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Hodges Motorsports Update - USA Raceway

After watching a shower around 5 o'clock last night, we got the show in here at Tucson. The clouds were dark and the rain came dead sideways with 45 mph plus winds (enough to knock down a billboard) but it wasn't enough to slow the show to a stop. The track was tacky fast, on-the-floor all night. I drew 27, which was good enough for the pole of the 2nd heat. I jumped out to the early lead and lead to the checkers to capture the heat race win, although I felt a vibration and the motor did not seem to pull as hard as it has. We did not have much time to change anything so we decided to give it a try in the A main. Starting 6th, I went to 5th on the start, still feeling the same symptoms as in the heat race. After trying the top one corner I fell back to 6th. There was hardly any passing and the track was wide open. I ended up finishing 6th. We will look closer at the engine tomorrow to see if we can pinpoint a problem. We want to say congratulations to Joshua Williams for capturing his first win this weekend and once again thank John Stroud for coming along. We are going to try and make the Texas-Two-Step next weekend at Heart O' Texas Speedway in Waco on Friday and Devil's Bowl Speedway in Mesquite on Saturday.

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