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Will Brown Racing #58

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July 2010
July 17 - Finally back to racing after a month off. Traveled to Music City QMA for practice on Friday and races on Saturday. Did well....qualified 3rd in Heavy 160 and 1st in heavy world formula and also set new track record. Pretty good since I normally don't do well there. We had a great day. Took the lead on the first lap in heavy 160 and led the entire race. World formula wasn't as good.... car was too loose and we held on to 2nd. Had a great time seeing my Nashville friends. Looking forward to racing GA in 2 weeks.

June 2010
June 19 - Rain delay held off qualifying until about 2pm but once we got started it turned out ok. Won both my heat race and feature in heavy 160. No heat race for world formula but won the Amain in it too. Great father's day present for my dad and Papa that got to come watch. Off for a while and then TN on July 17th for the AL/TN Shootout.

June 5 - Got off to a rough start. Had a no time in Hvy 160 because the throttle linkage broke but came back in heavy world formula to get fast time. Still didnt have my good motor back from the tear down at the region race so we used the ole "turd" motor (that what Dirk calls it). It did ok. I led most of the race but just couldnt hold on to win. Came out 2nd. Won heavy world formula.

May 2010
May 28 - Huntsville hosted the Dixie 250 region race. Had fast times in both cars and won heavy 160. Finished 3rd in heavy world formula due to bad judgement on the track...tapped the wall and knocked the chain off. Once that happened it was hard to keep chain on. Ended up finishing 3rd. Next week is the charity race at Huntsville.

May 22 - Had a great bday weekend! 14th birthday was on Friday and celebrated by winning both races on Saturday, having fast times in both race classes and setting a new track record for heavy world formula. Looking forward to next weekend's region race.

May 15th - TN region race has been cancelled due to the severe flooding. The track was 12 ft under water at one time. Plan on helping with clean up and the race has been rescheduled.

May 8 - Raced at Huntsville today. Went out for practice and smacked the wall pretty hard - bent my front axle. Didn't have enough time to practice again once we got the car fixed so went out in the heat not knowing how my car was going to handle. Car was awful but I still managed to come out with a win. World formula wasn't the same. Didn't practice at all in it and it showed. Car was still set up from Georgia. Finished 2nd in the heat. Worked on the cars a little before the mains and got them better. Won Heavy 160 with a good set up but struggled in WF. I was extremely loose, spun 2 times but took the lead with 8 laps to go and won it. Whew! Don't know how!

April 2010
April 24-25: We left on Friday for practice and then a monsoon came on Saturday. We waited it out and raced on Sunday. Will qualifed 4th in Heavy 160 and 3rd in WF. He won the world formula race and led a lot of the Heavy 160 race before getting ran over by another driver. The chain came off and bent the panhard bar but came in the pits for a quick fix. After restarting in the rear, he came back to finish 5th with a ill handling car. Good job, Will!
April 17 - We had a great first day back to racing! Will won his first Heavy 160 race and had the second fastest qualifying time. He also had fast time is heavy world formula with a new track record. With only a few hours of practice time we did pretty well coming back from a broken arm. We look forward to North Georgia next week for the region race. We have always had bad luck there so may be this time will be better.

February 2010
Broke my arm playing basketball so we will be sitting out the first few races....bummer! Our first race this season will be the 2nd HQMA points race. Although we are not running for the HQMA points championship this year it will give us seat time that we need before the next regional race.

Remainder of 2009 - We won many more races and also had our share of disappointments but overall we finished with another points championship in both Lt 160 and world formula at HQMA. We qualified horrible at the Eastern Grands and ended up getting wrecked in both race classes. That was a big disappointment because the grands were at our home track and I didn't get to show my driving ability. We took a break after the grands and didn't race the regional races or the Turkey Gobbler. Looking forward to 2010 and trying for reigion 3 championship. This will be our final year in quarter midgets and then we will be on to something bigger.

