Showing posts with label Sloan Henderson Racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sloan Henderson Racing. Show all posts
It was a great weekend again! However, it was a disappointment that Kil-Kare was rained out Friday night. It was to be the bus races at Kil-Kare which are rescheduled for this weekend and we really wanted to try the new gas from Estes Oil in Franklin.
Saturday we went to Pisanello’s for pizza and headed to the shop around 1 p.m. We got to Motorcar Auto Body just in time to help get the car loaded. Gary and some of the guys had already been working on the car since 9 a.m. We are trying different racing fuels from Estes Oil. We are also trying different staggers to try to get the Koehlke GreenPro Landscaping #4 faster. We got a new 12 volt battery this week with 1300 cranking amps. Ok I’m not sure what that means either but it more then the diesel truck we use to pull the trailer so starting the car should be easier.
At Columbus, we unloaded the Rebel 105.9 car and went out for the first practice. It had been raining and the track was still green. They also have a weep hold in the track in turn four where ground water can seep onto the track. They were trying to get it dried up. Our second practice, we found that we needed to make some chassis adjustments because our tire temp was off. By the third practice, we were right in line with most of the other cars. Just my luck, we drew 4 and was to be the first to qualify. I qualified at a 13.44 which was third fastest. In the dash race on was on the outside pole and as I described earlier there was a wet spot on the track on the outside of turn four. I was unable to get on the gas as hard as I like to come to the green flag. I ended up finishing the dash race in third.
It was privilege to go over to the fan section to sign autographs before the intermission. It was exciting to meet all my supports and answer questions. I had a great time greeting each one of them. The look on the girl face as she skipped off says it all.
In the feature, I started in the outside of row four in eighth In the Green Pro landscaping Koehlke components NASCAR Whelen LM . Just like playing checkers, you need to know what the other players could do. The guy leading my row was not great on the outside and was having problems with his car earlier. As I quested it I got pushed back to the tenth position it should have been ninth but a guy came in to my line and I choose to let him in because it was early in the race, I did leave the door open a little so it was somewhat my faulty. Unfortunately he hit me and we going to have to do some bodywork and paint. ( no Mirrors or radios in these cars) I had to wait for the right time to start passing. The opportunity to start passing came late in the race. I quickly moved up to the fifth position in just a few laps to go.
We have been doing a poll on Facebook with our new t-shirt designs. We hope to have a few of them available soon for purchase. We hope also have some exciting things to announce next week so be sure to tune in!
We are still hoping to get a tire sponsor so we can do some more testing. Dad is meeting with some people at Sport clips and we still waiting to hear from some others. I still need an anchor sponsor to finish out the year. Have a great week! Sloan and crew!! Follow me at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/Sloan-Henderson-Motorsports/122508936584?ref=ts and sloan-henderson on twitter for race day updates
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May 24, 2010
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What an exciting weekend again! This week we spent time in shop going over the front end. We set the camber and caster. We made sure all the settings were perfect. What a difference it made! The Green Pro Landscaping/Rebel 105.9 #4 was good as before I got wrecked. I hate to qualify first (just a thing). Friday at Kil-Kare it would have been good if I did. I would have had the track record 13.44. However, unfortunately, the Oakley Asphalt sponsored car broke the record just before me.
In the feature, the inversion was a five. I was hoping the outside pole car could beat the Bond Machine car. I could hopefully get around him. The Oakley car made it three wide on the inside coming out of turn four so I had to back down. I moved down to the fifth position. I quickly passed for third. Late in the race there was a caution. I just didn’t have enough to make it the front.
It was an awesome night because there were a lot of people in the stands. This Friday at Kil-Kare it is going to be a school bus race. The bus race is after our feature. The school buses are raced on the quarter mile (the small track) and they do a figure eight in order to try to flip the school buses. It is very fun and a fan favorite.
