6/30/2015
Sprint Source
Brian Brown – Luck Changes at Knoxville!
The bad luck seemed to be behind Brian Brown and the Casey’s General Stores/FVP #21 Saturday night at the Knoxville Raceway. A strong top five finish allowed the Grain Valley, Missouri driver to move into second in FVP National Sprint League points as the series heads for Huset’s Speedway near Brandon, South Dakota this Friday and back to Knoxville on Saturday. Wednesday night, Brian will race close to home with the World of Outlaws at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.
Despite coming out late on a very dry track at Knoxville, you were able to time in second quick.
Our qualifying has been strong all year long, and Saturday was no different. We’ve been working on the car all year. It seems that the #1 car (Justin Henderson) has been better than us most nights. I think we’ve shortened the distance between us, and that’s a good sign.
You started sixth in the heat, and it seemed tougher to pass last week.
We actually passed a few cars on the bottom to start with, going sixth to third. We probably could have pushed the issue and got up to second. But with the one-tire a night rule, you have to think about winning the heat and using your tire up, or saving it for the feature.
The redraw had you starting eighth in the feature.
We got a really good start on the initial start. We went from eighth to third. They called that one back, and didn’t get as good a start the second time. We fell back to sixth, seventh or eighth.
Ian Madsen shot across the track and got into the fence. You barely avoided him.
He got into the fence there. It was really lucky that we didn’t get into him. Hopefully, that bad luck monkey jumped off at that point. We really should have crashed. It’s hard to explain everything that goes on in that moment in a short period of time. You’re trying to slow down, but when you do that, you’re sliding up the track. So you have to stay in the throttle too. I would love to say it was something I did inside the car, but a lot of it is just luck.
The track was one-lane the rest of the way.
That put us into fifth. Just prior to that, we had passed Bronson (Maeschen) for fourth and that was a feat in itself. That caution put us back in fifth, and there really wasn’t a lot of options to pass with the track the way it was. The Dunkin’s normally do a good job with the track. They had a lot of things working against them with the rain and everything during the week.
It seems you shook the bad luck!
It was good to run the 25 laps and not have anything bad happen! When you get a race in, you can look at your car and see what you need to do. You can’t do that when you only get eight laps in.
That bodes well for your three races this week.
We’re probably looking forward to this week more than any this year. We love going to Lakeside. We get family and friends there that normally don’t get to see us race. FVP has a couple hundred people coming as well. We’ll have our FVP scheme for Wednesday. We feel we should have won a couple there. In 2011, we led 26 laps and got beat on a double-file restart late. In 2012, we won the Dash and stuck it in the fence the first lap of the feature.
It’s also a big weekend for the NSL.
We’re looking forward to Huset’s with the NSL on Friday. We’ve been pretty decent when we’ve gone there. I’m sure the guns will be blazing there, especially for the guys in that area. Obviously, we’re looking forward to getting back to Knoxville Saturday as well.
Follow Brian on the Web, Twitter and Facebook!
Follow Brian at his website located at www.BrianBrownRacing.com!
Also keep up with FVP, Casey’s and Brian on Facebook and Twitter at the following links…
Twitter Links – @BrianBrown21, @FVPRacing, @CaseysGenStores
Facebook Links
Brian Brown Racing – www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-Brown-Racing/200630163294222
Casey’s General Stores – www.facebook.com/pages/Caseys-General-Stores/112073528804354
FVP Racing - http://www.facebook.com/FVPRacing?ref=ts&fref=ts
Other Web site info
Casey's: www.caseys.com
FVP: www.fvpparts.com
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Brian led for 26 laps before getting passed on a late restart by Steve Kinser in the 2011 World of Outlaws event at Lakeside Speedway. Cody Darrah was third, ahead of Sammy Swindell and Jason Meyers.
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Casey’s General Stores is a Fortune-500 company (NASDAQ CASY) operating over 1,850 convenience stores in 14 states through the Midwest. Known for its “Homemade To-Go” pizza, sandwiches, donuts and bakery items, Casey’s strives to consistently deliver quality gas, fresh kitchen-prepared food, clean environments and friendly service at every retail location. Casey’s is currently the 5th largest c-store chain and fifth largest pizza chain in the United States.
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Photo: Brian races with Bryan Clauson at Knoxville (Rob Kocak Photo)
Article Credit: Bill Wright