Superseal 150 Results

The Arca West Superseal 150 this weekend was quite the race.  The field was made up of ten local cars from Saskatoon and eighteen cars from western Canada, as well as two drivers from Illinois and Washington State.  The day didn’t start the way we had planned in practice as we were trying a new setup, but we stuck with it and kept turning laps and making changes to try and make the car faster.  After the second practice we were outside the top ten and wondering what we could do to speed up the car, because we were running out of options.  By the time qualifying time came around we had made a couple key changes and clocked in at a 14.60.  This was good enough for a 9th place qualifying spot and the top crate motor in the field.  Since there were 28 cars and at ACMS they will only run 24 cars for the main event, they had to have a B main to fill the rest of the field.  Once the B main was done the field was set for the Super seal 150.  With the format that the Arca series runs now they don’t have any heat races at all, so after you qualify you wait all night for the main event.  Once all the local racing was all done, and drivers finished signing autographs it was time for the main event.  The field was packed with a lot of fast cars and anxious drivers wanting the win.  We started on the fifth row on the inside.  Once the race got started there was a lot of jockeying for position but after the first ten laps things had settled down a bit and everyone was getting into a rhythm.  The first caution didn’t come out till lap 50, which is really odd for a race like this which is usually filled with cautions early in the race.  Unfortunately the next caution that came out was at lap 66 and we were apart of the caution.  We came down the front straight battling for the 6th position with the 18 car and he hit us really hard in the left rear corner.  That caused the car to spin down into the grass in the infield.  Once the car had almost come to a stop was in corner 1 and looked like it was sill able to be driven away but then made contact with the 6 car and at that point our night was done.  We ended up finishing in 19th spot.  In the end Ron Dexter won the race with Trevor Emond finishing second and Jim Gaunt was third. 

Our next and final race of the season is this Saturday night.