We had an expected low car count due to nationals up north but had a blast just running against our friends at our home track since we scrapped going up and running that show earlier this year.
Started 3rd in both the heat and main and finished 2nd in both. For whatever reason I waited and waited to try a different line to try and get faster times but just got too comfortable running the low line. Definitely need to work on moving around when I get comfy like that. Congrats to Craig Cassell on the win!
Thank you to our biggest supporter and sponsor for everything she did to make our prep week as easy as possible while she was here. Thanks, mom!! (We’ll give you another chance to beat us at Sorry next time )
Another thanks to Greg Walters for his support and help after last week. Parts work flawlessly! Shoutout to Drager Performance for their help again to get our broken parts where they need to go for service.
And of course thanks to the following for everything this year:
We have our #1 sponsor and fan (Mom) up here for a couple weekends and we are pumped about how the GRT by Drager Performance has been lately.
After thrashing until 4AM Saturday on some minor things we were ready to roll. Started 4th in the heat and was riding behind when lap 3 all hell broke loose. A couple cars got out of shape and as one got sideways avoiding contact, I slowed to avoid that car and the car behind had nowhere to go. Railed into the LR. Bad luck.
Thank you to the Hillsboro Towing group and track staff for getting us off when you did as we didnt have a lot of time. Shock was killed, slider shaft broke and a new wheel toast. Luckily we have a few spares that was exactly what we needed and Greg Walters came to the rescue with a shock to borrow. Thrashed to get it done as we were the 2nd feature instead of last for the night and got it done right before going out.
Car seemed quick but was lacking a little here and there. We started 15th and gained 8 spots to 7th. We’ll take it! There was a lot of fast cars that showed up and it felt great to be around them towards the end.
We’ve gone through and found what’s still wrong and have some repairs to do for Saturday.
Big thanks to Greg Walters and everyone else that came over and helped us or was there in case they were needed. Andrew Olsen thank you for getting the shock to us in time . Our community there is absolutely amazing.
Thank you Mom and Alanna for everything you do and did to get us back out.
Friday was the start of a busy July as we are set to run each weekend this month and we started off with a great run.
Heat race went horrible as I self spun twice and didn’t finish.
Started 11th in the main and felt the car was way better after fixing our issues from the heat. The initial start was rough as we got bunched up coming off of 2 and then a wreck in 3 & 4 taking a couple heavy hitters out early. Sorry again, Kenny!
We were able to pick off spots which has been very hard to do in the past so that felt amazing. Even was able to run up front with some of the best to race at this track. Picked up another spot after 2nd broke and spun in front of me late in the race. Tried running the leader down but just wasn’t consistent enough.
Congrats to Trevor LaBarge on the win (even with his puny crate ) and to everyone for a fantastic night at the track. The fireworks show was amazing and we had a great time hanging out with friends afterwards.
We will be back this next weekend on the 12th running the same night as the late models which should be an amazing show in itself.
Massive thank you to Kenny Kfm Miller for helping us get more consistent throughout the race instead of just the beginning. All of his help this year has made a massive difference. Also a big shoutout to Craig Cassell for helping me get out of my own head after the heat race. Sucks to see the bad luck he’s in but I plan to have to chase him around as well soon!
Been pumped to race for a few weeks and went into the main feeling good about what we had. And we had a winning car.
Let’s rewind a little bit. Heat race was good, finished 2nd. We had a blast with the fans during the break for the meet and greet. Thanks to everyone for coming out and having fun with us. Even got some more signatures on the nose.
Ok, let’s talk about the main event. Track was spot on for me. Car was amazing. Started outside pole and took off at the start. We were diggin and had it if we just stayed green and kept hitting my marks. Entered 1 after 10 laps or so and hit the hole per usual, as I was using it to help gauge where to set the car. I hit that hole wrong, with the car getting unsettled and it was unrecoverable. Self spin.
I won’t lie, I was furious with myself and it led to the following restart trying to get going and when we didn’t go, I ended up into the LR quarter panel of the 32 car who’s out there figuring it out and shouldn’t have even been touched. Sorry Ethan Hannemann.
Ended up crawling our way back to 4th after restarting 11th so we will take it and go on to Friday.
Sorry to the Live feed group for the camera working its way to the roof and killing the view of the race. Going to get new mounts so we hopefully don’t have that happen again.
What a night! We had a great time at kids night and having everyone sign the car. Thank you everyone that came out!
We have been trying to get used to the new way of 4-bar racing and figure out how to get some drive at the same time. We found it . Heat race was loose but we fixed it for the main and had 2nd but made an error around lap traffic into 3-4 and lost a few spots jumping the cushion. I’ll take a mistake over chasing a mishandling car any day.
What that mistake also led to was a .008 difference between 1st and 2nd at the checkered flag. What a finish! Green to checkered was glorious and hopefully we can take this momentum to make the show at the speedweek finale.
We did get a little warm on water temp and realize a water pump gasket failed so hopefully we will fix that and all will be good.
Thanks to my mom and brother for coming out and hanging with us.
That was a rough weekend. We did not hit on any setup changes and it was frustrating. Sunday made no sense and it was impossible to get a handle on it.
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) and to everyone for a fantastic night at the track. The fireworks show was amazing and we had a great time hanging out with friends afterwards.
