Welcome

Was planning on having some new video for you this week, but my plan went bust.  I made a camera mount, and placed my handy camcorder inside the cockpit with me.  Everything went just fine until I stepped on the throttle.  The screen went all blurry, then the tape piled up, all within two laps.  Oh well... 

We had a gorgeous, but cool day at Jackson Speedway this week.  We are still fresh off of having loads of handling issues with the car.  Because of that I was still quite apprehensive on the track, and our 11th place 13.191 qualifying attempt proved I still didn't trust the car.  Things got much better as the night wore on. 

We started our heat race on the outside of the front row.  As soon as the flag dropped I took the lead, and was able to hold on to it for almost half the race.  Charlie Warren made a good move under me to take the lead, and I followed him to a second place finish. 

Our accumulated points for the night put us on the outside of row 4 for the Feature.  I had a back and forth battle with several cars during the race, and moved up to sixth place simply due to cars ahead of me spinning out.  During the last 4 laps or so I was duking it out with Kevin Hawk.  I would pass him, he would pass back.  I think we were side by side going under the checker, but he was able to hold on to 5th.  I was certainly happy with the 6th place finish. 

Sir Pizza was gracious enough to put up money for a "Dash For Cash" race, which was held after the regular Feature races.  It was a 10 lap race, with all the winnings going to 1st place.  I drew the #14 pill, which put me in the back row of 12 cars for the start.  We were certain we didn't have a prayer to win, but were looking for track time to try out yet another chassis adjustment.  As with the Feature race, we started moving up through the field, primarily due to cars in front spinning.  Several laps into the race two cars spun in front of me, leaving me no where to go.  After I restarted the car, I was quite surprised that it drove okay.  I shook it around and all seemed good, so I lined up for the restart.  The car didn't handle bad at all, and we were able to move up to a 5th place finish. 

Maybe we should try this setup every week, 2 1/2" of tow out, 4" negative lead in the front axle, and a rear panhard bar that's 2" too short.  I don't know what the deal is, but I haven't bent a front axle in 4 years of racing, now we have bent two, in two nights of racing...  Oh well...

See ya all next week!

Bill