Saturday at Columbus Motor Speedway, we bought a new Hoosier racing tire but the stagger was off. Stagger is the difference in the circumference of the tire. We used the nitrogen gas in our tires that we get from Weiler Welding. It is possible to put extra air in them and stretch the tire. I guess this worked I qualified second. This was three spots faster than last week. The gas we use help control tired growth on the race track. Regular air has moisture and as the tire heats up the moister expands this causes the tire to grow too rapidly and this changes how the car handles.
In the feature, there were three wrecks and two spin-outs right in front of me. The fourteen car spun on lap one and I were getting ready to pass him. Unfortunately, I took the air off his spoiler and he spun. The track called it on me so I had to go to the tail. The driver of the fourteen car was nice enough after the race to come to me and tell me he spun on his own. He told me it was not my fault that he spun. GreenPro Landscaping/Koehlke #4 was fast but I couldn’t drive it back through the field so I had to settle for 8th. I felt terrible. The crew gave me a great car. I just didn’t get it done.
I crew all looked very handsome in their new crew shirts! They are a very talented, hard working, handsome group of guys!
I want to say “thanks” to Dan from Rules’ Excavating for volunteering this weekend.
I hope to see you at Kil-Kare on Friday! Just a reminder to my sponsors and partner the Kil-Kare tickets are not good this weekend because the bus race is a special event.
Thanks Sloan and the Crew
May 14, 2010
What an exciting weekend of racing at both tracks, Friday we unloaded the Rebel 105.9 late model at Kil-Kare Speedway to find out that they were going to shorten the race program to just a feature race. The incoming rain was a real threat. We had a good first practice and at that time we were the fastest car there thanks to the Estes racing fuel. We also had a great set up the by the crew. We chose not to practice and save our tires for the feature so we watched the second practice. Oakley Asphalt car was able to take me off the fast time spot. We went back out to try to pick up a half tenth then without warning the power steering line broke. I killed the engine and tried to roll off the track. We made quick work on fixing the line thanks to a competitor, Oakley Asphalt. Yes, the very team that we competing against. I was a little concerned in qualifying, because the left front tire got soaked with oil. However, the GreenPro Landscaping Koehlke Component NASCAR Whelen Late Model #4 got hooked up and we pulled out a second place qualifying time.
In the feature they inverted to 5th position so I started 4th, I missed my mark on the start and dropped to 6th. In a few laps, I was starting to get into some real tough racing with the #17 car. Every time I started to pass on the straight away, I would run out of room. I would have to back off or risk hitting the wall. After my second attempt to pass him, I decided to pass him on the outside in turn one or two and finish in the turn three, I was able to make that pass and quickly catch up to the next group of race cars. It was a three way race with Gary Estes and Oakley Asphalt car. Gary was in front by just a few feet and I was side by side and wheel to wheel for around six laps with the other car, what was awesome.
Finally, I was able to dive on the inside as the other two cars competed. Someone got Gary loose and I was able to get the second place spot. I set sail for the leader and realize my water tempeture was hotter than it should have been, probably because I was so close to the car in front not enough air was getting into the radiator, so I finished the race for a second place finish.
Saturday, we headed to Spring Valley to the Motorcar Auto Body Shop. We hooked up to the trailer and picked up the crew. We were then off to Columbus. It was a big temperature change from Saturday!
In our first practice, we were in the mid fourteen forties. The second practice, Gary made some good adjustments to the car. I was able to run low teens. A few spectators said they clocked me close to the track record. Unfortunately in qualifying, the best I could get was a 14.33. This time put me in the 6th fastest. This put me on the inside for the start of the feature which was not the preferred line that night. I had to drop back in the field four positions before I could get an opening to get to the outside. I finally was able to start racing towards the front. The 28 car spun out in turn one. I finished 5th. I was not the finish I wanted put it was a good day at the track.
Last week, we were rained out at Columbus on Saturday but as it turns out, it was a blessing as Tom and all the crew at Pisanello’s is now a new sponsor. I love the bread sticks there! Yum!
