02/25/08 Since I know of a couple of people from my area look at my website to find out where I'm racing I have a link to www.buckeyesupersprints.com. This will be the traveling pavement sprint series this year. I have also have a copy of my schedule for this year, the ones highlighted are the ones that I am definitely going to- the others a probable depending on money. My job at TRC I am a full time mechanic there now my qualifications put me there instead of in the crash building. I am taking the race chassis to Columbus on Friday to get it powder coated so once we get that done and start painting the body, and we will post some pictures of it here. #### 08/20/07 A "Not So Good" Weekend After work on Friday I go to the gas station fill up my car to head to Sandusky speedway where my father and grandfather are already getting my car ready for my grandfather Todd Gibson to drive in a non-feature winners race. This event of course only allowing drivers who have not won a sprint car feature at Sandusky Speedway. Todd having won Hundreds of Super modified races never won in a sprint car so we decided to let him drive it. I leave my house get about 4 miles down the road hit a bump and my steering wheel starts vibrating. Ididn'tOut and check my wheels to make sure a ball joint or anything didn't break. Well mt upper arm had come unbolted. So i hobbled my car back home and jumped in my moms car and took off to meet them. I get an hour down the road going through Bucuryus, Ohio about half way and i get a txt from somebody at the track saying my car just got hauled off the track on a wrecker. I call my dad and ask what happened and the rear axle had snapped on my grandfather as we as practicing the car and on a yellow flag to so the car wasn't hurt but wasn't able to be raced until we got a new rearend. I still go to the track hoping to rent a ride for the weekend when i get there Frank Neil and His Family and crew had come down to our pits and gave us a rearend to borrow and helped us put it in and get it ready for qualifying that night. So with My dad, Uncle Terry, Uncle Jeff, Uncle Gene Lee, Joe Gillingham, and Frank Neil and his family we got the car ready. I qualified a 16.06 which on a normal night would put us in the top 5 qualifiers, however with the extra bite on the track it put us at a 14th place qualifying run. Not to bad with the amount of wind that my qualifying group was faced with compared to everyone else who had calm winds. So with that qualifying run i was to start on the pole of my heat race. When we lined up for the heat I had worries of blistering my right rear tire because of the fact the I had to run a Jacobs ladder instead of my usual pan hard bar with the Neil rearend. The outside pole got a jump on me at the start and I fell into 2nd place and was riding when I was challenged and drove the car into turn 1 a little to hot and spun out. I started and came back out 11th. Only the top 7 made the feature. So I wasted no time and by the end of the 2nd lap I was running 6th. Only to give up one spot on the last lap to finish 7th with a mishandling car. For the feature we tried to tighten the car up, I had to start 18th so a loose car wasn't going to get me anywhere. So we pushed off and started went through turn 1 and gained 5 spots and another 2 on the backstretch. Passed a few more cars in the next couple laps to put my self into the 8th spot when my car started to get loose. Until up 3 spots by lap 25 trying to control my car which was getting looser by the lap until about lap 25 when my started shaking. So I pulled off the edge of the corner and stopped and found the my right rear tire had blistered so bad that it was coming apart and a piece of rubber inches wide had come off. So that ended my night and a very long weekend. I have to thank The Neil Family And Joe Gillingham for all there help this weekend and we have our problems solved for next week so we should be back in victory lane, anything less is unacceptable. 08/08/07 The ARCA racing website under the Toledo speedway link had this quote I added below. I'm gonna get a tape from there it should be pretty good I actually won the dash too. But I used the third groove all night long. Started 3rd row outside going into one I put the car into the third groove passed 5 cars and crossed the car over down the banking and passed the leader coming out of 2. They explain the feature but that was an extremely heartbreaking loss for me. FROM THE ARCA WEBSITE: "The story of the night, however, belonged to young Zach Gibson in the Buckeye 305 Sprint division. The third-generation driver gave the fans something to remember right from the start of the night. The 2006 Toledo race winner took to the seldom-used third groove all night and thrilled the fans with his breathtaking, on-the-wall style. Starting in the 8th spot in the 30 lap main, Gibson hammered the throttle and zipped by 6 cars before he hit the Toledo back-straight and dropped in on the tail of leader John Patynko with only a ½ lap completed! At lap 3, Zach stormed into the lead and set an unbelievable pace as he zipped around the fast ½ mile. But it was not to be his night, as his machine over-heated, slowing his brilliant drive with just 3 laps to go. Tim Buchanan inherited the lead and went on to the victory over Mike McVetta, Talon Stephens, Dave Saxer, Frank Neill, Patynko, Jimmy olvin, Chris Michael, Todd Buchanan and Paul Buckingham. Neill set fast time for the 23 car field at 14:291 and was the last qualifier of the session. Saxer took the 4 car dash, with heat race wins to Michael, Patynko and Gibson, again using his 3rd groove moves! It was a race that many fans will remember for quite some time, as the 305 group put on a sensational night of racing at Toledo." 06/18/07 Fourth At Sandusky Non- Wing Sprint Event We tested earlier before everyone got there and ended up qualifying fourth. I was running 2nd in the dash when another car ran over my right front going into turn 1 bent both right side radius rods and broke my left front shock in half. We put our spare shock on the left front and found some spare radius rods. Went out for the feature started on pole the car was pushing and we couldn't figure out why until we went to load the car and my Dad jacked the right side of the car up and the tire went with it. The right front shock had bent and wasn't moving at all. Making the car mishandle. But not too bad for 3 wheels. Dad making adjustments at Sandusky |
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