By Jacob Hord
The 2025 Ohio Sprint Car season is done and dusted. For the third year in a row, Cap Henry and the Jeff Ward Motorsports team topped the Buckeye State in the OhioDirtTrackStats.com 410 rankings. Except this year, they didn’t just beat everyone, they absolutely dominated, from start to finish. We’ll dive into the ODTS 410 top ten drivers, other notable drivers, and talk about their season. All stats are for Ohio races unless noted otherwise.
- Cap Henry: One of the most dominant seasons in recent memory in Ohio saw Cap Henry win the NW Ohio triple Crown for the second time in three seasons, winning the Attica, Fremont, and AFCS Championships. A staggering 17 wins, most in the nation for quite a while, paced Ohio in the category, over doubling the next highest total. In all for the 33W team, they raced 43 times in Ohio and scored 17 wins, 30 podiums, 32 top fives, and 36 top tens, which will probably go down as one of the most dominant seasons in Ohio history. That’s a 41.9% winning percentage, 69.8% (nice) podium percentage, 74.4% top five percentage, and 83.7% top ten percentage. Not bad. Henry scored wins at Attica, Fremont, Sharon, and Millstream. It should be noted that flat tires thwarted likely wins at Waynesfield and Atomic. Atomic wasn’t overly nice to Henry during Speedweek, where a crash early in the night ended their Speedweek title hopes. It could be a long time before we see another season like this, unless Cap and Co. come out of the gates running in 2026.
- Cole Duncan: No surprise here, right? Cole again took care of business in Southern Ohio, picking up eight wins between 35 Raceway, Atomic, Moler, and Skyline. In 25 Ohio races, Duncan had those eight wins, 17 top fives (68%), and 20 top tens (80%). Duncan was also oh-so-close to a World of Outlaws win at Atomic on Memorial Day, but ultimately couldn’t make the pass in the rubber on the final set of corners. Probably a few “what-if” moments this season for Cole, but nonetheless, a very solid season against both the Ohio locals, All Stars, FAST, Outlaws, and High Limit.
- Bryce Lucius: In 2024, Lucius flashed his potential, and in 2025, we saw what Lucius was about. He spent the first few weeks of the season down south with the Outlaws getting his teeth kicked in, for lack of better term, but once he returned to Ohio, running with the best paid off. He scored his first win of the season in late April at Muskingum, and would go on to nab wins at Millstream, Wayne County (both during Speedweek), Attica, and ended the season with a $15k win at Atomic. The team struggled from the latter half of Speedweek through the Kings Royal (minus a P1-P4 AFCS weekend). Around that time though, the team added Brian Kemenah as crew chief and the results showed, finishing in the top ten in 12 of their last 17 Ohio races. If Lucius can take another step forward in 2026, he’ll be a nightly contender on a local and regional scale.
- Kasey Jedrzejek: Continuing the youth movement, Jedrzejek had a breakout season in the Ed Neumeister 11N machine. After getting his first 410 win at the 2024 Attica finale, Jedrzejek backed it up with two wins at Fremont, an All Star win at Wayne County, and started on pole of a little race called the Kings Royal. Three wins, 12 top fives, and 19 top tens for Jedrzejek is extremely solid for a kid in his second year running 360s/410s. We can’t forget that he also got his first career top five against the World of Outlaws in September at Millstream. This kid is pretty darn good no matter where he goes or who the competition is. Like Lucius, if he can take another step forward in 2026, he’s going to be a problem on the local and regional scene.
- Zeth Sabo: I feel like I say this every year about Sabo; he just quietly puts together a respectable season. He was a little off coming out of the box in 2025, so looking at his year-to-year stats, it hurt those numbers slightly. Sabo and the Rich Farmer 29 car would then start sprinkling in those top fives and top tens, but then would have another rough stretch. In mid-August, the team added AJ Havens as crew chief. They struggled out of the get-go, but once September hit, they found something that clicked. Sabo got his first win of the season at Attica’s season finale, and finished the season off with runs of 2, 7, 5, 5 and 3, which is what we’re used to seeing Sabo do. He also just picked up the win in the Jacque Beaber Fall Classic go-kart race at Big B Speedway.
- Kalib Henry: As your 2025 All Star drivers champion, we didn’t see Henry as much in Ohio as we did in 2024, but in 26 Buckeye State starts he had two wins, nine top fives and 18 top tens, including a P8 against the World of Outlaws at Attica. Henry ran well across the region with the All Stars and was really consistent this season with crew chief Andy Potter. A tough AFCS weekend in May, an OK Speedweek stretch, and a tough Labor Day Weekend were about the only blemishes for Henry in Ohio this year. I think Henry learned a lot this season and his national stock will continue to rise as the years go by.
