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Victor Pfluger scores Bullring Top 10 Win
April 29, 2006

Competitors in all sports probably agree that anything less than winning isn’t what you are there competing for. At the same time most of us that start a sport and move up through the various levels of the sport have to realize that it takes time and effort to improve your skills. That’s where Victor is at this time. We are competing in the toughest series we are allowed to run at this time and we are improving every time we leave home. This weekend we again found ourselves with the deck stacked against us. During qualifying the electronic scoring device known as a transponder, unknown to us, wasn’t working. Victor had a qualifying run we estimated to put us in 10-12 starting position. Victor took his machine back to our pit space for us to start prepping for race time. We had a rear wheel apart trying to tighten a wheel bearing and check the drive flange when the track officials arrive and tell us we have 2 minutes max to make it back on the track to requalify. We also were informed that this time, we would get only one lap. Needless to say we didn’t have a good qualifying effort. It was an unfortunate mess and not of our doing. We qualified in 16th place out of a 25 car field. Regardless, that that was better than the alternative of starting last. We finished on the lead lap in 9th. Victor did get the Hard Charger Award of the race for moving up 7 positions. This is his first of these awards for our driver.  

It wasn’t the finish that we wanted, but our crew chief Chuck LaHorgue was happy. Chuck said, “The main thing is that Victor is learning and improving every time we go to the track.” Even though we are all extremely happy with the relationship between all of us and Mr.LaHorgue I think we have had our expectations too high. We can’t expect to go from inexperience, to the winners circle, in the first several races just because Chuck is running the show. He and Victor need time to go to a few of these tracks and work together and get in a groove so that all of us can fine tune these setups for Victors comfort level. We will gain some ground in the points with this finish with plenty of time to continue to move up. There are a lot of races left in the season and 2 top tens isn’t something to hang your head about. We are also coming home with our truck in one piece. Some cosmetic paint, vinyl damage, and a couple of cracks in the fiberglass is all we have to deal with. Many of our competitors are dealing with a lot worse. We are happy with the improvements in our truck program but there isn’t any doubt that Victor would rather be in a late model series. There are many reasons to stay in the truck series at this time, but Chuck feels that Victor needs to continue to race this series with the high level of competition. The truck also forces Victor to continue to become a finesse driver.    

We want to thank Rick Fasano for coming to Las Vegas and making a contribution to the efforts in the pits. Of course we also want to make it expressly clear how much we appreciate Chuck LaHorgue and his contributions. We want everyone to keep checking the website for new information. We are also asking that everyone please notify the team of even the smallest lead on any potential sponsors.    

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