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Orlando Nationals

The first time at the orlando speed-world for the winter nationals. It was a week show starting monday and going through saturday. Monday was just practice and from the time we rolled off the trailer the car was awesome. Monday went very well and we where looking forward to going into tuesday, the first day of racing. On tuesday the car was still great but the track was difficult to pass on. Ended up about mid pack because i drew a 97 out of 100. Tuesday went well to start off with but got into a accident coming out of turn 2. The car was okay and we got it ready for the next day. Wednesday went good drew a 5 and ran very well in the race, about half way there was a guy that was behind me and i was running 2nd, i miss judged him in my mirror and just let him get under me,I fell back to fourth and got back to third with the remainder of the race.    Friday rolled around and today they decided to do qualifying. I was the fastest out of all the divisions with a fast time of 15.64 and drew a 7 so they inverted 7 which out me starting 7th. Something was going wrong with the car, the lower ball joint came out sending me into the turn 3 wall. It totaled the car having to get out the back up out for saturday. Ended up running 2nd on saturday in the 30 lap feature. Just want to thank Aaron’s, Abf, circle racing wheels, oakley, racing electronics, bell helmets, and my mom and dad for giving me the chance to go out and run.