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New
Smyrna Beach, FL – After
missing four consecutive features at Golden Isles
Speedway, Dillon Wood and his team are ready to shake off
the early season struggles. DWR will now set their sights
on the familiar confines of Volusia County Speedway.
Volusia was the sight of Wood’s first ever victory in a
late model type race car and he has made many laps around
the 4/10ths mile Barberville , Florida facility.
“We
had a brand new race car at Golden Isles. It had zero laps
on it and it was a different style of Rocket Chassis than
what we have been running. We definitely should have went
and tested the car before trying to race it. We really
struggled to get the car drivable and just when we made
some progress we had a transmission failure. When we got
out the back-up car we were much better but we were just
too far behind at that point.” said Wood.
“We
just couldn’t get the new car balanced. We had a really
good qualifying lap going at the first Southern All Stars
race but the car was just too loose through three and four
and I spun it. So we had to tighten it up and then it was
just too tight through one and two and we couldn’t quit
shoving the nose. But my dad and Alex and the guys worked
really hard and we were able to learn a few things. We got
behind in the Southern All Stars points a little but we
can make that back up in the next few weeks.” said Wood.
Dillon
now looks forward to returning to VSP in a super late
model. “We have won races there so we have a really good
idea of where we need to be. We plan to try and work on
the new car and get a better hold on it. We have a good
baseline at VSP so that should really help us get going in
the right direction. We weren’t sure if we would go to
VSP but given all the struggles we had at GIS we knew we
needed to try and get the new car going before the next
Southern All Star point race at North Georgia .”
Wood
plans to enter all of the weeks events at VSP beginning
with Monday night’s UMP DIRTcar Late Model event and
concluding with the Saturday night World of Outlaw Late
Model event on Saturday night. “We are going to either
get it fixed or kill it trying to.” joked Wood. “But I
want to thank Steve Baker at Rocket Chassis. He has been
on the phone with my dad all week trying to help us get
everything straightened out. We are certain we will be
able to get things headed back in the right direction.”
Dillon
and his team would like to recognize their 2008 sponsors
which include: Bearden Oil Company, Screven Motor Speedway
and Savannah River Dragway, RaceSource, KELCAR Motorsports
Media, Clements Race Engines, Rocket Chassis, Dixie Dirt
TV, Carlson Race Photos, Koury Race Engines, Vickery’s
Speedshop, Coleman Outdoors, Ohlins, Hypercoils, PPM
Racing Products, Wa-Don Bert, Sunoco Race Fuels, Hoosier
Tire South, Stealth Carburetors, Beyea Headers, Simpson
Race Products, Racing Optics, Ultra Shield Products,
Duralite Wheels, Phase II Sign Supply and Arizona Sport
Shirts.
Up
coming DWR events:
February
11-16 – Volusia Speedway Park – 37th Annual
Alltel DIRTcar Nationals
March
8 – North Georgia Speedway – OSAS Ernest Young
Memorial 50
March
15 – Cleveland Speedway – OSAS Shamrock 60
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