FREEMONT, Ohio — Kalib Henry executed a last-lap, last-corner pass to win his first-ever 410 sprint car feature at Fremont Speedway on Saturday.
Henry thought he had shown his hand too early when he drove to the outside of Turns Three and Four to take the lead from Zeth Sabo with just four laps to go. Sabo, who had been running the bottom groove, drove back under in Turns One and Two to regain the lead and immediately went to the top side to block Henry. Entering the final set of turns on the last lap, Sabo went back to the bottom to try and get around a lapped car and Henry sailed across the top. The drag race to the checkers had both cars colliding with Henry winning by .123 seconds with Sabo second with a broken front axle.
“Turn One has kind of been my nemesis since we’ve been racing here and I left the door open a little bit there because I just missed the bottom and he was there,” Henry said. “I can’t leave these guys an inch. I can’t thank Muth family enough, Harrison Distributing, Valvoline components. Thanks to the fans, my family back home, Kevin for giving me a hot rod … we’ve just been clicking at it and we finally got a win. Damn it that was awesome.”
DJ Foos bolted from third to the lead on the opening lap of the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprint A-main, but during a caution on lap 7, had a left rear tire going flat and had to pit, handing the lead to Sabo. Sabo pulled away from a great battle for second involving Travis Philo, Henry and Sean Rayhall. Henry took the runner-up spot in lapped traffic at the halfway point.
Following a caution on lap 20, Henry stayed right with Sabo and executed the high side pass on lap 26 with Sabo driving back under to the lead at the opposite end of the track, setting up the dramatic finish.
Behind Henry and Sabo at the checkers were 10th starter Cale Thomas, Cap Henry and 19th starter Trey Jacobs to round out the top five.
Thomas, who won Friday at Attica Raceway Park, added to his lead in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series Presented by the Baumann Auto Group.
Jamie Miller won in the 305 Sprints while Shawn Valenti won in Dirt Trucks.Â
FULL RESULTS: 1. 101-Kalib Henry[6]; 2. 29-Zeth Sabo[4]; 3. 23-Cale Thomas[10]; 4. 33W-Cap Henry[12]; 5. 9-Trey Jacobs[19]; 6. 5T-Travis Philo[5]; 7. 14-Sean Rayhall[1]; 8. 19-TJ Michael[7]; 9. 4S-Tyler Street[2]; 10. 35-Stuart Brubaker[16]; 11. 16-DJ Foos[3]; 12. X-Mike Keegan[11]; 13. 2+-Brian Smith[15]; 14. 5-Kody Brewer[9]; 15. 15C-Chris Andrews[13]; 16. 12-Luke Griffith[20]; 17. 20I-Kelsey Ivy[18]; 18. 75-Jerry Dahms[14]; 19. 16E-Caleb Erwin[17]; 20. 21-Larry Kingseed Jr[22]; 21. 98-Robert Robenalt[21]; 22. 28M-Conner Morrell[8]