The Headline(s)
Defending Williams Grove Speedway champion Lance Dewease scored his fifth career National Open victory on a tumultuous night for World of Outlaws regulars.
How it Happened
2022 National Open (World of Outlaws)
Where: Williams Grove Speedway – Mechanicsburg, Pa. (streamed on DirtVision)
Winner’s Purse: $75,000
Lance Dewease may not be defending his track championship in 2022, but that didn’t stop him from grabbing Williams Grove’s richest prize of the season, leading all 40 laps to score the $75,000 win in the National Open. Dewease led a Pennsylvania Posse sweep of the podium that saw the Outlaws shut out of the top three in their own event.
It’s a PA Posse podium sweep at the #NationalOpen60!
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🥉 @AnthonyMacri7 (Dillsburg, PA) pic.twitter.com/4eUtZCayVZ— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) October 23, 2022
While the score sheet says Dewease led all 40 laps, it wasn’t without a couple of challenges from runner-up Brent Marks. Marks briefly caught up to Dewease on lap 14 before lapped traffic derailed his momentum, but the big moment came on a lap 29 restart, which saw Marks take the lead outright from Dewease only for a caution flag for a flipping Giovanni Scelzi to erase the lap before it could be scored.
The National Open had major repercussions in multiple points races. Current WoO points leader Brad Sweet suffered a broken axle early in Saturday’s feature that allowed David Gravel to close within 16 points, making the series title a very real question mark heading into the season finale World Finals at Charlotte.
Williams Grove also saw a humdinger of a points race decided on track, with Danny Dietrich taking the track championship away from Freddie Rahmer courtesy of a top-10 finish; Rahmer failed to qualify for the A-main.
Success Stories
2022 has been a year to remember for the Pennsylvania Posse and it was fitting that they swept the National Open podium. Dewease’s victory marked the fourth consecutive decade in which he scored a win in Williams Grove’s crown jewel race. Runner-up Marks scored another strong finish in a campaign in which he swept the big races at Eldora and stole a victory from the Outlaws regular on their home track in Texas en route to a nation-leading winnings total. And third place went to Anthony Macri, the national leader in 410 sprint car wins. Take a bow Keystone crowd.
Soak it all in, @LanceDewease!…
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