By: Ron Burt
Many of you were at Eldora last weekend attending the annual 4 Crown races that featured the USAC Silver Crown cars, USAC Sprints and USAC National Midgets, along with the High Limit 410 Winged Sprints.
Mitchel Moles won his first Silver Crown race and took home $15,000.00 and the first place trophy. Current series point leader Kody Swanson took 2nd, Briggs Danner 3rd, Daison Pursley 4th & Brian Ruhlman 5th.
Daison Pursley had an undefeated weekend. He was a double winner taking home $30,000.00. Daison picked up the USAC Sprint Car win. Kevin Thomas Jr. finished 2nd, Logan Seavey 3rd, Kyle Cummins 4th & Robert Ballou 5th. Pursley also won the Midget feature. Ryan Timms had the crowd on their feet. He put on a show during the race, achieving the biggest charge of the USAC National Midget season by advancing from 20th to second, making the final pass on Seavey for the runner-up spot just three laps from the finish line. Logan Seavey finished third, Kevin Thomas Jr. was fourth and Chris Windom rounded out the top five after being collected in the opening lap accident. He started at the tail and drove his way back up through the field to fifth.
In the High Limit 410 Winged Sprint portion of the 4 Crown weekend Rico Abreu added another win this season to his victory column, along with a big payday. Jacob Allen was 2nd, Spencer Bayston 3rd, Anthony Macri 4th and Justin Peck 5th. I’m impressed with the Kubota High Limit Sprint Series that Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet put together. The series has been filling stands with spectator’s mid-week everywhere in the country with big pay-days everywhere they go and attracting more race teams and the top drivers. It looks like the series will add more dates in 2025.
Attica Raceway Park held their final race of the season last Friday. A caution flag with just one lap to go in the 410 sprint feature set up a shoot-out. Rookie Kasey Jedrzejek, 19, drove under Cap Henry on the last corner of the last lap to steal his first career division win. Jedrzejek, who has five 360 sprint wins this year, started fifth in the field and trailed early race leader Stuart Brubaker, Leyton Wagner, Chris Andrews, Cap Henry and Trey Jacobs early as only two cautions fell during the 30-lap feature for the 410 Sprints. Henry took second on lap 10 and drove into the lead at the halfway point and appeared headed to victory. Then the caution flew after the white flag had fallen setting up the shoot-out. At the restart Henry went to the bottom and Jedrzejek took to the cushion and got a tremendous run exiting turn two setting up the move in turn four to get the win over Henry, Cale Thomas, Brubaker and Kalib Henry. Cap Henry earned his third Attica 410 track championship to go with his 2024 Attica Fremont Championship Series title.
Rusty Schlenk led the first 10 laps of the 25-lap the UMP Late Model feature, Ashland, Ohio’s Ryan Markham drove under him to take the top spot and drive to his second win of the year. Schlenk, Casey Noonan, Mike Bores and Kyle Moore rounded out the top five. It’s Markham’s 25th career late model win at Attica. Moore earned his first ever Attica late model track title to go with his 2024 Wayne County Speedway championship as well.
Jimmy McGrath led the opening three laps of the 305 sprint feature before Seth Schneider took over. Schneider led until five laps to go when Dustin Stroup used lap cars to drive into the lead. Jamie Miller closed quickly on Stroup when the caution flew just after the white flag appeared, setting up another one lap shoot-out. Stroup hit his marks perfectly and drove to his third division win of the year at Attica, the eighth of his career at the track and the sixth overall feature win of 2024. Miller, Dustin Dinan, Schneider and Brendan Torok rounded out the top five. Jamie Miller earned his fifth 305 sprint division Attica title to go with his Attica Fremont Championship Series title for 2024. Until next week, keep your wheels down. Ron out!
