Greenville Pickens Speedway

The 98 rolled into the speedway Thursday morning Bad to the Bone! Practice was fair, qualifying was, well, put it this way we won the pole by 2 tenths of a second! That may not sound like anything to you or sound like whoa you barely got it, but no...that's ALOT of time from 1st to 2nd in race qualifying! Our race got going around 9:00 with our 98 up front and leading most of the race. We had 125 laps total this time. Another car got around Justin after around 80 laps, but everything was still ok, there were more laps to get back out front. After several cautions and double-file restarts that make you hold your breath, we found ourselves running 3rd. Not winning , but in a good position for whatever might come from the last few laps. Lap 123, 2 laps to go, green flag drops, go, go, go, no not 3 wide, crap.... another car, ughhh, tried to squeeze in and make it 3 wide where you can't go 3 wide, and ran us up into the wall! Not good. Yep, 2 laps to go to have a good finish to a good day with a HOT race car and what happens...a wrecked race car!! A big bummer, but that's racing, as much as I don't like that part of it! So, on to the next track!

It was a good day for the 98, and a great day for getting to see family and friends. Since we don't race close to home very often, it was a good opportunity for friends to get to come watch a race. I'll tell you who all was there! Mom, Dad, Lindsey and Taylor (like always), Hollie, Pete, the girls, Kim, Jody, the kids, Brian, Tonya, the girls, Derema, Mark, their daughter, Judy and Morgan, Richard and his wife, of course our pit crew :), Harper (Justin's new baby) even made her 1st race. Did I leave anyone out?? I hope not. Jen, WHERE WERE YOU??? I missed you! So, all thoses people made for a great day.

There you have it... your race day recap! Most who read this have absolutely no idea what half of what I said means, but that's okay! My Mom and Lindsey understand!! Who knows, keep reading about all my racing and you might get hooked too!