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November update- AMP Legends race

Yesterday was the third and final road course race. It was at Atlanta Motorsports Park, and I had a ball! It was 30 minutes of practice, a 6 lap heat race, and a 10 lap feature race. The king of Legends Cars, Doug Stevens, was also racing in that race. In practice, we were about the same speed. After that, he changed the gear ratio in his car so he could get off the corner a little better. We left ours where it was. In the heat race, I drew to start last. After the first few laps, I was in second, right behind Mr. Stevens. On the restart, I was able to hang with him, but I dropped a wheel in the grass and locked up my brakes, which allowed him to get away. I ended up finishing second. 

 
In the feature race, I was able to hold on to second for the first 2 laps, but then another car tried to go on the inside of me and I didn’t see him. He tapped my left rear tire, but I was barely able to save it as you can see in the video. A caution came out after that and I was able to restart the race in second. Going into the carousel, I tried to pass for the lead, but he didn’t see me and came down on me. We touched wheels and I lost a position. I passed him right back, but lost a lot of ground to the leader I was slowly catching him, only a few tenths per lap. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to catch him by the finish or not. We came up on lapped cars, and Mr. Stevens came up on them at just the wrong time, which allowed me to catch back up. A few laps later, we came up on more lapped cars. This time I caught them at the wrong time. He pulled away and then there were only two laps to go. I caught back up to him, but I wasn’t close enough to make a pass. I finished second and won the championship. I had tons of fun having the chance to be able to race against the great Doug Stevens!
 
I also worked my first few days at the Skip Barber Racing School. I had a blast and look forward to my next event with them. 
 
I would also like to congratulate the Hendrick Motorsports 48 team for their 7th championship tying them with Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty; a truly outstanding accomplishment!

Sincerely,
 
Dylan Murry
 
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iRacing Report, August 14

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I had quite a few races in the past couple of weeks and not a lot of time at home. I had my last Thursday Thunder race, a late model race at Caraway Speedway, and watched the K&N, Xfinity, and Sprint Cup races at Watkins Glen. I also started an online school program to be able to travel more often. 

The Legends race was the last Thursday Thunder of the season. The practice before that race on Wednesday  night, my crankshaft broke. Thankfully, Mr. Ragan was kind enough to lend us a house car for that race to finish off the season. The car was great for the age. I qualified fourth out of 13 cars. In the race I was in second for most of the race and hanging with first, but on a green-white-checkered, my brake pedal went to the floor and lost my brakes. I hit the car on the outside of me and we both spun. I was barely able to finish the race. I am super thankful that Mr. Ragan let me use the car to finish off the season. 
At the late model race, we were running 6th in qualifying only a couple of hundredths off of 5th. It was supposed to be a 200 lap race with a pit stop, but the track changed it to twin 50 lap races. In the first race, I worked my way up to fifth and towards the end was catching fourth. I never caught him in time and finished fifth. In the second race, they inverted the top five and I got to start on the pole. The second place jumped the start and got a huge run on me going into turn 1. I ended up getting shuffled to the back and got caught on the outside of someone. I let them go and tried to pass him back. I couldn’t get around as quick as I hoped, so we were running side-by-side for about ten laps. I finally got around, but by that time everyone else pulled away. I was working my car as hard as it would go. Thanks to the effort by Spraker Racing, I was able to have the fastest laps on the track in the last 15 laps of the race. By the end of the race I was only a couple of car lengths behind 4th and 5th. I am so fortunate to be able to work with Spraker Racing. They are a great team.
At the NASCAR race in Watkins Glen, we were able to get Sprint Cup hot pit and garage passes thanks to Hendrick Motorsports. I had a great time learning how the race processes worked. We got there a couple of days early to watch the K&N race. I had sponsorship for the race, but NASCAR wants me to race on a half mile oval before I do a road course in K&N. That is still very good to be approved for K&N after only 4 late model races. 
 It was awesome to see the K&N cars book it around the track. Congratulations to Austin Cindric for the win there. Harrison Burton was doing great until he lost his breaks and spun. 
The Xfinity race was also really cool. I had a great time watching Mr. Todd Bodine race. It really stinks that he got caught up in a big wreck at the beginning of the race. I wished he could have gone back out there. 
On Sunday , we got to watch from pit lane. Sprint Cup races are awesome. I really hope I get to that level one day. 
The best part about that whole weekend was Mr. Scott Welliver offered us to stay at his house for the weekend. It is an amazing house, and I had a lot of fun playing with his dog, Marco. He’s a great dog, he really is. Also Mr. John Gorsline offered for us to stay at a  cabin that he rented near the track, but we already commited to Mr. Welliver’s offer. Thank you to both of you for the offers. 
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iRacing video: Dylan late model qualifying Caraway July 23, 2016

