May 8th- Opening Weekend

Well after the rain out on May 3rd we finally got the 2010 season started on May 8th. We had a pretty successful first weekend, lets recap first, the track, it was very rough but, fast. The track crew didn’t have a water truck as I understand. We rolled out for the first set of hot laps and the car was very good but when we would hit a rut it would totally upset the car, so we came in the crew changed the shock package and went back out and it was good but, still not great.

I have to give lots of love to my crew Josh Stack and Zach Carter, they worked there asses off this weekend. The racing started and something about when the sun goes down and the moon comes up every thing clicks, the car was great we went in to the first turn in Heat 1 and the car was very good. We finished last, not the result I was wanting,but we came back in made a few changes and rolled out for the 2nd heat and lead it wire to wire for our first win of the 2010 season.

After that win that got us eneough points to put us in the dash, starting on the pole we had high hopes for a pole start in the feature, we rolled out the green flagged dropped and we never looked back, we got a great start and wired the field to take the dash as well and earn that pole starting spot for the feature. We came back in and we talked it over and decided to drop the stagger and JJ put some extra grooves in the tires for added traction. The green flagged droped and the problems started, the outside car caught me sleeping on the start and got the lead goin in to turn 1, we followed him for 4 or 5 laps and then a yellow came out, after we went back green, we started to get in to lap traffic and we started reeling him back in, another yellow, so we start the whole process over again. The green flag drops once again and the 3rd place guy slammed me up the track going in to 3 and 4 spinning us and sending us to the back of the pack, we could only muster a 7th place finish, not the results we were looking for. All in all it was a great weekend taking the dash and the heat and thanks to the crew and all there hard work the car work flawless. We are already counting the days till the 2nd annual Micro Sprint Super Nationals in 2 weeks and trying to collect the $1,500 prize.