Update #29 Race #47

KJ Motorsports
Update #29
Race #47

By Kenny Johnson
03 Oct 2010

Well, I think we made one of the best decisions Saturday and for me and the decision we made, it was pretty unusual. We planned to go to K-C Saturday night and we even planned to leave early. But after talking with several “High Side Fans” from Chillicothe, I thought I should just wait it out. So I sat at Coopers all afternoon, watching college football and the Nationwide race and of course the weather radar. It kept getting later and later and it would take us an hour and 40 minutes to get there. But in watching the radar, we knew the rain was going to be hitting there soon. We finally got the call around 5:30 and the rain started. The Valley was paying $1,000 to win and we thought there might be a chance they could beat the rain, so we headed that way. Just as we pulled in, I got the call that K-C cancelled. We missed the pill draw so we had to start 9th in the 3rd heat. We managed to work our way thru the field and we won the heat. On the pill draw, Cooper got us a 3rd place starting position. When they threw the green we got held up a bit and fell to 5th before we got off of turn 2. But in just a few laps we moved into 2nd and were racing Kenny Riddle for the lead. Riddle was running the low side and we were on the top. A caution came out and that brought us to a restart. When Riddle got into turn 1 on the bottom and hit his brakes too hard and killed his engine (which I have done before). So we now inherited the lead and went on to get the win and it was win #17. I was pretty excited, not only for the win, but the fact that we made a really good decision and beat Mother Nature!

We plan to race this car one more time and that will be this Saturday at K-C Speedway for $1,200 to win. So we hope to see you there!

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Thanks again for your support, KJ