We came pretty damn close to getting Sunday in, but Mother Nature threw us another nasty curveball at about 9:20. After having a storm deteroriate that was coming straight for the track at about 8:30, it looked like we would get the rest of the night in as the sun came out at the beginning of the features. That quickly turned to a very akward sky with tons of lightning starting to build during the 360 feature, letting the patrons know something big was coming. It was great to see the program moving along so fast again for the 2nd straight week, hopefully this can continue in the future.
We got 6 laps in since Winters spun out and Dover flipped wildly into the catch fence in turn 1 before the race was stopped due to rain. Chad Meyer was looking damn fast on the cushion and Lynton Jeffrey was just as fast running the bottom on the perfect track conditions. T-Mac quickly worked his way up to 4th from his 9th starting position and had just got around Mark Dobmeier for that 4th spot and has his sights set on Clint Garner and the front 2 until Dover dumped his #53 machine.
It looked like a pretty nasty wreck at the time, but he was fine, and the car rolled out back so his 'amazingly, God-given talented' crew chief could get to work on fixing it. A little sarcasm there as he is a complete tool who thinks he knows everything and is the greatest thing ever to happen to sprint car racing. He was the highlight of my Nationals last year on Saturday night by talking a ton of shit inside the back of a pickup while it was raining... pretty hard ain't he.? Ha, not!
Friday night at Hartford should be a fun show if guys like Garner, Bakker, Peters, Lambertz, Marlon all show up to go with Winters, Wolfgang, and Dover who are already confirmed on coming. Hopefully there are 15 true 410s and a few more good 360s sprinkled in to make it a good show for the fans. The fans need to turn out for this event so there can be more in the future at Hartford on more of a regular basis.
The (semi) Report from Sunday can be found HERE if you missed it.
Johnny Herrera amazingly picked up his 3rd win at Knoxville on the year, again from the front row, and was saved by the rubber as McCarl and Sammy were coming to get him. Pretty frustraing circumstances so far regarding the track conditions thus far in Knoxville. Hopefully that turns around starting on Saturday. The points are also updated to the right, and usually are up on this site come Sunday as well.
Bad week for Donny Schatz as he spun out while in the lead at Attica by tangling with a lapped car and then spinning out the night after in Michigan, but would charge back up to a top 10. His point lead dwindled big time again allowing the King and Saldana to move up (points are updated on the right). "The Low Rider" Dale Blaney picked up a crowd-pleasing win on Friday at Attica as Jason Meyers picked up his 3rd win of the sesaon as he chopped off a ton of points from Schatz as well.
Thats all for now as I'll wrap it up. Lets pray we get to see some racing on Friday and Sunday for sure, and you know where to check up next week for more news and updates!
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