Update #22 Race #44 & #45

KJ Motorsports
Update #22
Race #44 & #45

By Kenny Johnson
10 Oct 2011

On Saturday, Sept. 24th we went to KC Speedway and they had 48 cars. We set fast time and had to start 4th in the heat race. The track had a pretty good cushion in turn 2 and I jumped the cushion a few times, which got me behind. We finished 3rd in the heat to start us 9th in the feature. Again the cushion and the wall ate my lunch and we finished 3rd in the feature. Needless to say, I’ll be putting a new deck and body on it before we race again.

Races were cancelled on 9/30 and 10/1, so that ended the AMRA points and we have unofficially captured another AMRA National Points Championship! Thanks to all my sponsors and my crew.

Saturday, Oct. 8th we went to KC Speedway for the last Road Warrior Tour race. They had 38 cars and we set fast time. So yet again we started 4th in the heat. The track slickened off in turn 3 and 4 a little more than I expected and I did not make any changes to the car. I had to go to the bottom, but the high side gave the leaders the momentum they needed, so we had to settle for 3rd. Again started 9th in the feature and on the 3rd lap a car spun in turn 1 and I had to turn right and go off the track to avoid the accident. But when I came back on the track, there was no accident, no yellow flag or anything. We came back on the track in 18th or so. We went green until lap 22 and we were in 8th place. The green came out and I passed for 7th and on the next lap I passed for 6th going down the back chute, and then passed for 5th off of turn 4, but the yellow came out putting us back in 7th. With 6 laps to go, I felt like we could salvage a tope 5, but when the yellow came out the 6th place car decided to run high, which allowed the car behind me to go low. I was tapping the rear bumper of the guy in front of me, but with the 8th place car now advancing past me and working on the 6th place car, he could not move down. When he got passed he dropped low and I was able to pass him, but there was only 1 lap left. So we brought home a 7th place finish. I was very disappointed. Although, somewhat of a positive, I did find 2 things wrong that was hindering the handling of the car. So we’ll get them taken care of this week.

This weekend is a big weekend for us. We race Thursday night at KC Speedway our qualifications, heat races and consi’s. Then we will run our feature on Saturday night with the late models Dirt Track World Championship. So we hope to see you there! To keep up to date the night of the race, follow us on Facebook under Kenny Johnson Motorsports.

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Thanks again for your support, KJ