Cap Henry earns 15th career win at Speedway
Cap Henry sliced his way through traffic like a surgeon Saturday and drove to his second straight 410 feature win at Fremont Speedway on Ohio Laborers Night.
Henry has three wins at Fremont this season. He took the lead from rookie Kasey Jedrzejek on Lap 7 of the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprints feature and caught lapped traffic perfectly, passing one by one to claim his 15th career win at Fremont.
“Last thing you want to do when you start on the pole is get beat by a rookie into turn one and Kasey did a good job there," Henry said. "By the time that first caution came out I realized we had a pretty good car and just had to maintain it.
"I didn’t know if that caution at the end helped me or hurt me but Zack (Myers, crew chief) told me to go so I knew we had to get with it. I’m just super grateful for everyone that’s involved in this."
Henry survived a late three lap shootout after a caution, driving away from Travis Philo and Cole Macedo.
"This car has been so good," Henry said. "It’s made racing a lot of fun again. I got lucky when I was dealing with lapped cars. I was dealing with them one at a time and not two or three wide. It was a tricky race track but I give the track crew a lot of credit.
"For what we started out with and what it was at the end was a lot of fun."
Piqua's Travis Hery inherited the lead on Lap 19 of the Great Lakes Traditional Sprints 25 lap feature after race-long leader Larry Kingseed had a right rear tire come off. On a challenging track, Hery held off several challenges from Keith Sheffer the last four laps for his first ever Fremont win.
“It was pretty gnarly there in one and two and I biked up pretty good on that last restart," Hery said. "I don’t know if it got in my head or something got messed up in the car but it got pretty tight."
Fremont's Jamie Miller made it a sweep of the weekend in 305 sprint competition, leading all 25 laps to claim his second win of the season at Fremont. Miller, who won Friday at Attica Raceway Park, picked his way through traffic to claim his 41st career win at Fremont, putting him 11th on the all-time list.
“The lapped cars were coming pretty fast," Miller said. "I just tried to hold the line and keep the car under me and stay out of the holes and keep the gas pedal down. The car motor combination is on point right now.
"We’re getting the car dialed in. It’s a fast hot rod."
Speedway is host Saturday to All Pro Aluminum Cylinder/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series 410 sprints, the NAPA of Bryan AFCS 305 sprints and Burmeister Trophy Dirt Trucks. The induction ceremony for the Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame is at 2:30 p.m. in the covered grandstands.
This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Jamie Miller sweeps 305 sprints at Fremont, Attica
