This Saturday will be the final race for the East Coast International Pro Stock Tour. We showed up every race and will finish 10th no matter what happens this weekend.
I wanted to finish better but we did good considering the year we had and I am good with a top 10, so is my crew.
I want to thank Shannon Riley, Bob Landry, Chris White and Jack Lynds for their amazing support this year, it was fantastic and we had no issues with any faulty repairs. we learned more about our car and took the gamble to race the season with no “bump stops”, a clear advantage for those who have them and can get the car right.
The reason we took them off was because we didn’t have the Gale Force equipment to test them all the time, it was a very expensive piece of equipment, needed to set these shocks up week after week and at the track. I decided to go old school and set the car up the way we use to from 2007 until 2012. Once bump stops were allowed, anyone on them lost easily 2 tenths.
Half the time we didn’t even know if we were on them or not.
I replaced my 125lb springs with a 200 and 250 from spring combination. It worked okay and smaller tracks but not so much at the very fast high banked Riverside International Speedway.
Even though we are still off, here are some highlights from this year.
* Twice we finished on the lead lap at RIS in 150 lap races, the first time in 4 years we finished on the lead lap there.
* On June 17th we went to Oyster Bed Speedway and were 12th fastest of 26 cars
* On July 22nd at Petty Speedway on lap 56 we moved past 3 cares into 5th and stayed there for 40 laps, was 6th until lap 121, 7th until lap 138, ended up 9th in that race
* At 76 there were two other racers in my age group….one was 52 and the other 61…..everyone else was 40 and under.
I want to thank all our precious sponsors for their incredible support. They are listed on this flyer prepared by Inscapes Creative Design & Print.
We leave early Sunday morning, heading to Ontario. We will stay with my son David and his wife Jeannie. Practice on Tuesday late afternoon at Flamboro Speedway to get ready for their October 1st Grisdale Triple 50’s. On Thursday morning we will head to Peterborough for the Autumn Colors Classic on Thanksgiving weekend, we will stay with Shirley and Derrick that week.
If we ran all 9 APC races and finished on the lead lap each race we would completed…….. 900 laps
If we raced 5 nights at Flamboro in their regular features we would have completed…….. 350 laps…a combined total of 1250 laps
We have 12 nights so far this year, all 150 to 250 laps, two DNF’s and have completed…….1,700 laps, not including this weeks race. I’m ready for Ontario.
This should give us 15 races for the year but we may have one more, October 14th in New Brunswick at Center for Speed in Shediac, if we survive Ontario. I am sure we will.
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