Jiffy Lube Miami 300 Live Report

It was a tough start to the weekend for Derrike as he found the wall hard in the first practice session Friday. The entire back of the car was gone as you will be able to see from the picture. The backup car was brought out and it never did get up to speed with only one practice session to work on it. It took me half of the second practice session to finally find Derrike's frequency so I could listen in on what was going on. All of the frequency lists of the people I checked with were wrong. If any of you will be in Homestead for the race, Derrike's frequency is 468.375. Derrike went into the garage during practice a few times with adjustments to shocks and air pressure.

Derrike was the 37th car to qualify. For some reason, he only took one lap instead of two. He ended up in the 39th position. The top 34 cars qualified Friday and there were four provisionals added to that. The last four positions will be determined in a 30 lap qualifying race on Saturday. Seventeen cars will compete in the 30 lap race and Derrike will be on the pole. I never did get to talk to Derrike as he was spending most of the time in the garage with the second car or in the motorhome. I did talk to Patty Fox and she was very nice. Let's hope Derrike gets a top four in the qualifying race Saturday.

Editors note: Unfortunately, Bob was unable to make Sunday's race for a live report.

Written by: Bob Cope