Mother nature wins at Irwindale

Mother nature controlled the checkered flags
at Irwindale Speedway this weekend.
The InfernoMotorsports team arrived at 4:45 p.m.
Thursday and checked in for the All Star shootout.
The team woke up to rain and more rain friday a.m.
and was told to be at the driver/ crew meeting at
8:00 a.m then have the car ready for tech inspection
right after.
The car went through tech with only a couple of minor
things to correct.
The skys cleared and the track was drying when the
speedway called for practice around mid day, while
waiting for our turn on the track the skys darkened
and the mist started falling, but, with so many cars
on the track the surface was still dry enough to stay
fast, we planned to run the car for the whole session
when someone lost a piece of metal and Joe ran it over.
The metal punched a hold the size of a large mans fist
through the rt rear tire, Joe spun the car going into
turn 1 to keep it from slamming the fence.
Practice was over for us, so much for running the whole
session. We got 10 laps in.
O.K. .. let`s wait for qualifing, that will be another
chance to make any final changes for the feature event.
Mother nature had other plans ... qualifing was rained
out,so,nascar says the line up was the top 40 cars based
on the pill draw..... Joe pulls the 41st starting spot!!
Holly crap I said!! We dont get to race? the local track
champion draws spot # 42 ... the champ dont get to race?
Nascar decides to allow every team that showed up to
race... Thank you Jesus.
OK, it`s finally race day and the skys are not leaking
for the whole day, Nascar says all 4 divisions will
run on today and time will be the issue, our race started
at 10:55 pm and was scheduled for 40 minutes or 75 laps,
we started 41st and planned to wait out he 1st half of the
race and keep out of any potential wrecks, but, there were
just too may cautions and the time limit ran out,the race
only lasted 40 something laps we finished 26th.
We will go back next year if the late models get called
back again, it was long.. it was expensive...
we were wet... we were cold... we loved it!!
stay tuned... we are going back.