Not a Good Day

This past Saturday night was not a good race for the #70 LA Weight Loss Chevy Impala. The night started off good as we qualified 4th out of 20 cars and won the heat race starting from the seventh position. Before the feature we were lined up in the second position but with Trevor Emond taking the $1000.00 challenge to go to the back and the inversion being a twelve, so we started in the twelfth position.  The race started off good and we were moving our way up through the field but on lap 35 there was a wreck on the back straightaway and unfortunately Trent was at the tail end of it.  The car got some front end damage and knocked the toe out pretty good. We stayed out on the track and kept logging laps with left front fender rubbing on the tire the car wasn't very good.  But after a caution the car started to come back to life and Trent started working his way through the field.  We were sitting in fourth place and going for third when coming down the back straightaway on the inside of Jeff Riemer he turned down on us causing the right rear tire to blowout. Once the car came into pits we noticed that there was alot more damage than just a blown out tire. We sent the car back out but the night was over a few laps later when the caution came back out and saw that rear end was not pointing in the right direction.  We ended up finishing in the 15th position with a DNF.

We have alot of work to do before the car hits the track this Friday but now we are back to local racing. This will be our third local race, with one more on September 4th. The gates open this Friday at 5:30pm and the green flag drops at 7:00pm.