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Posted: July 24, 2008 at 09:15 AM
By now many of you may have already heard about our team being banned from Blackrock Speedway. Now, to bring you all up to speed on what happened. Last Friday night 7-18-08 we finished 4th in our feature event. After all top 5 cars went through tech inspection I was asked to wait on loading my car to leave as the tech inspector was curious about some scrape marks on my intake manifold (which have been there all season, due to the motor being freshend by DIRT official Scott Fremouw). At this time, Blackrock officials told me that I had to leave my car locked in my hauler and put into their barn till Saturday morning when DIRT officials could come and run tests on the motor. I had absolutely no problem with that. Ater calling DIRTs general manager Jack Deery, I was told by him that nobody from DIRT was going to do any tech for Blackrock as they have their own tech officials. I unloaded my car in the tech barn as instructed by Deery so Blackrock officials could run their own test or tech whatever they wanted. After talking with Mark (Blackrocks head tech guy) he informed me that there was no test he could run that would find anything whether he did not have the tools or the knowlege I don't now. I told Deery that they told me if I left that I would be disqualified from that event and he told me that I would just have to appeal the disqualification. Not till Saturday morning when I called Scott Fremouw did I find out that Blackrock decided to not only disqualify me from that race but ban me from the speedway for the remainder of the season. Since then, I have talked with numerous people but can't seem to get anywhere. How conveinient it is for our race director to be on vacation this week and not have anyone with any control to help us with this situation. After talking with Dean Hoag yesterday, he was still not willing to overturn the call until he could talk with Cory Reed who just happens to be our race director thats on vacation. So, my appologies to all our loyal fans that come to watch us race at the Blackrock facility, but by the looks of things at this point in time, we are done racing at Blackrock for the season. Don't hesitate to come see us at Canandaigua Speedway and Cayuga County Speedway as we will still be racing at those tracks for the rest of the year. I would also like to appologise to my crew and sponsors that have supported me this season, this is a real upset as we where 3rd in points and just a real harsh penalty that was not nessesary. I will update this page with any changes that may follow.
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