With the engine complete we finally got on the track for the first time. August 31,2013 at Auto City speedway. My first latemodel race ever here. Got some good practice in. Then entire goal of the night was to shake the car down. Not to push it and wind up breaking anything the first time out. We did our qualifying and I wasn't surprised by my 15th out of 15 for qualifying. But they had no heat race scheduled and just were going to make it a 60 lap race. Oh joy! An endurance test right off the bat with this engine and car. It was a long race so I decided to make sure I was going to make it the whole way one way or another. Just after the completion of lap 1, 10 of the 15 cars piled up in turn 1. I was able to avoid the mess and make it through by shooting low and not spiking the brakes in a panic like some others had done. In the end I wound up finishing 7th. Not bad for just taking it easy. Sometimes you don't need to be fast to finish well. Sometimes patience pays off.
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