Lines’ Not So Happy ‘360’ Knoxville Nationals

7-8-2008

Heading into his Knoxville Raceway (Knoxville, Iowa) debut last weekend, Australian Steve Lines was shooting for a strong result when he contested the annual ‘360’ Knoxville Nationals, but despite the best plans, things didn’t turn out the way he had desired.

Running on the second night of the ‘360’ Knoxville Nationals, Lines had qualified 18th in the 61 car field, and he then followed that up by finishing his heat race in eighth place.

Due to missing a direct transfer into the preliminary feature race that night, Lines took his place in the B-main, and his charge towards a feature race qualification was wrecked in the opening turn of the opening lap.

In a crash that totally destroyed Lines’ # 23 Jeff McCall owned JSM Enterprises J&J, thankfully the 24-year-old from South Australia managed to emerge from the crash unscathed.

“We were improving our speed and confidence as the night wore on, but unfortunately some stupid driving from a car from deep in the pack saw me crashed out without even a lap completed,” said a frustrated Lines who had started the B-main out of position four.

“It’s a disappointing and expensive way to end the weekend, and I felt confident that we could have made the feature race that night out of the B-main, and that would have put us in good stead for the following night.”

Lines will have a weekend off, certainly a good thing as it has given the JSM Enterprises team time to build up a new car, before he travels to Lernerville Speedway on Friday night, August 22 for his first 410 show, followed by Saturday night (August 23) at Sharon Speedway (Hartford, OH), and then back at Lernerville Speedway the following Friday night (August 29).