Race 2

Saturday night was race 2  and the weather  is getting warmer
here in Vegas,  as the weather gets hotter the car  needs changes
as the track surface gets slicker,
Practice laps went fair  for our hot rod, but, changes were
needed to correct a  loose condition off the corner,  Joe and
I looked into chassis changes, shock changes or spring  changes
and finally  decided on spring and chassis changes prior to
our qualifing run.
The changes were good, not  perfect, but, made the car  better
from the exit  of the corner.
Joe qualified 5th fast and with the 2 car invert  started inside
row 3,  The race was follow the leader for the first  half  of the
50 lap race while the to 6 cars  drove away from the  back  6 
cars, (only 12 cars this wekend)
With a couple of  yellows the field bunched back  up and
the choose cone was put out,  Joe was running 6th and chose
to stay in the bottom lane while the  back 4 of 6 cars chose
to take the  high  line, On the restart Joe  had to stay close behind
the 5th place car with  the top 6  nose to tail, a few laps later
two cars  made contact on lap 43 and nearly spun in Turn 4  then
on lap 46 another yellow came out  and a green white checkered
finish was coming ,
Joe was still running 6th  at the time and again  chose to stay
on the bottom for the green  flag restart, Joe took the Horn
Industrial Services, MIM,  Titan  Monte Carlo  hard down into
turn 3 but had to lift when Shackleford running 5th closed the door
on him, Joe charged hard at  him again into turn one and
 made  slight contact on the white flag lap,
Again Joe charged him hard  into turn 3 getting and finally got
side  by side  with Shackleford, they went side  by side  off turn 
4 for the finish, Joe was hard  on the gas pedel and passed for
a 5th  place  finish .    
Haase was scored in second place and Romain Thievin of Paris
 France, finishing  third, after passing Gafforini with three laps remaining.
 Gafforini and Joe Deguevara completed the top five