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		Motor Blows In A Disappointing Tulare Race

	May 19 2007 A great heat race left a strong feeling that tonight would be the night that the Stone Motorsports Victory would get its first win at the Thunder Bowl Raceway. With the heat race win we had to draw for starting position for the main and wouldn't you know we pulled a 1. Not ever doing good from the pole we thought we would get that monkey to finally get off our back. Then it started, pulling on the track the motor would stall leaving no electric power at all. After some smacks on the dash the power came back but not all that good. The start of the race would find my hands full with a spitting and missing car. With no clue of what was going on for the first few laps, out of no where the car picked up and was fine. Thinking the crap was over and it was time to race we set our sights on the top spot. At the time I was going to make the move, that was all she wrote!!! Going into turn 3 the rods of the Stone Motorsports Victory felt it was time to leave the block. Blowing the whole left side out of the motor, it left the win at Tulare something that was not going to happen this week.


	Returning To Watsonville Pays Off With #7

May 18 2007 Returning to Watsonville after a broken A-frame the week before was worth the trip. Heat race was a blast with a chance to race against Victory Driver young Clay Daly A.K.A. The Kid. The Stone Motorsports Victory had a little more drive and would get to the line first for the heat win. The dash was a hand full with the lead car filling up the air with smoke left no vision and was glad to see that one end. Main event found us starting 8th behind Clay Daly once more for the night. Avoiding a first lap pile up on lap 1 was surly an eye opener of how the night was going to go. After a few green laps we were in 2nd place behind Daly and it was time to play with the Kid. Pushing him a couple laps and finalely getting him to open up the bottom line in turn 2 we got the pass and on to win # 7 with Daly bring the Victory cars a 1-2 for the second time this year.


		Stone Sweeps Thunderbowl for #8

	5/27 The Stone Motorsports Team headed down to Tulare Thunderbowl with one thing in mind......... REDEMPTION!!!! The heats were a positive for the Victory cars. The Stone Motorsports would bring home a win with the #4 of Troy " The Wall" Stone in his best finish in some time with 2nd. The #55 of Brian Cass would also win his heat. A Victory won every heat that included a Victory car. Starting the outside pole with top runner Tim Balding set up an action packed main event! With Tim took the mid line and left us the top. And let me add this..... You couldn't get any higher!!!! A late caution on the white flag forced a 1 lap shootout. On the restart Paul anticipated that the Balding Slide Job was coming, he checked hard to avoid the for sure wreck! At the end of a quick drag race Paul returned the slide job to its rightful owner and came out on top. Getting to the line first would get the Thunderbowl win and lets not forget #8 for 2007.


Watsonville Was Not To Fun This Weekend

	May 11 2007 OK what can you say. Can't win them all, right? Started the night off not to bad with a 3rd place in the heat race. Was looking like we were going to make out fairly good in the main but in the early laps we broke an upper A-frame and took way to long in the pits. Going two laps down took all the drive out of the Stone Motorsports Victory Car. Not to sure yet but we are thinking it was around a 10th - 13th finish. The high light of the night would have to go to Victory Chassis driver Clay Daly with a last lap HELL MARY pass in turn 1 from 3rd to 1st for the win. Nice move Clay. On a second note for this weekend Stone Motorsports would like to extend a congrats to Victory Chassis Family drive Mike Gillard for getting married on Saturday night.


		Momentum Still Strong As Win # 6 Goes In The Books

			5/5/07

	Still going strong this year as we win #6 for the year. With the wind blowing so hard it was crazy. We were sure the track was going dry. Started the night out with the wrong gear since we found we had broke our Chowchilla gear and didn't even know it. The heat race went fine doing what we could to get to 3rd and knowing for sure we had the wrong gear in but was going to take what we could get. With 20 minutes until line up we were offered a set of gears from a fellow driver and decided to change them , nothing like waiting until the last minute. Well, the gear change made all the difference as that was what we were missing in the heat. Holding off Chris Shannon on some restarts let us put win # 6 in the books for 2007.


		2nd Trip To Tulare Much Better Then 1st

			4/28/07

	Well the second trip to Tulare was more like what we were hopping for in the first one. With the heat race lining up by a pill draw and knowing how lucky we are with that, we pulled a 48 out of 50. So starting last and the heat was nothing new. The Stone Motorsports Victory was defiantly ready to race making its way to a 2nd would give us a good starting place in the main. A little scar between the heat and the main when we discovered a blown header gasket along with a leaking valve cover gasket. Starter the main 3rd row outside. Didn't take to long to find 3rd and from there the race was on. After some hard racing for around 10 laps or so we managed to take and hold 2nd for the checkered flag.

		STONE WINS # 5 FOR 07

	4/21/07 Well, Mother Nature didn't quite want to work with us tonight in Chowchilla. With rain on the way Chowchilla ran a rain schedule. That would mean no heat races and no dash races. After a week off in which we made some changes to the Stone Motorsports Victory Modified tonight was going to be more of a test night. Going straight into the main was going to leave no chance for any testing. After a LONG wait in the car we finally took to the track. At the drop of the flag it was clear that the changes were going to pay off. Taking the lead about mid race and no late race cautions left us open track to run. We take # 5 for 2007 and head off to race 2 in Tulare with good momentum.