RACE REPORTS:

Race #2 & #3:
Sauble Speedway
May 17 & 18, 2008

Day 1:

After coming out of the box with great results at Flamboro the previous week, the #39 team arrived at Sauble Speedway with high expectations.  Unfortunately, things didn't quite go as well as planned.  The team struggled all day to tune the car to get through the corners better.  The team also thinks the secondary engine may be lacking in horsepower. 

Corey managed to pull off a 13th place finish in the feature, which he was not happy with.  At least the car was still in one piece, so the team wasn't entirely disappointed.

Day 2:

With such a poor showing in the previous days race event, the #39 team came into this event with the "down to the basics" attitude.  A night around the campfire with many of the Can-Am Midget competitors brought forth much knowledge about the midget race cars to the #39 team. 

The team made many changes to the chassis prior to the first practice, but the changes didn't seem to help the car handle through the corners.  A few more changes were made before the heat race, but again, nothing seemed to get rid of the awful push through the center of the corners.

The Heat race and B Feature race went just as well as the previous days; not very well.  Before the feature race, the team made many more changes to the car, but again, nothing seemed to make it better.  Corey drove the #39 car to a 11th place finish, which was again disappointing to the rookie driver.

Corey and his team would like to thank Rob Neely, Dennis Bois, and the McLennans for all of their help this weekend.

Preparation for the race this weekend at Peterborough Speedway has already begun.  The 39 team has not raced at Peterborough Speedway since their days in the 9hp Junior Late Model, so Corey may have to take some time to relearn the 3/8 mile bullring.

Race #1:
Flamboro Speedway
May 10, 2008

It was a tough start for the #39 team, in their inaugural race in the Can-Am Midget Racing Club, as well as their inaugural race at Flamboro Speedway.  A slight leak in the fuel cell was found after the practice sessions were over.  The decision was made by crew chief Mark Moesker and driver Corey Moesker, that it was unsafe to race in it's condition.  The #09 team of Patrick and Caleb Wood, offered the use of the fuel cell in their spare car.  With the help of the Woods Racing Team and Rob Neely, the Corey Moesker Racing Team crew scrambled to remove and reinstall the fuel cell into their car.

The fuel cell was all buttoned up and ready for the heat race, but the car hardly made one pace lap, then died out, causing the 39 car to miss out on the heat race.  The fuel pick-up hose was found to be kinked in the fuel cell.  This was quickly resolved, but the end of the hose was located in the left side of the tank.  This became problematic in the consolation race, as the car would go like crazy down the straight-aways, but would die in the corners.  This was another race thrown away.  The team moved the fuel hose to the right side of the fuel cell, and made sure that it wasn't going to move.

With such poor results in the heat and consolation races, the #39 car was to start in 18th place, of 18 cars.  The car worked great.  Corey moved up 5 positions before the first caution flew on lap #2.  After the restart, the fuel pickup problems were starting to occur yet again.  Corey lost all the positions he had gained, but somehow the problem fixed itself after a few more caution laps.  Corey weaved his way up to the fifth position late in the race, but then noticed the engine wasn't running right.  He then babied the car to a 6th place finish.  The team was extremely satisfied with the results, and hope to improve on the race program for the next race.

After a quick check into the engine following the race, it is believed that the engine had dropped a valve from running too lean with the fuel pickup problems, and therefore was only running on 3 cylinders in the final 4 laps of the race.  The team will gear up the secondary engine for Sauble Speedway this weekend, and will look further into the primary engine to see how much damage was done.

The team would like to extend their sincere thanks to the #09 team of Patrick and Caleb Wood, as well as the #74 driver Rob Neely for all their help this past weekend! 
We've been very impressed with the courtesy of the officials and competitors in the Can-Am Midget Club so far.

The team will be hard at it in preparation for this weekend's events at Sauble Speedway.  This 1/4 Mile oval located in Sauble Beach, ON, offers some very exciting racing.  The track is more familiar to the team, as they've had various races there in the past 4 years.