August 11th Peterborough Speedway

The crew arrived at Peterborough Speedway 4 hours early in order to try to fix the car in the parking lot on another very hot day. After major front end repairs the car was taken out in hot laps, and it actually drove fairly well, even though the frame is bent. We started at the back of the first heat, and moved up to seventh at the finish but the car was very loose. After an adjustment to tighten it up, Paul started on the outside of the front row, but fell back to 8th at the finish. More adjustments were made to try to improve the car for the feature. Starting 13th, Paul was up to 10th on lap 4 when it all went wrong again ! Paul had to swerve hard to avoid the # 02 car and he spun out into the grass. The caution came out for Paul's spin and then the # 7 car of Matt Marshall crashed into the # 33 car and rolled several times end over end, and over the wall into the spectator fence. He was knocked unconscious, and the car was destroyed, but he walked away in a few minutes. They say it was the worst crash in quite a few years, and our team wishes Matt a speedy recovery from what appeared to be only minor injuries. The car was not handling well after the restart, and Paul finished near the back of the pack. The team will try to repair the car in order to race it on Wed. Aug 15th at Capital City Speedway, and Jeff will also return behind the wheel of the # 18 car for a two car assault.