Friday Night 3-15-13

Friday night found the #32 crew at the track rearing to go, we had made some adjustments to the car trying to get it to turn through the center of the turns better and in practice we felt like we gained on it a little, but still no cigar.  There was no qualifying as the track transponder was acting up, so we drew chips to establish heat starting positions.  Connelly drew low chip and sat on the pole for the heat. 
The cars that competed tonight were #7 Hunter Lewis, #32 Connelly, #2r Skyler Fleming, #44 Joseph McArdle, #11 Dustin Smith, #96 Robbie Johnston, #66 Andrew Johnson, #33 Dalton Chipley, #54 T.J.Thompson, and a second #54 from Texas Clayton Green.  A very strong field.  Connelly had a terrible cold, I do not know how he was even able to drive.  He wound up second in the heat to Hunter Lewis in the #7.  In the feature we started outside first row, which is a tough spot as you are  usually 4th by the time you can get to the inside lane where you can race, which is exactly what happened.  During the course of the race we would make a pass, then get passed back, we finished fourth .084 of a second behind the leader, there were four cars within .084 of each other at the finish.  It was a very entertaining race, Connelly was not satisfied with a 4th place finish, but under the circumstances we will take it.