Update #2 Race #1

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Update #2

Race #: 1

By Kenny Johnson
06 Apr 2009

KJ Motorsports Update #2 Race #1 By: Kenny Johnson Date: 4-5-09 Well, the first race of the season took place this past weekend and it was at Tyler County Speedway. Not sure of the car count, but they had enough to run a consolation race. I drew pill #49 to start us 4th in the 2nd heat. I went out for hot laps and I had an issue with our steering. It was like I had no power steering and our first thought was the steering box was bad. So before the heat we changed the power steering box. Went out for the heat race and it was no better. We were lucky and won our heat race. We worked throughout the night trying to find the cause but with no luck. We started outside pole of the feature beside Darren Glover. Darren took the early lead and we were trying to find a line around the rough racetrack to make a pass. At one point Norman Aaronholt passed both Darren and I and I was able to pass Darren as well. I now followed Norman and it was difficult to make any kind of pass due to the track conditions and the fact that I could not steer the car. But with a lap and a half to go, Norman made a mistake and I made the pass and held on the last lap for our first win of the year. The win kind of made me forget about how tired and wore out I was from driving a car without power steering. Hopefully this win will be one of many for my 25 year anniversary.

I want to thank Tim Cooper, Jason Canepari, Jason’s brother Drew and Butch Malone for helping out at the track! I also want to thank Keith and Cy at K-Graphics for designing a beautiful car. Hopefully we will have pictures from track photographers to post on our web site soon. I believe we can officially announce everyone that is on the car. Please support all those that you can: Wendy’s Restaurants, K-Graphics, Hassy Chassis, Eddy Chiropractic, H&S Construction, Laurita Excavating, Balderson Construction, Dickson Racing Shocks, Wrisco Aluminum, Poske’s Performance Parts, WOC Designs, Billy Lloyd Racing Engines, Billy Joe and Wanda Hammett, The Lemon Family, Dad & Mom and Kim.

I also want to announce that a Foundation has been established for Greg Schilling who passed away Nov. 25th, 2008. K-Graphics is donating a memorial sticker that is $5 each. Money collected will be handed over to the Foundation as a donation to help raise money for great causes. If anyone is interested, please contact me and I will get you however many you want.

This coming Friday we will be making a visit to Martin Elementary School for their Race Day! It gives the kids a chance to come out and see the racecars and ask some questions and trust me they ask some questions too. . . LOL

Weather permitting, it looks as though we will go to Midway on Friday night and on Saturday we will go to Eastside Speedway in Waynesboro, Va. for $1,500 to win. Keep checking in and I’ll try to post changes as soon as I know them. Hope to see you there!

Remember! To make this work, support those that support us!

Thanks again for your support, KJ