Well they have finally banished me from driving, whilst listening to them whining about wanting McDonalds to eat before we got to Oskalooska I turnes into the wrong lane, no one coming or anything but it got their minds off McDonalds for a while.
The Oskalooska front row challenge started to fill in a couple of days that had no racing between the 360 nationals and the 410's. Terry McCarl or Tmac as they call him here and his wife Lori promote and run the event.
It is the usual lay format, time trials, one heat and the mains.
Australia was represented by Greg Hall, Mr Speed Matt Reed and Skip Jackson.
After the heats we got about 5mm of rain, we sat around while they ran their trucks around the track to get it back in, interestingly we would have put the sprintcars on and wheel pacled the track and been ready to go racing inside an hour, but here they don't like to get mud on their cars so we waited about 3 hours while they ran the trucks and a golf cart around, at 12:30am they put the B Main on as the crowd was getting very vocal.
No curfews here and the house are within 50m of the edge of the track.
The B main had Greg Hall and Matt Reed in it, Matt from the second row and Greg from row 3.
Mtt went through easy to the A but Greg did not, the first 5 or 6 laps Greg struggled with the track conditions but really got on the gas after that.
The a main line up had Slaamin Sammy Swindell on pole with Joey Saldana on the outside, Niether of these guys took the 50k us challenge to start from the back, Donny Schatz was on the second row with Craig Dollansky.
When the green flag fell Sammy drove away from the field, there were 2 restarts but he pulled away each time, second was Joey Saldana and third was Dollanski.
There were about 10 passes made during the feature, Dollanski passed Schatz with a slide on turns 3/4 and a couple made in the mid field, Matt Reed passed about 6 cars and was starting to come to grips with the track.
Matt is looking faster each time we see him, he has been the fastest of all the Australian including Skip and Lynton Jeffery, not quite at Kerry Madsen's pace though.
Tonight we are back at Oskaloosa for the 410 wingless sprints.
Well domestic duties and breakfast are calling.
Bye for now
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