Race Report – March 7/8 2015
Lucas Oil Offroad Regional Series California – Lake Elsinore 03-07/08-2015
This past weekend was filled with awesome-ness! Well and some struggles too, but in the end we all worked hard and achieved some great results.
Saturday, we had a front differential break so we had to just push through qualifying and racing as much as possible. We qualified toward the middle/back of the field and worked our way up to the top 10 by about mid race, hoping to get a few more positions toward the end of the race, but the car wasnโt agreeing so we ended up mid pack, but pushed through and did as good as possible with the card we were dealt.
Sunday, was a new start for us thanks to Jason Merrell. Jason let us use the front differential out of his 4 seat pit RZR 1000, my Dad and Brian Lopez swapped the diffs in about an hour so that we could get to qualifying. We ended up qualifying 5th and the car was working great. The start was inverted for the top 6 so we ended up starting from outside row 1. I had some poor line choice during the first few laps and faded back to 6th, but was able to correct the mistakes within a few laps and start catching back up to the lead pack. Man it was nice to finally be up towards the front and feeling like I belong. I drove very well for in the later portions of the race and found some great speed, almost passed up to a podium position, but wanted to make sure I drove clean and gain the respect of the other drivers. We crossed the finish line in 5th, but 3rd-5th all almost crossed the line at the same time.
I really wanted to get on the podium, but all-in-all we can take away a ton of positives from the weekend. Now we can shoot for some podiums at the next rounds! Super Excited!!!
Thanks to my Dad, Brian Lopez, Jason Merrell, Jeremy Merrell, Justin Mathew Davis, and Ricky Silber for all their help in the pits, our team is the best out there!
Couldnโt do it without all the awesome people that help make my dreams come true:
Supercuts
RideNow Powersports
UTV Wolfpack
Upr Racing Supply
GMZ Race Products Inc.
M1 Off-Road
Trinity Racing
Custom Composite Mfg. leg braces
element 7 graphics
Hoven Vision
Warfighter Made
PC – Jeremy Merrell
