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Matt Long earns his first victory of the season at Lancaster Speedway
After battling Ron Parker to the very end, Matt Long had to settle for second place when the checkered flag deemed the race over at Gastonia, North Carolina, on Friday, June, 17, leaving him hungry for a win. With that fierce battle behind them, Matt and the Circle K Team pulled into Lancaster, South Carolina on the following night with fire in their eyes. Immediately grabbing the lead in the feature, Matt never looked back, and when the dust had settled, the driver had earned his first victory of the season.
K&N sponsored Matt Long and the Circle K ThirstBuster Race Team
"It felt good to get our first win of the season," explained Matt. "We had a great year last year, and had been struggling a little bit during the beginning of this season. We've been running okay, but just haven't been able to get a win. It felt great to get that monkey off of our back."
When asked the importance of the win, Matt was quick to answer. "It was real important. It gets everybody motivated," he said referring to himself, his team and sponsors. "I think it has already begun to have a positive effect on the remainder of the season. We've run way better since then. We ran well up to that point, but it helped us get a little extra momentum and things going our way."
Matt Long's Dirt Late Model Car
According to Matt, the key to success on that particular night was qualifying. He has somewhat struggled on tracks this season where they have converted to one-lap qualifying. "Basically, the key to winning the race was laying down a lap that was conservative, yet aggressive, and being able to start on the front row," shared Long.
Although finishing second on the night previous to his win, the race was an obvious motivator, and with the win at Lancaster under their belts, Matt and his team are anticipating continued success throughout the remainder of the season.
According to Long, with an excess of 20 races already behind them, the key to finishing the remainder of 2011 on a positive note depends a great deal upon proper maintenance of their car. "Now is the time when things start breaking, and you start seeing a lot of guys experiencing mechanical failures" shared the driver. "We've already run more than twenty races, so keeping up with our maintenance is very important. We need to continue inching along here, as we have since back in May when we started running a lot better. We just need t stay on top of things; stay focused and continue doing the things we've done all year."
Speaking of a maintenance program, Matt stressed the importance of keeping the internal parts of their engine well-lubed and dust free. "We use K&N Filters everywhere we can," stated Matt. "We clean and spray them every race. The importance of filters is sometimes underestimated in dirt racing. There's so much dirt and dust out there, and filters are so important. I've been using K&N Filters since I started racing, six years ago," explained Matt. "The guy who rebuilds my engines said everything looks brand new when he breaks them down. I've never had to put bearings in a motor and don't think you could ask for anything better."
As the man behind the steering wheel, Matt Long is credited as the sole victor by a portion of his fans upon crossing the finishing line first, but the driver is quick to credit his crew as a very important and necessary component of success as well.
As does his crew, Matt also appreciates, and has an acute understanding of the importance of his sponsors and fans. "I appreciate all of the fans," he said. "I'm not from this area originally, but they've adopted me into this circuit, and we have a good following down here. That makes it a lot of fun, and at the same time, it also makes everything that much more important for my sponsors. We try to do a good job for them, and I want to thank and tell them that I'm really looking forward to the remainder
of the year. I think there are good things to come here."
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Greg Pursley won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Evergreen Speedway
It looks like nothing is going to be able to slow down Greg Pursley in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West.
Pursley's Evergreen 200 win is his sixth K&N Pro Series West race win of the season and the ninth of his career.
Pursley won the Evergreen 200 at Evergreen Speedway in Washington after surviving a flat tire and rallying through the field on Sunday.
He took the lead on lap 189 after the fifth caution of the race, passing Gene Price Motorsports teammate Dylan Kwasniewski. Pursley won his sixth K&N Pro Series West race of the season and the ninth of his career.
"We had to come in and put a right front tire on," said Pursley. "It was cut it down. We ran something over. We went out there and tried to stay out of trouble and still run my race and got back up to fifth there by the break."
Pursley won the pole and led the first 61 laps of the Evergreen 200. He ran into trouble when he ran over some debris on the track and cut a tire. He had to pit to repair the tire and Kwasniewski took over the lead.
Kwasniewski was out front for the next 60 laps through the midway point and mandatory pit stops of the race. Pursley worked his way back to the front and took the lead on lap 123, but held it for only one lap.
Persley ran into trouble when he ran over some debris and cut a tire. He had to pit to repair the tire and Kwasniewski took over the lead.
Kwasniewski regained the lead on lap 125 and held it until the fifth and final caution of the race. On the ensuing restart, Kwasniewski missed a shift and Pursley passed him.
Kwasniewski, the 16-year-old rookie from Las Vegas, finished second, his second runner-up in the K&N Pro Series West. He led a race-high 125 laps.
"It was a great race. We led a lot of laps," Kwasniewski said. "(Pursley) got that flat. This track is so small and so fast and we both were so good that I knew he was going to get back up to us. He got a caution and then he was right behind me. Putting on a good fight and we definitely had the car to win. On the last restart, just missed a shift and he got on the outside of me, forced the issue and made a great pass without even touching me."
