Cap Henry won the opening night of the Ford Classic at Fremont (Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
From Brian Liskai
FREMONT, OH (September 12, 2025) — I get knocked down, but I get up again…you are never gonna keep me down. I get knocked down, but I get up again. You are never gonna keep me down.” – Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.
That describes Cap Henry Friday, Sept. 12 at Fremont Speedway presented by Gill Construction. The Republic, Ohio driver slid off the high side of turn four battling to retain the lead on lap six of the 35-lap NAPA Auto Parts All Star Circuit of Champions Presented by Valvoline and slid back to fifth. It looked like Henry’s bid for another feature win was in jeopardy.
Darin Naida took the lead and fended off several challenges from Bryce Lucius despite a hand full of cautions which necessitated a fuel stop on lap 17. Henry had raced his way back to second. When the race resumed Naida now held off challenges from Henry. With 10 laps to go Henry drove under Naida to take the lead and despite a caution with four laps to go, drove off to his fifth win of the season at “The Track That Action Built” on Kistler Engines Night over Kasey Jedrzejek, Naida, 22nd starter Kalib Henry and Cale Thomas. Henry’s charge from 22nd to fourth keeps him atop the All Star championship chase heading into their last event Saturday at Fremont.
It is Henry’s 16 overall victory of 2025 (leads the nation), his third straight All Star win and 11th series victory of his career and his first at Fremont since 2020. He now has 26 career wins at Fremont Speedway
“I watched a pretty cool interview with Bloomquist (Scott) and Stewart (Tony) a couple of weeks ago and it was talking about driver intros and nobody saying anything when they get introduced and Bloomquist going and half the field booing and half the field cheering and Tony said the same thing and Earnhardt telling him if everybody is quiet no one likes you at all. I’m just proud of my guys. That was a tough deal there losing the lead. I thought that was going to be detrimental and we go that open red and Zack (Myers, crew chief) kind of tweaked on that thing a little and we got to move around a little bit and figure the car out. To have a season like this I honestly never thought it would happen. I’m just so grateful for everybody. Fremont’s always been special and the Jim Ford Classic is special to me,” said Henry beside his Premier Planning Service, Jeff Ward Demolition, Ohio Logistics, Primal Tee Shop, Innovative Excavating, Elliott’s Custom Trailers and Carts, FK Rod Ends, King Racing, Griff’s Engines; Berryman Racing Shocks, Callie’s Performance Products, Dyers, Power Cool Manufacturing, SCS Gearbox, Tony Elliott Foundation backed #33W.
Jedrzejek, who won last Saturday at Fremont, a collapsed front wing early had him scrambling.
“We were solid all night. The nose wing fell down the first lap of the race. I just tried to limp my way to the open red and stay up as far front as I could. Once we got that fixed I took a few laps to figure out where to put my top wing and we started passing some cars. Wish we could have gotten to lapped traffic to see if we had anything for Cap,” said Jedrzejek.
Naida was disappointed after leading a lot of laps.
“We’ve been struggling a little on and off here all year with just difference stuff but Fremont just kind of feels like home for it. We’ve been really good here all year early in the night when it has moisture in it…need to get better when it dries out,” said Naida.
The Burmeister Trophy Dirt Trucks were split into two fields for two feature events. In the first 25-lap feature Craig Dippman took the lead on lap three and held off challenge after challenge from Shawn Valenti to score his second career Fremont win. In the second feature Steve fended off challenges the final three laps by Kent Brewer to score his second career Fremont win.
The 18th Annual Jim Ford Classic will wrap up Saturday, Sept. 13 at Fremont Speedway for the $10,000 to win All Star event, the 139th visit of the series to Fremont. The All Stars will crown their 2025 champion as well. The 305 sprints will also be in competition.
