July 1st, 2008

Car counts continued to be low as there were only 24 super stocks on hand Saturday night at Brownstown Speedway. Again, we continued our trend of drawing in the back of the heat races. We started last in the second heat race with five cars transferring to the feature. After a slow start to the race, we got things pulled together in the last couple laps and crossed the line at the door of the fifth place car. This put us starting on the outside of the front row for the B-main. We took the green flag and got boxed out going into turn one. We ran third for a couple laps, and then passed the second place car. A lap or two later, we took the lead and did not look back from that point forward. With the B-main win, we started 16th in the feature. We took the green, and slowly began to pick cars off on the bottom. We got held up for some laps on a few occasions, but then were able to get around them and stretch it out. When the checkers flew we were on the inside of the seventh place car and came home 8th. I would really have liked another 10 laps to sort it all out. Anyhow, we were very pleased with the night overall.

I have to give a big thanks to Michael Scott. He came over to the house on Saturday morning and busted his tail all day long to go racing. It definitely made things easier on me. I had a mountain of work to do, and he took on a big portion of it.

Finally, the pictures I have posted are from the national Skills competition in Kansas City. I was out there helping to put on the HVAC portion of the competition. It was really cool all the different categories and competitions they had. Well, I hope everyone has a great week. If you get a chance to head done to Bloomington Friday, we will see you there. They have a surprisingly good fireworks display. Later!