Rico Abreu Wins PA Speedweek Feature at Selinsgrove

From Selinsgrove Speedway SELINSGROVE, Pa. (July 9, 2017) — Second-place starter Rico Abreu of St. Helena, Calif., led polesitter Anthony Macri at the start of the Jan Opperman/Dick Bogar Memorial Sunday in the PA Sprint Car Speedweek finale presented by Middleswarth Potato Chips at Selinsgrove Speedway. Macri, running his first full Speedweek, pulled to Abreu’s rear bumper on lap 11 while Abreu, an established nationwide star also running his first full Speedweek and making his first career start at Selinsgrove, negotiated his way through lap traffic before Marci’s car slowed to a stop after losing an engine on the home stretch. Once the green flag came back out Abreu drove away from third-place starter Danny Dietrich who had climbed to second. Dietrich needed to win and to have sixth-place starter Lucas Wolfe finish eighth or worse to claim his second Speedweek title in a row. Wolfe was in search of his third title. As Dietrich kept close tabs on race leader Abreu, Wolfe battled just outside the top five in sixth. The car on the move after the restart for the Macri issue was Blane Heimbach. Heimbach raced his way into the top five and then grabbed fourth from Greg [...]