3/21/15
This year I’ll be typing up the updates for both Frankie Hall #8h and as well as my updates.
Well Mother Nature played a role in track prep at Atomic Speedway and the track crew took full advantage of it. They had 18 mods and Frankie drew pill #30 something, which started him 6th in the 2nd heat. Frankie made his way to a 4th place finish in the heat, but not without scraping the wall a bit. I promise, I gave him no lessons. He started 8th in the feature and came away with a respectable 5th place finish. His goal going into the night was to bring the car home in one piece and finish in the top 5, so he was pleased with his first night out.
We drew pill #15 which was just perfect. We started outside pole of the 2nd heat beside Seth Daniels and won it. Then started outside pole of the feature alongside Cody Parker and we picked up our first win of the year. I was real pleased with the new Lightning Chassis.
This win had some meaning to it. I was approached by the brother of Bryan Karshner and he said he had a favor to ask of me. Bryan’s family ran KC Speedway for many years and Bryan had continued to help do the track prep for the next several owners. Bryan lost his life a few weeks back from a long battle with cancer. The favor was to go out there and win it for Bryan. I know that if I wouldn’t have won, that he would not have come back to me and said you let me down. But as it turned out, we did win and I dedicated that win to Bryan Karshner! Bryan knew that I always liked a track that was balls to the walls and Friday, I’m guessing Bryan met up with Mother Nature and called in a favor! Thanks BRYAN!
This coming weekend we plan to leave Thursday morning for Friendship Speedway in Elkin, NC for a Renegades of Dirt show paying $10,000 to win. I don’t expect it, but I hope to see you all there, LOL!
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