Ventura Raceway  7-11-09 ....... After a little break, again it was all about your pill pick and track position and starting spot's in the heat races and the mains. Are pill pick was #65, so it put me in the 3rd heat race (it had all the fast guys in it) in the 8th starting position, I finished in 5th, the track, the track was one line on the top follow the leader.  The Simi Main .... they worked on the track for the mains, the track was the best it has bin in a year ( track prep is great when you make the time by having less class's  racing on the night ) so that made it alot more fun, I had a good starting spot in the 2nd row inside, the car was almost perfect and i finished 1st. The Main Event .... the track was pretty much used up by the Midget main and the Senior sprint car main ( 50 laps ) on the race track. starting in the back 17th on a slik track is a hard thing to do and to get to the front, cars are jockey in for position while the guys that start up front have a jump on other cars ( track position ) and the track having two racing lines it makes it hard to get going and up to speed, this gives the cars up front to catch up to back of the pack and it stayed green for all 30 laps. This week everyone was going almost the same speed out there, passing was still hard to do unless you pushed them out of the way or let them make a mistake or you had more grip in a place that no one had grip. Next week we race at Ventura Raceway again, hopefuly we get a better pill pick so we can have that track position that we all need so much at this track !. Thank's to Steve Luport and his great crew of guy's that hang in there each week and the race fans that show up each and every sat. night to watch us race. We are still trying to get the Ellis back up to speed from the Bakersfeild crash, there is a problem that we have with the car that we can't find !.   Until the next race.. I will se ya... Back In The Sprint Car.

Richard McCormick

www.richardmccormickracing.com