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Being past the halfway point in the Thursday Thunder schedule, we entered this back-to-back racing week with optimism to build off Round 6's podium finish.  

Round 7 started with a respectable P3 in qualifying, and we knew we were in a good position to get through the first few laps cleanly using our inside position.  It didn't go exactly to plan, as Emerson made a little contact an in inopportune time, which knocked him off his line, and he lost his position.  While working to gain it back, he came under fire and was in 5th place for a brief period of time.  After a couple crafty passes, he resecured 3rd and drove away to a comfortable third place, podum finish.

Round 8 was an insane qualifying with P2-P5 ending up 0.01 sec from each position.  We qualified P5, which isn't a horrible place to start the race, but we had a horrible jump off the line, and instead of working our way forward, Emerson got a little overzealous on lap 2 and spun both himself and another car, meaning we had to restart at the tail of the field.  The restart almost went as well as possible, but we got pinched down by a car that slid in turn 3, which slowed us both down.  Then we got into a two lap battle with bumper shots being traded.  After Emerson got around him, he drove away to chase down the mid-pack.  He got to them at the end, but we ran out of laps before we had any chance of passing for a top-5 position, finishing in 6th.

Thanks to Akins Petroleum, 77 Speed Shop, and Last Lap Insider for the support.  We were pleased to earn our fourth podium of the season, but we missed an opportunity to earn valuable points as we near the end of Thursday Thunder's 10-race schedule.