Christian Bruno Finds USAC East Coast Sprint Car Victory Lane At Port Royal Speedway
Story By: BRAD STRAWSER / PORT ROYAL SPEEDWAY – PORT ROYAL, PA – It was a USAC East Coast Sprint Car thriller at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday and Christian Bruno snookered Briggs Danner for the win.
Dale Schweikert and Ed Aiken would make up the front row for their 25 lap A-main event.
Briggs Danner, who started in 4th, would work his way to the bottom in turns 1 and 2 and sneak past both Schweikert and Aiken to take the early lead.
Danner would lead the first 10 laps of the feature event before Tony Jackson would slow to a stop on the backstretch.
On the ensuing restart, Danner wouldn’t be able to run away from the 2nd place running Kenny Miller III and Steven Drevicki. Those 3 cars would turn laps around The Speed Palace nearly nose to tail over the 15 remaining laps with Christian Bruno getting into the mix with just 9 laps remaining.
With 5 laps to go, Bruno would sneak by Drevicki on the front stretch to get into 3rd while Miller and Danner battled for the lead. Coming off of turn 4, Bruno would use a strong run on the bottom side of the track to move into the runner up spot.
Bruno would pull alongside Danner with 2 laps to go and a slowing lapped car got in the way of the leaders as he tried to exit the speedway, giving Bruno the opportunity to put a large enough gap to take the lead and take Danner out of his rhythm.
Briggs Danner would hold on to the 2nd spot and Kenny Miller III would finish in 3rd.
