Dirt sprint car drivers raced for $50,000 to win at Lernerville Speedway
National dirt sprint car drivers have unloaded in Sarver, PA. The 4/10-mile track of Lernerville Speedway is set to host the High Limit Sprint Car Series.
View Lernerville Speedway results below.
Brad Sweet and Kyle Larson set the front row for the main event. 35 laps of sprint car racing are up next…
Lernerville
Race Report
Green flag, Sweet clears Larson before turn one. Larson looks to cross under Sweet off turn two but he can’t get there.
Lap 7, Sweet has caught the tail of the field. Larson closes quickly to his bumper and Sanders joins the battle for the lead as well.
Lap 8, Ryan Timms jumps over the track limits, rolls off turn four and then he hits the catch fence. The red flag is out but the driver is able to climb from the car.
Green, Larson drives it deep to the bottom in turn one. Larson slides him and clears him. Sweet crosses under him off turn two, Sweet retakes the lead into turn three as Larson jumps the cushion in dirty air behind him.
Lap 13, Sweet is glued to the cushion and on the gas. The track is extremely heavy after rains throughout the week.
Lap 15, Sweet struggles with lap traffic off turn four, he lifts and jumps the cushion. Larson has a run into turn one and he takes the lead away!
Lap 16
Lap 16, Sanders is in the turn four wall, caution.
Green, Sweet has a look to the inside of Larson in turn one but he can’t complete the pass. Abreu has a run on Sweet, Abreu slides Sweet for 2nd.
Lap 17, Tim Shaffer is upside down on the front stretch! The red flag is back out.
Abreu will need to make that pass again as the lap was not complete.
Green, Larson gets the jump on Sweet and he’s clear by several car lengths into turn one.
Lap 23, Larson jumps the cushion in turn four. Sweet closes on the leader. Larson works heavy lap traffic.
Lap 25, Sweet is on the bumper of Larson in the battle for the lead. He has a look on the inside in turn one but he can’t complete the pass.
Lap 26, Larson bicycles on the cushion in turn two! He nearly rolls but turns over the banking and saves it! Larson falls outside the top 10 as Sweet takes over the lead.
6 to go, David Gravel slides Sweet for the lead into turn three. He clears him, Gravel leads.
2 to go, Sweet drives it deep into turn one. He jumps the cushion off turn two, no caution.
David Gravel wins at Lernerville Speedway!
Lernerville Speedway
Race Results
September 26, 2023
High Limit Sprint Car Series
The following includes full sprint car results:
Qualifying
Qualifying (Group A) : 1. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:12.300[1]; 2. 39M-Justin Sanders, 00:12.392[9]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 00:12.392[8]; 4. 19-Brent Marks, 00:12.395[3]; 5. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:12.417[25]; 6. 8-Aaron Reutzel, 00:12.454[29]; 7. 58-Tanner Thorson, 00:12.501[16]; 8. 21-Brian Brown, 00:12.535[12]; 9. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:12.572[4]; 10. 55-Kerry Madsen, 00:12.614[11];
