With only three more days to go, we are all getting very excited for the big Arca West race this weekend.  Since Auto Clearing Motor Speedway opened in the Spring of 2006 we have had great success in Arca West/Newalta races.  Over the last three years there has been five of these races and the #70 has won three of them and has only been out of the top five once.  We have been working diligently on getting the car fixed up after the fiasco we had in the season opener.  The car isn't going to look as good esthetically as it did on opening day, but it will definitely be fast.  Qualifying starts at 5:00pm and racing starts at 6:00pm.  We  hope  to see you all there. 

    Well we definitely had a better outing to the track this past weekend.  We started out a little slow qualifying 6th overall, but progressively got better as the evening went on.  In the heat race we didn't do as good as we hoped but got a fourth place.  By the time the feature came around we had it pretty much figured out.  As the first 60 lap segment started we slowly started working our way to the front pulling out a third place finish.  So for the second 60 lap segment we had to start at the back with an total invert of the field.  It was a little dicey getting around some the slower cars in front of us but once the dust settled we were in third and held that spot till about 10 laps to go.  Trent put on a late surge to pass the 94 car and hold down the second spot, with Dan Shirley finishing in first.
    Our next race is this Saturday May 30th for the WSSL Auto Parts Arca West 150.

We've got some exciting news to report.  Rob Howlett, crew chief of the R&D Racing #46 Co-op Grand Prix  has asked Trent to pilot there #22x car for tomorrow night's Siemens West Cascar season opener.  The #22x car was formerly the #64 of Chris Shirley's that won the Cascar Sportsman Championship back in 2005.  Qualifying is at 5:30 and racing starts at 6:00.  We hope to see you all out there.

    Well Friday was quite the evening to say the least.  The night started off great with an awesome qualifying run, earning top spot with a 14.588.  The first heat race went pretty good with us getting a second place finish, and with a  couple more laps we would of definitely had 1st spot.  The second heat race was not as good, getting spun by the 5 car in the late going left us with a 7th place finish.  For the feature we started at the back because of the field being inverted from qualifying.  It started off good making it past the majority of the field in a short amount of time.  Then while running in second, we got a pretty viscous shot from the 77 car around lap 20 that did quite a bit of damage to the left hand side of the car.  Then around lap 35 we had a run in with the back straight wall that ended the night for us leaving us with a 7th place finish.
    We definitely did not have the outcome that we were hoping to have to start the season with, but will be back on the track for the race on the 30th and hope to see you all there.

Our 2009 season kicks off this Friday at 7:00 pm at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway, and we are ready to go.  We are just laying the last few decals on the car and we'll be heading to the track Friday afternoon.  We had the Late Model out for practice on Tuesday night and were very impressed with how the car worked.  Our times were definitely better than this time last year and we are very happy with our upgrades in the off season.  We finished the season on a high note and we hope to keep that rolling into Friday night.  Hope to see you all there.

The off season has been a long one, but we had a great finish to the 2008 season so we had alot to be happy about.  This off season has been quite intense in the last 4 months with the addition of our newest acquisition of the 33 truck of the Super Truck Racing Series based out of Alberta.  We stripped the Late Model down and refit a new body on it in January, then went to Wainright to pick up the 33 truck.  The team was very excited to tackle the new project.  Shortly after acquiring it we had it stripped down to the frame and started to build it back up.  With never really working with these trucks we had some snags along the way but just kept plugging away. 

After a long debate we decided on a color scheme.  We decided to have the car and the truck matching, with purple over the front and the roof and white across the back and the doors.  We sent both bodies off to Fabians Autobody to get painted.  In the mean time we finished all that we needed to on the truck and the car before remounting the bodies.  We have also done some nice additions to our pit mule for the upcoming season. 

We are happy to announce that we have LA Weight Loss Centers back on board as our title sponsor on the Late Model as well as sponsoring the Super Truck.  It will be called the 2009 LA Weight Loss Chevrolet Impala SS.  The Super Truck will be called the 2007 LA Weight Loss Chevrolet Silverado. We are also proud to announce that Saskatoon Motor Products are back with us on both as well. We are happy to have some new sponsors joining us this year Magic 98.3, Greenbryre Golf and Country Club, Chornoby Johnson barristers and solicitors.  As well as a long time sponsor that hasn't been on the car for a few years but is back is Bob Adam Remax Saskatoon.  Returning to Thunderbolt Racing from last year is LS Technologies, Propane Plus Automotive, Fabians Autobody, Novatex Graphics, Galon Insurance, Praxair, The Bolt Supply House and Prairie Pawnbrokers. 

We are really looking forward to the upcoming season and can't wait for it to start.