April 29, 2006
Concord, NC

Top Ten Run for Butler at Concord

Saturday afternoon saw the Allison Legacy Series visit the fastest track in their 24 race schedule, Concord Motorsports Park, and the day produced the first top ten of the season for Josh Butler. Josh got to test the Horizon Technologies/Conterra Ultra Broadband Monte Carlo on Thursday at Concord and the testing seemed to pay off. On Saturday, the car was good during the practice session, although Josh thought that it was a tick looser than it was during the Thursday test and asked for a few changes to tighten the car before qualifying. Although the changes were made, the best he could do during qualifying was a middle of the pack 15th.

Even though the race was caution filled, Josh stayed out of trouble and ran in the top 12 all day, eventually coming home in a season best 9th place. The official point standings have not been released yet; however, we do know that Josh will move up multiple spots from his previous 18th place position.

Josh Butler on the Concord race: “It’s good to get our first top ten finish of the year…and it’s good to know that we actually ran even better than where we finished. Concord is a fast track and there were a lot of hard wrecks… I’m just happy we came out of there in one piece. We have a race this Saturday at Hickory and then another one right away the following Wednesday at Florence. If we can carry the momentum from Concord over to those two races we should be in great shape.”

The Legacy Series stays close to home this weekend with a 50 lap event at Hickory Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 6th. After that, the series will run a rare weekday event at Florence Motor Speedway in Timmonsville, SC. on Wednesday May 10th. Both events will have qualifying start around 6:00pm with the feature events taking the track around 7:00pm. Check back for updates on how Josh finishes.