An Update Finally

It's been a while since I've been able to get here to update you on Knoxville, but here goes.....

We ended up with the worst draw possible and had to go out second to last in qualifying due to another car showing up late, otherwise we were supposed to be the last car out.....Don obviously knowing the track well was able to time in at 21st out of 61 cars which is pretty good.  We felt the engine needed a little help for the heat race, so we tried to play a little with the fuel which ended up being a bad idea and we went backwards in our heat to 4th from the outside front row.  The feature we started somewhere in the 7th row and that about where we finished as well with a 13th place finish.  Not a great night for us, but not terrible either.

Saturday we started 12th in the B feature and had the best car overall we had all weekend.  We were running pretty well, and had picked off some cars quickly.  We were closing in on transfer positions and ended up with contact on the backstretch with another car which just about flipped our car.  That allowed 4 several cars to get by us and left us with a 10th place run in the B feature.  We were really good enough to transfer out of that B feature, and probably make some noise in the A feature, but it wasn't to be.  Overall I'd grade our performance as a B.  The engine we fought the sweet spot just a little, but got it better as we went.

Sunday in the Brodix Tournament of Champions we qualified towards the end of time trials again, and had a time that gave us the front row....which was good, because the track was very narrow during the heats.  We won the heat handily and started the feature 6th.  We were a good car, but not a stellar car for the feature and passed a few cars, but were passed by a few cars as well.  We ended up getting passed late when the engine started to get a little warm for 4th....but a 5th place finish was a decent night for us.

This Sunday Husets was a fast and narrow track.  It was very hard to pass on, and we started the feature from 8th place.  We made a few passes and had one car drop out in front of us to move us into 2nd place by the last 1/3 of the feature.  We were unable to pass for the lead, but showed our nose a few times.  On the 2nd to the last lap we blew a power steering line, and that really made the car a hand full for Jody, and we settled in for a 2nd place finish.

Up next.....the Jackson Nationals with Jody in a car and Travis Whitney in a car!