Ventura Raceway ...... 7-18-09.    The "Pill Pick", It is so Important to pick a low number, again the number was 63. It started with a track that had to much water on it, so the sprint cars had to wheel pack, but when you pick a high number you have a better track to hot lap. It did not work out that way this time, the high number put me on a track that was junk, so i was just wheel packing for all of the low number guy's so they had a good track to hot lap( thats not a great way to start the night ).   Again i was in the frist heat race starting last with the fast guy's on a track that was badly ruted up and one line, I ended up in the 5th spot.  On to the simi main .... I had a problem with the right rear tire, the car was a hand full to drive on a  track that was ruted up and the car was'nt good, I finish 4th, that put us in the last spot for the main.   The Main Event ..... Steve Luport  tried out a new setup on the car and could feel right away that the car was going to be good. The track was the roughest i had drove on at this track in a long time, it tore up cars and drivers out there, we had alot of cautions that helped me out to get by cars on the restarts and it fixed some of the big ruts. The car was geting better by the lap, I found places that did not work for other drivers to pass, at the end (the last 5 laps) I was geting faster and faster, the car was back like it was at the start of the sesson.  I need one more race to make sure we have a handle on it.  At the finish I ended up 6th from the 20th starting spot, that makes up for all of the problems we had all night.  Steve was still not to happy about the way they (VRA) runs the show, but he has all week to think about it, and how good the car was tonight !.   I want to thank Steve Luport for leting me drive his #71 Ellis sprint car each weekend and to his great crew of guys. Thanks to all the fans, until the next race .... see ya    Back In The Sprint Car !.

Richard  McCormick

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