KJ Motorsports Update #20 Race #35 & #36

KJ Motorsports Update #20 Race #35 & #36

07/19/14

Our weekend started on Wednesday by going to Atomic to run the UMP Summer Nationals Hell tour, where they had 28 modified’s. We were broken up into 3 groups and we were 3rd fastest in our group. We started 3rd and passed our way to 2nd behind UPM Points Leader Jacob Poel. We were trying to catch up to Jacob and we were balls to walls off of turn 2 and he was able to see a wreck up ahead of him and he checked up for it was a red flag. I on the other hand was not able to get stopped as fast and I turned hard right and slammed his rearend with the left side of my car. It did some extensive body damage to our car, but unfortunately it gave Jacob a right rear flat. We restarted the race in the lead and went on to get the heat win. Each heat winner drew a pill for the feature and of course I drew the #3 starting spot. We ran third for a bit until Dan Ebert passed us, but shortly after that the leader, Jackie Boggs got caught up in a wreck and he exited to
the pits. That gave the lead to Devin Gilpin with Dan Ebert in 2nd and we were in 3rd and that’s how we finished. Not a bad run, but we wasn’t quite on our game.

Thursday we took Frankie Hall’s modified to Brushcreek Motorsports Complex and yet again were we 3rd fast time in our group, but this time we finished 3rd in our heat and was set to start 6th in the feature, but 4th place started Devin Gilpin was unable to make the call, so that moved us up to 4th. We again finished 3rd and just wasn’t quite as fast as we needed to be to be able to run with the top 2. Gonna have to find some speed to run up front at some of these bigger shows.

Friday we went to Legendary Hilltop Speedway and we set 4th fastest time to start us on the outside pole of heat #2. But Mother Nature would win out and they had to cancel and Mother Nature decided to stick around thru Saturday as well. So we didn’t get to race either night.

This week I want to give a shout out to Tom and Pam Lemon. They traveled with us and towed Frankie’s car for us and also gave us a place to stay and fed us. Then even with doing all of that Tom and Layne jumped in and helped us get the car repaired after I ran into Jacob Poel. So thanks to the Lemon family for all that they do for KJ Motorsports!

This weekend we will be going to Atomic for Friday and Saturday where they will have 2 complete shows. So we hope to see you there! 

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