08.24
After a couple weeks of hard work back in the shop, Glenn Jr. and the crew were ready to go on Saturday night at Lake Erie Speedway. If any word would sum up what the evening would come down to, that word would be “patience.” Patience you say…we are racing a heat race and feature right?
Well after a long day of practice to get the car dialed in, the night started off with the heat race. Glenn was set to go out in the second race starting in the 6th position of 8 cars in the field. As usual the race was 10 laps long. The race ran flag to flag caution free.
Glenn worked his way up to the 5th position by lap 3 and at the checkered flag was scored in third.
So Glenn Jr. brought the car back to pits for same final adjustments before the feature.
The feature was the normal 40 laps in length, 16 cars were in the field and Glenn started from the 10th spot. The race ran for three laps before the first caution. Glenn was pretty much locked into the tenth position with not a lot of change in the the field. The next two cautions were back to back on lap 9. After some time was taken to sort out the running order. The field went back to green flag racing and Glenn went to work carefully taking spots up to 5th by lap 24 before the caution slowed the racing on lap 30. Restarts were single file from here to the end and as the laps ticked off the desperation from just about every car on the track to save and take positions and points was evident. The last caution flag was on lap 37 and Glenn Jr was in 6th. Glenn raced clean and smooth through the last remaining laps and with veteran skill missed the 4th and 5th place cars as they got together on the back stretch on the last lap. At the checkered flag Glenn Jr. was scored in 4th position.
So patience prevails and truly does bring success even during a feature at a short track on Saturday night. Congratulations to Glenn Jr and the team on a great race.
Thats all from the track for now but if the Glenn Jr and the team heads out we will keep you posted.