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Kathryne Minter Racing
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Driver -- Kathryne Minter
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Minter Puts Together Career-Best Run in Waco
WACO, TX (September 14) – Missing
her high school homecoming festivities didn’t seem to bother Kathryne
Minter when she raced in Friday’s American Sprint Car Series Sooner Region
event at Heart O’ Texas Speedway. In fact, she was faster than ever.
The 2007 ASCS Gulf South Rookie of
the Year drove her #13m Concrete Crushing Company J&J to a career-best
seventh-place finish in ASCS competition to move into 14th place
in the Sooner Region point standings.
Minter, who has only been racing
for three years, was running fifth in the main event before ASCS veterans
Jason Johnson and Brian McClelland passed her with five laps remaining.
“That was when the track started
drying out,” Kathryne said. “Earlier in the race, we were running eighth
and there was a big wreck. I missed everything in front of me, but Brian
plowed into me from behind. It messed up my Jacobs ladder and my brand new
wing, so the car didn’t handle as well after that. We ran pretty well after
the next restart, but Jason got around me and I went across a slick spot
and slid up the track coming out of two and Brian barely got underneath me.
I almost passed him back going into three, but I couldn’t get a good enough
run on him. It was a really good night.
“We ran the three-wide before the
race, and it was really cool because I’m usually at the back when they do
that. I was in the front this time though, and it was a great view.
“After the feature when they told
me to go to the scales, I said, ‘I’ve been waiting to hear those words.’”
Minter drew a low number, which
allowed her to start on the front row in the Second Heat Race and responded
with a third-place finish.
“I broke my horrible streak of
drawing bad numbers when I drew a four,” Kathryne said.
“Travis Rilat
and Jason Johnson started behind me in the heat race, so I was trying to
keep the pole-sitter from jumping the start because I knew if he kept
jumping the start they would put them ahead of us. When I start a heat race
on the inside, I don’t want to have to turn my car halfway through the
corner so I want until we’re coming out of four so I can get the car
straight before I go. He jumped the start really bad the first time, so I
didn’t go. When he jumped the start the second time, I knew I had to go or
they would put us on the second row.”
Minter signed autographs for two
hours at a Hooters restaurant in Monroe , LA , before Saturday
night’s ASCS Gulf South race at Fast Trax
Speedway in Chatham , LA.
“We hope to have a good turnout at
Saturday’s race,” Kathryne said. “We’ve tried to race there three times
before and they’ve all been rained out, so I’ve never raced there before. I
hear it’s a lot like Cowtown ( Speedway ). They say it either stays
tacky or it takes rubber when it dries out. I learned how to drive on
rubber-down tracks in Dodge City ,
so that could come in handy.”
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