With yet another rain out last week for the Modified (seekonk event cancelled), we decided to race another time at Thompson Speedway.
This season there were several rule changes for the Sportsman cars. Minimum weight from 3100lbs to 3000lbs and Left Side weight % from 53% maximum to 55% maximum.
Our car was built and tuned for the old rules very well, it requires much more work to make the car perfect for the new set of rules. In our first race back at Thompson this year, I only had time to remove 100lbs. In each race since, we have tweaked things to get the proper balance as well. Results have improved each race with finishes of 6th, 4th, 3rd, and then last night finishing 2nd.
We still have lots of work that could be done with helping us make the car even better. Our Nat's engine has made our car wayyyyy faster down Thompson Speedways long straights, and last night we were very good in the corners as well.
Jesse Gleason started ahead of us, he made it through a mess of spinning cars on lap one, then got out front on lap 4. We made it through that mess also, but it took until lap 12 to get to second place from our 12th place starting position. Jesse was a full straightaway ahead by then. I closed the gap some, but we were so far apart neither of us had any reason to go at 100% speed. Several cars had mechanical issues, and had leaked fluid etc. Pushing the car to the limit would have been risky.
Next up for us is to race the modified car at Monadnock Speedway, I will consider racing again next week at Thompson, but not sure if work schedule will allow it. We are also short of help to prep and race both cars in the same week. Call it a maybe. I would really like to get a win this year, and you can't win if you don't race. Sounds as silly as the Lotto slogan doesn't it.
See everyone at Monadnock!
PS: We still have many tee shirts available. Tee's $15 dollars, long sleeve $20.
Larry
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