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March 22, 2011 It's been about 10 months since our last update. A lot has happened in those months, mostly disappointment with a few highlights. Our results in the modified were in my opinion awful but we learned so much so that upgrades them to good. We had a lot of help from a lot of friends to get the mod going good. Dwight Jarvis, Michael Weld, Sean Bodreau were very helpful, thanks so much! We won our heat race at Monadnock the last race we ran there by 10 car lengths the car was going really good and Bryon was finally getting the feel for the car. We led the feature for a handful of laps until we got knocked out of the way by another car. We were 4th about halfway through the race when we got taken out by a lap car. A good run even though the finish didn't show it. The car had minimal damage so that was the good news. Bryon noticed the oil pressure was fluctuating a little bit during the race we ended up pulling the engine to check it. Everything looked fine so we put the engine back in and got ready for Ricky's race in Canaan, NH. We took a few weeks off and decided our next race would be July 3rd with the Pro Stock. The car was fast right off the trailer like always. We had a good run in the heat I'm not sure where we finished. We only had a handful of cars for the feature we started 8th I think and we were making our way to the front quickly. We were up to 3rd putting the pressure on Brandon Ovitt for second when the car started to lose power. We were only running a 30 lap feature this night good thing because on lap 29 the engine seized going into turn 3 we were far enough ahead to finish third. That was the good news the bad news is we ruined the engine that had treated us well for many years. Our next race was the Ricky Miller Memorial 112 at Canaan Fair Speedway. The night prior we brought the car up to Gateway Motors to support the race honoring Rick. It ended up raining but it was a lot of fun meeting people and seeing all of our friends. On race day we continued to get better and better throughout every practice. We were not super fast but consistent. We started toward the front in our heat race but quickly fell to the back. We noticed the oil pressure problem coming back again. We ended up running the consi and took the final qualifying position for the feature. We started in 24th I think and made our way up to 17th but on lap 19 when the caution came out and we decided to park the car so we wouldn't hurt the engine. Another disappointing night but we were able to make the car better every time when went on the track and our lap times were decent. Bryon got really comfortable in the car the last 2 races so I can't wait for 2011 to start! This ended our season as we just did not have the money to get the car back on track. I have been asked by a lot of people what 2011 holds for our race team. Well like everyone says it all depends on money. We lost a longtime sponsor this season. Osgood's Welding has been behind us forever it seems but times change and they are unable to help out as they have in the past but we still support their business. Thank you Kevin and Debbie Osgood for the support of our team throughout the years you helped us. You will never know how much it meant to us! That being said; Our plan is to run Monadnock Tour Mods throughout the season. We also plan to run Valenti Modified Racing Series shows at Twin State Speedway on May 28th and Rickys Race at Canaan on July 16th. The Pro Stock is up in the air right now as we have no engine right now. If we can somehow get it together we would like to run a couple at Monadnock and the Granite State Pro Stock Series race at Twin State Speedway. Right now we are working hard to get the modified done. We have to make one more new oil line and then the engine is getting taken out to be refreshed. Then we have to put it back in and set the front end up and scale it. The trailer and truck will need to be prepared as well so we have a busy few weeks ahead of us. Stay tuned for more updates and some new pictures.
See ya on the flip side, Phillie
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