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Karklin Earns 1st Career Port Royal Speedway Win in Exciting But Rain-Shortened A-Main

Port Royal, PA - Parking in Kish Bank victory was a battle of attrition Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway. When the dust settled and the rain ultimately came, it was Jake Karklin who would come out on top as the winner on Saturday night.

Karklin would start alongside Derek Hauck for the 25 lap A-main event in Weikert Livestock 410 sprint car competition. Trouble would start right out of the gate as Karklin would get a bit out of control on the start of the race which stacked up multiple cars behind him and would bring out the red flag.

A field that originally started with 24 cars would be whittled down to just 14 remaining once the field retook its shape.

Though Karklin was at the start of the accident, he was able to keep his car going and would maintain his pole position.

As the field fired back off, it was Derek Hauck who would jump out to the race lead.

As Karklin began to reel Hauck in and a battle for the lead began to take shape, Hauck's sprint car would lose power and slow to a stop on the front straightaway, brining out the caution flag and giving Karklin the lead.

With 22 laps remaining, Karklin would lead the field to green with Ryan Smith and AJ Flick tight on his tail to battle for the top position.

Karklin was able to keep Smith at bay over the next 10 laps, and as he caught lapped traffic, Smith's machine would also slow and see him exit the track giving Karklin a much more comfortable advantage over the now third running Doug Hammaker.

Though the breaks kept coming Karklin's way seemingly, the driver of the 5K would once again slip up in turns three and four. Though he was able to keep the car straight ultimately and not bring out a caution flag, his multi-second advantage over Hammaker was now erased to under 0.8 seconds.

Karklin would get back hard on the throttle in an attempt to keep Hammaker out of arms' reach as Hammaker continued to close the gap in the closing laps.

The final break would fall Karklin's way for the night though, as rain would fall quickly onto the racing surface making the track unraceable and ultimately the night unsalvageable for the teams and the fans.

As there were only 3 laps remaining in the A-main, the race was deemed official and Karklin was ruled the night's winner.

The win is Karklin's first win in a 410 sprint car at Port Royal Speedway that sees him taking the winner's share of $5,000.

Hammaker would take a career best finish of 2nd and AJ Flick would round out the top 3.

Buddy Schweibinz was the night's hard charging driver for going +15 from his 23rd starting spot.

Unfortunately the River Rock Campground limited late models and Penns Valley Meat Market 305 sprint car A-main events were not able to be completed and will be made up when both series return on April 18th.

Port Royal Speedway will be back in competition on April 11th with the PA Posse 410 Sprint Car Series racing for $6,000 to win and the Penske Racing Shocks super late models.

For more information for upcoming events at Port Royal Speedway, visit portroyalspeedway.com or follow along on social media at Port Royal Speedway Trackside Media on Facebook or @PortRoyalSpdway on X/Twitter.

Full Results:

410 A Feature 25 Laps | 00:09:11.676

1. 5K-Jake Karklin[1]; 2. 22-Doug Hammaker[4]; 3. 77-AJ Flick[10]; 4. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[11]; 5. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[3]; 6. 88J-Joey Amantea[15]; 7. 11-TJ Stutts[8]; 8. 35B-Buddy Schweibinz[23]; 9. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[16]; 10. 29-Logan McCandless[17]; 11. 2C-Cory Thornton[22]; 12. 69K-Ryan Smith[6]; 13. 69X-Kassidy Kreitz[19]; 14. 12J-Derek Hauck[2]; 15. 55-Logan Wagner[5]; 16. 23-Chase Dietz[7]; 17. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[9]; 18. 11T-Mike Thompson[12]; 19. 18J-JT Ferry[13]; 20. 11A-Austin Bishop[14]; 21. 47K-Kody Lehman[18]; 22. 35-Jason Shultz[24]; 23. 8-Lance Dewease[21]; 24. (DNS) 95-Garrett Bard; 25. (DNS) 22E-Nash Ely

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