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Press Releases by Sondi Eden
May 23, 2005
Sondi
Eden Wins First Preliminary Sprint Car Race of the Year
Crawfordsville, Ind. - USAC Midget racing champion
Sondi Eden was excited to get started in the Racer’s
Edge Graphics, Gould Body & Paint, Dave Stetler Chevrolet-Cadillac,
NAPA Auto Parts 410 wing sprint car.
Opening night at Mansfield, Ohio was rescheduled due to weather.
So, the first race was Sat. night, May 21 at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The team had some equipment failure that caused Sondi to have
a day full of ups and downs. The first was no brakes on the
car. The crew continued working on the car and got it better
for the heat race. Sondi looked strong in the heat race as
she drove to win the first preliminary race of the season!
Sondi started 14th in the feature and now that the car was
working she was ready for the challenge to race to the front.
She had a good start as she passed her way up to 10th and
Sondi was on the move. As she was passing for 9th, the fuel
pump worked loose which caused the engine to quit so she had
to pull it in. “Racing is a roller coaster of emotions
and we started the season off riding it up and down –
beginning glitches with the car that should not have happened,
then win a preliminary race, then be working your way to the
front and the fuel pump work loose and we have a DNF the first
race! It was a good and bad day all in one.” Eden said
of her day at the track.
FINISHES 8th AT THE HISTORICAL WINCHESTER SPEEDWAY
½ mile, high banks of Winchester Speedway reopened
this season and Sondi was thrilled to be back. “This
place is so exciting – because of our race in Michigan
last night, we only got three hours of sleep but this place
will wake you up! There is so much history here and the high
banks are so fast and fun – when your car is hooked up.”
Sondi said of Winchester.
Sondi quickly got reacquainted with the track and knew there
were a lot of changes that needed to be done on the car. Their
speeds were in the middle of the field but she knew they could
be a lot faster. So the crew went to work and made changes
and also decided to use a harder compound tire. There was
only qualifying to decide the feature line-up. The harder
tire didn’t heat up for qualifying but Sondi managed
to qualify 10th. The feature started and Sondi was running
9th. With each lap the right rear would get better and better
and the car was getting faster. Sondi was on the move as she
passed her way up to 5th but then the yellow flag came out.
Sondi had a straight away lead on 6th place but this bunched
them back together. Under several yellow flag laps the right
rear cooled off and on the restart it wasn’t working
anymore. Sondi tried to battle it but she dropped back to
an 8th place finish. “The car owner told me that we were
going to roll the dice and try the harder tire. It was coming
in on the long run but that yellow killed us. We weren’t
a winning car today but I got the most out of the car and
you can’t control the yellows” Sondi said of her
race at Winchester.
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