Dear Race Fans, What a
race, Victor finished a strong 4th. It was what you expect from a ΒΌ mile track, carnage
en masse. There were 18 trucks, but there were some that didn’t make it to the end.
Two of them were in the top three in points. These experienced racers sure aren’t
looking at the big picture. Of course we got our share of bodywork homework. We got
slammed in the first couple of laps then later drilled by a driver in the rear which
almost put Victor in the wall. Several laps later he over drove turn 4, rubbed the wall
and knocked the front end out of alignment. He had to settle for riding around and ending
up laps down.
This about the time when the #9 truck of made hard contact with Boat and into the back straight wall he went leaving him with heavy damage. A few laps later the 9 decide to try to muscle Lee Hatch. The two of them went at it for awhile until they finally took each other out. The #9 did return to the track but was laps down. Through all of these antics Victor just kept working the #38. We finally got around him about lap 70. Victor set sail and the next couple of trucks had a little more respect and let us go with only a little challenge. At lap 90, Victor made it up to 4th behind the #35 truck. He was having the same problem, he was faster than the 12 truck, in second, but didn’t want to turn him. Victor worked on #35 bumper for ten laps right up to the checkers, and took 4th. It was a 100 lap event, but they counted all of the yellow flag laps. If they would have run it without the yellows counting, like normal, we would probably of had a different outcome. Officially we will now move into at least 5th. Until they post the official scoring we
won’t know exactly where we are. In the meantime I will be very busy with repairs to
have the 80 truck ready for the challenging Firebird West Road Course. Remember the date
has changed for the Lake Havasu to Oct 21. This change has left us without a Crew Chief
again as Chuck LaHorgue has a prior commitment. |
After all this we got freight-trained and ended up back in 9th behind the 38 truck.
Victor was faster than the 38, but the 38 could hold the bottom of the track. Wanting to
race clean as always, all we could do is keep the pressure on and ride. Victor got inside
of the 38 around lap 50 and they went several laps side by side. The caution came out and
the track officials scored the 38 in front. So Victor had to start over.
