August 16th, Springport Motor Speedway-WOMS


Results

Springport Motor Speedway, Springport, MI (3/8 mile paved)
Qualified: 9th (15.6 sec)
Heat: Started-2nd, Finished-2nd
Feature: Started-9th, Finished-9th

This past Saturday we returned to the track where we have turned the most laps in a midget car. Even with all our experience there, we weren't able to get the car handling exactly how I would have liked. I don't know, maybe it was the full-moon or something. Also, I felt really bad for the promoter of the track since there were only about 50 people in the stands. The facilities are top notch there, but you can really tell how the economic situation, especially in MI, is affecting grassroots racing. I hope we're able to run there again next year. Although right now, it's looking kinda doubtful. Anyway, after our very productive first run with the sprint-car at Mansfield, our hopes were really high going into Saturday's race with the midget. We tried something a little different from what we normally run with our weight percentages to start off with. During the first hot laps session, they ended up giving us about 15 laps of practice. The car didn't handle too terribly bad except it just wanted to lay over on the RF from the center of the turn off. For the second practice, we just wanted to scuff in the new tires for qualifying, but we also made some adjustments to help the other condition. During qualifying, the adjustments seemed to help a little, but the car wanted to do the same thing. We tweaked the car again for the heat race. Even though we were able to finish second, we still weren't able to correct the condition. For the feature, we made numerous changes to try and help out. Unfortunately, we didn't go far enough because the same condition prevailed. There wasn't too much action in the feature either. I did almost did the wall coming off of 4 one time, but was able to get it gathered back up. After looking at all the data after the race, we decided we weren't nearly aggressive enough with our suspension set-up. So, this week we'll definitely be switching things around for our next race a Spartan Speedway on August 29th! That will be our last race for the midget this season. We only have a total of 3 more races this season with the final two being sprint-car races in Angola and Ft. Wayne, IN.

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