ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/7/10 - There were only two caution flags in Saturday’s World Energy Systems World Championship for 358 Sprint Cars.

But the second and final one had everything to do with the outcome of the race.

And in the end, it was Hallam’s Adrian Shaffer taking advantage of Dale Hammaker’s horrible luck and pulling into victory lane to accept the $5,500 top prize.

The night didn’t start well for Shaffer, who missed his turn in time trials and was forced to start seventh in his qualifying event. He advanced to a qualifying spot in his heat, and by virtue of his fastest time in his heat group, was one of the ten drivers to redraw for starting spots at the front of the World Championship field.

Shaffer drew a #5 pill for the start, and actually went backwards in the early going, scored sixth as late as lap 13. He moved back into the top five by passing Brad McClelland on lap 14.

And that’s about the time that things started getting crazy.

Lincoln points leader and polesitter Dale Hammaker dominated the early stages of the race until hitting lapped traffic at the same time Shaffer was moving into fifth. Fourth-starting Jeff Rohrbaugh, driving Mike Bittinger’s #12, moved past front row starter Nate Snyder on lap five and began closing on Hammaker when the leader reached the lapped traffic. Hammaker’s 3.44-second lead on lap nine dwindled to .53 seconds on lap 15. For the next five laps, Hammaker and Rohrbaugh raced side-by-side behind lapped traffic.

That’s when disaster struck for Hammaker, whose steering wheel fell off. The veteran driver known as "the Godfather" of the 358 sprints controlled his spin on the backstretch, but handed the lead to Rohrbaugh. It was the second time in two years (including last year at Trail-Way) that Hammaker lost a steering wheel while leading. Hammaker put the steering wheel back on the car and rejoined the field. We was 20^th at the finish.

But Rohrbaugh’s luck wasn’t much better. Although was the new leader, he had a right rear tire going flat, and could only keep the lead for two laps.

Shaffer dove under Rohrbaugh in the first and second turns of lap 22 and took off like he was shot out of a cannon to grab the race lead.

Over the final laps, Shaffer continued to pull away and took the checkered by a huge 5.36-seconds over Selinsgrove invader Nate Snyder.

"It’s a shame what happened to Dale, and then Rohrbaugh was going to check out," said a jubilant Shaffer upon exiting the Jeff Boll and Mike Miller #91 sprinter, "And then all of sudden it looked like he had a right rear flat. I said to myself ‘McClelland is pointing...Nate’s pointing...it’s like, we better get rolling here."

"As soon as we took the green (lap 20), Brad was making his move, and I put the pressure on Nate as hard as I could, because it was time to go," added Shaffer, "I knew Jeff was going to run it for all it was worth and I needed to get by him before I got into trouble and somebody else got around."

Shaffer joked that reason he missed his time trial order was because the team was playing bingo in the transporter.

McClelland, who raced back and forth with Aaron Ott over the five laps, reclaimed third on lap 27 and won the Trail-Way/Lincoln "Shootout" and the $500 bonus that went with it. Ott settled for fourth with Scott Geesey completing the top five. Sixth through tenth were Chad Criswell, 22^nd-starting Logan Schuchart (who picked up $400 in hard charger bonuses from Livingston’s Lawn Care and the Gear Shop in Baltimore, MD), Ted Thomas, Jr., John Barnett, and Billy Johns.

Heats for the "358" Sprints were won by Glenndon Forsythe, Dale Hammaker, Barnett, Rohrbaugh, and McClelland.

Tim Berkheimer won the C-Main and Mike Bittinger won the B-Main in a new 12-lap track record time of 3:25.89.

Billy Dietrich set a new one lap track record for the 358 Sprints in time trials against the 51-car field with a one-lap time of 14.283-seconds (94.518 MPH) The old record, 14.309-seconds was set by his father Dan Dietrich on 9/6/2003.

Somerset’s Brian Walker celebrated his 39^th birthday by winning his first career Pennsylvania Sprint Series 305 sprint car feature event. Walker started on the outside of the front row, beat polesitter Logan Wagner to the first turn, and those two ran first and second the entire way.

