Peterborough Speedway July 4, McColl Race #2

On sunday, the Holdaway Motorsports team would again head out on the road to Peterborough Speedway for the Chase For The Colours 100 lap invitational race. The team felt confident heading into this race, as they had ran at Peterborough Speedway earlier on in the season and had a fairly good feel for the track.


Taylor would start 7th in the first heat race, and began picking off spots one at a time, taking over the lead on lap 5 and not looking back. He cruised to a 6 car length victory over 2nd place, proving to everyone that he would indeed be one to watch in the feature race.

In the second heat race, Taylor would start on the outside of the front row, and would lose one spot on the first lap, trying to get to the bottom groove. Once he was able to get to the bottom, he settled into a groove and finished the 10 lap heat race in third spot.

The dice roll would turn up a 4, meaning the top 4 starting positions for the feature race would be inverted. This meant the 41 team would start the 100 lap feature race in 3rd place. Taylor rode around in 3rd place with a comfortable 4 car length cushion in front and behind him for the first 40 laps of the race trying to save the car for the end. A competition caution at lap 40 gave Gary, Fred and the boys in the pits time to adjust on the car and refuel it for the final 60 laps. Taylor picked up one spot on the restart, and rode around in 2nd place saving the car, and studying the leader to see how he could make his move in the closing laps. With 20 to go Taylor began to reel in the leader, and was right on his back bumper when, as luck would have it, a caution came out with 10 to go. He would have to restart on the outside groove where there was no grip at all, and 3 cars got by before he could get to the bottom. After running a very discipline race, and having arguably the fastest car all afternoon, the team would have to settle for a 5th place finish. Congrats to Jason Tremble on the victory, and a big thanks to all the fans for sticking it out in the 40 degree heat!