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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

3rd place finish for Wade Koens

We came out to the track on Saturday May 17th, without a moment to spare.
We were still finishing up on last minute repairs as parts had just come in, when the clock read 4:15pm. With qualifying coming up soon, the team loaded the car and headed out to the track. Luckily, our shop is only a quick 10 minute drive!
Unfortunately, we missed all 3 practice sessions and knew we would have to qualify without any knowledge of how the car would feel. We took the best guesses that we could trying to set up the car after the carnage during the last race tore up our entire left front. 
We ended up qualifying 4th fastest with a 15.2. Fast time qualifier had a 14.9.
We worked on the handling of the car during the rest of the evening in preparation for the main event. It seems to have paid off as we ended the main in 3rd position. Not the finish that we want but the car was good and with some more practice laps, we should be in the mix of things during the next race slated for June 7th at the Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Oregon.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Major Announcement!

We are very excited to announce yet another fantastic partner to our sponsor lineup for 2014! 
Please welcome GTR Racing Simulator to our KRT family! 



Visit their site at www.gtrsimulator.com and order yourself a racing simulator today!! 
Make sure and tell them that Koens Racing Team sent you!

Monday, May 5, 2014

We had a great race going last Saturday at the Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Oregon. While leading the race, the car stepped out on exit of turn 2 (might have had some help) sending us straight towards the wall. The car over-corrected before hitting the wall but we collected the #11 car and when he made contact with our car it sent him airborne and ruined our great run as well. We will get the car back together and hope to make the next race on May 17th. The support that we have from our wonderful sponsors is second-to NONE and we look forward to getting this Camaro back out front soon! Umpqua Survival - Roseburg, Blue Ox, Loggers Tap House, Pepsi NEXT, Clint Newell Auto Group

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Sept 7th, 2013 race recap and final season standings

Well, here is the last race recap. We unloaded on Sept 7th fast. Setting the pace with fastest laps in both the first and second practice sessions. Followed that up by setting fast time in qualifying as well. Looking for a back-to-back victory, we started in the rear of the field for the 35 main event but never even made it past the starting line for the drop of the green.

As we came out of turn 4 to take the green, the flagger dropped the yellow (for unknown reasons and is something you NEVER do as a flagman) cars bunched up quickly and I slammed into the #10 car in front of me. It was mostly cosmetic damage but did ruin the handling of the car.  We were able to make it back onto the track for the restart after some quick repairs in the pit area. We were passing some cars and looking at passing the #89 car on the inside coming out of 4 when we made contact and sent us a little airborne and causing severe damage to our RF and some shoulder pain to the driver. Again, our great crew was able to make quick repairs to get us back out for the restart (barely) and again we passed some cars and climbed up to 4th...needing just another lap or two to pass car #10 for 3rd but ran out of time. We settled for the 4th place finish with a damaged car and 1/2 second slower-than-usual lap times. The good news is, that through the determination and hard work from our crew, we were able to secure 2nd place in points for the season by a mere 5 points over third place car #10!

We would like to thank our wonderful sponsors and partners for the 2013 season- Loggers Pizza, Loggers Tap House, Kamper Korner RV Center, Blue Ox, Pepsi Max,
 Invictus Technical Solutions, Umpqua Armory, Southern Oregon Telecom and my special #1 fan of the year...Miss Caroline from Chicago, Illinois! Without these great partners and wonderful fans, we truly would not be on the track!

Watch for the incar camera video from this last race to be posted soon.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Watch this video...its worth POINTS for me!

 
Please WATCH the video then SHARE it as much as possible. I need over 500 video views for extra points! Thanks!