ACT International 500: Brian Hoar Airborne Speedway Race Report
For more information, visit motorsports.RPMEnginesVT.com PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., finished second in the inaugural ACT International 500 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Sunday, July 21. Hoar won the third and final 100-lap segment after finishing second in each of the first two segments in the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge Charger. Hoar, who has eight career ACT Late Model tour wins at the .500-mile track, was leading in every single segment before late-race caution periods cost him victories in the first two segments. After winning his heat race, Hoar qualified 10th in the first segment for his best starting position in any of the three 100-lap events after full field inversions following each segment. |
WHO: Brian Hoar, Williston, Vt. ******** BRIAN, HOW DO YOU FEEL AFTER TODAY? I'm disappointed. It just is what it is. It (stinks), personally, but I don't want to be a sore loser. The (No. 97) guys are a great race team and they've got their stuff figured out this year. If either one of us hadn't have been as fast as we were, it would have been a pretty (crappy) race for the fans, frankly. It was a race for third after the two of us. It's just one of those deals where you're hoping – and you hate to say to wish anybody bad luck – but (the No. 97) was going for a perfect score in that last segment. I needed something to happen. I needed him to get caught behind someone where he can't get by, or I need his setup to be off a little bit. First-place is an addiction you can't get used to. You can't get enough of it. We'll get there. Second-place is lackluster. I still hand it to my guys, I don't want to discredit them in any way, but I'm disappointed. HOW MUCH DID THE WAY THE CAUTIONS FELL HURT YOU? We easily could have been sitting right there (for the overall win) if I'd won the second segment, and those cautions came out on us at just the right times. In both the first and second segment, those cautions came out – and we were leading on the last restarts of the race in both of those segments. That was huge. I think I could have won the first two segments if we didn't have them, just like (the No. 97) did. WHAT DID YOU SEE ON THE WRECK ON THE FIRST LAP OF THE SECOND SEGMENT? Smoke. 'Days of Thunder' or something, you know. (Crew chief Rick Paya) was like, 'Please, stop! Just stop the car!' He knew there was no escape route. It was a fiasco. WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT YOUR RACE TEAM TO RUN LIKE THIS AFTER TWO MONTHS OFF? They're awesome. They really are good. Everywhere we've been this year we've been really fast, and we've been much better than we were last year. Last year, we were just off a little bit. This year, we came out of the box and were good everywhere. Andrew and Rick, hats off to those guys – I'm different than a lot of these drivers. I don't know what adjustments to make, and they do. That's their livelihood. They stay on top of it and what's going on out there in the industry. It's going on a five-year-old car, and it's still (awesome). It's really fast. Follow RPM Motorsports on Facebook: facebook.com/BrianHoarRPM
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