Community Racing Challenge

This is going to be a slightly shorter note then weeks past because, well, nothing really happen.

Team CRC & Jenkins Performance Motorsports were looking forward to double features on Friday Night at Mt. Pleasant Speedway, but Mother Nature once again showed her ugly face and washed away our race evening. Cars were loaded and ready to go when we got the call.

Randy decided to take the #57 Jet's Pizza/Okemos Auto Repair Dodge Neon over to Spartan Speedway and try his luck there. Tim Rodgers in his #42 Hotjackets.com/Stateside Deli Dodge Stratus liked that idea and he hauled over there also. But rain canceled the show there also.

Saturday Morning we finally got the brakes completed on the #13 Cats-Parts-Mart Ford Taurus. We had quite the issue getting the old rubber brakes leads off, in fact, ultimately we decided to just leave them there and zip tie the new brake lines to them. This leads to a very funny and amusing incident in the tech barn later in the night (you'll have to ask me off line for the details).

At about 3:30pm, the weather was looking okay, there were two big storms coming, but they looked like they were going to split the state in half and Owosso was going to be okay. We got the track, got unloaded, got everything ready to go. The #13 went 20.641, its fastest time yet this season (23.158 wk1; 21.532 wk2) and I think there was a little more left in the tank. Cam continues to struggle with his qualifying skills, he runs really good in race conditions, but he isn't able to identify and overcome issues in the car on his own yet. That is something which will just take time. Saturday night the #00 O'Neils Auto Repair Dodge Neon wouldn't shift out of 1st gear... we replaced the faulty shifter linkage during the week and evidently didn't quite get it adjusted right.. a little extra wiggle of the cable would make it pop into 2nd, but Cam was content to drive around the lap pinging the #00 off the rev limiter, for two straight laps, in first gear. We talked to him after qualifying about aborting laps when the car isn't running right, something which he does really well during races (too well maybe) but doesn't do well at all when he is out there alone. Randy in the #57 Okemos Auto Repair/Jets Pizza Dodge Neon lost some time on is qualifying time (20.944), but I think mostly he just wanted to get the car through the night without a DNF, he has been snake bit at Owosso and wasn't pushing the car at all.

The highlight of qualifying was Joey Rodgers in his #69 Hotjackets.com/Grewal Law Dodge Neon snapping off a 20.292 for 3rd fastest. NICE !!

You can read the weekly Jenkins Performance Motorsports Blog : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenkins-Performance-Motorsports/123521082724?v=app_2347471856 (note, it isn't done this week, I'll update the link when it is)

Somewhere over Lake Michigan, those two storms became one big storm and rain came shortly after qualifying and wiped out the rest of the weekend. We loaded up and got home fairly quickly... good thing we did, because not long after we got home, the heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and two different tornadoes blew through our travel route. Our friend Bill McBride who drives the #80 Coyote Motorsports/ Beacon Sales and Service Dodge Neon left about 30 minutes after we did and got caught up in all the junk and had a pretty hairy ride home.

Sunday, Rob and I decided to go to Mottville and chase after Mottville Speedway's 60th Anniversary Mini Thunder Car $260 to win special. I had mentally already conceded I wasn't going to attend this event after washing out FRI & SAT, my bank account just couldn't accommodate it. But Rob stepped up and offered me a ride, so I decided last minute to go. Turned out the racing gods had other plans. Spent the next 4 hours looking like, as Shannon put it "Monkey's F-ning a Football" as we clowned our way through lost keys, hung up gears, out of gas, and flat tire on trailer.. it was a "Rick Adventure" right out of the textbook. We never got south of I-94 and spent as much time, money and effort as we did the week before going all the way to Plymouth. I apologize to Rob for screwing up his Sunday. OH.. and Shannon still thinks its amusing, though the smashed baby carrier doesn't think its quite so funny.

Congrats to Kevin Witmer out of Elkhart, IN who won on Sunday. He is a good guy has a real good car and faced some pretty stiff competition on Sunday.

The good news out of this weekend is everything is already ready for next weekend. We didn't run anything, so we don't have to fix anything. There are a couple of back burner projects which will be moved to the front burner this week and next week. Including getting the #8 YOUR SPONSOR NAME COULD BE HERE Dodge Neon back on the track.. and getting the #22 YOUR SPONSOR NAME COULD BE HERE Dodge Intrepid ready for the K-Zoo/Owosso Cyber-Sport-Stock Challenge. I'll tell you more about the KOCSSC in the coming days. Short story long.. PW, Russ III and Doink are going to head off to K-Zoo and wipe the track with White Doug, Slick Nick and too cool Keith Dunham.

Side Note - an old friend of mine looked me up over the last couple of weeks and he is thinking about getting into racing and joining up with Team CRC. Sam Coan, better known as Vinny Vegas to you guys who remember the Lansing Sports Rage days or the old Sports Inferno.

REMIND EVERYONE - That Team CRC will be represented in The Stan Perry Memorial FWD Run-What-You-Brung event at Angola Motor Speedway on Thurday, June 10th by the #11x of Randy Clingan. Randy is a good guy and we are very proud to have him flying the Team CRC colors. Randy has one of the baddest, fastest, nastiest FWD's on the Planet Earth and he is going to Angola to help us capture the Blaine Miller Bounty !!

