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“Chub
Dominates Renegade McKean County Race” June 1st, 2002- Bear Lake, Pa
The
Renegade DirtCar Series traveled to McKean County Speedway for their
very first visit. Promoter
Dennis Shutt posted a total purse of over $31,000 for the running of the
$7,000 to win "Tom Neamon-MAC Tools 50" at the semi-banked
1/3rd mile oval located at the McKean County Fairgrounds. For more
information on McKean County Speedway visit their web site at www.mckeancountyraceway.com
The
entire 1* team arrived a little late at the speedway today after working
on the car all day at Chub’s Bear Lake garage, and quickly unloaded
the same car that Chub had won with at this track 4 weeks ago. When we
arrived at the track it was a completely different race track than Chub
had won on. Chub went out and set 6th quick time which put
him in the 2nd heat race where he finished 4th so
he transferred into the Isky Cams Dash. Chub came in after the heat and
said that “he needed something, the car just isn’t right” so the
crew and Chub got together and made a lot of changes for the dash, Chub
started the dash on the outside of Bob Close on the front row. At the
drop of the green Chub took command of the dash and went on to win it.
Chub returned quickly to his pit area and stated ”it was a lot better
but we need to get better than that to win this race”. Chub and the
crew made a few more changes and he lined up on the pole for feature.
When the flagman dropped the green it was very obvious Chub was on a
mission as he drove the Corry Rubber, Corry Laser, Nystrom’s Auto
Sales, Draime Racing Engines, Rocket Chassis, Pierotti Motorsports, Farr
MotorSports, Chevrolet Monte Carlo and lapped up to 7th place
and went on to win the 50 lap event. In the end he felt that tire choice
and some shock changes that were put into the car after the heat, where
he finished fourth, and the dash, which he won, were the keys to
victory. He concluded, "We were a little harder than those
guys on tires, and I think that's what actually worked out for us.
It seemed to go wherever I wanted to go. I was surprised. We
made some changes. Mike Farr from Carrera made a few shock changes for
the dash and the feature. It seemed to work real good for us. We
learned something in the heats and the dash. Actually I don't think
we've won two races this early in the year. Usually we don't start
winning until July. July, August, and September are usually our
months, so if we start early”. “I hope it keeps going that
way." 1. Chub Frank
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