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2/12/2010 |
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NIGHT THREE AND
FOURTH IN POINTS FOR ROWAN PENNINK
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Denise DuPont |
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have kept the car out of trouble all week. We did not qualify to well
yesterday. But we got back out and ended up fifth.” So the #19 team may not
have won a race after three nights of racing, but they sit fourth in points
after Tuesday night’s racing finished.
“It is just tough racing against some of these people with really big motors
here. We did not protest (the possibility of an illegal engine in the #6
Tour Mod),” said Rowan as the team prepped the car for Thursday night’s
race. “If they keep letting this stuff go on here, they are not going to be
racing at all down here. They need to crack down on the rules and make
everyone come with the same stuff other wise they are going to keep building
their crazy motors for here. It is not fair.”
“We change a whole bunch of stuff around for tonight and got it (the car)
going better.”
Pennink completed qualifying again not as well as he wished he could. He
ended up tenth in qualifying. Then as racing started the challenges
continued for the #19 team. On lap 4 of the feature event Pennink was
involved in an incident that took out Matt Hirschman, Charlie Pasteryak and
Tommy Cloce.
Pennink’s car was damaged and towed onto pit road where his crew made
repairs to get him back out racing. Pennink came out in time to take the
green flag, but still the #19 car continued to pit for tweaking during
cautions. When it appeared that they had the right combination, Pennink
started to race hard back into competition. He came around the corner of
turn three though only to come face to face with a car across the track. The
lap before, TC had a tire going flat and started driving slow on the track.
While running slow, the #00 car was tapped from behind by Eric Goodale
sending the car spinning on the track. TC sat across the track and as the
hard charging Pennink came around turn three he went directly into the #00
car. Both cars had severe enough damage to tow them into the garage area.
The #19 car never made it back out to complete the race so finishing the
night’s racing, the team slipped from fourth to fifth in Tour Mod points. |
Source: Denise DuPont
/ TheChromeHorn.com
Posted: February
12, 2010 |
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