Moses Smith, a driver from Bill McAnally Racing, was third, followed by teammate Eric Holmes in fourth and Daryl Harr in fifth.
"We didn't qualify exactly where we wanted to," Smith said. "The car was good on the long runs and thank goodness we had long runs out here. We had some good, close competition. It's good to be back up on the podium after a few races of being off of it. Third place, we'll take it."
Pursley extended his lead in the K&N Pro Series West standings to 298 points over Smith.
The Evergreen 200 will be broadcast on Speed on July 28 at 6 p.m. ET.
The next K&N Pro Series West race is the Bi-Mart Salute to the Troops 125 at Portland International Speedway on July 24.
18-year-old Alex Bowman is leading the K&N Pro Series East rookie standings
Alex Bowman is part of a young trio of drivers for the newly formed X Team Racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. All three drivers are in the top 10 in the East Series standings after seven races.
Alex Bowman's #16 X Team Racing Toyota
Bowman's teammate, Matt DiBenedetto, has already won a race and is second in the East Series standings. His other teammate, Coleman Pressley, has won two poles and has three top-five finishes in seven races.
Bowman hasn't quite experienced the same success as his teammates. He is seventh in the East Series standings and has four top 10s. But he has been making strides in his rookie season in the K&N Pro Series East and is one of the Next 9 drivers chosen by NASCAR.
The 18-year-old Bowman, who is leading the K&N Pro Series East rookie standings, started his auto racing career in quarter midgets racing in Arizona and California. He rose through the ranks of USAC before making the switch to stock cars last year. He admits he is still learning how to race stocks cars and that is part of the reason he is a bit behind his teammates at X Team Racing.
Alex Bowman started out the season with three top 10s in a row.
He said he felt like he had a chance to win the K&N Pro Series race at Iowa Speedway, which pitted drivers from the East and West Series. He also said his qualifying runs have improved as the season unfolded. In the most recent K&N Pro Series East race at Langley Speedway in Virginia, he started on the front row, next to Pressley who won the pole, and led the first lap of the race.
"It's tough. I think Iowa we had a really good shot," Bowman said. "Qualifying I've definitely improved on. I led a lap at Langley, that was the first time I've led a lap. I cleared Coleman on the outside after he was on pole. I overdrove turn one as soon I cleared him and he dove right underneath me."
He ended up in sixth place at the Langley Speedway race. At Iowa Speedway, he finished 27th in the 40-car field after running in the top 10 for a portion of the race.
"There's definitely the pressure for myself to go out and set a pole or go win some races," Bowman said. "I think that pressure would be there even if Matt and Coleman hadn't won any races. There's defintely no pressure from the team. They all really want to win no matter who's driving the cars. I put more pressure on myself than anybody could ever put on me."
Bowman started out the season with three top 10s in a row. He opened with a third-place finish after working his way through the field from 16th at the start in the season opener at Greenville Pickens Speedway in South Carolina.
"It was different. That was probably the perfect race car," Bowman said. "That car made life easy. It was honestly the perfect race car. We actually struggled a little bit throughout the day and got it dialed in really well. We started so far back that coming forward was definitely a learning experience."
But he hit a bit of a speed bump in the middle of the season. He was able to put his season back on track after the race at Langley Speedway. The races at Iowa Speedway, Bowman Gray Stadium and Gresham Motorsports Park didn't produce the results he anticipated. Still, he said he learned the most about racing stock cars at Iowa Speedway.
"I feel like the race that's been the best for me was Iowa," Bowman said. "I think there were 60 cars and we qualified 17th, so it wasn't too bad. We were up to sixth and we blew a tire. We went three laps down. That was only 70 laps into the race. I ran basically 100 laps with no right front fender in traffic around cars. That was a huge learning experience for me. We actually drove up to sixth on the race track with no right front fender. We were just laps down. That was a big learning experience. I still feel like myself and Matt DiBenedetto were the two cars to beat. We both were really fast and both blew right front tires."
Bowman said he is looking forward to racing at a couple tracks, mainly because they are bigger speedways that suit his driving style. He might have the biggest advantage at Columbus Motor Speedway in Ohio only because he is the only driver from the East Series who has raced there previously. He competed at Columbus in USAC Midgets.
"Honestly, I'm not a very big short track person," Bowman said. "I've been there before and I don't think that anybody that runs the East Series has ever been there. I'm really looking forward to Dover because that's my type of race track. I think we'll run really well there. Obviously looking forward to going back to Greenville because we were so good there."
The K&N Pro Series East returns to Greenville Pickens Speedway over Labor Day weekend on Sept. 5. The K&N Pro Series East finale is at Dover International Speedway in Delaware on Sept. 30.
"I always was better on the bigger race tracks. I don't know why that is. I'm just more comfortable I guess," Bowman said. "I go to every race to win. I went into this year expecting to win races and contend for a championship. These last couple of races have hurt our shot for a championship. Probably our biggest goal is to win the rookie of the year and we're leading that right now. I just want to win races at this point. That's probably the biggest goal I need to accomplish by the end of the year: to win a race."
