FREMONT, Ohio — Cole Macedo solidified his spot at the top of the Fremont Speedway 410 point standings and the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group Saturday.
The Lemoore, Calif., native got the lead in the feature with just 10 laps to go and stormed to his fourth division win of the year on Madison Motors Night.
Morning rains caused for a very challenging racing surface at Fremont, but Macedo credited his crew chief Steven Linder for making the right calls on the set-up to get him comfortable.
“Steven and the guys gave me a great race car. When we had that red I told my guys we’re going to be okay because I felt like I hadn’t run 100 percent yet. Once I felt like it was time to pull the trigger I kicked it into 100 percent and it worked out,” said Macedo.
Macedo has five total wins at Fremont in 2022 aboard the Ray Brooks Racing team – four in the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 sprints and another in 360 sprint competition – to run his career victories at the track to nine.
In 2022, Macedo has seven total sprint car victories including wins at Wayne County Speedway and Attica Raceway Park. He is going for the trifecta of championships as he is only a few points out of the lead at Attica while leading the standings in the AFCS and Fremont.
Shawn Valenti had quite the night at “The Track That Action Built.” He led all 15 laps of the Burmeister Trophy Dirt Truck feature to score his third win of the year in that division, then turned around and led all 25 laps of the Fremont Federal Credit Union 305 sprint A-main for his second victory of 2022 in that division. Valenti now has 72 career feature wins at Fremont, just four behind tying Art Ball atop the all-time win list.
“Jeff Babcock and the guys have really worked hard to get back to victory lane with this truck. We knew with the rains it was going to be a challenging track and this thing was up to the challenge. That truck race was good enough…25 laps on this in the sprint…I’m wore out. I have to thank Jeff Riehl on the sprint car. We go through some times of struggles and he sticks by my side. Rick and Noah Eberly for their help,” said Valenti.
For the first time in the track’s history the USAC Midwest Thunder Midgets paid a call to Fremont Speedway. When the checkers flew, Drew Rader stood in victory lane.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 18-Cole Macedo[5] ; 2. 1-Nate Dussel[3] ; 3. 68G-Tyler Gunn[6] ; 4. 09+-Brian Smith[2] ; 5. 5-Byron Reed[11] ; 6. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[13] ; 7. 09-Craig Mintz[4] ; 8. 5T-Travis Philo[9] ; 9. 29-Zeth Sabo[1] ; 10. 35-Stuart Brubaker[7] ; 11. 49I-John Ivy[18] ; 12. 16-DJ Foos[15] ; 13. 22M-Dan McCarron[14] ; 14. X-Mike Keegan[22] ; 15. 7T-Troy Vaccaro[20] ; 16. 15K-Creed Kemenah[21] ; 17. 7N-Darin Naida[16] ; 18. 8M-TJ Michael[19] ; 19. 21-Larry Kingseed JR[17] ; 20. 12-Kyle Capodice[8] ; 21. 23-Chris Andrews[10] ; 22. 97-Greg Wilson[12]