In 2006 ran a limited schedule due to sharing the car with my brother A.J. at the just under a ½ mile Thunderhill Speedway in Mayettete, Ks. I had a very rough start to my career, during my first race I started at the back of the field. I started picking up speed very quickly. I soon moved to the high line and was starting to fight for position. On the next lap I hit the cushion at the top then the car turned towards the wall. Hitting near head on the car flipped over and landed on its top totaling it in my first career start.
In 2007 ran first full season at the 3/8 mile US 36 Raceway in Osborn, MO. Had some good runs and learned a lot. One of the best things about the year was getting to race A.J. and beating him. We borrowed our good friend and my mentor Paul Lanfermann II’s car for A.J. to use. Out of all the cars there somehow we made it into the same heat. In the heat he beat me by one position because pushed me out of the way on the last lap. In the feature the one that really counts I finished six places ahead of him. Another good thing out of 2007 was finishing 5th in the points standing. At the end of 2007 we ran at Lakeside Speedway 3 times in October and loved it and decided to run the full season there in 2008.
2008 was a tough year moved up to the ½ mile Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Ks. Lakeside Speedway was a big change from the previous years. Lakeside has a lot stronger and faster competitors than any other track that I have ever raced at. Best finishes of the year was 8th place in the feature twice. We also had one blown motor on the year and finished 19th out of about 40 in the season points standing. We ran 17 of 21 races for the year.
2009 was the 2nd year at Lakeside Speedway. Due to my football scholarship we ran a limited schedule but still had some good results. Got my 1st win in a heat race while holding off three feature winners from 2009 and spreading it out to a ½ a straight away win. The best feature finish of the year was a 3rd place finish in the B feature. During the year we also had two blown motors and finished 18th out of about 50 in the season points standing. Finishing one position better than 2008 and we only were able to run 13 of the 21 races.
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