(Photo by B Young Photography)
Inside Line Promotions – GREENBRIER, Ark. (May 16, 2023) – Rain stole a pair of ASCS National Tour races in Missouri last weekend from Jordon Mallett, who has now lost 10 planned races due to Mother Nature this season.
“Ten is a lot,” he said. “That is a whole lot. We joke about rain this time of the year, but after four, five or six rainouts, this is getting excessive. We can do without some rainouts.”
The plan for this weekend is an ASCS National Tour doubleheader on Friday and Saturday at Longdale Speedway in Longdale, Okla. It will mark his debut at the track and first trip to ‘The Sooner State’ since last July when he placed fifth during a race at Tulsa Speedway in Tulsa.
“I’ve looked Longdale up on Google satellite and studied it from the aerial, but I haven’t watched any videos,” he said. “I almost prefer going to new places versus a place we’ve gone a bunch of times. It’s easier to focus as weird as that sounds. When you show up your mind is just on experience versus your notebook when you’ve been there 15 times. And then you can get buried because the track doesn’t do what you think.”
At this point Mallett is hopeful just to log laps after wet weather has impeded his racing plan this year. Nine of the 11 scheduled ASCS National Tour races thus far have been rained out. Mallett placed seventh during the season-opening show and 12th during the second event while battling an ill-handling race car.
Both of those races were nearly one month ago and since then he has only been able to get one night of competition in, although it was short-lived because of a steering problem.
“You can always find stuff to do, but after a while you start rubbing paint off stuff,” he said. “We’re needing to go somewhere and race. Hopefully the weather cooperates this weekend.”
SEASON STATS –
12 races, 0 wins, 1 top five, 5 top 10s, 7 top 15s, 8 top 20s
UP NEXT –
Friday and Saturday at Longdale Speedway in Longdale, Okla., with the ASCS National Tour
MEDIA LINKS –
Website: http://jordonmallett.myracepass.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmmotorsports14
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jordonmallettmotorsports
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT – DynoTech Race Engines
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“Ever since I have started working with Ricky he has really helped us step our program up,” Mallett said. “He builds extremely good and reliable engines, which speak for themselves. Ricky has helped me get a good grasp on how to keep up with my engine program and the maintenance program. He’s become a really good friend and mentor. He always has our back.”
Mallett would like to thank Awakening Events, Awakening Foundation, Water for Christ, Porter Commercial Refrigeration, Red River Rack Co., D&K Farms, Powers HVAC, DHR Suspension, Racing Optics, Triple X Race Co., KSE Racing Products, FK Rod Ends, Brown & Miller Racing Solutions, Sinco, Inc., Autometer, Callies Racing Products, DynoTech Race Engines, Hero Graphics, Hilborn Fuel Injection, ISC Racers Tape, K&N Engineering, Lone Star Super Gas (Sunoco), HRP Wings, Schoenfeld Headers, Simpson Race Products, Smiley’s Racing Products, MetTec Titanium, MotorState Distributing, DMI, Fast 5 Solutions and Superior Bearing and Supply for their continued support.
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