We raced at Scotia Speedworld on Saturday June 1st. It was the coldest June I can remember in decades. It also rained, then stopped, sun came out and it rained again. We thought we might lose the night because the cold temps wouldn’t dry the track, but the sun did come it and the rain went away but didn’t take the cold with it.
We had three sets of practice and the car felt good. We decided to lower the chassis a bit closer to the track surface, that was our only adjustments all day and it was good.
Our crew this day was Shannon Riley, Chris White, Jack Lynds, Bobby and Emily Sanford and of course Buttons.
There were 18 cars, a decent turn out. The format was a 10 lap heat race and 150-lap feature.
I decided to take scratch in the heat race because everyone qualified and I wasn’t too keen on getting hit or spun. We could run with these cars but our budget is low this year and we need to be smart and not beat up the car. We finished 6th and would start 18th in the feature.
There was a fan appreciation event planned but with the cold, wind and loss of time already, they cancelled that. It was a good idea because rain was still not far away.
I wished I still had my message board but it was too outdated and slowed our site down. So I post the results here on the front page and a little story, but only one picture.
This feature was a wild one. On lap 8 a car made it 3 wide going into turn three. By the time they got on the front chute the car on the outside had to check up or get squeezed into the front straight wall. But when he checked up the car behind got into him sending him sideways down the front chute and basically resulting in all kinds of mayhem. Three cars were badly damaged and done, others were beat up but came back out. As I was coming off turn four and on the straightaway I saw cars flying everywhere and managed to get slowed down enough to zig zag through the pile up.
The rest of the race was close and nothing serious. There were two more spins but no one got damaged. On the last lap I got lapped again by the leaders. My spotter told me to follow the fourth place car when he passed me. I did that and it put me beside the 13th place car and right behind the 12th place car. As we went down the back chute I thought I might have a chance to get by one of these cars but as we entered turn three the 12th place car chopped down on the 13th place car and they both spun out. I went high to avoid them and crossed the finish line in 12th place and no damage.
This night gave us enough points to be in 12th place in the standings.
On Friday I am doing a special event show in Moncton for the East Coast International Pro Stock Tour.
Thank you for visiting our site. Thanks to Ashton Reekie for supplying this photo.
God bless you all.
ECI Pro Stock Tour Standing
Car#…….Driver…….Points
54…….Butcher………..414
41…….Ridgers…………404
25…….Gilby…………….392
13…….MacDonald…..390
25…….Vanoirschot…387
11V……Veinotte……..383
88…….Smith…………..382
0……..Rogers………….379
08…….Naugle…………375
36…….Elliott…………….369
32…….Hughes………….361
30…….Lively…………….380
2……..Tucker…………….209
1……..Messer…………….205
10…….Snell……………….200