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Eric Holmes wins NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Colorado National Speedway
Eric Holmes is on a bit of a roll. He won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Colorado National Speedway on Saturday, his second in a row and his fourth of the season.
NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Driver Eric Holmes
The two-time West Series champion from Escalon, Calif., started on the front row with pole winner Luis Martniez Jr. and took the lead on the third lap of the race.
Holmes battled with Martinez for the lead late in the race and held off a surging Paulie Harraka to win for the second time in three years at Colorado National Speedway. Holmes also won the race at Montana Raceway Park on Aug. 7, making it two wins in consecutive weekends.
"The NAPA Toyota probably wasn't as good as (Martinez's) there the mid part of the race, but I just figured out a line that worked good for me and I was able to get by him," said Holmes, driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Bill McAnally Racing.
Eric Holmes and the No.20 NAPA Toyota
"Once I got out front I was all right. The restarts my car didn't really want to take off. It made it a little tough. Super amount of fun racing here."
Harraka, Holmes' teammate at Bill McAnally racing, finished second. He won the West Series race at Colorado National Speedway last year.
"Our crew showed their NAPA know-how tonight, that's for sure," Harraka said after the race. "We got going, didn't have the car quite balanced the way I wanted it. The halfway mark we rolled through the pits, went to the back of the field, and made the changes we wanted to. Fortunately they were the right ones. We just kept creeping our way through the field, on and on and on. Just ran out of time. We just didn't have enough time. Got to second, got around Luis with five to go. I was going all out to get by Eric, just didn't have the time to do it."
Martinez won the pole, the first of his West Series career, and led the first two laps of the race. He regained the lead on lap 78 and held it for 29 more laps. It was the first time in his West Series career that he led a race. He finished third and recorded the first podium finish of his West Series career.
"The car stayed about the same the whole day from the time it came from the shop," said Martinez, the leader in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings. "It unloaded fast. Right before qualifying, my guys told me just sail it into the corner because it looks like the track's got a lot of grip. That's what I did. It ended up paying off real well for us."
Holmes took the lead from Martinez on lap 107 and held it for the final 43 laps of the race. He extended his lead in the West Series standings to 114 points over David Mayhew.
Harraka moved into third place in the West Series standings with three races remaining. Martinez is fourth in the West Series standings.
"The race I thought was pretty good," Martinez said. "We had a good car the first 75. After that it kind of started losing the drive off a little bit. We kept our heads on strong. We raced Paulie hard to the last bit of the race. I don't think a podium's bad coming out here for the first time. Being a rookie, this track's been awesome to us. Couldn't be more excited."
The next West Series race is at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah on Sept. 12. The final two races of the season are at All American Speedway in Roseville, California, and Phoenix International Raceway in Arizona.
"All these little short tracks I really like," Holmes said. "I like going to Phoenix. I haven't ran great at Salt Lake, but I'm looking forward to going there. We padded our point lead tonight. We just got to play smart, but go to Roseville and Phoenix, planning on winning races and not doing anything different than what we've been doing all year."
K&N's film crew was on location at the NMRA & NMCA Super Bowl of drag racing in Joliet, Illinois. Modular Depot's Greg Brown tells us about his 2010 Chevy Camaro, Modular Muscle driver Nick Eminoski runs shows off his 1998 Mustang Cobra and Super Pro driver Bryan Campbell talks about his powerful 1981 Chevy Camaro.
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Three restarts and thrilling back-and-forth racing had the huge crowd on the edge of their seats all evening long.
The K&N Filters Grand National Championship went bi-coastal last week, picking up with more epinephrine juiced action at Hagerstown Speedway in Hagertown, Maryland.
Joe Kopp aboard his Latus Harley-Davidson / ENI USA backed bike.
"This was the single largest event we have had in over five years," commented Hagerstown General Manager, Lisa Bragunier. "The fans were treated to one of the best motorcycle races ever."
K&N sponsored and Lloyd Brothers Racing teammate, Joe Kopp, was looking to have a far better race this week, after his wicked get-off last week on the west coast.
"I am feeling ok, but I have some very sore ribs," said Kopp. "My doctor says I have some torn cartilage, so it will just take time to heal."
Despite experiencing a great deal of pain from his crash last week, Joe Kopp was able to ride through it for the win a Hagerstown Speedway.
"Although it's very painful, I let the adrenalin take over when I'm on the bike."
And so he did, the series points leader had considerably more fun in this race aboard his Latus Harley-Davidson / ENI USA backed bike, dueling all evening with his past teammate Kenny Coolbeth. The two former Grand National Champions kept the huge crowd entertained all evening with their back-and-forth action after several aborted starts to the race.
The first attempt to get the twenty-five lap National under way lasted only to the first turn, where a crash collected a number of riders. The next try lasted two laps before last week's winner, Stevie Bonsey, fell in turn three. Bonsey was uninjured, but unable to make the restart.
