Jacksonville!

First Practice about to line up

Why does the state of Florida always produce such good racing? Stewart crashes in Daytona and J-Law almost wining, Stewarts official 250 debut in Orlando in 05, Ricky’s last supercorss race in 07 and Larry Ward wining in the rain in Tampa!!!! Florida must love good racing because Jacksonville saw another great race tonight. The track was very hard packed and slick and looked more like a west coast round. The dirt wurx guys had the track covered all week as the sunshine state wasn’t so sunny until race day. Reed and Stewart had a few words in practice and neither of them would comment on the altercation. Stewart laid down the fastest lap with Reed right behind him. Although I didn’t see much of the heat races because I was dressed in a 115 degree fat suit and getting pushed down by a girl for the halftime show, I did notice Hann grabbed the heat win after Pourcel stalled his bike.

At least I got to see the track up close

I lost my race of the night against 2 guys and a girl all wearing different color fat suits. Thanks Toyota! I finally made it on national television, just not quite how I expected it to be. Reed won his heat but it was not easy. Alessi the holeshot kid took the holeshot with Reed closely behind him. Reed jumped too far to the left on the big triple and went of the track, but soon caught Alessi and took the win. Stewart won his heat (big surprise), but did tip it over after the start but kept the bike running and won. Time for the 250 main and Will Hann grabbed the holeshot and almost won if it wasn’t for the insanely fast Frenchman. Hann rode the best race of his career and held Pourcel off for more than half the race. Nico Izzi had third in the bag but hit the eject button on the big triple and fell from the sky. The crash was ugly looking and the initial reports are saying a broken hill. Izzi’s crash left the door open for a hard charging Stroupe to take home third. Izzi did hold on to 3rd in the championship by one point over Wharton.

The Goat Time for the main event! The holeshot went to…… Alessi of course, but Chad took the lead by the time they hit the triple with Stewart in 3rd. Soon Stewart would quickly pass Alessi and put on a charge for the lead. Reed was riding an AWESOME race in this brand new hotrod thor gear and was gaping the number 7 for a bit. I could have thrown a blanket over the top two as they were neck and neck for the first 13 laps. Stewart was taking a outside line after the start and gaining on Chad every lap until he made the pass their. Reed quickly got the lead back after the big triple but Stewart took it back in the rhythm section and that was all she wrote. Stewart won, Chad got second and Windham got his 2nd podium of the season. Reed and Stewart did collide after the triple and tore Reed’s fork guard off and the two had a few words after the race. Grant, Millsap, Boni (Broken Pinky) all did not finish. J-Law took out Broc and himself and eventually pulled off the track and gave up. (what a winner) Florida must hate Grant, Daytona took him out and so did Jacksonville, what gives? The race was awesome and Stewart looks to be holding the driving wheel at this point, but he better hold it steady cause we only got three rounds left.

Windham is a super nice guy
Just hanging out with my buddy Denny!!