May 2009
May 23 - Region 3 race/States Race - What a weekend! We arrived at the track on Friday to practice. Only practiced Lt 160 - never got WF car off trailer. RAIN RAIN RAIN!!! Saturday came and we finally got qualifying in. We qualified 8th in Lt 160 out of 33 cars and got fast time in World Formula. Suday came --finally a break in the weather at about 11am. Races started. We raced the Lt160 B main and won it and then led most of the Amain but came out 2nd. Not too bad. WF was another story. Will laid back for the first few laps and then started going to the front. Will and Martin swapped the lead a few times and then like a rocket, Will took off. He had the a straight-a-way on the field and at lap 8 RED FLAG came out. The flagman walked over to Will and DQ'd him for no neck collar or not snapped or something like that. I was so mad I never really heard the right story. WITH 7 LAPS TO GO! WHAT??? The judges let another car run thru the pits full speed but DQ us. That's so not right! It's insane! It goes to show you - if you can't beat us - just make sure we are off the track so you can.
MAY 9 - Rain Delay!!! Once the rain stopped HQMA went racing according to pill draw. Will won both Lt 160 and WF Amains. Great job, Will.
April 2009
April 5th - A much better day at our home track. Will qualified with fast times in both light 160 and world formula and went on the win both race classes as well. It's good to be home!
March 2009
March 28th - Not the best weekend! We went to TN for the region 3 race. It rained and came tornadoes! No practice for us. We got qualifying in on Saturday but we were't too good. Races were called on account of storms and we finished up on Sunday. In light 160 we got down a lap early and then under caution changed tires. That helped but it was too late in the race. Will drove back through field and if he could have gotten his lap back we would have finished 3rd or 4th - but instead came out 8th. World formula wasn't good either - we ended up 6th.
March 21st - 2nd race of the HQMA season. We had a pretty good day. Will qualified with fast times in both Lt 160 and World Formula. HQMA inverted top 5 so that put us starting 5th. We had a great day and won Lt 160 and finished 2nd in World Formula.
March 7th - HQMA Kicked off their 2009 racing season on March 7th. It is a brand new year and this year HQMA will host the 2009 Eastern Grands. To get ready for the grands, HQMA decided to run all races in grands format which means no heat races --- only time qualifying to determine where drivers will start in the mains.
Will got a great start to his 2009 racing season by winning fast times in both his race classes: Lt 160 and World Formula. He would go on to win World Formula and finish 2nd in Lt 160. Lt160 could have been a win but racing is racing..... Will got taken to the wall early in the race and bent a spindle - placed in the rear because no call was made on the other driver and he came back through the field only to get put back into the wall with only 8 laps to go - this wreck caused a flat tire. Crew Chief (dad) brought Will in and pumped the tire up too much to get Will to the end of the race. So, with 8 laps to go, starting 9th, Will came up to finish 2nd. What a way to NEVER GIVE UP! And get this.... only 2 lbs of air in the tire after the race. Next race - March 21st.

February 2009 We attended the 2nd annual Icebreaker race in Nashville, TN. They almost tripled their car count from last year. Will qualified 2nd in Lt 160 and last in WF due to technical difficulties. The track was slick. He won the Lt 160 race after being put in the rear on lap 15. He is getting good at coming from the rear. In WF, we could not get a handle on the track. The car set up was way off and with 3 DOT's Will's night was done. He finished 4th.

December 2008 HQMA held their awards banquet at the Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville. Will attended and collected his 2008 Lt 160 and WF championship awards. Each champion received a 6ft tall trophy per class and an embroidered checkered flag.   Will also received a track record trophy for WF because he held the record at the end of the 2008 race season.

November 2008 The Turkey Gobbler - Huntsville's annual Thanksgiving event.  Will qualified 2nd in World Formula and 3rd in Lt 160. Both great times and put us in the Amain for both. We watched the lower mains and waited until late Saturday for the features. Will won both classes. Our WF motor smoked the entire race and with about 20 laps to go, we were put in the rear of the field because of 2 car spin. Will drove like a man possessed and took the lead with about 10 to go and won the race. After the race, tech DQ'd us for liberation of fluid (the smoking)-- which should have been done under green flag conditions. We should have protested that ruling but instead we let it go. We knew (everyone knew) who had the fastest car that day.

October 2008 10/11/08: Will won both the heat race and the Amain in Lt 160 and finished 2nd in World Formula. We sat out the Scaretona race with a much needed break.

September 2008  09/20/08: We had a month off to figure out exactly what we needed to wrap up the championships.  If we could win one more race  in Lt 160 we could lock up the HQMA championship points and be the 2008 champion and that's exactly what Will did. He won both the heat and Amain race and won the Championship points. WAY TO GO!!! Now we can sit back and race without pressure. WHEW! Will also locked up the World Formula championship with a win in it. Not a bad weekend. Next race is this weekend on the 27th.
09/27/08: Great race day! Will finished 2nd in the heat and won the Amain in Lt. 160 and also won the feature in World Formula.

