South Buxton Raceway 070707 (July 7, 2007)

There was nothing lucky about the number 7 for it being 070707. The number has some significance for the Wheel man. The number 7 was his career hockey number. It also happens to be his daughter Sarah's birthday. Unfortunately the Cornstock Motorsports team has to record a DNF. The night started out fantastic. The ailments from last week are gone after several hours on the scales. The heat win was swift. A follow up win in the Pursuit race confirmed the set up was dialed in. The MOD Pursuit race seemed to be over quick or few laps short. Starting position in the Feature race was 8th. A few laps in and the march forward started. A caution found Corn in 6th outside of the 5 car of C. Coulter. The outside line was fast, but rough. A few laps later the 95.1 car was found in the 2nd spot, about 1/2 a straight behind the 47 of J. Brousseau. Then the car just quite running and would not restart. The final placement was 10th. The crew thinks it could be the ignition system, but once back at the speedshop the diagnosis will begin. The bright side to all this is that the car handle excellent tonight. Next week we are the mouse once again in the Pursuit race. Here is Crewman's quote pick of the week. It sounds allot like what we do now. "We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made." - Richard Petty.

South Buxton Raceway, June 30, 2007

Happy Canada Weekend everyone! We were excited to be back at the track after re-clipping the front end and straighting the rear end over the past 2 weeks. Tonights racing action was unfortunately better than our car. Brake bias issues during the heat race push the car around. After the race we resolved the problem. Since we did not race last week we do not run the Pursuit. This left use with lots of time to make adjustments. Unfortunately I think we over adjusted the car. The way we looked at it is that you can go to the far side of good setup and be very badly setup. We ended creating so much left rear bite, that the car would chase up the track each time the throttle was applied exiting the corner. It became a situation that you had to learn to drive the situation. This got Wheel to third place with 3 laps to go. Battling hard with 1D Paul Degoey at this point for position. Unfortunately everything came crashing down right about this time. A nasty bump along the D and going into turn one upset the car badly and spun out. I think Wheel must have been wrestling a bear. I am pleased with the car after the wreck June 14, and we know what was wrong tonight. Mistakes do happen. Better luck next time. Congratulations to Curtis Coulter for his Victory. Thanks to all our sponsors ( http://www.cornstock.com/sponsors.html ) and the fans that stop by the bus after the race. Quote for this week: "Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise." 'Kurt Bush'