By Dave Sully - In what turned out to be a bit of a needed break after that hectic five races in five nights stretch the week before, the Friday night, August 9th show at Lernerville was rained out, giving the team a chance to catch their collected breaths. It was a case of nothing ventured, nothing gained, or, in this case, lost, as there are now only three point shows left in the championship chase. The only fly in the ointment is the fact that the Big Block motor, which was hurt at Michigan, will not be available for the stretch run, so Mat will be running his spec 358 motor from here on out. That shouldn’t be a big handicap, as both Jeremiah Shingledecker and Brain Schwartzlander have won with 358’s at Lernerville and, in reality, Mat doesn’t have to win races there to win the title. He only needs decent finishes. Mat has total confidence in the power that Terry Vince of ERD puts in all his motors, so he is not overly concerned. We’ll see how it plays out.
On Saturday at Merrittville, Mat suffered a rare DNF when a push rod let go early in the race, relegating him to a 17th place finish. Everybody has a spate of bad mechanical woes. Mat observed that as things go, a broken pushrod is not a big problem, and it was nothing that can be checked for ahead of time. It just happened. Let’s hope that this is the extent of it, with another busy weekend on tap, with Lernerville, Merrittville, and Humberstone on the schedule.
Stay tuned.
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