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Minter Spins While Leading at 105 Speedway
CLEVELAND, TX (July 28) –
Kathryne Minter was driving her family’s #13m Concrete Crushing Company
J&J ahead of the field in Saturday’s “B” Feature in the American Sprint
Car Series Gulf South Region event at 105 Speedway when a lapped car caused
her to spin.
Minter, who leads ASCS Gulf South
Rookie of the Year race, started on the pole and led every lap until the
fourth-corner spin took her out of contention to qualify for the “A”
Feature.
“We led the whole race except for
two laps,” Kathryne said. “I started lapping cars and, when I went to lap a
guy who had turned a 360 in front of me the lap before, I slowed down and
tried to go around him. But I got into the loose stuff above the cushion and
spun out. It happened in turn four just as I was about to take the white
flag. That race showed me a lot though. I was five car-lengths ahead of
(ASCS veteran) Travis Rilat when I spun. It was a
really good night until that happened.
“I’m glad I got some experience
lapping cars,” Kathryne said. “I hadn’t lapped many cars before, except
inexperienced, slow drivers who just run around the bottom. It was a good
night; I learned a lot.”
Despite suffering a flat right rear
tire when she was hit by another car, Minter finished fourth in the Third
Heat Race.
“We went into turn one on the first
lap of the heat race and a car turned down on me and hit my right rear
tire,” Kathryne said. “The guy who hit me got into another guy and they
flipped. When we stopped on the front straightaway after the red flag came
out, I heard my right rear tire pop. Since the red was still out, they let
me go into the pits to change my tire. They usually don’t let you change
flat tires in heat races, but they let me since the red flag was out. They
hurried us so much, we had to put a tire on that only had one pound of air
in it. When I went back out, the car turned well but after it turned it
wanted to stay straight. If we had had more air in the right rear tire, I
think we would have qualified for the feature.”
Minter, who has raced at plenty of
different racetracks this season, really liked 105.
“It was really good after the rain
came,” Kathryne said. “We got the track repacked, and it was really fast.
It was actually the nicest track we’ve raced all year. It didn’t get really
dry and it didn’t have any ruts, so it was great.”
Kathryne’s
father and car owner, Mike Minter, was pleased with the way she raced – and
how their Goodyear Eagles tires performed on the #13m – at 105 Speedway .
“She ran off and left everybody,
including Travis, in the ‘B,’ but she turned it around when she was lapping
a guy,” Mike said. “It was her second or third time to lap the guy.
“It was a good night; Kathryne sold
some T-shirts and signed a lot of autographs. One of the other car’s
sponsors came down and bought four T-shirts for themselves and two more for
their neighbors … and the sponsor’s wife said, ‘We need to get our name on this
car.’ I said, ‘We aren’t the kind of people who would take a sponsor away
from another racer, but, if you want to sponsor two teams, that would be OK
with us.’
“The Goodyear tires are handling really
well for Kathryne. I really like the way the tires wear; they wear a lot
more evenly and don’t feather at the edges like some other brands. I’m
really excited about the performance we’re getting from the Goodyear
tires.”
More information about Kathryne,
including her “Kat’s Corner” and “Off-Track With Kathryne” columns, can be
found on her website at www.mint13.com.
Fans can also check out Kathryne’s merchandise
and request a free autographed hero card on her site. Kathryne Minter
Racing invites fans to visit the team’s trailer after the races.
Kathryne Minter Racing is sponsored
by the Concrete Crushing Company, Big Worm Motorsports.com,
Body Construction Fitness Center, BullMack Custom
Coatings, ButlerBuilt Seats, C.S.i.
Racewear, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company,
Keene Heavy Equipment Company, Keizer Aluminum
Wheels, MBR Guaranteed Foundation Repairs, Racing Limos of Fort Worth, Smiley's Racing Products and Twin Kell
Cleaners.
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