Langley Speedway, Hampton VA- Casey Wyatt and Team 29 returned to racing action this past Saturday for their second attempt at breaking the Dodge stronghold on the Late Model division. Thursday evening’s test session had left the team with high hopes after turning impressive times with tires as used up as 250 laps. They knew there could be some hidden variables, such as weather and sticker tires that may affect their lap times. But they didn’t expect what they were met with in the first practice.
Mediocre handling a slower lap times forced the team to look for a more incriminating culprit than tires; and they found it. The locker in the rear end of the car was broken. Car chief Wayne Wyatt looked to neighbor and fellow Dodge racer Mark Wertz for help. Mark answered the plea with the locker they needed to compete. After qualifying, Casey would start the 75 lap feature from fifth position.
The start of the race yielded an extremely tight racecar and the lack of long runs in the early laps of the race prevented the stagger from opening up .The Rogers Electrical Monte Carlo would get into the turns fairly well, but Casey had to earn his keep by maintaining fifth the entire race. The key to his success was keeping the car on the bottom of the track and keeping it square coming out of turns two and four. Casey’s father Wayne Wyatt commented “Casey drove his butt off tonight. There were at least three or four occasions when I knew we were taking this car home on a hook. He had his hands full coming off of turn two several times when the car was totally sideways. I’m very proud of him and his fifth place finish.”
The Rogers Electrical Monte Carlo will be taking a couple of weeks off as the Wyatt Motorsports crew prepares to return to Busch East racing on Saturday August 25. Casey and crew chief Sam Gaita are confident that they are getting closer to victory lane at Langley Speedway and look forward to returning to Langley competition. Casey and the team would like to thank car owner Butch Britt of Rogers Electrical for the opportunity to compete for him and Mark Wertz for offering the parts needed to do so.
Casey Wyatt is a rookie in the NASCAR Busch East series for Wyatt Motorsports, whom competes as part of this three kart Pro-Winged Champ Kart team owned by Bill Mullis, a two car Whelen All-American Late Model team owned by Butch Britt and a two car Legend team owned by Dee Causey.
Wyatt Motorsports is currently seeking sponsorship for their 2008 Busch East season. For more information about Casey Wyatt and his racing efforts, visit www.caseywyattracing.com or call Chrissy Ward at (757) 291-7663
