FROM THE PITS It was a great weekend. The Parker Farms/Copperstate Tire/Mondello Tech Dodge was on rails. Victor started the eventing off by setting the track fast qualifier. He then ran on to the Trophy Dash and simply raced away with the feature event. With the next weekend being Irwindale, a track that we especially want to do well at. It was great for me to see the truck go in the trailer without a scratch on it.
I wish more of these races could be that easy. We are meeting a lot of special people that want Victor to succeed this year and it is hard to have the opportunity to thank them much less attempt to pay them back. So please accept our thanks to everyone that tries to help. |
Friday night practice: Chuck Lahorgue and Victor worked very hard, making many changes
to the truck setup which obviously paid off. We were honored with a new friend at the
track. Chuck brought Mike Helwig, an old friend of his, to help us out. We want to
thank him for his efforts. He was able to join us in Victory Lane. He is in the picture on
the Speed Truck website. Of course we can’t thank Chuck LaHorgue enough for his
efforts. Chuck never takes anything for granted and is constantly thinking of a way
to get Victor just a little more comfortable so we can be just another hundredth of a
second faster. Chuck also is great at trying to keep the costs down. Other teams use many
more tires than we do and we have never had the luxury of “Testing”.
The feature started out frustrating as Victor started 3rd. His faster truck was
trapped behind the 01 and the 18. Around lap 42 Darren Young decided that it was time to
make his move. Young just got into the 01 coming thru the center of turn 1and 2 which
caused him and the 01 to push up the track. Chuck had been on Victor to stay close to
Darren, which was meant that you couldn’t see between the two bumpers very often.
When they slipped up Victor cleanly drove right past the two to take the lead.
Young’s team mate decided he was going to move him in turn three and spun Young out.
After the restart Victor set sail. He had half a lap on second place 35 and would have
possibly lapped Young but with 6 to go the yellow came out. The last restart wasn’t
any problem and Victor easily drove away taking the checkers.
