Update #9 Race #:9, #10 & #11

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Update #9

Race #:9, #10 & #11

By Kenny Johnson
17 May 2010

We were supposed to go to Beckley for a RWT race, but they were forced to cancel their season opener due to the weather. So we went to Skyline and watch the storms pass by all around us, but we got no rain at the track. Tim drew us another good pill to start us on the outside pole of the 1st heat. Jeremy Blake took the lead in the heat a whooped us by a straight a way. The track was extremely slick and the car didn’t go as well as I would have liked it to. So we made some set up changes to it and started 4th in the feature. We moved into 3rd early and battled Doug Henry for 2nd for several laps. Was able to pass him and started seeing myself closing in on Jeremy Blake, but not near enough to pressure him, so we got 2nd place. I was happier with the car after the changes, but still need to find a little more. You can catch the feature race on YouTube and type in Kenny Johnson 5-14-10 and it will take you right to it.

Saturday we went to I-77 Speedway to the 2nd RWT race of the year. They had 28 cars and we managed to set fast time with a 14.50. This started us on the pole of the first heat along side Booger Garnes. We took the lead on lap one and never looked back. Started on the pole of the feature beside Jeremy Berwanger and Rod Sayre was behind us. We again took the early lead and were running the high side where it was a little smoother, but the entire track seemed to be getting rougher and rougher and our car did not manage it very well. Rod passed me with like 7 or 8 to go and we tried different lines to make a pass, but could not make it happen. Rod took home the $2,000 and we had to settle for 2nd place money of $550. That made the loss hurt even worse. . . LOL

Sunday we headed out to WV Motor Speedway for the Mark Balzano Memorial race. They had around 20 modifieds and I screwed up and drew my own pill instead of having Kim or Tim draw it. I drew #52 and this started us 6th in the 1st heat. We managed to work our way in to 3rd and was pressuring 2nd place Kenny Riddle. But when a caution came out, WVMS rules for restarts are double file. This put us starting 2nd row inside and Riddle lugged it down to a crawl on the start and we bogged and that allowed Chris Stotts to pass us back again so we finished 4th. This starts us 7th in the feature, but we got rained out. I am not aware of the make up dates as of yet, but will let you know in a later news update!

I want to thank everyone for all of their help and give a call out to Wayne Cornell whom maintains the web site. I have been getting lots of comments and also a lot of people using it to check the latest news and what our schedule is. This week we plan to go to Elkins on Thursday, Skyline on Friday, this will also be a make up feature too and Tyler County on Saturday for a Road Warrior Tour race. So we hope to see you there!

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Thanks again for your support, KJ