Tuesday June 5 - Adams County Speedway - Corning, IA

Stop #4 on the USRA tour with $2,000 up for grabs to the winner. Chris started from the outside front row of his heat race and took the lead at the lap 3 mark and drove away to the heat win to earn the outside front row starting spot for the A-main.

At the drop of the green in the A-main, Chris drove into the lead and began to slip away from the field. When the first caution flew at the lap 10 mark, Chris had driven to a healthy lead, only to see it be erased by the caution. Chris Spieker had stormed into 2nd from the 8th starting spot, and he was beginning to contend for the lead. Chris fought hard but finally gave up the lead on lap 18 to Spieker.

Spieker drove out to about a 1/2 straightaway lead but then the margin stabilized between the two front running cars. Chris and the team had set the car up a little free expecting the track to take rubber, but the surface remained hard and slick through lap 23 when it finally began to rubber.

The final caution flew at this time and set up a 7 lap dash to the finish. Chris chose the inside line on the restart and fell back to 3rd spot behind a fast charging #12 car driven by the son of Dwight Jackson. Jackson used the rubber on the high side to begin to challenge Spieker for the lead as Chris sat back just behind the battle looking for an opening.

With 3 laps remaining, Jackson drove too hard into turn 1 and slid over the banking between turns 1 and 2 momentarily. Chris jumped into 2nd and then began to run down Spieker. As the two leaders flashed under the white flag, Chris had cut the lead to just a few carlengths. As the leaders exited turn 4 to race to the checkers, Chris dove low and drove up to Spieker's rear quarter panel, but came up less than a car length short at the stripe.

It was another solid performance for us, but we were a little disappointed that we misread the track, which ultimately cost us the race.

 Spieker and his team did a very good job and their experience at their home track definitely showed. We will take another solid top 5 finish and head to the next event Thursday June 7 at the Dubuque Speedway in Dubuque, IA.

On Friday June 8, we will head south to race Mike Crump's 00 machine at the Tri City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois. Then on Saturday June 9, we plan to compete with our own 25s machine at the MLRA event at the Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, MO.

Let's hope we can continue to put together solid finishes and continue tuning on the cars. If we keep finishing in the front consistently, the wins will come.

We are certainly due for them!