Sebetto
gets late race Fremont pass for FAST
weekend sweep; Foos gets 3rd 305
victory; Roepke tames trucks
Saturday, June 16,
2012
By Brian Liskai
FREMONT, Ohio – Bryan Sebetto
stalked Byron Reed for several laps
Saturday at Fremont Speedway. When a
lapped machine held Reed up ever so
slightly, Sebetto pounced to take
the lead and drove off for his
second victory of the season at “The
Track That Action Built” on Crown
Battery Night.
It was a clean
sweep of the weekend for the Fremont, Ohio driver,
as he claimed the win the night
prior at Attica
Raceway
Park.
Sebetto, the defending Fremont
Speedway champion, increased his
point lead in the $10,000-to-win
Kistler Racing Products Fremont
Attica Sprint Title (FAST)
Championship Series with the
back-to-back wins as he looks to
repeat as the FAST champion.
“That was my only
shot because Byron was good. Once he
got by me I was messing around on
the bottom in one and two…I was good
early in the race but he blew around
me on the top so I had to go back up
and run the groove he was running. I
think I was getting through three
and four a little better than he
was. I was closing but not by much.
I knew it was going to take lapped
traffic to win it because I wasn’t
going to beat him in an open race
track,” explained Sebetto of his
winning move.
“We swept the
weekend and won the Australian
Pursuit (worth $1,000 from Crown
Battery in memory of Alex
Burkett)…this weekend is awesome. It
was Crown Battery and they are our
major sponsor…it was
storybook…couldn’t get any better,”
continued Sebetto in the Engine Pro
Victory Lane beside his Hammer
Pallets, Keizer Wheels, Gressman
Powersports, OC Shocks, JLH General
Contractors backed machine.
The win – the 19th
in Sebetto’s career at Fremont –
gives his Randy and Lisa Hammer
owned team a lot of momentum heading
into the 30th Annual Ohio
Sprint Speedweek – 9 straight nights
of racing across Ohio.
“I want to get out
and do some racing. This has been my
dream and passion since I was a kid.
And now I have the opportunity to
get out on the road and see if I
have what it takes. I want to get
some laps on some different race
tracks and learn some stuff so that
hopefully when I come back here it
makes me that much better,” said
Sebetto. “This helps my confidence a
lot. I can’t thank my guys enough.
Aaron Hammer my crew chief and Guhn
and Timmy P. and Gibbs…everyone that
comes down and helps on this thing.”
Fremont’s D.J. Foos is
nearly unbeatable this season. He
passed Paige Polyak with eight laps
to go and went on to take his third
win of the season in the Fremont
Federal Credit Union 305 Sprints.
Foos has eight wins in 2012
including five at Attica
Raceway
Park.
“Lapped traffic was
hard to get around. I kind of just
maneuvered my way around. My brother
(Matt) said they were messing
everyone up behind me. I couldn’t
get through turns three and four
early. I finally just manned up and
drove through it,” said Foos beside
his Buckshot Farms, Crown Battery,
Level Performance, Automatic Fire
Protection, Tender Turn Car Wash,
Pit Stop Carryout backed machine.
“My dad (Dave) made
a call before we went out to take
some stagger out of it. I told him I
really didn’t like that so he made
an adjustment to help what he wanted
to help and man this thing was a
rocket ship so happy Father’s Day
dad,” added Foos, thanking his
sponsors Gyro Motorsports, Kistler
Racing Products, Linder’s Speed
Equipment, JLH General Contractors
and Schiets Motorsports. “I have to
thank Dennis Level, Guy Meyers, Dale
Arnold and my brother Matt…they
build one awesome motor.”
For the second week
in a row, Bob Dible experienced
mechanical problems while leading.
This time, Dan Roepke Jr., last
season’s rookie of the year, was
there to take advantage and he drove
away for the victory in the Fremont
Fence Dirt Trucks.
“That felt pretty
easy compared to how we’ve been
doing. We haven’t changed a whole
lot on the truck, just switched a
few things here and there and it
seemed to work out pretty good,”
said Roepke in the Engine
Pro Victory Lane
beside his Perkins Tree Service,
Village Inn, Johnny’s Electric. “It
would have been a good race with
Bob…I’m not sure who would have gave
first because we were both good on
the bottom.”
Chris Andrews and
Brandon Martin would bring the field
to the green in the 30 lap feature
for the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410
Sprints. Andrews would charge into
the lead with Martin, Sebetto, Reed,
Mike Linder and Duane Zablocki in
tow. Action would grind to a halt
after two laps were scored when Jared
Ridge
flipped hard in turn three. Ridge
was not injured, but repairs had to
be made to the catch fence.
