April 19, 2008

Second Race of 2008

Tonight was filled with bad luck again. In practice the #57 spun in turns 1 and 2 and started to roll back down the track, so instead of smashing her in the door, or going low and taking out the #34 which was on my inside, I tried to go high, however hit all the marbles at the top of the track and went into the wall. Surprisingly the car wasn't hurt too bad, I messed up the rim but was able to put the tire onto a new rim. It did most sheet metal damage, but it did bend up the front bumper bar pretty good. But the bumper did break away like it was designed to do, broke at the right welds and went down and not back into the car or tire.

Went out for the heat race with a tire from last year and again bad luck set in. I was on the pole. In NASCAR the leader brings the field down to the start at his pace and the flag stand starts the race, neither happened on this one, the #9 took off in front of me, the flag wasn't even waved and he took off so I figured they are just gonna call this start off, well they didn't, by the time I got to the line the entire right lane had passed me, I was the leader of the race that isn't suppose to happen. Went down into turn 1 and the car just spun around very quickly, the car was soo loose I Can't even describe it. My teammate in the #2 was right behind me and luckily I didn't come back up into him.

Fixed the lose problem for the feature and just used it as another practice. Needless to say I raced for a few laps in the #6 while I was on the high side and I was pulling the fastest laps to date during that racing, but then the handling went away on it again and it was too tight to turn so I just sat back and waited for the end of the race. We will get the car fixed and figure out why this car isn't turing.

The #2 Mohegan Sun Mini Stock had a decent day again, after I held him up in the heat race we went out in the feature and drove up thru some of the field having a solid 11th place finish, they found something amiss in the engine after the race and will start to tear it apart to find out what it is.

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