ATTICA, Ohio — Trey Jacobs executed a phenomenal move in the last corners of the last lap of the 410 sprint feature at Attica Raceway Park Friday night, muscling his way under race-long leader Cole Macedo to grab earn his second victory of the season.
Jacobs, whose dad Dean has a track championship at Attica, has had fantastic month, winning two features at Attica and a pair at his home track of Wayne County Speedway. With the win, Jacobs adds to his point lead in the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints with only three events left in the 2021 season.
At one point in the 30-lap feature Macedo had built up a nearly three second lead but lapped traffic and a steady pace on the bottom of the track by Jacobs saw that shrink to just 1.8 seconds with six laps to go.
By lap 27 Jacobs could see Macedo and as they raced to the white flag Jacobs dove under Macedo as the two raced down the backstretch nose-to-tail. Macedo had a pair of lapped cars to content with entering the final two turns and slowed just a little and Jacobs pounced, driving under for the lead and the win.
“I started running the top over here in three and four and then moved down…I know the bottom would still be pretty good…the top was getting pretty thin. So I just started committing to the bottom and I saw some lapped cars there in front of him. I got a really good run on him in one and two and I wasn’t sure what he’d do going into three and he kind of ….I don’t know if he panicked or wasn’t sure anybody was that close. He just left me enough room on entry to get underneath him. I shoved it in there…I wasn’t going to hit him…I don’t race like that. I shoved it in there and I knew it would stick on the bottom and luckily we were able to get it done at the finish,” said Jacobs.
Macedo finished second, ahead of Greg Wilson, D.J. Foos and Caleb Griffith.
In the 25 lap Dirt Nerds Podcast/Propane.com UMP Late Model feature, several multi-car incidents marred the first half of the race. But it was a restart on lap 11 that proved to be the turning point. Nathon Loney drove under Ryan Missler to take the lead on lap 12 and pulled away for the victory, his first at Attica.
Paul Weaver just keeps adding to his win total at Attica Raceway Park. Weaver picked up his sixth 305 victory of the season Friday, his 11th overall victory of 2021 (five at Fremont Speedway). It is Weaver’s 62nd career 305 win at the track and coupled with his three 410 feature wins, leads all drivers with victories in the history of Attica.
The finish:
1. 3J-Trey Jacobs[5] ; 2. 18-Cole Macedo[2] ; 3. 97-Greg Wilson[7] ; 4. 16-DJ Foos[10] ; 5. 33W-Caleb Griffith[8] ; 6. 35-Stuart Brubaker[4] ; 7. 5-Byron Reed[13] ; 8. 14R-Sean Rayhall[1] ; 9. 18J-RJ Jacobs[9] ; 10. 23-Chris Andrews[3] ; 11. 2-Ricky Peterson[6] ; 12. 27S-John Ivy[11] ; 13. 88N-Frank Neill[15] ; 14. 7T-Troy Vaccaro[16] ; 15. 9W-Lance Webb[12] ; 16. 14-Jared Horstman[14] ; 17. 12-Kyle Capodice[17]