GHR June 28, 2008

I was presented with the opportunity to race the Loose Gruff again, this time at Grays Harbor. The night began with great anticipation. Daric Shoemaker, my older bother was going to try first hand at driving my Superman car. Unfortunately during hot laps there was a right front tire pop, which led to the inevitable wall collision, rendering the car underivable for the evening.

As for me, I was still getting comfortable in the Gruff. In the heat race we started in 8th and finished in 2nd.

The trophy dash became a test and tune session allowing me some extra track time to make the appropriate Chassis adjustments for the main event.

The main event started with the s11 car in the 8th position in a field of 20. The track was "black-slick" (meaning it appears much like pavement, and has very little grip) this black-slick track set up the race to be single file, with little passing due to the restricted race grove. We were able to pass two cars, and finished 6th in the pack.

Make sure to check out the race video link for the feature event - they will be uploaded within the next 24 hours - Hopefully. :)

Shoe Crew from last night (Dad, Daric and Emily not pictured)

Loose Gruff was supermaned

Daric in the Superman Car

Playing with Kyler in hot laps during his first race ever!

Cottage Grove Race June 14th

Shoe Crew Racing was given a great oppertunity to drive for Lawrence O'Conner - driver of the 27eh car which frequents Grays Harbor Raceway; so we headed down to Cottage Grove OR. where I was able to drive his 2007 Loose Gruff.

The night started off good - getting to test out the new ride, hot laps session made me feel quite comfortable with the change in cars, however when we came into the pits the crew discovered we had two dead cylinders. While fixing that we also had to fix jets and spark plugs - and during that time we missed our time trial slot, which automatically put us in the back of the pack - last.

Starting 11th in the heat race and needed to win it in order to qualify for the A Main. We finished 4th.

Starting 11th in the B Main gave us high hopes because we needed to finish 6th or better to make it into the A main. Unfortunately while continuing to work on the race car engine problems we were unable to make chassis adjustments that were needed due to the change in the race track.

While racing in the B main we ended up taking the checkered flag in the 8th position, just outside the transfer slots ending our night at Cottage Grove.

Pitting at the Grove

Grays Harbor Race on May 28th

We had a spectacular night which included a thrilling race with Scott Miller, with Shoe Crew finishing 1st in the trophy dash; and in the main event, I had the opportunity to start outside pole next to Josh Muller - and we got out in font in lap 1 - and never looked back. With 10 laps to go, Shawn Dorie and I had a good battle for the lead, when Dorie attempted to pass on the inside it resulted in him spinning out. Leaving me alone to pass the checkered flag in 1st place.


Trophy Dash Win

Main Event Win

Grays Harbor 5.17.08

The weekend of the 17th Shoe Crew Racing was back in full swing. Blair ran second to Sean Dorie in the Main Event. They had a really good night of side by side racing throughout the heat, trophy dash as well as the main.