By Alex Nieten
MMECHANICSBURG, PA (Oct. 3, 2025) – The J&S Classics National Open is all about the intense rivalry between the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars and Pennsylvania Posse, and it was on full display Friday night.
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The Greatest Show on Dirt rolled into Williams Grove Speedway for the opener of the 63rd National Open. The World of Outlaws were aiming to invade and steal the show while the locals prepared to defend home turf.
At first, it looked as if the travelers may have their way. Defending “Natty O” champion Carson Macedo started on the pole and took off with the top spot early. Behind Macedo a swarm of PA Posse drivers stalked the Jason Johnson Racing No. 41. Chase Dietz (York, PA), Danny Dietrich (Gettysburg, PA), and Lance Dewease (Fayetteville, PA) battled it out before Dietz gained control and started the charge after Macedo.
Laps clicked away, and Dietz closed right on the tail tank of the Lemoore, CA native. On the 22nd circuit, Dietz built a strong run out of Turn 2 and pounced heading into the next set of corners. He ducked under Macedo and finished the slide job for the lead.
But the battle wasn’t over. Lance Dewease rolled by Macedo right after Dietz cleared him and pulled alongside the Stehman Motorsports No. 23D. Dietz stayed just enough ahead to close the door entering Turn 1, and that was the winning move. He drove away to his first World of Outlaws win much to the delight of the packed Williams Grove stands.
“I just want to soak it in,” Dietz said. “This week we put a whole different car together and everything. They bust their asses. We’ve had a hell of a year. I know how fast we could be here for “The Grove,” and we just haven’t had that speed all season long and just made big changes this week to get there. Man, we did it all, and it ended up working out. These things are so damn difficult to win. We had to chase him (down) and get there. We were so maneuverable. We’ve just been fighting that all season long. I’m just so damn proud of these guys. John and Kelly Stehman giving us the opportunity to do this is unbelievable”
Dietz became the 155th different victor in Series history and joined Ryan Timms as the second first time winner this year. He’s the 16th different driver to top a World of Outlaws race in 2025. Dietz pushed the PA Posse’s advantage to three races to one over the travelers as Anthony Macri (Dillsburg, PA) collected checkered flags at Williams Grove in May and BAPS Motor Speedway in July. The one World of Outlaws win so far was delivered by Michael “Buddy” Kofoid at Lincoln Speedway in May.
Lance Dewease claimed the second spot in the Barry Shearer No. 12, marking his first World of Outlaws podium since winning the National Open in 2022. Dewease’s speed made it clear he’ll be in contention for a record-tying sixth “Natty O” title on Saturday.
“I was pretty good there in the middle,” Dewease said. “Then Chase came down in my line and kind of ended me in (Turns) 3 and 4, but during the last probably three laps I wasn’t that great. Lapped cars around this place are really tough, and that’s how the racing has been really good here once we get to lapped cars. It’s nice to see a PA (podium) sweep. Hopefully I’m the one sitting up there tomorrow.”
As Dewease noted, the PA Posse swept the podium thanks to Danny Dietrich bringing the Gary Kauffman Racing No. 48 home third. That’s also where he finished against the World of Outlaws in May at Williams Grove. The Gettysburg, PA native was ripping toward the two leaders near the end of the race and needed a little more time to potentially challenge for his first Series triumph since 2019.
“It’s just frustrating on our end,” Deitrich said. “I felt like we had the fastest race car because I don’t think they could run (Turns) 1 and 2 like I was. I was just hammering the top. This is still pretty cool. This is old school Williams Grove. This is what the fans come to see. This is fun as a race car driver. You feel like you have a shot, and we ran third. There’re no complaints. It’s a stout field of really good race car drivers and teams, and hopefully we can do this again tomorrow but maybe a little bit better. I can guarantee there the last couple laps I was making sure I could get in front of the 41 (Macedo) because we wanted to sweep this front stretch for the Posse.”
Carson Macedo and Justin Whittall completed the top five.
Troy Wagaman Jr. drove the Heffer Racing No. 27 from 26th to 16th to earn the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger.
David Gravel earned his 20th Simpson Quick Time of the season in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying.
Heat Races belonged to David Gravel (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Buddy Kofoid (Real American Beer Heat Two), Lance Dewease (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Daison Pursley (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Four).
The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to Danny Dietrich.
Carson Macedo topped the Toyota Dash.
Sheldon Haudenschild won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.
The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to Daison Pursley.
UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars battle the Pennsylvania Posse for $75,000 and bragging rights at Williams Grove Speedway’s J&S Classics National Open finale on Saturday, Oct. 4. For tickets, CLICK HERE.
If you can’t make it to the track, catch every lap live on DIRTVision.
NOS Energy Drink Feature (25 Laps): 1. 23D-Chase Dietz[4]; 2. 12-Lance Dewease[3]; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich[2]; 4. 41-Carson Macedo[1]; 5. 67-Justin Whittall[8]; 6. 83-Michael Kofoid[6]; 7. 2-David Gravel[5]; 8. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[16]; 9. 26-Justin Peck[12]; 10. 19-Brent Marks[18]; 11. 51-Freddie Rahmer[20]; 12. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[21]; 13. 1S-Logan Schuchart[22]; 14. 8-Brock Zearfoss[17]; 15. 11-TJ Stutts[13]; 16. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[26]; 17. 75-Cameron Smith[23]; 18. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[24]; 19. 10-Ryan Timms[19]; 20. 15S-Kerry Madsen[14]; 21. 1X-Chad Trout[15]; 22. 17B-Bill Balog[10]; 23. 35-Austin Bishop[28]; 24. 18-Cory Eliason[25]; 25. 2C-Cole Macedo[27]; 26. 95-Kody Hartlaub[11]; 27. 69K-Daryn Pittman[9]; 28. 13-Daison Pursley[7]
MicroLite Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 2. 1S-Logan Schuchart[4]; 3. 75-Cameron Smith[3]; 4. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[6]; 5. 66-Ryan Newton[7]; 6. 5-Tyler Ross[1]; 7. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[5]; 8. 23-Garet Williamson[9]; 9. 2C-Cole Macedo[8]; 10. 18-Cory Eliason[15]; 11. X-Matt Campbell[19]; 12. 2M-Gerard McIntyre Jr[13]; 13. 99-Skylar Gee[14]; 14. 15-Donny Schatz[16]; 15. 22-Doug Hammaker[20]; 16. 7S-Chris Windom[11]; 17. 28M-Conner Morrell[17]; 18. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[12]; 19. OOK-Kyle Spence[21]; 20. 6-Zach Hampton[10]; 21. 41R-Logan Rumsey[18]; 22. 6N-Dylan Norris[22]
C Feature (10 Laps): 1. OOK-Kyle Spence[1]; 2. 6N-Dylan Norris[4]; 3. 35-Austin Bishop[8]; 4. 79-Jordan Thomas[3]; 5. 6K-Kaleb Johnson[11]; 6. 45-Devon Borden[10]; 7. 6R-Bill Rose[7]; 8. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[12]; 9. 39T-Olivia Thayer[15]; 10. 12W-Troy Fraker[13]; 11. 71-Parker Price Miller[2]; 12. 27S-Dylan Cisney[5]; 13. 39-JJ Loss[6]; 14. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[9]; 15. 17BX-Steve Buckwalter[14]; 16. 45S-Samuel Miller[16]
Toyota Dash (6 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo[2]; 2. 48-Danny Dietrich[1]; 3. 12-Lance Dewease[4]; 4. 23D-Chase Dietz[3]; 5. 2-David Gravel[6]; 6. 83-Michael Kofoid[7]; 7. 13-Daison Pursley[5]; 8. 67-Justin Whittall[8]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 23D-Chase Dietz[2]; 3. 69K-Daryn Pittman[4]; 4. 11-TJ Stutts[3]; 5. 8-Brock Zearfoss[6]; 6. 75-Cameron Smith[7]; 7. 66-Ryan Newton[11]; 8. 5-Tyler Ross[5]; 9. 2M-Gerard McIntyre Jr[8]; 10. 28M-Conner Morrell[9]; 11. OOK-Kyle Spence[10]
Real American Beer Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 83-Michael Kofoid[1]; 2. 48-Danny Dietrich[2]; 3. 95-Kody Hartlaub[3]; 4. 1X-Chad Trout[4]; 5. 10-Ryan Timms[7]; 6. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[8]; 7. 23-Garet Williamson[10]; 8. 7S-Chris Windom[6]; 9. 18-Cory Eliason[11]; 10. X-Matt Campbell[9]; 11. 71-Parker Price Miller[5]
WIX Filter Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 12-Lance Dewease[1]; 2. 41-Carson Macedo[4]; 3. 17B-Bill Balog[3]; 4. 15S-Kerry Madsen[2]; 5. 19-Brent Marks[6]; 6. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[5]; 7. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[8]; 8. 6-Zach Hampton[9]; 9. 99-Skylar Gee[7]; 10. 41R-Logan Rumsey[11]; 11. 79-Jordan Thomas[10]
