06/21/2026
Dirt Cup Day 2: Skagit Speedway
Today was all about taking everything we learned from Day 1 and putting it to good use! The team spent the morning and afternoon working on the car, getting it prepped and completely dialed in for the night ahead.
We started off the night with another great pill draw, pulling a 17! That put us in Qualifying Group A, rolling out 6th. The whole team was absolutely pumped with how our qualifying run felt and timed out:
Hot Laps: 12.559
Qualifying: 11.685
As I was driving around turn 3 under yellow after the checkers, the engine made a weird noise and completely lost power—even with it floored. We rolled into the pits and immediately started looking into the motor to see what went wrong. Turns out, we didn't have a failure at all; we just had the absolute perfect amount of fuel for our laps on the track and not a drop more! Talk about keeping it light and fast.
That qualifying time lined us up 3rd for Heat 3A. We maintained that spot and ran strong for the majority of the race, but a yellow-flag restart broke our rhythm and we slipped back a bit, finishing 5th.
When it came time for the mains, the points locked us straight into the B-Main, where we rolled off 12th. We had awesome momentum for the first third of the race and were making moves, but got caught up in some traffic that broke our momentum, and we started sliding backward. We ended the night 20th after trying a few different lines, but just couldn't regain that lost speed.
Even with the tough finish, the speed is definitely there and we are making great strides every time we hit the track. It's all about figuring this place out piece by piece, and I'm really happy with the progress we're making and how much we're learning as a team.
An enormous thank you to the crew for working their tails off to keep us competitive, and to our incredible sponsors for supporting us every single lap —Hard Rock Tops |Tom White Trucking | Billy Nutter | Jim Nelson | Robustelli Construction | Sheep Shape Farm