NEWS

5-9-11 After a week of scrambling to repair problems from the 1st race, Chris and crew looked at Saturday's race as a sort of test and tune session. With bad weather all around, TVR managed to run a great show in before any rain came. A pill draw of 46 saw Chris starting 6th in the 2nd heat to which he worked his way up to a 4th place finish. The feature had him starting mid pack, 11th, but he was able to crack the top 10 with a 9th place finish. There are still some problems that the crew hope to get worked out before the next race on the 14th. The CR9 team would like to congratulate John Britsky and his crew on their win! We would also like to thank Frank Sandoval, Jr. of Total Commitment Tattooing for the awesome airbrush job on Chris's helmet (pictures of it can be seen on the picture page). If anyone is interested in getting airbrushing done, or a tattoo, please be sure to mention you saw it from us. We'll see you all at Thunder Valley on May 14th!

5-3-11 The debut of the black car did not go as planned. Problems started out of the box with a faulty fuel gauge and just continued through the night for the team. Missing normal hot laps becuase of the gauge, the track graciously gave Chris 2 laps once he decided the guage was faulty. Having drawn a 47 pill, Chris started 6th in the 3rd heat. The car worked wonderfully and he managed a 2nd place finish. Concerned about a vibration he felt, the crew and he began checking things and noticed the carb and starter were vibrated loose. Unfortunately Chris did not notice 2 screws in the carb plate were completely loose and lifted the carb in poor lighting sending 2 screws into our engine without anyone noticing. Not knowing, he fired the engine up which began the ending of our night to a disappointed crew and driver who would have started on the pole. Having pulled the engine out last night and tearing down, the damage was not as bad as expected and Chris hopes to get it back together in time to race. He and the crew are also going to find the vibration (which they think is connected to the rear end) that started all the issues. To add insult to injury, the team lost the trailer lights on the way home, but that was already repaired by fellow TVR driver, Beaj Pluta. On a good note, we welcome new team member, Bryan Wlock to Team CR9! The team is hoping that the bad luck is out of the way early and good runs are to follow. We hope to see everyone at Thunder Valley on Saturday! A video of the heat will be up on the pics/video page.

Welcome to the online home of Chris Rhodes Racing! The 2011 local racing season is soon here. Chris and his crew have been busy preparing their new Lazer chassis. The older chassis is being kept as a back up car for this year. Plans for the season include running Thunder Valley Raceway's full late model schedule, racing now and then at Dog Hollow on Friday nights and possibly going on a racing road trip with the Britsky team to run a weekend in the Ohio Valley area on one of TVR's off nights. As always, everyone is anxious to hit the track and get the season underway! When service is available, you will be able to follow the team's night on both Facebook and Twitter.

We would like to welcome Total Commitment Tattooing as a new sponsor for the season! Frank at Total Commitment also specializes in airbrushing. His information is under the sponsor section of our website. Contact him today for some body art, or get your racecar, helmet, etc. airbrushed.