The Greatest Store on Dirt Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 13-Daison Pursley[1]; 2. 67-Justin Whittall[2]; 3. 26-Justin Peck[4]; 4. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[3]; 5. 51-Freddie Rahmer[5]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[7]; 7. 2C-Cole Macedo[10]; 8. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[6]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz[9]; 10. 22-Doug Hammaker[8]; 11. 6N-Dylan Norris[11]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group A (2 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel, 00:16.409[2]; 2. 83-Michael Kofoid, 00:16.670[18]; 3. 23D-Chase Dietz, 00:16.740[3]; 4. 48-Danny Dietrich, 00:16.751[7]; 5. 11-TJ Stutts, 00:16.794[1]; 6. 95-Kody Hartlaub, 00:16.796[23]; 7. 69K-Daryn Pittman, 00:16.848[24]; 8. 1X-Chad Trout, 00:16.916[22]; 9. 5-Tyler Ross, 00:16.930[19]; 10. 71-Parker Price Miller, 00:16.947[12]; 11. 8-Brock Zearfoss, 00:16.966[21]; 12. 7S-Chris Windom, 00:17.002[9]; 13. 75-Cameron Smith, 00:17.030[5]; 14. 10-Ryan Timms, 00:17.066[20]; 15. 2M-Gerard McIntyre Jr, 00:17.097[10]; 16. 5W-Lucas Wolfe, 00:17.154[15]; 17. 28M-Conner Morrell, 00:17.166[16]; 18. X-Matt Campbell, 00:17.201[14]; 19. OOK-Kyle Spence, 00:17.206[26]; 20. 23-Garet Williamson, 00:17.207[27]; 21. 66-Ryan Newton, 00:17.212[28]; 22. 6R-Bill Rose, 00:17.256[11]; 23. 6N-Dylan Norris, 00:17.294[17]; 24. 39-JJ Loss, 00:17.316[25]; 25. 35-Austin Bishop, 00:17.323[6]; 26. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:17.422[13]; 27. 45-Devon Borden, 00:17.620[4]; 28. 12W-Troy Fraker, 00:19.127[8]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group B (2 Laps): 1. 12-Lance Dewease, 00:16.760[5]; 2. 13-Daison Pursley, 00:16.801[24]; 3. 15S-Kerry Madsen, 00:16.813[3]; 4. 67-Justin Whittall, 00:16.823[21]; 5. 17B-Bill Balog, 00:16.835[9]; 6. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:16.902[6]; 7. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:16.921[14]; 8. 26-Justin Peck, 00:16.926[7]; 9. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:16.987[22]; 10. 51-Freddie Rahmer, 00:16.998[23]; 11. 19-Brent Marks, 00:17.032[15]; 12. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr, 00:17.087[1]; 13. 99-Skylar Gee, 00:17.106[20]; 14. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:17.144[2]; 15. 1A-Ashton Torgerson, 00:17.169[4]; 16. 22-Doug Hammaker, 00:17.191[19]; 17. 6-Zach Hampton, 00:17.194[18]; 18. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:17.203[10]; 19. 79-Jordan Thomas, 00:17.215[8]; 20. 2C-Cole Macedo, 00:17.238[25]; 21. 18-Cory Eliason, 00:17.268[16]; 22. 41R-Logan Rumsey, 00:17.280[28]; 23. 27S-Dylan Cisney, 00:17.285[12]; 24. 6K-Kaleb Johnson, 00:17.668[27]; 25. 17BX-Steve Buckwalter, 00:17.717[17]; 26. G5-Gage Pulkrabek, 00:17.794[13]; 27. 39T-Olivia Thayer, 00:19.363[26]; 28. 45S-Samuel Miller, 01:00.000[11]
Non-Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 66-Ryan Newton[1]; 2. 18-Cory Eliason[2]; 3. 41R-Logan Rumsey[4]; 4. 6N-Dylan Norris[5]; 5. 27S-Dylan Cisney[6]; 6. 39-JJ Loss[7]; 7. 6R-Bill Rose[3]; 8. 35-Austin Bishop[9]; 9. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[11]; 10. 45-Devon Borden[13]; 11. 6K-Kaleb Johnson[8]; 12. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[12]; 13. 12W-Troy Fraker[15]; 14. 17BX-Steve Buckwalter[10]; 15. (DNS) 39T-Olivia Thayer; 16. (DNS) 45S-Samuel Miller