Paul moves up in the points!

July 19th 2014:

It was a great day for Edwards & Young Racing as I made it to the semi’s for the 2nd race in a row in Sportsman, so got some more valuable points that should’ve moved me into 6th place.  It was a very humid & windy day at Pacific Raceways, actually one of the more windier days I have seen out there in a while.  We got to race under the lights for the first time this year which was kind of a cool deal.  I was having fun hanging with my fellow Sportsman racers Gordon Rust, Jason Bravo, Craig Smith & Larry DeCamp as we all made it past the 1st rd so that was pretty nice also.  It made it a little easier as we all were able to compare notes after each pass especially after the first few qualifying runs since we were all pretty much a tenth off of our norm ET pace due to the wind and humidity/water grains.

I ran 12.40 & 12.38 on my 2 qualifying passes and felt pretty good going into eliminations.

Rd 1 – Dialed 12.36 and ran 12.867 as I cut a .023 rt and caught my opponent at the 600 ft mark so I just fendered them the rest of the way.

Rd 2 – Dialed 12.34 and ran 12.344 as I cut a .010 rt as my opponent redlighted.

Rd 3 – Dialed 12.32 and ran 12.295 as I cut a .036 rt as my opponent redlighted.  This race was against Andy Collins whom had been on a big win streak over the last month or so in his black Nova so I was expecting it to be a really tight race.

Rd 4 – Dialed 12.28 and ran 12.305 as I cut my worst rt of the day and lost an extremely close race by .0108 to Joey Fielder from Bremerton as we were side by side all of the way down the track.  I dialed down .01 based upon the factors of the wind starting to die down a bit the air improving just a tick along with the fact that we only had 17 min in between rounds.

It was fun keeping my family updated via texts after each run but I truly missed you guys and will see you at the next race as there is nothing like going rounds and spending time with your loving family.  I couldn’t possible do any of this without all of your love & support!

See you at the stripe,

Paul Young
Edwards & Young Racing

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