August 29, 2007

Worst To First

Well since July my season has kind of been in the… well you know what. From accidents, to freak breaks in parts, to accidents, it hasn’t been much fun since June 27th to be exact. But it looks like my season is finally turning around, and at the prefect time too. Last week I had a career worst finish, 36th, and fell out of the championship hunt. The only thing on my mind was to go win tonight, and with a ill handling car, I did it… surprisingly. From the first lap until two laps to go I just drove around trying to pass cars and stay out of the wall, and did a fairly good job of that. The #17 and #07 were so far in front there was no way I would ever catch them, heck I couldn’t even see them from third place they were so far ahead. I thought well I wanted to win but I guess third isn’t too bad either.

Then the yellow came out, and I was actually upset it did, the car was soo bad in the turns I thought I would lose my positions. We went green white checker, started to go, the #07 got under the #17 to take the lead but I didn’t have enough power to pass either one of them, then the yellow came out, and the #6 was now in fourth… I hadn’t seen him all night and was confused as to where he had come from. The green came out again, and I gave it all I had but the #07 drove away from me, going down the back stretch I felt I could get under the #17 and pass him for second, but I looked over quickly and saw the #6 making it three wide, I knew this was going nowhere good soon. I backed off going into turn three and went below the white line, I heard a quick tire screech and saw the yellow flag come out, and just as I thought, the #6 and #17 got together and the wreck took out some other good cars that were having good runs.

This time I was on the outside for the restart, and was like why not let’s see what this car can do, and it was my first time all night up high and the car was faster but even tighter. Me and the #07 were door to door the final two laps, then coming out of turn four I put my foot in it just a little sooner then I would have, I thought I was going to park it in the wall the thing was soo tight, I just barely kept it off the wall and beat the #07 to the line by a nose, it was by far the closest finish at the line I have had.

In the Super X race I made it up to 12th place two laps in, but then I hit the wall coming off of turn 2, tire went flat, and the spare didn’t work out too well so I just parked it for the night, and finished 28th. If I had been able to stay on the track and finish the race I would have had my top 20 finish, but oh well. I won’t be in the Super X #01 next week so I can focus on just the X-Car, but I might be in it for the Town Fair Tire Finale. I would again like to thank Glen Estes for letting me race his #01 Super X-Car in these final races.

Also a big thanks to my dad and Racecar Rob for getting all the parts undone so I could pass tech.

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