ATTICA, Ohio — It was good to be a Foos at Attica Raceway Park on Friday night.
Brothers D.J. Foos and Matt Foos won the 410 and 305 sprint car features at the third-mile dirt track.
For D.J. Foos, it marked his second win of the season at Attica and fifth overall feature win of 2021 as he owns three victories at Fremont Speedway as well. It marked his fourth career win in the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints at the track.
D.J. Foos had a spirited battle early with Byron Reed and Chris Andrews before assuming the lead on lap 14. A caution with five laps to go put Jacobs right on Foos’ rear bumper and the final five laps Jacobs raced under Foos to challenge but Foos was able to slam the door and take the victory.
“Truthfully, I looked up at the board. …I look at the board a lot,” Foos said. “I saw we had seven laps to go and said to myself ‘put seven good laps together’ then we got the yellow and I saw Trey (Jacobs) was in second and I knew where he was going to be. So I had to protect my line…I let him just enough room he could still make the corner.
“Last week I feel like I really missed out on one and I wasn’t going to let that happen to my guys. We have a lot of momentum right now. Our car is really really good. Mikey Sommers, Doug Berryman, Rod and Rollie Burmeister, Lee Sommers….they all do such a really good job on this car.”
Jacobs finished second, ahead of Reed, Travis Philo and Craig Mintz.
Matt Foos steadily worked his way from his 12th starting spot, waiting until the last three laps before taking the lead and held off Jamie Miller for the 305 victory.
“It’s good to have my dad back working with us. We’ve been steady most of the year. I just haven’t qualified well and that put us behind. Tonight it was the same thing. But the car was just so good. I knew once we got to third we had something for them,” said Matt Foos.
Rusty Schlenk had an early race battle with Matt Irey and then held off a charging Mike Bores to score his second Dirt Nerds Podcast/Propane.com UMP Late Model win of the season at Attica. It was his 30th career victory at the track and puts him atop the division’s all-time win list.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 16-DJ Foos[4] ; 2. 3J-Trey Jacobs[7] ; 3. 5-Byron Reed[1] ; 4. 5T-Travis Philo[6] ; 5. 09-Craig Mintz[9] ; 6. 2L-Landon LaLonde[8] ; 7. 27w-Tyler Gunn[3] ; 8. 12-Kyle Capodice[10] ; 9. 29-Zeth Sabo[11] ; 10. 11N-Harli White[13] ; 11. 9x-Ricky Peterson[15] ; 12. 14-Chad Kemenah[16] ; 13. 18J-RJ Jacobs[17] ; 14. 22m-Dan McCarron[14] ; 15. 40I-Mark Imler[20] ; 16. 28m-Conner Morrell[18] ; 17. 23-Chris Andrews[2] ; 18. 18-Cole Macedo[5] ; 19. 00-Tyler Street[19] ; 20. 1-Nate Dussel[12]
Hard Charger: 3J-Trey Jacobs +5