At the track...During practice a guy spun out in front of us and took us with him. We hit him with the right rear quarter panel (poor panel) and took a ride thru a very muddy infield. After fixing panel, and scraping a ton of mud off the car, went out to qualify.
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Started the heat race 2nd row inside. Got hung up behind a slower number 36 car (must be something with a car numbered 36....see Dells race), and fell back. Was only a 8 lap race but the 3 car won by half a lap! Results below;
Started feature, again 2nd row inside. But this time got around the 36 car pretty quickly, battled with Cain (#5) for few laps then took the lead. Lead laps 4 thru 17, then car started to go away. Car looked like it did at the Dells when we lead that race. We have to figure out why this car is going away like that on us. (and WE WILL!) Riding in 5th place when the "fun" started.
Shawn knew the car was giving up on him and was giving the 6 car (Jason Thoma) room to get by him, but he (6) couldn't. Coming out of turn 2, Thoma decided to drive thru us, hitting us in the (you guessed it!) left rear quarter panel. Both spun, but Thoma cut his right front tire and had to pit to replace tire. On the restart, we started from the back and pretty much stayed there for the rest of the race. Thoma rejoined the race but it was all over for him too. After the checkered flag fell, Thoma pulled up next to Shawn, and showed him his I.Q. (if you know what I mean?). Back in the pits, the "fun" started.
While trying to get back into our pit stall, Shawn had to back up to straighten car so we could get into trailer. Thoma pulled right up to him, while his crew members surrounded our car. One of Thoma's crew was in Shawn's face on the drivers side while another was comin in the passenger side, and another was in front of the car. That's when Shawn's foot "slipped" off the clutch. ("oops") That was enough of that, when Uncle Kevin grabbed the guy that was in Shawn's face and gave him the 'ol famous WWE head lock. As all this is happening Shawn was finally able to get out of the car and was (discussing?) with Thoma what had happened on the track. That's when we see this 350lb - 6' 4" "bubba" come running (at 40mph at least) into the whole crowd! After we sorted out the bodies and body parts (one of Thoma's crews wife got knocked down and cut her elbow), the ASA officials split everyone up, ending the "match". After Don Heelein (ASA official) listened to both sides, he said both teams would be fined $300.00 for un-sportsman like conduct. You have to remember, their crew came into our "house", our pit stall!
Back at the hotel (parking lot) we broke out the coolers/beer and had a good long talk about what had transpired that evening. About our 3rd beer in, Shawn got a call from Don Heelein saying that we would NOT be fined $300.00 after all. Let the celebration begin. (and it did).
Car lost right taillight during practice incident. But thats ok, cause we lost the left one also!
Maddog's Fighting Crew
Darren (3:00a.m.) 
All that fighting makes a guy hungry!
"Hey Darkside, what ya doin"?See ya in Elko, Minn... June 26th.
