Richie Crane bested a stout field of DIRTcar Pro Stock drivers to claim his first Series win at Albany-Saratoga Speedway during the Malta Massive Weekend Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Crane mastered the bottom line around the 3\/8-mile track to hold off recent Series winner Nick Stone and claim the victory in the 30-lap event\u00a0\u2013 the sixth Series race of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I had a good group behind me,\u201d Crane said. \u201cThey\u2019re tough to beat. But I knew I had a good race car. I knew I had to get a good restart, these guys behind me are really good. I beat the best tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m lucky this is my home track, so to have these fans here, I can\u2019t say enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone, who won with the Series at Weedsport Speedway, tried to challenge Crane for the lead after a couple of restarts but Crane was too strong on the bottom.<\/p>\n
“He held a heck of a line,” Stone said. “That’s the name of racing. You have to wait for him to slip up and he didn’t. The track was great. Great racing.”<\/p>\n
Behind Crane was Stone in second, Rob Yetman in third, Jason Casey in fourth and Josh Coonradt rounded out the top-five.<\/p>\n
RESULTS Richie Crane bested a stout field of DIRTcar Pro Stock drivers to claim his first Series win at Albany-Saratoga Speedway during the Malta Massive Weekend Saturday night. Crane mastered the bottom line around the 3\/8-mile track to hold off recent Series winner Nick Stone and claim the victory in the 30-lap event\u00a0\u2013 the sixth Series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,663],"tags":[386,1327,692,1326],"division":[],"series":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-40228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-stocks","category-recap","tag-albany-saratoga-speedway","tag-malta-massive-weekend","tag-nick-stone","tag-richie-crane"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>DIRTcar Pro-Stock Feature (30 Laps): 1. 69-Rich Crane[3]; 2. 8N-Nick Stone[4]; 3. 7-Rob Yetman[9]; 4. 324-Jason Casey[7]; 5. 00X-Josh Coonradt[12]; 6. 33-Zach Seyerlein[8]; 7. 2H-Luke Horning[19]; 8. 9-Shane Henderson[13]; 9. 715-Jason Morrison[2]; 10. 15X-Tyler Bushey[10]; 11. 51-Jason Meltz[20]; 12. 72-Bruno Richard[11]; 13. 28D-Phillip Defiglio[1]; 14. 75-Gary Silkey[5]; 15. 322-Jay Casey[18]; 16. 1X-Justin White[24]; 17. 02-Michael Baker[21]; 18. 56-Jay Fitzgerald[25]; 19. 55-Dave Stckles[27]; 20. 4M-Jordan Modiano[15]; 21. 17-Nick Hilt[22]; 22. 14J-Johnny Rivers[14]; 23. 09J-Shawn Perez[17]; 24. 110-Devon Camenga[23]; 25. (DNF) 25-Chad Jeseo[26]; 26. (DNF) 7D-Chucky Dumblewski[6]; 27. (DNF) 28-Jaxson Ryan[28]; 28. (DNF) 25Y-Kenneth Griffin[16]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"