(MUSCATINE, IOWA) With an eye on the sky during the wet weekend in the Midwest on March 29-30, the Birkhofer Racing team finally kicked off their highly-anticipated 2013 racing season at the LaSalle Speedway in LaSalle, Illinois. The two-day ‘Thaw Brawl’ started on Friday night with a $2,000 to win UMP DIRTcar Series event. Brian Birkhofer timed in fourth quickest in his group during the qualifying session and later placed fifth in his heat race. Following a B-Main triumph, Brian picked off eleven competitors during the 30-lapper on his way to a sixth place performance in the weekend lid lifter.
On Saturday evening, the #15b team put a whole night together and picked up their first win of the young 2013 racing season! Brian laid down the fourth fastest lap in his group once again during time trials and later scored a heat race victory, which placed him on the outside of the front row for the start of the 50-lap American Late Model Series (ALMS) sanctioned main event. The Muscatine, Iowa star then grabbed the point on the fifth circuit and never looked back in recording the $10,000 victory over Chris Simpson, Brandon Sheppard, Billy Drake, and Austin Hubbard. Full results from the LaSalle double-dip can be viewed online at www.lasallespeedway.com.
“For the first weekend out this year, I was very pleased with how everything went,” exclaimed Birkhofer this week. “We had plans of running the NDRL stuff at Paducah and Pevely, but Mother Nature sent us to LaSalle and it all worked out. It was nice to get a win early in the year just to get some confidence in your equipment and a paycheck. Hopefully, we will be in the hunt for another victory this weekend at Farmer City. I have been close a couple of times there, so we will try to break through this weekend.”
Next up for the Birkhofer Racing team will be another trip to the Land of Lincoln over the April 5-6 weekend. The 5th Annual ‘Illini 100,’ sanctioned by the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, will be held at the Farmer City Raceway in Farmer City, Illinois. Qualifying and heat races are scheduled for Friday night at the 1/4-mile bullring, while consolation events and the 100-lap main event are slated for Saturday evening. A $20,000 top prize has been established for the victor of the extra-distance affair. Brian has been a fixture up front in past ‘Illini 100’ events, as he finished second in ’09, fourth in ’10, and fifth in ’12. Additional information concerning the big weekend at Farmer City can be viewed by logging onto www.woolms.com.
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