Our first race was a great event for the Allied Steel Buildings, Canadian Shield Dodge Avenger. Our focus through out the day’s practice session was spent on our race set-up rather than qualifying, which resulted in a 16th place starting spot with a car that we knew would race well all night long.
At the drop of the green flag we steadily progressed up through the field into the 8th spot by lap 60. Around the 75 lap mark we made contact with Andrew Ranger which caused us to lose a lap to the leaders, forcing us to re-think our race strategy as we no knew we would be out of sync with the race leaders during pit stops around the half way mark.
We were able to get to the front of the group of cars running one lap down and qualify for the Free Pass which put us back on the lead lap. After another 15 lap green flag run we caught a yellow and were able to pit for right side tires and get back in the hunt. After re-starting in the rear with fresh tires we slowly worked our way back to the front and ended the race in a heated battle with Mark Dilley, Peter Gibbons and Dave Whitlock. At the line we came home in 6th spot which was great considering the misfortune we encountered early in the event.
All in all it was a great start to the 2008 season. We leave Cayuga sixth in the point standings and a great foundation to build on for the season.
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