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Dylan Caraway late model qualifying July 23 2016
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iRacing report, July 13

These last two weeks have been both busy and exciting. I have had a couple of Thursday Thunder races, a late model race, and watched the NASCAR Xfinity race with Spraker Racing from their pit box at Daytona.  

On June 30, I had a Legends race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The car has not been gone over or nut and bolted in a while and we were not very fast. I ended up qualifying 5th out of 12. In the race, I worked my way up to 3rd. I fell back down to fourth and finished the race in 4th.

On the first of July, Jeff Spraker invited us to come down and watch the Xfinity race in Daytona from his pit box. I had a great time and Spraker Racing did a great job building, working on the car, and running it in the race.

July 6th and 7th was a double header at AMS. I qualified in 7th on Wednesday. In the race, it started raining, and I was one of the fastest cars out there. On the first restart, I tried to avoid a big pile up in front of me, but was pushed from behind and spun right into the wreck. When they restarted the race, I was running mid-pack and gaining positions, but then my exhaust fell off. It lost power and I took it easy for the rest of the race, because I didn’t know what was going on and didn’t want to hurt the motor. I finished 10th. Thanks to Doug Stevens and Advanced Technology Motorsports, we were able to have the car fixed for the race on Thursday.

On the Thursday race, I qualified 6th out of 13. The race had many red flags due to non-intentional reasons. I worked my way up the field, but spun in oil and got sent to the back. I ended up finishing fifth right behind the leaders.

I also had a late model race at Motor Mile Speedway on July 9th with Spraker Racing Enterprises. We had to adjust the car to make it looser in practice. I qualified 8th out of 14. It was a 150 lap race, so I tried to conserve my tires. I was running 7th for a while and made a couple of passes throughout the race. I was running fifth on the lead lap right behind the leaders, and on lap 123, the 3rd and 4th place cars ran into each other and I had to go low to try and avoid the crash, but they both came low and I got wedged between the wall and the other cars. I was lucky enough to finish the race, but my right front caliper was dragging my brakes so I didn’t have any straight line speed and finished 7th.

I also got some good news. NASCAR called and after only a few late model races have approved me to run the K&N series on ovals up to 1/2 mile. It normally takes a full season in late model racing to advance to K&N. This is very exciting as the NASCAR K&N series is one of the top tier NASCAR series and very well respected by everyone including the Cup teams and drivers.

All in all, these past few weeks have given me a lot more experience. Winning the Gorsline Scholarship with Performance Prime has helped me a lot.

Dylan

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iRacing update- June 28

Last week I had a Thursday Thunder Legends race and a late model race at Motor Mile Speedway. 

The Legends race did not go as well as I would have liked. I the car was loose and I qualified 11th. We took the car out of impound to make a change to the corner weights. We had to start last because of taking it out of impound. The car felt really good for a couple of laps, but then there was a big pile up in front of me and I ran into a car. It bent the steering arm and knocked the tow out a couple of inches. After that, I didn’t have the car everyone else had. There were more wrecks that I avoided and ended up finishing fifth.
 
