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Start - 7th | Competitors - 22 | High - 1st | Low - 18th | Finish - 10th | analyzer report
Race Report - July 19th, 2005 - Race 19 of 36

Loudon New Hampshire gets a bad rap from many on the NASSCAR circuit. Drivers don't like the flat turns and drag strip straightaways. The driver of the AMSOIL chevy however loves Loudon and the two trips are always circled on the calendar. Having missed last week's Chicago race due to a family vacation, Kevin was eager to take to the track, get some laps in and work for a good finish.

Kevin started seventh in the twenty-two car pack and charged to fifth place in the early stages. Francois Bergeron and Michel Palardy were racing hard for second position when contact resulted in caution number one. All of the front runners including the ECI Express came to pit road for the first time on lap ten. Kevin slid perfectly into his pitstall but just before the jackman could get the car jacked up the front fender was clipped by Mile Hammrick while he was swinging into his pitbox. The car slid forward from the contact and the cost of righting the situation was a fourteenth place restart position.

Undaunted, Kevin held bay and methodically worked his way to the front of the pack the best he could. A second caution waived on lap thirty-eight and the crew left Kevin out to get the four bonus points. This would dig a deeper hole but it was still early and there was hope that Kevin could put on a charge and get to the top five later in the run. Kevin restarted in fourteenth and through attrition and steady progress made his way back into the top five on lap eighty.

The run at the front would unfortunately come to an end on lap one-hundred as a hard charging Michel Palardy made contact with the rear quarter panel off of the fourth turn and the resultant contact saw the thirty-nine spin down the front stretch and eventually roll across the line backwards.

Pitting to fix the damage and prepare for the final run, Kevin exited the pits in thirteenth, got up on the wheel and passed three cars in the closing laps to finish tenth on the night.

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

"Well the finish goes in character with our year. I was as much at fault for the downfall as anyone but we did have a strong run going. In the past I've preached that you should run as fast as you think your car will allow. I might have been a top five car at best tonight and just over drove in that last segment. The car seemed a bit off the pace, perhaps it had damage, and I could see Michel coming but I was hungry for a top finish and it wasn't like I was holding him up too much. We would accordion; one lap he'd be right on my bumper or pull up to my quarter panel and the next I'd pull a car length on him. I broke loose just a little and that's all it takes. At the time Michel was at my bumper and he pushed me hard enough to send the car around.

We had two or three charges through the field and I'm confident had we not had the misfortune so close to the end then we probably could have found a top five tonight. As it was we ran well and can only hope to improve on this when we come back here later this year.

We're off to Pocono again next week. We missed Chicago last week because we were at Disney. I guess we'll see how things go in what has to be considered our home track - Pocono.

Until next week... "