July 25, 2015 – Saturday Night Races – Finished 3rd & Took SK Points Lead

July 25, 2015 – Saturday Night Races – Finished 3rd & Took SK Points Lead

Heats: Started 3rd, Finished: 2nd (of 8 cars)

Feature: Started 8th (of 23 cars), Finished 3rd (Finishing Order: 27 6, 51, 36, 78, 04, 13, 43, 77, 72, 4, 66, 01, 44, 98, 62, 15, 49, 3, 7, 85)

Comments:Great summer weather today! Zero % chance of rain and temps in high 70’s and we should have a great track for racing tonight with two grooves for side-by-side racing. Practice rounds were pretty good. The track is a tad slow though.

Heat race was uneventful. Car was decent but tad loose on corner exit so we’ll tighten it up for the feature. Starting lineup for the feature is outside – Rob will probably get taken backward early by the O4 in the outside row:
44 – 7
72 – 04
27 – 78
6 – 51
36 – 43
13 – 12
01 – 77
4 – 85
3 – 15
66 – 22
1 – 49
98

Feature was tough as there was hard racing up front. With about 10 laps complete, something happened between the 2 cars in front of Rob and I cleared him low and we just missed getting involved with the wreck – Rob restarted 5th. Then there was hard racing to the checkered. At one point, the 72 (inside) and Rob (outside) were racing hard and the there was enough contact coming out of turn 2 when Rob was 3/4 complete with the pass and Rob got crossed up but saved it. We’re happy to end up with a podium finish tonight and Rob assumed the SK point lead since the Keith Rocco was hot here due to his Modified Tour obligations.

Here’s in-car GoPro footage of race:

Here’s Rob’s podium interview.