Danny Dietrich announced he is no longer committed to running the PA Posse 410 Sprint Series after he was disqualified during the series’ event at Lincoln Speedway this weekend.
A press release from Fully Injected, noted that after Dietrich “slowed on lap two with a trip to the outer work area immediately following. The team made timely repairs, but an eventual lack of communication between track officials during the aforementioned work area visit led to an eventual disqualification.”
Dietrich cited the DQ as his reason for dropping his commitment to the series. He explained, “This situation was completely avoidable, and until there’s an actual PA Posse Series officiating crew that can make decisions on behalf of the Series itself, rather than each track doing it their own way, we’re not going to show our support regularly.”
“I went to the work area…everything was treated as routine and we were ready to restart, only to be told the work area was closed and I was disqualified,” he elaborated. “Just a major communication lack. There needs to be a better infrastructure in place – a Series Director working on behalf of the Series and not for the track. That way there’s accountability. A Series at this level, with that much money at stake, needs to be taken seriously.”
“We’re going to race what makes sense going forward,” Dietrich added. “We’ll make our decisions week-to-week. If we want to stay home, we’ll stay home. If we want to travel, we’ll travel. Time will tell.”
Dietrich had previously shared his frustration with the disqualification on social media. On Facebook, he posted, “‘Communication issues’ at Lincoln didn’t allow me to restart tonight. Not one person was telling us or me that we need to ‘push now’. Then they voluntarily push us after we double checked things. (We could have pushed a few seconds sooner).”
“As I am about to go on the track they say on the radio ’48 is coming on the track’.. then proceed to tell me I’m DQ’d on the front stretch because the ‘pits were closed’ .. after everything seemed perfectly fine,” he wrote. “I’m at a loss for words and quite honestly.. sick of racing. Luck aint on our side and it’s getting tough to keep doing this shit around here. This isn’t just a hobbie or something to do in my spare time or any of my crews spare time.”
He later added Sunday night, “With professionalism goes point championships. The creators force people to leave the area again.”
While the press release indicated that Dietrich and his Gary Kauffman Racing team were “unsure of weekend plans,” Dietrich did share on Facebook on Monday morning that he’d be attending the Kramer Kup on Thursday, June 4th at Selinsgrove Speedway that pays $7,300 to-win.
StockCarReport.com did reach out to the PA Posse 410 Sprint Series for clarification on why Dietrich was disqualified, but did not hear back at the time of publication.
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