The highly anticipated weekend for Phil Potts and the Fowl
Mood Racing team has come and gone, as they battled alongside the stars of the
World of Outlaw Late Model Series with events planned at Autodrome Granby on
Friday night, back home to Brighton Speedway on Saturday night for a 15 lap
dash for cash with a pair of World of Outlaw Late Model stars and then back to
Cornwall Speedway on Sunday to finish off their swing through Eastern Canada.
Autodrome Granby in almost five hours from the Fowl Mood
Racing team shop in Brighton, Ontario, but the team was eager to make the long
drive to do battle with the elite Late Model racers from the United States and
Canada with the World of Outlaws. The
Series has events throughout the USA, but this was their only swing through the
Canadian provinces. Potts and the Fowl
Mood Racing team qualified into the 50 lap main event, but they got caught up
in a crash late in the race, and suffered heavy damage to the car.
They made the long drive back to Brighton, and with the
damage now fixed from the previous night, they were ready for the 15 lap dash
for cash featuring Potts and some of the Brighton Speedway locals against World
of Outlaw drivers Bub McCool and Chubb Frank on Saturday night. A broken gear in the rear end sidelined the
team early in the race.
“It certainly wasn’t the result we were looking for, but it
is an easy fix, and we will be back at Cornwall tomorrow night for their World
of Outlaw show”, says Potts. “We
haven’t had much luck so far this weekend, but hopefully that will change”.
The Fowl Mood Racing team traveled back up the 401 to
Cornwall Speedway on Sunday afternoon.
The weather had forecasted rain for later in the evening, but by 3:30 in
the afternoon the skies opened up, and about an hour later the track officials
had no choice but to cancel their WoO Late Model program.
“We had just got to the track and got the car unloaded, and
before you knew it the clouds started to roll in, and we were putting
everything away”, adds Potts. “The
track tried to wait it out, but the rain just kept coming, and there was nothing
they could do but cancel”.
This coming week, Potts and the Fowl Mood Racing team will
be back at Brighton Speedway for the Canada Day Championship. If history is an indication, the team should
have a strong showing, as they have set fast time, and have won the event two
years in a row. Currently second in
points, a win would put them with in striking distance for the coveted Brighton
Speedway Late Model championship.
Fowl Mood Racing would not be possible without the support
of our sponsors. We would like to thank
Hutchinson Fuels, Indewey Excavating, Vanderlaan Building Supplies, Bill’s
Johns, Gord’s Water Service and Brighton Recycling Inc. for all their support,
and we look forward to a very exciting 2012 season.
For more information on Phil Potts and the Fowl Mood Racing
team, and to stay up to date with our progress through the 2012 racing season,
please visit our website, www.fowlmoodracing.com.
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