FREMONT, Ohio — Everything went right for Cap Henry on championship night at Fremont Speedway.
Henry entered the night 33 points behind Cale Thomas in the fight for the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series title.
Henry led all 30 laps to score his second win of the year at “The Track That Action Built,” while Thomas finished 12th.
It is the second straight AFCS title for Henry, the 2023 Fremont Speedway track champion, and his 20th career win at Fremont. It is the Bellevue, Ohio driver’s seventh overall victory of 2024.
Current Fremont Speedway point leader Kalib Henry finished second with Nate Dussel, Zane DeVault and D.J. Foos rounding out the top five.
“Everybody did their part on this team. That thing was just plain fast. I knew I was picking through the traffic good…I read that infield scoreboard more than I ever have in my whole career to see if my lead was building or losing. Zack (Myers, crew chief) kept telling me everything I was doing was right but I couldn’t have botched that last restart any worse if I tried. I’m just so proud of this whole team. It hasn’t been a great year compared to how we did it last year. It was a long shot to get this championship and to pull that off it says so much about everyone involved,” said Henry.
Paul Weaver and Tyler Shullick put on a whale of a battle for the win in the Fremont Federal Credit Union 305 Sprint A-main. Shullick lead laps 1-4 with Weaver taking over for laps five and six. Shullick regained the lead on lap seven only to see Weaver take it back a lap later and lead to lap 19.
The pair raced side by side over that 12 lap battle. Shullick lead lap 20 and Weaver inched back ahead a lap later and held on for his third win of 2024 at Fremont with Dustin Stroup, Jamie Miller and Dustin Dinan rounding out the top five.
The victory is Weaver’s fourth overall victory of 2024 and the 81st of his career at Fremont to sit atop the track’s all-time win list.
Miller just had to make the feature to wrap up his second NAPA of Bryan AFCS Presented by Jason Dietsch Trailer Sales 305 sprint title, topping Weaver’s four consecutive years of winning the series title.
Jamie Miller led the first three laps of the 20-lap Burmeister Trophy Dirt Truck feature before Shawn Valenti took over. Valenti and Steve Miller ran door to door for seven straight laps before Miller suffered engine woes with two laps to go. Valenti drove away for his fifth win of the season over Jamie Miller.
The victory is the 79th career win for Valenti at Fremont Speedway.
The finish:
Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 33W-Cap Henry[1]; 2. 101-Kalib Henry[4]; 3. 1-Nate Dussel[3]; 4. 4-Zane DeVault[13]; 5. 16-DJ Foos[2]; 6. 01-Bryan Sebetto[5]; 7. 35-Stuart Brubaker[8]; 8. 15C-Chris Andrews[7]; 9. 70-Henry Malcuit[6]; 10. 9-Trey Jacobs[14]; 11. 5-Kody Brewer[22]; 12. 23-Cale Thomas[11]; 13. 29-Zeth Sabo[21]; 14. 14-Sean Rayhall[17]; 15. 12-Luke Griffith[9]; 16. 19-TJ Michael[12]; 17. 2+-Brian Smith[15]; 18. 81-Lee Jacobs[20]; 19. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[16]; 20. 25R-Jordan Ryan[19]; 21. X-Mike Keegan[18]; 22. 38-Leyton Wagner[10]