Two-time Lincoln winner Mark Watkins started ninth and moved into third by lap four. He ran there the rest of the way. Steve Whary and Mike Wagner II completed the top five.

Heats for the 21 "305" Sprints were won by Randy Kaylor and Ben Naugle.

Mike Slaybaugh drove to his division-leading fourth win of the year in a thrilling thundercar feature that saw the battle for the lead go down to the checkered flag. Slaybaugh’s final margin of victory was .16 second (about two feet) over runner-up Brad Shank.

Slaybaugh started ninth and caught outside front row starter and race-long leader Justin Mong on lap seven. Though he led the rest of the way, Shank started seventh and chased down Slaybaugh over the final five laps as Slaybaugh continued to run the low groove.

Ironically, Shank’s motor was borrowed from Slaybaugh.

Hard charger Kyle Martin came from 15^th to cross third, with Jimmy Combs and Mong rounding out the top five.

Points leader Gino Comi was involved in an early-race spin and came back to finish sixth. That kept him a mere 15 points ahead of Slaybaugh the battle for the track championship.

Heats for the 18 thundercars were won by Sam Gallagher and Slaybaugh.

Next Saturday night, August 14th, at 7:30 PM, the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprints will be back in action for an appearance-points only event in anticipation of several top teams competing in the Knoxville Nationals. The United Racing Club (URC) Sprinters will be on hand once again and another night of Kids Big Wheel racing will be on tap as well. Gates will open at 5:30 PM.

To get all the latest news, results, schedule changes and rule changes, visit Lincoln Speedway's website at http://www.lincolnspeedway.com to stay up-to-date on all the action or pending weather conditions at Central Pennsylvania's "Premier" Saturday night race track - The Fabulous Lincoln Speedway.

RACE RESULTS
Saturday, August 7, 2010
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
WORLD ENERGY SYSTEMS WORLD 358 SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP
Feature (30 Laps) - 1. 91-Adrian Shaffer ($5,500); 2. 56-Nate Snyder; 3. 6-Brad McClelland; 4. 52-Aaron Ott; 5. 18-Scott Geesey; 6. 84C-Chad Criswell; 7. 1S-Logan Schuchart; 8. 94-Ted Thomas Jr.; 9. 15B-John Barnett; 10. 2J-Billy Johns; 11. 5T-Glenndon Forsythe; 12. 12-Jeff Rohrbaugh; 13. 39-Cory Haas; 14. 35-Steve Owings; 15. 1*-Tim Wagaman; 16. 66H-Doug Hammaker; 17. B52-Brook Weibley; 18. 00-Mike Bittinger; 19. 99M-Kyle Moody; 20. 66-Dale Hammaker; 21. 7C-Chad Trout (DNF); 22. 34-Austin Reed (DNF); 23. 88-Billy Dietrich (DNF); 24. 1-Jason Schultz (DNF); 25. 08-Jason Clauss (DNF). No Time

Lap Leaders - Dale Hammaker (1-19), Jeff Rohrbaugh (20-21), Adrian Shaffer (22-30)

1st Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 5T-Glenndon Forsythe; 2. 18-Scott Geesey; 3. 1*-Tim Wagaman; 4. 52-Aaron Ott; 5. 34-Austin Reed; 6. 4U-Nathan Berwager; 7. 23-Chris Arnold; 8. 50B-Tim Berkheimer; 9. 50-Chris Shuttlesworth; 10. 21-Scott Fisher. No Time

2nd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 66-Dale Hammaker; 2. 88-Billy Dietrich; 3. 39-Cory Haas; 4. 08-Jason Clauss; 5. 7C-Chad Trout; 6. 27-Jay Galloway; 7. 99T-Joe Trone Jr.; 8. 28-Keith Prutzman; 9. 2-Denny Gross (DNF); 10. 33-Billy Heltzel III (DNF). No Time

3rd Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 15B-John Barnett; 2. 84C-Chad Criswell; 3. 56-Nate Snyder; 4. B52-Brook Weibley; 5. 99M-Kyle Moody; 6. 23B-Todd Rittenhouse Jr.; 7. 45-Kevin Nagy; 8. 97-Brie Hershey; 9. 01-Rick Horn; 10. 11D-Mike Duncan Jr.. Time - 2:39.47