Andrews would power
away on the restart with Sebetto and
Reed driving around Martin. As
Andrews went unchallenged up front,
Sebetto and Reed began a good battle
for second with Martin, Linder,
Zablocki, Todd Heller, Brad Bowman,
Phil Gressman and 15th
place starter Dean Jacobs in tow.
With seven laps in the books, Reed
would drive around Sebetto for the
runner-up soot and two laps later,
drove under Andrews exiting turn two
to grab the lead.
Sebetto would grab
second on lap 11 with Andrews
fighting back as they raced
side-by-side through the half-way
point when the caution would fly
when Heller and Craig Mintz got
together in turn one. On the
restart, Reed had three lapped cars
between himself and Sebetto with
Andrews, Linder, Martin, Zablocki,
Jacobs and Gressman in tow.
Reed would rocket
away on the restart, but Sebetto
quickly disposed of the lapped cars
and began closing while Linder would
slip under Andrews for third. With
10 laps to go, the leaders would
begin racing into lapped traffic
again, and as they flew into turn
one, Sebetto made his winning move,
using a lapped car as a pick to
drive under Reed for the lead.
Reed would stay
close over the next couple of laps,
but once cleared of traffic, Sebetto
would drive away for the win. Reed,
Linder, Andrews and Jacobs would
round out the top five.
“That is the best
running motor in the pit area. This
thing makes awesome horsepower, good
torque and it throttles…that’s the
big thing, making it so it drives
and throttles. Scott Gressman hit
the nail on the head with this
thing. It runs in a wet race track,
dry race track. I can bury it in the
cushion, dry slick…it doesn’t
matter,” said Sebetto of his winning
edge.
Alvin Roepke and
Jimmy Colvin would pace the field in
the 305 sprint feature, with Roepke
gaining the advantage at the drop of
the green. On lap two, Paige Polyak
would drive into second and a lap
later fifth starter Foos would grab
third. By lap five it was Roepke
holding a narrow advantage over
Polyak with Foos, Caleb Griffith and
Dustin Dinan in tow.
Josh Harrison would
coast to a stop in turn two on lap
eight to bring out the caution, and
on the restart, Polyak drove under
Roepke to take the lead. After a lap
was scored, the caution would fly
for a Nate Dussel spin. On the
restart, Foos and Griffith would
both get around Roepke as Polyak set
sail.
Polyak would hit
lapped traffic on lap 14, allowing
Foos to close with Griffith,
Roepke, John Ivy and Dinan in
pursuit. Foos would execute a slide
job in turns three and four to grab
the lead as they raced to the line
to complete the 17th lap.
Things would get hairy with four
laps to go as the leaders drove into
heavy lapped traffic that was racing
side by side in front of them. Foos
sliced his way through like a
surgeon as Polyak and Griffith were
held up.
Foos would drive
away for his sixth career win at Fremont, with
Griffith
getting by Polyak for second on the
last lap while Roepke and Ivy would
round out the top five.
Brad Mitten and
Jimmy McGrath Jr. brought the dirt
truck field to the green for their
15 lap feature with McGrath leading
the first circuit by a nose. Dible
would drive from third into the lead
on lap two with McGrath in pursuit
while Mitten, Steve Sabo, Dustin
Keegan, Art Ball, John Ivy and Dan
Roepke Jr. waging a tremendous
battle for third.
McGrath would slip
up the track exiting turn two on lap
seven, as Roepke drove from fourth
to second. A lap later and Dible’s
run at the point would come to an
end when his left rear wheel came
off, handing the lead to Roepke, as
the remaining 12 laps would be run
caution-free.
On the ensuing
restart, Roepke would power away
with Sabo, McGrath, Ivy, Mitten,
Dustin Keegan, Ball and 20th
starter Cory Ward battling hard for
second. Roepke would encounter
lapped traffic with six laps to go,
but his big lead gave him the
cushion to take his time picking
through the field. Meanwhile, Ivy
grabbed second on lap 12 with
McGrath and Sabo in pursuit.
Roepke would coast
to his fourth career win with Ivy,
McGrath, Sabo and Ball rounding out
the top five.
There is no racing
at Fremont Speedway on Saturday,
June 23, but The Track That Action
Built will host the University of
Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit
of Champions on Wednesday, June 27
for night #6 of the Ohio Sprint
Speedweek on JLH General Contractors
Night, and the $10,000 to win grand
finale of speedweek on Saturday,
June 30 on Fort Ball Pizza Palace
Night.
