ATTICA, Ohio – Defending Attica Raceway Park 410 track champion Trey Jacobs has lamented the struggles his team has had late in the races during the first part of the year.
The team proved they can adjust as the Shreve, Ohio driver got by teenager Ryan Timms coming to the white flag to earn his third career win at “Ohio’s Finest Racing” speed plant Friday, April 29 on Smith Paving Night.
The win, worth $4,000, will help Jacobs edge closer to Cole Macedo in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products Attica Fremont Championship Series Presented by the Baumann Auto Group standings.
“It got a little hairy there in lapped traffic,” said Jacobs. “I was really good on the bottom and I felt like I could just kind of maintain on the top. Lapped cars were holding their line but they were running the bottom in my line so I tried to move around at the wrong time and got dicing it up there with the 18 car (Macedo). Luckily it seemed like lapped car moved out of the way and I was able to track down… that young Timms kid is one hell of a race car driver. I’m telling you what, 15 years old to come here first time ever and do that is pretty damn impressive.
“We’ve been really good unloading out of the box we just seem to not making the right adjustments by A-main time,” Jacobs continued. “Part of it is I gained a little bit of wait on my left hand ring figure during the off–season so I think I’m turning the wheel a little too much…I’m left hand down on the wheel so we just had to compensate for that. Once we got that dialed in we’re good to go now.”
In the 305 sprints, Logan Riehl, in only his third year of sprint car racing, won his very first sprint car feature by .207 seconds over Larry Kingseed Jr. The top four of Riehl, Kingseed, Paul Weaver and Jamie Miller were separated by .63 seconds at the checkered flag.
“I don’t really know what to say….this is incredible,” Riehl said. “I seen Larry right there and he was with me the entire time. I just try to make the best 25 laps I can and see where we stand at the end of it. It feels pretty good to be in this division. There’s a lot of competition and about 10 to 15 cars can win every night. I have to thank my mom and dad, my brothers, my girlfriend, Riehl Custom Fab and Chassis Repair, A & M Transport, Cornerstone Farms, Bascom Diesel Supply, Ely Clouse Machining, Milligan’s Irish Pub and RPK Enterprises.”
In UMP Late Models, three time and defending UMP Late Model track champion Devin Shiels held off challenges from J.R. Gentry to score his second straight win.
“I knew Gentry and (Ryan) Markham were going to be fast on the top so I moved around a lot to see which was better…I couldn’t make up my mind,” said Shiels. “This car really likes the slick and the dirt has grip when you get here and then slicks off when the sprints run 30 laps. This car just comes alive. It was a total team effort. Jason pretty much changed the whole car after the heat race and went back to what we had last week and improved on it.”