Matt Long Heading to FASTRAK GRAND NATIONALS Finals
Concord, North Carolina – After a top ten finish at Cleveland County Speedway in early October, Matt Long finds himself in the hunt for the $30,000 FASTRAK GRAND NATIONAL Championship. By virtue of his 7th place finish at Cleveland County Long sits in a tie for 7th in points headed in to the 2 final FASTRAK events this weekend at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tennessee. Long is 6 points behind a 3-way tie for the lead. “We had an excellent run at Cleveland County. I have never run well there at all but I had a great car for Night #1 of the GRAND NATIONALS. I believe we actually had a car good enough to run in the top 3 but we hit a few snags and wound up in 7th. But that is a really good start to the GRAND NATIONALS. We are excited about going to Bulls Gap.” Long commented.
Long built on his momentum from the previous FASTRAK event at Wythe Raceway for the make-up of the rained out Dirt Late Model Super Nationals. Long turned in a qualifying effort good enough for 11th quick overall. After scoring a flag-to-flag win in the NOS Energy Drinks Heat race, Matt drove his Circle K sponsored Rocket up to finish in the 5th position when the final checkered flag flew. “It is amazing to me. I know I keep saying this but it’s true, I had the best car that I have ever had at Wythe. I don’t know if I had anything for Watts but my car was awesome. We didn’t have a caution the last half of the race. I believe if we could have caught a caution we could have finished better than we did.” Long added.
Long and his team will now turn their attention on the 2 races this coming weekend at Volunteer. “We have always run good at Volunteer but we don’t have the finishes to show for it. We have had a few mechanical issues and got caught up in some wrecks that kept us from having the good finishes. But we hope we can turn that around this weekend. We would love to be there Saturday night leading the points or really close. We are going to up there and give it our best shot and see where we end up.” said Long.
Matt would like to thank the following for their continued support of his Circle K Race Team : Circle K Convenience Stores, Heintz Performance, VP Racing Fuel, Integra Shocks and Springs, Port City Racing, FK Rod Ends, Kooks Custom Headers, Raceceiver, JM Adams Oil, Q Racing Oil, Franklin Racing, Dirtwrap, Jim Cook Transmissions, K&N Filters, Stock Car Steel, SRI Supplies, ButlerBuilt, City Chevrolet, , Valken Racing Wheels, MD3 Noses, Team Clay, KELCAR Motorsports Media, J&J Race Cars, Brembo Brakes, Fragola, and Simpson.
Comments