The day at Kil-Kare started out rough. The Rebel 105.9 car was slow. The crew was a little perplexed as to “why” I wasn’t getting the speed out of it. It was a weird feeling in the car I couldn’t quit describe it was hard to drive. I ended up qualifying a disappointing seventh. The inversion put me starting on the inside second row. I guess if there has to be clouds; the silver lining was the inversion.
The start of the race went very well and by the second lap I was able to take the lead. I got out front and stayed there. It was a nail bitter race as David Carter ended up challenging me for the lead from about half way through the race to the end. However, in the end the GreenPro landscaping Koehlke Components Whelen Late Model had what it took to bring home the trophy and the cash to the team. The trophy is very unique. It is the first of its kind replica helmet of Robbie “Big Bird” Dean’s helmet. I also got a stuffed animal “Big Bird”. The Kil-Kare track officials were kind enough to give me the checkered flag.
Saturday racing at Columbus Motor Speedway was a long night. Gary and the guys had found the problem with the car from yesterday but we can afford to have backup part in stock so we had to use older parts. We also had a hard time figuring out the vibration that was coming from and luckily it was just a bushing in the transmission. This those issue fixed, I qualified second and, somehow, I picked up 2 tenths of a second. I qualified second, so I started 3rd in the dash. It is very hard because it is a short race. I was unable to get around for a pass. I started the Feature on the inside third row. My line didn’t move so I ended up dropping back so I could move forward. The race leaders had already broke away from the pack before I could set sail to track down the leader. I was picking up 4 to 5 car lengths a lap and was up to the leader. They had just lapped another car and when I got to him his tire went down. He came down. I had to lift of the throttle to avoid getting in a wreck. After that, I set my sights on winning again but ran out of laps. There was no yellow flag the whole race witch mare it hard to get caught up.
Our new Sloan’s Crusaders is going great. People from all over the county have started supporting my racing. These are a few of the states from which Crusader’s come from: Florida, Texas, California, New Jersey, and two from Ohio. Danny Haines, Barrie Green, Karla Helton, Dana Rittgers, Robert Blake, and Jim Williams all now have their names on my NASCAR Whelen Late Model. David Tipton suggested the idea on FB. New members just this weekend include Edward Reinmann, Jeff Repko, Jonathan Evens and Springboro’s own Joyce Summer. The Crusader are people that want to be part of racing history and the NASCAR Camping Word Truck Quest for 2011. They can be part of it for just a $10 a month donation. You can join by going to my website www.sloanhenderson.com. We are still hoping and praying for an anchor sponsor and one more co anchor. We met with the senior VP of National Bank and Trust he was very nice. They just bought our hometown Community National Bank but we have not heard back from them just yet. Dad tried a different approach when what we been doing and we not sure how well it went over. I only have a few t-shirts left in limited sizes. The t-shirts can also be purchased on my website.
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