ATTICA, Ohio — Cole Macedo showed his maturity behind the wheel of a 410 sprint car Friday, April 22 at Attica Raceway Park.
Despite having several great runs for the lead wiped out by late race cautions, the California driver maintained his composure. When the green flag waved with just two laps to go Macedo stayed glued to Jordan Ryan’s rear bumper and entering the final set of turns on the last lap rocketed to the cushion and around Ryan for a last lap, last-corner pass for the win on Baumann Auto Group/Venture Visionary Partners Salute to Gene Frankart Night.
The win propels Macedo atop the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group point standings.
It was his third career win at “Ohio’s Finest Racing” venue.
“That was wild. I’ve never done that before….won on the last lap. I was struggling really bad on the restarts. I just couldn’t get to his (Ryan’s) bumper,” Macedo said. “There at the end I just said screw it and started hammering it as hard as I possibly could. I think the bottom was kind of going away on him (Ryan). We were tight but it was good when you hit it right. I saw…don’t know who it was (Zach Hampton)…almost slide me and I thought I’m either going to wreck or I’m going to win and luckily it paid off.”
Ryan finished second, with Zach Hampton, Tyler Gunn and Caleb Griffith rounding out the top five.
Canada’s Dylan Westbrook used heavy lapped traffic to take the lead from Nate Dussel on lap eight, then held off server challenges from Dussel and survived a one lap battle to the checkers to secure his first Attica victory with the Ohio Logistics National Racing Alliance 360 sprints.
“It seemed like the track changed a lot during that race and I got around the leader on top and then I saw him coming low…really had to move around a lot during that race. Traffic definitely helped me out…seemed like every time I got to a car they just seemed to part the way for me,” said Westbrook beside his Sovereign Fusion, Nitro 54, Cigar Depot, Robertson Restoration, Hill’s Racing backed machine.
Jamie Miller, the defending Fremont Fence 305 track champion drove around Bryan Sebetto with just five laps to go and then held off a late race charge from Sebetto to secure his second feature win of the year and 33rd of his career at Attica.
“I was just being patient and poking around on the bottom and he (Sebetto) finally moved down there to see what was there and I moved to the top and was able to drive around him. He pressured me for quite a while. I was having a hard time seeing the cushion…there was a lot of dust up there and I went to the bottom again and got through lapped traffic easy,” said Miller.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 18-Cole Macedo[6] ; 2. 25R-Jordan Ryan[7] ; 3. 35H-Zach Hampton[9] ; 4. 68G-Tyler Gunn[12] ; 5. 33W-Caleb Griffith[17] ; 6. 97-Greg Wilson[14] ; 7. 35-Stuart Brubaker[3] ; 8. 29-Zeth Sabo[15] ; 9. 3J-Trey Jacobs[13] ; 10. 5T-Travis Philo[2] ; 11. 47BC-Emerson Axson[16] ; 12. 12G-Corbin Gurley[19] ; 13. 49I-John Ivy[21] ; 14. 41-Thomas Schinderle[22] ; 15. 16-DJ Foos[4] ; 16. 8-Zach Ames[20] ; 17. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[18] ; 18. 14H-Zane DeVault[11] ; 19. 12-Kyle Capodice[1] ; 20. 99-Skyler Gee[10] ; 21. 19P-Paige Polyak[8] ; 22. 09-Craig Mintz[5] ; 23. 14-Danny Sams[24] ; 24. 23-Chris Andrews[23]