FINDLAY, Ohio – Consistency wins championships and Cap Henry is demonstrating that adage perfectly during the 42nd annual Ohio Sprint Speedweek with the Ti-22 Performance FAST On Dirt Series.
The Bellevue, Ohio, driver scored his second win of Speedweek in front of a huge crowd Friday at the grand re-opening of Millstream Speedway.
Going into the ninth and final night of Ohio Sprint Speedweek, Henry, who is only one of two drivers — the other being Greg Wilson — to have made all seven contested Speedweek A-mains, has a commanding lead in his bid to become the Speedweek champion.
Henry opened Speedweek with a win at Attica Raceway Park where he is the defending track champion. He followed with a third-place finish at Waynesfield Motorsports Park on Sunday before a heat race incident which placed him at the rear of the field for the feature Monday at Wayne County Speedway where he finished 17th.
Henry roared back Tuesday with a third-place run at Hilltop Speedway followed by a fifth-place finish at Sharon Speedway Wednesday and a second-place showing Thursday at Muskingum County Speedway.
Friday at Millstream, Scotty Thiel grabbed the early lead in the 30-lap feature with Henry driving from fourth to second on the opening lap.
Henry drove under Thiel for the lead on lap nine just as a caution flew for debris. Henry built up a substantial lead while the battle for second saw Zane DeVault get around Thiel on lap 12.
A debris caution on lap 20 wiped out Henry’s lead, but he executed a perfect restart to once again drive away.
With five laps to go Henry held a 2.1-second lead over DeVault with ninth starter Skylar Gee moving into third after a spirited battle with Thiel and Cale Thomas.
A yellow flag on the final lap set up a shootout but Henry once again nailed his restart and drove to the victory, his fourth overall win of 2024.
DeVault, Gee, Thiel and 12th-starter Joel Myers Jr. rounded out the top five.
“I’m just so proud of my guys, Zack, Jeff, Gary, Chris and Chad, the way they’ve turned this season around means a lot. It truly is a team effort,” Henry said. “To win in front of that big of a crowd is so cool. I wanted to just be patient and make sure we got good points, but I always want to win too. Years ago when the All Stars came here I was leading one and got taken out by another guy and lost it.
“This is the type of race track we kind of struggled at this week. I knew it was important to get out front and every one of those cautions was a big deal to keep us in clean air. It was really hard to see in traffic.”
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 33W-Cap Henry[4]; 2. 4-Zane DeVault[3]; 3. 99-Skylar Gee[9]; 4. 73-Scotty Thiel[1]; 5. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[12]; 6. 24D-Danny Sams III[7]; 7. 1-Nate Dussel[2]; 8. 5AU-Brock Hallett[16]; 9. 28M-Conner Morrell[6]; 10. 7N-Darin Naida[14]; 11. 34-Sterling Cling[20]; 12. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[10]; 13. 23-Cale Thomas[8]; 14. 16-DJ Foos[5]; 15. 17-Dylan Norris[15]; 16. 5T-Travis Philo[23]; 17. 10X-Reese Nowotarski[18]; 18. 60-Jordyn Charge[13]; 19. (DNF) 2-Ricky Peterson[17]; 20. (DNF) 35-Stuart Brubaker[11]; 21. (DNF) 9Z-Duane Zablocki[22]; 22. (DNF) W20-Greg Wilson[21]; 23. (DNF) 25R-Jordan Ryan[24]; 24. (DNF) 48-Danny Dietrich[19]