Port Royal Speedway has seen it's winners continue to charge from deep in the field to start off the 2024 racing season with Devon Borden picking up an exciting win in Weikert Livestock 410 competition on April 13th.
The Speed Palace crew took a chance with the weather this weekend with winds topping 20+ miles per hour throughout the day and capped off the night with fans out of their seats in excitement watching the racing finishes in Port Royal.
Devon Borden rolled off 12th to start the 25 lap A-main event. He quickly charged his way to 9th on the opening lap.
Steve Buckwalter and Lucas Wolfe made up the front row to start the feature event, and Buckwalter would lead the opening circuit with 3rd place starter Danny Dietrich moving into the runner up spot.
Buckwalter and Dietrich would battle for the lead with 18 laps to go. They would swap positions a handful of times before Dietrich took the lead for good with 17 remaining, while Borden would move into 3rd a lap later.
A caution brought out wth 16 laps to go would allow all leads to be erased with the top 3 of Dietrich, Buckwalter, and Borden set up nose-to-tail for the ensuing restart.
After returning to green, Borden would get by Steve Buckwalter with 14 to go. Borden would be forced to track down the previous week's winner, Danny Dietrich, in lap traffic.
Borden would get by Dietrich at the start-finish line with 2 laps to go but the two would battle and trade positions for the final pair of laps. Borden would overtake Dietrich for the final time off of the second corner and would hold off a pass attempt off the final pair of corners to take home the win.
"I just knew I would have to go where they weren't," said Borden in victory lane when talking about navigating the lapped cars in his battle for the lead. "Those last 3 laps were definitely hectic and things had to play out in our favor."
Borden picked up not only a $5,000 win, but also an extra $500 courtesy of Valley Supply for winning the hard charger award for passing the most cars as well as an extra $300 for winning the race from a starting position further back than 9th, which has happened at Port Royal Speedway in back-to-back weeks.
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