August 2008 This was not a good month for Brown Motorsports! We had 3 DNFs in Lt 160. The first race of the month was on August 9th. We were privileged to try the new Hoosier tire out and although the tire held up great and we led with it, it just got too slippery on the long run. Will spun while leading the race and was hit by another car which broke our axle. UGH! We were done and finished 8th. World formula is always good.....we won it.
Our next race for the month was on August 23rd. Everything was going pretty good. We qualified great - got fast times in both classes and finished 2nd in World Formula, but Lt 160 was another DNF! UGH UGH! The front bearing locked up and welded itself on. We could not get it off and therefore could not finish the race. Oh! We were leading that one too when it happened.
Finally, our Region 3 race at Huntsville was held on August 30th.   We expected may be a 5th place qualifying run or may be a top 10 due to all the great competition in Region 3, but we got the FAST TIME in Lt 160!!! Wow, Could not believe it! Of course, that meant we started 5th.   We ran well in the race and even led about 20 laps. We ended up finishing 2nd. In World Formula we finished 5th due to mechanical problems, but not a bad day at all.

July 2008   July 5th was a great day. We seemed to be back on track. We won Lt 160 and W/F. July 12th was an okay day. We won W/F, but could of done better in Lt. 160 - we were leading when we were chopped. The call made was charging on us! With 10 laps to go, Will came back to finish 3rd, so not too bad.  You win some, you loose some! That's racing!

June 2008 June 7th was the only race for the mont and it was close.....photo finish at the line.  Lt 160 - Shay and Will didn't know who won. They both drove around the track after the checkered flag until the scorers announced it. Shay won! Oh well, Will was happy to see Shay get his first Amain win. He was very happy for him.
In World Formula, Will won the race, but got DQ'd for the exhaust being loose. What a raw deal. He got rear-ended in the race and it caused the exhaust to become loose. Go figure!

May 2008
After 3 weeks off and no practice we thought we would be junk, but Will came out with a bang. May 17th was the 4th points race for Huntsville and Will finished with 2 Amain wins, 2 fast times and a new track record in World Formula at 6.312 (old record was 6.352). What a great day! Not sure how long the record will last - we have a region 3 race on the 24th and a lot of fast drivers will be there. At least we had it for awhile.

April 2008
Will had a great month! He had races on the 12th and the 19th and won both in Lt. 160 and had decent finishes in World Formula with a 2nd and a 4th place finish in the Feature races. The month didn't go without some excitement though. We had mechanical problems but luckily they occured in the heat races and it gave us time to correct the problems. Will really had to fight for the Lt 160 win on the 19th. He started last due to a DNF in the heat and was put to the rear twice only to make a come back with 10 laps to go. He was by no means the fastest the car on the track, but came through the field like he was possessed and took the win. WAY TO GO, WILL!!

March 2008
HQMA's race season got under way on March 22 - Will won both his heat race and the Amain in Lt.160 and led most of the heat race in W/F before motor problems took him out of the race. After correcting the problem, Will finished 3rd in the Amain.
Gander Mountain had it's annual car show. Will took his quarter midgets and spoke to potential racers about our sport and handed out brochures.

February 2008
A press conference was held at Huntsville City Hall to announce that HQMA was awarded the 2009 Eastern Grands.

January 2008
Will and his dad attended the Region 3 Banquet in Georgia. It was held at the Andretti Speed Lab and they had a blast.

December 2007
Will attended the HQMA annual banquet along with all his HQMA racing buddies. He ended the 2007 HQMA points with a 1st place in Sr. Honda and Lt. 160 and a 3rd place in World Formula. This was Will's 1st year in W/F and only his 2nd in Lt. 160. He has been racing Sr. Honda for 2 years.

November 2007
Will wrapped up the 2007 season with the HQMA's annual Turkey Gobbler Race. It was extremely cold, but we mananged to set the fast time in Sr. Honda and qualified 5th in Lt. 160. That meant the pole for the Amain in Lt. 160. Competition was tough. This years Turkey Gobbler had over 160 cars registered. Will raced hard in Sr Honda, leading a lot of the race. He tangled with another car, but managed to work his way back up to second and gained on the leader.....until the throttle linkage broke. Luckily Will caught a break and was able to come into the pits and get it fixed. With 4 laps to go, Will came from last to finish 4th. In Lt. 160, Will wasn't so lucky. He started on the pole and went to 3rd pretty quick. It started raining and the cars were placed under caution. Racing resumed. Will stuggled with the handling of his car. Coming in and out of the pits every caution. His right rear tire was going flat. With 10 laps to go we changed the tire and he was able to finish 5th. Way to stick it out and never give up.

October 2007
Will had a pretty good October. On 10/13, Will finished 2nd in both Lt. 160 & World Formula. He did not race Sr Honda. On 10/27, Will set a new track record in Lt. 160 at 6.602. He would finish 2nd in the Amain. In Senior Honda he ran a friend's motor for them and finished 6th with it.

September 2007
Will raced 09/29 and had a great day. He won both the Sr Honda Amain and the Lt. 160 Amain races and finished 3rd in World Formula. On 09/22 Will had a 3rd place in Sr Honda, a 6th in Lt. 160 and did not race the W/F.