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Hillier Works Overtime at Knoxville Nationals
KNOXVILLE, IA (August 11) – The inclement
weather that caused officials to postpone Wednesday’s opening-night
festivities forced Chad Hillier to pull double duty Saturday on the final
day of the 47th Annual Knoxville Nationals.
Hillier, a World of
Outlaws Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year
contender, drove the #5C DIRT Inc. Maxim into 18th place in
Saturday’s Non-Qualifiers’ “A” Feature and ran sixth in the final program’s
“D” Feature.
After recording the 17th-fastest
qualifying lap in Thursday’s program, Hillier was hoping to progress
farther toward the $150,000-to-win championship race.
“It was a pretty narrow
racetrack and we weren’t much better than everybody else,” Chad said
after Saturday’s “D” Feature. “We just held her to the floor and she gave
us all she had. We were a little off with the car and the motor just didn’t
seem to want to get up and go.”
Earlier in the day,
Hillier raced into fifth place in the First Heat Race and ran second in the
“B” Feature to qualify for the Non-Qualifier’s main event. He led most of
the “B” Feature before being passed by Scott Winters.
“Our second Knoxville
Nationals had a similar result to the first one,” Hillier said. “We had a
little better qualifying night, but the end result was about the same. If
we could do it all over, we’d make a few changes on the qualifying night to
put us in better position for the final night. We had a tough heat race,
and it went downhill from there. If we could have started in a better
position, we would have been better off. It’s like any normal show; if you
start in the first five rows, you can finish in the first five, but if you
start in the back 10, it’s hard to get up there and do anything. There was
just a good class of cars out here this year, which makes it a tough deal.
At the Nationals, you just have to get the motor running good, get the car
right and catch the breaks at the right time.”
Hillier and his DIRT
Inc. teammates are looking forward to returning to the World of Outlaws’
trail.
“The Nationals is a big
deal, but we’ll go on to Minot (ND) this week, get back to our everyday
routine and try to turn things around,” Chad said.
The World of Outlaws
will run a single-program event at Nodak Speedway
Tuesday, then return to Canada
for a double-feature event at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton ,
Alberta , Friday and
Saturday.
DeWitt Industries
Racing Team Incorporated invites racing fans to visit its website at www.dirt-inc.com for news, results, sponsorship information and
photographs. The team is sponsored by Jansma Construction,
H.B. Jaeger, Fast Wings, Maxim Chassis, Pro Shocks and Weld Racing.
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