July 17th- Oakshade Raceway Park (Wauseon, OH) The final night of the UMP summer nationals with 58 cars present for the highest car count of the tour. Had a little more confidence than last night and was ready to start it off right. I qualified second quick in group number four as Summer National champ Jason Feger out qualified me by only seven thousandths of a second. The heat races started heads up and I was able to steal the lead off the start and lead every lap for the heat race win. Redrew the number five starting position for the feature. Tire selection was key as the race track was hard to read after the track officials watered and reworked the track before the 60 lap feature. The race started a little under the gun as the track was still a little greasy. I fell back to 8th as I went with harder tires and needed the track to come in more. By lap ten I started to get some heat in the tires and charge back to the front. On lap 28 I was back to fifth working to pass the three cars bunched up in front of me. As I tried to sneak under Feger I missed my mark and clipped the inside tire smashing my nose into a form of a snow plow. Everytime I hit my brakes I would push like a freight train. I tired rolling around the top so I didn’t have to use my brakes and keep my nose in the air. Once I lost my spring cup on the left front I pushed off the race track and could not control the car. I was unable to continue and held yet another disappointing finish.
Jon