Update #28 Race #46

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Update #28
Race #46

By Kenny Johnson
26 Sep 2010

Saturday we went to a jammed packed Ohio Valley Speedway. There was no qualifying and Cooper wasn’t there to draw our pill. When I went up to draw, Josh Davis’s (sprint car driver) son (about 1 ½ years old) drew me a #27 to start us 6th in the first heat. We managed to get the win in which we had to do another pill draw for our feature starting position. I made sure Cooper did the pill draw and he has been absolutely awesome on pill draws. We started on the pole of the feature. We took the early lead on the low side and then we moved to the top. The top was kind of a fine line. When I hit it right, it was fast, when I hit it wrong it allowed others to gain on us. I felt like we had a win wrapped up, but the radiator cap came loose and we had to pull off. Just kind of dumb luck and with the year we have had I guess we can’t complain too much.

This Saturday we plan to go to K-C Speedway for a Road Warrior Tour race paying $1,200 to win. So we hope to see you there!

Keep Kim in your thoughts and prayers, for she had surgery this past Friday and will have a few weeks of recovery.

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

Thanks again for your support, KJ

Update #27 Race #44 & #45

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Update #27
Race #44 & #45

By Kenny Johnson
23 Sep 2010

We spent 3 days at Skyline for 2 Road Warrior Tour races. We set 4th fastest time on night one and sat on the pole of the heat race and got the win. This started us 4th in the feature and we moved right into 2nd place. We could not reel in the first place car and we got passed with 3 laps to go to give us a 3rd place finish. In hind sight I blame our tire selection for our finish. Although it is respectable, it wasn’t what we were looking for. For the 2nd show the track wasn’t like any other time at Skyline this year. The track got real abrasive and bolted down black. When I went out to qualify, I was laying down a real good lap until coming off of turn #4, I smacked the wall. We still managed an 8th fastest time to start us outside pole of the 4th heat. We took the lead coming off of turn 2, but by the time we got back to turn 2 again, we were in 4th. There was a single black lane that was fast and if you got out of the black, like I did, you were going backwards, again like I did. I got back down in the black and passed for 3rd and that is where we finished. That started us 12th in the feature and I knew it would be follow the leader and wait for someone to get out of line. One car spun out and we passed 5 others to finish 6th. Not the weekend I was looking for, but car is still good and respectable finishes for the competition we had.

Thanks to the Lemon family for the use of their vehicle all weekend. This weekend we are at Ohio Valley Speedway on Saturday. So we hope to see you there!

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

Thanks again for your support, KJ

Update #26 Race #43

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Update #26
Race #43

By Kenny Johnson
12 Sep 2010

No racing on Friday and Skyline had moved to Saturday this weekend. So we went to Skyline for the last and final point’s night. The best I had it figured is all we had to do to clinch the points championship over Doug Henry was to just show up. So unofficially we won the Skyline Speedway Track Championship. So now, for how the night went. Cooper drew us pill #15 which had us lined up starting 3rd in the heat race. But the pole sitter had to scratch and that moved us to the #1 starting spot. Cooper has done amazing job at drawing our pills this year. We went on to win heat race #3 to start us 3rd in the feature. To make a long story shorter, we overtook the lead from Doug Henry in lapped traffic and were hammer down and it looked as though we were going to get the win, with a lap and a half to go, the right rear tire blew! It was very disappointing, for I felt like we would get another win. For those that wasn’t there, consider yourself somewhat lucky, because I didn’t get home until 4:30 a.m. I did have some high side fans from KC there and they stuck it out until the very end! Thanks to them and others that stuck it out.

This weekend is a big weekend for us at the Harvest 50 at Skyline Speedway. We will be racing Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So we hope to see you there!

