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Brandon Wimmer – A Solid Start to 2011!
A stout field was on hand, and the Fairmount, Indiana driver was able to lay down a solid time. “We were able to get out there early and put the fifth quick time of the night down,” he says. “With 39 cars there, we’ll take that…especially in that it was the first time we had run at that track.” Starting in row three beside Danny Lasoski in heat one, Brandon was able to pick his way forward to finish second behind Joey Moughan. “We had a really good heat race,” he says. “It was tough. We had Lasoski, Davey Heskin and Joey Moughan in there. It wasn’t easy by any means. We were able to get the jump on Lasoski, and then Austin (McCarl) was pulling a wheelie down the frontstretch and we were able to get by him late for second. It was good to be out in the first heat where we didn’t have to deal with the rain showers.” Two rain delays slowed the program, and light drizzle was falling when Brandon pushed off to start fourth in the 30-lap feature. “I thought it would be really greasy and slick for the feature, but it wasn’t too bad,” he admits. “I was kind of surprised with that. When they pushed us out, it was really slippery. When we went green, you really couldn’t tell.” Brandon went most of the distance in the top five, but fought some handling problems early. “It was tacky and rough at the beginning, and we were too tight,” he says. “The track actually started to slick off about halfway through the feature, and that’s when we got a lot better.” In the end, he was coming on and ended up with the fourth place finish. “We were able to move forward,” says Brandon. “We fell back at the beginning, but we were able to come back with a solid finish. Outside of Kaley Gharst, I think we had one of the faster cars. We were right on (Joey) Moughan’s tail at the end.” The team was happy to be racing after suffering two weeks of rain-outs with the Outlaws. “For the first night out with the team, we were just glad to get a race in,” says Brandon. “We’re thankful for the folks in Burlington to work hard to get the show in. There were a couple of times that they could have cancelled if they wanted to. You could tell they had been working hard all day just to get us in the pits.” The track will host the Monster series again in September, and Brandon plans to be on hand. “All in all, it was a good night,” he says. “We had been trying to race the last two or three weeks, so we were happy to get it in. We waited until the last minute to decide to race there, and I’m glad that we did. I’m pretty sure we’ll be back for the $4,000 to win show there in September.”
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(Bill W) April 27, 2011 – It was a solid start to the sprint car season for
driver Brandon Wimmer and the Alan Barton Motorsports #7TW team. A last
minute decision to run the Monster Energy™ Sprint Series’ opener at 34
Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa paid off with a fourth place finish. This
weekend, they plan on taking on the World of Outlaws at Tri-State Speedway
near Haubstadt, Indiana.