After last year's two-win season — his lowest victory total since 2016 — and subar 2025 to date, Monday's Pennsylvania Speedweek victory at Lincoln Speedway for Freddie Rahmer was a needed one.

The 29-year-old had to work for the rain-shortened victory, too, his pass for the lead underneath Anthony Macri coming at the right time on lap 14 of the feature that was cut short during a lap-25 caution period. Macri's been one of the best Sprint Car drivers around, his seven wins this year tied for third in the nation, so the Salfordville, Pa., driver winning the head-to-head battle wasn't entirely foreseen.

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"The track got wide against the fence. Macri was definitely better up top. Just from experience here, I figured somewhere had to clean off," said Rahmer, the 21-point leader over Danny Dietrich through two Speedweek races. "I started to pull off to maintain with him down there in one and two, just was hoping I could get by him before he moved down. He's a smart racer. He's one of the best who we race around here. Just glad to win. We're close all the time, but it ain't winning."

Rahmer has been readjusting to racing his family-owned No. 51 full-time this season after parting ways from Rich Eichelberger's No. 8 team now driven by Brock Zearfoss at Lincoln and Williams Grove Speedway. Rahmer drove for Eichelberger from Nov. 2021 through Nov. 2024, racking up four titles along the way at Lincoln (2022-23) and Williams Grove (2023-24).

Though he had a down 2024 season, his 17 wins in '23 led the nation. On Monday, Rahmer got back to his big-race-winning ways, even if he got fortunate with rain cutting things short.

"Lapped traffic, I got by Macri there and it was really hard to get by them. I was exposing myself to letting Macri sweep back by," Rahmer said. "Luckily the yellow came back out and, you know, we got it done. Glad they didn't restart that race, that would've been a disaster. Just glad to win."

Lincoln Speedway Regulars Shine

Pennsylvania Speedweek fields are among the toughest in the country on a regional level, so for Aaron Bollinger, Kody Hartlaub and Cameron Smith, their top-five finishes Monday at Lincoln Speedway, albeit at their weekly track, were big deals.

The 25-year-old Bollinger and the 19-year-old Smith shared similar sentiments: That even though they're competitors, it's nice to see each other succeed and beat certain well-known racers.

"It's pretty cool, you know? I would classify us as the smaller teams, you know?" Bollinger said after his third-place finish vs. Monday's 40-car field. "There was a couple of them (drivers) here that are pretty big. (Kyle) Larson was here tonight, I was pretty happy beating him. I'm good buddies with Cam. I like Kody. Good to see all of us up front."

The teenaged Smith, who's in his third full season racing 410s, turned in a career-best fifth-place finish Monday ahead of sixth-finishing Danny Dietrich and seventh-finishing Larson.

"I guess it's cool," Smith said when asked if it's nice to see his fellow weekly competitors in the top-five ahead of Sunday's PA Speedweek winner Danny Dietrich and Larson. "I don't know, I guess we're still competitors, but yeah, it's cool to hold off Kyle Larson. I always looked up to him. Not that I held him off, but it was rubber racing. It's still cool though. It was a good night."

Hartlaub, meanwhile, started second and finished fourth on a night his lap of 14.102 seconds in qualifying earned him quick time honors. Bollinger, a three-time 410 winner in his sixth 410 season, felt he could've challenged winner Freddie Rahmer and runner-up Anthony Macri if not for falling from fourth to third early. On lap 21, four laps before rain shortened the 30-lapper, he pulled within mere car lengths of Macri for second after being 2.3 seconds behind Macri on lap 13.

"We just needed lapped traffic to get going. That's the only way you can pass cars, when the track is like that. It wasn't rubber down but it was pretty dang close," said Bollinger, who added "we've been struggling lately, even here.

"(Sunday) at BAPS, I just didn't feel good. About a month or two ago, I had a pretty good flip in the Outlaw race. Ever since then, I haven't felt the same really. But I'm kinda feeling back to normal now. Tonight, we had a really good balance on the car. It's giving me a lot of confidence going into this week here."

