FREMONT, Ohio — Cole Macedo showed patience in lapped traffic and drove to his second 410 sprint car win in as many weeks, taking the checkers at Fremont Speedway Saturday.
Macedo led all 30 laps of the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprints A-main that saw only one caution. The victory – worth $4,000 thanks to Big D’s Pizza of Clyde – is the second of the season for the driver of the Ray Brooks Racing sprint car as he won the previous week at Attica Raceway Park.
Macedo also stretches out his lead in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series Presented by the Baumann Auto Group standings.
“Ultimately we made the decision this past week to run for AFCS points and try to get Steven and Mike and Stephanie (Linder) and Ray Brooks and everybody else a championship this year. I felt really good the majority of the race and then we got to lapped traffic and I was picking them off pretty quick and I thought we’re pretty good here. I got to Landon (LaLonde) there and I was really struggling. He was just fast enough I couldn’t get by him or get a run. I showed my nose one time and the next lap he moved out of the way so kudos to him. This car was really good. It was tough. I didn’t know what to do and I was moving around and every time I moved around the lapped cars got away from me,” said Macedo.
Chris Andrews finished second with Emerson Axsom, Ryan Timms and Craig Mintz completing the top five.
Tyler Shullick comes from a racing family that has seen huge success on asphalt, including Tyler who has won in super modifieds. However, in a very short couple of years in a 305 sprint car on dirt, he has shown he can compete. Saturday, he led all 25 laps of the Fremont Federal Credit Union 305 A-main that had only one caution, to claim his first Fremont Speedway victory.
It wasn’t easy though, as defending track champion Matt Foos began pressuring Shullick late in the race and a caution with just four laps to go set up a shoot-out. Shullick was up to the task and drove away for the win.
With his second place finish, Matt Foos closed the game in the NAPA Auto Parts of Bryan Attica Fremont Championship Series Presented by Jason Dietsch Trailer Sales standings.
“This is an incredible feeling…we finally did it. Traffic was a challenge and thank goodness for that late caution. It felt like my tire was going away but it came alive on that restart. I won some cool races at some cool venues but this is my favorite,” said Shullick beside his Pioneer Processing, Griff’s Engines backed No. 61.
In a whale of a 20-lap Burmeister Trophy Dirt Truck A-main that saw Jeff Babcock, Jamie Miller and Dustin Keegan battling the entire distance, Miller would use a restart with seven laps to go to take the lead and then held off Babcock late for the victory. It is the 32nd feature win of Miller’s career at the track moving him to 15th on the all-time win list at “The Track That Action Built.”