Congrats to Kyle on your championship and Troy for ROTY.
For the night we timed in at 14.900 and started 2nd in the dash finishing 3rd. For the main we started 11th and DNF'd somewhere. I really didn't bother to look. For the season we finished 7th in points with 2 Dash wins, 3 heat wins and 1 Main win.
The season as a whole was a mixed bag. The disappointing part was leading in 2 Mains and snapping an axle in one and blowing a tire in the other. Finishing those 2 would have shot us right into the middle of the points race. I guess you can sit here and if and but it to death and it really wont change anything.
I can say that I have never seen such bad driving and officiating then I did on Saturday. The driving part I can understand with the points being as close as they were. The officiating to me was just pathetic. For example, I come out of 4 on the start and have the bottom groove and all the sudden the 8 is coming down. My front tire is outside his door and I have position but nope like he always does he keeps coming and spins. So, what happens? I get sent to the rear. How about the 30 and 20 Hornet? The 20 has position going into 1 and backs out as the 30 chops him. Then the same thing going into 3 and this time the 20 doesn't back out. The 30 spins and the 20 goes from passing for 2nd to the rear. I could keep going but I wont.
For the 09 season we will be back in the Streets. I had hoped to move up but I am not going to gamble on the money being there to do so. Our sponsorship with Wish Upon A Hero will continue and we will be starting the 100 mph Foundation to help people pay for automotive repair costs. I will give out more info as this develops.
In closing I would just like to say good luck to those running in Wyoming on the 11th and to those going Sandia and Las Vegas later this month.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Here we go again.
Man! Someone just shot me and get it over with! LOL
We timed in 10th and won our heat by a country mile. Then fate smiled on us again and put us on the pole for the 50 lap feature.
In the main we stretch out about a straight away lead and slowly the handling starts to go to the loose side. After awhile, the 11 (Dewberry) caught up and I battled him as long as I could until he was outside and I let him go to keep from wrecking both of us. I then followed him since we were still pulling away from everyone. Then on lap 30 something we blew out a tire coming out of two. I tried to move the car to head to the pits for a quick change but, the car wouldn't move leaving me waiting for a tow and the guaranteed damage to my car.
Once in the pits we were done. The tire had wrapped itself around the diff and wasn't coming off with out a fight. We ended up 15th after leading a little over half the race.
Not much else to talk about so, see ya the 27th.
We timed in 10th and won our heat by a country mile. Then fate smiled on us again and put us on the pole for the 50 lap feature.
In the main we stretch out about a straight away lead and slowly the handling starts to go to the loose side. After awhile, the 11 (Dewberry) caught up and I battled him as long as I could until he was outside and I let him go to keep from wrecking both of us. I then followed him since we were still pulling away from everyone. Then on lap 30 something we blew out a tire coming out of two. I tried to move the car to head to the pits for a quick change but, the car wouldn't move leaving me waiting for a tow and the guaranteed damage to my car.
Once in the pits we were done. The tire had wrapped itself around the diff and wasn't coming off with out a fight. We ended up 15th after leading a little over half the race.
Not much else to talk about so, see ya the 27th.
Monday, September 08, 2008
What can you do?
Man! I really don't know what to say. All I really can do is shake my head and just laugh. Saturday night really just summed up our season. If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all.
When you sit back and look at the night as a whole, all one can really do is laugh. The car timed in ok at a 15.03 which like usual put us a in the back of a heat race. Then the heat itself took what 4 or 5 restarts just to get the race going? Then, the trip over Gary's front tire. Once things got going we ended up third.
Then the main line ups. I am not even going to comment on that. We go from starting inside 7th row to the pole. I don't even want to figure that one out.
In the main we take off and everything is fine. I think we had about a straight away lead when we came through 3 and found the 93 starting to come out of the infield right in front of us. I snapped the car low to the infield but instead of continuing he stopped and hit him. The car was ok just had some bumper damage. On the restart we started to build our lead back up when the 24 and the 39 tangled and brought out the second caution of the night. During the caution we some how lost our over flow can. I assume it came loose on the hit with the 93. Anyways, we go back to green and again start to build our lead back up. I remember coming out of 4 and checked my mirror and saw we had around a half a straight lead when coming out of 2 the rear lifted and I thought someone hit me. I looked in time to see my right rear tire go bouncing behind me. From there on it was a lot of squealing and the all to familiar sound of hard hits. I guess the one thing that went our way was that no one hit us. We pretty much had that one won. But, I guess it was to good to be true.
We will have the car back out next weekend. Just need to replace the axle and the brake hardware we lost. See ya Saturday.
When you sit back and look at the night as a whole, all one can really do is laugh. The car timed in ok at a 15.03 which like usual put us a in the back of a heat race. Then the heat itself took what 4 or 5 restarts just to get the race going? Then, the trip over Gary's front tire. Once things got going we ended up third.
Then the main line ups. I am not even going to comment on that. We go from starting inside 7th row to the pole. I don't even want to figure that one out.
In the main we take off and everything is fine. I think we had about a straight away lead when we came through 3 and found the 93 starting to come out of the infield right in front of us. I snapped the car low to the infield but instead of continuing he stopped and hit him. The car was ok just had some bumper damage. On the restart we started to build our lead back up when the 24 and the 39 tangled and brought out the second caution of the night. During the caution we some how lost our over flow can. I assume it came loose on the hit with the 93. Anyways, we go back to green and again start to build our lead back up. I remember coming out of 4 and checked my mirror and saw we had around a half a straight lead when coming out of 2 the rear lifted and I thought someone hit me. I looked in time to see my right rear tire go bouncing behind me. From there on it was a lot of squealing and the all to familiar sound of hard hits. I guess the one thing that went our way was that no one hit us. We pretty much had that one won. But, I guess it was to good to be true.
We will have the car back out next weekend. Just need to replace the axle and the brake hardware we lost. See ya Saturday.
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