Blake Lirette braves it to the track and uses Pro-Line Electrons, IONs, and Suburbs

There are times in your life where a sign may tell you that your path needs to deviate. Perhaps 33 degrees and raining? Using a ditch on a hill to slow your car down because the road is a sheet of ice? Stopping to see if a stranded motorist in the ditch is ok? An Interstate Highway shut down for several accidents? Luckily my college degree is in Forestry and not in making sound decisions.

When I got to the track, about a half hour later than planned, I started in with my testing that’s been ongoing the last few trips. This time I worked on spring packages and found just what I liked for this day that was made to benefit the Champaign County food bank.

For the first qualifier things couldn’t have gone better, with my Clay IONs and M4 Electrons I immediately topped my best time from last week by getting a 13/5:06 with my top-ten lap average only .2 slower than my best lap.
The second qualifier I switched to M4 Suburbs on the rear and while my best lap was a touch faster I wasn’t as consistent.

For the third I went back to my original tire line up and I was scratching at a 14-lapper until a wheel suddenly became faster than the Buggy it was previously attached to. I finally put nylocks on and the trouble magically went away.

My time from the first qualifier left me seventh of twelve and after starting sixth I was able to make my way around the second turn pile up until I drove into the turn marshal. After that I struggled with getting a groove and at the end of seven-minutes I fell a spot to seventh in the running order.