August 15, 2008
Blizzard Series Round Four
Heart Breaker – Last night at Five Flags Speedway was one of the most disappointing races of my late model career. After qualifying on pole, leading the opening laps and then leading again later in the race with by far the best car on the track, I was collected in a wreck caused by another competitor with only five laps to go running third.
After a fairly frustrating practice on Friday no one on the team, or even anywhere in the pits, thought we were going to get the pole. We weren’t going to be that bad off; we just weren’t he fastest car on the track. But everyone was surprised when the time showed up and we were six tenths faster than I ran in practice! The time was almost not good enough when the next car went out and ran just one one-hundredth slower than I did. This was only my second pole position, but the first that I got to keep, as my first was ruined when the race got canceled because of rain.
The second the race started I knew it was going to be good. The car was way better than it ever was in practice and I was able to set the car on cruise control and save my tires while still holding my position. The second place qualifier got around me on lap nine, which was fine with me since I knew he was already running a lot harder than me and I would be able to reel him back in as the race went on. Sure enough by lap fifty I was already back on his bumper and soon after that I easily went around him and re-took the lead. The lead was short lived when the caution came out only five laps after I took it and everyone came in the pits for tires. Our pit stop was a little slow because as soon as both tires were put on, all the lug nuts fell off and the tire changers were left with no way to put the tires on and had to find all of the loose lug nuts. This caused us to loose seven spots in the pits and we restarted eighth. Still with thirty five laps to go I knew I would be able to race my way back up to the front and was not all that worried about the loss of track position. I quickly moved back into the top five and when the leader spun with nine laps to go I inherited the third spot for my final restart of the race. Three laps after the race restarted the guy running second tried to take the lead and as soon as he looked under the leader he got loose and lost it getting into the corner. When he came around he got into the leader which caused him to start spinning the other way and get into me. In his efforts to save his car he ended up driving me into the wall with the right front and my car was too damaged to finish the race. After one of the best races I’ve ever had, it was all over just short of the finish due to another competitor losing control of his car and crashing into me.
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