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Inside Line Promotions – TULARE, Calif. (March 12, 2019) – Robbie Price’s campaign for the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour title begins this weekend in Texas.
Price is slated to kick off the ASCS National Tour season on Friday and Saturday at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite during the 46th annual ASCS Spring Nationals. It will mark only his second time racing at the half-mile track.
“We’re excited to get out there and run the full tour this year,” he said. “Our focus is consistency and that begins this weekend with hopefully a pair of solid outings.”
Price made his first 360ci winged sprint car start of the season last Saturday at Thunderbowl Raceway, where he elected to race in that division during the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series show in an effort to dial in his 360 engine.
“We swapped the motors and figured it’d be a good time to shake down the 360 and we’d have a good shot at running in the top five,” he said. “We hot lapped good and qualified decent. We were quick in the heat race.”
Price qualified 10th quickest and he won a heat race after starting on the outside of the front row. A sixth-place finish in the dash lined him up on the outside of the third row for the main event.
“We decided to try some stuff in the dash and it didn’t work out very well,” he said. “We switched it around for the main and we were quick. I got into a groove and we were rolling pretty good. I got a run around the outside of a guy trying to pass for third. I tried to the shoot the gap between him and the wall, but it closed up on me. I should have been complacent and realized it was Lap 5 and not Lap 25.”
Price was involved in an early incident that resulted in a DNF.
“On a positive note our 360 ran really good and we raced some good cars so that’s a boost of confidence,” he said.
QUICK RESULTS –
March 9 – Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, Calif. – Qualifying: 10; Heat race: 1 (2); Dash: 6 (3); Feature: 19 (6).
SEASON STATS –
3 races, 0 wins, 0 top fives, 0 top 10s, 0 top 15s, 1 top 20
UP NEXT –
Friday and Saturday at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, Texas, for the 46th annual ASCS Spring Nationals with the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour
MEDIA LINKS –
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RPrice21
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rpracing21/
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Price would like to thank Millstone Heating & Sheet Metal, Shark Racing Engines, CARSTAR Leduc, Skagit Speedway, Highline Performance, Champion Brands and Wildlight Motorsports Photography for their continued support.
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- Shawn Miller on Mar 12, 2019
- Article Date: 3/12/2019 by Inside Line Promotions