11. 49X-Tim Shaffer, 00:12.665[13]; 12. 42-Sye Lynch, 00:12.718[10]; 13. 71-Anthony Macri, 00:12.775[22]; 14. 16TH-Kevin Thomas Jr, 00:12.787[18]; 15. 45-Kyle Reinhardt, 00:12.790[26]; 16. 99-Skylar Gee, 00:12.835[5]; 17. 3TJ-Trey Jacobs, 00:12.859[2]; 18. 46-Michael Bauer, 00:12.860[14]; 19. 70M-Henry Malcuit, 00:12.869[20]; 20. 20B-Cody Bova, 00:12.901[23];
21. 1-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:12.902[7]; 22. 12-Darin Gallagher, 00:12.961[17]; 23. 5-Jeremy Weaver, 00:13.111[24]; 24. 11J-David Kalb, 00:13.277[19]; 25. 13M-Brandon Matus, 00:13.320[27]; 26. 1F-Brandon Fredericks, 00:13.580[28]; 27. 33-Brent Matus, 00:13.600[6]; 28. (DNS) 35-Zach Hampton, 00:13.600; 29. (DNS) 28M-Conner Morrell, 00:13.600
Qualifying (Group B) : 1. 5T-Ryan Timms, 00:12.342[14]; 2. 2-David Gravel, 00:12.349[20]; 3. 83-James McFadden, 00:12.380[21]; 4. 13-Justin Peck, 00:12.422[27]; 5. 26-Zeb Wise, 00:12.464[3]; 6. 11-Cory Eliason, 00:12.496[8]; 7. 88-Austin McCarl, 00:12.498[17]; 8. 57-Kyle Larson, 00:12.532[28]; 9. 2MD-Cap Henry, 00:12.593[19]; 10. 9K-Kasey Kahne, 00:12.645[13];
11. 9-Chase Randall, 00:12.658[9]; 12. 70-Kraig Kinser, 00:12.658[22]; 13. 19L-CJ Leary, 00:12.676[24]; 14. 11B-Carl Bowser, 00:12.703[7]; 15. 6-Ryan Smith, 00:12.715[5]; 16. 2F-AJ Flick, 00:12.736[6]; 17. 6G-Garet Williamson, 00:12.744[25]; 18. 4-Chris Windom, 00:12.796[12]; 19. 32-Dale Blaney, 00:12.933[11]; 20. 3J-Dusty Zomer, 00:12.994[15];
21. 22-Brandon Spithaler, 00:13.028[16]; 22. 7NY-Matt Farnham, 00:13.028[4]; 23. 20-Tim Buckwalter, 00:13.066[29]; 24. 29-Dan Shetler, 00:13.196[1]; 25. 99N-Cameron Nastasi, 00:13.443[2]; 26. 23-Darren Pifer, 00:13.743[26]; 27. 47-Brett Brunkenhoefer, 00:14.724[18]; 28. 4K-Todd Burgurd, 00:15.172[23]; 29. 9P-Parker Price Miller, 00:15.172[10]
Heat Races
Heat 1 (10 Laps – Top 2 to Dash) : 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[2]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 4. 49X-Tim Shaffer[6]; 5. 71-Anthony Macri[7]; 6. 58-Tanner Thorson[4]; 7. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[5]; 8. 45-Kyle Reinhardt[8]; 9. 3TJ-Trey Jacobs[9]; 10. 5-Jeremy Weaver[12]; 11. 70M-Henry Malcuit[10]; 12. 1-Hunter Schuerenberg[11]
Heat 2 (10 Laps – Top 2 to Dash) : 1. 39M-Justin Sanders[1]; 2. 21-Brian Brown[4]; 3. 8-Aaron Reutzel[3]; 4. 42-Sye Lynch[6]; 5. 55-Kerry Madsen[5]; 6. 99-Skylar Gee[8]; 7. 16TH-Kevin Thomas Jr[7]; 8. 20B-Cody Bova[10]; 9. 46-Michael Bauer[9]; 10. 12-Darin Gallagher[11]; 11. 19-Brent Marks[2]; 12. 29-Dan Shetler[12]
