Friday Night September 12, 2014

Friday Sept 12th found us at the pit gate of Sunny South Raceway at around 5:30.  We got to our pit stall got set up, registered went through tech and got ready to go on the track for a test session.  The car felt good but the track was still hot, and we decided to let it cool down some before going back out.  We waited until the last session and the track came to us a little, so we ran it as was for qualifying.  Connelly qualified second behind Hunter Lewis by .055 of a second, close but no cigar.  However they threw the dice and inverted two which gave us the pole.  We have been lucky on that lately. The cars available tonight were Connelly in the #32, Hunter in the #7, Conner in the #14, Robbie in the #96, Brad in the #94, Joseph in the #44jr, Ramsey in the #4, Treyce in the #01, and Corry in the #1 a good solid field of cars, missing tonight was Brian McArdle , who was deer hunting with the kidney transplant group (Brian is a kidney receipent).

Qualifying Order:  #7, #32, #14, #96, #94, #44jr., #4, #01, and #1.

Feature Race,  As a result of the invert the #32 and #7 swapped position on the front row and every one else fell in place behind.  At the start Connelly held on to 1st but did not lead the first lap, he fell  to third, got back to second and ran real close to the #7 for most of the race which was caution free.  He got to the #7's rear bumper on the white flag lap, and made an attempt to get under him on the last lap but finished second with less than a car length separating Connelly and the #7.  The remainder of the top 5 were the #44jr. in third, the #94 in fourth and the #96 in fifth.  There weren't a lot of position changes, but a lot of good close racing none the less.  We as a team are getting a lot closer to being where we need to be to start winning these races but we're not there yet.  Looking forward to the next race already.