Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Round 11 - Indianapolis Raceway Park

Round 11 of the series took place at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis. The trucks do not race at the more famous motor speedway.

After somewhat disappointing finish at Milwaukee I wasn't expecting good things from this race, however  the race weekend started brightly enough when I set the fastest time in practise (22.576).

The 2 lap qualifying period went well to as I improved my best time by 1/10 of a second to grab pole position (22.426).

The race went to plan as I ran in the top 2 for the entire 70 laps. I did get one warning for rough contact.

I led for 64 laps which gave me 10 bonus points. My fastest race lap was 22.095 which was quicker than I qualified.


I was up to 5th in the standings.





Sunday, 22 May 2011

Round 10 - Milwaukee Mile


The famous Milwaukee Mile played host to round 10 of the series.

I was fastest after the 10 lap practise session with a time of 30.667
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Could I go one better in qualifying and grab the pole? The answer was yes, a time of 30.285 was good enough!



In the race I led the first 12 laps before being spun out. In my desire to get back to the front I got a black flag on lap 18! For the remaining 52 laps I climbed back through the field eventually finishing 3rd.

My fastest lap of the race was a 30.367 which was quicker than my qualifying time!

I was now 5th in the standings