For the us open I went out to practice with my Cromwell powered mowchine. The track was a little damp and it was hooking good and felt really good about getting a good starting position. We had experimented with different setups and this was the first race my new mowchine had been under full power. By the time qualifying came around the track had tightened up a lot. I hadn't realized it and made no adjustments. Needless to say it was so tight i was barely getting through the turns which caused me to start in 11th position in a tough field. Because of the time we only were able to run a 20 lap feature instead of the normal heat and feature. I made what I felt was the necessary adjustments would be.
Ok. Green flag....
When the Green dropped and we went into turn one, I realized we had made the right adjustments. After a few good maneuvers and a few cautions I found myself sitting in 4th position behind a fast mowchine running 3rd. As the remaining laps starting ticking off, I starting trying to find a good place to set him up to pass for the 3rd position but found he was having a hard time holding a consistent line. Just as we were taking the white flag, a caution came out which setup a green, white, checked. When the green dropped we grabbed the throttles. Going into turn one I hung it out a little high hoping to get an inside run going down the back stretch but he got on his late coming out and held the inside. Around we came, white flag. Coming out off turn 2 going down the back stretch, I knew my only hope was the same attempt I had made on the green, white, checked, hang it high going into turn 3 and hold it low coming off turn 4 for the checked. So that is what I did. When we came off the corner he got loose and pushed up the track and that put me in the perfect position to move up one mower position to 3rd as the checked flag dropped.
Awesome race and great time...