FREMONT, Ohio – Cap Henry has been the hottest sprint car driver in Ohio this season, but for some reason has struggled at Fremont Speedway.
He put an end to that issue Saturday on American Powersports Night, leading all 30 laps of the Ti22 Performance FAST on Dirt feature for his first win of the season at Fremont aboard his Lane Racing machine.
Overall its Henry’s eighth 410 sprint car win of the season. He’s scored five victories at Attica Raceway Park and a pair at Wayne County Speedway to go with his Fremont victory. It was Henry’s 11th career win at Fremont.
“It started last week. Zack Meyers did his homework all week long and bounced ideas off his dad. He had this thing pretty good. I kind of messed things up in qualifying for us but he gave me a real good car the rest of the night. The limited amount of races we’ve gotten to run and to win this many times is super special and shows you how much Zack and Brett and Jim put into this. It’s a family team and it’s fun to have this much success,” said Henry.
Henry and D.J. Foos brought the field to green for the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprint A-main with Henry taking the advantage over Foos, Trey Jacobs, Nate Dussel and Greg Wilson. After an opening lap caution – the only one in the 30-lap affair – Henry and Foos pulled away from the field as Jacobs and Wilson battled hard for third with Dussel, Stuart Brubaker, Mitch Harble, Tyler Gunn and John Ivy in pursuit.
The leaders encountered heavy lapped traffic by lap 10 and Foos closed slightly on Henry with Jacobs continuing to hold off the advances of Wilson for third while Dussel and Ivy battled for fifth.
With 10 laps to go Henry had made some bold moves in lapped traffic and was able to put several between himself and Foos while Wilson was finally able to wrestle the third spot from Jacobs.
Henry drove the rest of the way unchallenged for the victory with Foos, Wilson, Ivy and Jacobs rounding out the top five.
Alvin Roepke and Paul Weaver put on a show in the 25 lap Fremont Federal Credit Union 305 Sprint feature. Roepke took the lead from Jimmy McGrath on lap two, surrendered the top spot to Weaver on lap 22, but drove under him to regain the lead a lap later and went on to his second feature win of the season.
The only two drivers to win Burmeister Trophy Dirt Truck features at Fremont Speedway this year battled it out again in the 20-lap feature Saturday and when the dust settled, Toledo, Ohio’s Cory McCaughey held off rival Shawn Valenti for his fourth win of the season.