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1/15/08: Over the past weekend, we took our annual road trip to Sioux Falls for the swap meet. Jake, Shane and myself then continued on to Missouri to pick up our engines at John Singer's in Tipton. On the way home we swung through Knoxville, IA and had a beer at the famous Dingus Lounge across from the race track. We had a nice trip the weather was good and the roads were fine.

We are currently waiting for our new JEI chassis to be completed. When we get it we will start to assemble it then. Should be here first part of February. We plan to put the 410 in the new JEI for the big races and the 360 in the Eagle chassis for the regular shows.

Jake and I hanging out with the legendary John Singer. It's always a lot of fun.

In Sioux Falls the famous Speedway Motors 4X was on display. Driven by Doug Wolfgang and build by John Singer. (1979)

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6/17/08:

Received our new t-shirts and hoodies last Friday. Check out the store page to see the new design. Race called off over the weekend in Minot. They have rescheduled the race for this Sunday, 22nd. We won't be traveling out of state this weekend as we race in Minot on Sunday. We will more than likely be going to Grand Forks on Friday, 20th, getting ready for the World of Outlaws there on the 27th and in Fargo on the 28th.

6/23/08:

We had an average weekend, as far as finishes go. The car still isn't quite right. We have a few other things to try to try and generate some more traction, so we can get it to go forward better. Looking forward to racing with the outlaws this weekend, we can learn a lot from those guys in a short time. If you are at the races come and visit us in the pits after the races. Have a great weekend.

7/6/08:

Had another average weekend, it wasn't bad, but we were looking to do better. The chassis just isn't going forward like it should when the track dries out. We are going to put the '07 Eagle car together and try and pick up some top 3 finishes.

8/3/08:

Changing motors this week and getting ready for the trip to Knoxville to qualify on Thursday night. We got the biggest and busiest week of the year coming up, with 5 nights of racing in 7 days. The Eagle car feels much better, just haven't been able to put it in a position to win in a main event as of yet.

9/4/08:

The weekend started out on a sour note. We got taken out by a car in the heat race on Friday in Grand Forks. Saturday was a scramble to get everything back together and check to make sure everything was straight. We were leading the feature on Saturday when our right front hub let go. We only had 1.5 laps left of the race. Sunday we won our heat race and also won the feature. It was a sweet victory for us after how the weekend started. We got our 1st feature win of the 2008 Season!

9/22/08:

Just one more weekend left before we call it a year for 2008. We finally cracked the top 3 in Grand Forks, last Saturday. We've changed our strategy and set-up for there the last 2 weeks and it paid off. We'll try and change a couple more things and get the car just a little bit better for the season finale and hopefully we can finish up front again.

10/20/08:

Our last scheduled race on September 26th in Grand Forks was canceled due to rain. That is were our season ended. We had a real fun year racing a 410 car. Next year we plan to try and race in Knoxville even more than the 5 nights we did this year. The Nationals are an event that we don't want to miss in the future. We wish we would have had the opportunity to race the Nationals before this year. That week we raced 7 nights in 10 days in 3 states was the most fun so far in our career. Our win total for '08 wasn't as high as '07. We raced more races in '08 further from home, but we figured that going into the season. We knew that the wins would be harder to come by. It's all part of the learning curve. We plan on getting a new Eagle frame for next year, we might compete in some 360 races in addition to the 410 schedule.

We would like to thank everybody that made this year possible, from our sponsors, to our crew, the fans and everyone behind the scenes.

THANK YOU! We couldn't do it without you! Have a great fall season.

2008 Schedule and Results

Date

Track

Time Trials

Heat Start

Heat Finish

B-Main Start

A-Main Start

A-Main Finish

B-Main Finish

5/17/08

5/31/08

6/7/08

6/8/08

6/20/08

6/22/08

6/27/08

7/4/08

7/5/08

7/18/08

8/1/08

8/7/08

8/8/08

8/9/08

8/10/08

8/16/08

8/17/08

8/29/08

8/30/08

8/31/08

9/12/08

Knoxville

Devils Lake

Knoxville, WoO

Husets

Grand Forks, ND

Grand Forks, WoO

Grand Forks

Jamestown

Grand Forks

Knoxville Nationals

Minot, ND

Husets

Mandan, WoO

Minot, WoO

Grand Forks

Minot

Grand Forks

18.6719thDNF DNS DNS

2nd 1st 7th 9th

17.44913th12th C-Main 12th C-Main 8th

12.0171st 4th 12th 15th

9th 5th 13th 7th

3rd 4th1st 6th

10.3941 6th 6th 6th 10th

7/3/08

Grand Forks

8th 7th 20th 9th

7th 3rd 7th 5th

1st 1st 6th 4th

1st

7th

7/25/08

Grand Forks

2nd 6th

6th

7th 2nd 6th 7th

Fargo, WoO

8/12/08

C-Main 12th C-Main 8th

16.638

10th 7th 11th 16th

E-Main 6th E-Main 4th D-Main 22nd D-Main 16th

11.3043rd 5th 4th 10th

no time 8th 8th 24th 13th

15.3066th 7th4th3rd 18th 18th

14.7757th 7th3rd2nd 21st 23rd

7th DNF DNS

7th 2nd 4th DNF

3rd 1st 2nd 1st

9/6/08

Grand Forks

6th 4th 6th 6th

9/20/08

Grand Forks

Make up main-no heat race 18th 8th

6th 3rd 7th 9th

6th 1st Dash 4th Finish 2nd 5th 2nd

5/14/09:

After a long winter and wet spring it looks like we might be able to race this coming Sunday. They have canceled 4 weeks in a row at the River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, due to bad weather. The car is finished and we are ready to race. We are starting the year in the eagle chassis that we finished up last year with. We are still working on our schedule and we should have it up in the next few days. See you at the races.