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MOOSE TAKES FLIGHT AT MIS
Thomas: “We really had a great car. With a lot of help from Augie Grill we’ve been tweaking on our Mobile package and it’s really paying off. Our car Saturday night was the best qualifying car I’ve ever had and we were really pumped up about the race. Our Fausak Tire Fusion started a little tight and we thought it would come to us during the race but we didn’t get past lap 7. I thought I had taken a wild ride slipping around in Elliott’s oil but that was nothing compared to what was coming. On the restart I saw the car in front of me spin his tires and I went low but his car made a move to the left. I tried going lower and then I got hammered from the back and I was just hanging on. I’m glad everybody was OK. Congratulations to DJ (Vanderley) on another sweep this weekend. We’re still looking for the right stuff to catch him and we’re not going to give up until we do.”
Picture: Post race, oil covered windshield.
MOOSE WILL SKIP 5 FLAGS THIS WEEKENDThomas Praytor Pensacola 5 Flags Speedway 7-13-10: The Moose and our Max Force team will skip 5 Flags on Friday night and will only compete at Mobile International Speedway on Saturday. The tracks have instituted a special set of rules for this weekend that put our small Mobile based team at a significant disadvantage at 5 Flags. Team owner Tommy Praytor made the call: "It's just a shame. You would think when we're struggling to get cars and fans to the racetrack that track owners would do what they can to help keep racers coming. This weekend the tracks are impounding tires instead of letting teams get tires in advance. Since our team consist of me and Thomas on Friday afternoon, until everyone gets off work, it's takes a lot of preparation for us to race at 5 Flags. Tires are a big part of that process. We've tried to work with 5 Flags on a compromise but they wanted no part of it. All we asked for was to let the teams, all the teams not just ours, mount and match tires during Thursday nights practice and leave them in the impound area for Friday night's race. We made a commitment to run the regular show at 5 Flags before the season started and have worked hard to promote 5 Flags and work with them as a partner, you know we're in this together kind of thing, or that's what we thought. We've done everything we can to help promote 5 Flags including a day-long event for school kids and we even stayed and handed out hundreds of free gifts to the fans after we destroyed our car in practice. It’s the tracks prerogative to make the rules and as a car owner it’s my job to make sure that we have a fair shot at competing under those rules when we roll in the gate. We’ve been racing at a disadvantage all year after the tracks added 50 pounds to our Ford before the season started. I’ve protested any changes to last years rule package that produced 15 different winners in 18 races but that fell on deaf ears. After management “tweaked” the rules package, this years results speak for themselves, we’ve had 10 races and one guy has won 7 of them (Of the 3 he didn’t win, 2 he wrecked and the 3rd he was in a borrowed car) and the same car has won every pole. Why is anyone still adding weight to this car? Even though we thought any rule change to the class was ill advised and the 50-pound weight addition was grossly unfair, we decided to compete anyway, as racers we want to race. We asked for a little help for all the teams in helping make this weeks specials rules show and again it fell on deaf ears. The tracks on the coast are struggling to put a dozen Late Model cars on the track and 2 hours up the road they have over 30. When you talk to racers that used to race on the coast but are now racing elsewhere, they say it’s because they are listening, changing and helping bring their cars to the track. Listening, changing and helping, a unique approach to a successful business model. You just have to wonder how much longer will management continue to put it’s head in the sand. The days of listening, doing nothing and making it harder or over, it’s time for listening, changing and helping." Instead of a doubleheader weekend the Moose will run a single header at Mobile International Speedway on Saturday night.
Thomas Praytor 6-30-10: With a few weeks off between starts, the Moose and his Max Force team have been tweaking on Christine, working on the back up car and looking forward to the Pensacola/Mobile double header on July 16th. While the Moose is prepping for another Gulf Coast doubleheader, Talladega Superspeedway is getting ready for their 2nd HALLOW-DEGA in October. The PR team from NASCAR’s most competitive track dropped by the WNSP studios for NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver, Ricky Carmichael to be interviewed for Fausak Tires Inside Alabama Racing. The Moose and his race team are used to seeing racecar drivers and most go by unnoticed, that was until they had a chance to meet Ricky Carmichael. Carmichael is in his sophomore season in the Truck series but in the world of motocross he is simply known as the G.O.A.T., Greatest Of All Time. With a couple of ex-motocross racers on the team they couldn’t pass up a chance to meet the motocross icon. Thomas: “Working as a crew member on the 14 truck I’ve been around Ricky and I’ve always been impressed by the way he treats the guys working on his team. Having a chance to talk with him away from the track was really special. Being from Florida Ricky follows late model racing pretty close and maybe we can get him back for the Snowball Derby in December.”
Picture: (L-R) Collin Kraft, Ricky Carmichael, Moose, Andrew Vickers
Thomas Praytor Off Week 6-23-10: The Miller Lite Super Late Models takes center stage this weekend on the Gulf Coast with a huge Pensacola/Mobile doubleheader. With the Super Late Models on deck this weekend the Moose and our Max Force team are getting a little time to regroup and get our G Force Ford Fusion ready for a busy July with a stretch of 4 races in 10 days. The off weekend also gives our team an opportunity for a rare Thursday night test at Mobile International Speedway. Thomas: “I’m really looking forward to testing at Mobile on Thursday night. We’ve been rolling in from Pensacola and racing all year long. We were really quick last time and we’ve got some new setup ideas we’re going to try that we don’t have time for on Saturday nights.” Got Moose Fan Pack Poster, Hero Card, Bumper Sticker, T-Shirt, Frisbee & Hugger
4th ANNUAL MOOSE TIREATHON With the 2010 season just days away we're starting our 4th Annual Moose Tireathon. In tough economic times tire sponsorship is the easiest way to be involved. Now is your chance to join the Moose!
The Moose is back on the loose at Mobile International Speedway and Pensacola’s Five Flags Speedway in 2010. After finishing 5th in the Championship standings at Mobile in the Pro-Late Model Division, the Moose has filed his name as a Rookie of the Year candidate in the Pro-Late Model Division at Pensacola’s 5 Flags Speedway. In 2010 the Moose will be doing double duty trying to win Rookie of the Year at 5 Flags and a Championship at Mobile International Speedway on Saturday night. Throw in select races at Montgomery, Opp and Lanier the Moose will burn up 28 sets of Hoosier tires during the season. Now is your chance to join the Moose’s team as a tire sponsor. PRIMARY TIRE SPONSOR As a primary tire sponsor you or your company will receive a 6” sticker on the Moose’s car, a sponsor listing on track announcements for the Moose, a sponsor listing on www.maxforceracing.com web site and a Max Force Racing T-Shirt. Cost is 1 set of Hoosier Tires $600.00 ASSOCIATE TIRE SPONSOR As an associate tire sponsor you or your company will receive a sponsor listing on track announcements for the Moose, a sponsor listing on www.maxforceracing.com web site and a Max Force Racing T-Shirt. Cost is 1 Hoosier Tire $150.00
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