Delaware Summary

Well, the LOSC McColl Racing 100 is in the books and so is our season.

First off, thanks to the Robblee's for scrounging up some good used left sides for us, we only had enough to buy two new rights and our 'stockpile' of good used lefts were done.

Now that that's out of the way, we started the day by slapping on the Hoosiers and heading out for practice. After two sessions, we ended up moving the bar down a total of 3 turns. The car re-acted as expected to those changes, with Kevin reporting the car as racey and satisfied with what we had.

He then proceeded to qualify 16th. Blah!!! In his defence, qualifying turned into a hurry up due to the program being behind schedule and instead of rolling out 6th, he went out 2nd and he never really had a chance to get into a 'qualifying' mindset. No problem, we know the car is better than that. :)

The first 50 starts off great as Kevin and the crew realize the car works great in the high line of turns 1 and 2. He moves up a number of spots and around lap 10, drops the left side tires off the track in turn 3 and reports a problem as a result. The car ends up on pit road under green and we fix the problem and check out the car while we're there, losing a handful of laps. Returning to the fray, Kevin felt out the car to make sure it was OK and decide to save his stuff for the second 50. We finished 16th.

We moved the bar down another turn for the second 50 which starts out much better for us. A first lap caution puts us into 8th from a 16th place start. Kevin lost a few spots on the following re-start and was in the process of working back past those cars. After clearing the #68 of Tony Bawden coming off turn 2, the #11 of Cole Weber (fast qualifier) got into us going into turn 3. The resulting spin put us in the back of the pack, to be joined by the #11 before the re-start (we assume the NSCA sent him back). Cole came down and apologized after the race, which was appreciated.

Wait, the chaos isn't over yet. Some laps later, the #12 of Mark Patrick ends up in the wall in turn 3, and is upset at Kevin for a reason we have yet to figure out. I did not personally see the event, but Kevin assures me he came down on our car going into turn 3 and took himself out. He apparently felt differently about it and proceeded to tell Kevin he was number one, in sign language if you know what I mean.

The final moment occurred a short time later while making a pass on the #10 of Mitch Brown. I'd have to see a re-play to know for sure what happened but the left rear corner has lots of white paint transferred to it and it certainly LOOKED like he turned Kevin coming off turn 4. The ensuing fish tailing resulted in a typical Bristol style inside wall hit.

The suspension pick-up points appear to be good but forward of the springs may have a little bend, we'll have to jig the car to find out for sure. We spent the rest of the 50 getting the car to a loadable state but from all accounts, the boys continued to wreck without us and finished 12 or 13 cars.

I have some video to go through this week and hopefully will be able to post a clip by next week-end, keep an eye out for it.

We're done for the season but we'd like to thank Moe's Mechanical (519-792-3734), L.A. Collision, Leitch Performance Engines and Border City Stunts for your support!