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Start - 15th | Competitors - 23| High - 1st | Low - 15th | Finish - 15th | analyzer report

Boom, the shot heard round the nation. The shot being referred to is the piston exploding out of the side of the block on the AMSOIL Chevy. The ECI Express was on target for a top ten when unexpectedly the engine let go and the run was cut short.

Kevin tried a different approach for qualifying and decided to run the bottom groove all the way around on all of the qualifying laps to see if that would yield a short cut advantage. The first lap looked great but for some reason the second lap was slower. Guess a different strategy will be in order for the return trip in the fall.

The race was uneventful for us and very eventful for others. The competitors mixed it up early and a lap 4 crash, along with a lap ten crashed ended the night for quite a few drivers. The team paired up with teammate Dan Bailey, mirrored pit strategies and attempted to steer clear of any trouble. Unfortunately for both Patriot Motorsports team members trouble was not to be avoided. Plagued with problems this year, Dan's night turned sour when his game minimized to the desktop and he made hard impact with the wall while running under caution! Kevin was left to fend for himself and looked to leverage an alliance with someone but the point became moot when the motor unexpectedly exploded off turn two on lap 49..

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Kevin Inglin, the pilot of the AMSOIL Chevy had this to say after the run:

"I think I jinxed myself when I commented that we didn't want to run into trouble again this week. We did everything right and ended up snake bitten again. It's not the fault of the engine guys. They gave me a great piece and unfortunately when you wind these things up on these restrictor plate motors then you're bound to have an occasional failure. You run wide open all day and it's a lot of stress on the engines. We didn't over rev it or anything like that so I guess the guys will have to sift through what's left to see if they can find a cause. I hate it for this AMSOIL crew as we won the fall race here last year and they were looking forward to a good result this week.

We've had some good runs at California and dare I say it, hopefully we'll turn this thing around next week. We never thought we'd be in a position to worry about being 400 points back in the championship race and, well, we've gotta put some of this bad luck behind us or we're going to find our selves on the outside looking it. It's not like we've been doing anything particularly wrong per se, it's just that things haven't fallen our way. We'll concentrate on staying within 400 and come the fall we'll give 'em a run for the championship... "