Thursday Night Racing

Well if people did not know we got a nice pile of snow dumped on us here is Wisconsin. I think the average was about 10-14 inches depending on where you live. But on Thursday I did make it out there to practice mainly but I ended up racing the Thursday night race. There were not that many people who showed up due to the fact that the storm was coming. I think there was about 25-30 people there. There was a total of 7 heats. I was running stock truck and stock buggy. I did ok in my stock buggy. I qualified 7th and at the sound of the tone I was off flying down the track. there were some crashes at the beginning and I was able to drive around them I was up to 4th. Then I started to push too hard and I hit the plexy glass wall and done. sitting like a dead duck . The marshall pulled it of the track and and one of my fellow races looked at it and gave me the slash across the throat. I was done I couldn't see what I broke but that is not a good sign when you get the slash sign. So I shut my my radio off and sat back and waited until after the race. On a side note I noticed that most people when they break the go clomping down the drivers stand to go look at there car. I never understood that I do know on a personal note that it does irritate me when I am driving and I hear and feel people walking behind me. So as I patiently waited for the race to end I got to see some great racing. The race was over and I walked over to my buggy and right away I noticed I broke the T-plate. I have noticed that is a common problem when you hit the plexy glass really hard. They have been selling a lot of them at the store.

Now time for my stock truck report. Like I said there was not to many people there so I placed in the A-main. But it was fun racing. I started out in the 4th position and as soon as the tone went off I was off again and the others that were racing were really good so it was basically a freight train all of us in a row. I got caught up on a pipe and I was in last place. But I kept my head in the game and kept trying to make it up front. All of a sudden I see Buck pointing to my truck and saying Scotty ,Scotty. And then I hear it the legendary Scotty going holy cow it the big KG battling it out for 2nd with Rick Nickels. Rick and I kept going back and forth and Dave ST Peter is coming up right behind us. Well on the last minute Rick tries to air it out over the Triples as I was doing double single and I was able to take over second. Then it hit me I started driving to aggressively and stuffed it into a pipe. and Dave ST Peter goes flying past me. I got marshalled and then I noticed Rick was coming up on me again I had to drive really clean to keep third he was right behind me entering the triples and he tried to air it out again and flipped it he turtled his truck. I did the double single again and made a clean pass and I was gone. I ended up finishing third. I will take that. Very fun night of racing lots of excitement. But as I walked out side I could feel the calmness before the storm. that night we got the snow.