KJ Motorsports Update #14 Race #22 & #23

KJ Motorsports Update #14 Race #22 & #23

06/08/14

Friday we went to Legendary Hilltop Speedway & we set 3rd fastest time, which started us on the pole of heat #1 beside Jason Brookover, whom set fat time. We got the heat win to start us on the pole of the feature, beside Andy Bond. Yet again, Andy took the early lead and we put all kinds of pressure on him and was actually a better race than last week’s race. We could run the middle better and was applying more pressure, but he was not fazed by the pressure. But under a caution, Andy pulled off the track and we went on to get win #9. I hated that Andy dropped out, for if I win, I want to earn it, but it’s all part of racing. As it turns out, Andy lost the belts on his engine and it was overheating.

Saturday we went to Ohio Valley Speedway for the first time this year. It was the Evans Construction 30 and they were paying $1,000 to win. They had 24 cars and we set 3rd fastest time to start us on the pole of heat #3. We got the win and started 3rd in the feature. We took the lead on lap 2 or 3 and stretched the lead out during a long green flag run. A caution bunched us back up and for several laps we were getting pressured on corner entry, but could pull away on the exit of the corner. As we kept going the pressure was being applied more and more by Corey Conley and I was overheating my right rear tire and my brakes were getting hot as well. Corey was able to maintain with us on corner exit, but we still had the lead. I drove it in pretty hard in turn one, hoping to make use of the cushion to gain some bite, but I hit the cushion in such a way that it threw my front end into the wall and that took us out of the race. It was my fault for trying too hard, instead of settling down a bit and giving the tire a break and making a run closer to the end. We have some work to do this week, for it did some damage, but we’ll be ready to go come Friday night.

This week we will be at Legendary Hilltop Speedway on Friday and Saturday we will be at Atomic Speedway.

I want to give a shout out this week to everyone that came to the races either on Friday or Saturday from my workplace. Thanks for taking the time to come and watch me race, I sure do appreciate it.

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