Night 1 At Brownfield Does Not Go To Plan As Seth Takes 2nd Tumble

Everything that could go wrong went wrong on Night 1 of the Fred Brownfield Memorial as Seth tumbled for the second time this week.

With the ASCS National Tour boys in town for two nights of racing you need to make sure you are 100% on your game if you want to role in the feature event. Fifty six cars checked into the pits for the event and we knew that we were going to have to bring our A game with so many studs in town.

Seth gave me the honor of going and drawing the pill and needles to say that was pretty much where the night got off on the wrong foot as only 4 other drivers drew worse numbers. That put us in the back of heat race number three starting along side Seth’s buddy Wayne Johnson in the 35a. With the season we have had a Elma we weren’t concerned about our starting position and we had full confidence Seth would go forward and got the job done so we made the show.

After two laps of heat racing marbles of dirt had formed all over the track which  makes extremely difficult to get any bite of the corners. As the light went green it was evident we were in trouble as the car just could not get a run on any of the cars on the top or the bottom. It was a sad sight to see us rolling around in the back when we had been so good here all year. T from the Bhe conditions of the track just didn’t allow us to make it happen and we were resigned to the fact that we were going to have to pull of a Houdini act to get through to the Main event from the “B”.

You know it’s a deep field when the likes of Tony Bruce Jr and Danny Wood are starting in your B as well as a host of other local drivers that would be an automatic shoe in for the A Main. If we were going to be a chance we were going to have to get through half the field on the first lap.

As the light went green Seth got the jump and raced around four cars as he came screaming down into turn 1 what he didn’t expect was that Jake Mann in the 38 car would brake so heavily going into 1 and what resulted was Seth having to break hard and because of the speed he was traveling the car ended up toppling over and our night was done.

It was a frustrating to see the car all balled up again, and the team was resigned to the fact that an all nighter was on the cards for the second time in four days. Our main sponsor Pete “Father Superior” Peterson said “Seth did what he expected and we are out there to win. If we wreck we wreck but were not out there to run 10th in a B main”

It was dissapointing night for everyone as we came in here with high expectations based on the season we have had so far, but as I right this article the car is back together, and I have to thank all of those who donated their time last night and this morning to get this car together so quickly.

The Rajun Cajun Jason Johnson took out the feature event with Jayme Barnes in the 7n second and Shane Stewart in the 57 third.

We will be back at it again for night two and we can only hope that fortunes will be better for the 23.