9/11/2010 - The season is coming to an end. It took us a little while to get things going with our rookie team and car but things are looking very bright for next year. The last 3 races in 2 weekends have yielded all top 5 finishes.
On Friday September 3, we traveled to Dog Hollow Speedway. About 2 hours (5:45pm) into the 2.5 hour trip to Strongstown, PA we ran into rain on Rt. 22. We decided to call the speedway to see if the races were still on. Dog Hollow had decided to cancel. We almost had enough time to make it back to Path Valley, figuring on tagging onto the tail-end of the feature to turn some laps. We made it the Path just in time to change gears and unload to start at the rear of the heat race and finished 5th. We started the feature 7th and finished 4th.
Last Sunday's race at Hesston may have been the night for our first win, if the race was only 1 lap longer. With a field of only 4 cars, qualifying consisted of a pill draw, no heats and a 12 lap feature. We started the feature 4th. Until we cleared 2nd and 3rd place the leader had a straightaway lead. Transtan ran him down in 3 laps. Unfortunately we didn't quite have enough traction to make the pass out of turn 4 for the win. It was encouraging to know we were the fastest car on the track, even though the results didn't show it.
Friday we traveled back to Dog Hollow for their final race of the year. It was a very stacked field of veteran Mike Blose as well as other Fastrak front runners touring the Northeast Region. We started the heat race in 4th and finished 3rd. We happened to draw the pole position following the heat race to start the feature. There was an early red flag and restart to follow we would relinquish the lead to Blose. Despite a few challenges from the #100 Bullitt house car, the JTS Motorsports m14 would dominate the exit of turn 2 to trump any challenge made. We finished the feature in 2nd.
