4/1/15
We took of Thursday morning for Elkin, NC to Friendship Speedway where they were having a Renegades of Dirt show. Thursday was open practice, with Friday being Twin 25’s and Saturday being the big show paying $10,000 to win.
Thursday, both Frankie and I got some practice time and were able to make some changes to the cars and see what worked and what didn’t.
Friday, Frankie qualified 5th in his group and they were taking the top 6 to the heat race. He made a slight change for the heat and it caused the car to be too tight and he faded back to a 13th place finish. This put him starting 9th in the consi and he was able to make his way to a transfer position and started 17th in the feature and was able to finish in 12th.
Saturday he didn’t fare as well in qualifying and was buried in his heat race and had to run the consi. He came up short in the consi as well and did not make the big show. But he did make several changes to try and learn more about the car and he was pleased with that he had learned.
Friday, I was in the same group with Frankie and I qualified 7th in my group and I managed to get into a transfer position for the feature. Started 12th in the feature and was running along about 9th or so and I looped it in turn 1 and collected another car. It took my right side off, but fortunately it was just cosmetic damage and this gave us our first DNF for the year.
Saturday when we went out to hot lap, we were 3rd fastest out of the entire field. Went out to qualify and I missed my mark in turns 1 and 2 and got too high. We wound up qualifying 5th fastest in our group to start us 3rd in our heat race. We finished 3rd and this started us on the pole of the consi. We went on to race the leader side by side for the last 4 or 5 laps, but finished 2nd and that transferred us into the big show, starting 18th. We passed a few cars, but was not making much progress and the track was horribly dusty and was a gamble as to whether the track was clear or not. After the half-way point, I got plowed from behind and decided then to pull off and not take a chance on tearing it up. If I had been advancing positions, I would have stayed out, but unfortunately I wasn’t and now we have two DNF’s in only 3 starts. Not exactly what I wanted for the weekend, but I’ll take some learning’s from the weekend and hope to improve this weekend.
I want to give a shout out to Jeff and Joe Schilling of Schilling Truss and JS Enterprises for making the trip down along with Tom, Pam and Trey Lemon. Thanks to Tim Cooper, Brian Dennewitz, Tommy Worstell and Mark “don’t believe a word he says” Luning for all their help and also thanks to Jason Brookover’s Team for their help as well.
This coming weekend we plan to be at Legendary Hilltop Speedway for $1,000 to win AMRA race. Then on Saturday we will be going back to Atomic Speedway. So, we hope to see you all there!
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