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Chub Frank Racing
BEAR LAKE, Penn. (May 12) - Chub Frank's long week in the Show-Me State ended quietly on Sunday night.
A 21st-place finish in the rain-delayed second annual SuperClean Diamond Nationals 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., capped off Chub's extended stay in the Midwest.
Chub spent the week leading up to the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series event working on his Lester Buildings/Corry Rubber/All Star Performance/Corry Laser/Slavic Corporation/Farr MotorSports/Lake Shore Paving/Custom Race Engines Chevrolet Impala SS Rocket Chassis No. 1* in Missouri after competing in a pair of World of Outlaws Late Model Series shows that were held on May 3-4 in the southwestern part of the state.
"I wish we would've had a little more to show for the trip, but we just made some wrong choices in the feature," Chub said of his Diamond Nationals effort.
After qualifying third-fastest in his group time-trial session on Friday night, Chub rode out the strong storms that postponed Saturday night's scheduled Diamond Nationals action to Sunday. He qualified for the 100-lap A-Main by finishing second in the first B-Main on Sunday.
Chub started 21st in the headline event, which was run on a track surface that was completely reworked after the heats and B-Mains produced little passing in afternoon conditions. He said the speedway's manicuring definitely made it racier, but he wasn't able to make any move forward and thus retired once he was lapped about one-third of the way through the 100.
"We went too hard with our tires," said Chub. "We probably would've been O.K. later in the race, but, starting so far back, we should've put on a softer tire so we would've been better at the beginning. We ended up getting lapped early and that was it for us.
"The only good thing was that there was a wreck a little while after I pulled off. I probably would've been right in the middle of that if I was still on the track."
Chub made the long drive back to his shop in Bear Lake, Pa., on Monday with visions of his favorite race car dancing in his head. He's hoping that the machine he calls 'Old Faithful' - the 2006 Rocket that he flipped last month at The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway - will be ready to return to competition in this weekend's WoO LMS shows at Attica (Ohio) Raceway Park (Fri., May 16) and Lincoln (Ill.) Speedway (Sun., May 18).
"The car wasn't even in my shop when we left for Missouri because it was off getting a new body put on it," said Chub. "Hopefully it'll be there when I get back and we'll have enough time to finish it up before the weekend."
Chub enters the weekend ranked fifth in the WoO LMS points standings through nine events, 34 points behind leader Billy Moyer.
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