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Story By: BRAD STRAWSER / PORT ROYAL SPEEDWAY – PORT ROYAL, PA – In Penns Valley Meat Market 305 sprint car competition Thursday night, Drew Young would utilize a late race restart to get by Ken Duke Jr. and pick up his 2nd career win at Port Royal Speedway.
Ken Duke Jr. would lead the opening lap of the 20-lap A-main event. He would have comfortable leads throughout the feature event, having a lead as large as 3-plus seconds during green flag racing.
A restart with 6 laps remaining would put Young on the tail tank of Duke Jr. and Young did not let the leader out of his sights.
Young would follow Duke for the first two laps coming out of the caution and would look to make his move with 5 laps remaining on the bottom side of turn 1.
He would slide in front of Duke Jr. and the two would battle side-by-side until there were just 2 laps remaining. When the crossed flags were shown by the flagman, Drew Young began to grow his lead and would hold on to win the final 305 sprint car race of the 2024 season at Port Royal Speedway.
Ken Duke Jr. and Logan Spahr would round out the top 3.
Port Royal Speedway will be back in action on Friday night for The Night Before the 50 with Kubota High Limit Racing and the Selinsgrove Ford super late models as they race their portion of the Butch Renninger Memorial race paying $8,333 to win as the whole night is presented by Fleet Reps.
305 A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 7-Drew Young[6]; 2. 67-Ken Duke Jr[2]; 3. 5-Logan Spahr[4]; 4. 36-Mike Melair[10]; 5. 31Z-Zach Rhodes[7]; 6. 01-Timmy Bittner[13]; 7. 97-Kenny Heffner[8]; 8. 46-Mike Alleman[3]; 9. 34-Austin Reed[11]; 10. 52-Jeff Weaver[1]; 11. 98-Croix Beasom[9]; 12. 17-Owen Dimm[20]; 13. 19-Kruz Kepner[16]; 14. J9-Jerald Harris[24]; 15. 2-Erin Statler[12]; 16. 12-Roger Irvine[21]; 17. 21-Andrew Boyer[14]; 18. 1M-Paul Moyer[22]; 19. 28R-Jason Roush[25]; 20. 53W-Jimmy White[19]; 21. 7H-Kyle Hart[23]; 22. 5W-Kolby Weaver[26]; 23. 25-Dustin Young[15]; 24. 4W-Kasey Weaver[17]; 25. 88-Fred Arnold[18]; 26. 20-Doug Dodson[5]
305 Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Logan Spahr[2]; 2. 34-Austin Reed[6]; 3. 67-Ken Duke Jr[1]; 4. 46-Mike Alleman[4]; 5. 01-Timmy Bittner[3]; 6. 19-Kruz Kepner[7]; 7. 53W-Jimmy White[5]; 8. 1M-Paul Moyer[8]; 9. 28R-Jason Roush[9]
305 Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Doug Dodson[2]; 2. 2-Erin Statler[1]; 3. 97-Kenny Heffner[4]; 4. 7-Drew Young[5]; 5. 21-Andrew Boyer[3]; 6. 4W-Kasey Weaver[6]; 7. 17-Owen Dimm[9]; 8. 7H-Kyle Hart[8]; 9. 5W-Kolby Weaver[7]
305 Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 52-Jeff Weaver[1]; 2. 36-Mike Melair[6]; 3. 31Z-Zach Rhodes[8]; 4. 98-Croix Beasom[4]; 5. 25-Dustin Young[5]; 6. 88-Fred Arnold[2]; 7. 12-Roger Irvine[7]; 8. J9-Jerald Harris[3]
