ATTICA, Ohio — Things are really falling into place for Cale Thomas. The Fairland, Indiana driver of the Jay Kiser Racing sprint car drove to his second straight 410 feature win at Attica Raceway Park Friday.
Thomas’ four career victory at Attica pads his lead in the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints Attica point standings and the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series Presented by the Baumann Auto Group.
It wasn’t easy for Thomas though as defending AFCS and Attica track champion Cap Henry grabbed the early lead of the non-stop, seven minute A-Main before Thomas drove by on lap three.
Henry raced inside of Thomas lap after lap before heavy lapped traffic came into play at the half-way point. Thomas was able to slice through the lapped cars and pulled away for the victory.
“The track was really wide. You could go wherever you wanted. Being in the lead…I didn’t know where Cap was. I kept watching for him….I knew he was running the bottom and was hoping he wouldn’t go to the top. I saw him after the checkers so he was right there with me. Obvious this car was really good. You kind of base yourself….Cap’s been having a little bit of trouble so you get Cap with open air and to be able to pass him in open air just says a lot about me and this car right now and the confidence we have,” said Thomas.
Henry, Trey Jacobs, Zeth Sabo and D.J. Foos would round out the top five.
The Whistle Stop Presents the Dirt Nerds Podcast Powered by Propane UMP Late Model feature was one of the most entertaining events of the year so far at Attica Raceway Park.
JR Gentry jumped into the lead of the 25-lap feature before surrendering it to Kyle Moore on lap 12. Three-time feature winner this year at Attica Rusty Schlenk powered into the lead a lap later and the dual with Moore was on.
The event’s only caution flew just past the halfway point and from then out, Moore and Schlenk swapped the lead several times each lap. Moore was able to edge Schlenk the final six laps to score his first career Attica win. Moore had finished second to Schlenk the past two consecutive weeks. Gregg Haskell, Dan Wallace and Gentry rounded out the top five.
Jamie Miller used a restart on lap 10 of the Fremont Fence 305 Sprint feature to drive into the lead around Brenden Torok and then ran away from the rest of the field, cruising to a half of a track advantage for his third win of the year at Attica. Torok, Dustin Stroup, Seth Schneider and Logan Riehl – who stormed from the rear of the field after being involved in an opening lap tangle – rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 23-Cale Thomas[4] ; 2. 33W-Cap Henry[1] ; 3. 9-Trey Jacobs[2] ; 4. 29-Zeth Sabo[10] ; 5. 16-DJ Foos[11] ; 6. 7N-Darin Naida[8] ; 7. 68G-Tyler Gunn[6] ; 8. 15C-Chris Andrews[9] ; 9. 25R-Jordan Ryan[12] ; 10. 4*-Tyler Street[3] ; 11. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5] ; 12. 15K-Creed Kemenah[16] ; 13. 19-TJ Michael[15] ; 14. X-Mike Keegan[20] ; 15. 21K-Larry Kingseed Jr[17] ; 16. 5AU-Brock Hallett[13] ; 17. 12-Luke Griffith[7] ; 18. 14R-Sean Rayhall[18] ; 19. 19P-Paige Polyak[14] ; 20. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[19]