By: Ron Burt
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Last week was a big night at Fremont Speedway. It was Hall of Fame night besides racing. Kalib Henry made a last lap, last corner pass to win his first ever 410 sprint car feature event at Fremont Speedway. Henry thought he had shown his hand too soon by passing Zeth Sabo with just four laps to go. Sabo, was running the bottom groove, drove back under in turns one and two and regained the lead and immediately went to the top side to block Henry. Entering the final set of turns on the last lap, Sabo went back to the bottom to try and get around a lapped car and Henry sailed across the top and it was a race to the finish line. Henry won by .123 seconds with Sabo coming in 2nd, 3rd Cale Thomas, 4th, Cap Henry, and 5th Trey Jacobs.
Fremont, Ohio’s Jamie Miller also used the high side of turns three and four to take the lead from Dustin Stroup in the 25-lap, 305 Sprint feature and sliced through heavy lapped traffic late to score his third win of the season in the division. Miller, also three wins in 2024 at Attica, now has 50 career victories at Fremont Speedway. Zack Kramer took the initial lead in the 305 A-main with Paul Weaver, Stroup and Miller giving chase. Stroup had a nearly two second lead by lap seven when Miller, who started fifth, drove into second. Miller steadily chipped away at Stroup’s lead and pounced on lap 15 and drove to the win over Stroup, Bryan Sebetto, Weaver and Kramer.
In the Truck feature, Shawn Valenti seemed to have things in control when a caution came out for debris with just two laps remaining. That put Jamie Miller right on the leader’s rear bumper. On the restart Valenti went high and Miller low as they raced side by side to the white flag. Valenti, a four time truck champion at Fremont, nailed the top line in turns three and four on the final lap to score his 75th career win at Fremont over Jamie Miller, Keith Sorg, Dustin Keegan, and Dave Golembiewski
The Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame inductees included drivers Clay Corbitt, Bobby Clark, Bill Kraylek, Bobby Foster and Tom Beam with car owners Sharon Burmeister, Gary Heller and Dick “Soup” Sabo also inducted. Builders/mechanics being inducted were Rollie Alvers, Zane Scott and Lester Miller with lifetime contributors/supporters Joe Darr and Stan Barnes with Fort Ball Pizza Palace honored as the business inductee.
The 350 Outlaw Supermodifieds ran at Flat Rock Speedway (Michigan), in the first ever Flat Rock Grand Prix. Sawyer Stout was the winner. The recent Midwest Modified Tour (UMP Type) at Berlin Raceway was won by Brian Bergakker. The opening night of Indiana Midget week was rained out at Circle City Raceway. Ryan Timms won the following night at Lawrenceburg Speedway. Until next week, keep your wheels down. Ron out!
