We drove further south to one of my favorite tracks, Tri-State Speedway for night #5 of Indiana Sprint Week. Before the start of the night, we decided to change 3 of the shocks on the car and go with our normal set up for there. We timed in 15^th quick, it was just a little greasier than we expected and that hurt us. Just being a tenth off makes a huge difference when there are so many cars within a half second. 15^th would line us up starting 3^rd in heat #3; we got a good start and were able to grab the lead coming out of turn 2 on the 2^nd lap and would lead the remainder of the heat to grab our 2^nd heat race win of Sprint Week. I was feeling good prior to the feature and we would line up 12^th, with lots of good cars in front and behind us. We got a good start and would pass some cars and would get to 6^th with about 5 to go. Unfortunately, we had a throttle spring break about halfway through the race and it made the throttle difficult to control, which ended up costing us a position at the end of the race. All things considered, it was a good run after the night at Bloomington and we were looking forward to finishing out our week at Lincoln Park Speedway.

Lincoln Park Speedway has been one of my favorite tracks this year so I was hoping for a good run to cap off the week. We didn’t have a good qualify run, but were able to battle our way into a transfer spot in the heat to put ourselves into the feature. Starting 20^th would be a tall task with the quality of cars at the track, but we moved forward quickly. By about halfway through the race, we were 13^th and with a gaggle of struggling cars in front of us knew we had a good enough car for a top 7 or 8 finish. Unfortunately, a rock or mud clod hit a nozzle line and knocked it off and we had to make a trip to the work area. We tightened the nozzle line back up and went back out and worked our way back to 15^th, but it didn’t show our true speed that night. It was unfortunate, but that is how the racing luck goes sometimes!