May 18th, 2009 – 9:00PM

After a tough race I managed to bring home the #19 Jetta TDI in 2nd place, good enough to lead the championship by 11 points. Although I had hoped to back up my pole position with a win, Timmy Megenbeier was the faster driver this weekend. He managed to grab the lead on lap one and never put a wheel wrong. I pushed hard to keep the pressure on him, and with 10 minutes to go tried to close the gap to challenege for the win. I managed to get his lead down to about 1 second with 5 laps left, but in the process used up my tires. Timmy responded to the pressure by putting in a solid string of laps and forcing me to settle for second. In the end I backed way off to protect my tires for the next race at Mid Ohio and cruised to an easy second position. Right now, I’m at the airport headed back to Vancouver, and some much needed sleep!