Seth Misses Main Event At Fred Brownfield Memorial

After a long week and running on back up parts Seth came up short and missed out on Saturday nights main event at the Fred Brownfield Memorial at Grays Harbor Raceway.

The team put in another all nighter on Friday night to put a third car together for Saturday night’s race. When you are running on backup parts you can still put a car together that is going to work fine, but when you are running on used parts it’s going to be tought to get the same level of performance.

The pill draw was not kind to us all week long and for the fifth straight night we drew a number which put us at the back of our heat. The track was a lot more hooked up than Friday and we had a definate chance of moving forward. As the race went green Seth got a great start and got around the 26F of Shane Forte quickly and on the second lap was able to get by the 3g of Darren Long. On lap three Seth passed National driver Channon Tankersley for fifth but on the following lap gave the spot back as he got hung up on the chuson coming out of turn four. Seth was unable to pick up any more spots and finished the race in 6th.

The result placed us in B Main number 2 starting on the outside of Roger Crockett in the fifth spot. Justin Cox set the early pace and as the cars raced into turn 1 Crockett found himself in a tangle and his night was done. Seth found himself moving up to third as the cars reracked. On the green flag Seth drove around the 44 and was up into the vital trasnsfer spot position. It was evident that the car was extremely tight and would not turn off the corners as Cox cleared out from the 23. Steven Tiner in the 94t was charging hard and on lap eight the yellow waived for Chad Groves in the 25c. On the restart Tiner was able to drive underneath the 23 as Seth was clearly fighting the car on every lap, and when Bacon in the 99 drove under us with two laps to go our night was over.

As Seth pulled the car back into the pit area he got out of the car with blue fluid all over his racing suit which indicated the steering box had gone during the race. Seth had indicated that the steering was not right even during hot laps but we made the best of what we had to work to with.

Full credit needs to go to Steve, Mike and everyone that helped out thrashing on Friday night to get a car out there for Saturday nights race.  Jason Johnson made it two for two as it took out the main event with Shane Stewart second and Ricky Logan third. The race was unfortunatel mared with Seth’s close friend Wayne Johnson involved in a nasty wreck on the opening lap which forced him to be airlifed to hospital with a compound fracture in his lower right leg.

While the weekend did not go as hoped we will get things back together this week and we will give it our all when we head to Cottage Grove next week for two nights of ASCS National Tour racing.