Jessica Power Ends Busy Weekend of Racing With Top Five Finish at Cornwall Speedway Opener; Solid Finishes at Brockville and Mohawk

It was a busy weekend of racing for Jessica Power and the Power Racing team, with three events on tap, beginning with Mohawk Raceway on Friday night, then on to Brockville Speedway on Saturday and ending with the season opening events at Cornwall Motor Speedway.

It was a struggle early at Mohawk Raceway on Friday night.  A fifth place finish in the preliminary heats put her back in 21^st to start the 20 lap Sportsman main event.  The first half of the race continued to be frustrating for Power, unable to gain much ground.  As the race approached halfway, Power was a long way back in 19^th place.  The second half of the race was a different story, as the car roared to life.  With five laps remaining, she was in the top 15, and continued to pass a car a lap until the finish, getting up to 10^th.

“We really struggled early in the race, but I changed my line after halfway and really found something”, says Power.  “It is too bad the race wasn’t a few laps longer, and I think we would have moved up even more”.

At Brockville on Saturday, Power had a strong second place finish in her qualifying heat race.  In the 25 lap main event, she would start from outside of the fourth row in eighth place, and battled an ill-handling car for much of the race, she would finish the event in 11^th, but later determined the cause of the handling issues.

“The car didn’t want to work well at all, and once we got back to the pits after the race we discovered that we had a bent shock and the torsion bars had went away on us”, says Power.  “We still managed to salvage an ok finish, and we will be back next week looking for better results”.

The final stop of the weekend was Cornwall Speedway, and Power struggled early in practice.  After making some changes to the car, she had improved some, taking home a sixth place finish in her heat race.  In the 20 lap main event, she would start from the 15^th position but this time the car was working well.  In just five laps she was into the top ten, and into the top five as the race approached lap 13.  Power would go on to finish fourth, posting her best run of the 2012 season to date.

Jessica Power and the Power Motorsports team would like to thank Speedy Auto Service, Gananoque Chev-Olds, Fastenal, Jackson’s Landscaping and Property Maintenance, Wing’s Live Bait & Tackle, John’s Your Local Grocer, Stover Bus Lines, Axcel Sports, Great Chow Express, Star Diner, Len Corcoran Excavating, Glen Gould Estate Construction, Bicknell Racing Products, Atomic Sign Works, Bob Hilbert Sportswear, South Eastern Mechanical Inc., and Finish Line Web Design for their support during the 2012 racing season.

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