Second Place Finish Puts Polenz On Top of the Late Model Championship Point Standings at Old Dominion Speedway

Second Place Finish Puts Polenz On Top of the Late Model Championship Point Standings at Old Dominion Speedway

Practice
The Polenz Racing Team unloaded the car Saturday afternoon and started practice at 2 pm. The new steering box which was installed this week was better then the new one the team installed the previous week. The car handled well and David finished 2nd fastest through all three sessions.

Qualifying
David was the fifth car out for qualifying and he was able to put down a good lap and finished second. After the invert and handicapping David would start the 75 lap feature from the third spot.

75 Lap Race
At the Start of the race David ended up getting shuffled back a few spots. It took a few laps for the tires to heat up and it made the car a little edgy at first, but about fifteen laps in the car started coming back and the handling improved. From lap fifteen on David started making his way forward one spot at a time. By the time he got back to third spot he was about a half a straight away behind the front two cars. On lap fifty-one the caution came out, which allowed David to get right on the back bumper of the second place car. David had a good battle for position for a few laps, unfortunately allowing the leader to get a large lead on them. Once David completed the pass for second place he set his sites on the leader. With about five laps to go David was just a few car lengths behind the leader. David kept pushing hard and got to his back bumper entering in to turn one on the last lap, and by the time they entered turn three David had his nose underneath the leader and the were side by side coming out of turn four heading to the finish line. The other car beat David to the line by about five feet, but it was am exciting finish and the fans were screaming, loving every second of it. David finished second in the race, which helped put him in to the lead for the Late Model Championship point standings at Old Dominion Speedway.

Upcoming Events & Appearances
Next Friday David has an appearance at the On The Run store in Laurel, Maryland from 4pm- 7pm, check on DavidPolenzRacing.com for details.

Next Saturday night is another twin 50 lap night for the Late Models at Old Dominion Speedway. Come on out and see David race two awesome races and try to extend his point lead!