Schlenk remains unbeaten in Attica late model action; Stroup tames 305 sprints; Sorg earns truck victory

By Brian Liskai

ATTICA, Ohio – Rusty Schlenk remains undefeated at Attica Raceway Park in 2025. The three time national UMP late model champion took the lead with just seven laps remaining Friday, May 2 after a spirited battle with five time track champion Devin Shiels and drove to his fourth straight feature win on RPM Performance Parts/Morgan Stanley Night against the Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series

Schlenk, the 2024 American Late Model Iron-Man Series champion who won the series race at Attica last season, took home $5,049 in the Stephen Wagner Memorial event. He also earned an extra $1,049 for winning the special Australian Pursuit in honor of Larry Scott.

“I tell all my drivers to drive at 80 percent at all times and leave 100 percent for when you need it. Man we needed 100 percent every lap tonight. That was wild…a hell of a race and a lot of fun,” said Schlenk beside his Buckeye Concrete Coatings, Terry Henricks Auto Group, Velocita USA, Dominator Race Products, Tom Finch Auto, Domination Race Cars, All Star Performance backed #91.

Shiels, from Britton, Mich., jumped out to the early lead and quickly pulled away from the pack as Colten Burdette, from Parkersburg, W. Va., held second over Schlenk, Kyle Moore and Ryan Markham. Moore took third on lap two but no one was challenging Shiels until he encountered heavy lapped traffic just eight laps into the 30-lap affair that saw only one caution flag.

At the halfway point Shiels had a put two lapped machine between himself and a good battle for second between Burdette, who was seeing Attica for the first time in his career, and Schlenk as Markham drove into fourth over Moore. With 10 laps to go Schlenk, from McClure, Ohio, took second and quickly began to eat into Shiels’ lead and used a lapped car as a pick to drive into the lead on lap 23. With just four laps to go Shiels used traffic and drove by Schlenk but something broke on his #51 and he drove off the high side of turn one, handing the lead back to Schlenk who drove away for his 47th career Attica late model win over Burdette, Markham, Todd Brennan and Moore.

In the 25-lap Fremont Fence 305 sprint feature Dustin Stroup grabbed the early lead as a good battle formed behind him involving Dustin Dinan, Jamie Miller, Paul Weaver and Jimmy McGrath. Miller took second on lap three but a big bobble in turn two on lap seven put McGrath and Dinan into second and third.

The only thing that slowed Stroup’s march to the checkers was several late race cautions, including with just two laps to go. The Fremont, Ohio driver executed a perfect restart and drove to his ninth career Attica win over McGrath, Weaver, Dinan and Miller.

“This feels great. I wasn’t sure how much I could race this year with having a new baby so me and JRA parted ways on good terms and my family still had a lot of parts and I bought a car from Dan Roberts…I drove for him in Indiana. I finished third in the nationals in that thing and that’s the car I got. It feels good to get a win in the family car again,” said Stroup beside his Pizza House Clyde, Mama Dukes TRP, GCE LLS., Myer’s Racing Engines, Midwest Dyno Services, Sulphur Town Pub, The Bowman Family, Warwick Entertainment, Bobby’s Truck, Auto and Bus Repair, Wear A Print LLC, TME Services, Advance Auto Parts, Eye Candy Custom Cycles backed #10x.

Fremont, Ohio’s Keith Sorg battled with Shawn Valenti throughout the first 14 laps of the 15-lap dirt truck feature and then held off Jamie Miller in a one-lap dash following a caution on lap 14 to score his fourth career Attica win.

“We blew up our good motor last week on opening night at Fremont. I’ve been kind of upset about that all week so to come out here and win makes up for a lot of that,” said Sorg beside his Fremont Fence, M&L Excavating, Westend Tire, Great Lakes Garage Door backed #4s.

Attica Raceway Park will be back in action Friday, May 9 for the 37th Annual Eric Phillips Anniversary Classic with the Attica Fremont Championship Series 410 and 305 sprints and the UMP Late Models in action.

