ATTICA, Ohio — Cole Macedo and his Ray Brooks Racing team have been fast all year but little mechanical issues or bad luck has limited the victories.
Friday night the team put that all behind them and Macedo dominated the 410 sprint feature at Attica Raceway Park, winning by nearly five seconds.
It was Macedo’s second victory of the year at Attica in the Callie’s Performance Products 410 Sprints and the fifth overall for him in 2021 and was worth $4,000.
It also edges him closer to D.J. Foos in the All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads/Kistler Racing Products 410 Attica Fremont Championship Series presented by the Baumann Auto Group standings.
“That just shows how good my car is,” Macedo said. “We’ve been this fast all year long and just had little things that happened that we’ve learned from and made our car better and it paid off. It’s a dream come true coming here this year and racing for these guys…they treat me so well and give me a great race car every night. I’m just having fun with these guys every night.”
Veteran Ohio campaigner Byron Reed finished second, with Trey Jacobs, Craig Mintz and Foos rounding out the top five.
It was a good thing the Dirt Nerds Podcast/Propane.com UMP Late Model A-main was only 25 laps. Ryan Markham survived a one-lap battle to the checkers following a caution after the white flag had flown and held off Ryan Missler for his third victory of the season at Attica and the 19th of his career at the track.
“There’s been a lot of back and forth going on out there this year that’s for sure. That caution came out there when we were coming to get the checkers and I was like oh man. We wouldn’t have made it 25 and half laps…she broke. She free-revved right at the line,” said Markham.
After a thrilling battle early in the Fremont Fence 305 A-main, Matt Foos took the lead from Macedo on lap five and held off a late race charge from both Jamie Miller and Paul Weaver to score his second win of the season at Attica.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 18-Cole Macedo[3] ; 2. 5-Byron Reed[1] ; 3. 3J-Trey Jacobs[9] ; 4. 09-Craig Mintz[5] ; 5. 16-DJ Foos[10] ; 6. 22-Cole Duncan[2] ; 7. 1-Nate Dussel[4] ; 8. 23-Chris Andrews[19] ; 9. 2-Ricky Peterson[6] ; 10. 00-Jamie Miller[23] ; 11. 22M-Dan McCarron[11] ; 12. 18J-RJ Jacobs[13] ; 13. 12-Kyle Capodice[8] ; 14. 27S-John Ivy[16] ; 15. 2L-Landon LaLonde[18] ; 16. 83-Wes McIntyre[22] ; 17. 7T-Troy Vaccaro[15] ; 18. 20-Danial Burkhart[17] ; 19. 75-Jerry Dahms[21] ; 20. 14-Chad Wilson[14] ; 21. 14R-Sean Rayhall[12] ; 22. 35-Stuart Brubaker[7] ; 23. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[20]