Brad Loyet – Hard-charger at Lucas Oil!
(Bill W) October 1, 2013 – With a tough cast of characters gathered at the Lucas Oil Speedway near Wheatland, Missouri, Brad Loyet and the Vacuworx Global/Miller Truck Lines #o5 team held their own. After going from 12th to sixth on night one, the Sunset Hills, Missouri driver was the hard-charger in Sunday’s finale, driving from 22nd to 7th. This weekend, the team plans on running Friday’s MOWA show close to home at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois.
Things started Friday with a second place heat run after starting inside row two. “We had a really good car in the heat race,” says Brad. “We got to second and I was giving (Logan) Forler everything I could for the spot. I was showing my nose underneath of him. Unfortunately, we couldn’t do anything with him.”
The heat finish put Brad outside of row six for the preliminary feature. “We had a really good car,” he says. “We drove up to fifth, and we were racing with (Derek) Hagar pretty hard for fourth. A lapped car kind of got racing with us, and Jason (Johnson) got by me. We ended up sixth.”
With such a big field, not getting into the top four really mattered for the finale. “We missed the lock-in spot by a couple,” says Brad. “It would have been nice to get locked in with fifty cars there. It’s tough to make the redraw on the second night.”
After a rainout on Saturday, the race was rescheduled for late Sunday afternoon. Brad would start fifth in the heat, and had his eyes on a win, and the redraw. “We were up to second,” he says. “We had a really good car again. On a restart with two to go, I was just thinking about the redraw. So I went for a slidejob for the lead and it came up short. I didn’t clear it. That allowed Johnny (Herrera) to get underneath me. That had me stuck up where I didn’t want to be, and (Tim) Crawley got by me too. We went from finishing second and being in the show for sure, to running the B main.”
Brad would start and finish third in the B. He was a rocket, earning hard-charger honors in the finale. “We learned a little bit in the B,” he says. “We were able to start 22nd up to seventh. I feel I had the best car I could have asked for. If we would have run more laps, we would have just kept passing cars. It was a really good racecar.”
The track surface was a pleasant surprise for many, considering the early start on Sunday. “I was definitely surprised,” says Brad. “I thought it was going to be a dry-slick, take rubber deal. Emmett (Hahn) and Dan Robinson did a great job working together. It was the best racetrack we’ve raced on at Lucas Oil Speedway, and I hope they remember it for the future.”
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Brad and the Loyet Motorsports team would like to thank primary sponsors: Vacuworx Global, Miller Truck Lines, and Loyet Landscape Maintenance. Associate sponsors: Maxim Race Cars, J and D Performance Racing Engines, Butlerbuilt Professional Seat Systems, Meramec Heights Collision Center, KSE Racing, Weld Wheels, Penske Shocks, Wilwood Disc Brakes, Hepfner Racing Products, DMI, Saldana Racing Products, Rod End Supply, Bell Helmets, TI 64, Conroy Control, The Engine Heater, Ealey Transportation, and Speedway Motors.
Brad races at Lucas Oil Speedway (John Lee – High Fly’N Photo)
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