Other news is we picked up a new sponsor for 2011 and they are Outlaw Race Parts. Please go to www.outlawraceparts.com and if you are a racer check out the low prices and if you are a fan, order some racing apparel and let them know you saw their name on our car. I’d like to welcome Outlaw Race Parts and owner Doug Johnson to our team! Just a reminder that the car we have been running for 2 Brothers Motorsports is for sale and is a great car and Jr. Nolan would make someone a great deal. Call Jr. at 740-391-2900.

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

Thanks again for your support, KJ

Update #25 Race #40, #41 & #42

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Update #25
Race #40, #41 & #42

By Kenny Johnson
08 Sep 2010

Well, best grab a snack and a drink, for this may be a long one! Thursday we went to WVMS for a rain out race from back in May. We started 7th and made our way up to 3rd. But we were having an issue with the car smoking for we had sucked a valve cover gasket. You see, our engine is very tired and worn out and is way overdue for a freshen up. Because the rings are so worn it creates a lot of crankcase pressure and that pressure has to go somewhere. I was watching my gauges very close, so close that I missed my marks in turns 3 and 4 and was passed by Chris Stotts on the last lap, so we finished 4th. All in all I was pretty happy with the run.

Friday we went back to WVMS for $2,000 to win. 40 some cars showed up and we set 8th fastest time to start us outside pole of the 4th heat. Because the engine was a little sluggish I decided to put more gear in it. It did bring the car to life and we won the heat race. Started 4th in the feature and moved right into 3rd behind Jr. Nolan and Jared Landers. Jr. dropped out with overheating problems and Jared Landers was sent to the tail for spinning a lap car. This put us in the lead and surprisingly we went on to get win #16 for the year. I never would have thought we’d get a win against the competition that was there and to be honest, if Jr. or Jared would not have had bad luck, we probably would not have won. But we’ll take the win for sure!

After cleaning up the oil mess again on Saturday, we went back to WVMS. We set 10th fastest time and they inverted the top 4 in each heat. This put us right where we wanted to be on the outside pole. We started right beside car owner Jr. Nolan and we took it into turn 1 just a little deeper than he did and that got us the lead and we went on to get the heat win. This started us 3rd in the feature and the inside line was not the ideal place to be. We fell to 6th place before we got to the high side. Once on the high side we started getting the car going good and we passed for 5th and was reeling in 4th, when I had to pull off because the oil pressure was fluctuating from all of the blow by the engine has. I feel we could have gotten a top 5, but we still have races to run this year and I definitely did not want to hurt the engine.

Again had an oil mess to clean up and get things ready for the 100 lapper, $10,000 to win show at Tyler County. They had 60 some cars and was group qualifying. We sure had a tough group of cars with names like Bobby Kitchens, Rick Aukland, Dave McWilliams and Corey Conley. We were 4th fastest in our group, but we were all close. They inverted the top 4 and that put us starting on the pole. Now here is where I made a HUGE mistake. With the track being slick I used our Skyline mentality on tire choice and we went soft on tires. Well, that was totally wrong and it costs us big time, for we wound up finishing 5th in the heat race. Very big mistake! We started 7th in the consi and finished 5th. They were only taking the top 3, but we knew all along that we had a provisional for the high AMRA point man. So we got in the show started 23rd and at one point were in 7th. But we had changed 2 tires at different times along the way and wound up finishing 10th. All in all a respectable run and I was very pleased with the car and set up once we got the right tires on it. Along with the help of Cooper, I want to thank Louie Krushansky’s and Mike McPherson’s crew for their help during the feature. Coop could not have done it by himself.

All in all a pretty decent weekend, although it feels like it took a year or so off my life, for it was a very tiring weekend. This weekend Skyline is running on Saturday and this will be the last point s race and if all goes well, I think we will win the points championship at Skyline. Skyline will be our only race this weekend. So we hope to see you there! For those that read our newsletters, we are now searching for sponsorship for 2011. If you have a contact or know of a business that would be interested in advertising with our race team, please get a hold of me.

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

Thanks again for your support, KJ