Lines Wins Again in America

21-7-2008

Australian Steve Lines has tasted feature race success yet again in America! On this occasion he powered to the winners circle last Friday night (July 18) at Crossville Speedway (Crossville, TN).

On Friday night at Crossville Speedway Lines took part in a twin feature races, both over a 20 lap distance, and his victory came during the second feature race. After starting from position five, Lines had quickly worked his way up to third and on the 12th lap, during a restart, the South Australian shot to the lead, charging from third to first place with two turns, and from there was never headed and went on to record a comfortable victory.

In a race format that saw a dash and twin feature races, Lines had finished second in the dash after starting from position six in the field, and then in feature race # 1 he greeted the chequered flag in third place on the podium after holding down second up until the latter stages of the 20 lap journey.

“It was an interesting race format at Crossville Speedway and after feature race # 1 we learned a lot and in feature race # 2 we were better prepared,” Lines said, who is driving the # 23 Jeff McCall owned JSM Enterprises ‘360’ powered J&J.

“The first feature race saw us quick but we were unable to get to the front, so for the second feature race the team played around with the setup and we made the right changes and that allowed us to take victory.”

Lines also mentioned how tough it has been turning up at tracks where he knows nothing about either the track or his rivals.

“With every track we travel to, we don’t have a lot of information to fall back on, but with the more time we spend out on road, the easier it is starting to become,” he said.

“The locals are not too keen to share their knowledge with you, and that’s fair enough, and that is just one of the many challengers you face when you travel to unfamiliar tracks.”

On Saturday night (July 19) Lines competed at Volunteer Speedway (Bulls Gap, TN) and finished the feature race just off the podium in fourth place. Lines led the 30-lap feature race early on, but faded in the second half of the race and finished fourth.

Earlier in the night at the banked Volunteer Speedway track Lines placed third in his heat race and then placed second in the dash.

Lines has this coming weekend off before he contests the annual Knoxville ‘360’ Nationals at Knoxville Raceway (Knoxville, IA) over three nights, July 31 – August 2