Thanks Sloan and the Crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctqn25xDWe0
http://blog.jimmiejohnsonchevrolet.com/2010/04/sloan-henderson-has-her-eye-on-nascar.html
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In the feature they inverted to 5th position so I started 4th, I missed my mark on the start and dropped to 6th. In a few laps, I was starting to get into some real tough racing with the #17 car. Every time I started to pass on the straight away, I would run out of room. I would have to back off or risk hitting the wall. After my second attempt to pass him, I decided to pass him on the outside in turn one or two and finish in the turn three, I was able to make that pass and quickly catch up to the next group of race cars. It was a three way race with Gary Estes and Oakley Asphalt car. Gary was in front by just a few feet and I was side by side and wheel to wheel for around six laps with the other car, what was awesome.
Finally, I was able to dive on the inside as the other two cars competed. Someone got Gary loose and I was able to get the second place spot. I set sail for the leader and realize my water tempeture was hotter than it should have been, probably because I was so close to the car in front not enough air was getting into the radiator, so I finished the race for a second place finish.
Saturday, we headed to Spring Valley to the Motorcar Auto Body Shop. We hooked up to the trailer and picked up the crew. We were then off to Columbus. It was a big temperature change from Saturday!
In our first practice, we were in the mid fourteen forties. The second practice, Gary made some good adjustments to the car. I was able to run low teens. A few spectators said they clocked me close to the track record. Unfortunately in qualifying, the best I could get was a 14.33. This time put me in the 6th fastest. This put me on the inside for the start of the feature which was not the preferred line that night. I had to drop back in the field four positions before I could get an opening to get to the outside. I finally was able to start racing towards the front. The 28 car spun out in turn one. I finished 5th. I was not the finish I wanted put it was a good day at the track.
Last week, we were rained out at Columbus on Saturday but as it turns out, it was a blessing as Tom and all the crew at Pisanello’s is now a new sponsor. I love the bread sticks there! Yum!
Thanks Sloan and the Crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctqn25xDWe0
http://blog.jimmiejohnsonchevrolet.com/2010/04/sloan-henderson-has-her-eye-on-nascar.html
The NASCAR Whelen Koehlke/GreenPro Landscaping crew and I had a lot of work to do this week after the accident last week. I was at the almost everyday and parts was coming in Bond Machine Shop is such wonderful supporter. They allow most of my parts to be delivered to their shop which is a big help, so Gary call get them to the shop. We work hard and had the car ready for Friday race but Kil-Kare race was rained out. I was so disappointed! This was the second cancellation in a row. We had arranged for several potential sponsors to come and watch the race. The one potential sponsor is considering the truck series and is only in town every few months. It was a much needed opportunity to get him to the track but rain stopped it. We will regroup and have him to the track sometime this summer.
We had a few safety parts for my seat that had not come in yet and they arrived Saturday morning so we left early for the shop. Gary and Dick had already been working on the changes to the car. They had already been working since 900 a.m. We got the car ready. Dad put in the shoulder pads on my seat as required by track rules at Columbus so we could race. We finish scaling the car and set the sway bar then we headed for Columbus.
We had a rough start in the first practice( track conditions). By the third practice, Gary got the car rolling through the corner well. We qualified 6th out of 17. Columbus inverts the field. Therefore, Columbus has the pole sitter pick the number to invert the field. I started in the 7th position. All we had to do was top the Rebel 105.9 Green Pro Landscaping with racing fuel from Estes Oil in Franklin. Estes Oil is also wonderful by supplying all my racing fuel. They sell it by the gallon or by the drum so tell them I sent you. The 14 car chose to go to the tail so I started in 6th in turn one just like last week. There was another big spin out but I was ready. I slowed down hard then went on the high side to drive around it. The second restart, I started in 5th. Thank God, because it was the line that moved. I was able to move up to the 3rd position in just a few laps. I decided to just sit back and wait because I knew my opportunity would come later in the race. About lap 25 I was able to pass the second place car and set sail for the win. Unfortunately, the 1st place car was almost a lap ahead of me. I started to try and catch him but I realized I would most likely run out of time. I chose to not push it and save my tires for next week. You can just get one new tire a week. The tire management is big in NASCAR Whelen Late models. I finished a strong second pulling away from the third place car by a margin of about half a track. With our second place finish, the crew had helped me make Ohio NASCAR history because a female has never made it in to the top five at Columbus much less a second place. This make 2 podium finishes in three races What a Crew!!!!
