A long week of work pays off with our best finish of the year. 

 Practice – After we arrived at the track we still had a little work to do to the car after the engine change during the week.  We wanted to make sure everything was tight and adjusted.  There were 2 practice sessions on Saturday afternoon, each a half-hour long.  Saturday’s weather was by far the hottest of the year, with temperatures in the upper 70’s and not a cloud in the sky.  And during the first practice, we quickly discovered that the hot track didn’t have as much grip as last week.  We were sliding the front tires going into the turns, but felt very good coming off the corners.  We made some small adjustments between practice sessions to help the entry, but it was hurting the exit.

 Qualifying – We were a couple tenths slower on the hotter track than last week with a time of 23.1; that put us 5^th quick out of the 9 cars there this week.

 Race #1 – We started 4^th, outside second row, and quickly fell to the back.  We got stuck on the outside and just couldn’t go forward.  For whatever reason, it takes a few laps for us to get going, whether it’s the car or the driver.  I think we fell all the way back to 8^th by lap 10.  Our car came in at the end of the race and we were able to finish 4^th.

 Race #2 – Between races, Ronnie and Mike wanted to make the car better, but I told them that there was nothing wrong with the car.  I felt that we were the fastest car on the track at the end of the first race and we would be fine in the second race as everyone had to run both races on the same set of tires.  I told them what the car was doing and Ronnie made one small adjustment.  And when I say small, I mean tiny.  I don’t think we were any faster during the second race, but everyone else was a little slower.  We started 5^th, and waited for the car to come in and move thru traffic for a 2^nd place finish, our best of the year.  By the time we moved into 2^nd place Naima Lang had a huge lead and, even though we were catching him, we didn’t have enough laps to catch him without help.

 The Top 10 in points for the Evergreen Speedway Super Late Models is updated and listed on the right side of this page.  Our next race isn’t until June 25^th, which will be round two of the Big West Series at Evergreen Speedway.