Disappointing Finish for Williamson at Merrittville

By Dave Sully - (Thorold, Ontario)  Following a gutsy performance at Ransomville on Friday, where Mat fought back from adversity to salvage an eighth place finish, Saturday at Merrittville started off bad and got worse.  Starting twelfth, Mat, the point leader after his opening night win, hoped to give his mother a win for her birthday, but the car went nowhere at the start, spun on lap 15, with a little help from another car, and then battled for his life from the rear, ultimately salvaging an eleventh place finish, which despite the disappointment, keeps him in the thick of the early season point battle.


Mat explained, “We just missed the setup. We decided to change some stuff after we won last weekend and it was definitely not the right call.  It just wasn’t our night. I wish it would have rained (it was in the forecast) at 7:00.” 


After the spin, he set out to get the best finish he could, noting, “You can’t give up. I hate losing though. I really HATE losing. It would have been nice to win tonight, but you can’t win them all.”  On the car’s overall performance he added, “ Sometimes the race car will come in, like after the first yellow I figured we’d be all right, but it just got worse and worse.  Then, at the end, I was just kind of hanging on, struggling to get what I could get.  It definitely hurt us with the points, but it’s only the second week. It’s going to be hard all year. This is a tough field.”


Asked if they would change everything on the car back to the way it was, he quipped, “The first thing Monday morning!” 


The No. 6 will be back.