Glenn Gault Jr.

Lake Erie Speedway held its annual long distance race on Saturday July 18th and Glenn Jr joined the field of 28 Late Models running for 150 laps after a 12 lap heat race. A race of this length requires a lot of preparation starting way before the car gets to the track. It continues on the day of the race with the team at the track from early in the morning on race day. As it gets closer to race time each of the practice sessions are very important. Weather conditions on Saturday were more similar to a Saturday in September than July so car handling was completely different.

The Heat Race was set by pill draw and Glenn Jr was set to go out in the 3rd of 4 Heats in the 6th position in a 7 car field. The top four finishers in each of the Heat races would then go on to redraw prior to the Feature on the front stretch for the top twelve starting spots. In the Heat race Glenn jumped up to the 4th position early in the the short 12 lap Heat. He held that spot steadily until the closing laps brought the back of the field charging. Glenn battled hard for his position and at the checkered flag was scored 5th.

So with the car still not handling as it should, the crew went back to work with more changes. When the lineup was posted Glenn Jr was set in the 18th spot to start the feature.
The Feature started shortly after 9PM despite some threatening skies and a light rain that quickly passed. Glenn Jr started 18th, and as a veteran driver knows in any long distance race the name of the game is to be there on lap 150. So the mind set is much different than a normal 40 lap feature where time is of the essence and racing hard would be called for. Here the opposite is true, patience and persistence will get you much farther than running hard and fast. Glenn Jr. did just that and hung on to his position in 18th through the first 4 caution flags. By the caution on lap 49 he had gained 3 spots into 15th and by the competition caution on lap 75 he was in 12th.

Glenn restarted 12th and continued to work on the positions in front of him one at a time. One more caution flag slowed the racing on lap 132 and Glenn had made his way up to 8th. The rest of the race ran caution free and Glenn ran a great race to checkered finishing unofficially around 8th. Despite the many changes made to the car it was not an easy drive for Glenn Jr and he showed his skills as veteran driver to bring home a well deserved top ten finish. Even though it wasn’t sitting in victory lane, it certainly felt like one for the driver and the team.
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The NASCAR Whelen Series continued at Lake Erie Speedway on Saturday July 4th with a Heat and Feature race for the Late Model Division. Glenn Jr. and his team and worked extra long hours and thrown the kitchen sink at the car making wholesale changes to see if they could pull out something big. Not even knowing if the what they had was close or way off they went out for the short practice session to run a few laps.

Finding that it was not bad, the team had the post practice meeting to make the final adjustments for the Heat race.

So Glenn was set to go out 2nd in the field of 7 cars in the 2nd Heat. Also racing tonight for the second time this season was Rookie driver Tommy Morell driving the #33. He lined up 7th. At the drop of the Green Glenn jumped out to an early lead and for the rest of the 10 laps worked on extending his lead on the rest of the field. Glenn took the checkered flag and the Heat race win.

Tommy ran a clean race however the car tightened up and so he did a great job hanging on all ten laps and bringing it home 7th.
So it was back to the pit area for work on adjustments for the Feature.
The Feature line up put Glenn Jr. on the pole and Tommy 20th out of 21 cars. Prior to the start of the Feature they stopped the cars on the frontstretch for in car driver introductions. Here is a just a look at Glenn’s driver intro from the pole.

From the drop of the green Glenn Jr and the #3 raced side by side until the first caution on lap #2. Glenn then started 2nd on lap 2 and from that restart jumped out into the first place. Two laps later was the next yellow and Glenn was scored as the leader. As the field took the green on the double file restart Glenn again took off and this time took a good lead for several laps as he had in the Heat Race. As the race continued to run green ,the lead began to diminish after lap 20 as the cars back in the field shuffled positions and lap traffic slowed his pace. Slowly the second place car crept closer. Glenn had to pick his way carefully through the lap traffic and on lap 31 slipped into the 2nd position. The last caution flag flew at lap 32 Glenn restarted in 2nd and held that spot at the checkered flag.
The #33 had a rough night finishing in the back of the running order.

The next race for Glenn Jr. looks to be at Lake Erie Speedway July 18th in the NASCAR Whelen Series but you can always watch our Twitter page for up to the minute updates.

While doing some web surfing I came across some really great coverage done of the race at Midvale in the Main Event Series that Glenn Jr. raced in back the first time the series stopped there. Unfortunately motor troubles kept the #6 from racing tonight July 3rd but you can enjoy this look back at the May 23rd race.

Even with the failing brakes.. still held on for at least half the race.