4th Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 12-Jeff Rohrbaugh; 2. 66H-Doug Hammaker; 3. 91-Adrian Shaffer; 4. 1-Jason Schultz; 5. 66N-Nate Hammaker; 6. 51N-Nick Palmerino; 7. 65-cale Griffin; 8. 63-Stan Campbell; 9. 11T-Eric Tomecek (DNF); 10. 67-Jason Cherry (DNF). No Time

5th Heat (10 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 6-Brad McClelland; 2. 35-Steve Owings; 3. 2J-Billy Johns; 4. 94-Ted Thomas Jr.; 5. 1S-Logan Schuchart; 6. 0-Steve Storrie; 7. 19-Jordan Frontz; 8. 37-Scott Flammer; 9. 22T-Matt Boland; 10. 00-Mike Bittinger; 11. 8R-Michael Ruttkamp. No time.

C-Main (10 Laps/2 to qualify to the rear of the B-Main) - 1. 50B-Tim Berkheimer; 2. 37-Scott Flammer; 3. 97-Brie Hershey; 4. 22T-Mat Boland; 5. 11T-Eric Tomecek; 6. 21-Scott Fisher; 7. 11D-Mike Duncan Jr.; 8. 33-Billy Heltzel II; 9. 8R-Michael Ruttkamp; 10. 63-Stan Campbell; 11. 50-Chris Shuttlesworth; 12. 28-Keith Prutzman; 13. 2-Denny Gross; 14. 01-Rick Horn (DNF). No Time

B-Main (12 Laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 00-Mike Bittinger; 2. 1S-Logan Schuchart; 3. 7C-Chad Trout; 4. 99M-Kyle Moody; 5. 66N-Nate Hammaker; 6. 23B-Todd Rittenhouse Jr.; 7. 34-Austin Reed; 8. 50B-Tim Berkheimer; 9. 45-Kevin Nagy; 10. 4U-Nathan Berwager; 11. 0-Steve Storrie; 12. 99T-Joe Trone Jr.; 13. 65-Cale Griffin; 14. 23-Chris Arnold; 15. 51N-Nick Palmerino; 16. 19-Jordan Frontz; 17. 37-Scott Flammer; 18. 27-Jay Galloway. Time - 3:25.89 (New 12-Lap Track record - old record was 3:30.13 set by Brian Eichelberger on 7/7/2007)

Time Trials - 1. 88-Billy Dietrich, 14.283-seconds (94.518 MPH )(New 1-Lap Track Record, old record was 14.309 set by Dan Dietrich on 9/6/2003); 2. 56-Nate Snyder, 14.377; 3. 52-Aaron Ott, 14.417; 4. 5T-Glenndon Forsythe, 14.452; 5. 94-Ted Thomas, 14.542; 6. 00-Mike Bittinger, 14.563; 7. 39-Cory Haas, 14.581; 8. 18-Scott Geesey, 14.586; 9. 99M-Kyle Moody, 14.594; 10. 1*-Tim Wagaman, 14.615; 11. 91-Adrian Shaffer, 14.620; 12. 84C-Chad Criswell, 14.631; 13. 4U-Nathan Berwager, 14.633; 14. B52-Brook Weibley, 14.634; 15. 23-Chris Arnold, 14.636; 16. 2J-Billy Johns, 14.638; 17. 66N-Nate Hammaker, 14.672; 18. 22T-Matt Boland, 14.683; 19. 15B-John Barnett, 14.711; 20. 34-Austin Reed, 14.728; 21. 6-Brad McClelland, 14.744; 22. 7C-Chad Trout, 14.749; 23. 12-Jeff Rohrbaugh, 14.756; 24. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 14.769; 25. 37-Scott Flammer, 14.810; 26. 1-Jason Schultz, 14.828; 27. 35-Steve Owings, 14.852; 28. 01-Rick Horn, 14.895; 29. 66-Dale Hammaker, 14.924; 30. 11T-Eric Tomecek, 14.952; 31. 08-Jason Clauss, 14.974; 32. 8R-Michael Ruttkamp, 15.022; 33. 66H-Doug Hammaker, 15.030; 34. 50B-Tim Berkheimer, 15.064; 35. 23B-Todd Rittenhouse Jr., 15.067; 36. 51N-Nick Palmerino, 15.070; 37. 50-Chris Shuttlesworth, 15.087; 38. 99T-Joe Trone Jr., 15.112; 39. 0-Steve Storrie, 15.127; 40. 65-Cale Griffin, 15.136; 41. 97-Brie Hershey, 15.170; 42. 45-Kevin Nagy, 15.238; 43. 19-Jordan Frontz, 15.264; 44. 28-Keith Prutzman, 15.284; 45. 21-Scott Fisher, 15.436; 46. 2-Denny Gross, 15.457; 47. 63-Stan Campbell, 15.594; 48. 11D-Mike Duncan Jr., 15.671; 49. 33-Billy Heltzel, III, 16.231; 50. 27-Jay Galloway, NT; 51. 67-Jason Cherry, NT.

