Degree V12 300

September 5, 2009
Hampton, GA

Derrike will be bringing two cars to Atlanta. He said, "We are off to Atlanta this weekend. We do not have any sponsorship for either car so there will not be much racing involved I hate to say. We need to get both cars qualified in which is quite a task these days. Everyone brings great equipment to the track each week and we are trying to stay up with our own effort so we do not fall behind. Kevin Lepage and I look forward to Atlanta. We both run well there so we look for good things."

In the first practice, Derrike did not participate but Kevin was 32nd fastest with a time of 32.047 and speed of 172.996.Derrike did not participate in the 2nd practice and Kevin was 35th fastest with a time of 32.468 and speed of 170.753.

In Qualifying, Derrike produced his fastest lap of 32.915 and speed of 168.434. At the end of the round he was 36th fastest but with owner points and other things, he did not make the race. Kevin Lepage had his fastest lap of 32.399 and speed of 171.116. At the end of the round he was 17th fastest.

Kevin Lepage started the race in 17th position and finished in 41st position.

After the race, Derrike said, "Atlanta...Good and bad! This past weekend in Atlanta had some good things happen and some bad things. As for the good, Kevin Lepage qualified 17th with the #78 car. We are very pleased because we have been trying to get a handle on this car on the intermediate tracks and it showed a lot of promise there as well as in the race, although we did not have the funding necessary to race Kevin though the car showed a lot of speed in race trim which we have been suffering with in both cars.

"As for the #73, I was not so fortunate. On the very first lap of practice a slow car moved up in front of me and when I followed him into the corner his car bottomed out and turned sideways in front of me and we ran into him hurting the front end of the race car. I missed all of practice and just went for a qualifying lap. With no laps we made a few adjustments for the weather and what we had learned on the #78 car, but it was still very loose and we missed the race by 7 one hundreths of a second. Certainly very dissapointed but that is racing.

"We hope to bounce back this weekend at Richmond. We will enter both the #73 and the #78 car once again."