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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Extremely busy night...


This past Sunday, September 21, Birmingham International Raceway held a race to benefit The Children's Hospital calling it the "Teddy Bear 100". We entered the event in the Late Model and Limited Sportsman classes.
We just received our engine back from having some repairs made to it and there is nothing like going out on a fresh engine. The improvements that were made were indescribable. We were leaps and bounds better than we were from the last time we raced.
Eighteen other cars entered the "Teddy Bear 100" and we qualified mid-pack turning in our best qualifying time of 21:15 nearly 9/10 of a second faster than our last race.
Roger said that the car was loose in qualifying, but he thought that it would "come to him" during the race; unfortunately it did not. We ended up finishing 14th out of 19 and did not finish due to a mechanical failure. Dennis "Tink" Reno Jr won the "Teddy Bear 100".
In the limited sportsman race we started sixth and actually ran good, but there was a new car out this past race, and was actually very fast. We moved into the second position behind him and had settled there until a caution came out. If not for a restart infraction (which I Anthony Cain thought was hilarious) he would have won the race. He was disqualified rolling the victory over to us.
Roger was once again approached by the Belter brothers to drive their street stock Neil Bonnet replica Ford. He started fourth quickly working his way to second challenging for the lead when he burned the right rear tire off the car and falling back to the fourth position where he finished the race.
Special thanks to Jerry Bradford/Renaissance Electric, Coastal Truck & Equipment, Xtreme Suspension Technology, and the Belter brothers.

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