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Attica Raceway Park

Friday, May 2, 2025

Valvoline American Late Model Iron-Man Series

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 91-Rusty Schlenk[3]; 2. 53C-Colten Burdette[2]; 3. 5M-Ryan Markham[5]; 4. 20-Todd Brennan[7]; 5. 1*-Kyle Moore[4]; 6. 75-Dusty Moore[9]; 7. 71C-RJ Conley[8]; 8. 50-Ryan Missler[13]; 9. 9-Levi Yetter[6]; 10. 14-JR Gentry[10]; 11. 71R-Rod Conley[15]; 12. 29-Clint Keenan[11]; 13. S21-Seth Daniels[18]; 14. 15B-Mike Bores[16]; 15. 7B-Jeff Babcock[17]; 16. 8-Rob Anderzack[20]; 17. 01-Justin Chance[19]; 18. 19-Cody Scott[14]; 19. 95-Jerry Bowersock[12]; 20. 33AJ-Austin Lay[21]; 21. 51-Devin Shiels[1]; 22. RH21-Gregg Haskell[22]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7B-Jeff Babcock[2]; 2. 01-Justin Chance[4]; 3. RH21-Gregg Haskell[1]; 4. 1N-Casey Noonan[3]; 5. 101-Chester Fitch[6]; 6. 33AJ-Austin Lay[8]; 7. 51B-Brayden Shiels[10]; 8. 17-David Ellis[5]; 9. (DNS) 46-Colin Shipley; 10. (DNS) 10-Nathan Loney; 11. (DNS) 2X-Chase Coffman

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. S21-Seth Daniels[2]; 2. 8-Rob Anderzack[1]; 3. 28-Kent Brewer[3]; 4. 91C-Carter Schlenk[8]; 5. 29P-Nate Potts[7]; 6. 153-John Miller[5]; 7. 11-Austin Gibson[9]; 8. 16-Steve Sabo[6]; 9. 0-Cameron Tusing[11]; 10. (DNS) 2C-Clint Coffman; 11. (DNS) 1-Shane Bailey

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 51-Devin Shiels[1]; 2. 5M-Ryan Markham[4]; 3. 75-Dusty Moore[3]; 4. 50-Ryan Missler[7]; 5. RH21-Gregg Haskell[5]; 6. 1N-Casey Noonan[6]; 7. 17-David Ellis[10]; 8. 46-Colin Shipley[2]; 9. 10-Nathan Loney[8]; 10. 2X-Chase Coffman[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 91-Rusty Schlenk[2]; 2. 20-Todd Brennan[1]; 3. 29-Clint Keenan[4]; 4. 71R-Rod Conley[5]; 5. 7B-Jeff Babcock[3]; 6. 01-Justin Chance[6]; 7. 101-Chester Fitch[8]; 8. 33AJ-Austin Lay[7]; 9. 51B-Brayden Shiels[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 53C-Colten Burdette[1]; 2. 9-Levi Yetter[2]; 3. 14-JR Gentry[3]; 4. 19-Cody Scott[4]; 5. 8-Rob Anderzack[5]; 6. 28-Kent Brewer[6]; 7. 153-John Miller[8]; 8. 29P-Nate Potts[9]; 9. 11-Austin Gibson[7]; 10. 0-Cameron Tusing[10]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1*-Kyle Moore[1]; 2. 71C-RJ Conley[2]; 3. 95-Jerry Bowersock[3]; 4. 15B-Mike Bores[4]; 5. S21-Seth Daniels[5]; 6. 1-Shane Bailey[6]; 7. 16-Steve Sabo[8]; 8. 91C-Carter Schlenk[7]; 9. 2C-Clint Coffman[9]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 51-Devin Shiels, 00:13.975[1]; 2. 20-Todd Brennan, 00:13.979[2]; 3. 46-Colin Shipley, 00:13.987[18]; 4. 91-Rusty Schlenk, 00:14.067[9]; 5. 75-Dusty Moore, 00:14.308[7]; 6. 7B-Jeff Babcock, 00:14.308[12]; 7. 5M-Ryan Markham, 00:14.353[11]; 8. 29-Clint Keenan, 00:14.359[10]; 9. RH21-Gregg Haskell, 00:14.432[16]; 10. 71R-Rod Conley, 00:14.453[15]; 11. 1N-Casey Noonan, 00:14.459[6]; 12. 01-Justin Chance, 00:14.516[17]; 13. 50-Ryan Missler, 00:14.520[19]; 14. 33AJ-Austin Lay, 00:14.521[13]; 15. 10-Nathan Loney, 00:14.647[4]; 16. 101-Chester Fitch, 00:14.914[3]; 17. 2X-Chase Coffman, 00:14.973[8]; 18. 51B-Brayden Shiels, 00:15.507[5]; 19. 17-David Ellis, 00:15.810[14]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 53C-Colten Burdette, 00:13.972[8]; 2. 1*-Kyle Moore, 00:14.049[12]; 3. 9-Levi Yetter, 00:14.067[3]; 4. 71C-RJ Conley, 00:14.092[9]; 5. 14-JR Gentry, 00:14.123[1]; 6. 95-Jerry Bowersock, 00:14.233[7]; 7. 19-Cody Scott, 00:14.421[6]; 8. 15B-Mike Bores, 00:14.451[17]; 9. 8-Rob Anderzack, 00:14.453[18]; 10. S21-Seth Daniels, 00:14.551[16]; 11. 28-Kent Brewer, 00:14.557[5]; 12. 1-Shane Bailey, 00:14.746[15]; 13. 11-Austin Gibson, 00:14.792[13]; 14. 91C-Carter Schlenk, 00:14.904[19]; 15. 153-John Miller, 00:14.932[4]; 16. 16-Steve Sabo, 00:15.719[10]; 17. 29P-Nate Potts, 00:15.992[2]; 18. 2C-Clint Coffman, 00:59.999[11]; 19. 0-Cameron Tusing, 00:59.999[14]