This is going to be a slightly shorter note then weeks past because, well, nothing really happen.

Team CRC & Jenkins Performance Motorsports were looking forward to double features on Friday Night at Mt. Pleasant Speedway, but Mother Nature once again showed her ugly face and washed away our race evening. Cars were loaded and ready to go when we got the call.

Randy decided to take the #57 Jet's Pizza/Okemos Auto Repair Dodge Neon over to Spartan Speedway and try his luck there. Tim Rodgers in his #42 Hotjackets.com/Stateside Deli Dodge Stratus liked that idea and he hauled over there also. But rain canceled the show there also.

Saturday Morning we finally got the brakes completed on the #13 Cats-Parts-Mart Ford Taurus. We had quite the issue getting the old rubber brakes leads off, in fact, ultimately we decided to just leave them there and zip tie the new brake lines to them. This leads to a very funny and amusing incident in the tech barn later in the night (you'll have to ask me off line for the details).

At about 3:30pm, the weather was looking okay, there were two big storms coming, but they looked like they were going to split the state in half and Owosso was going to be okay. We got the track, got unloaded, got everything ready to go. The #13 went 20.641, its fastest time yet this season (23.158 wk1; 21.532 wk2) and I think there was a little more left in the tank. Cam continues to struggle with his qualifying skills, he runs really good in race conditions, but he isn't able to identify and overcome issues in the car on his own yet. That is something which will just take time. Saturday night the #00 O'Neils Auto Repair Dodge Neon wouldn't shift out of 1st gear... we replaced the faulty shifter linkage during the week and evidently didn't quite get it adjusted right.. a little extra wiggle of the cable would make it pop into 2nd, but Cam was content to drive around the lap pinging the #00 off the rev limiter, for two straight laps, in first gear. We talked to him after qualifying about aborting laps when the car isn't running right, something which he does really well during races (too well maybe) but doesn't do well at all when he is out there alone. Randy in the #57 Okemos Auto Repair/Jets Pizza Dodge Neon lost some time on is qualifying time (20.944), but I think mostly he just wanted to get the car through the night without a DNF, he has been snake bit at Owosso and wasn't pushing the car at all.

The highlight of qualifying was Joey Rodgers in his #69 Hotjackets.com/Grewal Law Dodge Neon snapping off a 20.292 for 3rd fastest. NICE !!

You can read the weekly Jenkins Performance Motorsports Blog : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenkins-Performance-Motorsports/123521082724?v=app_2347471856 (note, it isn't done this week, I'll update the link when it is)

Somewhere over Lake Michigan, those two storms became one big storm and rain came shortly after qualifying and wiped out the rest of the weekend. We loaded up and got home fairly quickly... good thing we did, because not long after we got home, the heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and two different tornadoes blew through our travel route. Our friend Bill McBride who drives the #80 Coyote Motorsports/ Beacon Sales and Service Dodge Neon left about 30 minutes after we did and got caught up in all the junk and had a pretty hairy ride home.

Sunday, Rob and I decided to go to Mottville and chase after Mottville Speedway's 60th Anniversary Mini Thunder Car $260 to win special. I had mentally already conceded I wasn't going to attend this event after washing out FRI & SAT, my bank account just couldn't accommodate it. But Rob stepped up and offered me a ride, so I decided last minute to go. Turned out the racing gods had other plans. Spent the next 4 hours looking like, as Shannon put it "Monkey's F-ning a Football" as we clowned our way through lost keys, hung up gears, out of gas, and flat tire on trailer.. it was a "Rick Adventure" right out of the textbook. We never got south of I-94 and spent as much time, money and effort as we did the week before going all the way to Plymouth. I apologize to Rob for screwing up his Sunday. OH.. and Shannon still thinks its amusing, though the smashed baby carrier doesn't think its quite so funny.

Congrats to Kevin Witmer out of Elkhart, IN who won on Sunday. He is a good guy has a real good car and faced some pretty stiff competition on Sunday.

The good news out of this weekend is everything is already ready for next weekend. We didn't run anything, so we don't have to fix anything. There are a couple of back burner projects which will be moved to the front burner this week and next week. Including getting the #8 YOUR SPONSOR NAME COULD BE HERE Dodge Neon back on the track.. and getting the #22 YOUR SPONSOR NAME COULD BE HERE Dodge Intrepid ready for the K-Zoo/Owosso Cyber-Sport-Stock Challenge. I'll tell you more about the KOCSSC in the coming days. Short story long.. PW, Russ III and Doink are going to head off to K-Zoo and wipe the track with White Doug, Slick Nick and too cool Keith Dunham.

Side Note - an old friend of mine looked me up over the last couple of weeks and he is thinking about getting into racing and joining up with Team CRC. Sam Coan, better known as Vinny Vegas to you guys who remember the Lansing Sports Rage days or the old Sports Inferno.

REMIND EVERYONE - That Team CRC will be represented in The Stan Perry Memorial FWD Run-What-You-Brung event at Angola Motor Speedway on Thurday, June 10th by the #11x of Randy Clingan. Randy is a good guy and we are very proud to have him flying the Team CRC colors. Randy has one of the baddest, fastest, nastiest FWD's on the Planet Earth and he is going to Angola to help us capture the Blaine Miller Bounty !!