Go to www.fremontohspeedway.com
for more information.
Fremont Speedway
- 6/16/2012
Crown Battery
Night
Fort Ball Pizza
Palace 410 Sprints
(24 Cars)
[#]-Starting
Position
Qualifying -
Callie's Performance
1. 14H-Todd Heller,
12.996; 2. 55-Brad Bowman, 13.039;
3. 5R-Byron Reed, 13.058; 4.
24H-Bryan Sebetto, 13.096; 5.
9Z-Duane Zablocki, 13.133; 6. 3-Mike
Linder, 13.139; 7. 9X-Brandon
Martin, 13.236; 8. 16-Chris Andrews,
13.267; 9. W20-Greg Wilson, 13.279;
10. 53-Phil Gressman, 13.294; 11.
40-Caleb Helms, 13.434; 12.
45L-Brian Lay, 13.475; 13. O9-Craig
Mintz, 13.487; 14. 2+-Brian Smith,
13.494; 15. 97-Dean Jacobs, 13.518;
16. 12-Jarred Ridge, 13.528; 17.
60-Jody Keegan, 13.564; 18. 3T-Tony
Beaber, 13.579; 19. 46AU-Stuart
Williams, 13.589; 20. O-Lee Jacobs,
13.589; 21. 14-Chad Wilson,
13.590; 22. 5T-Travis Philo, 13.786;
23. O6-Brandy Bower, 14.139; 24.
35-Stuart Brubaker, 14.228
Heat 1 - (8 Laps -
Top 5 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 12-Jarred
Ridge[1] ; 2. 53-Phil Gressman[3] ;
3. 9X-Brandon Martin[4] ; 4.
O9-Craig Mintz[2] ; 5. 24H-Bryan
Sebetto[5] ; 6. 46AU-Stuart
Williams[7] ; 7. 5T-Travis Philo[8]
; 8. 14H-Todd Heller[6]
Heat 2 - (8 Laps -
Top 5 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 2+-Brian
Smith[2] ; 2. 60-Jody Keegan[1] ; 3.
16-Chris Andrews[4] ; 4. 55-Brad
Bowman[6] ; 5. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[5]
; 6. O-Lee Jacobs[7] ; 7. 40-Caleb
Helms[3] ; 8. O6-Brandy Bower[8]
Heat 3 - (8 Laps -
Top 5 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 97-Dean
Jacobs[2] ; 2. W20-Greg Wilson[4]
; 3. 3T-Tony Beaber[1] ; 4. 5R-Byron
Reed[6] ; 5. 45L-Brian Lay[3] ; 6.
3-Mike Linder[5] ; 7. 35-Stuart
Brubaker[8] ; 8. 14-Chad Wilson[7]
Australian Persuit
- Dash Sponsor (10 Laps - Top -
finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 24H-Bryan
Sebetto[1] ; 2. 97-Dean Jacobs[2] ;
3. 5R-Byron Reed[3] ; 4. O9-Craig
Mintz[4] ; 5. 53-Phil Gressman[5] ;
6. 3-Mike Linder[6] ; 7. 60-Jody
Keegan[8] ; 8. 2+-Brian Smith[7]
B-Main - Computer
Man Inc. (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers
transfer to the A-feature)
1. 3-Mike Linder[2]
; 2. 14H-Todd Heller[1] ; 3.
46AU-Stuart Williams[4] ; 4.
40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 5. O-Lee
Jacobs[5] ; 6. 5T-Travis Philo[7] ;
7. 35-Stuart Brubaker[9] ; 8.
14-Chad Wilson[6]
; 9. O6-Brandy Bower[8]
A-Main - (30 Laps)
1. 24H-Bryan
Sebetto[4]; 2. 5R-Byron Reed[5]; 3.
3-Mike Linder[8]; 4. 16-Chris
Andrews[1]; 5. 97-Dean Jacobs[15];
6. 53-Phil Gressman[10]; 7.
9X-Brandon Martin[2]; 8. 2+-Brian
Smith[14]; 9. O-Lee Jacobs[20]; 10.
O9-Craig Mintz[13]; 11. 9Z-Duane
Zablocki[3]; 12. W20-Greg Wilson[9];
13. 40-Caleb Helms[11]; 14. 14H-Todd
Heller[7]; 15. 45L-Brian Lay[12];
16. 60-Jody Keegan[17]; 17.
46AU-Stuart Williams[19]; 18.