The late model race was Saturday night, and was my first time at that track and so I didn’t get much practice time. I ended up qualifying 8th out of 12 cars. The race went all 150 laps without a caution. I made my way up to 6th in a couple of laps. towards the end of the race, I was running fifth and had saved my tires much more than the fourth place car. With a couple of laps left, I made the pass and ended up finishing the race in fourth. It was a great race and Spraker Racing put in a lot of effort to make the car what it is now. I go to Caraway in two weeks for another late model race. Thursday Thunder Legends next.
 
Late Model racing doesn't allow in car video cameras so we don't have video.
 
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iRacing report, June 20

Last week was very busy for me. I went up to Watkins Glen to drive in the Group 52 event and had my first late model race at Caraway Speedway with Jeff Spraker and Spraker Racing Enterprises.
 
Wednesday was the first day of the Group 52 event and I was supposed to drive a Hooters Pro Cup car with Vecchio Racing on the second day and a smaller car on the first day to learn the track, but there was a 90% chance of rain on Thursday, so we decided to drive the stock car on Wednesday and couldn’t learn the track in a familiar car. I got loose coming out of the toe of the boot and had to correct it, but I had to reposition my hands because I ran out of room. By the time I did that, I had to turn back, but I couldn’t turn in time and ran into the guard rail. I was very fortunate that a couple of people offered for me to drive their car afterwards. The first car I drove was a BMW M3 (Thank you Ike) with slicks and racing shocks. I drove that for an hour on the short course. The other car was a Porsche Cayman (thank you Speedsport Tuning!, Spencer Cox and Joe Liuzzi). I drove that for one and a half days. At the end of the second day, I started to really feel comfortable with the track and car. I learned so much in those two days.
 
On Saturday, I had my first late model race. Mr. Spraker rented out the track for two hours before the race to help me get dialed back in to a late model. I ended up qualifying 8th out of ten cars, 0.5 second off of the pole position and in the race I got within 0.4 of the fastest lap. This was my first 125 lap race. I got shuffled to the back on the start, but I was still hanging with a couple of other cars. I passed one of them, but then they got back around a few laps later. The tires started to get hot and the car got really loose. The track bar was all the way down and we tried to lower the right rear tire pressure two times, but it wasn’t enough for me to keep up with everyone else. A car right in front of me about half way through the race ran into the back of another car and I barely cleared the cars. I ended up finishing 8th. The team did a great job trying to get the car tighter. This race helped me learn a lot about longer races and heavier cars. I hope to learn more next weekend at Greenville Pickens.
 
I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day.
 
Sincerely,
 

Dylan Murry
 
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iRacing Report- May 2016

Last race, I was awarded the trophy for the 2015-2016 Winter Flurry Semi-Pro/Pro (semi-pro and pro combined) championship winner. It was a tough season, but I pushed through and stayed focused on the championship. I am glad to be awarded with this and hope to get more in the future, maybe even for the big Sunday races in the future. 
 
Yesterday’s race did not go as well as I was wanting it to go. The good thing is it wasn’t a points race, but I still had fun.
 
They gave us five laps to qualify and I ended up 4th out of 12 cars. There were two 20 lap races. In the first race, I held 4th throughout the entire race. The car didn’t quite have enough grip, considering there are over 300 laps on the tires (they are a year old). The first three cars pulled away and I stayed back in 4th. I started 4th again in the second race. On the start, I got shuffled back in the pack, but made my way back up to fifth. The car in front of me locked his brakes and went wide in turn 1. I tried to pass him, but he didn’t see me on the inside and closed down. We touched and locked wheels. It knocked my toe out by an inch and the car had understeer for the rest of the race. I had to restart last and made my way up the field and finished 8th. 
 
My next race will be at the 3/8 mile track in Cordele, GA. I will be broadcasting it live on the free app, Periscope. You can follow me @DylanMurry1 on Periscope May 21 to watch my race. 
 
The week after that I move back into late model racing. I will run Caraway Speedway’s 1/2 mile track in North Caroline with http://sprakerracing.com/">http://sprakerracing.com/ May 28. I have tested a late model but this will be my first race in one. We hope to do more late model races shortly after that. Our goal is to gain experience in big cars and get approval from NASCAR to compete in the K&N series. We are going directly from Caraway after my race to the K&N race at Dominion Raceway in Virginia two days later, May 30, just to watch. I’ll be cheering for Harrison Burton running in the K&N race there. We met at VIR running Miata’s together learning the track at my dad’s “David Murry Track Days” last month.
 
