Dylan Murry News

This last race started great but didn’t finish as I would have liked. It was at Atlanta Motor Speedway for the 3rd Winter Flurry race.

In practice, we were about a tenth of a second off the pace. We came in and adjusted tire pressures. The next time we went out was for qualifying. As usual, it was a green-white-checkered. I got the pole by about a tenth at a 16.3. In the feature race, I led the entire race until the last lap. The second place car kept giving me really hard bumps from behind all race (you can hear some in the video). On the last lap he finally got by me going into turn three. I tried to pass him back coming out of four, but we think he hit is brakes when I was behind him, which caused me to spin. As you can see in the video, I was pretty frustrated at the time. The car that kept bumping me was disqualified for rough driving. I ended up in fourth, but it also gave me a huge lead in points. 

This race gave me a lot of experience, as I will know what to do for next time. 

Dylan

Over all, I had a great time and hope to race with Spraker Racing soon. They made me so comfortable and not pressured which really helped. Really great team! Thank you.

I hope you enjoy the short video as much as I did driving!

Dylan

I had a race on Halloween that went really well. It was a 50 lap race that was split into a 30 and 20 lap race. They also had a 3 lap qualifying for this race too. I ended up 4th out of 19 cars. In the first race (30 laps), I go hit in the first turn of the race and had to start almost last (as you can see in the video). On the restart, I passed a couple of cars. There were cautions throughout the race and I made my way up to 3rd place at the end. In the second race (20 laps), I was battling for second for a while and finally pulled away from the rest of the pack and finished a couple of tenths behind the leader.

They had a costume competition as well and our crew was dressed up as the "Legends of N.A.S.C.A.R." with my grandpa as Richard Petty (as in the picture). The rest of the crew dressed up as other drivers such as Dicky Wilson as Dale Earnhardt Sr.(same picture) and I was the "future legend." All in all, it was a fun race and contest and hope to do it again next year.

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Wow! Last Thursday night was one heck of a race! It was the first race of the Thursday Thunder series at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Wednesday was test day for the US Legends Cars and it did not go so well. The car kept missing about halfway down the straight. We changed the carburetors, ECU, ignition coils, and fuel filter but none fixed the problem. After all the practices were over, we figured out that it had to be the crank trigger so we changed that before Thursday practice. On Thursday practice, it was fixed and were running low 16's, but it felt like it was pushing. We made an adjustment to the springs. In the heat race, the car was equal on grip, but had no over-all grip. We changed the set up back to what it was for the feature race, because at night, the car tends to loosen up. In the feature race, I started 8th out of 14 cars, but on the first lap, I was spun out and dropped back to dead last on the restart. All through out the race, I picked up positions until I was in 3rd, but the yellow flag came out and it was a green white checkered finish. I fell back one position on the restart and finished 4th of 14 cars overallin the semi-pro and 1st in class.

This was a very exiting race and I look forward to the next race.

We race every Thursday night through the end of July.

Dylan

Last Thursday, I went to Sebring, Florida because I was one of the Gorsline Scholarship nominee finalists, along with Skylar Robinson and Madison Snow. It was a true honor to be one of the nominees, but unfortunately, I did not win. On the good side, I am officially the youngest nominee for the Gorsline Scholarship ever. The winner this year, Madison Snow was nominated last year so my hopes are up for next year! Congratulations Madison.

On Friday, we flew back to Atlanta to gear up for the Winter Flurry race in Atlanta Motor Speedway. We just got a new car, so this is my first time driving it. In the heat race, I drew third and finished third. The tire pressures were too high and the car was pushing a lot, but I was still doing 16.4s. Normally, that is what I would be doing in my old car. In the feature race we changed tire pressures and I picked up the pace to 16.0s. I was running the same time as the leaders but I was caught up in traffic. I finished third out of 11 and first in class. It wasn't until today that I figured out that I had just about no left front breaks. This could be the main problem in the pushing so hopefully next time we can  get down to 15.9s.