ATTICA, Ohio — Cale Thomas has served notice to the 410 sprint car teams in the region. He and the Rudzik Excavating team are going to be a force to be reckoned with in 2026.
The Fairland, Indiana driver drove to his seventh career feature win at Attica Raceway Park Friday, April 17 on Baumann Auto Group/7L Construction/Venture Visionary Partners Night.
Thomas, who started third in the 30 lap Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprint feature, took the lead from Brandon Spithaler on lap six and despite a couple of cautions pulled away for the victory to kick off the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group season.
Following Thomas to the checkers was 11th starter Parker Price Miller, Bryce Lucius, Darin Naida and Jordan Ryan.
Friday’s win comes on the heels of Thomas and the Rudzik team winning the All Star Circuit of Champions owners title in 2025 and puts them on the radar to challenge for driver and team title in 2026.
“It was tricky tonight. Usually when you take the lead here you kind of know what’s going on. I took the lead and I was like what should I do. The top seemed like it could be good if someone was good. I could go anywhere but I felt like the line I was running the whole race was good. It’s so tough to win these races and this race was like an All Star race. Huge competition from AFCS and it was cool to see so many All Star teams here just trying to get better,” said Thomas.
Mike Vandermark Jr. from Cedar Springs, Michigan is liking Ohio racing. Vandermark, who won April 3 at Moler Raceway Park in southern Ohio, added his first career Dirt Nerds Podcast Powered by Propane UMP Late Model win at Attica Raceway Park Friday. Vandermark took the lead from the drop of the green and survived a caution with just one lap to go to get the win over Todd Brennan, Devin Shiels, Colin Shipley and Kyle Moore.
“We usually suck here. I can’t believe it,” said Vandermark.
After an initial caution on the start, the Fremont Fence 305 Sprint feature went non-stop with Rando dominating for his seventh career Attica win to kick off the Real Geese Decoys/Real Capz Attica Fremont Championship Series season.
Defending Attica 305 sprint champion Seth Schneider, Logan Mongeau, John Ivy and JJ Henes rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 49X-Cale Thomas[3]; 2. 71-Parker Price Miller[11]; 3. 32-Bryce Lucius[7]; 4. 11N-Darin Naida[8]; 5. 25R-Jordan Ryan[4]; 6. 33W-Cap Henry[12]; 7. 19-TJ Michael[15]; 8. 22-Brandon Spithaler[1]; 9. 29-Zeth Sabo[19]; 10. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5]; 11. 3J-Trey Jacobs[20]; 12. 1-Nate Dussel[17]; 13. 15K-Creed Kemenah[21]; 14. 15C-Chris Andrews[16]; 15. 98-Ricky Peterson[14]; 16. 10RR-Brad Lamberson[13]; 17. 13-Van Gurley Jr[18]; 18. 45-Keith Sheffer[2]; 19. 101-Kalib Henry[9]; 20. 70-Henry Malcuit[10]; 21. 21-Larry Kingseed Jr[22]; 22. 09-Craig Mintz[6]
