10/6/10 – Bill Balog & the B Squared Motorsports team
headed in to the IRA season finale at the Dodge County Fairgrounds Speedway on
Saturday, October 2nd with the 2010 Championship already locked up,
but the team wasn’t ready to celebrate with out trying for one more win.
The night started
with Bill turning in a lap of 16.654 seconds on the big half mile track, which
was quick enough to earn the 3rd quickest time of the night. By
virtue of the qualifying time, he would then start 6th in the 3rd
& final heat race of the night. Once the race was under way, he began to
pick off the competition as he was working his way to the front. By the time
the checkered flag flew in the 8 lap event, he had worked his all the way up to
2nd, which was good enough to earn him a spot in the 25 lap feature.
With all the
preliminary events complete, it was time for the feature event, & with a 4
pill drawn for the inversion, Bill would pilot the 17B from the 7th
position. After having 2 unsuccessful starts to begin the race, Bill got a
lucky break & was moved up a row to the 5th position after one
of the front starting cars had to go to the pits. On the 3rd &
final start, Bill got a great start as he drove from 5th to 2nd
in the first turn & began to work on the race leader. Once the lead duo got
to lapped traffic, Bill quickly made his move & took the race lead. As the
race wore on, he quickly began to open up a sizable lead on the competition
until a red flag came out with 5 laps remaining. With the field right on his
tail on the restart, Bill proved he had the car to beat, as he opened up a
straight away lead on second place by the time the checkered flag came out 5
laps later. The win is Bill’s 8th of 2010 & 15th of
his IRA career. It was also his 23rd consecutive top 5 IRA feature
finish. The win also put an exclamation point on the teams 3rd
Consecutive IRA Championship season.
This weekend the Hoeft
Builders / Astro Titanium 17B team will travel to the Lawrenceburg Speedway in
Lawrenceburg, IN to compete with the All Star Sprints on Saturday, October 9th.
To keep up on all
the latest news regarding the team, be sure to visit the all new team website
at www.b2motorsports.com. You can
also become a fan of B Squared Motorsports on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bsquaredmotorsports
Sponsorship for the
2010 season comes from the following companies: Buesser Concrete, Hoeft
Builders, Hepfner Racing Products & HRP Wings, DMI Race Products, XYZ
Machine, Allstar Performance, K&N Engineering, TW Metals, Astro Titanium,
Super Shox, BLZ, Rod End Supply,B Squared
Visual Solutions, Weld Racing, Outerwears Inc, Race Gear X, Gleason Racing
Equipment, Rhey Graphics, Gaerte Engines, Competition Driveline, Ringers
Gloves, Plank Enterprises, and Buzz Signs & Graphics.