PA 305 SPRINT SERIES
Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 38S-Brian Walker; 2. 7W-Logan Wagner; 3. 17-Mark Watkins; 4. 44S-Steve Whary; 5. 55-Mike Wagner II; 6. 33T-Todd Spangler; 7. 26-Ryan Lynn; 8. 94-Matt Mountz; 9. 8-Randy Kaylor; 10. 92-Joe Smith; 11. 93-Scott Kerschner; 12. 30-Marcus Defreitas; 13. 24/7-Ben Naugle; 14. 21-Don Slack; 15. 7-Jim Kennedy; 16. 33Z-Joe Zap; 17. 83-Billy Ney; 18. 36-Rod Ort; 19. 44-Rodney Westhafer; DNS - 84-Cliff Conner, 2-Erin Statler

Lap Leaders - Brian Walker (1-20)

1st Heat (8 Laps) - 1. 8-Randy Kaylor; 2. 55-Mike Wagner II; 3. 33Z-Joe Zap; 4. 38S-Brian Walker; 5. 17-Mark Watkins; 6. 93-Scott Kerschner; 7. 33T-Todd Spangler; 8. 26-Ryan Lynn; 9. 36-Rod Ort; 10. 21-Don Slack; 11. 30-Marcus Defreitas. No Time

2nd Heat (8 Laps) - 1. 24/7-Ben Naugle; 2. 7-Jim Kennedy; 3. 44S-Steve Whary; 4. 7W-Logan Wagner; 5. 44-Rodney Westhafer; 6. 92-Joe Smith; 7. 94-Matt Mountz; 8. 84-Cliff Conner; 9. 83-Billy Ney; 10. 2-Erin Statler. No Time

THUNDERCARS
Feature (20 Laps) - 1. 61-Mike Slaybaugh; 2. 57-Brad Shank; 3. 54-Kyle Martin (Hard Charger); 4. 54J-Jimmy Combs; 5. 77-Justin Mong; 6. 33-Gino Comi; 7. 93-Mikey Guise; 8. 2W-Brian Walls; 9. 81J-Jamie Zentmyer; 10. 25-Sam Gallagher; 11. 8J-Justin Bittle; 12. 60-Danny Beard (DNF); 13. 33J-Jeff Wilson (DNF); 14. 21W-Will Walls (DNF); 15. 121-Larry Niederer (DNF). No Time

Lap Leaders - Justin Mong (1-6), Mike Slaybaugh (7-20)

1st Heat (8 Laps) - 1. 25-Sam Gallagher; 2. 33-Gino Comi; 3. 121-Larry Neiderer; 4. 81J-Jamie Zentmyer; 5. 2W-Brian Walls; 6. 8J-Justin Bittle; 7. 33J-Jeff Wilson; 8. 54-Kyle Martin. Time -2:43.91

2nd Heat (8 Laps) - 1. 61-Mike Slaybaugh; 2. 21W-Will Walls; 3. 77-Justin Mong; 4. 57-Brad Shank; 5. 54J-Jimmy Combs; 6. 60-Danny Beard (DNF); 7. 93-Mikey Guise (DNF). No Time