10/06/2025
This past weekend me and the team had the opportunity to attend Greenville Speedway and try our luck at our home town tracks season finale, The Gumbo Nationals!!
We would start the weekend off Thursday with practice where we would go out as many times as we could to test stuff we’ve been working on. With out a transponder we couldn’t prove we found speed but the next night would prove us right.
The following night was the official day one of gumbo nationals. We would hot lap 5th out of the 15 crate cars there. We made a few adjustments for how we thought we’d need to be in qualifying and hit it pretty close giving us 2nd quick and locking us in on the front row for saturdays finale. We would turn our attention to helping my cousin Christian get his car ironed, he would finish fourth in the heat later that night.
The finale on Saturday saw us starting our day by going over the front end of Christian’s cars, and setting him up for a soon to be triumphant run for the feature. We saw the track taking rubber towards the end of the super finale and knew the stars could be lining up for us to capture our first gumbos trophy. We would take the lead after the initial start and try to set a pace to hopefully not catch lap traffic but fast enough to not put myself in danger, but once we caught the lap cars we would find ourselves tangled with another driver with the left door ripped off, luckily either they protected the leader or someone spun before me. I don’t know just happy I got my spot back. When I fired back up after the crew got the door off I noticed my oil pressure was at zero. I would go from there and try to distance myself as much as I could after that but on the following caution the car started stumbling and on our final restart it would fall on its face and make it to coming out of turn 2 before giving away ending out night. As heart broken I’ve been to have the amount of speed I had all weekend brings a smile through it all, and thank you to everyone who had kind words for me in a moment of disappointment.
With the lose of the motor our season is finished but we have some very exciting news coming soon for yall and the future of our program in a whole thanks to some great friends we’ve made along the way, so stay tuned for that when we finalize that.
Finally with the wild season we’ve had it takes a big group of people to keep it going so thank you to everyone who pitched a hand loaned a part, or even just kept us motivated all year.
Downs' Repair Facility
3D Racing Engines
Newman Motorsports Services
Magnolia Motorsports Marketing
X-treme Graphics By J-Rod
Small Change Racing
Thomas Mccurdy Motorsports
Choctaw logistics
3D Farms
Kevin Shaw
Brandon dinning for being a huge help this year
My little cousin ford Taylor for letting me drag him around all summer
The 7p crew helped me more times than I can count this year so thank you to Peter and Mr Tommy it’s been a blessing racing yall!
And finally thank you to Mr Carl and miss charity for doing all they do for me and especially all they do to keep dirt racing in the Mississippi delta!!
