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By DJ Johnson

Price-Miller Throws Down The Checkered at the FAST on Dirt Sprint Series Three Rivers Throwdown 0n Saturday, July 11, 2026
BY DJ Johnson For Hoseheads
No one saw Parker Price Miller coming—not even the Flagman. Starting outside row three in the Indy Parts No. 71 at Pittsburgh PA Motor Speedway, PPM grabbed the lead from Brandon Spithaler on lap 19 and went on for the win.
The first four rows of the $10,000 to-win 25-lap feature were filled by the fastest qualifiers, whose lap times ranged from 15.760 seconds by Carl Bowser to 16.404 seconds by Cale Thomas in the 49X. Bowser picked an extra $250 from Krill Recycling for being the Quickest Qualifier.
PPMS was smooth and seemed to hold moisture to the end, as the leader's lap times were in the mid-18-second bracket.
Only one caution occurred early in the race, for the 38 of Leyton Wagner. The 25-lap feature was run in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
PPM was the winner with Double D Danny Dietrich, fresh off his Clinton County win on Friday, finishing second ($5,000). Third was the fifth-place starter, John Jerich ($3,000). Fourth was Brandon Spithaler ($2,500), and fifth was sixteenth-place starter, Ricky Peterson Jr. ($2,250)
A record 39 FAST on Dirt Sprint Cars were on hand, making it the highest sprint car count ever at PPMS since the track opened in 1979.
High Roller Sye Lynch finished two laps down in twelfth. Fellow High Roller Danny Sams III finished eleventh after changing a motor.
The winner of the last FAST on Dirt race in March, AJ Flick, finished fourteenth. The Steel City Outlaw Tim Shaffer came home in the tenth spot.
Carlos Salazar, from Columbus, Ohio, in the No.32, cleared that backstretch wall at PPMS. Salazar was uninjured.
Between the thirteen RUSH Wingless Sprint Cars and the thirty-nine Fast on Dirt Sprint Cars, the fifty-two sprint cars were a bit much for a small field of Push-Trucks.
Best line of the night was from Danny Dietrich when the driver of the No. 48 said, “This place was darker than I thought.”

Heat 1 was won by Brandon Matus. The Wheelman has a very fast car all night.

Heat 2 was a romp at one point, where Danny Dietrich had a 5.21-second lead over second-place Cale Thomas.

Heat 3 had Sye Lynch start on the pole and bested feature winner Parker Price-Miller by 1.12 seconds.

Heat 4 was a good one with Brandon Spithaler starting fourth and winning by 3.56 seconds over Tim Shaffer.

The B-main was won by Jacob Beganwald in the 3J over Jeremy Kornbau in the 32B. Third was the 4J of John Mollick, and fourth, and the final transfer spot, went to the No. 59 of Bryan Nuckles.

Ricky Peterson in the No.98 was the Hard Charger, coming from 16th to finish 5th.
 

DJ Johnson can be reached at dj1360rpm@aol.com

 

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