2021 Inductees

Scott posted nine career wins at Fremont Speedway, all coming in the 305 sprint division though he competed in 410 sprints for many years. Miller jokes he would have had many 410 sprint wins at Fremont if it “weren’t for Mark Keegan.” Miller was the track’s 305 rookie of the year and raced from the 1990s through the early 2000s. Miller won the Fremont Speedway 305 Invitational in 2003.

Al was a dominant figure on the local racing scene who won more than 200 races in his career, including four career wins at Fremont Speedway. Soon after graduating from high school in 1953, Beale turned his first car, a 1952 Ford coupe, into a racing car. In 1960, he won the first race at Toledo Speedway, and also won the first track championship held here. In the 1950s, he and his brother, hall of fame driver Rollie won many championships. Al also won races on tracks in Wauseon, Sandusky, Mansfield, Adrian, and Jackson, Mich. Al also served as a race official with ARCA.

Dennis was Fremont Speedway’s 1995 street stock champion and posted five career wins at Fremont Speedway. Filliater raced from 1986 through 2001 and was also Attica Raceway Park’s 1995 street stock champion. When the street stock division transitioned to the limited late models Dennis also ran in that division for several years.

Tom’s love for racing began when he was just 12 years old, working at Fremont Speedway. His work on race cars began in the 1970s when he helped on Jim Keegan’s cars. Over the years Tom worked on cars for hall of famers Earl Lowe, Tim Sabo and for 15 years for driver Roy Sheets. Tom and his brother Paul owned late models driven by Jack Hewitt and later Tom worked on sprint cars driven by Butch Schroeder and hall of famer Mark Keegan. Tom said he worked on late models for 20 years and sprint cars for 10 years. During his career cars Tom worked on won numerous track championships and recorded many feature wins.

Joe West owned and worked on race cars/trucks that competed at Fremont Speedway for 50 years. He worked on cars driven by hall of famers Wally Hemminger, Jim Fleming, Dale Hasselbach, and Lynn Potter. Later, when the dirt truck division was created Joe owned and worked on trucks driven by Dustin Keegan and Dana Fry. Race cars Joe worked on won many features over the years.

Dwight began his career in sprint cars in 1965 after being introduced to the sport by his brother. He was a mechanic for a friend and later purchased his own car. After more than 10 years as an owner and chief mechanic he put his tools away to help raise his family. In 1991 with his children grown, Dwight returned owning and campaigning a car with his brother, Raymond and friends, Ronald Antoszewski, Howard Stone and Frank Cherry until 2002. Dwight helped the driving careers of Phil Gressman, Tim Shaffer and a host of other drivers. Dwight designed and built a machine for making gutters and began working out of his home, later created and owned Metal Pro Manufacturing in the early 1980s, running his successful business for nearly 30 years.

Sam’s beautiful sprint cars began racing in the 1970s with hall of famer Harold McGilton behind the wheel. The iconic yellow and purple #81 visited victory lane on many occasions and won several track championships. Sam’s Stites Tank and Bridge sprint car won the 1975 Little 500 with hall of famer Daryl Harrison behind the wheel. Stites also sponsored a late model driven by hall of famer Roy Sheets.

Howard worked as a pit steward for around 27 years, starting when the Stelter’s were running the speedway in the mid 1950s. He was the runner, taking race line ups from the scoring tower back to the pits to place on the line up board. As time progressed and things modernized Howard eventually worked out of the pit tower setting up the race lineups after receiving word from the scoring tower. Howard also would help line up cars for each race and provide fuel to racers as needed. His love of Fremont Speedway was passed on to all seven of his children. His son, Terry, is very active in the Fremont Speedway Hall of Fame and North Coast Vintage Racers. The rest of the family to this day stays involved in racing by helping with 50/50 drawings or going to and supporting racing at Fremont Speedway.