"I got an average start in the main event, got about fifth into turn one, but came out of turn two in third, Kopp was out front and (Johnny) Murphree was running second. It was kind of weird at first, because we were a little bit concerned about tire wear, but Joe seemed to be going pretty good and Murphree was kind of just keeping pace, and I was keeping pace in third, and all of a sudden Johnny was all over Joe. It seems like he has a hard time leading some of these races, and Murphree was able to get a run on him, and got by him going into turn three on the back stretch. I sat there and had a pretty good view of that one.

"Just past halfway, I started gaining on the guys. Murphree was running out front, Kopp was trying to make the same pass on Johnny that Johnny had made on him earlier, and he couldn't quite make it stick. So, I'm sitting there in third, and I'm thinking, 'If I'm gonna win this thing, I've got to do something different than I'm doing,' because Kopp wasn't able to get by and I had pressure from behind from (Kenny) Coolbeth. So I went into turn three one lap and Kopp had been trying to go to the inside of Murphree, and he kind of checked up a little bit early, knowing he wasn't going to have any room, and that let Johnny kind of squirt away, and I drove around the outside of Kopp and filled the gap that he had left. I hounded Murphree for a couple more laps and I don't know if his tire was going away, or his motor was going South or what, but all of a sudden I was getting really, really good drives. I got a run on Johnny coming out of four, got a little draft going down the front stretch, and I kind of squeezed underneath him going into turn one. That was with about four to go, and we kind of ran our best laps from that point on and got away from the guys.

"So that was a good race for us. The crowd that came to see the event saw four guys running fairly close together for most of the race. We'll go on to DuQuoin and hope to put her into the main event on the short track.