Welcome Race Fans,

RACE RESULTS – SUPER STREET RACE #11
JRN RACING TAKES A WIN!

Greetings Race Fans, JRN Racing has taken our first win of the year and has assumed the points lead in the Super Street Division.

Randy has taken his first victory of the 2009 season with a great run this past Saturday night, September 19. We had worked and tweaked on the car during the week previous and it payed off. The car ran good all day, with the loose problem much much better. Practice times were decent, and Randy was able to qualify 3rd. Usually we have been starting second, which places us on the outside lane. This is hard to navigate early in the race when all the cars are bunched up, as the fast way around Langley is on the bottom of the track. It usually takes a lap or so to sort out the leaders and find an opening in traffic that allows us to get to the bottom.

We started the race out good, held our line, and ended up second after a lap or two. The leader was forced to park it with overheating issues early in the race. In the mean time, we battled with the third place car for our position for a few laps. Not wanting to be held up getting to the front, Randy passed the leader on the outside and assumed the top spot. Randy led the rest of the race. Our pucker factor was high though as we had a good lead midway through the race, only to have the caution flag fly. On the restart, Randy got a good start, cleared away from traffic, only to have the caution come out again a few laps later. Another good restart, and Randy led until lap 48, when the caution flew for the final time, setting up a green-white-checkered finish. On the final restart, Randy pulled away enough to maintain his lead to the checkered flag, and his first win for 2009.

The below is the race report from Gary Daugherty, the tracks reporter:

In the 50-lap Atlantic Power Sweeping Super Street race, Randy Sample took the lead on lap 13 and sped to his first victory of the year. He also took over the division points lead from nine-time race winner Ryan Nester, who was suspended for the remainder of the season after a brouhaha on Aug. 29.
Randy Akers was the pole-sitter for Saturday’s race, clocking in at 74.607 mph. He led the first four laps before officials spotted an obvious leak from his car and put out the black flag. Akers pulled into the pits on lap 5 and parked his machine for the night, turning the lead over to Jonathan Mullett, who had just taken second place from Sample.
By lap 11, Mullett and Sample had been joined by Larry Venable and Jeff Shannon, making it a four-pack at the head of the field.
On lap 13, Sample took a run to the outside of Mullett in Turn 1. He pulled even and grabbed the lead off the fourth corner. Within a couple laps, he had driven away by two lengths and the gap was growing.
Shannon, looking for his second straight win, picked off Venable for third on lap 19 and charged past Mullett on lap 20 to move into second. The shuffle allowed Sample to extend his lead to nearly half a straightaway.
The race was slowed by caution flags on laps 29 and 30. During the second caution period, Shannon suddenly made the hard turn onto the pit lane, spelling a premature end to his run. Shannon’s exit passed the runner-up position back to Mullett.
On the restart, Sample darted away from the field, while Mullett and Venable dueled for second. Sample enjoyed a five-length advantage when the third, and final, caution flag appeared on lap 49, setting up a “green-white-checkered” finish.
Under green for the last time, Sample eked out a one-length margin over Mullett, stretching it to two lengths as they reached the backstretch. He would maintain that edge to the finish, winning by 0.616-second. Mullett was second to the line, followed by Venable, John Foster Jr. and Rod Busitzky, who fought off Sean Calway at the line for fifth.
In the standings, Sample is up by 32 points over Nester, who only dropped to second. Mullett is third, 38 points behind the new leader.

As a result of this race finish, Randy inherents the points lead. We have two races left to finish the season out. We need to work hard, save up and buy tires each week, so we can best our chance of staying on top.

Jamie’s new car is well underway in construction. The chassis has been cleaned up and roll cage installation is in progress. Progress has been severely affected by work obligations of chief mechanic and crew chief Doug. With one month of racing left, our hope is to have it out by the seasons’ end is bleak. I know Jamie is chomping at the bit to get back in the car.

Our next race is this Saturday, September 26, 2009. Please come and join us.

JRN Racing would like to welcome our new sponsor for the remainder of this season and for 2010, State Farm Insurance, Agent Erica Chigos-White, in Hampton. She can be reached at 757-826-0603 for all of your insurance or investment needs. As always, we thank our current sponsors this year. They are:

POMOCO Auto Group
Bond Pro Clean – Commercial and Residential Cleaning Services
Guaranteed Auto Service
Bayport Credit Union
Wilbert’s Upholstery
Tidewater D-J’s {DJ Services}
Linville’s WINE & DELI
Discount Used Auto Parts
3-Wide Graphix

Series Sponsor Atlantic Power Sweeping We appreciate them coming on board and hope you will contract their services.

We appreciate all of our sponsors support this year. Please use our sponsors when your business requires services they can provide. We have plenty of additional opportunities to help perspective sponsors with advertisement. Please consider us for your marketing needs for 2010’s racing season.

We also want to thank our friends and teammates are supporting us again this season, and who have put time, material, and energy into our racing this year:
Bryan Stilley
Casey Wyatt
Sammy Gaita
Jason Michaud
Chuck Norsk
Tim Leftwich
Tom Dushatinski
Sam Smith
Jim Sample
John Simpson

We appreciate your help and support this season. You can find our racing schedules and pictures at www.jrnracing.com.

Doug Sample