2nd
Blog for July 24
The eighth race at Atlanta Motor Speedway’s Thursday Thunder Series was the Pro division’s autograph session week. First of all in hot laps my car wasn’t too bad at all, but the track was very tight for some reason and it took a lot of throwing the car around to get it to turn. I drew fourth for the heat race and that was where I ran pretty much the whole heat race. After the heat race I came in and made some more adjustments to the car trying to get it to turn in the corner. Before the main race we all had our autograph session and were lined up on the frontstretch. The field got inverted so I was lucky enough to be starting on the outside pole of the main race. Once thee green flag flew I dropped down in line as quick as I could and I was running third or fourth going into turn three when I once again got spun out by the same guy that pushed me a week before. We went off into turn three and I was ducking low to make the pass and nobody was there. All of a sudden as soon as I made my move to get into the corner he tried to duck under me but was nowhere near in position to do so. I knew it was going to be close so right when we entered the corner I could feel him hook my bumper and I was around from there. I sat there and brought out the caution but I couldn’t get my car started; my battery had died. Once the green flag flew again I was slowly coming up through the pack and I got stuck is sixth place. My car wasn’t running right and it turned out the battery was completely dead and it wasn’t giving me the juice I needed on the straightaways to do anything with my competitors. It was a disappointing night for the Aaron’s Dream Machine but we once again had at least a top five car. We just didn’t have the finish to show for it.
