Sometimes it just isn't your night

I was pretty nervous about racing going into last night after all the engine woes we'd had at the end of last year, and wondering if we'd found them.  I'm confident we're back in the game though now!  All in all we're pretty happy with our performance last night.  Gremlins forced us to a bad finish with one of the best cars on the racetrack.  We drew well, so we were able to start on the pole of the heat which we won, and we started 3rd in the dash after the redraw.  That's when things took the turn.  We blew a line for our wing slider right away and lost power steering, so Travis pulled in not wanting to wreck anything.  That saw us starting 10th behind a very good field of cars.  Right away we were pretty tight and ran alright, but weren't lightning fast.  The red came out for a violent crash (Mike Sitzmann and I hear he's alright, but sore), and we made a few adjustments and that's when the car came alive.  Moving into 4th on lap 14, the mag cap caused the engine to just die and unfortunately for Chuck Swenson it was right in front of him.  I feel bad anytime we get involved in something and we're kind of the cause of it.  He had nowhere to go, and ended up flipping.  The car wouldn't refire so we knew we had a problem.  It's pretty heartbreaking knowing your lap times (people in the stand taking lap times gave us this information, so I can't be sure....but I'll take their word for it) are the best on the track only to have something like that happen.  Apparently in the heat we were a second faster than anyone else that hit the track in the heats, and in the feature we were a tenth faster than anyone else, so we know we're going good right now.  It's on to Huset's tomorrow night, and we'll see if we can pull another win out.  See everyone at the races!