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Tony Bruce Jr: On The Grind
Vol. 1, Issue 2
Bruce Racing Team Stays Steady in Texas
Jimmy Jones, HIGHLANDS, TX
(March 8th, 2010) – Coming into last weekend’s ASCS Gulf South action in South
Texas at Beaumont’s Golden Triangle Raceway Park and Highland’s Battleground
Speedway, Tony Bruce Jr. and his Team were looking for improvements from their
opening weekend in Florida. Although they didn’t find a vast improvement in
terms of winning a race, they did, however stay steady with a pair of top five
finishes.
“Friday night we started off our weekend at Golden Triangle Raceway and had a good draw for our
heat…outside row 2. I was able to run second and got
enough passing points to get into the re-draw. The track was pretty narrow all
night and made it really
tough to pass, so if you didn’t pretty much get everybody on the start, it was really gonna be about the whole race. So it was a little unfortunate that the track was extremely wet; they had a lot rain down in this area. So, it is what it is,” said Tony.
Tony’s
heat race finish put him on the 3rd row outside for the A. “We were
able to start 6th in the A main. After about three laps of battling with
Jesse Hockett for 4th, we pretty much settled
right in 5th and
was unable to do anything. It was just a pretty average night for us. The track
conditions didn’t yield too much for racing or anything, and we were able to lock in a solid
top 5. It isn’t necessarily what we want, but
we will take consistent finishes up in the top 5.”
The
team traveled just 53 miles west on Saturday to Highlands, Texas, home of the ultra-fast Battleground
Speedway for the Third
Annual Gulf Coast Nationals. “I have always heard a lot about Battleground and was
really excited to go. It was my first time there. So when we arrived, we noticed it’s a real cool track…really big and fast.”
Once
again, thanks to his draw, Tony was able to start near the front of his heat. “We
started inside row 2 for our heat race and was
able to run 2nd, which again put this in the re-draw. We started 5th
in the A and at one point we were all the way up to 3rd, then right there at the end somebody got around us and we went
back to 4th.”
Tony
expressed some disappointment that their early season experimenting hasn’t
quite yielded the results they expected. “All in all, it wasn't too bad of a night for us; a little disappointing. We've been trying a whole bunch of different things getting ready for the National Tour season but it seems like we really haven’t found anything to make us extremely better. So, I guess we are gonna go back to the basics and get back to exactly
what we know and to see what we can do from there. Like I said, you know the weekend wasn't too bad. It was just an average weekend for us. A 5th
and a 4th place finish wasn’t great,
but it damn sure wasn’t bad,” says Tony.
The
team now turns it’s focus to a pair of stops with the Outlaws back in Texas. “We'll get ready for this weekend. Obviously two World of Outlaw shows this weekend at Kilgore (Lonestar Speedway), and then down to Houston Raceway Park on Saturday night, so we look forward it.”
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