KJ Motorsports Update #18 Race #30, #31 & #32

KJ Motorsports Update #18 Race #30, #31 & #32

07/06/14

Thursday we went to Atomic Speedway for “The Night The Stars Comes Out” event. They had 22 mods and we set 4th fastest time to start us on the outside pole of heat #1 beside fast time qualifier, Fireball Pinkerton. We got the heat win, but the pill redraw would start us 6th in the feature. I didn’t even have to tell Coop he was fired; he came back and said he quit! We made a significant change for the feature and our night got cut short by a spinning car. We just barely got clipped on the left front, but that took our tie rod end, spindle, wheel and tire and gave us our 4th DNF on the year. 

Friday we headed to I-77 Speedway for our first visit of the year. They had 24 cars and we set 6th fastest time to start us outside of Booger Garnes in the 3rd heat. We got the heat win to start us 3rd in the feature. The track got real slick and we ran 3rd for most of the race, but was unable to pressure for 2nd. Near the end of the race, I glazed over our tires and was simply hanging on to 3rd, but Bill Pritchard was able to get by on the bottom and I watched him go on to pass for 2nd and then go on and get the win! It was a good race to watch at the end! Of course, I’d rather not have seen it from the 4th position, but as Danny said on the way home, 4th is better than a DNF.
We were also asked to drive Ken Patrick’s late model, which we drove twice last year. It is a 1991 Swartz Late Model. It’s a vintage late model, but Ken has done several updates to it. We set 13th fast time and started 7th in our heat and finished 4th. Started 13th in the feature and was up to 10th on the bottom, but. . . got impatient and went high and got freight trained back to 15th or so. Got back on the bottom and came back to finish 12th I believe. Appreciate Ken asking me to drive it.

Saturday we went to Ohio Valley Speedway and they had 24 cars and we set fast time. At the Valley, they have the fast qualifier come and draw a pill to determine how many gets inverted for the heat races. Yep, I’m fired for I drew pill #6. So we started 6th in our heat race and got the win to start us on the pole of the feature. We went on to lead every lap and pick up win #14. 

Being that this was Independence weekend, I want to give a shout out to all the military service men and women! Shawn Blair is in the USAF and is stationed in Germany and Lexi Howell was in on leave from the USMC and is stationed in San Diego and is scheduled to be deployed soon. Thanks to them and everyone that has and does serve our country!

This weekend we will be at Legendary Hilltop Speedway on Friday & Saturday we will be going back to Ohio Valley Speedway. So we hope to see you there! 

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