I had never raced at WCIS in a modified before so practice was important. The car was better than me at first, a little tight but my dad and I compared notes and got a really good set-up in the car for the heat. I started the heat in the 4th position and wound up finishing third. This put us in the re-draw for the 75 lap feature.

I drew the number 8 chip and started the feature there. We wanted to have a good strong run and bring the car home in one piece. For never being at the track before, we ran really strong in the top 10 the entire race. The car was a little loose the entire race and it was tough to get the power to the ground but we were running strong. When the white flag flew I was still in the 8th position and got a run under the car in 7th. Unfortunately, I made a silly mistake and got into the side of him getting into turn 3 and ran us both up that track. This put us way back to a 15th place finish.

The sun was setting and made it really hard to see in that turn which didn’t help the situation but that does not hide the fact that I should have settled for a good strong 8th place finish and gone home. It is disappointing to never run outside the top 10 and then finish 15th because of a last lap mistake, especially because my crew did such a good job for me all weekend. The good news is that the Wayne Regional Orthopaedics/Rochester Steel Treating car is in one piece and ready for Spencer Speedway this Friday night. -Mike Leaty