 
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iRacing report- April

I had a Legends race in Cordele, Ga last Saturday. It's a 3/8 mile oval and we used 4th gear instead of 3rd like AMS. We were almost 100mph top speed.I really liked the track. We practiced during the day and raced that night.

 

We drew for heat race starting position. I started 6th and finished 3rd. Since there were two separate heat races with half the cars in each I started 5th in the feature race. My car was loose in the heat race so I adjusted it with cross weight but we went the wrong way and made it worse for the feature race. Watch the video and you can see how loose it was. I was still able to run a close third and even tried a pass for second but didn't have enough rear grip to make it work. I still won the semi-pro class.

 

 

Next weekend is my final winter series Legends race at AMS. I still have the points lead and this race will determine the championship.

 

 

I am working hard on driving a K&N car at Watkins Glen, August 5 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend. We are planning to drive with "Spraker Racing" there and a Late Model at Caraway, NC May 28. Fingers crossed it all happens and goes well.

 

 

Thanks to all that have and are helping me. You know who you are!

 

Dylan

 

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iRacing report- February update

Yesterday, I had a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway in my Legends car for Winter Flurry race #4. Qualifying didn’t go so well for me. In practice, I was doing 16.1s and felt I had more. In qualifying I caught a car and had to slow back down to try to get another good lap, but caught him again going into 4. I ended up qualifying fifth at a 16.3 and the leaders were doing 16.1. I was disappointed, but I knew that it was a long race to catch back up. At the start of the race I got around all of the outside lane and was in third. The next lap, someone tried to pass me going into turn 1, but neither one of us wanted to back out. We ended up touching and I spun. On the restart, I quickly made my way up to third and had second for a little while. Some cars behind us spun and the caution came out. There were three laps left and I was starting third. Coming out of turn 2 on the first lap after the restart, the person in second tried to get by first, and they both came together and slowed down as I passed for the lead. One of the cars and my tires bumped as I went by and knocked my front tires toe in 1 3/4”. Both of the other cars couldn’t finish the race. I restarted the race in first. As it turns out, I couldn’t turn very well for the rest of the race because of the toe, so one car got by and I finished 2nd overall and in class. This race put me in a very good spot in points. I am leading by a bunch of points now with only 2 races left and hope to win the championship.
 
 
I am really having fun driving at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in the Legends series. It’s so competitive and exciting. Come out and see for yourself!
 
 
My next race will be broadcasted live on the mobile app, Periscope. This is available for free in the App Store and Google Play. You can follow me @DylanMurry1 to get notifications when I’m broadcasting.
 
 
Dylan
 
 
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iRacing Report January 2016

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

  

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iRacing Report- Late Model test at Caraway Speedway with Spraker Racing

I had my late model test today at Caraway Speedway and it went great. Yesterday, we went up to Jeff Spraker's shop to get the car fitted to me. Today, I drove about 200 laps. They sent me out with some used tires to get familiar with the car. Once I started to pick up the pace, the right rear tire lost pressure so I came in to change to sticker tires. I went out for about 80 laps total on those, and I felt the tires go off like crazy. This was the first time that I drove a car where the tires wear off so soon. We changed to another new set and picked up the pace to a 17.59, a few tenths off a competitive race time. In that session, we simulated a race. I did a five lap qualifying, then a 50 lap race with a caution in the middle of it.

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

Dylan Spraker Late Model at Caraway

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iRacing Report October 31

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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More Articles ...

  1. August update
  2. Thursday Thunder update June 7
  3. Gorlsine Scholarship and race update
  4. iRacing Report February
  5. iRacing Report- January
  6. iRacing Report- November
  7. Dylan's Day Out Video
  8. iRacing Report- October
  9. iRacing Report- September
  10. iRacing Report- August

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