Team LaCross

Thursday, June 11, 2009

On the air! Listen in tonight!

Listen in tonight on AM 1380 KRKO Northsound racing show at 8pm when Scott will be on the air during the show with Steve Mortland, continuing a proud tradition of appearances!

You can also listen live here: http://www.krko.com/listenlive/

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Team LaCross nationwide!

Here we see LaCrash in victory lane with Brady Douglas, News Anchor from KETK in Tyler, Texas!

Brady is a High School friend of Scott's and was in town last weekend to visit family when he decided to come out to Evergreen Speedway and watch some short track racing. It was a great suprise for both of them!

You never know who you will run into when you head out to the track for a night of fun!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Do you remember the way to victory lane?

These are the words I uttered to LaCrash as he crossed the finish line with a 2 second lead over 2nd place.

1st place 1

Eyup... Back in the saddle again! What a great feeling it was to finally be back in a very familiar place for us during our years running Mini-Stocks in the early 2000's. I dont know exactly who was happier, Me, LaCrash or Mindy our intrepid car owner. Hand shakes and congratulations seemed to come from everywhere as we savored what turned out to be a pretty dominant win.

The day started out with a very loose racecar and only one practice session due to the track surface having a little issue. We adjusted thinking the car wasnt very fast (Mylaps confirmed that we were wrong, the car was moving along at a fairly respectable clip) and in the heat race, LaCrash played it cool as we ran 3rd behind our teammates Kris and Fozzy, but ended up a disappointing 5th after another driver made a Banzai move at the checkers on the inside while we battled Mikey Fritz for the 3/4 spots.

1st place

The Main came and with it, more adjustments. We started inside row 2 and had the lead by the exit of turn 2. Scott never looked back from there as Kris Harris pressured him for about 10 laps, keeping within 2-4 car lengths and biding his time. Then a strange thing happened... I was scanning the field for a moment and when I picked the car back up, the lead had stretched to over 10 lengths! I kind of rubbed my eyes and told Scott about the separation which got a surprised, "Huh?" over the radio.

The final laps saw the lead expand to as much as 3 seconds as Scott tried different lines and tried not to overcook the tires. As he began to catch and lap cars, I had my fingers crossed for no cautions... In the end, we finished 1st, Kris was 2nd, Mike Fritz 3rd... a great 1/2 finish for our car owners, who's 3rd car finished 6th! Not too shabby eh?

Well, it looks like we are going to end up running the full season and are currently sitting 4th in the points, 2 behind Fozzy in 3rd and only 35 points out of 1st... Is a run at the title a possibility??? Hmmmmm... one never knows! ;-)

Next up for us is Gradutation Night at Evergreen Speedway on June 20th with the Super Late Models, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, Super figure 8s, Hornets and Youth Hornets. And dont forget that if you are looking for a whole lot of action, this Saturday night at Evergreen Speedway is "Extreme Night" with the Hornets, Youth Hornets, Rollover contest, School Bus figure 8, Gauntlet, Stinger 8's, Renegades, Stunts and School Bus Dominoes... you dont want to miss it because as the old commercials said...

"YOU CAN BUY THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY USE THE EDGE!!!!"

See you at the races!

Friday, June 5, 2009

A great site to visit...

Hey there race fans!

Last time, I posted a few photos from our friend Marcia. Marcia has got the racing bug BIG TIME and was with us on our crazy LaCarerra Panamericana journey back in 2007.

She has her own blog where she posts pictures and thoughts on all kinds of different forms of road Racing as well as other fun adventures. Why not take a few moments and check it out!

http://roadrallyrhythms.typepad.com/

BTW, we ARE racing this weekend and its goign to be a fun one, with the Super Late Models running 2 50 lap features on the 3/8 along with the Mini Stocks, Steet Stocks, Super Figure 8 and Stinger 8 divisions. Remember that gates open at 5pm.

See you at the track!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

a few more photos

Here are a few action shots captured by one of our dedicated and most kick ass fans, Marcia Blas!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Broken parts and fires!

Well, it certainly was an eventful weekend at the track. We had a new shock package in the car and it did exactly what we had hoped, no more hippity hoppity in the corners. However, the car was a bit slower... Which isnt a good thing!

The day started off on a bad note as our pal Roger was out testing Jeff Knight's 70 car on the 5/8's when he lost a tire and hit the wall in turn 1, breaking the fuel line and starting a fire that pretty much finished the car off. Roger is a little sore, but otherwise ok and Chris Preston offered up his back up car so that Jeff could race that night. How absolutely cool is that??? We will be heading up to the TVM shop over the next couple of weeks to lend any assistance we can to get Jeff's back up car, the "White Knight" ready to go for the next race.

As I noted, the 99 car is much more driveable now, but it is a bit slower. We are going to work on some other items to address that problem, but are at least happy we are going in the right direction on the handling. Unfortunately, at about lap 3 of the main, we broke a brake rotor and ended up finishing 7th. Not a stellar performance and one that dropped us to 4th in the points, but still, we are doing pretty good all things considered.

This weekend, we pitted down next to our team owners and got this shot which shows all the Flowmaster Gutter sponsored cars together. Please visit our links page and check out thier website or Give them a call at (425) 257-9799 or toll free 1 800-884-0633 ... you know you need new gutters and springtime is the best time to get those taken care of! Mention that you saw them here at ScottLaCross.com so they know that thier sponsorship dollar is hard at work!

Team Flowmaster

We are off for the next 2 weeks, which puts our next race date on June 6th.. dont miss it as it is also a double header night for the Super Late Models with 2! main events for them! Dont forget to go to the track while we are away... Upcoming events:

May23rd: Monster Trucks and Super Moto

May 24th: Monster Trucks, Demo Derby, School Bus Figure 8, Rollover cars, Boat races, Hornets, Youth Hornets, Grudge races and Fireworks!

May 25th: Drag racing

May 30th: 60 Minutes of Fear, Hornets, Youth Hornets, Stinger 8s, Street Stocks and Super Late Models(on the big track) and its Motorcycle Night, so bring your Hog, Crotch Rocket, Trike or any other Motorbike to show off!

See you at the track!