As always this week, I did my radio interview with the Rebel 105.9 on Tuesday after school around 2:45 so tune in. You can also hear the Sprint cup race on the Rebel now…. I am still doing the community service/play “why wait”. I worked on my car two nights. Hopefully, I will be doing an autograph session on Wednesday nights Kil-Kare and Sonic drive in soon if we can get it worked out.
Thanks Sloan and the Crew.
Thanks, Steve
Sloan Henderson Motorsports, LLC
"Today Is Tomorrow's History"
www.sloanhenderson.com
Phil 4:13
937-533-6271
Sloan Henderson Motorsports, LLC
"Today Is Tomorrow's History"
www.sloanhenderson.com
Phil 4:13
937-533-6271
Racing season has finally begun. The first Thursday test and tune of the season went well. I was able to get into the low 14 seconds per lap. The faster we got the car going the more a slight vibration arose with the fan on my NASCAR Whelen Koehlke/GreenPro Late Model. We decided to just load up and fix it back at Motorcar Autobody shop I was able to get close to the time I wanted so I felt pretty good.
Opening day, Friday, finally came! I didn’t think it would ever get here. It’s like waiting for Christmas. The weather was perfect. First practice went well. My second test session, I was just a few hundredths off the track record. Wow, what a great crew! I missed my marks and picked up a slight push so I qualified 5th. The heat race went okay but I would have liked to have done better. I learned from my mistakes. Gary won his heat race.
I ended up starting in 3rd in the feature race. I held off the outside pole and was running a strong second for most of the race and then there was a caution. The restart went well except my car didn’t have enough power in the straight a ways. It was also getting tighter as the race went on. I finished third with not a scratch on the Koehlke Green Pro Landscaping. The crew and I are very pleased with our first race of the season and looking forward to this coming week. I’ll be racing at Kil-Kare and Columbus Motor Speedway.
I started my Rebel 105.9 radio spot on Tuesday afternoons at 2:45 pm. I also did an interview with 90.3 the One on Thursday. I have a major magazine interview coming up as well. I will keep you posted in which month it will be published. The meeting went well with Sheri Oaks and Veronica. I hope to hear back from some other partners soon. Please try to follow me on twitter and facebook because it the only way business know you following me.
Thanks Sloan and the crew
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There is nothing like the smell of a new car! Except for a good burn out! The crew did an awesome job with the paint and decal theme! I just love it! My NASCAR Whelen Koehlke/GreenPro landscaping late model #4 was awesome on test and tune day this past Saturday at Kil-Kare.
First, I went out just to bed in the brakes, unlike a regular car, there is a process of getting the new brake pads up to their maximum stopping power. My best lap was in the 18 seconds, I bet people were talking about that time. The second practice, we still were working on the brakes and we noticed the wheels were rubbing just a little. We got that fixed by trimming off about a 8th of an inch. In the next test, I got it down in the 15’s, in part to the fuel from Estes Oil in Franklin the only place to by race fuel. The next time, Gary gave me some advice about my line. I then picked up ¾ of a second. The last time out, Gary said I could pick up my corner speed and we hit our bench mark for the day. We loaded up! What an awesome first day out. The guys and I are very pleased with the car.
I am really hoping all of you will signing up to be fan of mine on facebook its free and real important to get my numbers up. I am under Sloan Henderson Motorsports LLC. Also, don’t forget to sign up for my twits on Twitter. I will keep you posted on race day with tweets!
This week I will be doing my commercial for Rebel 105.9. The weekly radio broadcast will be starting on Tuesdays at 2:45 pm. I am meeting with Design Homes next Friday. Dad inked the deal with Sign A Rama and we still hopeful the strike a deal with some local Chevy dealers soon. I am racing at Kil Kare on March 2 so come out to the race.
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