WARD MOTORSPORTS WORCS ROUND 1 RACE REPORT
I was really looking forward to this weekend because this race was close to home for me, just a 45 minute drive from Bakersfield. I made it out to the track for practice on Friday and on the first lap my car just died halfway through. I was very frustrated given that I just rebuilt the engine right before this race due to an accident in the Laughlin SNORE race.
After getting home and investigating I found that the engine had dropped a valve and destroyed the head and a piston. Luckily after talking with Brian at Tower Works Fab, he said he had all the parts I needed and even offered to drive the parts down to my house from LA (2 hour drive). Sure enough, he showed up with the parts (head, cylinder, pistons) at 5 A.M. Saturday morning on his way through town. I spent the next several hours rebuilding the engine with the help of Chad from Madhouse Motorsports (Bakersfield), my dad, and repeated conference calls to Brian. I finally showed up at the track just in the knick of time to jump in the car and head to the starting line. The race went really well considering the circumstances, and after nearly getting caught up in Cory’s spectacular crash, I ended up second to the Holz Commander.
I would like to thank Brian, once again, from Tower Works Fab , Chad from Madhouse Motorsports, and Scott at XMF suspension for the best suspension out there.
Up next for the Ward Motorsports team is the SNORE race in Primm and then WORCS round #2.
Check out some footage from my Gopro, and also see Cory's crash! (Hope he is ok!)
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I was really looking forward to this weekend because this race was close to home for me, just a 45 minute drive from Bakersfield. I made it out to the track for practice on Friday and on the first lap my car just died halfway through. I was very frustrated given that I just rebuilt the engine right before this race due to an accident in the Laughlin SNORE race.
After getting home and investigating I found that the engine had dropped a valve and destroyed the head and a piston. Luckily after talking with Brian at Tower Works Fab, he said he had all the parts I needed and even offered to drive the parts down to my house from LA (2 hour drive). Sure enough, he showed up with the parts (head, cylinder, pistons) at 5 A.M. Saturday morning on his way through town. I spent the next several hours rebuilding the engine with the help of Chad from Madhouse Motorsports (Bakersfield), my dad, and repeated conference calls to Brian. I finally showed up at the track just in the knick of time to jump in the car and head to the starting line. The race went really well considering the circumstances, and after nearly getting caught up in Cory’s spectacular crash, I ended up second to the Holz Commander.
I would like to thank Brian, once again, from Tower Works Fab , Chad from Madhouse Motorsports, and Scott at XMF suspension for the best suspension out there.
Up next for the Ward Motorsports team is the SNORE race in Primm and then WORCS round #2.
Check out some footage from my Gopro, and also see Cory's crash! (Hope he is ok!)
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