June 19, 2009
The rains held off and we had awesome weather for racing!!! We had a lot of struggles throughout the night, but the #36 MCL Pit Crew kept working hard and prevailed!!! HUGE thanks to Tom Sr, Chuck, Billy, Dan, Jeff & Caleb...
They keep catching problems early & keeping us running up front!
Practice was real rough... we got to the track and struggled to keep up with a BAD vibration in the stearing wheel... the team found a bad left front shock and got it replaced JUST in time for qualifying...
The #15 of Doug Malik put down oil all the way around the track in qualifying. It turned into a skating rink. They canceled the rest of qualifying and lined everyone up by average time. Which turned out to be a blessing for us... we were not sure how the borrowed shock was going to react as it was not the same brand as ours, so it was nice to go straight to the heat to test it out.
We ran real strong in the heat and finished a solid 2nd place. The shock was a perfect match.
After another round of adjustments we were ready to take to the track for the feature. We worked our way up through the field and tagged along with the #56 of Tim Rothe to advance up to the top 3... We lost forward bite off the corner and settled into the 3rd spot for the remaining 4 or 5 laps... ANOTHER top 5 for the MCL racing team with a 3rd place finish for the second week in a row...
With another night of solid finishes, we boosted up to another career high...
3RD PLACE in the overall point standings!!!!! We are VERY excited and had a lot of fun celebrating our first top 5 in points last night.. We hope to keep the momentum going and stay solid in the top 5 all season...
I have to give a HUGE thanks to all our sponsors for this season... Being smack dab in the middle of a recession these great companies stuck with us and have helped make the impossible... possible... We truly couldn't do it without each and every one of you!!! Thank you very much!
I've attached the updated points below.
See you all next Thursday at WIR...
#36 Tom Gee Jr.
MCL Racing Team
www.tomgeemotorsports.com
LATE MODEL-Thursday Division
Place Car No Driver's Name Fastest Average Points
1 45V VAN OUDENH,JEFF 19.413 19.459 305
2 2B BENNETT,LOWELL 19.487 19.552 293
3 36 GEE,TOM JR 19.604 19.801 273
4 10M MONDAY,ANDY 19.524 19.603 264
5 15D MAHLIK,DOUG 19.595 19.677 262
6 7S SCHROEDER,MARK 19.553 19.598 256
7 84P PIONTEK,BRETT 19.782 19.806 241
8 3 MEIDAM,JOHN 19.621 19.666 240
9 18V VANDERL,ROBB 19.669 19.760 228
10 9C CALMES,KYLE 19.794 19.868 222
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