With each passing week, Lee
Gill gets stronger and stronger at Brockville Speedway. After missing one week due to a mechanical
failure found after arriving at the track, Gill rebounded with a third place
finish last week, and was looking to improve on that this week.
In his preliminary
qualifying heat race, Gill started from fourth but blasted to the front, taking
the lead on lap two and never looked back.
After making minimal adjustments to the car to keep up with the changing
conditions of the track Gill rolled of the starting grid for the 30 lap main
event from inside row five in the ninth position. Gill made steady progress moving through the field, and by lap
six he was into the top five. Lee
continued to move forward, and by lap nine he was up to second and challenging
for the lead, and captured the top spot just three laps later. Over the next ten laps, Gill continued to
pace the field, but once they hit lapped traffic, Gill got bottled up behind a
slower car, and dropped to second.
Never one to give up, Gill fought back, and used a similar move to
reclaim the lead in lapped traffic on lap 26, but on the final lap, the slower
traffic ahead played a determining factor in the outcome, and Gill crossed the
line in second.
“The car was great tonight,
but I needed to do a better job in lapped traffic”, says Gill. “The 77 car handled the slower traffic a
little more aggressively then I did, and that was the difference”.
Despite missing the race a
couple weeks ago, Gill’s consistency has kept him in the top ten in points at
Brockville. He is currently seventh in
points, just six points out of the top five.
This coming weekend, Gill
will be back at Brockville Speedway looking to finish just one spot higher and
get back to victory lane at the BOS.
The former four-time Brockville champion is inching closer to that first
win of the year, and first at Brockville since the 2003 season, his last season
as a regular at Brockville.
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