Racing - Auto City Speedway - Week 1

Lets see here I think 13th, 14th.... maybe 15th. I'm not sure, I lost track after the 7th or 8th car passed by me. The 30 lap feature saw me starting 14th after fighting a badly tight racecar (tight - doesn't want to turn and pushes up the racetrack) during qualifying. We got the car dialed in nicely for the heat race and I was ready to rock for the Feature.

At the start of the feature for about the first 3 or 4 laps I was bad fast. From the 14th slot I quickly jumped up to about 9th. I'm just about ready to start picking my way through the rest of the field when the car starts fading on me. I could hold my own and keep anyone from passing me, but I was slowly losing the cars in front of me. I hold on for a while, make it through a couple wrecks that happen up ahead until about lap 18 or 20. All of a sudden it was like someone flipped a switch and my car was absolute junk. I'd dive into the corners and the whole car would jump sideways on me. I just barely hang on for the remaining laps and limp away with a bad finish. I pull off the track and into my pit stall and we discover the root of my handling woes. Somehow I ran something over on the track putting a hole in my right rear tire. Throughout the race I was slowly losing air out of that tire, which of course is a baad thing when it comes to trying to make it through the turns. Oh well, we'll be ready for em next week.

On a lighter note, Jay (my uncle) won his feature event, starting off his final season of his loooong long racing career in the best way possible.