ATTICA, Ohio — Cale Thomas and Cap Henry have battled each other hard in 410 sprint car racing in North Central Ohio in 2024.
Friday night, Aug. 23 at Attica Raceway Park was no different. The pair traded slide job after slide job throughout the 30-lap feature with Thomas executing the final one in the final set of turns on the final lap to score his fourth win of the year at Attica by a mere .078 seconds over Henry.
The win is Thomas’ seventh overall victory of 2024 and the sixth career win at Attica and vaults him back into the point lead at Attica Raceway Park over Henry, who is the track’s defending Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprint champion.
The victory also pads Thomas’ lead in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group over Henry who is the series’ defending champion. There’s just one race left in that series coming Sept. 7 at Fremont Speedway.
The first portion of the race was marred by numerous crashes with T.J. Michael leading the first lap before Thomas took over and led until Henry took over on lap 10. Thomas regained the lead with eight laps to go only to see Henry back in front a lap later, setting up the exciting last lap pass by Thomas for the win.
“I kind of gave up on the high side when I saw Cap on the restart through the middle trying to protect and honestly it hurt me on the restart going into turn three and that’s when he threw the slide job on me. He saw me right before lapped traffic underneath him and I think I scared him into thinking I was back running through the middle like I normally do here. I’ve been watching a lot of the guys out in California so tried my best impression of them tonight. I just didn’t give up the top because that was the only way I could get a run,” said Thomas.
Collin Shipley lead he opening lap of the 25-lap Dirt Nerds Podcast Powered by Propane UMP Late Model feature before Mike Bores took over.
With 10 laps to go Bores was challenged by Kyle Moore who came into the night having won the last four features at Attica. Moore took the lead on lap 17 but during a caution retired to the pits. Bores lead the rest of the way to score his first win of 2024, the eighth late model victory of his career at Attica over Nathon Loney, Todd Brennan, Ryan Markham and Devin Shiels.
It’s been a very frustrating season for Paul Weaver. Attica’s six-time Fremont Fence 305 Sprint track champion was winless at the track where he had accumulated 73 career total wins to lead all drivers in the history of the track. But it all came together for the Fremont, Ohio driver Friday.
After Blayne Keckler lead the first nine laps and Dustin Stroup laps 10-14, Weaver took over and drove away for his first victory of the year at Attica. It’s his 71st career 305 sprint victory and 74th including his 410 wins at the track.
The finish:
Feature (30 laps): 1. 23-Cale Thomas[3] ; 2. 33W-Cap Henry[6] ; 3. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejeck[8] ; 4. 16-DJ Foos[7] ; 5. 15C-Chris Andrews[9] ; 6. 19-TJ Michael[2] ; 7. 29-Zeth Sabo[4] ; 8. 35-Stuart Brubaker[12] ; 9. 9-Trey Jacobs[13] ; 10. X-Mike Keegan[5] ; 11. 34-Sterling Cling[10] ; 12. 15K-Creed Kemenah[14] ; 13. 5-Kody Brewer[16] ; 14. 97-Max Stambaugh[19] ; 15. 21K-Larry Kingseed Jr[17] ; 16. 29*-Tyler Street[18] ; 17. 14R-Sean Rayhall[11] ; 18. 97UK-Ryan Harrison[15] ; 19. 5T-Travis Philo[1] ; 20. 2+-Brian Smith[20]