Bollinger, who was scheduled to race Tuesday at Grandview Speedway before the rainout, doesn't have any other races planned this week. Smith, meanwhile, is back in action Thursday at Hagerstown Speedway, Friday at Williams Grove Speedway and Sunday at Path Valley Speedway Park feeling good about his chances with a new engine that recently broke the single-lap track record at BAPS.

"The car is really good in time trials," Smith said. "Struggled a little bit in the heat (Monday at Lincoln). In the feature we were good. It's just hard to do anything when it's rubber-down. I think I was better than Hartlaub. It's just hard to get around anybody."

Chase Dietz's Lap-Four Crash

Chase Dietz simply called Monday's lap-four crash "a mental mistake" — the mishap that ended a top-10 run and for him, hopefully not his PA Speedweek title chances.

The York, Pa., driver had swiftly moved into ninth from the 14th-starting spot and had Larson in his crosshairs to move up another position until he spun, collecting Dominic Melair and Matt Campbell, and ultimately needing a tow back to the pits.

Post-race with @dietzchase2d.

Sunday’s runner-up at BAPS explains his “mental mistake” that wiped him out at @lincolnspeedway on Lap 4.

Was up to ninth from 14th before his early exit. Finished 24th, dropping him from P2 to P8 in the points, 117 behind Freddie Rahmer. pic.twitter.com/MvugXcPbFa

— Kyle McFadden (@ByKyleMcFadden) July 1, 2025

It's a bummer for Sunday's third-place finisher at BAPS who's excelled in his new deal with Stehman Motorsports this year.

No driver had been more consistent at Lincoln this year than Dietz. In seven prior races at the 3/8-mile oval, he had an average finish of 2.3 with finishes of first, second, second, fourth, second, second and third — one of those runner-ups vs. the World of Outlaws.

Entering Monday, Dietz was third in Speedweek points, 27 markers out of the lead. Now he's eighth, 117 points out of the lead with five races left.

Other PA Speedweek News And Notes

• Tyler Walker was absolutely pumped to not only qualify for his 410 feature since 2017, but to earn hard-charger in his 23rd-to-17th performance Monday. Walker, who qualified 19th of 20th in his group, found his rhythym in the heat race, going 10th-to-sixth, which started him fourth in the B-main. There, he nearly got around Jeff Halligan for the consi win, but lost second to Billy Dietrich. In the 25-lap feature, he miraculously avoided a collision early that bent his front-end and made his brakes stop working. Sunday at BAPS, Walker and the Ron Rutherford-owned team scratched from the C-main after they found rear-end issues, but Monday points to brighter times ahead for Walker and co.

WATCH: Tyler Walker breaks down his first 410 Sprint Car feature start since 2017 Monday at Lincoln Speedway.

• Ryan Smith, who through Sunday's opener at BAPS Motor Speedway was second in Speedweek points to Danny Dietrich, wasn't at Lincoln on Monday. His wife Stephanie gave birth to their baby girl before Sunday's race at BAPS. Smith "was really pulling" for Monday's race to rainout because he wanted to stay home with his wife and newborn: "I had to do the right thing," he texted FloRacing.
• To no surprise, Kyle Larson was one of the fastest cars Monday at Lincoln as the Elk Grove, Calif., superstar timed second in Group A. His detriment, though, was the redraw as the seventh-place finisher could only advance one position from his eighth-starting spot.
• The top-10 in Speedweek points are as follows through two of seven races:
  • 1) Freddie Rahmer 314 points
  • 2) Danny Dietrich (-21)
  • 3) Anthony Macri (-34)
  • 4) Cameron Smith (-52)
  • 5) Troy Wagaman Jr. (-85)
  • 6) Brock Zearfoss (-93)
  • 7) Kody Hartlaub (-110)
  • 8) Chase Dietz (-118)
  • 9) Lucas Wolfe (-121)
  • 10) Logan Rumsey (-123)
• Two-time Indiana Sprint Week champ Brady Bacon is 13th in miniseries points after 17th- and 15th-place finishes at BAPS and Lincoln.