Sandia Motor Speedway 06/27/09
Recap -- by Butch Reid
With a week between races you would
think you couldn't mess things up
too bad, tinker itus?
Great turnout tonite with 14 mods,
some first timers so we tried to
spread some good will and help
several guys get up to speed tonite,
and most were a lot happier after
the changes than what they showed up
with.
I started 6th in heat two, at the
green I followed the 08 thru and the
00 followed me, that's the way we
ran for 10 laps, my car was a little
off but not junk, so we made minimal
changes for the feature.
For the main we lined up 5th, I
heard pill draw was 8 for the
inversion, anyway at the green
(after a 3 wide salute to the fans)
we fell into 3rd at lap 1 but
started going backward right away,
way loose off the corners. So when a
caution came out at lap 3 or so, I
darted to hot pits and had the crew
put some rounds in to the sway bar
and headed back on track, at the
green I don't think they knew what
to do with me so even though we had
lapped a couple cars, they left me
in the rear, so at the green the 04
was slow to get going and not to
pass before the flagstand, I waited
till turn 1 to make the pass and the
field was gone! So on the hammer
with a much better car we raced all
the way to the checkered without
another caution and I made it to 6th
I believe at the end. Not happy with
my setup efforts tonite, cause
I usually don't miss the main setup
that bad, but we made up some spots
after the hot pit and hopefully put
on a show trying to get back to the
front!
Thanks to crew; Bobbie Jean, bad
Brad Winters, Leon Schmitt, and
caitie woosley (Bobbie's friend) for
their awesome efforts tonite!
Coach's Chassis, couldn't do it with
out them, Danny @ Action Alignment,
and Wyoming Service Center. Thanks
to you all!
Management at sandia seems to be
headed in the positive direction and
I give them a big pat on the back
tonite as well!
The game plan is to head to Aztec
next Sat. with both dirt cars, after
mucho repair since our Grants
weekend, we should be putting
graphics on this week.
So,we'll see ya at the
track...........
