Friday Night September 26, 2014

Well here it is race day again we are almost recovered from last weekend at Monroe.  Dawn was breaking as we crossed the Manchac bridge last Sunday morning on the return trip from Monroe, still 30 min. to go before home, plus Connelly had to work at 11 am at the Drago's rest at the Hilton.  Don't know how he pulled it off--being 17 probably helped.

Today we got to the track at our regular time got set up went through tech and got on the track, the car was pretty good.  We put a couple of test runs on it and Connelly came in halfway through the last session, he said the car was good so don't run it to death.

Qualifying:

Connelly qualified fourth, one tenth of a second behind Brian McArdle  however they threw the dice for the invert and we got lucky as they rolled a 4 which put us on the pole. 
Cars available for tonight's race: #44 Brian McArdle, #44jr. Joseph McArdle, #7 Hunter Lewis,
#32 Connelly, #14 Conner Okrezeik, #96 Robbie Johnston, #94 Brad West, #4 Ramsey Whittington, #01 Treyce Capers and #18 Corry Devin, a very competitive field.

Feature Race:

A decision was made to only run a 20 lap feature for tonight's race, so 20laps or 25laps, you dance with "who brung ya". it's the same for everybody.  Would rather have had 25 as our car is usually better on long runs, but it is what it is.  On the start we got shuffled back to fourth (from the pole) don't know how that happened but it did, worked our way back to third, ran there for a good portion of the race.  We closed up to the bumper of the #7 and got past him for second right at the white flag and held on to finish there.  Car and driver both  getting better.  After the race a scuffle broke out on the back straightaway, two cars got together after the checkered flag, some pushing and shoving took place but cooler heads prevailed and things settled down. This was the second to last weekend of the season, with only the Dixie Clash remaining next Friday & Saturday nights, double points on Saturday and double prize money for winner of Legends on Saturday night if he wins both Fri and Sat features, and $200 bonus added to the purse for Friday night.  Plus track points championships still up for grabs, so next weekend should be very interesting--a lot at stake. Looking forward to it, come out and treat yourself to some very close and entertaining racing.