FREMONT, Ohio — Aaron Reutzel led all 40 laps of 75th birthday bash at Fremont Speedway Fueled by FriendShip Kitchen for the $20,000 payday on Tuesday night.
Reutzel had won the last two Interstate Batteries High Limit features (Saturday’s event was co-sanctioned with the NAPA Auto Parts All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Valvoline Oil). Tuesday, the Clute, Texas, driver earned his third straight win, his fourth career victory at Fremont Speedway and his 40th career All Star win.
It wasn’t easy as several cautions kept defending All Star champion Kalib Henry close. Henry closed several times on Reutzel in lapped traffic just as a caution would fly. It was adjustments during an open red with 17 laps remaining that helped Reutzel take the win over Henry, Cole Macedo who charged from 23rd, Justin Peck and Bryce Lucius.
“Track was pretty good tonight. We were struggling. We tried stuff all night. When you are running for points you never get to test and we tested a bunch of stuff tonight and nothing was really that good. So we went back to what we know. We were so rushed there at the end that I forgot to put some stuff back and under that open red I had them adjust the left rear shock and I was back to being really good,” said Reutzel.
“I don’t think I’ve ever won a race in the rain or pull tear-offs because of the rain but it never got sketchy. Good call on the track to just run it out. Cool to win 20 grand too off the High Limit. Thanks to Don Long…brand new motor and it was pretty good,” added Reutzel.
Henry was happy with how his team has improved since the start of the year.
“Had a hard time getting going. We were a little bit de-tuned and it wouldn’t take off on the restarts on the bottom. We were way way better once we got to traffic. I was licking my chops hoping for a long run in traffic. I just kept catching lapped traffic in the wrong spot. That was a ton of fun,” said Henry.
Macedo, who won the High Limit event at Fremont in 2025, put on quite the show driving a back-up car for Mintz Motorsports.
“This goes to show just how bad ass Fremont Speedway is. It’s never one lane and you can race all over the track. Throwing big bombs against a big curb. It’s a testament to Rich Farmer and the whole crew at Fremont Speedway. I love coming here. I got to come back and race with the Linder boys and I’m so thankful for Craig Mintz giving me this opportunity,” said Macedo.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[1]; 2. 101-Kalib Henry[2]; 3. 09X-Cole Macedo[23]; 4. 26-Justin Peck[12]; 5. 32-Bryce Lucius[7]; 6. 49X-Cale Thomas[5]; 7. 3-DJ Foos[11]; 8. 33W-Cap Henry[22]; 9. 11N-Darin Naida[3]; 10. 21H-Brady Bacon[14]; 11. 17B-Bill Balog[13]; 12. 9R-Chase Randall[15]; 13. 09-Craig Mintz[10]; 14. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[21]; 15. 15C-Chris Andrews[6]; 16. 19-TJ Michael[4]; 17. 45-Keith Sheffer Jr[17]; 18. 44-Aiden Price[18]; 19. 20B-Cody Bova[25]; 20. 14-Zane DeVault[24]; 21. 38-Leyton Wagner[16]; 22. 28N-Trey Jacobs[20]; 23. 29-Logan McCandless[8]; 24. 17GP-Hank Davis[9]; 25. 16-Gauge Garcia[19]; 26. 5E-Bobby Elliott[26]
