Two weeks away from what could prove to be his first championship at Wiscasset Raceway, Dylan Lancaster collected the biggest win of his career.
The teenaged driver from Skowhegan won the 50-lap Pure Stock Mini Stock feature on Sunday, after apparent winner Adam Polvinen of Oxford was disqualified in post-race technical inspection.
"I did all I could do to get to second," Lancaster said.
The tech shack did the rest for him.
Lancaster moved into second place on a lap 38 restart, when the cars of Ryan Ripley and Calvin Rose made contact and were shuffled back in the running order.
Last year’s Mini Stock track champion, Kevin Douglass, finished second driving a car owned by Dan Somes. Ripley rallied back to be credited with third.
Natasha Dyer and Thomas True rounded out the top-5.
Before learning of his disqualification, Polvinen, an Oxford Plains Speedway competitor, was surprised the car went as well as it did. It won a Wednesday night championship at OPS in 2005 – and only ran in two races after that. In both cases, Polvinen said, the car experienced mechanical problems.
"It was falling apart today, too," Polvinen said in victory lane. "I couldn’t even do a burnout after. I just kept driving. It’s a good program here, and the car goes good on the high banks."
The race itself – and the post-race, too – were especially rough in the Mini Stock ranks.
Rose ran into both Ripley and Kimball after the checkered flag, apparently in retaliation for some bumper tag being played at the front of the field between Polvinen, Ripley, Kimball and Rose.
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