July 19, 2008

NOT RACING TONIGHT

The disadvantage of not having a parts car has come into play for the #30 again this year. We have broke a part of the steering shaft that we thought we could fix but have found out that we can't, we need to replace it, and the part won't be in until early next week. Most teams have parts cars, we however do not have a mustang parts car so we must get new parts when they are needed. We will return to competition at the Speedbowl on August 9th and plan to run every race remaining on the schedule there. Lets hope that luck turns around for us real soon.

FIRST WIN!!

Car #2 driven by Jeff Mehlenbacher and owned by John Curry won their first race together as owner and driver tonight. It marks Jeff's first win in the Mini Stock's (just one year shy (7/25/07) since his last trip to victory lane in the X-Cars) and John's first win since returning to the division after an absence of almost 5 years.

Jeff had a fast car all night starting from the inside of row 2. Once traffic broke it was Jeff and Soup (#93) going door to door for many laps with a few cautions thrown into the mix. It was a good hard battle but Jeff had the preferred line on the high side, and with his car being loose was the right place. He kept Soup on his side knowing that if he did that no-one would pass either of them, however he finally broke away from Soup. With a few laps left he was quite a few car lengths ahead of the pack as Cassidy (#11) was running him down. However time was on his side as he crossed the finish line before Cassidy could even put up a fight. The finish puts Jeff up one position in the points standings to 14th.

Jeff thanked and credited Glenn Estes, John, Doug, and Lori Curry for the chance to drive the car and get it to victory lane. Jeff will return next Saturday to defend his win.

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