Well Friday has come and gone here and our trip is drawing to a rapid close.
We headed off to Des Moines o n a shopping expedition this morning, we drove past the Firestone and Bridgestone tyre factories and into what you would call the rougher end of Des Moines, not much happened there so we headed off to the Jordan Creek Shopping Centre for lunch.
Well like usual when I go to this shopping centre I took a wrong turn and ended up going up the wrong way of the road, it only happens when the 3 back seat drivers start whinging.
So after that it was off down the road to Knoxville to see the King and get some signed memorabilia, we brought about 8 shirts a hat and a flag, Steve was happy enough to sign them all for us but looked like he would rather be fishing.
On Saturday at 1 pm Brooke is signing autographs and we are heading off to catch up with him.
Onto the racing.
Tonight was the scrambles for the starting positions for Saturday nights finals.
In the C Scramble Slammin Sammy Swindell came from the back and blitzed them all, his car was bucking and rolling underneath him and he made a lot of mistakes, yet he won and set a new track record over the distance.
In the B scramble Skip Jackson won in a canter.
In the A scramble Donny Schatz won after starting out of position 4.
So tomorrow sees a front row for the A main of Stevie Smith off pole, Joey Saldana off 2.
Schatz is running off 6.
It is looking like a Schatz 4 peet unless something unseen comes up.
In the world challenge we saw a great race.
David Hall was off pole, Kerry Madsen was off three, Lynton Jeffery was off 2 and Gary Brazier was off 4.
A Canadian was off pole.
The track went a bit slick but the racing was great, Lynton led all the way to take a comfortable win, Kerry Madsen lost 2nd to Terry Macarl with 3 to go and they battled hard for the remainder, coming out of turn 4 for the last time we had T Mac, Madman and Shane Stewart all running for the line together, Shane Stewart got second from nowhere with Madsen 3rd.
Brazier looked comfy in second until half race when his tyres went off, David Hall had a shocker and looked like they were struggling with the set up on the new chassis.
So in the end a good night was had by all Aussies as we finally had something to brag about.
Tomorrow we are having another minimal sun day as we are all toasted after Thursdays outside bar work.
Bye for now.
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