After a bad draw (my bad draw) of 122 among 140 slots, Skyler started third row outside in his heat of nine cars.  It took him a few laps to get a feel for the track, and after dropping back a couple of places, he powered back to finish 6th.  The car set-up felt good, he said, but he and crew changed some rubber around for the feature.

Skyler's feature slot was fourth row outside, but one other car failed to start, and so our No. 16 moved "up" to fourth row inside--bad luck for us.  Watching the prelims, I could see that the traction was up high.  In the feature Skyler lost some ground again before he found good "stick" higher up. One he found his fast line, he made up several places.  It was great, he said, to "slingshot" down off the high banked turns.  

The nice thing about the Grand Rapids Speedway was the width; there were always 3-4 lanes (some short tracks only have one good lane), and so there was far less bumping, banging--and no yellow flags.  In fact, we could have used a caution flag or two.  Running ninth all by himself, Skyler slowly was making up ground toward the front pack of drivers, but eventually ran out of laps.  We finished 9th, and we'll take it.  Overall a good night on a "new" track, and we'll be happy to return to Grand Rapids.  Great people, great track.

Look for Team Weaver next Friday night, June 5, at Rivers Speedway in Grand Forks ND.