It looked almost certain that Ryan was on his way to his second win of the season Saturday when he was collected in a wreck while passing for the lead. Ryan proved he was the guy to beat, at the top of the speed charts in both practice sessions and setting fast time in qualifying. Irwindale Speedway has a random draw after qualifying to decide the numbers of cars to invert for the start of the race. Ryan drew a very disappointing “9” and had start from the ninth position in a 21 car field. “I was amazed when the only numbers in the ball where 8, 9 & 10. In the last year the biggest invert I can remember was “6”. I knew it was going to be a challenge but I had a great car and knew we could pull it off.” – Ryan
When the main event finally got underway Ryan drove a near perfect race moving by one car after another. With four laps to go Ryan had moved to third when the caution came out setting up an exciting finish. Going back to green the leaders got together opening the door down low for Ryan to take the lead, as Ryan moved under the leaders, Mark Iungerich turned left into Ryan and drove both of them into the infield until they both spun entering turn 3. That quickly, the near perfect night was over and a 13th place finish. “What impressed me the most was Ryan had no help from cautions the race went 31 laps straight green. To watch him work traffic and track down the leaders was just flat impressive”. – Toby Tobias (Crew Chief)
With just a week off until the next Legends race at Irwindale Ryan will be busy testing in the Langers Juice Sportsman Late Model. At just 15 Ryan has already logged over 300 laps in the new S-2 Late Model preparing for the debut of the new series on July 11th at Irwindale Speedway.
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2009 Scoreboard
Races - 4
Poles - 1
Wins - 1
Top 5's - 2
