KJ Motorsports Update #11 Race #14, #15 & #16

5/26/15

Frankie and Brian decided to head over to Jackson County Speedway on Friday night. He started out side pole of heat #2 and won the heat race. That started him outside pole of the feature. Track slickened up a bit and he ran 2nd for a good while until he slipped up in turn 2 and gave the bottom line up. He wound up with a 3rd place finish. He opted to take the rest of the weekend off.

Friday I went to Legendary Hilltop Speedway where we set 4th fastest time out of 27 cars. This started us on the pole of the 3rd heat beside Robbie Evans. We went on to get the heat win to start us 4th in the feature. We moved into 2nd fairly quick and was battling for the lead with Jesse Wisecarver. Unfortunately we made contact with Jesse off of turn 2 and our right front spindle broke, giving us another DNF for the year. The car was really good and we had a shot at a win.

Saturday we went to Tyler County Speedway for the kickoff of the Let It Ride 55 weekend. We qualified 4th in our group and they inverted the top 4 in each heat. That started us 3rd in the first heat race. We wound up finishing 3rd and that would start us 7th in the feature. We had to finish in the top 6 in order to be locked into the big show on Sunday. Well we just did finish 6th to put us in a dash on Sunday. Sunday we went back and they drew pills for the dash line up. I got the last pill and that started us 6th in the 2nd dash. We moved into 3rd right off the bat and finished 3rd to start us 6th in the big show. After a combination of some poor choices I made in driving and poor choices on set up changes, we finished 8th! Glad we were in the big show, I just wish we could have advanced, rather than went backwards.

We plan to be at Legendary Hilltop Speedway on Friday and then back to Atomic Speedway on Saturday. Anxious to get back and see our Highside Fans! So, we hope to see you all there!

This week’s recognition, I want to give a shout out to Tim Cooper and Chad Nelson for all the effort they give. They are at the shop and the tracks as much as they can and I couldn’t do it without them. But this weekend, I also got to give a shout out to Kendall Hodge, Jimmy Fordyce & Donnie Adams of Lightning Chassis. Kendall came out Saturday morning and helped me get the car back together and Jimmy and Donnie spent Sunday with me, going thru the car and getting it set up. It takes a lot of work to race and I have to give a lot of credit to a lot of people for helping me to what I love to do!

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