JUNE 1, 2010 –-- For those of you who take your time to check Evan’s site you may have noticed there has not been a weekly racing report for two weeks.

For the two weeks prior to this past weekend not much has gone well. A foul-up with the rearend at Tulare and then a significant crash the following weekend at Hanford left us with nothing worth reporting.

Evan’s luck seemed to have changed a bit over the Memorial Day weekend where he raced three consecutive nights beginning at Petaluma on Friday and then a two day’er at Calistoga Saturday and Sunday nights. This was Golden State’s first three race weekend in years.

Friday he was second quick in qualifying to Jonathon Allard, transferred out of his heat race and won the Dash.

Evan started on the pole in the main event next to Allard and chased him for 30 laps….the two of them pretty much unmolested. Lapped cars come at you pretty quickly on Petaluma’s quarter mile and Evan needed their help. He almost got it when Allard bicycled while dealing with a lapper. Ev got slightly under Jonathon on lap 28 but not quite enough and Allard got away. Evan went on to finish second, his second bridesmaid finish this year in the Golden State Challenge Series.

The next morning we washed and serviced the car in Petaluma before making the one hour tow northeast to the beautiful Calistoga Fairgrounds for two nights of half-mile racing.

Saturday went well even though Evan qualified ninth and missed the dash. Ev won his heat race and started ninth in the A main event and eventually finishing sixth.

By Sunday evening Richard Brown, Evans crew chief (and all-around great guy) really seemed to have a handle on the track and Evan was on his way to a real good qualifying attempt when we burned a piston in our engine, as it was Evan timed-in tenth quick. 

We missed our heat race while changing engines which meant Evan would do no better than to get his time back thus starting the feature in the tenth spot.

The car was real good from the beginning and by lap 17 of the 25 lap event Evan was moving forward and passed six cars on his way to a fourth place finish.

This week Evan will get the hurt motor up to S&S Automotive where the Santos family will make it whole again. Thank Heaven for those guys; they always seem to pull us out of trouble.

Special thanks to Richard and part-time crew member Jeremy who worked their butts-off to make this one of our better race weekends in a long while.

Next up this Saturday is Placerville, the little high-banked red clay joint that has the most enthusiastic fans around. We hope you drop by the trailer to say hello.

Thank you for dropping in.

Suggs Family Racing