55-Brad Bowman[6]; 19. 3T-Tony
Beaber[18]; 20. 12-Jarred Ridge[16]
Hard Charger: O-Lee
Jacobs[+11]
Fremont Federal Credit
Union 305 Sprints (19 Cars)
[#]-Starting
Position
Heat 1 - (8 Laps -
Top 7 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 5-Dustin
Dinan[1] ; 2. 68G-Tyler Gunn[2] ; 3.
9-Jimmy Colvin[3] ; 4. 4X-John
Ivy[6] ; 5. 58-Nate Dussel[5] ; 6.
10X-Dustin Stroup[4] ; 7. 5R-Jordan
Ryan[7]
Heat 2 - (8 Laps -
Top 7 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 40-Caleb Griffith[1]
; 2. 4M-Jamie Miller[4] ; 3.
11F-D.J. Foos[3] ; 4. 10S-Roger
Shammo[2] ; 5. 36-Seth Schneider[6]
; 6. 13D-Jeremy Duposki[5]
Heat 3 - (8 Laps -
Top 7 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 27-Paige
Polyak[1] ; 2. OO-Alvin Roepke[2] ;
3. 25-Jason Keckler[3] ; 4. 8J-Jess
Stiger[5] ; 5. 10-Josh Harrison[6]
; 6. 77S-Jim Sipe[4]
A-Main - (25 Laps)
1. 11F-D.J.
Foos[5]; 2. 40-Caleb Griffith[6];
3. 27-Paige Polyak[3]; 4. OO-Alvin
Roepke[1]; 5. 4X-John Ivy[7]; 6.
5-Dustin Dinan[4]; 7. 4M-Jamie
Miller[8]; 8. 9-Jimmy Colvin[2]; 9.
10X-Dustin Stroup[16]; 10. 5R-Jordan
Ryan[19]; 11. 25-Jason Keckler[9];
12. 58-Nate Dussel[13]; 13.
10S-Roger Shammo[11]; 14. 68G-Tyler
Gunn[12]; 15. 8J-Jess Stiger[10];
16. 36-Seth Schneider[14]; 17.
13D-Jeremy Duposki[17]; 18. 77S-Jim
Sipe[18]; 19. 10-Josh Harrison[15]
Hard Charger:
5R-Jordan Ryan[+9]
Fremont Fence Dirt Trucks
(22 Trucks)
[#]-Starting
Position
Heat 1 - (8 Laps -
Top 8 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 88-Dan Roepke
Jr.[1] ; 2. 16-Steve Sabo[3] ; 3.
23M-Brad Mitten[2] ; 4. 4X-Brian
Sorg[4] ; 5. 3G-Dave Gibbs[5] ; 6.
9-Curt Inks[7] ; 7. 95-Keith Sorg[6]
; 8. 73-Cody Basiner[8]
Heat 2 - (8 Laps -
Top 8 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. O1-Art Ball[3] ;
2. 94-John Ivy[6] ; 3. 8-Steve
Endicott[2] ; 4. 99X-Gene
Potridge[7] ; 5. 41C-Chad Stahl[1] ;
6. 115-Ben Good[4] ; 7. 18W-Cory
Ward[5]
Heat 3 - (8 Laps -
Top 8 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 17-Bob Dible[2]
; 2. 5JR-Jimmy McGrath Jr.[1] ; 3.
P51-Willie Keegan[5] ; 4. D1-Dustin
Keegan[6] ; 5. 5-Jim Mc Grath Sr.[4]
; 6. 72-Eric Potridge[3] ; 7.
8KB-Kent Brewer[7]
A-Main - (20 Laps)
1. 88-Dan Roepke
Jr.[7]; 2. 94-John Ivy[8]; 3.
5JR-Jimmy McGrath Jr.[2]; 4.
16-Steve Sabo[4]; 5. O1-Art Ball[6];
6. 18W-Cory Ward[20]; 7. D1-Dustin
Keegan[5]; 8. 8KB-Kent Brewer[21];
9. 23M-Brad Mitten[1]; 10. 9-Curt
Inks[16]; 11. 8-Steve Endicott[11];
12. P51-Willie Keegan[10]; 13.
4X-Brian Sorg[9]; 14. 5-Jim Mc Grath
Sr.[15]; 15. 99X-Gene Potridge[12];
16. 41C-Chad Stahl[14]; 17. 115-Ben
Good[17]; 18. 72-Eric Potridge[18];
19. 73-Cody Basiner[22]; 20.
95-Keith Sorg[19]; 21. 17-Bob
Dible[3]; 22. 3G-Dave Gibbs[13]
Hard Charger:
18W-Cory Ward[+14]
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Results Provided by: Computer Man
Inc. Fremont, OH
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