- Trey Jacobs: What a roller coaster of a season for Jacobs split between his family 3J car, the Rudzik 49X, Seeling 97, Nagy 28N and the Capodice 12. All the hopping around probably isn’t what Jacobs had in mind, but he was still able to score two wins, nine top fives and 19 top tens, those two wins coming at Wayne County. The moving around kind of hindered the start of his season, but he soon settled in to his 3J and Nagy 28N and got back to top ten-ing everyone to death, whether it be against the locals, All Stars, or FAST series. From August 1 to September 13, Jacobs finished in the top ten in 13 of 15 races. Hopefully some more car consistency in 2026 will get Jacobs grooving again.
- DJ Foos: Unfortunately for DJ, for the second year in a row, he has the honor of being the highest ranked driver without a win. It was a very similar year as 2024 with nine top fives, 18 top tens, and a few of those pesky “what-if” races. It certainly wasn’t a bad season, but I’m sure it left Foos and the Burmeister team wanting more. There will be a change of scenery for Foos in 2026, as he is joining Three-Six Motorsports after a seven year run in the Burmeister 16.
- Zane DeVault: The second All Star regular on the list, DeVault and I’m surprised that he and Lane Racing didn’t get into the win column this year. A slight step back in 2025 stat-wise with eight top five and 16 top ten finishes, but some of that can be attributed to running the All Stars, and some can probably be attributed to 2024 crew chief Hunter Jackson working with Corbin Gurley in 2025. They started off the season strong locally, but then started racing against the All Stars, Outlaws, or High Limit for a majority of the season. So again, the stats may have shown a slight step back, but there was strong competition most nights for DeVault and Lanes. They’ll get back to their winning ways in 2026.
- Darin Naida: Goat enthusiast, youngster, and All Star Darin Naida rounds out the top ten list for 2025. One win, eight top fives and 15 top tens for the Michigander. That win being his first in the Buckeye state at Fremont. There were still some growing pains and some races that got away from Naida, but that’s to be expected. He ran well when the top teams were in town, including P15’s at the Brad Doty Classic and the Outlaw return to Millstream, and he made the Kings Royal field through his heat race. Naida is another young driver whose name we will be hearing lots of in the future.
Notable Drivers: These drivers didn’t crack the top ten, but I still think they did some noteworthy things, or are drivers to watch in the 2026 season.
- Cale Thomas: Coming in at #11 on the ODTS 410 rankings, Thomas had a solid season in Ohio piloting the Rudzik 49X to an All Star Owners Championship. Much like in 2024, Thomas was a threat to win night in and night out. In 21 starts in Ohio, Thomas amassed nine top fives (42.8%) and 14 top tens (66.7%). Of those 21 starts, only three weren’t sanctioned by the All Stars, World of Outlaws, or High Limit.
- Creed Kemenah: There was a lot that went wrong for Kemenah this season, from mechanical failures, to crashes, to a back injury that sidelined him in the summer. But, he got the 410 monkey off his back when he took his maiden win at Atomic Speedway on October 11th. Yes, he beat Cole Duncan at Atomic, no easy feat. If they can get the bad luck out of the way, and use the win to springboard their program, Kemenah will make multiple visits to victory lane in 2026.
- Justin Clark: Clark started the season as an All Star in the Seeling Car, but was soon back in his family #78. Something clicked for him at Attica this season, where he was just a tenth of a second away from a win, and he also had an impressive P2 run there against the All Stars in late August. Clark is an interesting addition to the list, though, because he sold the family operation and bought a modified. In his two modified starts late this season at Montpelier and 191 Speedway, he has a P4 and a P2.
- Tanner Tecco: I mentioned Tanner last year as well. He branched out in 2025 and ran a lot more at Attica and Fremont, where he certainly had his growing pains against tougher competition. But it’s no coincidence that he had his three best finishes of his career with a P2 at Atomic, and a P3 and P4 at Wayne County. It’s a tall ladder to climb to success in Ohio, but given time I think Tecco will get there.
- Rayce Jacobs: The next generation of the Jacobs family tradition was a rookie in the 410 division this year. Son of Lee, and grandson of Kenny, there are some decent shoes to fill, but I think Rayce is capable. In 13 races where the stats were available, Jacobs drove forward in eight of those races. A 20->11 run against the All Stars at Wayne County, a P8 at Atomic, and a P3 at Wayne County later in the season. He’s 26 races into his 410 career after a standout micro career, and the ceiling is high.
- Jacob Begenwald: A western PA regular, Jacob just wrapped up his second full 410 season. He branched out a little more in 2025 and had good local results. He ended up with three top five and six top ten finishes in nine starts in Ohio between Wayne County, Sharon, and Muskingum. This included a P2 run at Sharon. I’m not overly familiar with Begenwald’s operation, but I’d like to see him run more at Attica and Fremont, but it’s hard to pass up Lernerville and Sharon when they’re close to home.