Alvin Roepke shakes off rust to take race at Fremont
Skylar Gee is coming around.
The Leduc Alberta driver from Canada sliced his way through lapped traffic at Fremont Speedway like a surgeon Saturday to earn his second 410 sprint win of the season on Crown Battery Night.
After a caution following the first lap, the remaining 24 of the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprint A-main went non-stop. Gee moved everywhere on the track to pick off lapped cars to lead all 25 laps for the $4,000 payday.
“I used to hate it when it got like this here but my guys worked hard all night," Gee said. "We weren’t great in hot laps and qualifying but got better in the heat. I don’t have any complaints, that was a lot of fun.
"The last few times we’ve been here we haven’t been all that great. We made a bunch of changes and got better. We won two off the bat and then kind of struggled here the last couple of weeks."
Cap Henry padded his lead in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products 410 Attica Fremont Championship Series with a second-place finish. Defending Fremont track champion Craig Mintz, Hunter Schuerenberg and Travis Philo rounded out the top five.
Elmore's Alvin Roepke, in only his second outing of the season, drove from his 13th starting spot in the Fremont Federal Credit Union 305 Sprint feature to the lead on Lap 17. He drove to his 12th career win at Speedway.
“We knocked the rust off the last time we were here," Roepke said. "We did a couple of things to the car and went back and threw everything we had in it and I thought well if we can just make the feature we’d be alright.
"I have to thank my brother Danny. He’s been helping me for so long and I’m going to dedicate this win to him."
With his runner-up finish, three time NAPA Auto Parts Attica Fremont Championship Series champion Paul Weaver adds to his series point lead. Tyler Shullick stormed from 16th to a third-place finish with Bryan Sebetto and Jamie Miller rounding out the top five.
Defending Burmeister Trophy Dirt Truck track champion Jamie Miller held off a late-race charge from Cory McCaughey to score his second division win of the year. Coupled with his two 305 sprint wins, Miller has 42 career victories at Fremont.
Miller refused to budge off the bottom of the track and a caution with three laps to go allowed McCaughey to try the high line and he made it interesting at the checkers. Dana Fry, Dustin Keegan and Dan Hennig completed the top five.
“Let’s keep adding onto those win totals and hopefully we will continue to be up here at the end of the night," Miller said. "I knew [McCaughey] would be running the top. I thought about going up there and trying it but no one was getting to me so I was just going to keep doing what I was doing."
Speedway is host Saturday to Northern Ohio Trailer Sales with an all sprint car racing card. The AFCE 410 and 305 sprints will be joined by the Great Lakes Super Sprint 360s.
This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Defending champ Jamie Miller earns Fremont victory
