Husets 6-8

What a fun track to race on tonight!  It was about as racey as it's been all year, and I was happy to be a part of that one!  We won the first heat from the outside pole (again....I know we've been REALLY lucky drawing so far).  The invert saw us starting inside 4th row for the feature.  I knew this one wasn't going to be easy by any means.  We had a few decent, and a pretty darn good car starting in front of us.  On the initial start we were in a little bit of trouble with the car in front of us not going as well as he probably should have.  Coming off of turn 2 we were in 10th place after losing some spots.  By the first caution on lap 3 though we'd moved back up to 7th.  Another caution right away saw us still in 7th with 14 laps to go.  Over the next 4 or 5 laps we moved into 3rd and catching the leaders before they got to lapped traffic.  Once they got into lapped cars we were able to really reel them in, and might have had a shot at them had no other cautions come out, but then with 4 laps to go the leader got upside down in turns 1 and 2, which put us 2nd behind Jesse Drost.  We made a few adjustments on the red and were able to pass him on the restart for the win.  Now with that said, Jesse did a phenomenal job tonight.  He's been snake-bitten at Husets a little, so for him to run strong was good to see.  Remember me saying last week that Casey Abbas was going to win soon?  Well he probably would have beaten us if that race would have been 1 or 2 laps longer.  He was strong tonight, and put on an excellent performance.  I was glad to be a part of that race no matter where we'd have finished in those 3 spots.  It was an excellent race and I'm sure the fans got their money's worth tonight!  Not sure what's going on this weekend yet....I'll be in Chicago on vacation so if Joe wants to bring the car over for Jody to drive, that's what will happen.  Otherwise Jody will run our number to keep the points going, and we'll be back the following week.  I sure wish Bern would have been there!!!  He would have liked this one!

Comments

[Trolly]

Wish Jan was there too. Hope you feel better Jan...you would have loved TJ's tattoo!

[Jan]

I wish I would have seen this race too Trolly! I'll be looking forward to seeing TJ's tattoo in a couple of weeks, and hoping to see you all in victory lane again.