ATTICA, Ohio — Legendary NFL owner Al Davis coined the phrase “just win, baby” and that’s exactly what Cole Macedo is doing.
Macedo dominated Friday at Attica Raceway Park, winning his 10th overall victory of 2022 and his third of the year at Attica.
Macedo, who leads the Attica points for the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints, led all 30 laps for his eighth 410 sprint win of the year (he also has a pair of 360 wins).
It was his fifth career win at Attica. Macedo’s season has caught the eye of others as he got a ride for the Knoxville Nationals and this past week drove NASCAR driver Alex Bowman’s sprint car with the Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions before coming back to Ohio to his Ray Brooks Racing No. 18.
“I know I’ve said it before but we’ve been struggling a little here this year and Steven (Linder) has really been working hard and getting this thing right. I seen the 3J (Trey Jacobs) in second and I was getting a little worried because most of the races he wins are on the bottom. I was having some tough calls under the caution trying to decide what I wanted to do and finally I decided to commit to the top and make it work,” Macedo said. “I kept playing with the wing and it got me tight then free and I really didn’t know what to do. Those last eight laps I told myself it’s just a heat race….I put together some good laps and got the job done.”
It’s a huge understatement to say Devin Shiels is on a roll. The Britton, Mich., driver took the lead for good on lap four and drove away in a non-stop 25 lap Dirt Nerds Podcast/Propane.com UMP Late Model feature for his third win in a row and fifth of the season. Shiels also has five runner-up finishes at Attica…in fact his only finish other than first or second was a fifth in June. Shiels – who has three track titles including the last two in a row – now has 15 career feature wins at Attica, placing him fifth on the division’s all time win list.
On Monday Kasey Jedrzejek took the lead from Shawn Valenti at Fremont Speedway on the white flag lap and drove to his first ever sprint car win. Four days later the 17-year-old in his second year of sprint car racing, took the lead from Valenti on the last lap to score his first ever Attica win.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 18-Cole Macedo[1] ; 2. 5T-Travis Philo[2] ; 3. 16-DJ Foos[4] ; 4. 3J-Trey Jacobs[3] ; 5. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5] ; 6. 97-Greg Wilson[9] ; 7. 25R-Jordan Ryan[6] ; 8. 16C-Tylar Rankin[10] ; 9. 2-Ricky Peterson[12] ; 10. 12G-Corbin Gurley[14] ; 11. 15K-Creed Kemenah[11] ; 12. 11N-Ayrton Olsen[16] ; 13. 7N-Darin Naida[8] ; 14. 28-Gray Leadbetter[13] ; 15. 41-Thomas Schinderle[7] ; 16. 98-Robert Robenalt[15] ; 17. 11G-Luke Griffith[18] ; 18. 78-Todd Kane[17] ; 19. 12-Kyle Capodice[19]