Catch up on recent races

I have been terribly lax in keeping up with the race postings.  A lot has been going on--I'll explain later. 

Since last race we have had a fairly successful run of races, most of them ending with a third place finish with an average car count of about 10 to 11 cars. One of the most interesting races was the Friday night of May 23rd (The Memorial Day Classic) Joey Padgett from Charlotte was in for the weekend of racing--he is usually "blistering" fast.  Connelly got a good start and worked his way up to second behind the #7, held his position for several laps.  With about 6 laps to go a caution came out causing a double file restart.  Connelly missed a shift on the restart going from second gear to fourth, which coincidently dropped him from second place to fourth in the running order.  He just didn't have time to get past the cars in front of him.  At the finish--one of the closest I can remember there were 4 cars within 25 feet of each other (remember these cars are only 10 feet from front bumper to rear) Joseph in the #44jr was second, Joey Padgett #83 in third and Connelly #32 in fourth with Brian McArdle #44 in fifth.  All spread out across the track, it was very impressive.  I hated to loose a second place finish, but it was almost worth it to see that scramble for the runner up spot--I said almost!!!

In the June 6 th. race we got another third place finish, a good podium finish, but we are trying for better, I feel that will come.

The June 20th race was a very interesting affair, we had some very good practice times  in the low 13.00's so we felt good about qualifying.  Connelly as he often does was going to go out last in the final qualifying group, as he rolled forward to go out onto the track the engine just quit.  When I didn't see him come out, I rushed over to the grid and figured we must have a loose connection somewhere in the ignition harness.  I gave the wire bundle a good squeeze and a little shake and it started.  Magic!?!?!?!  Mr. Joe said he could go out for three practice laps --the same as qualifying-- but he couldn't score him as he had missed his qualifying attempt leaving us to start last. We taped up the wiring harness after the three laps and hoped it would hold for the feature.  In the feature we would have to start 9th of 9 cars, oh well sooner or later you have to learn to come from the rear might as well be now.  So we started 9th, by the end of lap two we up to 6th, by lap 8 we were 4th.  Shortly past halfway a caution came out we took the choose, by the time that all sorted out were third, which is where we finished.  It was a very impressive run for the #32 sedan.   It was fitting for the sedan to have such a good run, as this was to be its last.  For the next race we will have a "new coupe" new for us.   It comes out of the Atlanta area and has been campaigned very successfully throughout the country. We look forward to seeing what that brings.  Can't wait!!