ASA NW Sprintcar Tour- Art Pollard Memorial

After spending most of the week trying to figure out the vibration in the car. We replaced the Right Axle and borrowed a Driveline to see if that was the cause of the problem. During Hot Laps I discovered we still had the vibration when we hit 6000 RPM. We're thinking this new axle is also bent!  Even with the vibration we still continued to improve our qualifing time, but then so did all of our competition. This week we timed in at 17.283 sec. puting us in 4th. During the Trophy dash the #65 car got the lead and was all over the track so I had trouble getting around. We ended up 2nd in the 4 lap event. For the Heat Race  I had to start behind the # 65 and we got to the front but again I couldn't get around him without bumping him. My car was faster but I couldn't get around in the 8 lap race so again another 2nd place finish! For the 20 Lap Main Event I had to start  5th behind the #65 again. We got held up in slow traffic and soon the # 39 was out front, for 11 laps, with the #71 behind him, the #65 was still in front of me, I was working every lap to get around him. Finally, coming out of turn 4 he got loose and I stuck my nose to the inside, he came down on my right front and almost spun before he caught it and got it under control  at the start finish line. By this time the # 71 had caught and passed the #39 and they were way out in front. Now free to drive my own line and really turn the 81 loose I soon caught the #39. I was really gaining on the #71 but the laps ran out before I could reach him and for the third time in the same night I finished Second.  Not Bad but with a few more laps I might have been telling you about my second win ;-)

I'm still 3rd in points,  88 points behind 2nd and 46 points ahead of 4th. With only 4 more races its gonna be tough to move up but we are gonna keep trying till the end!

Til next time, Benjer

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