The 2012 race season finally started this past weekend for the driver of the No. 76 Lone Star Car Transportation Limited Late Model, Garrett Marchant. Marchant’s first race of the season occurred at Southern National Motorsports on Saturday April 7th in a fifty lap shootout event. Garrett would qualify his car in the tenth position but would fall back to finish the race in twelfth after engines issues.
The crew would unload the car for the first practice and this is where they started to get behind as the track had changed since the last practice on the track. From there the BMR Motorsports guys would chase the set-up all day. “We just could never catch it (the set-up) all day, it was tight all around, and then in the second practice it started to turn well in the corner,” Marchant explained about the troubles himself and the team had during the day. The team would put on new tires and “made an adjustment for qualifying which took a tenth of a second off;” Garrett would run a time of 16.353secs, clamming the tenth starting position.
When the green flag dropped in the race, Garrett ran into more problems with his No. 77 lscautoshipping.com Limited Late Model. “I came to the green, hit some dirt, which spun the tires, and cause me to over rev the engine,” Marchant explained about the start of his 2012 season. From there Garrett would ride around just to save his tries for the end of the race and give the field a run for their money. Around lap thirty Garrett’s motor would let go and end his first race at Southern National and second start in a Limited Late Model. “It was a tough day and way to start 2012. Once we get it (the car) fixed were gonna be good,” Marchant explained how the rest of the season is going to be.
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