New
Starting System Challenges Elliott
The
David Elliott Racing Team unloaded their car on Saturday,
May 19th, but, based on the way Flamboro sets the
feature field this year, David realized that he would have
his work cut out for him to record another top-5 finish.
The
car felt good in warm-up and the #37 started on the pole
position for his heat. David quickly opened up a
three-car-length lead over Todd Campbell #07 and maintained
the advantage until the late laps when the car developed a
push. Campbell closed up to David’s bumper, but David held
him off for his first checkered flag of the season.
The
team made a few adjustments to remedy the push and lined the
car up for the feature race. David’s strong finish in the
season-opened meant he started back in the 12th
position.
At the
drop of the green, the inside lane took off. Unfortunately,
David was in the outside lane. David’s Chevy slipped even
deeper into the field before he was able to get into the
fast line and begin moving forward. David’s progress has
slowed when he came upon the #27 of Mark Burbridge. Although
his car was slower than David’s, Burbridge blocked every
attempt to pass, resulting in damage to the right front of
the #37.
David
was stuck between Burbridge and the #72 of Rob McDonell when
the 3rd and 4th place cars of Jeff
Stewart and Steve Laking got together between turns one and
two. David did some fancy driving and slid the car safely
past the wreck. McDonell wasn’t as fortunate and spun to
avoid the stopped cars.
Without the pressure from behind, David was able to focus on
passing cars when the green flag came back out and managed
to move up to 8th by the time the checkered flag
fell.
Although disappointed with last week’s the 8th
place finish, David is eager to get back to the track this
Saturday and trying to capture his first feature win of the
year.
The Flamboro grandstand opens this
Saturday at 5 p.m. and racing begins at 6:30 p.m. Hope to
see you there!
If you
have any questions or comments please e-mail them to
davidelliottracing@yahoo.com
