6/5/2017
Inside Line Promotions
Swindell Earns Season-Best Runner-Up Result at Talladega With USCS Series
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Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 5, 2017) – Sammy Swindell captured his best finish of the season last Thursday when he posted a runner-up result during a USCS Series Speedweek event at Talladega Short Track.
“I’d been there maybe three times before and I think I still have the track record with the World of Outlaws,” he said. “We went back to everything with the car and concentrated on some stuff with the motor.”
Swindell, who was driving for A.G. Rains, opened the event by winning a heat race from the pole. That ranked them fifth in overall points and lined the team up on the inside of the third row for the main event.
“It was right on the bottom and there wasn’t much else,” he said. “We settled in. I was faster than the guys in front of me, but it was hard to get by. I went to the middle and cleaned that off and got by a few. We were running the leader down, but ran out of laps.”
Swindell maneuvered from fifth to end second, which marked his second top five of the season.
The week began a week ago Monday at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tenn., where Swindell made his debut by advancing from fourth to third place in a heat race. That lined him up ninth for the A Main.
“They ran quite a few classes so we were off the track for a while,” he said. “It wound up changing quite a bit. We were hoping for our car to be tight and it wasn’t the way it worked out. We got by a few cars and got to some traffic. The car ahead of me got through and we had two guys who ran side by side for a few laps and there wasn’t a place for me to get by them. We fell back to where I couldn’t even see those guys. I finally got by the lapped cars, but the race went through without a caution and the top five were gone.”
Swindell finished sixth.
USCS Speedweek races on Friday at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Miss.; and Saturday at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark., rained out.
“We made a lot of gains from Clayhill to Talladega,” he said. “It was a fun week. We had a good time and we learned a lot of things, a lot of things that we don’t want to do and a lot that we can do.”
QUICK RESULTS –
May 29 – Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tenn. – Heat race: 3 (4); Feature: 6 (9).
June 1 – Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala. – Heat race: 1 (1); Feature: 2 (5).
SEASON STATS –
9 races, 0 wins, 2 top fives, 7 top 10s, 7 top 15s, 7 top 20s
UP NEXT –
TBD
MEDIA LINKS –
Website: http://www.SammySwindell1.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/1sam91
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