ASA Speed Truck July 5th, 2008
This was my second ASA Speed Truck race and it didn't turn out the way I wanted. I showed up at the race track on Friday night and I was only able to get 6 laps in before I had motor problems. We took the truck apart looking for the problem. We eventually found a spark plug wire broken and we thought we had solved the problem after new spark plugs were replaced but then we eventually had to borrow a carburator and see if that fixed the problem. Satuday only gave us a six lap run before qualifying. We thought we had the problem solved but during the 100 lap main my truck truly got hot to 270 degrees and the truck was glowing red underneath. We didn't want to hurt the motor and with the earlier fire under the hood my crew chief decided to pull be off the track. My helmet was so hot that when I took it off I handed it to my friend Jacob and he couldn't even hold it. We are now trying to cure the problem with the heat and the motor not cooling down. Keep in touch for more news. We are going to try to run at Irwindale on July 19, 2008.