What an exciting weekend, I was blessed to have a bunch of my friends come out to watch me race, even with a "Go Sarah #99" sign. I am extremely proud of my team and the way my dad and I worked together to take the car from a car that was fast for 5 laps to a car that was there at the end of the 125 lap main event.
In first practice we were the 4th quickest car of a 20 car field but the car was only quick for the first few laps then it would fall off and get pushier and pushier. We made changes and worked on the car still learning the new setup and in second practice weren't able to improve very much.
Before qualifying we made a huge swing at the setup with hopes of being able to find some more speed, we certainly went past a push in into the loose end of the scale. I drove it into the first corner and nearly looped it! But we were able to pull off an 18.9 which is my personal best at Motoplex Speedway. That lap put us 9th in the field.
We started in the third row outside of the A heat and where able to finish in 6th place and determine what changes to make as the track cooled for the main event.
At the start of the main event we got stuck behind a slower car in the outside groove and fell back a few rows, which in the end was a blessing because there was a big wreck I was able to avoid.
The rest of the main was fairly uneventful for us we avoided a few wrecks and rode around and staying on the lead lap until lap 100.
Around lap 100 I had been stuck behind some slower cars that had been racing feverishly and crazy sideways to say the least. Finally one fell back and I was able to make a move on him, I passed him and as I did the yellow came out and we went back to the last completed lap which made me have to give him his spot back. When it went green again with 11 to go we had about 6 lapped cars between us in 7th place and the leaders. We picked our way through traffic and then I was able to start working on passing the two cars in front of me. I made an impressive high low move on the first car and went by him no problem. Once I was cleared I started to work on the 5th place car, I got under him a few times but he would get loose and start to come down on me so Id let him gather it up not to wreck us both.
With 2 laps to go after letting him gather it up several times I made another high low move and got side by side with him coming out of the 1/2 corner, unfortunately he overdrove his car in an attempt to not let me pass and drove into the side of my car cutting the RF tire down. The white flag was waving and I was angry that after I was so courteous to him he had zero respect for me, so I limped the car around the race track riding on the swaybar and spring pocket. We managed to stay on the lead lap and bring it home 8th which is respectable and I was enamored with people who were impressed with my run after the race. I know we had a 5th place car if not better and I can't wait for our next race day!
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