Update #6 Race #3 #4

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Update #6
Race #3 #4

By Kenny Johnson
02 May 2011

Thursday night I had pretty much accepted that we would be home on Friday night, for all of the area tracks had cancelled. But Coop didn’t give up and he found Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, PA racing. They normally don’t run mods, but just a couple of times a year. They were paying $800 to win and it was a 3 ½ hour tow, so we headed out Friday afternoon. We got there and the temperature was in the 40’s and a mist of rain, with expectations of being in the 30’s by late night. The track had gotten quite a bit of rain on Thursday night and by the time we hot lapped; the track was starting to show signs of a rough racetrack. They had 14 cars show up and they did pill draw. We started 4th in the heat and finished 2nd to Deana Groves. Now they do a redraw there and they redraw the top 12. This redraw started us 6th in the feature and with the rough racetrack; we got stuck on the outside and just could not get through the rough. We fell back to 9th and we finally got to the bottom, in which it was still rough, just not as rough. We started picking them off, sometimes 2 at a time and made our way to the lead and went on to get our 2nd win of the year. That made our 20th different racetrack that we have won on, with another 23 tracks that we have raced on, but have not won, we’ll get them eventually. So, Coop & I left there and drove to Stuebenville, OH & spent the night, then drove on over to Millersburg to Hilltop Speedway. They had 41 cars and I messed up qualifying and qualified 9th fast. I messed up by overdriving. I knew the car was better than that, but I just took us out of the dash. So we started on the pole of the 3rd heat and won the heat, to start us 9th in the feature. As we were setting in the chute it started to rain and they cancelled and now they have double features scheduled for us next Saturday. Also making the trip was the Lemon family and Pam brought us some cheese dip and chips. Lemon’s are not only fans of KJ Motorsports, but fans of racing in general and are always ready to go. Chad brought dad up for his first race of the year and unfortunately he didn’t get to see the feature, but his comment was that we have a really fast car and I have to agree.

This weekend we plan to do Skyline on Friday and Saturday we are in a bit of a dilemma. We have double features at Hilltop, each paying $700 to win for a possible $1,400, but we also have K-C racing, paying $1,500 and I love K-C and we have quite a few fans that are expecting us there. We’ll be watching the weather as the week goes on and we’ll make a decision later in the week so keep watching on Facebook, for Tim will update our decision. To keep up to date on any race night, go to Kenny Johnson Motorsports on Facebook and Tim will provide updates as the night goes on.

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