305 Sprints – Fremont Fence

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 10X-Dustin Stroup[1]; 2. 5JR-Jimmy McGrath Jr[6]; 3. 1W-Paul Weaver[3]; 4. 6-Dustin Dinan[2]; 5. 26-Jamie Miller[4]; 6. 36-Seth Schneider[8]; 7. 49I-John Ivy[12]; 8. 19R-Steve Rando[5]; 9. X15-Kasey Ziebold[9]; 10. 8K-Zach Kramer[19]; 11. 12X-Brandon Moore[16]; 12. 4M-Blayne Keckler[13]; 13. 61-Tyler Shullick[10]; 14. 28-Shawn Valenti[17]; 15. 26S-Lee Sommers[21]; 16. 12-Dylan Watson[20]; 17. 2-Brenden Torok[24]; 18. 36J-JJ Henes[7]; 19. 11-Brayden Harrison[11]; 20. 18Z-Brian Razum[14]; 21. 34-Jud Dickerson[23]; 22. 9R-Logan Riehl[15]; 23. 14S-Jackson Sebetto[22]; 24. 88JR-Jimmy McCune Jr[18]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 26S-Lee Sommers[1]; 2. 34-Jud Dickerson[2]; 3. 3M-Logan Mongeau[3]; 4. 52-Chris Smith[4]; 5. 63-Randy Ruble[6]; 6. 5M-Mike Moore[9]; 7. 55-Jim Leaser[5]; 8. 39T-Trevor St Clair[8]; 9. 98-David Hoppes[10]; 10. (DNS) 1S-Keith Whaley

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14S-Jackson Sebetto[2]; 2. 2-Brenden Torok[4]; 3. 319-Steve Watts[6]; 4. 0-Bradley Bateson[3]; 5. 2T-Tony Alvarez[1]; 6. 13M-Kael Mowrer[7]; 7. 14T-Tim Freeman[8]; 8. 21S-Benji Siferd[10]; 9. (DNS) 13S-Drew Siferd; 10. (DNS) 85-Dustin Feller

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19R-Steve Rando[1]; 2. 36J-JJ Henes[2]; 3. 4M-Blayne Keckler[3]; 4. 28-Shawn Valenti[4]; 5. 26S-Lee Sommers[6]; 6. 0-Bradley Bateson[8]; 7. 63-Randy Ruble[5]; 8. 14T-Tim Freeman[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 61-Tyler Shullick[4]; 2. 49I-John Ivy[7]; 3. 18Z-Brian Razum[6]; 4. 88JR-Jimmy McCune Jr[1]; 5. 2T-Tony Alvarez[8]; 6. 52-Chris Smith[5]; 7. 319-Steve Watts[2]; 8. 5M-Mike Moore[3]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Brayden Harrison[2]; 2. 1W-Paul Weaver[4]; 3. 9R-Logan Riehl[1]; 4. 8K-Zach Kramer[6]; 5. 34-Jud Dickerson[5]; 6. 2-Brenden Torok[3]; 7. 1S-Keith Whaley[8]; 8. 85-Dustin Feller[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. X15-Kasey Ziebold[2]; 2. 6-Dustin Dinan[1]; 3. 5JR-Jimmy McGrath Jr[4]; 4. 36-Seth Schneider[3]; 5. 14S-Jackson Sebetto[5]; 6. 55-Jim Leaser[7]; 7. 13M-Kael Mowrer[6]; 8. 98-David Hoppes[8]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 26-Jamie Miller[4]; 2. 10X-Dustin Stroup[1]; 3. 12X-Brandon Moore[3]; 4. 12-Dylan Watson[5]; 5. 3M-Logan Mongeau[2]; 6. 13S-Drew Siferd[7]; 7. 39T-Trevor St Clair[6]; 8. 21S-Benji Siferd[8]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 28-Shawn Valenti, 00:13.432[7]; 2. 4M-Blayne Keckler, 00:13.493[8]; 3. 36J-JJ Henes, 00:13.502[2]; 4. 19R-Steve Rando, 00:13.609[5]; 5. 63-Randy Ruble, 00:14.028[6]; 6. 26S-Lee Sommers, 00:14.128[3]; 7. 14T-Tim Freeman, 00:15.167[1]; 8. 0-Bradley Bateson, 00:59.999[4]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 61-Tyler Shullick, 00:13.485[2]; 2. 5M-Mike Moore, 00:13.629[5]; 3. 319-Steve Watts, 00:13.636[7]; 4. 88JR-Jimmy McCune Jr, 00:13.720[4]; 5. 52-Chris Smith, 00:13.769[6]; 6. 18Z-Brian Razum, 00:13.851[1]; 7. 49I-John Ivy, 00:13.920[3]; 8. 2T-Tony Alvarez, 00:15.103[8]

Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 1W-Paul Weaver, 00:13.335[7]; 2. 2-Brenden Torok, 00:13.433[4]; 3. 11-Brayden Harrison, 00:13.543[2]; 4. 9R-Logan Riehl, 00:13.693[6]; 5. 34-Jud Dickerson, 00:13.724[5]; 6. 8K-Zach Kramer, 00:13.842[1]; 7. 85-Dustin Feller, 00:14.076[8]; 8. 1S-Keith Whaley, 00:14.360[3]

Qualifying 4 (2 Laps): 1. 5JR-Jimmy McGrath Jr, 00:13.283[8]; 2. 36-Seth Schneider, 00:13.293[4]; 3. X15-Kasey Ziebold, 00:13.395[6]; 4. 6-Dustin Dinan, 00:13.442[3]; 5. 14S-Jackson Sebetto, 00:13.670[2]; 6. 13M-Kael Mowrer, 00:13.722[5]; 7. 55-Jim Leaser, 00:13.734[7]; 8. 98-David Hoppes, 00:13.869[1]

Qualifying 5 (2 Laps): 1. 26-Jamie Miller, 00:13.244[6]; 2. 12X-Brandon Moore, 00:13.398[4]; 3. 3M-Logan Mongeau, 00:13.459[1]; 4. 10X-Dustin Stroup, 00:13.554[5]; 5. 12-Dylan Watson, 00:13.620[2]; 6. 39T-Trevor St Clair, 00:13.647[8]; 7. 13S-Drew Siferd, 00:14.080[7]; 8. 21S-Benji Siferd, 00:59.999[3]

Dirt Trucks

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 4S-Keith Sorg[1]; 2. P51-Jamie Miller[7]; 3. 7B-Shawn Valenti[4]; 4. 17X-Dustin Keegan[3]; 5. 1M-Scott Milligan[8]; 6. 8S-Brandon Stuckey[2]; 7. 28K-Jackson Keegan[13]; 8. 20-Cody Truman[12]; 9. 51-David Bankey[10]; 10. 9S-Tony Parker[15]; 11. 5S-Brad Stuckey[6]; 12. 34-Todd Warnick[5]; 13. 99PJ-Bill Bruen[11]; 14. 7-Josh Keegan[9]; 15. 18S-Randy Swiecicki[14]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17X-Dustin Keegan[1]; 2. 4S-Keith Sorg[3]; 3. P51-Jamie Miller[2]; 4. 8S-Brandon Stuckey[4]; 5. 7-Josh Keegan[5]; 6. 99PJ-Bill Bruen[7]; 7. 28K-Jackson Keegan[8]; 8. 9S-Tony Parker[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7B-Shawn Valenti[1]; 2. 5S-Brad Stuckey[2]; 3. 34-Todd Warnick[4]; 4. 1M-Scott Milligan[3]; 5. 51-David Bankey[6]; 6. 20-Cody Truman[7]; 7. 18S-Randy Swiecicki[5]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 17X-Dustin Keegan, 00:17.271[7]; 2. P51-Jamie Miller, 00:17.358[5]; 3. 4S-Keith Sorg, 00:17.602[4]; 4. 8S-Brandon Stuckey, 00:18.559[8]; 5. 7-Josh Keegan, 00:18.740[6]; 6. 9S-Tony Parker, 00:18.865[3]; 7. 99PJ-Bill Bruen, 00:19.422[2]; 8. 28K-Jackson Keegan, 00:59.999[1]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 7B-Shawn Valenti, 00:16.875[5]; 2. 5S-Brad Stuckey, 00:17.662[4]; 3. 1M-Scott Milligan, 00:17.917[1]; 4. 34-Todd Warnick, 00:18.532[3]; 5. 18S-Randy Swiecicki, 00:18.580[7]; 6. 51-David Bankey, 00:18.598[6]; 7. 20-Cody Truman, 00:18.623[2]