ATTICA, Ohio — Cale Thomas took the lead with only five laps to go in the 410 sprint car feature Fridayat Attica Raceway Park and drove to his third win of the year at the track.
Thomas has five total wins in 2024. Attica’s point leader increases his advantage in the points with the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group. Thomas’ win aboard the Jay Kiser Racing No. 23 is his sixth podium run of the year at Attica Raceway Park.
Darin Naida led the opening lap of the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprint A-main but third starter Zeth Sabo bolted into the top spot a lap later. Sabo built up a 1.5-second lead by the half-way point with Naida, Thomas, Cap Henry and Kalib Henry in tow.
With nine laps to go Thomas disposed of Naida and began closing on Sabo, driving into the lead on lap 25. While Thomas pulled away, the action for second was wild involving Naida, Sabo, Cap Henry and Kalib Henry.
At the checkers behind Thomas, Sabo, Cap Henry, Kalib Henry and Naida rounded out the top five.
“I was struggling there at the beginning. The motor was 140 degrees…we had a problem with our engine heater before we went out,” Thomas said. “These things don’t like being cold and it kind of made it a hand full even when I got myself situated and the motor was good I couldn’t keep the front end down on this thing. Once we got the fuel load off a little bit and got closer to dirty air and I seemed to stay about the same speed when it slowed those other guys down.”
Colin Shipley led the first 15 laps of the UMP Late Model A-main before Kyle Moore drove around the high side to take the point and drive away for his second straight win at Attica. It’s Moore’s third victory of 2024 at Attica and an incredible eighth straight podium finish at the track.
Shipley, JR Gentry, Devin Shiels and Ryan Markham rounded out the top five.
Steve Rando led the first lap of the Fremont Fence 305 Sprints A-main before five time track champion Jamie Miller drove to the lead. Miller built up a nearly three second lead but while slicing through lapped traffic with 10 laps to go, a pair spun, collecting Miller.
Rando led on the restart but eighth starter Bryan Sebetto drove under him and took the top spot on lap 17. Sebetto drove away to his second win of the season at Attica and his 16th career victory in the division at the track. It was also Sebetto’s fifth overall victory of 2024.
The finish:
Feature (30 laps): 1. 23-Cale Thomas[1] ; 2. 29-Zeth Sabo[3] ; 3. 33W-Cap Henry[6] ; 4. 101-Kalib Henry[4] ; 5. 7N-Darin Naida[2] ; 6. 16-DJ Foos[8] ; 7. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5] ; 8. 28M-Conner Morrell[11] ; 9. 4*-Tyler Street[10] ; 10. 9-Trey Jacobs[13] ; 11. 19-TJ Michael[9] ; 12. 15C-Chris Andrews[7] ; 13. 2-Ricky Peterson[15] ; 14. 21K-Larry Kingseed Jr[17] ; 15. 68G-Tyler Gunn[14] ; 16. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[18] ; 17. 15K-Creed Kemenah[20] ; 18. 5E-Bobby Elliott[19] ; 19. 5T-Travis Philo[12] ; 20. W20-Greg Wilson[16]