ATTICA, Ohio — Cap Henry knew after the high side of the track was watered he had to act quickly at the start of the 410 sprint feature Friday at Attica Raceway Park.
The Republic, Ohio, driver blasted from fourth into the lead at the drop of the green, then made daring moves in lapped traffic and drove to his first win of the year at Attica.
Henry, Attica’s 2020 track champion and the 2020 All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products presented by the Baumann Auto Group Attica Fremont Championship Series 410 champion, claimed his fourth overall victory of 2023 having won three at Fremont Speedway. The victory moves him into serious contention for the AFCS title.
It wasn’t that easy for Henry as Trey Jacobs closed in lapped traffic but slipped over the edge of the track with just five laps to go. Following Henry to the checkers was last week’s winner Travis Philo, Jacobs, Stuart Brubaker and Zeth Sabo.
“I don’t know if the rest of the guys didn’t see it (watering the track) or what but I knew that was the place to be. I saw them guys all run the bottom and I knew I had one chance to get there. Zack and Chris and Jeff and Gary have been working really hard on this thing….they keep plugging away at it. We were okay here just not good enough…I knew we’d get there. Mid-season championship is always a good one to win,” said Henry.
The 25-lap Dirt Nerds Podcast powered by propane UMP Late Model A-main saw only one caution and an exciting last 10 laps. After Gregg Haskell led the first two circuits, five time track champion Ryan Missler powered into the lead. The car on the move was eighth place starter Rusty Schlenk who took second on lap eight and closed on Missler in heavy lapped traffic by lap 13.
With five laps to go Missler and Schlenk were banking doors racing through lapped traffic with Schlenk taking the lead with just three laps to go. Schlenk earned his third win of the year at Attica, the 38th of his career to sit atop the division’s all-time win list. Missler, Devin Shiels, Casey Noonan and Ryan Markham rounded out the top five.
The Fremont Fence 305 feature saw three lead changes in the last five laps. Paul Weaver lead the first 14 circuits of the 25 lap A-main with Steve Rando taking over for laps 15-20 before slipping over the turn two rim, giving the lead back to Weaver.
Weaver was locked in a battle with Bryan Sebetto in heavy lapped traffic when he made contact, did a 360, collecting Sebetto who was able to keep rolling. Sebetto then inherited the lead and held off Rando, Jamie Miller, Dustin Dinan and Brandon Moore for his first win of the year, the 14th of his career in the division at Attica.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 33W-Cap Henry[4] ; 2. 5T-Travis Philo[3] ; 3. 9-Trey Jacobs[1] ; 4. 35-Stuart Brubaker[6] ; 5. 23-Zeth Sabo[8] ; 6. 32-Bryce Lucius[15] ; 7. 5-Byron Reed[2] ; 8. 101-Cody Maroske[11] ; 9. 8M-TJ Michael[10] ; 10. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[9] ; 11. 7N-Darin Naida[5] ; 12. 15C-Chris Andrews[14] ; 13. 68G-Tyler Gunn[7] ; 14. 41-Thomas Schinderle[17] ; 15. 75-Jerry Dahms[16] ; 16. 12-Kyle Capodice[13] ; 17. 00-Jake Hesson[12]