Scott Bintz Feature Win Jamestown Speedway 6-27-09
Luck finally stuck the Scott Bintz Racing team on 6-27-09 at the Jamestown Speedway with the 2nd Feature win of the season. After the tornado out at the River Cities Speedway the night before. On Friday to prepare the car we had to put the 02 Hoffman chassis on the frame rack at Klein’s Collision Center. The team was excited to race and see how the race car would react after getting tweeked on the frame rack. 29 Midwest Modifieds showed up to race for the night. Scott Bintz was in the 1st Midwest Modified heat starting in the 4th position. It was some what of a rough heat with a few cautions. After the first caution, Scott was in 3rd. After a the racing resumed he made it up to 2nd and as usual was passed by Dustin Strand, who won the heat.
For the feature, Scott was on pole and led the feature from flag to flag. However, after 10 laps there was a caution and Ryan Mikkelson followed by Jerry Theis were hot on his tail. Mikkelson almost made a pass for the lead. After another caution, Dustin Strand, the 2008 Wissota National Champion Runnerup, moved in to 2nd and with 7 laps to go was driving hard for the lead. At one point, Strand moved ahead of Scott. It was a nail biter on the last lap but Scott was able to cross the checkered flag a fender ahead of strand. If you would like to watch the video of the race will, it be posted later today. For more details on the race and an interview by the Jamestown Sun, see the Jamestown Sun’s Article.
Scott was also on Dirt Talk Radio on 6-28-09 and that can be heard on NewsDakota.Com in the sports archive area.
On Sunday 6-28-09 the team went to the Buffalo River Race Park and finished 2nd in the heat and 6th in the feature. The heat was somewhat of a wreckfest with heavy damage on both sides of the car. Scott started 5th and finished 2nd. With some help from the Brent Weight’s pit crew, we made it out to the feature. Starting 3rd in the feature, Scott fell back to about 10th after the first lap as it was a train on the high side of the track. Bintz slowly moved up and finished 6th. The feature winner was Rich Pavlicek.
Ending the month in Lisbon at the Sheyenne River Speedway got off to a bumpy start. In the heat started 6th and started moving up and then got pinched out and had to let off which resulted in finishing 7th. For the feature started 13th and finished 3rd. There were to cautions in a row after the 2nd lap and then it was caution free for the rest of the race. Scott was making the pass for 2nd as the race ended but didn’t quite make it.
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- Racing Action on 6-27-09 Dustin Strand & Scott Bintz
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- Scott Bintz Feature Win Jamestown Speedway 6-27-09
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- Shannon “The Crew Chief”
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- Shawn Grinding Winning Tires
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- Scott and Tyler
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For complete up to date racing stats and results visit the Scott Bintz Racing Results page.
The weekend of racing on 5-29-09 started out pretty good in Grand Forks at the River Cities Speedway with a heat win and 4th place feature finish. But after that, its been a struggle with mechanical issues. At the Jamestown Speedway, we won the heat. Cool, back in action we thought. Then the brakes went out on the first lap of the feature. At Buffalo River Race Park, the brake were lost again in the heat. After some fixing, we headed out for the feature. On the first caution, the brakes went out again. After a few laps, had to pull in and call it a night. On the drive home I had to remind myself “that racing”. Sometimes you do well and sometimes not so well. We are hoping to pull out of our not so well phase. After some more repairs, we headed to the Sheyenne River Speedway. The car had a push in the heat and managed to drive it off the track. Oh fun to be a half lap behind. After being almost a lap down, I caught the pack but not in time to pass anyone. It was fun driving the car literally all out. Hit 7,000 RPMs. In the feature, our set up changes weren’t what we were hoping and the car was still pushing bad coming out of the corners. Finished the race. Hopefully after some set up adjustments this week, we can get back into the groove for coming weekend of racing. The 
