Brian Brown – Fall Brawl Time!
Brian Brown – Fall Brawl Time!
(Bill W) September 17, 2012 – Brian Brown and the Casey’s General Stores/FVP #21 team are gearing up for a busy week of racing. Wednesday night, they will tow to the Eagle Raceway to compete with the World of Outlaws. Friday and Saturday will be the ASCS-Midwest “Fall Brawl” at the I-80 Speedway with plenty of cash on the line. The Grain Valley, Missouri driver had a tough weekend with the Outlaws last week, though he managed an eleventh place finish in Spencer, Iowa.
The Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer hosted the WoO on Friday. “Getting back up there was good,” says Brian. “Craig Dollansky and his group always put on a great event. We’ve had good success there, and we were looking forward to getting back racing with the Outlaws. We were good hot lapping and fifth quick in qualifying.”
Unfortunately, problems arose in time trials that would hamper the rest of the night. “We had some sort of motor issue on our last lap of qualifying,” says Brian. “We didn’t have a lot of time to diagnose, so we went ahead and changed it. We were in the first heat, so we didn’t get it changed in time. That put a hiccup in our night.”
Brian headed for the B, and would end up eleventh in the main event. “We were able to win it and start twelfth in the A,” he says. “We just didn’t have our car where it needed to be. We didn’t have the time with the motor to keep up with what the track was doing. We were kind of tight and not able to move around in the dirty air like we should have been. Sometimes you are going to have those nights.”
The FVP Showdown was next on Saturday at the Deer Creek Speedway near Spring Valley, Minnesota. “The last FVP Showdown race was at Cedar Lake and we led 22 laps there,” says Brian. “We felt good coming in to Deer Creek. It was good to have all the FVP employees and customers there.”
Things started well enough. “We were the quickest car in hot laps,” says Brian. “We came out late in qualifying, and registered ninth quick. We were able to win the heat as well. We had to start back on the fifth row of the Dash. We tried some things to try to make the car better.”
Starting tenth in the feature, Brian wouldn’t make a lap. “On the first start, I kind of got bottled up behind Sammy (Swindell) before the yellow came out,” he says. “On the next start, I wanted to make sure I didn’t get balled up. I just kind of lost it, and spun sideways there.”
Unfortunately, others were involved. “I feel sorry and apologize to Davey Heskin and Bill Rose,” says Brian. “Davey was able to keep going, but Bill got banged up and hurt his leg. I hope he’s o.k. When you make mistakes like that, you don’t want to take other cars out. It wasn’t the way we wanted to end the weekend. We just have to keep our head up and look forward to a lot of big races coming up.”
The big races include another date with the WoO on Wednesday in Eagle, Nebraska. “I’m looking forward to it,” says Brian. “I haven’t raced a 410 there for at least three or four years. We haven’t been the best with the 360 there, so maybe the 410 will change our luck.”
I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Nebraska will host Friday and Saturday. “We’re really looking forward to the ‘Fall Brawl’,” says Brian. “Don Long of Searsboro Telephone Company has been instrumental in that and is sponsoring a backwards point fund. The race pays well and has a lot of other stuff going on. We’re licking our chops. Obviously, that’s one of our favorite tracks.”
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