Jim and Joanne Ford Classic
NAPA All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Valvoline
Fremont Speedway
Fremont, Ohio
Friday, September 12, 2025
Capitol Renegade Qualifying Flight A (2 Laps)
1. 70-Henry Malcuit, 12.816[10]
2. 32-Bryce Lucius, 12.829[9]
3. 51-Scott Bogucki, 12.833[13]
4. 34-Sterling Cling, 12.847[15]
5. 29-Zeth Sabo, 12.885[6]
6. 15C-Chris Andrews, 12.912[2]
7. 01-Bryan Sebetto, 13.013[14]
8. 10TS-Tyler Schiets, 13.046[11]
9. 2+-Brian Smith, 13.075[5]
10. 28N-Trey Jacobs, 13.105[8]
11. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 13.109[17]
12. 38-Leyton Wagner, 13.130[1]
13. 4-Zane DeVault, 13.176[7]
14. 101-Kalib Henry, 13.279[3]
15. X-Mike Keegan, 13.290[4]
16. 6J-Jonah Aumend, 13.325[12]
17. 2MD-Aiden Price, 16.602[16]
Capitol Renegade Qualifying Flight B (2 Laps)
1. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek, 12.566[1]
2. 33W-Cap Henry, 12.571[4]
3. 22-Brandon Spithaler, 12.709[14]
4. 16-DJ Foos, 12.762[2]
5. 7N-Darin Naida, 12.764[9]
6. 49X-Cale Thomas, 12.818[16]
7. 20B-Cody Bova, 12.822[11]
8. 19H-Joel Myers Jr, 12.826[3]
9. 19-TJ Michael, 12.853[12]
10. 5-Kody Brewer, 12.853[13]
11. 45-Devon Borden, 12.934[15]
12. 15K-Creed Kemenah, 12.963[8]
13. 98-Ky Harper, 13.031[5]
14. W20-Greg Wilson, 13.095[6]
15. 16B-Ty Williams, 13.868[7]
16. 75-Jerry Dahms, 14.641[10]
Premier Planning Premier Planning Heat Race #1 (8 Laps)
1. 01-Bryan Sebetto[1]
2. 29-Zeth Sabo[2]
3. 51-Scott Bogucki[3]
4. 35-Stuart Brubaker[6]
5. 4-Zane DeVault[7]
6. X-Mike Keegan[8]
7. 2+-Brian Smith[5]
8. 70-Henry Malcuit[4]
9. 2MD-Aiden Price[9]
All Pro All Pro Heat Race #2 (8 Laps)
1. 15C-Chris Andrews[2]
2. 32-Bryce Lucius[4]
3. 10TS-Tyler Schiets[1]
4. 34-Sterling Cling[3]
5. 28N-Trey Jacobs[5]
6. 101-Kalib Henry[7]
7. 38-Leyton Wagner[6]
8. 6J-Jonah Aumend[8]
Adaptive One Adaptive One Heat Race #3 (8 Laps)
1. 7N-Darin Naida[2]
2. 20B-Cody Bova[1]
3. 22-Brandon Spithaler[3]
4. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[4]
5. 19-TJ Michael[5]
6. 98-Ky Harper[7]
7. 45-Devon Borden[6]
8. 16B-Ty Williams[8]
Bazell Race Fuels Bazell Race Fuels Heat Race #4 (8 Laps)
1. 49X-Cale Thomas[2]
2. 33W-Cap Henry[4]
3. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[1]
4. 16-DJ Foos[3]
5. 15K-Creed Kemenah[6]
6. 5-Kody Brewer[5]
7. W20-Greg Wilson[7]
8. 75-Jerry Dahms[8
Level Utilities Level Utilities Dash (6 Laps)
1. 33W-Cap Henry[1]
2. 32-Bryce Lucius[2]
3. 7N-Darin Naida[3]
4. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[4]
5. 22-Brandon Spithaler[5]
6. 49X-Cale Thomas[6]
Gates Corporation B-Main (12 Laps)
1. 70-Henry Malcuit[1]
2. 101-Kalib Henry[7]
3. 5-Kody Brewer[2]
4. 45-Devon Borden[4]
5. 38-Leyton Wagner[6]
6. X-Mike Keegan[8]
7. W20-Greg Wilson[9]
8. 98-Ky Harper[5]
9. 6J-Jonah Aumend[11]
10. 16B-Ty Williams[10]
11. 2+-Brian Smith[3]
12. 75-Jerry Dahms[12]
DNS: 2MD-Aiden Price
NAPA Auto Parts A Main (35 Laps)
1. 33W-Cap Henry[1]
2. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[4]
3. 7N-Darin Naida[3]
4. 101-Kalib Henry[22]
5. 49X-Cale Thomas[6]
6. 51-Scott Bogucki[7]
7. 29-Zeth Sabo[9]
8. 15C-Chris Andrews[8]
9. 22-Brandon Spithaler[5]
10. 20B-Cody Bova[12]
11. 16-DJ Foos[11]
12. 4-Zane DeVault[20]
13. 15K-Creed Kemenah[19]
14. 34-Sterling Cling[13]
15. 01-Bryan Sebetto[10]
16. 5-Kody Brewer[23]
17. 45-Devon Borden[24]
18. 32-Bryce Lucius[2]
19. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[14]
20. 19-TJ Michael[16]
21. 28N-Trey Jacobs[18]
22. 38-Leyton Wagner[26]
23. 35-Stuart Brubaker[17]
24. 70-Henry Malcuit[21]
25. W20-Greg Wilson[25]
26. 10TS-Tyler Schiets[15]