Glenn Gault Jr.

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.