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April 9, 2012

Dowdy’s Night Ends Early at Thunderhill Raceway

Waterloo, AL (04/09/2012)- Mark Dowdy Racing took their Pitman Dutton & Hellums Attorneys at Law/ Rather Sewer Inspections Services/Maniac Race Engines/Warrior Late Model to Thunderhill Raceway (Summertown, TN), this past Saturday night to compete in the 2012 Season opener, only to end it in an early disappointment in the main event.

The team rolled out, debuting their new look for 2012 at Thunderhill Raceway hoping to start things out on the right track on the season. Dowdy went out in qualifying and set a time of 13.887 seconds around the speedway, only to qualify ninth quick of the ten cars that were in attendance on opening night in the late model/crate division.

The team went in after qualifying and made adjustments to help speed up the car. During the final hot lap session before the feature, the Warrior Chassis looked to be much better and ready to make moves in the 20 lap feature.

The 10 car feature event rolled out on the speedway and Dowdy was set to march forward. The field took the green flag, Dowdy ninth on the grid fired clean off the flag with the rest of the field. Dowdy would get two laps in before disaster struck, the #WP65 of Will Penny Smith would get loose in turn two ahead of fast approaching competitors including the #14 of Jeremy Jones and Dowdy. Jones would spin to avoid hitting Smith, Dowdy would lock up the brakes to keep from getting into Jones but the momentum was too much and Dowdy wasn’t able to slow it up enough to keep from hitting Jones, causing significant damage to Dowdy’s Warrior Chassis thus ending Dowdy’s night as he wasn’t able to continue and ended up with a 10th place finish.

Mark Dowdy Racing will be taking the next few weeks off from racing to make repairs to the car and to attend his oldest daughter Dena’s college graduation at Ball State University “Congrats Dena”

MDR is sponsored and thanks these fine businesses for their support : Pitman Dutton & Hellums Attorneys at Law (Birmingham, AL) www.pittmandutton.com, Rather Sewer Inspection Services of Olive Springs, Tn., Tolbert Performance Engine (Arley, AL) www.tolbertperformance.com, JPM Promotions (Mt. Pleasant, TN) www.jpmpromote.com , Antebellum Weddings www.antebellumweddings.net, FK Rod Ends www.fkrodends.com and Wix Filters www.wixfilters.com,Butler Built Seating Systems www.butlerbuilt.net , Bilstein Shocks www.bilstein.com ,Fragola Performance Systems www.fragolaperformancesystems.com , DBR Starters www.DBRstarters.com D & R Hardware (Waterloo, AL) (256) 766-4238, and the Jason M. Neely Foundation Race to Cure Parkinson’s Disease www.jmnfoundation22.org

Get all the latest dirt on Mark Dowdy Racing at www.dowdyracing.com