2nd
Blog for July 22
Well Tuesday night’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte was threatened by mother nature all night. I was trying a new setup there and was hopeing I hit the nail on the head but I could tell by the heat race that I was way off. I started the heat race in sixth place and I dropped like a rock to the back of the pack. The thing just wouldn’t turn in the middle of the corner and I couldn’t even touch the gas or I would just about spin out. Needless to say I came in and made some big changes for the B-main. We rolled up to the grid for the B-main and I was anxious to see what the changes to my car did to it so I was really wanting to run the race, but a few cars didn’t show up and they just got us off of the track and transferred us all to the main race. Well the main race came around and I was starting caboose on the field. I felt like the car was going to be decent at least and at the start of the race I started picking off a few cars. Just a few laps into the race there was a big wreck on the frontstretch that involved the leaders and I was well away from that wreck. Once the red flag was over we got back to running. It wasn’t but just another 2 laps or so that there was another wreck in the exact same spot on the track. This time it was right in front of me though so I had to make so evasive moves and I dove down low on the frontstretch to avoid the melee. Once that wreck was cleaned up it was back to racing, but right as we were coming to the green flag mother nature let go and jus dropped it on us. We were racing in an absolute monsoon. The race director only gave us two laps under green before he threw the checkered flag. By staying out of all the trouble that the night produced I was able to bring the Aaron’s Dream Machine home to a top fifteen finish which is pretty good considering our last place start.
