PHOTO PROVIDED Anthony Macri prepares to race this past weekend at WIlliams Grove in the 410 sprint car feature.

The struggle of early season racing continued last weekend with Port Royal, Lincoln and BAPS all losing to the weather. Williams Grove was able to beat that by running on Friday night however.

Anthony Macri was on fire when he drove from 17th to the win in the 25-lap 410 sprint car feature. The Dillsburg driver pocketed $6,000 for his second win of the year at the track, including a $500 bonus from for making a last lap pass for the win.

Macri was the hard charger winner.

Mike Walter II started on the pole of the 410 sprint main and was leading over Ryan Wilson when Steve Buckwalter stopped on the third tour.

The restart on lap 13 came after a red flag for the tangled cars of Danny Dietrich and Logan McCandless in the fourth turn. Macri was up to third behind Walter and Moody for that restart and went to work on Moody when action resumed.

It took until lap 16 for him to get to second and begin running down Walter.

And then on what would have been lap 22, Macri blasted underneath Walter for control in the first corner only to see the move negated seconds later when Jake Karklin spun in the fourth corner, nearly collecting the front two cars.

Side by side the pair ran into the fourth turn with Macri barely squeezing by for the victory as Walter jumped the cushion and nearly crashed while losing not one but two spots when Dylan Norris got by for second.

The checkers were the seventh of Macri’s career at Williams Grove, coming by 1.767 seconds over Norris.

In the 20-lap 358 sprint main, Dylan Norris jetted from 14th to the victory to open the season for the division at Williams Grove, backing up his second place run in the 410 feature. Norris was also the hard charger winner.

This Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway, the track is hosting the season opener for the United Racing Club Sprints tour along with a full program of 410 sprint car racing. Action gets underway at 7:30 p.m. The 410 sprint cars will compete for $5,500-to-win out of a total purse worth some $22,000 for a 25-lap main.

The URC series opener will feature not only the URC 360 sprints but also the 358 sprints as the classes vie in a 358/360 challenge event. The winner of the 25-lap URC 358/360 sprint main will receive $2,000.