Speedway. The win was worth $6,480 and was his second win in the event. His total winnings for the weekend were $9,480.
Dewease had two wins with the All Stars this season and an impressive win against the World of Outlaws at the Dirt Track in Charlotte, NC.
Dewease said his plans for next season are not final and the team is waiting for all schedules to be released. He did say the team would be home more and not miss the big races in the mid-state like they did this year. It was his first full season racing for Don and Lisa Owens.
Champions
Rahmer, 50, of Salfordville, clinched his record eighth track championship at the Grove on Friday night. It was his first with car owners Chad and Jen Clemens. His first four titles came in Al Hamilton’s famous No. 77 (1997-2000). Titles five and six came in the Joe Harz No. 88H in 2004 and 2005. A one-year stint in Jim and Sandy Kline’s No. 22 produced his seventh title in 2006. Rahmer proclaimed in victory lane that he is done chasing titles.
“I’m glad to get this out of the way,” Rahmer said. “It’s a long year running for points. I think this is the last year I ever try to win any point championships other than Speedweek. I’ve had enough of this.”
He had five wins and four runners-up finishes with a total of 19 top five finishes. He’ll get $15,000 from Cindy Rowe Auto Glass for winning the title.
Pat Cannon also wrapped up his second straight title in the 358 sprints as he won his sixth race of the season. Cannon also won the Selinsgrove title.
National Open
The Morgan Hughes National Open will be run this weekend at Williams Grove Speedway. The event was scheduled for Sept. 27 but was rained out. It will not be sanctioned by the World of Outlaws because they will be racing in New Mexico. Speaking of the Outlaws, rookie Lucas Wolfe, of Mechanicsburg, scored his best finish of the season with a runner-up effort in Minnesota on Friday night.
The National Open will now pay $12,000 to win instead of the originally posted $50,000 to win when it was scheduled as a World of Outlaws race. It’s not the first time this has happened. Billy Pauch won the National Open in the Zemco Speed Equipment sprinter in 1998 when the Outlaw-sanctioned event got rained out and the open was run at a later date without the Outlaws.
Former Selinsgrove Speedway sprint champion, now car owner, Jim Nace confirmed that World of Outlaws racer Danny Lasoski will drive his No.6 at the National Open this weekend.
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