ATTICA, Ohio — Stuart Brubaker admits he got a little complacent while leading the 410 feature at Attica Raceway Park Friday for the Eric Phillips 33rd Anniversary Classic.
That allowed Chris Andrews to close lap after lap. Late in the race when Andrews showed Brubaker his nose, the track’s 2018 champion got back up on the wheel and Brubaker drove to the victory.
The win was Brubaker’s ninth career win in the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints. It also boosts the Fremont, Ohio driver’s standing in the Kistler Racing Products/All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads Attica Fremont Championship 410 Series Presented by the Baumann Auto Group and was worth $4,000.
“I started backing my corners up a little bit…you know I’m getting a older and my shoulders get tired,” Brubaker explained. “He (Andrews) stuck his nose in there and I was like, ‘oh shit I have to pick it back up.’ I kept missing it down here off two and I’d hit that hole and run underneath it and I could only get about half or three quarter throttle down the back stretch. When we hit it right we can get wide open so I knew we were fine. This is so awesome.”
Andrews finished second with Brandon Spithaler, D.J. Foos and Cole Macedo rounding out the top five.
Matt Irey, Attica’s 2016 late model track champion, survived a tangle with a lapped car coming to the checkers to claim his second win of the season in the Propane.com/Dirt Nerd’s Podcast UMP Late Models. It was his 7th career win at Attica and moved him to within six markers of Ryan Markham for the lead in the track’s points.
After opening the season with three straight wins in the Fremont Fence 305 Sprints, five-time Attica division champion Paul Weaver went through some bad luck, including a blown engine a couple of weeks ago.
The Fremont, Ohio, driver took the lead new division track record holder Jamie Miller with just seven laps to go and went on to score his 60th career victory in the division.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 35-Stuart Brubaker[1] ; 2. 23-Chris Andrews[7] ; 3. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[3] ; 4. 16-DJ Foos[8] ; 5. 18-Cole Macedo[4] ; 6. 33W-Caleb Griffith[5] ; 7. 5T-Travis Philo[9] ; 8. 3C-Cale Conley[12] ; 9. 09-Craig Mintz[13] ; 10. 25R-Jordan Ryan[11] ; 11. 28-Skyler Gee[16] ; 12. 3J-Trey Jacobs[20] ; 13. 55-CJ Leary[10] ; 14. 27S-John Ivy[21] ; 15. 11N-Harli White[14] ; 16. 2L-Landon LaLonde[15] ; 17. 12-Kyle Capodice[19] ; 18. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[2] ; 19. 1-Nate Dussel[6] ; 20. 14-Chad Kemenah[18]