In all three subsequent starts Coolbeth got the hole-shot, but on the third restart Kopp stuck right on his back wheel, pressing all the way around the track for any hint of space in which to make a move. Officially Kopp and Coolbeth exchanged the lead three times at the line, but there was passing going on all around the track, much to the crowds delight. On lap twenty Kopp took over the lead for the last time, squeezing out the hard fought victory at the checked flag.
"This was a great race. It was a lot of fun dueling with Kenny, we went back and forth for a long time," remarked Kopp after the race.
As for the how he would like to see the rest of the year unfold, Kopp says, "I would like to try and win a few more races and see what happens in the points at the end of the year. The number one plate is what we are all after every time we get on our bikes, but it takes a ton of hard work to get it done, and I have been putting in a huge effort to try and get it done."
"So ask me about what my plans are for October - hopefully it will be a trip to Disneyland," says Kopp with a smile.
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Eric Holmes has won four NASCAR K&N Pro Series West races this year, but he said his best race was a runner-up finish at Portland International Raceway in July.
NAPA/Bill McAnally Racing's No. 20 Toyota
The two-time West Series champion turned what could have been an eighth place finish into a second place. He said it's races like the one in Portland that lead to championships.
"The way the race worked out, the way our planning of the race, we knew we weren't the car to beat," said Holmes, a 35-year-old driver from Escalon, Calif. "We had to figure out a different way to beat them. We definitely beat them that way, but we were lucky. That's what you have to do when you want to win championships. You got to have to have some luck on your side. I'm not proud of them days, but as far as team and making calls and being smart, that's what you got to do on your bad days. If you can make a bad day a second-place finish, that's pretty darn good."
Holmes has been pretty darn good since the second race of the season. He won at Phoenix International Raceway in April, a much-needed victory that put Holmes back in the West Series championship picture after a disastrous season opener at All American Speedway in Roseville, Calif.
Holmes finished 20th in the season opener and put his team in a huge hole in the championship standings right out of the gate.
"In previous years, I've won the first race," said Holmes, driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Bill McAnally Racing. "I've done very well in the first race and had the points lead after the first or second race. This year, definitely started in a hole. I knew it wouldn't be easy to dig our way out. Going to Phoenix for the second race and winning really helped, kinda got us some momentum."
Holmes won again at Douglas County Speedway in Oregon in June, but still trailed David Mayhew in the West Series standings after four races. It wasn't until the fifth race of the season at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma that Holmes passed Mayhew for the lead in the West Series standings. Holmes finished fourth at Infineon Raceway and Mayhew came in 23rd.
Holmes went three races between his second and third win. In that span, Andrew Ranger, Patrick Long and Auggie Vidovich, drivers who don't regularly run in the West Series, each won a race. Ranger and Vidovich posted the first West Series wins of their careers. Long, a champion sports car driver in the American Le Mans Series for Porsche and two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, won the second race of his West Series career. Holmes said it was an example of how deep and talented the fields in the West Series have become.
"In previous years it was me and Jason Bowles and Mike David, pretty much the top three," Holmes said. "Both them guys are gone. Now it's Mayhew and Paulie (Harraka) and (Jonathon) Gomez and (Greg) Pursley. There are some really good teams this year racing. I don't think the competition's any tougher, every year you have two or three guys who are really tough to race with and you got to look out for. In other years we had Joey Logano come in, we've had some other guys, but definitely the road races. I've always thought I was a decent road course racer, but this year with Patrick Long and Ranger and some of them guys coming in, they definitely made it tougher on us."
With three races remaining in the West Series schedule, Holmes has a 114-point lead over Mayhew in the West Series standings. Mayhew said it will be challenging to catch Holmes, especially with races at tracks that have been favorable to Holmes in the past.
"It's definitely hard," Mayhew said. "We had a couple good races the last couple that we gave away with running out of gas and parts failures on the car. Those really hurt when we were quite a bit better than him. We know once we got to these short tracks, he's tough to beat. He always has been. Hopefully we'll put a good run together and gain some points back."
Holmes won the West Series championship in 2006 and 2008. His first championship, he said, was unexpected.
"My first championship, we weren't even going to run for a championship," Holmes said. "We had one car and one engine and we were just going to run a couple races. We ended running for it and winning it."
His second championship came with his current team, Bill McAnally Racing. Holmes said there was tremendous pressure on him to win the West Series championship for a couple of reasons.
"When I started driving for Bill in 2008, he hired me to win the championship," Holmes said. "NAPA hadn't won a championship in eight years and Toyota had just signed on. He says, 'I'm putting you in the car to win the championship.' That was totally different. I had the pressure of doing it and we went out and did it."
His third West Series championship is within reach and he wants to end the season with a strong run.
"This year has been a little different," Holmes said. "We made a lot of changes in the winter. We probably haven't been as dominant. I'm usually top of the charts at practice and qualifying. I've had to back up a little bit in the races and focus on getting the best finish I can out of my car. It's working for us right now, but we definitely need to get the car into victory lane and lead some laps and get some points."
