The USAC Indiana Sprint Week series offers race drivers a chance to win a lot of races in a short period of time, but it also offers the title of Sprint Week Champion. What’s the key to your approach for this prestigious series of events?
“One of the biggest keys to doing well in Sprint Week competition is qualifying well every night. You also have to be smart in your heat races. You can’t drive over your head in the heats or you’ll end up having to run the semi features. As a driver, if you can remember those two things, you’ll do very well during Sprint Week. I’ve got some experience with this event, having won the title in 2005, and I told the guys that we’ve got a really good shot at winning the whole deal. We just can’t beat ourselves. If we stay calm and really focus on qualifying and making the shows, everything will fall into place. ”
Will the doubleheaders at Lawrenceburg and Gas City I-69 Speedway in the early part of the series be an asset to the TSR team?
“Having two-day shows to start the event off is definitely going to help us in the long run. With a two-day show, you have an opportunity to use what you learned on the first night to help you with the second event. We’ve been good at both tracks in the past and we’ve got a lot of good notes to start from. The second night, we’ll be stronger using our starting point as well as what we learned the night before. It’s also going to make it easier on the team, as we won’t have to travel as much. We’ll stay close to the track for Lawrenceburg, as well as at Gas City. It will be good for us to stay rested in the early part of the week. ”
How did the No. 20 TSR/Chevrolet/Maxim team prepare for the USAC Indiana Sprint Week events?
“We really put a lot of work into getting ready to go for the next two weeks. I’m very confident in our level of readiness, from our set-ups to the Chevrolet engines that Paul Kistler builds for us. When we got back from Ohio earlier this week, we took the engine out of the pavement sprint car and put it in our back-up dirt car. We’ve got a couple of really good cars for this event and our spares are also good. We’re just hoping that we won’t have to use them. The goal is to put Chevrolet and Bass Pro Shops in victory lane several times in the next few days. ”
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