Its Cap Henry In Attica Sprint Car Opener
Written by I Dig Sports
ATTICA, Ohio Cap Henry picked up where he left off in 2024. The Republic, Ohio, driver, a three-time and defending Attica Raceway Park 410 sprint champion, took the lead from Craig Mintz on lap eight and scored the opening night feature at the third-mile dirt track.
Dan McCarron led the first two circuits of the Callies Performance Products 410 Sprint A-main before fourth starter Mintz blasted by for the lead. Henry, who started eighth on the grid, moved into second on lap seven and under Mintz for the lead exiting turn four to complete lap eight.
Henry encountered heavy lapped traffic on lap 13 and that allowed both Mintz and DJ Foos to close. Henry and Mintz nearly touched several times over the next hand full of laps until the only caution of the 30-lap affair fell on lap 14 for a stalled Chris Andrews who had charged from eighth to ninth.
Despite a clear track, Henry could not shake Mintz as the pair continued to battle through heavy lapped traffic with just eight laps to go. Henry finally found the high line to his liking and pulled away for his 21st career 410 sprint win at Attica, placing him in a tie with Chad Kemenah for fourth on the divisions all-time win list.
Mintz, Foos, McCarron and Bryan Sebetto rounded out the top five.
I was pretty confident before that caution, Henry said. I told Zack (Myers, crew chief) we were kind of fighting something with the wing valveit felt like the wing was just moving wherever it wanted. So I was driving the thing and trying to push it back forward and finally just let it trunk itself and dealt with it. It was pretty close there with Craigman Ill take it, it was a lot of work.
Rusty Schlenk dominated the 25-lap Dirt Nerds Podcast UMP Late Model feature at Attica Raceway Park. The three-time national UMP champion led from the drop of the green and built sizeable leads with the features only caution on lap three the only thing that slowed him down.
It was Schlenks 46th career late model win at Attica, as he sits atop the all-time win list at the track. Devin Shiels, Casey Noonan, Ryan Markham and Collin Shipley rounded out the top five.
I had to be patient in traffic. I saw over my shoulder I had to run high a few laps so I could peak around to see where Devin was. I knew I had a little bit of a lead and I had to pick my way through there and be quick as I could. The lappers were all over the place and I didnt want to do anything stupid. This is the second race on this car. Its a new MK2 chassis that we built. We raced it once at the end of last yearraced at the Tennessee National and almost won that and we came here and dominated tonight. These new MK2 Domination cars are going to be pretty good, said Schlenk.
Jamie Miller also picked right up where he left off after the 2024 season which saw him win six features in the Fremont Fence 305 Sprints at Attica. Miller, a five-time and defending Attica 305 sprint track champion took the lead from Blayne Keckler on lap 12 and survived the 25-lap features only yellow with just six laps to go, to score his 46th career division win, placing him second on the all-time win list.
Seth Schneider got a last lap pass of Keckler to finish second with Brandon Moore and Kasey Ziebold rounding out the top five.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 33W-Cap Henry[8]; 2. 09-Craig Mintz[4]; 3. 16-DJ Foos[3]; 4. 22-Brandon Spithaler[11]; 5. 01-Bryan Sebetto[6]; 6. 29Z-Zeth Sabo[7]; 7. 19-TJ Michael[5]; 8. 22M-Dan McCarron[1]; 9. 78-Justin Clark[14]; 10. 45-Devon Borden[16]; 11. 29-Logan McCandless[9]; 12. 15C-Chris Andrews[18]; 13. 71H-Max Stambaugh[10]; 14. 35-Stuart Brubaker[20]; 15. 13-Van Gurley Jr[19]; 16. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[13]; 17. 3-John Jerich[17]; 18. 88N-Frank Neill[15]; 19. 19J-Jett Mann[12]; 20. 7DK-Dylan Kingan[2]