Sunday, July 24, 2011

Struggling season

Well the final stretch of the racing season is underway, with only five or six weeks left. It's been a very up and down season. I am currently sitting 19th in points, which to me is unacceptable. I started the season strong, sitting 16th in points for a few weeks. After a couple not-so-great weeks, I quickly began dropping. Last week I did move back up from 20th to 19th, but I need to put the pedal to the metal and climb some more spots. Last week was a great week and I had high hopes going into this past Saturday. I started the night out strong with some great times in hot laps. Qualifying then brought some frustrations as I got loose coming out of turn 4 and got sideways, but saved it. Awful time at 23.4 sec. My heat race then went ok, where I finished 6th. We then made some changes to the car to try and tighten it up a bit as the track would loosen up with the cooling down of the weather. My dad however ordered too many turns to be taken out of the right rear wedge and my car got tight tight tight. The feature came and it was not a pleasant experience. I had big problems holding my car down on the track and it wanted to shoot up toward the wall. There was then a wreck and I came within inches of being in the wall. To my low-side, cars began spinning. I had to make the decision of what to do and where to go. I went as close to the outside wall as I could get without touching it, gunned it and steered clear of the wreck...barely. My stomach dropped as out of the corner of my eye I saw a car spinning at me. I thought for sure my night was over. Somehow, some way, I squeezed through. So could have been a worse night I suppose. We then lined up for the restart and typically my car handles very well on the outside, so I took a chance and went to the outside lane, gaining me a couple spots. Definitely not a good call that night...my car was still tight as could be and I quickly fell back. I was frustrated to say the least,,,but I didn't lose any spots in the points race, and my car was in one piece...which in my book, is a successful night.

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