Heat 3 (10 Laps – Top 2 to Dash) : 1. 83-James McFadden[2]; 2. 5T-Ryan Timms[1]; 3. 88-Austin McCarl[4]; 4. 26-Zeb Wise[3]; 5. 2MD-Cap Henry[5]; 6. 6-Ryan Smith[8]; 7. 19L-CJ Leary[7]; 8. 9-Chase Randall[6]; 9. 6G-Garet Williamson[9]; 10. 22-Brandon Spithaler[11]; 11. 11J-David Kalb[12]; 12. 32-Dale Blaney[10]
Heat 4 (10 Laps – Top 2 to Dash) : 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 57-Kyle Larson[4]; 3. 13-Justin Peck[2]; 4. 11-Cory Eliason[3]; 5. 70-Kraig Kinser[6]; 6. 9K-Kasey Kahne[5]; 7. 4-Chris Windom[9]; 8. 2F-AJ Flick[8]; 9. 11B-Carl Bowser[7]; 10. 7NY-Matt Farnham[11]; 11. 3J-Dusty Zomer[10]; 12. 99N-Cameron Nastasi[12]
C Main
C-Main (10 Laps) : 1. 22-Brandon Spithaler[2]; 2. 5-Jeremy Weaver[1]; 3. 7NY-Matt Farnham[4]; 4. 11J-David Kalb[6]; 5. 3J-Dusty Zomer[8]; 6. 99N-Cameron Nastasi[11]; 7. 47-Brett Brunkenhoefer[13]; 8. (DNS) 12-Darin Gallagher; 9. (DNS) 70M-Henry Malcuit; 10. 1-Hunter Schuerenberg; 11. (DNS) 29-Dan Shetler; 12. (DNS) 32-Dale Blaney; 13. 1F-Brandon Fredericks; 14. (DNS) 4K-Todd Burgurd; 15. (DNS) 33-Brent Matus; 16. 23-Darren Pifer; 17. (DNS) 20-Tim Buckwalter; 18. (DNS) 13M-Brandon Matus; 19. 35-Zach Hampton; 20. (DNS) 28M-Conner Morrell; 21. (DNS) 9P-Parker Price Miller
B Main
B-Main (12 Laps – Top 4 Advance) : 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 9K-Kasey Kahne[2]; 3. 58-Tanner Thorson[3]; 4. 99-Skylar Gee[5]; 5. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[7]; 6. 6-Ryan Smith[4]; 7. 4-Chris Windom[8]; 8. 16TH-Kevin Thomas Jr[9]; 9. 19L-CJ Leary[6]; 10. 45-Kyle Reinhardt[11]; 11. 22-Brandon Spithaler[18]; 12. 6G-Garet Williamson[14]; 13. 9-Chase Randall[10]; 14. 7NY-Matt Farnham[20]; 15. 20B-Cody Bova[13]; 16. 46-Michael Bauer[17]; 17. 5-Jeremy Weaver[19]; 18. (DNF) 2F-AJ Flick[12]; 19. (DNF) 11J-David Kalb[21]; 20. (DNF) 11B-Carl Bowser[16]; 21. (DNS) 3TJ-Trey Jacobs
Dash
The top 2 from each heat advanced into the dash. This sets the front four rows of the feature:
Dash (6 Laps) : 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 57-Kyle Larson[4]; 3. 39M-Justin Sanders[2]; 4. 2-David Gravel[6]; 5. 83-James McFadden[7]; 6. 5T-Ryan Timms[5]; 7. 21-Brian Brown[3]; 8. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[8]
Main Event
$50,000 to win
1. 2-David Gravel[4]
2. 24-Rico Abreu[9]
3. 49-Brad Sweet[1]
4. 83-James McFadden[5]
5. 11-Cory Eliason[16]
6. 8-Aaron Reutzel[11]
7. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[8]
8. 57-Kyle Larson[2]
9. 26-Zeb Wise[14]
10. 13-Justin Peck[12]
11. 2MD-Cap Henry[18]
12. 71-Anthony Macri[17]
13. 21-Brian Brown[7]
14. 55-Kerry Madsen[19]
15. 19-Brent Marks[21]
16. (DNF) 70-Kraig Kinser[20]
17. (DNF) 88-Austin McCarl[10]
18. (DNF) 58-Tanner Thorson[23]
19. (DNF) 99-Skylar Gee[24]
20. (DNF) 49X-Tim Shaffer[13]
21. (DNF) 39M-Justin Sanders[3]
22. (DNF) 42-Sye Lynch[15]
23. (DNF) 5T-Ryan Timms[6]
24. (DNF) 9K-Kasey Kahne[22]
High Limit Sprint Car Series
Point Standings
Pos | Driver | Points
Pending
